Agony

Police study a lead they have gotten in Faith's case. It comes just a few days after her kidnapping.

They have picked up a few noise disturbance calls from an area of the state that Calum's family used to own.

They decide to take a chance and check the old farmhouse out. They know it is probably a stretch. They don't think Calum would be dumb enough to bring someone he kidnapped to his family home.

But it wouldn't hurt to go there and check it out. If nothing else, they can at least look to see if there are any clues as to where he and Faith may be.

But they aren't hopeful that she will be anywhere near that house. They have seen Calum's record. They know exactly what he is capable of.

They know he killed his family in that house.

He was six and a half years old. He grabbed his father's unattended gun from his dresser and shot his mother in the head. She died instantly.

His father sprung out of bed, expecting to see an intruder in his bedroom. Instead, he saw his six year old son holding his gun in his hands, smiling as he raised it up to him. He tried to talk Calum in to handing him the gun. He tried to get Calum to put it on the ground.

He tried up until Calum shot him in the chest and left him there to bleed out. He died in the hospital a few hours later.

Calum went into his baby sister's room and placed the gun to her head and pulled the trigger. She died instantly.

He liked the sound the gun made when it fired.

Neighbors called the police, believing there was an intruder in the house they lived next to. When officers showed up, they found little Calum playing with his toys with the gun in his lap.

In the end, Calum went to live with his grandparents. He was never blamed for the incident. They blamed the father for not locking the gun up well enough so that the small child couldn't harm anyone by accident.

They called it an accident.

An accident.

But officers reviewing the case today feel differently about the situation. They wonder how a little kid had the heart to shoot his three family members with a gun and not cry at all. They know he has no remorse for anything.

They are concerned about finding Faith alive. They know that it is a very real possibility that they won't.

They have however, broken protocol and told Faith's father where they are going and why.

Normally they wouldn't tell the family until after just incase something ends badly.

Being a retired police officer, Faith's father knows what goes in to an operation like this. There is no amount of sugar coating they could tell him that he wouldn't see right through.

But they are also very close to her father. He used to be an officer before retiring to spend as much time as he could with his daughter. He used to be their partner. He used to fight beside them.

He is their friend.

They know that he deserves more than this. They can't leave him in the dark in this scary situation.

They are fully aware that he is hurting. They know he is in complete agony over his missing daughter. He is in pain and that is very evident on his face and in his actions.

He lost his wife seven years ago to a heart attack. He still hasn't fully recovered from that loss. Faith's mother was a wonderful woman and her death crushed her and her father.

He would never be able to get over a loss of his only daughter too. He would simply have nothing else to live for.

The officers can't even begin to imagine what he is feeling right now. Two kidnappings in the span of two years. She is his only child. He doesn't have any other family members to fall back on for support.

The officers who are his friends are the only support system he has right now.

They are trying to help him by giving him all the information they have but that is not what he needs. Nothing they say can bring Faith back to him. No comforting words can put her back in his arms.