The Ripper Gene by Ransom Michael

Author:Ransom, Michael [Ransom, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781466852075
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2015-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

The next morning Woodson and Terry were already in the field office when I arrived. I knew I needed to hide the bad mood plaguing me.

“What’s up, boss?” Terry asked. He and Woodson were leaning against a table, cups of steaming coffee in their hands.

“Plenty. We have a lot of territory to cover today. Let’s meet this afternoon and compare notes.”

“Sounds good.”

“Come prepared,” I said. “Then this afternoon Woodson and I will start hitting the bricks with an actual purpose in mind, for a change.”

Woodson glanced up at me, but didn’t challenge the statement. After going home last night in a sour mood following the conversation with my father, I’d realized that for the last two days I had been running around interviewing people just to cover my ass and prove to Raritan that I could still stay assigned to the case. I’d talked to Mara, her shrink, my brother, Mara’s father, Charlie, and my own father as well.

I’d decided that the rest of this investigation wasn’t going to center around the people of my past anymore. We needed to start funneling our energies into the search for the actual Snow White Killer, immediately. This new, almost angry sense of resolve had solidified my commitment to the case even further.

Terry spoke up. “The jeopardy surface should be ready by then.”

“Good. What are you up to this morning, Woodson?”

“Going back through the drug screens to see if anything else pops up. I still believe he’s drugging the victims before he starts in on them.”

I nodded. “Sounds good. Let’s plan on reconvening at two in the conference room.”

We parted ways, each heading off to work our respective angles.

* * *

Back in my office I sat at my desk and listed as many salient observations as I could.

Mara—dissociative, no recollection of SWK—dead end

Tyler—alibi at scientific conference—(and superpissed)

Charlie—solid alibis—rape charge from past—effect on Mara?

The next two facing pages, far more relevant in my opinion, contained the main list of all the salient crime scene observations to date.

Elevated caffeine in tox reports—any commonalities between victims, coffeehouses, etc.?

Pinpricks on finger of fourth victim—commonality or coincidence? Recent physical or physician visits? (Need to follow up with the other three victims/autopsy reports/MEs)

Linear slashes on still-living victims—implies restraint (no ligature bruises) or drugs (likely but none detected in tox screens)—Woodson reexamining the raw data

Razored apples—Gillette razors are dead end—apples are Ein Shemers (local?)—freshly picked each time before a murder. Symbolizes? Garden of Eden re-creation? Halloween urban legend? Death in the fruit? Danger in the fruit?

Message—a tan cat can’t—check with Shelly about any literary references now that it refers to something a tan cat can’t do—a tan cat can’t what?

Any significance regarding lack of an apostrophe in CANT on fourth victim’s forehead? Consider anagrams.

Body posturing—sexual but fully reclothed—killer uncomfortable around naked female victims? Homosexual-oriented predator who kills women? Highly unusual (no rapes in other cases, except Mara)—possibly an impotent heterosexual predator? Remorse for victims?

Crime scene locations—two of four—just coincidence with Charlie’s property?

UNSUB DNA—28 SNPs in the damnation signature—implies the killer

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