Murder on The Dark Web: A Belfast Murder Mystery by O'HARE BRIAN

Author:O'HARE, BRIAN
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Monday, 20th August 2018: Morning

Sheehan was in his office, poring through the case files and notes, searching for some clue, some inspiration, that would help him find some order, or shape, or even some kind of pointer to what had transpired so far. But it was a frustrating search. So many suspects, so many disconnections, so many possible motives without any clue as to the real one. There was nothing that led to any form of continuity, nothing that could enable him to formulate any kind of pattern. True there were the truncheons, but what did they mean? And why their brutal placement in the victim’s rectums?

There was a brief frantic knock on his door and Stewart rushed in without waiting for his usual invitation. “Sir.” She was almost gasping. Her left arm was raised and pointing erratically back towards her station. “You really need to see this.”

He raised a calm hand. “Slow down, Stewart. Explain.”

Stewart inhaled a deep breath and standing on the opposite side of his desk, she calmed herself enough to say, “You’ve heard of the Dark Web, sir?”

Sheehan nodded. “Just enough to know that it’s not a place for ordinary people to be poking around in.”

“You’re right about that, sir. It’s very dangerous for people who are not computer savvy. I would normally never go near it myself, but that remark my friend passed about Kane’s dark and voracious appetites made me wonder.”

“You’ve found something about Kane on the Dark Web?” Sheehan was suddenly very interested.

“No, sir. Nothing about Kane.” She hesitated, frustrated, searching for words. “Sir, it’s all a bit complicated. You’re right. The Dark Web is one scary place. I had to disguise my IP address and my identity just to even browse there, but eventually I felt safe enough to initiate a search.” She waved her hands in front of her making vague diagrams in the air. “You know how when you’re searching for something on the net, you throw in a few connected words or phrases and all sorts of stuff comes up? You might get a sentence on a page from a book with a couple of the words you have been searching for highlighted in it, or an advert, or a page from a blog. It could be anything.”

She backed towards the office door, urging Sheehan to follow. “Come on, sir. You need to see this.” Sheehan was now on his feet, interest piqued, as he followed her to her desk. “I was getting nowhere for a while,” Stewart went on, rushing in front of him to pull her chair out from her desk, “but I put ‘judge’, ‘murder’, and ‘truncheon’ together in the search box, and what came up has taken my breath away.”

She ushered Sheehan into her chair and leaned forward to touch the keyboard of her laptop, scrolling back to the beginning of the post she had been reading. “It’s a blog, sir. Read it.” She stood back, watching the chief as he read, her hands moving endlessly together in a washing motion.

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