Part One, Maggie Rose and Shrimpie Goldberg (1992), Chapters 16-20 Summary

Maggie Rose is still underground in what she thinks is her grave. Suddenly a bright light appears and a voice calls out to her. Maggie Rose calls out to the stranger, but receives verbal abuse and threats of death in exchange. On Christmas Eve, Cross goes to the home of the Goldbergs to talk about Michael and to check out the boy's bedroom. While there, Cross gets a phone call telling him that a body has been found in a river in Maryland. Cross arrives and discovers the body is the badly beaten body of Michael Goldberg. The investigators are on scene until early the next morning. Jezzie goes home, but she cannot stop the torturous memory of Michael Goldberg's death from becoming an obsession. Jezzie gets...