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Jack got home that evening with the biggest pounding headache he’d had in a long time. He didn’t often feel the stresses and anxieties of grieving families, and had historically been pretty good at distancing himself and focusing on the facts of the investigation, but something about the murder of Matthew Hulford had connected with him.
He’d seen through his own experience how easily kids could become tangled up in bad crowds. His own daughter, Emily, had almost gone down that route, and in many ways her life had been changed by it. Even now, she was soon to become a teen mother, pregnant by a local lad Jack’d had run-ins with in the past, and who was himself tied up in a life of petty crime. Jack was thankful Emily was at least safe. Even though Ethan Turner had initially shown an in
