 As he explains it, her assistance is invaluable to him, since she is intimately familiar with the townspeople and their secrets, and yet, as an outsider, has no problem telling him the unvarnished truth.The other victims found in the cornfield are likewise arranged in bizarre tableaus, but markedly different from the first one.While going over the ground, Pendergast gives Corrie a brief lecture on the classification of serial murder, and the difference between "organized" and "disorganized" killers.