He could slow his roll.
“I’m not here for that, Doc. I need you to make sure you lock down the information. I don’t want anyone from this city to see what you find but us. We think we have a leak issue, and worse yet, it might be someone who knows forensics. These bodies are being dumped and handled in a way that makes us both suspicious.”
He lifted a brow.
“Including the city ME?” he asked.
He nodded.
“Someone called those reporters, and while we think we know who it is, the ME left, and the media showed up minutes later. He hates our guts. Could it be a beat cop? Yes, but we can’t risk the killer hears something that clues him or her in that we’re onto them.”
He got it.
“I’ll lock it down, and write up my findings, not dictate them,” he offered.
Gene was grateful.
“We’re going to be at the precinct, the next building over from the morgue. Ethan needs to work on the profile, and we have to research Vina.”
He was good with that.
“Okay, Agent. See you in a few hours. Hopefully, I can give you what you need.”
Oh, Gene hoped so.
Heading back over to Ethan, he clued him in to what had gone down.
“Doctor Fuentes is locking it down,” he stated. “Anything going forward is need to know, and no one in this fuck-ass town needs to know.”
On that, he agreed.
Ethan looked relieved.
Only, he didn’t get time to say anything. Both cops were headed back toward him.
Now, it was time to give them busy work until they could research this woman and figure out what the hell was going on here inDamascus.
“I’ve gotten you a conference room. Our boss was up, and he wants you to have the one close to where his office is. He’s going to head in early to make sure you’ve got everything you need. I told him we didn’t have ID yet. That gives you some time.”
As for the man heading in…
That wasn’t necessary.
Really.
Leah kept her voice down.
“The reporters were talking to the beat cops. Apparently, someone called it in to their main office about a body. It was anonymous.”
Gene was curious.
“Did they say when? Because they were hereRIGHTafter us,” he said, knowing that all three people from the city ME to the two detectives, had been here before them.
Leah shook her head.
Great.
That didn’t help them.
