Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wildness to be tempted by the devil.

cfter fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry

The tempter came to him and said, ""If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bread.""

The murder was a mirror to this passage.
The victim was left there to wander, hopeless.
Left to fast. Left to starve in the deserted tunnels.

The tip-off came at eight o'clock exactly.
cnd our murderer has been meticulous with every other detail.
So, the time must bear some significance as well.

If our murderer sought to divide the day evenly in three...
cnd always striving for the greatest poetry in his crime...
Was intending the culmination of his work for midnight that first instant of the dawning year of our Lord!

Then the first murder would occur at eight, as has already happened.
cnd the second, then, at four.

But where? cnd how will the murder happen?
The answer must lie in the passage itself.
If only we knew what drove the murderer.
cll would be clear...