Unanswered Cries by French Thomas

Author:French, Thomas [French, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Detective, murder, screams, true crime, Crime, trial, race, rape
Published: 2012-01-04T23:00:00+00:00

It was around then, just as the court case was beginning to move forward, that Tosi heard about something called Luminol. He was taking a course on homicide investigation, and he learned that Luminol is a chemical solution that reacts with an enzyme in blood, causing it to glow. It’s used to find faint bloodstains or stains not visible to the naked eye.

Hearing this, Tosi remembered the section of the hallway carpet on which Karen’s body had been found. Since David gave it to them that summer, the carpet had been stored in the evidence room at the station. By now the bloodstains that had been so obvious that first day were dried and faded, and against the brown color of the carpet it was impossible to see their distinct shapes. Perhaps Luminol could be used to find other usable footprints or handprints.

To test his theory, Tosi turned to some technicians with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department who were familiar with Luminol. First, they scanned the carpet with laser, a searching for the general areas of bloodstains and any other evidence. Under the yellowish-green beam of the laser, the stains appeared as black, velvetlike blotches. Then, inside a dark room, they sprayed Luminol over the areas with the stains. Immediately the stains on the carpet began to glow. One by one, bare footprints appeared. They could see the imprints of toes and arches and heels. There appeared to be at least a dozen footprints, all across the carpet, pointing in different directions, with some of them moving in a path that would have led toward the bathroom. Tosi, watching nearby, thought it looked as if the person who’d made the prints had been dancing.

Before the glowing footprints faded, the technicians photographed and videotaped them. One technician used a phosphorescent ruler to measure one of the prints. It was difficult to be absolutely precise, considering that he was measuring a stain that might have spread across the surface of the carpet. But the technician did his best. The footprint, he said, was approximately nine and one-half to ten inches long.

About the same length as Lewis’s feet.

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