—MARTIN FISCHER “There were so many nights when I just went to bed with a sense of dread saying, is this the night when we get another victim?” Lieutenant Chris Morgan said. “Is this the night where I’m going to get a call and there’s going to be another dead girl?” Morgan couldn’t sleep. He knew he needed more help than he was getting. His resources were stretched. The chief had recently downsized the homicide division to just one unit from two, and his people were already running ragged on so many cases; he couldn’t ask them to do any more than they were already doing on the Stephanie Bennett case. Yet, unlike most homicides for which they had a hunch who the killer was and were working on amassing evidence against the suspect, in this case they still had absolutely nothing. In Morgan’s opinion, the Bennett case deserved more attention because a killer was on the loose in Raleigh and could very well strike again. As part of the Special Victims Unit (SVU), Detective Ken Copeland concentrated on solving sex crimes.
