The scrapingsyielded a lot of detritus but not a trace of human flesh. The investigatorswere also at a loss to explain her lack of clothing. One of th... local ladstook pity on them and eventually lead them up to the top of the bluff and thenguided them to the mound itself. There they found some bits of her pink cottonnightgown and a white terry cloth robe there but it only added to the investigator'spuzzlement. What little was found of her clothing was in such tiny fragments it was impossibleto. Part of it may be that they are a little older, but I don’t think that’s the real issue.”“Can you quietly check them out for us?” requested Maria.“Sure.” Joel then added, as he laid a stapled report on the table, “I also have a report regarding Mark Angry Bear.”“Excellent. I’ll read the full report later, but can you give us a summary?”“No problem, Maria. Angry Bear was pretty factual in his statements, though there was much he left out. I think he was mistreated, but he didn’t help the issue,. I presented a card, and introduced myself to her. She replied that she was Thea Vonkraft, the owner of the consignment. She graciously invited me into the den, where she had a large pitcher of lemonade. WE sat and chatted for quite some time about who we were, and about antiques - which I really knew very little about. She informed me she was a retired art professor at a local college, widowed for the past eleven years, and had no c***dren. As she spoke, I realized I knew her late husband to. Her face was still facing outward.“Hailey, I might be wrong but I’m a guy,” Phil said. “No guy I know would just walk away from a kid after five years – particularly if he was still paying child support.”“He did,” she answered.“Did you ever think your mom might have intervened in some way,” Phil said. “Maybe she had something over his head or maybe she told him you didn’t want to see him any more. Hell, maybe she just cancelled a bunch of visits. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I mean, was he.