The shotgun rested across Reverend Isaiah Cole’s open Bible. A bloodstained cedar cross lay beneath its trigger, and one boy’s face had been scratched from an old church photograph. Joseph and Karen Cauthen had been asked by Cole’s frightened daughter to help find him after police discovered the house open and empty. Ash in the fireplace hid three surviving words: WE ALL AGREED. When a shadow fled upstairs, Joseph pursued it into the rain. A masked figure aimed from the trees, warned that judgment had begun, and fired deliberately above Joseph’s head. Inside the slug was a list of six names. The fifth was Evelyn Price, mother of Detective Nolan Price