Crime Exposed by Chuck Morgan

Author:Chuck Morgan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781733796019
Publisher: Chuck Morgan
Published: 2019-06-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Bax and Paul pulled into the gravel parking lot at the Colorado Department of Transportation garage just south of Kremmling and parked next to the CBI forensics van. The forensics guys had been able to commandeer one of the garage bays and move both cars into the space. They were going over Barb McBride’s Range Rover when Bax and Paul walked in.

They signed in on the visitor log, put on Tyvek jumpsuits, booties, hats and nitrile gloves and walked up to Jerry Harcourt, the lead forensic tech.

“Hi, Jerry. Any luck so far?” Bax asked.

“Hey, Bax, Paul. Not much so far, but we just started the detail work on this one. I can tell you one thing for sure. The Range Rover was not involved in an accident, at least not one that left any paint or residue. We pulled the hard drive and have it drying out in a bucket of rice. It fried when it hit the water, but we might be able to pull something off it.”

Bax stepped over to the driver’s side door. She pointed to the cracked steering wheel. She had to lift the airbag remains out of the way with her gloved hand to see the wheel.

“Could this have cracked when the car hit the ice in the lake?”

“It’s possible, but I doubt the body would have hit it hard enough to do the kind of damage we see here, especially with the airbag in the way. I think something else happened.”

Paul was looking in through the passenger side door.

“Jerry, was she wearing her seat belt when the pathologist pulled her from the front seat?”

Jerry walked over to his laptop, opened his photos from the crime scene, found a clear picture and spun his laptop so Paul could see it.

“Not from the pictures. The water floated her around a little, but when the car hit the ground after the fire department lifted it, she was slouched across the seat and the center console. No seat belt.”

Paul pulled out his notebook and made a note to himself. Bax nodded in agreement. She walked over to the table they had set up in one corner of the garage and started looking through the evidence bags. The table didn’t hold much evidence, at least nothing that seemed promising to Bax. She turned back to the car as two of the forensic techs carried in a large plastic tent.

“What’s the tent for, Jerry?”

“We are going to try to lift some prints off the car.”

“The car was submerged for almost a week; I would assume the fingerprints would have washed off everything.”

“That’s what most people would think, but a lot of us have had good luck pulling prints off submerged metal using cyanoacrylate fuming. Basically, superglue on steroids. The DNA will be gone from the print, but we may still find a print. Ain’t science amazing?”

Jerry removed a packet from his toolbox, broke it open and set it inside the tent. He closed the flap to the tent and told her it would take about an hour.

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