The Milk Carton Murders 09

(If you are here for my “L” post for the A-Z Challenge, it’s below this one.)

Dave Robertson and Investigator Pepper Black are meeting for lunch at the Egg Roll in Lamont. Pepper has found something she wants Dave to look at. Remember, Dave’s mom and dad were foster parents when Dave was a kid, and his dad had worked at the printing department at the dairy. Pepper lays out digital copies of the three milk carton pieces found attached to the girls remains, buried about 20 years ago. Alongside it she sets down a copy of an original notice she sent for from the Archives of the Center For Missing Children to see if Dave sees anything different.

As a historical side note of importance, back in the 1980s and the real missing children milk carton campaign, the center sent out the layouts of the children to be printed.

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            "These three have been confirmed as our victims,” said Pepper, as she slid the digital copies in front of him.

"What about this other one?" asked Dave, pointing to the milk carton clipping he hadn’t seen yet.

            "It’s unrelated; I want to see if you noticed anything different about them."

            Dave studied the four milk carton pieces; they appeared almost identical--the same in the layout, the size, ink color--assuming the copy was exact to the original. There was however, something different. Working with the newspaper so long, he knew his fonts. "It’s the lettering,” Dave said. “The unrelated one is in Tahoma, our three are Arial. Very close, I don't think the average person would notice that, the differences being so slight―but they are different fonts."

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