A Long Way Down by Edward Kendrick

Author:Edward Kendrick [Kendrick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Mike had very little spare time to search for what he would consider questionable deaths of homeless men or women. Part of the problem was he had to expand his search outside of the homicide department’s records after he found there weren’t any comparable deaths in its files that had been tagged as possible murders, including Daw and Russ’s.

Knowing he needed help, he contacted Rosalyn, one of the assistant medical examiners with whom he had a decent working relationship. At first she called him crazy, then relented when he pointedly said that someone had be a voice for the homeless, as too many of them had no known family.

“You find anything at all that suggests a fall off a roof was more than it initially seemed and I’ll be forever in your debt,” he said, giving her a winning smile.

“You better believe it,” she retorted. “Do you know how many deaths there are on any given day that aren’t obviously murder?”

“More than I want to think about,” he replied. “At least I gave you a parameter.”

She sighed. “True. That should help. It will take a while, but I’ll get a list to you.”

“Thank you!”

He told Sage that evening, at which point Sage paid a visit to the carriage house to let the ghosts know.

“If I were a decent hacker,” Gene said.

Van chuckled. “But you’re not and I have the feeling all the ME’s records are so well secured even Mitnick or Anonymous couldn’t breach them.”

“Who?” Russ asked, which led to Van and Gene using several websites to give him a rundown on some of the more famous hackers.

When Sage told Mike, he found it amusing. “But it would be great if they could get in. Not,” he added, “that I would suggest to Rosalyn that she give me the codes so they could help. I don’t think she’d agree.”

“Especially when you told her they’re ghosts.”

“Yeah. She’d put my name in for a psych evaluation. Even Lieutenant Price would be hard pressed to keep that from happening, and he knows about them.”

* * * *

It was Wednesday before Rosalyn got back to Mike with the list he wanted.

“I eliminated the ones where someone saw it happen and could state categorically that the victim was alone when they went over,” she said as she handed him a sheaf of papers. “Strangely enough, that happened with the majority of them. The others? Who knows?” She grinned. “That’s up to you to find out.”

Of course, Mike didn’t tell her he was giving the information to a handful of ghosts—which he had Sage do that evening. “They don’t need me right now. Brody knows what to look for, and I’m betting Van and Gene do, too. They can handle it without my input,” was his explanation when Sage asked.

* * * *

“First things first,” Brody said after Sage left and the group congregated in the office. “We have to go through these.” There were eleven reports, each one relating to one of the questionable deaths.

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