Detective Rossi waited outside the morgue for the medical examiner to return. She replayed the recorded audio from her interview with Stewart Harvey, scrutinizing details from the conversation in an effort to identify contradictions in his story or pertinent details she might have missed in his tales of tunnels and skulls and missing rosary beads. Harvey furnished a compelling argument...

Spilled Rice With Simon at a gig downtown, Stu stood outside the tunnel entrance behind the four-car garage, clenching a slender flashlight in his mouth. Wielding a pair of bolt cutters he’d procured from a local hardware store in town, he pinched the padlock shackle between the iron jaws and squeezed the extended handles to break the hardened steel. He...