Jar of Hearts

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, graphic violence, child death, addiction, and mental illness.

Two more bodies have been found buried near St. Martin’s High School. One is the dismembered body of an adult woman with her eyes gouged out. The other is a girl who appears to be three or four years old and has a heart drawn in lipstick on her chest with the words “SEE ME.” As Kaiser and Kim investigate the scene, he notices that she is wearing her wedding ring again. They haven’t talked on a personal level since her weekend away with her husband.

A missing-persons report filed that morning identifies the girl as Emily Rudd, age four. Officers bring her parents to the station, and they identify her body. They also reveal that Emily was adopted from a young woman named Sasha Robinson. Emily’s parents explain to Kaiser that the girl began displaying severe behavioral problems at age two, including aggression and violence. They contacted Sasha, but she wouldn’t tell them who Emily’s biological father was. Kaiser shows a picture of the woman’s body to Emily’s parents, and they confirm it’s Sasha. They tell Kaiser that Sasha was close to her grandmother and suggest that he may be able to get more information from her.