Forever Deep: A Station Seventeen novella by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimberly Kincaid Romance
Published: 2017-11-03T18:30:00+00:00

Ninety minutes later, the intelligence office looked like a two-ton evidence box had thrown up all over it. Isabella had done exactly as Sinclair had asked, giving the team a concise yet thorough rundown of both Marisol’s cold case and Brittany Martin’s active one as soon as she’d beelined out of his office. They’d all jumped into action the second Sinclair had gotten off the phone with Captain Foster down at RPD headquarters, and even though it skirted the boundaries of the rules, Sinclair had let Kellan stick around for the briefing since he already knew the details of the case anyway.

“Okay, people.” Sinclair’s gravelly voice had them all looking up from their work stations. “Give me what you’ve got and let’s get a plan in place to nail this son of a bitch.”

Isabella frowned. Better to get the shit news out of the way first. “CSU turned up damn little in the basement where Brittany’s body was found. No DNA, no fibers or fingerprints that can be unequivocally linked to her assault. There’s also no evidence to point to where she’d been kept for the three days she was missing.” She knew, because she and Hollister had scoured the reports from cover to cover in search of some.

“The ME’s report isn’t much better,” Hale said apologetically. “No DNA or other physical evidence that would ID the killer or connect the two crimes, although there are pretty striking similarities in terms of the murders, proper. The official cause of death for both women is strangulation. Both had their hands bound pre-mortem with nylon rope”—she paused for only the briefest of seconds before adding—“and from the ligature marks on the victims’ necks, it looks like they were both asphyxiated manually.”

“Jesus,” Kellan whispered under his breath, and even though Isabella’s gut had pitched at the report, too, she had to stay strong. Focused.

“Did you get anything off the surveillance footage?” she asked Capelli, who pushed up his glasses and gestured to the six-screen array of monitors on the wall over his desk, which now had a video image displayed on the bottom center screen.

“I haven’t been able to go through all of it yet, but I did manage to catch Brittany walking by the mini-mart a half a block from the library at seventeen-oh-six. This is from their private security camera.” He hit play, slowing the footage enough to clearly show the fourteen-year-old passing in front of the store.

Isabella metered the breath that had just threatened to spackle itself to her lungs. Junior varsity track jacket, bright blue backpack with reflective stripes on either side, dark blond braid, earbuds firmly in place…God, she was barely more than a kid.

“That’s definitely her,” Garza said, pointing to the photo of Brittany he’d pulled from her Facebook page and posted on their digital crime scene board at the back of the office.

Capelli nodded. “The mini-mart is well-lit and their security system is better than most, so I got lucky enough to grab a good visual. The second camera angle keeps eyes on her for another ten, maybe twelve feet.

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