The gruesomely mutilated body of a girl is found in a manhole by Spanish police. The parents of missing six-year-old Angela Gifford, local editor Claudia and her British husband Marc, are duly notified. The identification is only deemed possible thanks to a bracelet and a four-centimeter Unequal leg length. All other identifying traits are missing and the body shows needle insertions and boric acid burns, apparently inflicted wikt:antemortem.