The one-eyed man whom they had originally questioned about buying the corn husk dolls in 1980 — the same man who castigated Amelia at a book reading a decade later — is identified as a possible “procurer” for a pedophile ring. That leads the elderly partners to interview a former domestic worker at the Hoyt estate, who describes a one-eyed man who worked closely with Hoyt and the secretive goings-on that led to her departure. By now it’s clear that some unseen hand has been dictating where the investigation has gone. In 1990, Tom’s apparent suicide at Devil’s Den is staged to accomplish the same goal of putting the case to rest with the deceased. Through Amelia’s sleuthing in the 1990 timeline, we discover that cousin Dan had some discussions with the one-eyed man at the bar where Lucy once worked.

Source: New York Times February 18, 2019 03:00 UTC