The Warrior's Debt by Ty Patterson

Author:Ty Patterson [Patterson, Ty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ty Patterson

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Cleary was less exultant the next day when they met him.

‘What gives, hotshot? A dead rat has more life in it than you. You were on cloud nine yesterday, who took away your cheese?’ Beth challenged him.

Cleary’s red-rimmed eyes slid away from hers and he held a thick file in front of him, as if hiding from them.

Zeb studied him for a moment, took in his disheveled appearance and his unshaven face. ‘You’ve been up all night?’

Cleary nodded.

‘Problems?’

The spots on Cleary’s pale face reddened. ‘You might say that.’

Beth’s palm slammed the table. ‘Oh for Chris sakes, Jase. Cut to the chase will you.’

‘Ivan Rausch.’

‘That’s him? That’s our killer?’

Cleary licked his lips. ‘He can’t be.’

His stammer became more pronounced under their collective gaze.

‘Ivan Rausch died eighteen years back.’

The stunned silence that followed was broken by Meghan’s curse. ‘Are you sure? You didn’t test the wrong sample by any chance?’

The criminologist flared. ‘Yeah, I did just that. I was like, why don’t I waste everyone’s time. I’ve nothing better to do.’

Meghan returned his glare and started to lash out when Zeb raised his hand.

‘Talk us through it, Jase.’

The stammer lessened as he walked them through the tests he ran, the results he got. Zeb’s call to Rolando, the previous night, had ensured that Cleary’s samples jumped to the head of the line at the criminology lab.

‘I got the results soon enough, these new machines we have now spits out results in less than three hours. I ran the tests twice, to be doubly sure. Cross checked the results against those of the residents of the apartment block.’ He swallowed. ‘I then queried CODIS, and it came back with Rausch.’

CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System, was a DNA database maintained by the FBI. It was the largest forensic DNA database in the world with over eleven million profiles and was accessed by federal and state authorities.

His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed again. ‘Rausch is no longer alive. Our perp is a ghost.’

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