Summary

Chapter 1 begins with a brief description of Ada, Oklahoma, a small town in Oklahoma that originally developed around the oil drilling industry, but which is now sustained by factory work. On December 7, 1982, a young woman named Debbie Carter was working a shift at a bar called the Coachlight on the edge of town. She was followed home that night by a local man named Glen Gore. The next day, a friend of Debbie’s went to Debbie’s apartment and found her dead with a bloody washcloth in her mouth. The police arrived and surveyed the scene. The apartment was in complete disarray as if due to a massive struggle. Several messages had been left behind, one of which mentioned the name Jim Smith, and one of which mentioned the name Duke Graham. The police found hair samples and a bloody handprint at the...