Growing curiosity
In the days that followed, the Johnsons barely set foot outside their home. Their property had been transformed into a veritable center of operations, full of police, experts and investigators who were incessantly moving from place to place. Mark watched it all from the window, restless, and couldn’t help wondering what on earth they had found down there. Why didn’t anyone want to tell them anything? After all, that land was theirs – didn’t they at least deserve to know what was going on under their own house?

Growing Curiosity
He wanted to go down
“I’m going down there,” Mark told his wife one silent night, his eyes fixed on the darkness of the field, determined to find out the truth. “How can we prove we’re innocent if we don’t even know what we’re suspected of?” he added, certain that Erika would share his determination. However, her reaction was quite different from what he had expected – her eyes filled with fear, and the expression on her face was not one of support, but of sheer panic.

He wanted to go down