With Troutman and Rice both cuffed and shackled and Dana freed from her bonds but barely coherent, it was time to find Hannah Yoder. Other than to snipe at each other, neither prisoner would talk about Hannah.
After much back and forth with Troutman, all he would say was that Hannah had been schooled and he didn’t know where she was now.
I had the two former love birds separated and transported from the scene. Paramedics had arrived, and they were tending to Dana. I began to rally the troops to do an all-out search for Hannah while we still had daylight left.
One of the paramedics approached me, “Sheriff, a word?”
“Yes?”
“The victim won’t leave the scene until she talks to you. She’s not very intelligible because she nearly asphyxiated on the rag that you pulled out of her mouth.”
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