4.
Wilma Derksen was at home, trying to
clean up the family room in the
basement, when her daughter Candace
called. It was a Friday afternoon in
November, a decade before Kimber
Reynolds walked out of her parents’
home for the last time. The Derksens
lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
prairies of central Canada, and at that
time of year, the temperature outside
was well below freezing. Candace was
thirteen. She was giggling, flirting with a
young boy from her school. She wanted
her mother to come and pick her up.
Wilma did a series of calculations in her