BEFORE HE LONGS by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

The morning stretched on like she was stuck in some wretched sort of purgatory. The only real information they were able to get came an hour later when the victim was identified as twenty-four-year-old Kelly Higdon of Seattle. Her only local relative was her grandfather, who was currently residing in a retirement home with a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease. Seattle PD ran Higdon’s record and found it clean.

Because of Higdon’s clean record, Mackenzie was not expecting much when they searched her apartment later that morning. She and Ellington entered the place only because it was the single lead they had. Granted, part of Mackenzie almost expected to find some sort of doll or tea party set up in the apartment. But there was nothing.

Ellington surfed through the web browser history of Higdon’s laptop while Mackenzie looked the bedroom over. After half an hour of searching, neither of them found anything that was remotely linked to her murder or the storage unit. Just like the storage unit, Higdon’s apartment turned up nothing.

Frustrated and more defeated than she had felt on a case in a very long time, Mackenzie knew that the only thing they could do for the remainder of the day was to hole up at the police station and dig into the files. As calls were made to all of the other storage complexes in the city, her hope was that some little detail might come from one of the owners, just the tiniest little nugget that might lead them somewhere.

They found themselves back at the station, in the conference room by themselves, trying to talk the case out. It was usually these environments that Mackenzie and Ellington really started firing on all cylinders—in a room together, firing ideas back and forth until something clicked and just made sense. It had happened several times before but within five minutes, they knew that it was not going to be the case this time around. Something just felt off…not only with the case, but between them as well.

“Let’s start with the most obvious fact,” Mackenzie said, sitting across from Ellington and finding it hard to truly focus on him. “He’s renting these units in advance. So I think it’s safe to assume he knew why he’d be renting them.”

“Makes sense, but that could get pretty expensive. We also need to consider, though, that not all of the victims have been found in units under his name. In Claire Locke’s case, for example, the unit belonged to her, the victim.”

“I’m getting hung up on that, too,” Mackenzie said. “But I wonder if maybe that one was just a matter of convenience. It would also indicate that even though he does rent these units, he doesn’t feel the need to use them all of the time. There’s apparently nothing special about them. He saw an opportunity to easily dispose of a body in a unit that was right there and he took it.”

“Another thing that’s not sitting well with me is the fact that some of the units are basically empty, while others seemed to be almost staged.

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