Fox

On November 27, 2013, the Wieland Gazette reports that the human remains in the white Acura definitively belong to Fox. Cady tells the press that Fox was a popular teacher and faculty advisor for the Langhorne Literary Magazine and Looking-Glass Book Club. The investigation is on-going, as it is not definitive whether it was suicide, homicide, or an accident. Detective Horace Zwender is leading the investigation and asking for tips.

P. Cady is having nightmares of dying in a car accident, sinking in water and mud as Fox gives her a “wet-whiskered muzzle-mouthed kiss against her mouth” (381). She wakes to Princess Di pushing her muzzle against her mouth. She pushes the dog to the floor, where she growls.

Zwender looks at Fox’s laptop and discovers his website, Sleeping Beauties 2013, which has nearly 7,500 subscribers. In the videos on the website, Fox wears the onyx ring, and the girls are in their Langhorne uniforms. Though the wreck has been tentatively ruled an accident, Zwender’s now believes that it is the site of a “clumsily executed homicide” (386). He’s convinced that Fox’s death is tied to the child sexual abuse videos. Zwender recognizes Genevieve, who nearly died by suicide after Fox’s death, among these girls.