Only a mass execution (staged to look like a foolish wrong turn) could wash away the stain of their secret boyfriends and revealing clothes.
The next morning, the Nissan—and nearly half the family—were gone. “I don’t know anything else.” But that was hardly it, as the detective soon realized.
The more questions Dempster asked, the stranger their story sounded.
The day she drowned, Rona put on a blue shirt, three pairs of earrings, and six gold bangles. A colleague in the major crimes unit briefed him about the car full of corpses at the Kingston Mills locks, and asked him to come in as soon as possible.
A few minutes after he arrived at police headquarters, three people showed up at the front counter to file a missing persons report: Mohammad Shafia, the girls’ father, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, their mother, and Hamed Shafia, their 18-year-old brother.