Hollywood Intrigue: A Hollywood Alphabet Series Thriller by Kelly M.Z

Author:Kelly, M.Z. [Kelly, M.Z.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY SEVEN

We arrived in Quantico and had an early dinner before going to Unit-3 of the Behavioral Analysis Unit. I learned that the unit was part of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, which included VICAP, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. We met in a small room that was adjacent to a classroom. I was surprised that the working group assigned to our crimes consisted of Janice Taylor and only two other profilers.

The head of the Unit-3 group, Special Agent Adam Kent, discussed his background and went over his assignments during the ten years he’d been with the FBI. He then gave us a brief overview of their process, probably for my benefit.

“We look at the specific behavioral aspects of a crime,” Kent said in a deep baritone. He was typical of the agents I’d worked with in the past; solid, forty-sometime, buttoned down, and serious. “The why question is what we’re all about here. We’re interested in the motivations behind a crime before we begin to focus in on the who question.”

Kent took a sip of bottled water, then looked over at Taylor and her profiler partner, Vic Molina. “I’ll turn things over to my team to begin the overview of what we know as it ties to the first crime and then we’ll meet with a forensic chemist to take a closer look at a couple of issues.”

Janice Taylor swept her long brown hair out of her eyes and began the presentation. The youthful agent was all business. I wondered how she felt about Joe Dawson working a crossword puzzle while she summarized what they knew about The Prophet by telling us the story of his first victim.

“In September of 2010, a fourteen-year-old girl, Britany Calderon, left her parent’s mobile home in Decatur Georgia at approximately seven-thirty in the morning. She was last seen by a neighbor walking to a school bus stop about ten minutes later but she never got on the bus.

“Forty-three hours later, a hiker found Britany about three miles from her home. Her body was in the back of a small limestone cavern, on a raised wooden platform, posed on a white sheet. Unlike the body at the Clearwater, Florida crime scene, there was no ring found on the victim’s finger.

“During the examination of the crime scene, investigators heard a buzzing noise near the victim’s head. While processing the scene, a local doctor, who served as the area’s part-time coroner, opened the victim’s mouth.”

Lane turned to Agent Molina who picked up the story, reading the local coroner’s firsthand account of his examination of the body. “During the medical examination at the crime scene there was a non-specific sound in the area of the victim’s head. The oral cavity was subsequently examined, at which time I realized there was some unknown species of insect inside. Before I could react, the insect, which I believed to be a wasp, exited the victim’s mouth and flew away.

“During the subsequent autopsy, several welts were found

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