Mike Dixon

CHAPTER 31
Aftermath
amantha Fischer looked up from her computer. It was
S Sunday and she was working overtime to complete
her report on the rape of a young girl and the death of her
attacker. It was a particularly difficult task. She‟d known Ja-
net Pulnitz for years and had heard so much about the Hansens
that she almost knew them.
To compound her problems, there was her special relationship
with her boss. William Endicott was on a bird-
watching expedition in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
and his deputy, John Martin, was in charge. Samantha kept
to the facts, avoiding anything which should be said rather
than written.
The squad car had gone round to the old National Archives
following an anonymous telephone call. It had been made by
a male person, speaking with an Italian accent, which was
almost certainly fake. Linguistic analysis had identified the
caller as middle-aged and a native Australian speaker. He‟d
told the police to go straight round to the old archives where
they would find a young girl who had been attacked and
needed urgent attention.
Samantha turned on the recording and listened to it again.
The call was delivered in a slow, measured voice and the foreign
accent was maintained right up until the end – or almost
to the end.
The caller seemed about to put down the phone then add-
ed a final remark.
„You‟d better get an ambulance round there real quick.‟
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