Edge of Darkness by Barker Freya

Author:Barker, Freya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Freya Barker
Published: 2020-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Lissie

I’LL ONLY CHASE for so long.

It was two days ago Yuma basically disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving nothing more than my journal notes he’d marked up with pencil spread over my loveseat.

By now I’m pissed at his lack of response. I draw the line at five messages. I will not send more.

If he had second thoughts about pursuing something with me, all he had to do was tell me. Or message me for chrissake. How long does that take? Two seconds to say ‘I’m done.’

I’ve barely been home since we unearthed the three unknown bodies. We have five bodies in total, two identified males, three unknown women, and two potential witnesses vanished off the face of the earth. In addition, we have a complex interdepartmental investigation, political pressure, and a shortening of tempers as we’re trying to get answers from people unwilling to talk.

This morning’s meeting was evidence of the latter. A brief face-off between Gomez and Blackfoot—who as I understand have been friends since forever—over a different interpretation of what is within the rules of law, had to be called to a halt by Chief Benedetti. The FBI agent’s take on the law is pretty rigid, whereas Keith Blackfoot has a more relaxed view.

On the plus side, though, the crime scene techs were done literally sifting through the massive amounts of dirt at the job site and recovered a few things they think may be related to the bodies.

Tony and I are heading over to the lab now to have a look.

“Any luck on missing person’s cases?”

I snort. “Statewide we have fourteen who fit the profile. Neighboring states I pulled up another thirty-three. All women between eighteen and forty and all known to have given birth at least once. It’s going to take some work to sort through all of them.”

The FBI had flown in a forensic anthropologist to help Doc Carter determine the approximate age of the victims. They were also able to get DNA samples from all three victims, which are being analyzed and will hopefully help to eventually identify the women. Time of death differed between the victims, who had clearly not all been killed at the same time, but what they did have in common was all three women had a child or children.

Before we received that information, there’d been moments I had this far-fetched thought: what the odds would be if Dani turned out to be one of the victims, but she never mentioned any children and I’m sure she would’ve.

“Maybe we’ll find something in the evidence collected to help narrow the options down,” Tony suggests when he pulls up in front of the lab.

“Ramirez, good to see you.”

A rotund man I peg to be in his early fifties approaches the moment we walk into the building.

“Parnak. This is Detective Bucco. Lissie, I don’t think you’ve had the pleasure, meet Investigator Boris Parnak. He runs the lab.”

“Nice to meet you,” I mumble, shaking the man’s hand.

“Like your new partner better than your old one.

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