Chapter 4

“Milo, can you explain why you took Lily?”

I stood outside the one-way glass, gazing at the pale Milo. The officers guarding me couldn't help but cast pitying glances my way.

Milo's eyes darted nervously. “I-I was just playing a prank, that's all! It was so long ago, and besides, I didn't kill her...”

BANG! The interrogating officer slammed his hand on the table, making Milo jump.

“Was it *really* just a prank?”

Milo tried to regain some composure. “Of course! I was just a kid back then, didn't know any better. If I'd known this would happen, I'd never have done it, not even if you killed me!”

The officer sneered, slamming several printed SnapChat group logs onto the table in front of him. “Then explain *this* group chat, will you?”

Milo stiffly lowered his head. When he saw the chat logs, he started trembling uncontrollably.

“N-no, this isn't me! You've got it wrong... You've got it all wrong!”

Never underestimate the power of internet sleuths. They will go to any length to uncover the truth.

They dug up Milo's entire life history, from childhood, even exposing his school bullying and academic fraud.

Someone even hacked into Milo's account and unearthed a SnapChat group he'd long since left, buried deep in his archives.

A [CANNIBAL] group!

I didn't know what a [CANNIBAL] group meant.

I turned my bewildered gaze to the officer beside me, my voice hoarse. “Officer, what... what does a [CANNIBAL] group mean?”

The young officer kept his head down, avoiding my eyes.

I gripped his arm tightly, my handcuffs rattling. With tears in my eyes, I asked him, word for agonizing word, “Tell me. What does that mean?”

The officer's voice was barely a whisper.

“Some people have a condition called pica, where they crave non-food items like dirt or paint chips. And then there are others...”

He paused, then continued, “...who crave human flesh.”

Tears streamed down my face. A chilling answer began to form in my mind. “So, what does this have to do with my daughter's death?”

“You said your daughter's body was missing a part. That part... was eaten by them.”

The hackers...

The group they found had remained active for ten years, never disbanding. It contained a chilling archive of cannibalistic videos.

And ten years prior, a few young teenagers, driven by morbid curiosity, joined this 'cannibal' group.