Shadows Disinterred: Day 5

Word Count: 30,013

Summary of Events:
Dallas went to lunch at Mrs. Farquharson's and succeeded in getting a description of the advertisement from her, but nothing else. Dallas got a call from Stephen reporting back on what Nathan's family and friends had said about having seen the ad and they got into hypothesizing. Dallas then started calling other families whose cases were closed, but he wasn't really learning anything.

Excerpt of the Day:
""Thomas' mother said the woman mentioned having a daughter as well — and Thomas was hopeful that he might marry the daughter," Dallas added. "Ivin's mother said that apparently the woman's name was Debbie, and her husband had recently died, but she wanted the farm to keep going."
"Hm," Stephen said. "Maybe neither one of them were lying."
"What?" Dallas asked.
"I was just thinking, if the woman thirty years ago had a daughter, say her daughter was about twenty at the time — probably why she was mentioned — and then twenty years later she's been married and her husband died too, and so had her mother," Stephen replied.
"You mean like . . . inherited serial killing?" Dallas asked. "The mother did it and then the daughter carried it on after her?"
"It's an idea, anyways," Stephen said. "I mean, I don't know that I've ever heard of a serial killer who's amassed nearly forty kills without being caught."
"I guess it could work," Dallas said. "But how did the husbands not catch on? And what kind of story did they have during the twenty years in the middle?"
"True," Stephen said. "But, I wouldn't discount the idea of there being a pair of them, because, say the killer's twenty when she starts, forty years later she's sixty, that'd be kind of old to be subduing strong young men and murdering them."
"The lab tech who looked into the shovel for me and myself were hypothesizing that she drugged them," Dallas said. "And when we found out there was a woman involved that really solidified the idea."
"Why would she drug them? Then she doesn't have the pleasure of seeing all the life go out of them," Stephen said. "And that's part of the thrill of killing for serial killers."
"We were thinking she drugs them so that she can restrain them so they can't run, and then tortures and/or kills them," Dallas replied.
"That would work," Stephen agreed.
"And we're thinking the shovel we have as evidence was used to knock them out if they started to revive before she was ready," Dallas said. "The shovel shows signs of being used as a beating device."
"But still, I mean, farm boys I'd say probably weigh on average a good two hundred pounds — whether it's fat or muscle — do you seriously think a sixty year old granny's going to be able to haul a two hundred pound dead weight around without help?" Stephen asked.
"True," Dallas agreed. "But then we've got to hope that Debbie — as I'd assume that would be the daughter being as no name was given for the earlier call — never had a daughter, because if she did then goodness knows they're probably breeding up another sadist who we won't be able to nab because  she's yet to kill anyone and we'll just about be right back where we started.""