Chapter 9 - The Camera

Police found a hidden camera in the underground room.
It had been installed recently.
Wireless.
Battery powered.
Someone had been watching Lily.
The signal connected to an encrypted router hidden in the barn.
That router had been activated twelve days earlier.
One day before Lily disappeared.
Investigators traced the device purchase.
It had been bought with cash.
But store cameras captured the buyer.
William stared at the image.
He knew the man.
Thomas Bennett.
Claire and Lily’s uncle.
Harold’s younger brother.
Thomas had attended family holidays for years.
He had held Eva as a baby.
He had cried at Harold’s funeral.
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And now he was buying surveillance equipment connected to a hidden room beneath William’s kitchen.
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