“Ethan dropped off something to run it against. Your techs picked up a napkin with chewed gum in it. It was voluntarily turned in by a sex partner. One of the people we talked to admitted to having sex with her.”
“Oh, well, I’ll see if they started processing it yet. As for the rest, no sexual intercourse recently where semen was left behind.”
Gene also went there.
“We turned in a wastebasket full of used condoms. Can you run them too?”
He could.
“Yep. If they used a condom, I won’t have trace. There won’t be bruising from normal intercourse.”
Both men were aware.
The ME continued.
“There was bruising around wrists and ankles, like I assumed. They were restrained and tried to get away. They fought as hard as they could.”
Well, who wouldn’t?
“Anything on the fingerprints?” Gene asked.
He flipped through papers.
“We cleared one. They started at the first victim, and her house. We have multiple partial prints there from the same source. Along with the one you sent in…they match.”
They held their breaths.
“When we ran it, they came back for an employee at the local school. Robert Fergus. Sound familiar?”
Oh, it did.
“He was sleeping with her. We didn’t find that out from him, so he’s going to hear from us in a little while when we can reinterview.”
The man wasn’t done.
“There was nothing of interest in the car that was brought in for Megan Vessey, and the pictures and rosary that were found at Phylis Lizney’s home were clean. Not a print on them, but smudges on the rosary. We can’t pinpoint a print.”
Well, shit.
“We appreciate it, Doc. Thanks for blowing through them, and keep going.”
He was to the point.
“As annoying as the ME is, he didn’t miss anything. I found his personal notes in the file, the ones not in the report, and he noted all of the things I just did. So he actually did the job. He was clearly fucking with you both.”
What a douche.
“Or he wanted to slow us down. Or was he being a dick?” Gene asked.
The man laughed.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” he stated. “Maybe we annoy him for some reason, or he has ulterior motives. That’s for you to decide. I read evidence. You read nutjobs.”
Oh, they were well aware.
“Thanks for letting us know, Doc. Be ready for another victim, in case one pops up.”
Oh, he was already on standby.
