Broken by J A Carlton

Author:J A Carlton [Carlton, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9780983292708
Publisher: Uneak Press, Incorporated
Published: 2011-02-28T09:55:40+00:00

“Sam, don’t.” Jase warned sickened by what he was seeing.

He hadn’t missed the differences in this murder either.

There was a lack of gross genital mutilation, an apparent lack of sodomy, and in comparison to the others, this one was downright clean. If it weren’t for the duct tape and the vulgar posing of the body it might actually look unrelated. The question was why was his M.O. changing now?

“It’s okay,” she nodded at Ming, who walked her around and shone the light into the victim’s face.

Her makeup was done very similarly to the way Sam did hers, with faint bronze tones on the face and plum colored eyeliner. He’d even found a comparable shade of lipstick to the ‘Dusty Berry’ she usually wore.

The woman’s face was contorted in horror as if she knew what was happening. Her eyes were open and her mouth twisted and bulging, stuffed full with leaves and dirt. Sam could see ligature marks on her throat in vivid violet and the same color in the petechial hemorrhages at the eyes.

“Was the cause of death strangulation?” Sam asked, leaning still closer and holding her hair back.

“Looks like but…”

Sam shook her head, “That’s a total deviation. I mean a real BREAK from his established M.O.” she looked between Jase and Ming before nodding faintly. “There’s no duct tape over her mouth, or her eyes, there was none over Diane’s eyes. Who the fuck is this guy?” she met eyes with Ming and finished the woman’s sentence, “You won’t know cause for sure until the autopsy.”

Looking around, she scrubbed her face with her hands. “And the mutilation is really minimal. What happened? It’s like he spiked with Diane and then something started cooling his fire,” she mused aloud, then took in the area surrounding the body. “She looks fresh, but I don’t see a lot of blood on the ground, this is a secondary site, right?”

“We think so,” Ming nodded and looked at Jase. “I’m impressed.”

“She’s a tough cookie,” he agreed and swallowed hard under the lead analysts penetrating gaze.

“No, I’m really not,” Sam shook her head. Her arms twined protectively around her torso and her eyes remained fixed on the corpse. “I’m scared shitless. Her hair color is almost identical to mine, and it’s natural unless he dyed her pubes. Her build is pretty much the same as mine, maybe a little larger. She could be me at thirty,” she said with a shudder.

“There’s lots of symbolism here, Sam, what do you read it to mean?” Ming asked curiously torn between being impressed that the young woman was still standing and wanting to give her something clinical to think about.

“Betrayer,” Sam shook her head, “I get some of it. I mean the action figure, I get it. The vic, she looks like me, the figure represents Jase, but,” she shook her head frowning, her brows furrowing deeply, “Betrayer?” she said in monotone. “It’s not subtle, not even clever, but the point is unmistakable. ‘Betrayer,’ I don’t,” she looked between Jase and Ming, “I don’t know.

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