The Haunted Inspector by Ruggeri Claudio; Kerry Judy;

Author:Ruggeri, Claudio; Kerry, Judy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Published: 2016-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

8

“Hello...”

“Is that the Police?”

“Yes, how can I help?”

“My name is Valerio Angeli, and half an hour ago I went for a run and came across something...”

“What do you mean, something?”

“It looked like a body, a human body...it was in the middle of some brambles.”

“And where are you now?”

“I ran home to make this call, as I didn’t have my mobile on me.”

“Where were you running?”

“I usually jog in a kind of meadow with some trees, where no one else ever goes, between Frascati and Grottaferrata”.

“And can you confirm that you are at home now? I’ll send a squad car for you, if you feel up to accompanying us.”

“Yes...of course.”

The meadow in question was in fact a kind of uneven clearing surrounded by various ditches. In one of these, lying among the scrub, was the lifeless body of a girl, in the early stages of decomposition.

The first officers to arrive at the scene immediately sealed off the area. Before notifying Forensics, they tried unsuccessfully to contact Inspector Germano.

They only managed to notify him two hours later; during Operation EXTRA TIME he had been unavailable to everyone and when he finally heard, he could barely contain his dismay.

At first glance, it was already clear that the girl had not ended up in that ditch by accident; there was a rip in the back of her jeans, just below the right buttock.

The colour of blood, which had stained a large part of the jeans around the rip, was unmistakeable, even though it was a few days’ old; after exchanging a few words with the medical examiner, Germano returned to the station, where some of his men were waiting for him.

Di Girolamo was the first to speak.

“Male or female?”

“A girl. So I want you to start looking at all the missing person reports; I had a quick chat with the medical examiner before I left; look for girls aged between twenty-five and thirty-five who’ve gone missing in Rome and the surrounding area over the past month.”

“So the body hasn’t been there for long, then?” asked Parisi.

“Let’s wait for the autopsy report, but I don’t think it’s been there for longer than a month; let’s start looking in any case.”

One hour later, Detective Parisi was back with the reports on the seven women who had gone missing over the past month. Two could be eliminated immediately, as the girls were not white: the one found had very pale skin.

Two more were discounted soon after, as the body discovered in the ditch must have been around one metre seventy tall, whilst these were at least ten centimetres shorter.

This left three, and these included the report on Chiara Clementi.

Germano dismissed his colleague, asking him to proceed no further with the investigation; they should wait for the autopsy report, after which they would also have the girl’s personal belongings in their possession, to show to the friends and relatives of the missing girls.

The call from Dr Monachini came on the morning of the following Tuesday, thirty-six hours after the discovery of the body.

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