The Torso Murders by Lee Perry

Author:Lee Perry [Perry, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

New York, NY

“Dammit.”

Catherine looked around her monitor, “What?”

“I just got Mitch Ryan’s financials… and he’s definitely a victim and not our suspect. His bank accounts, credit cards… nothing’s been touched since he disappeared from SAEx.”

“You said his neighbors hadn’t seen him in weeks.”

“Yeah, but I didn’t think that was suspicious since his neighbors didn’t know his name or really who I was talking about until I showed them the picture on his driver’s license and even then only about half of them said, ‘oh, yeah, that guy.’ Although they all had townhouses with electric garage doors, so it figures they’d only see each other driving past in their cars.” She slumped in her chair and swiveled it to the side of her desk so she could see her, “How about you and Mister Ryan’s hard drive?”

Catherine wrinkled her nose, “Nothing helpful, I’m afraid… his company account was tampered with but when I tried tracing this odd code I was led on a wild goose chase to China.”

“China?” Jordan sat up and rolled her chair next to hers.

“Yeah, see this?” She pointed to her screen, filled with Chinese writing.

“Oh, my god...” Jordan groaned, “He was hacked by the Chinese?”

“No,” Catherine shook her head, “I can read it, they are Chinese characters, but it’s nonsense, like someone just copied and pasted stuff.”

“I don’t get it, no one’s touched his money… why hack him?”

“I don’t know, but he was monitored for a while by his hacker, I’m still trying to figure it out, but whoever hacked Mister Ryan is very good at covering his tracks.”

“Dammit.” Jordan leaned back in her chair and stretched until the vertebrae popped, “Lesous and Ryan… like the other victims, they had friends but when you talk to them they don’t seem to know much about each other.”

“Fear of intimacy… isn’t that stereotypical for men?’

She shrugged, “I guess, and these stock traders don’t seem to have much going on with either real friends or intimate relationships…. Find anything on Lesous?”

“Nope, hard drive was clean; a real company man, everything was neatly organized and on the up and up.” Her nose wrinkled again, “But their emails… the language they use is so aggressive.”

“I know,” Jordan sighed, “if they weren’t already dead they’d all make excellent murder suspects. They’re so embarrassingly macho; they’re always killing it, or him or them… and they’re always gonna fuck competitors to death.”

“Stock trading,” Catherine shuddered, “what a horrible way to live.”

“That reminds me…” Jordan glanced at the time on her screen and rolled her chair back to her desk, “I want to call that tech.” She had asked Wilson, Dean and the young tech for their business cards and she called Mr. Han on his cell phone.

“Hello?”

“Yes, Mister Han, this is Agent Hawkins from the FBI, we spoke this morning?”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Are you in a place where you can speak freely?”

“Oh, sure, I’m out at lunch right now, go ahead.”

“Good, I was calling to see if you had remembered anything unusual about Mitch Ryan or Darrel Lesous’s behavior before they disappeared.

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