Chongo was busy preparing a status report for the General the next morning when the phone rang.
"Chongo? It's Drecker. Come on down to the station, I think we got something."
Chongo wasted no time getting down to the precinct house. Drecker hadn't sounded anything but tired which didn't bode too well for the kids.
Drecker met him out front of the precinct in an unmarked car
"what happened to your Caddy?" Chongo asked as Drecker pulled away from the precinct.
"She's in the garage. This is definitly one time I don't want to advertise what we've discovered."
"That bad?"
"Worse. A fisherman heading to his favorite spot on the lake came across a large patch of ground that had recently been disturbed. He figured that it would be easier to find some bait than have to dig through the hardened ground. Chongo, he found the kids."
Drecker said the last with barely a sigh.
"He made it to the hospital before he collapsed in shock."

It was a rather long drive in silence.