'We were looking in the wrong direction from the start?'
Zoe Sawyer looked at Evan Keller, confused. 'What direction was wrong?'
"The girl who was being humiliated is named Amanda Hawthorne. I initially assumed she was from over there, so I focused the investigation in that direction." Evan Keller placed the file he was gripping tightly in front of Zoe Sawyer, then pointed to the first profile card and said, "In reality, Amanda Hawthorne is from our side! Customs has no record of her leaving the country—she was smuggled out!"
He had made this discovery when he logged into the internal police network and saw her on the missing persons page.
At first, he thought he was mistaken. But after carefully comparing the portrait Beau had provided with the photo on the site, he finally confirmed Amanda Hawthorne's identity.
"Why do you say she was smuggled out? Could she have been trafficked?" Zoe Sawyer asked with a confused frown.
