Death Song
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The morning sunlight filtered through stained glass windows, casting abstract shapes of red and gold across Pastor Paul Roberts as he stood at the pulpit preparing his Sunday sermon. Though his congregation was arriving for the standard 9am service, Paul found himself unable to focus on his notes. His thoughts drifted back to the latest gruesome discovery made three days prior on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Connecticut-the body of eight-year-old Abigail Michaels, her young life brutally severed.
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