4:57 ETD, Campus Motor Inn
>All three women stared at the TV, then looked at each other. "Here we go,"
>Sandra murmurred as they headed out to tell the rest of the group.
Flynn's room was right next to theirs, so they obviously went there first.
Kate knocked on the door, and an irate voice called out, "Yeah, yeah, I'm
coming!" A moment later, the door was flung open by Flynn, who was wearing a
scowl on his face; it cleared as he saw the three women staring at him. "Oh,
is something wrong?"
"We've just found out there's been another murder," Eithne answered.
"Where?"
"Near a sorority, Delta Pi I believe," Sandra answered.
"Okay, let me get freshened up first," he stated, and hurriedly shut the
door behind their backs as they moved on to tell their team leader.
After they'd all gotten ready, they divided into two groups and took both
the rental cars. Sandra, Kate, and Flynn took one car, Sari and Eithne took
the other. As they approached 'Greek Street', Kate pointed out a car sitting
half on, half off the sidewalk nearby. Sandra nodded, understanding; she
could see a harried couple rushing in and out of the small house, carrying
piles of paraphenalia to the car, then pulling their daughter out of the
house and pushing her into the car afterwards.
"Looks like the exodus has begun," Kate murmered softly, and Sandra couldn't
help but agree. She stifled a yawn from behind the wheel, and a moment later
saw Flynn doing the same out of the corner of her eye.
"We should get copies of the missing girls' class schedules," Sandra
suggested. "Find out if they all had some class in common."
"Or a professor they all studied with," Kate added.
"Or if they were all in a class with a particular classmate," Flynn mumbled
sleepily.
Just outside the police line, Sandra parked her car next to their other
rental car and they all got out. They headed towards the crime scene,
flashing their badges when an officer moved to intercept them, and
approached the flashing lights and mass of officers.
"Okay, Sandra you come with me," Sari stated. "Kate, Flynn, ask around and
see if there are any friends of the dead girl around. Eithne, find me the
person who found the body. If they won't come, just leave them and point
them out to me later. Dismissed."
The group nodded and split up, each moving towards their perspective places.
Sari and Sandra moved towards the flashing lights of the coroner's assistant
taking pictures of the body, and flashed their badges. The officers
relented, and after a moment the assistant finished taking pictures of the
grisly scene, allowing the two women access to the body.
"What is the meaning of this?" a voice called out to them. Sandra and Sari
looked up to see a tall, dignified older man walking towards them in a
police uniform. It was obvious he was the police chief, if not by his
stature then by the star on his chest. Sari moved towards the man, leaving
Sandra to examine the body.
"I'm sorry to interrupt any investigation you might have sir, but we're FBI.
We've been assigned to the case." Just for effect, she flashed her badge;
Sandra followed suit a moment later, then returned back to her examination
the body.
The man scrutinized the badges, a slight scowl on his face. "Well, we didn't
call for no FBI, but I suppose we could use some up here. Sheriff Rowlings,
ma'am," he said, holding his hand out to Sari.
"Agent Kelly. This is Agent McCormick, our team's profiler."
"Oh now, they have a profiler here for us? Must be pretty special."
"It's believe, sheriff, that you might have a serial killer loose on this
campus," Sandra stated, moving over away from the body to where Sari was
standing. "This is the fifth murder here in the past three months. Each have
been killed in exactly the same way; their throats have been slit with a
thin knife, their left ring finger and right thumb removed." Seeing Sari's
gaze on her, she nodded to her leader. "This body is no different; exactly
the same as the previous four."
Sari sighed. "Somehow, I hoped it would be different, but..." She turned
back to the sheriff. "As of now, we are officially on this case. I'd like to
see all reports you have pertaining to the previous four murders, as well as
the statements from all witnesses, officers, and medical examiners. I'm
sorry to inconvience you further, sheriff, but I'd like to see them within
the next thirty minutes."
"Now wait just one damned minute," the sheriff began, but Sari ignored his
blustering. "Sandra, I want you to head up the postmortum on the body. See
if there is anything we might be missing; whether the slicing of the throat
is the real cause of death, how long the body's been dead, etc. Can you do
that?"
At Sandra's nod, Sari turned back to the captain. "Well? Let's get a move
on, shall we?"
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