{"id":30800,"date":"2026-10-05T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30800"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:53:27","slug":"part-32-police-surrounded-reeves-at-the-church-but-natalies-inheritance-gave-him-one-last-hostage-nobody-knew-he-had-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30800","title":{"rendered":"PART 32 \u2013 Police Surrounded Reeves at the Church, but Natalie\u2019s Inheritance Gave Him One Last Hostage Nobody Knew He Had Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The order was not to rush.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Reeves was finally contained.<\/p>\n<p>That did not mean he was harmless.<\/p>\n<p>Police surrounded the church and parsonage before dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Roads closed.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal cameras watched exits.<\/p>\n<p>No other person appeared inside.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves moved from the parsonage basement toward the church.<\/p>\n<p>Then disappeared from thermal view.<\/p>\n<p>A tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Victor remembered it only after investigators asked.<\/p>\n<p>The old church had a storm passage connecting the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Built decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Police covered both structures.<\/p>\n<p>Still no exit.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:11 a.m., Reeves called me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew I would come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca would appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe warned everyone about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe misunderstood me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe understood you before Thomas did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Then he said, \u201cNatalie owns this property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat surprised you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father enjoyed gestures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left it to his granddaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left it to punish me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve become very comfortable with contradictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had good teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside the secure command room, officers prepared entry.<\/p>\n<p>I kept him talking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCleaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice already found the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret wrote:<\/p>\n<p>ASK WHAT REMAINS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat remains?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father\u2019s records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat records?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings unrelated to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why destroy them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>I realized.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Reeves had kept evidence too.<\/p>\n<p>Not just letters.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s father had discovered his son\u2019s earliest fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Holloway was only part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour father documented you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves\u2019s voice cooled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe documented everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The denial came quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe judged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>That was perhaps the closest Reeves had ever come to admitting his worldview.<\/p>\n<p>Information was not truth to him.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tool.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel\u2019s records threatened him because they were created for a different purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Not leverage.<\/p>\n<p>Witness.<\/p>\n<p>Police entered the parsonage.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the operation through a separate radio.<\/p>\n<p>Clear.<\/p>\n<p>Basement clear.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnel located.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves remained on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should tell them to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t control them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou influence them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That irritated him.<\/p>\n<p>He needed everyone arranged in hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Someone always controlling someone else.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that police had independent authority did not fit his model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell them I have insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal scans had shown one.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the second person was hidden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll know soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward the agent.<\/p>\n<p>He signaled teams to slow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel, who is with you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve spent weeks learning everyone has secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk Natalie where she went last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every eye turned.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie was not in the command room.<\/p>\n<p>She had been moved to a protected hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Agents called her detail.<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves laughed softly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou assumed because I was here, I couldn\u2019t be elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Nathan for one final favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Police contacted Natalie\u2019s hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Her protective officer was found unconscious in a service stairwell.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie gone.<\/p>\n<p>Security footage showed Hall wearing hotel maintenance clothing.<\/p>\n<p>He entered through a service corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie left with him.<\/p>\n<p>Not visibly restrained.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Then another camera showed the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Hall held a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie was watching something on it.<\/p>\n<p>He had leverage.<\/p>\n<p>Victor.<\/p>\n<p>Police checked Victor\u2019s custody location.<\/p>\n<p>Safe.<\/p>\n<p>Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Safe.<\/p>\n<p>Laura.<\/p>\n<p>Safe.<\/p>\n<p>Then Victor remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSusan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n<p>The retired teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Police called her house.<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie had left willingly because Hall showed her Susan in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves had found another attachment.<\/p>\n<p>Another lever.<\/p>\n<p>My anger became almost physical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou took Natalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHall did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn your order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou really believe changing verbs changes responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt changes legal responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>He was still a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Even now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police immediately established roadblocks.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie has something I need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer mother\u2019s records?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The property.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie legally owned the church and parsonage.<\/p>\n<p>Why would Reeves need her physically?<\/p>\n<p>Then Margaret understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another vault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves heard her through the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Lawson remains impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A property vault requiring owner access.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had designed something Daniel could not open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>Victor was brought onto the call remotely.<\/p>\n<p>He heard the question.<\/p>\n<p>Then remembered Rebecca once mentioning a family crypt beneath the old church.<\/p>\n<p>Not a burial crypt exactly.<\/p>\n<p>A document vault built into the foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel used it for church deeds and trust records.<\/p>\n<p>Ownership access required a mechanical key.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie possessed Rebecca\u2019s keys.<\/p>\n<p>Hall had taken her because Reeves needed one.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched the road.<\/p>\n<p>A traffic camera found Hall\u2019s vehicle twelve miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Heading toward the church.<\/p>\n<p>Roadblocks tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Then the vehicle stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Hall abandoned it.<\/p>\n<p>He and Natalie entered woods bordering the property.<\/p>\n<p>Search teams moved.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves remained inside the church.<\/p>\n<p>Now we understood why.<\/p>\n<p>He was waiting.<\/p>\n<p>The police commander faced a difficult choice.<\/p>\n<p>Enter immediately and arrest Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>Or risk that he had prepared traps inside the church.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier clean-room destruction system proved he planned for intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>Bomb technicians were called.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves seemed almost amused by the delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see how systems work?\u201d he asked me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone becomes cautious when consequences become personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are cautious because they don\u2019t want people killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is weakness if it changes behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought about his worldview.<\/p>\n<p>For him, love was weakness because it changed behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Fear was weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Anything capable of moving a person became leverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat doesn\u2019t change your behavior?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cControl?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His breathing shifted.<\/p>\n<p>There.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>I continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to hurt her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t assume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou monitored her. Threatened her. Used Claire to watch her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut she\u2019s alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are confusing restraint with affection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked toward Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth can exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hung up.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Hall first.<\/p>\n<p>He emerged from the woods alone.<\/p>\n<p>Hands raised.<\/p>\n<p>He had been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Blood covered one side of his shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Natalie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall refused.<\/p>\n<p>Then asked for medical help.<\/p>\n<p>Search dogs followed the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie had separated from him.<\/p>\n<p>Run.<\/p>\n<p>She was somewhere in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Alive, probably.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves did not know.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, his hostage had escaped before reaching him.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>People kept refusing their assigned roles.<\/p>\n<p>At 6:02 a.m., Natalie called 911 from an emergency roadside box on an old service road.<\/p>\n<p>She was safe.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Vale had also been located.<\/p>\n<p>Bound in her home.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s leverage was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Police told Natalie not to approach the church.<\/p>\n<p>She agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Then asked one question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he get the key?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>She still had it.<\/p>\n<p>It hung around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>A small brass key Rebecca had given her before dying.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie had never known what it opened.<\/p>\n<p>Now everyone did.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves had lost again.<\/p>\n<p>The tactical commander ordered entry.<\/p>\n<p>Police breached the church.<\/p>\n<p>No explosion.<\/p>\n<p>No gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>First floor clear.<\/p>\n<p>Balcony clear.<\/p>\n<p>Office clear.<\/p>\n<p>Basement door locked.<\/p>\n<p>They breached it.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnel empty.<\/p>\n<p>At the end stood a steel door.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves was behind it.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke through the barrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want Natalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie heard the request through the command feed.<\/p>\n<p>Her face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has never called me that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not once.<\/p>\n<p>Not in letters.<\/p>\n<p>Not through Victor.<\/p>\n<p>Not through Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Now, cornered, Daniel Reeves used the word.<\/p>\n<p>Daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Another lever.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie stared at the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Then said, \u201cTell him no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The negotiator did.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves became silent.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ten.<\/p>\n<p>Then he asked to speak to me.<\/p>\n<p>The commander objected.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret argued that he had already maintained contact with me and talking might prevent escalation.<\/p>\n<p>They connected us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe doesn\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen explain to police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want a confession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want you to surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still believe processes are neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That surprised him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe they\u2019re better than you deciding everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>I continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatalie doesn\u2019t owe you a meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t create ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The words applied to more than him.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia and Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Laura and Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and his children.<\/p>\n<p>Family did not create ownership.<\/p>\n<p>It created responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves whispered, \u201cRebecca poisoned her against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour choices did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe never heard my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has fifteen years of your records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen surrender and give it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another long silence.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiator signaled that officers were preparing mechanical breach.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves suddenly said, \u201cAsk Thomas what happens if I open Samuel\u2019s vault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was listening.<\/p>\n<p>He looked confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves heard him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never did understand the old man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s in it, Daniel?\u201d Thomas asked.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already found Harbor Nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves\u2019s voice became almost gentle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every person in the room went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much earlier?\u201d Margaret asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore Carter Development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father knew yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan looked toward him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel and Richard Carter had business together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>A man barely mentioned in all the records.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas whispered, \u201cMy father was a contractor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was many things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did they do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring Natalie and the key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Samuel\u2019s records stay buried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice can open the vault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bomb technicians confirmed a wired mechanism around the steel compartment behind Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily explosive.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly destructive.<\/p>\n<p>He had rigged the vault.<\/p>\n<p>If forced, the contents might burn.<\/p>\n<p>Another self-destruct system.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted Natalie to unlock it properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want from inside?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat document?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father\u2019s confession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Then Thomas answered before Reeves could.<\/p>\n<p>His face had become pale with recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiverside Cooperative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stared at nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA housing project my father worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin went cold.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree people died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves finally spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father covered up why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas looked at the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo did mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There it was.<\/p>\n<p>The secret beneath Harbor Nine.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath Bellmont.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath two families.<\/p>\n<p>Not proof that children inherited guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Proof that secrecy had been taught before any of them understood they were learning it.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves said, \u201cBring me Natalie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She heard him through the feed.<\/p>\n<p>She took the brass key from around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>Looked at it.<\/p>\n<p>Then handed it to a federal agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agent asked, \u201cWhat do you want us to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natalie looked toward the old church in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen it without him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bomb technicians began working.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves heard the tools against the vault.<\/p>\n<p>His composure finally broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell them to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice rose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know what\u2019s inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tools continued.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since I had heard Daniel Reeves speak, fear filled his voice without disguise.<\/p>\n<p>Not fear of prison.<\/p>\n<p>Not money.<\/p>\n<p>Not even exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Fear of losing control over the story.<\/p>\n<p>Then a gunshot sounded through the connection.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone froze.<\/p>\n<p>Officers shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Another crash.<\/p>\n<p>The call disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>Tactical radio erupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspect moving!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves had fired into the lock mechanism and fled through the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Police pursued.<\/p>\n<p>He emerged behind the parsonage.<\/p>\n<p>Ran toward the tree line.<\/p>\n<p>Officers ordered him down.<\/p>\n<p>He kept running.<\/p>\n<p>Then stopped at the edge of the old cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded.<\/p>\n<p>No hostage.<\/p>\n<p>No vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>No exit.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Reeves slowly raised his hands.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time in fifteen years of manipulating everyone around him, nobody asked what he wanted.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30801\">Click here to continue reading: PART 33: Samuel Reeves\u2019s Vault Finally Opened, and the Old Fire Explained Why Two Families Had Spent Forty Years Hiding the Same Kind of Truth<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order was not to rush. Daniel Reeves was finally contained. That did not mean he was harmless. Police surrounded the church and parsonage before dawn. Roads closed. 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