Poisonous Murder (Jill Quint, MD, Forensic Pathologist Series Book 15) by Alec Peche

Author:Alec Peche [Peche, Alec]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GBSW Publishing
Published: 2024-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Jill pulled into the lot where her meeting was supposed to take place. It was not police headquarters where she had met Detective Greenwood. Instead, it was about fifteen miles away in South San Jose and it was a training building, according to the signage on the outside. She was just grateful that there was plenty of parking nearby and if she got out of the meeting in time, she could jump into the big box store across the parking lot and pick up some supplies.

After entering the lobby, she was directed to a conference room on the second floor. She walked into the room and found Leticia and her staff already there. She was exchanging a hug with the Special Agent as Detectives Greenwood and Crawford walked in. She saw the detective’s eyes raised at the hug.

“Do you two know each other?”

Leticia answered, “Yes, we’ve worked several cases together. Somehow, I’m not surprised that Dr. Quint is in the middle of this one. The strangest cases come from her. She’s also worked with our offices in Denver and DC and I’ve served as her reference with the Italian and Australian police forces.”

“Interesting,” Greenwood said, unable to think of any other comment. She’d rarely worked with civilians on cases and most of the time it was a disaster. It was good to know that this case wouldn’t likely go sideways because of the actions of this civilian.

“Who else are we waiting on?” Jill asked, not knowing who was invited.

“Our ME and my LT.”

Jill nodded. Her past experience with wide-ranging cases had department supervisors getting involved once an outside agency like the FBI was involved.

The final two attendees arrived, and introductions were performed. They started with the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner, as he had more autopsies awaiting his return to his building to complete. Besides, he had a small role in this case and there was no need for him to stay for the briefing.

“Let’s start with Dr. Hughes. Doctor, what have you found in your limited time with our victims’ remains? We’ll get his report out of the way so he can leave and get back to his large caseload at the morgue,” Greenwood said.

“I can confirm the presence of arsenic. One of my aides is looking into his employment record to make sure he didn’t work in an arsenic-laden industry like mining. However, I suspect he’ll become your second victim.”

The group asked a few more questions, then he left to return to the morgue.

Jill had been searching her email for the update from Henrik’s company. She opened the spreadsheet and saw that the tens of thousands of photos had been reduced to fewer than twenty. Jill doubted there were twenty victims in this case, as surely it would have been discovered before now.

Jill raised her hand that she had new knowledge. She explained who Henrik was and that she had asked his software engineers to search for the valve and then gave the results of that first search.

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