"No one knew, Molly," Russell says, his voice firm. "Not the cops, not the people he worked with. Way I've been hearin' it, the other woman in the apartment was a friend of his. Known him ever since he got here. No one knew."
He pauses and he doesn't know if he should say what he's about to, but maybe it'll help. "Some of the guys have been talkin'. I heard one of the detectives at his apartment talkin' about how he's probably been doin' this for a lot longer than we know. They don't talk about people bein' from somewhere other than Darrow, not like we do, but that's what he meant even if he didn't say it. He'd been doin' this before he got here and no one knew."
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He pauses and he doesn't know if he should say what he's about to, but maybe it'll help. "Some of the guys have been talkin'. I heard one of the detectives at his apartment talkin' about how he's probably been doin' this for a lot longer than we know. They don't talk about people bein' from somewhere other than Darrow, not like we do, but that's what he meant even if he didn't say it. He'd been doin' this before he got here and no one knew."