Samurai Code by Don Easton

Author:Don Easton [Easton, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Suspense, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781554886975
Google: ura4KEWTUMIC
Amazon: 155488697X
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2010-08-02T18:30:00+00:00

21

The RCMP laboratory opened Monday morning. Jack was the first in line. The lab still had the other plastic bag provided to them by CC.

Later that afternoon, Jack received the call from CC that he had been waiting for.

“Jack, the lab says it’s a match,” said CC. Her voice sounded hollow and empty. “Guess you were right about Goldie. I can forget about my kids theory.”

“That’s great it matched,” replied Jack. “The bastard did bring Melvin to the park. We’re on the right track. Now we have to find out who The Enabler is and the guy in the suit described as having dead eyes.”

“There’s a problem … huge,” mumbled CC. She spoke like she was in pain, as if someone had beaten her stomach and ribcage with a hockey stick.

Jack realized that CC was fighting back tears. “CC? What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I fucked up,” she cried. “Tree of the poisoned fruit or something. No, that’s not it.”

“What? You’re not making sense.”

“Fruit of the poisonous tree. That’s it. That’s what the prosecutor just told me. The garbage bag, we can’t —”

“I know. We can’t use it in evidence. We knew that. It’s too bad but at least we know we’re on the right trail. We’ll get other proof.”

“No, it’s much worse,” sniffled CC. “The prosecutor was screaming at me she was so fucking mad. She said that we might as well have given Goldie permanent immunity from prosecution for it.”

“What the hell are you talking about?” asked Jack, feeling a sense of dread ooze through his body like a parasitic disease.

“Because we stole the garbage bag, not only can’t it be used, but she says any evidence we gather on Goldie from here on in is tainted because we’re using illegally obtained evidence as the catalyst to further our investigation. If we didn’t know about the garbage bag in his garage as being literally connected to the one at the murder scene, we wouldn’t have continued to pursue the investigation on Goldie.”

“Bullshit!” yelled Jack angrily. “I was working on the premise from what Goldie said in Wang’s car that he was involved. Not to mention, the trail of the gun that Laura and I followed. Even if the garbage bag hadn’t matched, I wouldn’t have given up!”

“I know. That’s how I perceived it. The prosecutor says different … or at least says a judge would say different. The evidence leading up to stealing the bag is admissible. What was said in the car was under a legal wiretap.”

“Yeah, which means squat,” replied Jack. “Even you weren’t convinced they were talking about the same incident. Jesus! Now you’ve got me saying it.”

“Saying what?”

“Incident. Like, oh, well, guess we have to let this incident slide and work on some other incident. These incidents are murder! Now the murderers walk because I stole a garbage bag?”

“It’s not your fault. I’m the primary investigator and I was the one who told you to do it.”

“Yeah, with me prodding you and putting you on the spot saying we didn’t have much time.

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