Was his partner hesitating?
Well, that would be rare.
And Gene didn’t like it.
When he got up, Gene went to the whiteboard and pointed at the first victim, Jaden Medin.
“It all started here. We need to run them,” he stated, “starting with him.”
Greyson would be in-house.
He’d take one for the team.
“I can run the victims and see what comes up.”
That worked for them.
“Bless you,” Gene said. “We’ll be in the field, and that will help. What we do know is that he had weird markings, herbs on his skin with that black, greasy substance, and had broken bones,” he stated.
Then, he pointed at victim two, the cop, Aaron.
“We know he also had the weird markings, all of their COD was blunt force trauma, and they found traces of sugar on his clothing that didn’t get washed away in the ocean. Those are the consistencies in all of them—so far. Right?”
Corbin was flipping pages to confirm.
“Yep. It’s in all three. All have the same according to the two different MEs.”
Okay, so they were all on the same page so far.
“We also know that no one was sexually assaulted, or had sex before they were killed. Ben swabbed and checked. This isn’t a sex crime.”
Gene kept talking.
“We all know they went into the water around the same place, so they were on a boat at some time, and washed ashore.”
Agreed.
They did know that.
So how many boats could be transporting bodies out into the water?
Oh, the number was definitely not infinitesimal.
That was for damn sure.
That was going to be a needle in a haystack, and one they couldn’t trudge into with low manpower.
“What we need to know is the motive. When Greyson researches, he’ll find out if they connect in any way other than the dead man was a cop’s case, and then dead cop became a dead fed’s case.”
Ethan raised his hands.
“If you want a motive, we usually have the same suspect every single time.”
Oh, and Gene knew what that was.
Damn it.
Blackhawk went there.
