The Body Farm #5 by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Women Detectives, Medical Examiners (Law), Mystery & Detective, Medical, North Carolina, Kay (Fictitious Character), Virginia, Scarpetta, Fiction, Women Physicians, Forensic Pathologists, Women Sleuths, Large Type Books, General, Women
ISBN: 9780425201442
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1994-09-14T05:00:00+00:00

The Body Farm

Page: 106

"Have you talked to anyone at Shuford Mills?" Wesley asked Richards.

"Yes. They're still trying to track down information for me. But this much we already know. The blaze orange tape was a specialty item that Shuford Mills manufactured solely for a private label customer in the late eighties. "

"What is a private label customer?" I asked.

"Someone who wants a special tape and orders maybe a minimum of five hundred cases of it. So there could be hundreds of tapes out there we're never going to see, unless it turns up like this blaze orange tape did. "

"Can you give me an example of what sort of person might design his own duct tape?" I inquired further.

"I know some stock car racers do, " Richards replied.

"For example, the duct tape Richard Petty has made for his pit crew is red and blue, while Daryl Waltrip's is yellow. Shuford Mills also had a contractor some years back who was sick of his workers walking off the job with his expensive tape. So he had his own bright purple tape made. You know, you got purple tape repairing your ductwork at home or fixing the leak in your kid's wading pool, and it's pretty obvious you stole it. "

"Could that be the purpose of the blaze orange tape? To prevent workers from stealing it?" I asked.

"Possibly, " said Richards.

"And by the way, it's also flame retardant. "

"Is that unusual?" Wesley asked.

"Very much so, " Richards replied.

"I associate flame- retardant duct tapes with aircraft and submarines, neither of which would have any need of a tape that's blaze orange, or at least I wouldn't think so. "

"Why would anyone need a tape that is blaze orange?" I asked.

"The million-dollar question, " Cartright said.

"When I think of blaze orange, I think of hunting and traffic cones. "

"Let's get back to the killer taping up Mrs. Steiner and her daughter, " Wesley suggested.

"What else can you tell us about the mechanics of that?"

"We found traces of what appears to be furniture varnish on some of the tape ends, " Richards said.

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