False Alarm

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The skeleton was a life-sized human skeleton, but it was also a fake. Someone must have planted it as a Halloween scare or prank within the tree bark and forgot about it.

They laugh in relief but what they couldn’t understand is why Kyle would alert them to a situation like this. He would have been trained to learn the difference between non-threatening and threatening smells. Then it clicked.

An Orchestrated Crime Scene

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Smith was the first to put two and two together. He realized Kyle just wanted to see John. His recent behaviors showed signs of loneliness, he was missing his best friend and former partner.

He knew John would come running at his police behavior. Perhaps that’s why he did this. Was it orchestrated? Kyle had been looking at John since he arrived.