XXVII. Captain Kelly was watching James’s Romeroesue shuffle/stagger over to his squad car and was about to intercept him and suggest that he have one of the officers drive him home when Detective Nellis ran over to him in a panic. “Captain Kelly! Sir, I can’t get Vargas a...
I can see why you were so freaked out then.”“We need to talk to the guys from Missing Persons about the pictures on the Wells’s walls, and then we need to go back and talk to them again. We’ve got to figure this shit out quick. Nothing is right about this case. Nothing at all.”They drove along in...
My heart drumrolled in my chest as the dark shape, a piece of the night, detached itself from the larger body of darkness and began moving towards me. My breath came in rapid bursts filling the silence with the sounds of a quiet steadily increasing panic as fear sent a surge of adrenaline through...
Waiting for someone to swab their orifices for traces of semen and check them for tearing and bruising. Sarah studied Harry’s face. He looked more than embarrassed. He looked enraged. One by one they were called into the room to see the nurse. Detective Lassiter was there, along with a rape crisi...
Todd had thought it odd that the man hadn't come back to their house to eat like everyone else. He found it odder still that the man had come back after the other guests had gone.The kitchen table was cluttered with Tupperware containers filled with food, casserole dishes covered with aluminum fo...