Appendix B: Clues Found After Page 22
Pp. 25-26. ". . .and the worst of it was, like Mom said, he was out there somewhere, and I didn't know where, and yeah, I was scared."
P. 30. "Pinto River had beefed up police patrols. . ." This is an example of an inferential clue, that students may miss until pointed out several times.
P. 31. "Didn't want to go to bed till I was sure I'd be out like a light, not lying there with Aaron on my mind and wondering if maybe I was next."
P. 32. ". . .got to be a psycho who came in from the interstate or something."
P. 33. ". . ."Aaron was strong as a Mack truck, and Nathan was smaller. Is, I mean. He weighs less. Why would Aaron let him—"
P. 55. "It's not the first time they had him in for questioning."
"Nathan's the chief suspect, I think. They questioned him before."
"It's some kind of weird coincidence. A mistake. Somebody told Aaron a lie or something."
"When they searched the house, they found some very graphic images of violence in his room. Printed off the Internet, maybe."
P. 56. "The murder weapon? Yes. A bayonet. Thrown into the sump hole in the basement."
Pp. 56-57. "There was an editorial about how Nathan had no criminal record and no history of mental illness and did okay in school and distinguished himself on the debate team and belonged to a nice middle-class churchgoing family, the point being that kids like me who slept in on Sunday morning looked more like a murderer than Nathan did, I guess."
P. 57. " He said Aaron had put his bike away, then he'd no sooner walked in the door from the garage than he had come up against the killer with the knife. Then, according to the blood trail, Aaron had run to the front door, where he got stabbed some more trying to get out, and then he'd headed toward his room but he didn't make it, and then. . .I couldn't read about it anymore."
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