The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse

Author:Dan Morse [Morse, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780425263648
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2013-11-04T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Thursday:

Tracking and Trailing

Detectives Jim Drewry and Dimitry Ruvin returned to the office Thursday, March 17, worried they’d spoken with Brittany Norwood for the last time but convinced more than ever she was the lone killer. It wasn’t just the holes in her story. No one was stepping forward who had seen men enter the store, heard men’s voices inside it, or seen men leave. The tipsters who were now calling increasingly lacked specificity and, in some cases, a connection to reality.

A local musician said she’d gone for a walk down Bethesda Avenue the night before the murder and saw a tall, muscular black man with a “criminal face” pass in front of her while wearing a dark polyester hoodie—possibly casing the store. “Didn’t fit in,” a detective wrote, taking notes of the call. “Hardened face, looked angry, walking in middle of street, criminal face.” An anonymous tipster suggested detectives look into a group seen one or two days before the murder, gathering a block from the yoga store in front of Barnes & Noble. “Caller stated the group was having a meeting before being sent out to go door-to-door to solicit magazine sales. Caller stated in their experience the people involved in those door-to-door sales are from outside the area.”

A performer from a well-known strip club in Washington, D.C., submitted a tip on one of the police department’s online-reporting forms. She offered the name, e-mail address, and employer of one of her more rabid fans, and recalled a recent conversation with him: “He said a lot of his women friends died, that he wanted to join the Army to kill people for the last war and he was serious.” The stripper said she practiced yoga in Bethesda. Her implication, seemingly, was that the fan went looking for her at the store and slipped into a rage. “I get a creepy feeling from him,” she wrote. If the police wanted to talk to the man directly, they could find him at the strip club. “He will most likely show up on Saturday morning right when we open.”

A psychic reported a vision that one of the yoga store victims suffered internal bleeding because she’d been raped with a knife. Another tipster said he had spoken to a psychic who saw the killer as a heavyset man, possibly named Raphile, who could be identified by his tattoo of a non-English word surrounded by a circle. And there was the person who called with simply a gut feeling: “The suspect might have a disease on the foot or bad odor on one foot.”

Drewry and Ruvin didn’t personally have to field many of the calls or sift through the tips, but their colleagues kept them up to speed on the more outlandish ones as a form of comic relief. A more serious pursuit, the detectives knew, was under way inside the store, where evidence was adding up in support of their theory that Brittany had killed Jayna while wearing her pink, size-7½ New Balance

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