in it they had recapped the salient points : the belt in henry 's bureau that belonged to the missing patrick hockstetter ; the jumble of schoolbooks , some signed out to the missing belch huggins and some to the missing victor criss , both known chums of the bowers boy , in henry 's closet ; most damning of all , the panties found tucked into a slit in henry 's mattress , panties which had been identified by laundry-mark as having belonged to veronica grogan , deceased .