Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2033

At first, people just thought Dexter had a bad temper and that he lashed out over petty grievances.

But the further Shannon went down the list, the more the room seethed.

These were his reasons for murder? Seriously? It wasn't just cruel; it was absurd. The chances of being his victim were synonymous with the possibility of getting attacked by a stray dog on the street for no reason.

Some had initially wondered if a broken childhood—divorced parents, emotional neglect—had twisted him over time, but the truth was clear now.

He wasn't a tortured perpetrator with a warped personality. He was someone who killed for pleasure, a born predator.

Even the detectives watching the livestream were dead silent, their expressions grim.

As the reasons for each murder came out, they finally understood why this man had slipped through the cracks for so long, despite leaving behind nearly 30 victims.

His motives were erratic, and his methods were unpredictable.

In criminal investigations, the hardest cases to crack were always the ones fueled by impulse.

When there was no emotional connection, no financial dispute, no clear link between victim and killer, it was all too easy for law enforcement to overlook someone who, by all accounts, seemed like a total stranger.

The SVU captain, who had initially been determined to take Dexter into custody immediately and conduct a full interrogation back at the station, found himself hesitating.

Sure, they could take him now and work through everything themselves. But it would be a painstaking process of verifying the victims, identifying bodies, locating evidence, and building airtight cases one by one.

That could easily stretch over a year, maybe two.

What about the victims' families during that dreadful period? What about the people who died? They could do nothing but wait.

However, Shannon was naming the victims and pulling the truth into the light. With that, their investigation could move faster, more accurately, and more humanely.

Just outside the venue, the task force that had arrived bristling with authority and ready to storm the stage found themselves standing still.

With a quivering voice, he asked his parents about what he saw, only to realize they couldn't see the ghosts. Right then, he realized he was the only one who could see them.

When he noticed that a few of them were actually shedding blood-like tears as they listened to Shannon speak, he instantly understood where these ghosts had come from.

His initial fear of them turned into sympathy and a heavy sense of sorrow. He was only 15—he didn't know what he should or could do.

Onstage, Shannon finally finished reading out the names of the 29 victims. Then, in a calm, steady voice, she said, "The reason we chose to bring someone like this to today's seminar was to show everyone that mystic arts are unlike other fields.

"We use our own abilities to glimpse fate. Through physiognomy, we can see the evil a person has committed. We can pick a wrongdoer out from a crowd at a glance. We can stop them before they harm anyone else…

"And as we are doing now, we can reveal their crimes to the world, return justice to the dead, and guide the vengeful spirits toward peace.

"This is the path of mystic arts, and it is the vision we hope to share with every young person here who aspires to walk this path in the future."