Chapters Eleven and Twelve Summary

Hank meets Sheriff McKellroy in town and an officer named Collins takes his statement. Hank begins with the story that he'd heard a plane that sounded like it was having engine trouble in the area and that he'd never heard anything else about it so had given it no more thought until Carl had called him the day before. He says that he was supposed to go with Carl and the FBI agent named Neal Baxter to the scene where he'd heard the engine but had been called home, and that he'd watched the two of them drive off together. He describes the clothing Baxter was wearing when Hank last saw him. Collins tells Hank that Carl's wife had gone in search of Carl later in the day and had found his body near the plane. Collins...