The first call came while Lisa and her husband, Dick, were relaxing after work in their Annapolis Historic District home. At the time, Lisa was President of Anne Arundel Medical Center’s foundation and Dick, a retired lawyer and former mayor of Annapolis, was involved in a variety of post-retirement activities. When the call came in, sunlight slanting through the library windows burnished the copper-colored Oriental carpet to a warmth that reflected only the sense of well being commonplace in the Hillman household. But that evening, Lisa listened to the voice on the other end of the line with confusion, disbelief and then the first inklings of fear.

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