Chapter 88 Summary

Cross and Sampson pay a visit to Dean Lowell during his workout at the faculty gym to learn all they can about Professor Sachs. Cross and Sampson, both frequent weightlifters, are impressed with the former Olympian's workout. Sachs is known around campus as something of a carouser. Despite his reputation, he has done nothing bad enough to lose his tenure. Sachs was a murder suspect years prior when he was an undergraduate, but he had an airtight alibi. The case was a famous double murder that rocked the community: the murders of Roe Tierney and Tom Hutchinson. Lowell told the FBI about Sachs several weeks earlier. Lowell believes the FBI interviewed Sachs weeks earlier.

Later that evening, Cross and Sampson meet with Detectives Ruskin and Sikes. Ruskin and Sikes apologize for being territorial. All they want to do is stop the killings. They...