Campus Killings by Oliver Davies

Author:Oliver Davies [Davies, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-16T22:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

Sedgwick was at the station on Monday, as opposed to busily running around taking people’s interviews, and when he was in the break room, I headed over to talk to him.

“Good weekend?” I asked.

He dropped a tea bag into his mug and sent me an unimpressed look. “What do you want?”

Faintly annoyed, I flatly said, “I want updates on the case.”

“Of course you do,” Sedgwick muttered. I thought he was going to walk off and leave me to have to go and ask Gaskell to send me the details, but he just sighed and leaned against the counter.

“There haven’t been any major jumps forward,” he said steadily, as he fetched milk from the fridge for his tea. “There’s the obvious link to sports that we’re looking into as well, even though I’m aware of the work you and your partner have been putting in on that.” I bristled slightly at his use of the word ‘obvious’, like I hadn’t been the first one to realise that Hannah’s position had been football-related. But he was telling me what I wanted to know, so I kept quiet. “We interviewed a number of students at Emma’s ballet class,” that was the name of the second victim, I remembered, “and a couple of them had seen a man nearby, keeping his head covered. He left the moment the class finished, apparently, so only students who’d left early for some reason saw him.”

I rubbed my jaw as I thought over the new information. “Did any of them see-?”

“No,” Sedgwick said tightly. “There are no cameras nearby, and no-one got a good look at his face. We do have some descriptions of height and build, but nothing very clear to go on.”

“Great,” I muttered, and Sedgwick nodded.

“We had someone stationed outside the last time there was a class, on Wednesday, but no such man was seen.”

“He’s probably moved on,” I said.

“Unfortunately, I think you’re right.”

“With the university and its societies closed, hopefully-”

Sedgwick waved his hand, cutting me off again. “There’ll be no more deaths, yeah, I know,” he said. “Doesn’t get any closer to closing this case, does it?”

“No,” I agreed. I’d been making myself a cup of coffee as he spoke and we stood for a minute in silence before Sedgwick shook his head and walked away without another word.

“Sedgwick!” I called.

He paused, with clear reluctance and gave me a cold look. “What?”

I walked over to him. “Did you ask the flatmates about dead animals being left outside their doors?”

Sedgwick pressed his lips together, frowning, and I took that for a clear ‘no’. He hadn’t believed that the cases had been connected at the time he did the interviews, if he even really did now.

“You should,” I said. He grunted and walked away. I watched him go before heading back to my own desk. I’d not gotten as much out of him as I might have liked, but I’m not saying that he actually knew much more. The case was still locked up tight.

My phone

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