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After accidentally discharging a shot and killing one of the victims, Deke became further invested in the case obsessively searching for the individual responsible for the murders and justification for what he had done. Despite these clues, there is no hard evidence that can connect Sparma to the crimes, and there is also counter-evidence that would suggest the murders were completed by someone else.įrom early on in the film it is revealed that Deke is fighting demons from his past that had come from him failing to find the killer in his previous murder case. During the scene where Deke is tailing Sparma in his car, Sparma stops his vehicle right next to the exit where one of the victims was found.
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The strongest evidence to suggest that Sparma was the killer is that he seemingly knew about a woman’s death at the time when only the police had that information. The timeline of the murders also seems to match the travel plans of Sparma having stopped for a short time while he had been in Michigan, where another murder had taken place with a similar callsign. These books aren’t the only odd items in his apartment, they are amongst mysteriously named tapes, a hidden floor cavity, and a police scanner. Sparma’s obsession with crime and murderers is alluded to throughout the film from his collection of books to him straight out calling himself a “self-proclaimed crime buff”. Inside the letter are a red hairclip, the same type that Rathbun was believed to have been wearing when she disappeared, and a note that says “No Angels” similar to a quote Deke said earlier in the film. In the film’s final scenes we see Baxter at home once again with his family when a letter arrives in the mail. The next morning Deke heads back out to the desert to find that Baxter had not buried Sparma, instead desperately digging in search of Rathbun’s body, evidence that would justify his killing of Sparma and some closure on the case. With this experience in mind, Deke tells Baxter to bury the body in the desert while Deke heads back to Sparma’s apartment to collect up all his things and dispose of his vehicle. We also see that two of the earlier introduced characters in the film helped him to cover up the crime back in the day. At this point, Deke arrives immediately having a flashback of when he had accidentally killed a victim during a similar unresolved sting of homicides from before the events of the film.