Chapter 3 Summary

Crawford and Graham meet at the Atlanta police station for a meeting regarding the murders. Graham tells Crawford his theory that the killer had to touch the woman without the use of his gloves, to feel intimate with him. Crawford is doubtful about this theory.

The fingerprint from the FBI goes to the funeral home to print the corpses. The funeral director is not happy about the interruption in the preparations for the funeral later that day. The funeral director is further annoyed by the need of the expert to print every worker in the funeral home.

At the meeting regarding the murders, the chief of detectives lectures his detectives regarding the case, allowing an expert to show his men impressions they made of the teeth marks found on the mother. The teeth are unique in the fact that they are crooked and...