They were in his office. The room had been completely searched—as had the rest of the house—and all the promising evidence had been taken away. Over the next couple of days, evidence tech would go through his computer, sort all his papers, comb through bank account records, telephone records, and do all the things they normally did in a case like this, and those records would all point in one unambiguous direction . . . but it didn't answer the fundamental question of where Kate and Dale were.