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SNOWING IN BALI

Adding significant weight to the theory that Kate was murdered by Poca, or a paid assassin – not difficult to find in Bali among the mercenary gangs like Laskar – was the revelation that Poca was the mystery person she'd called at 4 am. But police didn't get the chance to talk to the Diaz brothers, as they'd fled the island.

It was an unsettling time for all the dealers, with Interpol involved and British police sniffing around. Most dealers had their own theories, with whispers circulating that Poca had overdosed Kate, then dumped her body in a rice paddy, though no corpse was found. Everyone was keeping a distance. No one wanted to talk to the cops. Rafael was hitting the waves like a crazy man, taking long surf trips away, selling kilos but no small stuff, and keeping a low profile.

I was a little bit hot anyway . . . and when I know all this shit about them, I keep distance, because the Peruvians were in trouble. Also, they didn't come to me, they just disappeared; with the British police coming here, for sure they shit in their pants and run. I think that's why they disappear – Borrador [Jose], Poca, Jerome. I think they never come back, that's the last time I saw them, they just disappeared after this thing with this girl.

– Rafael

It was six months later, with Borrador in jail, no trace of the Diaz brothers and no more news, that Kate's parents let go of hope. They knew their daughter would never ever put them through this torture if she was alive. They issued a statement to the press.

After an extensive investigation into the disappearance of our daughter Kate, we are now forced to conclude that she has been murdered. It has

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