It was an unmarked car, a black Nissan Sentra with a few decades on it, right in the middle of the parking lot of the largest shopping mall in Columbia Washington. Dozens of police officers could be seen cordoning off the area with yellow tape. From a distance, it might seem like just another homicide, but the astonishment on the faces of some detectives nearby indicated that it had to do with something more sinister than a simple murder.
