The prints the tech found were consistent with Nitro’s.Vining flipped through the drawing book. She had assumed the violent pictures of women were together in the spiral-bound pad, but they were scattered among the images of animals, trees, and flowers. Somehow, that made it creepier.Back upstairs, she picked up the photocopies of the drawings and put them in her briefcase.They were at work on the double homicide in the Detectives’ Section conference room when Folke called to say that two officers were transporting Nitro to the Big G, where he’d be placed on a seventy-two-hour hold for psychiatric evaluation and treatment.“He’s County’s problem now,” Kissick commented.They pushed along on the Mercer/Richards homicide investigation.Ruiz got his warrants signed for access to Somerset’s telephone, financial records, and his computer. When he and Caspers went to Somerset’s apartment above his parents’ garage in San Marino, Somerset’s mother told them he’d left to go backpacking in the Sierras.Ruiz served the warrants on Somerset’s mother, a well-dressed woman with a zaftig figure who was nearly as tall as her son.
