None of them said “foul play suspected,” not in those words. But there’s a way a trooper writes “If you have any information…” that means we don’t have a damn thing.
Loners go missing. Drunks stumble into culverts. A lot of explanations work even when they shouldn’t. I didn’t think about it more than you would, except at a truck stop outside of Huntington where an old guy with a hard hat and a ring of nicotine on his first two fingers saw me replacing a reflector battery and struck up a conversation.
