Decker 05 by Faye Kellerman

Author:Faye Kellerman [Kellerman, Faye]
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2010-02-17T08:10:52+00:00

"Well, I might be able to give you a little. Come and I'll show you what we got." Travers led Marge to his desk located between a gas chroma- tograph and a centrifuge lined with tubes of blood. He picked up a file and frowned. Marge caught it. "Your expression's hinky. What's wrong, Buck?" "What do you want first—the good news or the bad news?" "I'm an optimist. Let's hear the cheerful stuff." "Good news is we have a preliminary match—" "Hallelujah!" Marge clapped her hands. "Who's the lucky man?" "Wait a minute. You haven't heard the bad news yet." "First let's finish with the good news. Who, Buck?" "I think you'd better hear the bad news." Marge bit back frustration and told herself to take her time. That's the way it was with lots of the techs. They were meticulous people. "What's the bad news?" Travers frowned again. "Who did the evidence collection?" "I did." "You did?" "What happened? Was there a screwup?" "Yeah, there was a screwup." "Damn it! It wasn't me. Buck. I bagged each sample individually and marked them—" "Now, hold on, I'm not saying it was you. But there was a screwup." "How bad?" "Well, I found this lone bag of female hairs in your evidence collection. Lord only knows which case it belongs to. Someone's going to charge in here demanding to know what the hell happened to their evidence and we're not going to have the answers. Screw-ups are more frequent than we'd like to think. Some staffers just pass over them. Not me." Travers pointed to his chest. "I'm not going to further the disaster and make like my results are pristine. 1 just want to make sure the evidence you gave me is all accounted for." "Fine, Buck, I'm duly warned. The results?" "I'm not stalling for the sake of stalling, Marge. I just don't want to name a person only to find out he's not the one you should be after. I'd like some more time—" "Fine. Take as much time as you want, Buck. I'm perfectly aware that you're giving me tainted results. Who's the prelim match?" "Well..." Travers opened up the file again. "After careful consideration we find consistency between the hair collection taken from sheets on Case Number REb129847563 and a hair sample collected by you. We're still waiting for DNA banding results to come in using spermatazoa as the primary marker. Banding is more conclusive but the tests take a while. So you gotta take this with a grain of salt, Margie—" "A whole shaker full! Buck, who is it?" "Carl Totes." The stable hand was as out of place as a cow chip on china, eyes darting from one wall of the interview room to the other. Decker figured it was claustrophobia that was giving Totes the shakes, more than the situation itself. Carl had seemed baffled by the arrest but not the least bit uncooperative. He'd readily offered samples of his hair for retesting—anything to help out Miz Lilah.

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