He settled on his other possible lead. Crushing injuries. The women had all

suffered crushing injuries.

 

He closed his eyes and thought back to the crime scene at the Grunt.

 

The medical examiner had used that word several times.

 

Crushing.

 

Paul the bouncer looked to be in his fifties. He had completely destroyed a

group of big, strong men. Manhandled them in fact.

 

Puller had been jumped by one, and though he had beaten the guy with his

superior fighting skills, he hadn’t crushed any part of the man. And it had been

a tough fight.

 

And Paul had clearly wanted to get out of there before the police arrived. So

who, or what, was this guy? Was he the super freak that he and Knox had

speculated might have come out of Building Q?

 

Thirty years ago he would have been in his twenties. But if so, why would he be

a bouncer at the Grunt? Had he remained in the area after all these years? Why?

It made no sense.