No, and it his wife had already told her parents about Jack and myself… [ So that had been an awkwardness on top of everything else. Jack was not a smart man, for all that Llewellyn refused to see that at times. He feels a bit awkward about the sympathy, really. ] It happens… I’m sure I’m not the only one.

That’s, unfortunately, due to the fact that no one even knew who he was. Clara never gave names and indicated that whomever she became pregnant by didn’t want the child before her murder. It’s part of why she married Jack, because she and her parents wanted to avoid scandal. [ Secrets always made things more complicated. It was terribly frustrating, if her parents had come forward with that information instead of hiding it they might have been able to expand their investigation… ] We didn’t have a name or indication that he might have gotten involved, and he looked enough like Jack that all sightings reported were said to be him. Plus, the murder weapon turned out to be one of Jack’s personal knives from his shop. He was a butcher, so…

I don’t know if we would have even found the man if he hadn’t found me first. He was very good at covering his tracks and hiding.

[ And that had been… a very not fun time. ]