Oh, and Gene was good with reinterviewing.
He knew Ethan was looking to cover all of their bases and with good reason.
“I put Randal Crest on it because he had a good reason to kill someone, and frame Robert Fergus. He’s educated, he has money, and he has a motive. His woman cheated on him. Yeah, he was convincing, but…”
Gene got it.
That made him hesitate, too.
“But he has no place to do the deed. He couldn’t slip them past the concierge in his building, or the doorman.”
That was the truth.
He pushed on.
“Up next is the gay best friend. I’m not gay, I’m bi, so maybe he is too. What if he had some love for the woman, and then when he couldn’t have her…?”
“He what? Hid it among other deaths?”
He wasn’t sure.
“With DID, I have no clue what can happen until it happens. There have been case studies of people with DID waking up in bed after having sex with people and not recalling it.”
That was a good point.
“And Scott…he’s a cop, and we have leaks. My gut is just screaming to focus in that direction. I don’t know why, but leaving him off the list as Vina’s boyfriend feels wrong.”
Well, they were on the same page, at least.
When his phone rang, Gene looked down.
“It’s the ME. He has to be calling with an update,” he said, hitting the answer button, and putting it on speaker. “Yo, Doc. What do you have?”
The man’s voice came over the phone.
“I did the autopsy on the woman in the park. I won’t have dentals, so I can’t give you positive ID yet, but it was pretty much cut and dry. She died of blood loss when her heart was punctured. One shot to the aorta, like I suspected. She was skinned, and not well. Peeled, I would say. She was put in really hot water, and that likely was what made her peel a bit better.”
Gene was aghast.
“Hot water?”
The man on the phone explained.
“It’s like if you wanted to get the skin off a tomato before making sauce. You’d stick it in hot water, and eventually the skin releases. Human skin is pretty much the same. Scoring her would have been better, and thus why she didn’t peel well.”
Well, that was gross.
Gene wouldn’t look at sauce the same way again, and he loved Ethan’s sauce.
“What else?” he asked.
Luis shared.
“There’s no sexual abuse or sign of sex. We did get the DNA back on one of the other victims. She recently had sex.”
That would be Megan.
He thought about Mitch Kline’s gum.
