Lock&Load by Freya Barker

Author:Freya Barker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988733586
Publisher: Freya Barker

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“His face was caved in. The coroner actually thinks they used the removable showerhead to beat him with it. But strangulation was the cause of death.”

SAC Sanders just got back from Montrose and is updating us on the latest attack. Pretty gruesome photographs from the scene are tacked up beside the pictures of the other crimes in our conference room.

“They all have that in common,” Bree points out. “Even the victims in San Luis Obispo and Saginaw were unrecognizable. Five victims we know of and in each case great care was taken to obliterate their faces. What does that tell you?”

“They know their victims,” Kai, who drove back from Colorado Springs this past weekend, suggests.

“Exactly,” Bree agrees before turning to Sanders. “Each attack conducted by a different team, but at least one of them would’ve had a personal connection to the victim.”

“Teams? You make it sound like some organized group of killers,” the agent reacts.

“I think in a way they are,” Sarah confirms, sliding a piece of paper across the table. “We’re pretty sure each time one of these hashtags is used it links to a crime that was committed. There’s one to correspond with the dates of four out of the five murders. Unfortunately, we only have the name for one possible suspect and that was only because we lucked out with a partial license plate. We haven’t been able to get further than online identities with the other three.”

“I can’t bloody well do much without an actual name or an address,” Sanders grumbles.

“We’re working on it,” she says with an edge, and her boss seems surprised at her tone.

This time I hand him a sheet.

“Those are IP addresses. They will tell you the location of a computer or network a certain signal originated from,” I explain.

“I know what an IP address is,” Sanders snaps.

“Good. Saves me time,” I respond dryly. “If you look at the list, it shows the IP address, the date of the signal that included the hashtag, and the corresponding location. It also shows the online identity used. Aside from Jeremy Loman, we’ve been able to cross-reference two other identities with social media accounts, and you’ll see the names and geographical location on there as well. Neither of those are local and only one corresponds with an attack we know of.”

It’s up to Sanders to follow up on those. I tune out when Sarah takes over again, explaining yesterday’s system crash. I mentally go over what we’ve discovered since then.

First of all, this Fury-guy is slick. Before I managed to pull the plug on the system, he already managed to syphon off most, if not all, of the information from my computer. I spent most of last night and this morning in damage control. I ran checks on my online server—the nerve center of our network—to make sure no one and nothing had accessed it, and built an additional layer of protection on top of the tight security already on there. Then I

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