“Yeah, the media was calling himThe Grave Robber—or Digger. I can’t remember which,” Mac admitted. “After it gotsome media traction, when the detective asked for help from the public, it stopped. The notes say that we watched the cemetery for a while, but this person didn’t return, and we didn’t have the resources for long-term surveillance.”
She glanced over at Alex.
“Get me the name of the cemetery, and someone I can talk to. I want a full list ofEVERYONEinterred there. Even if it’s a long shot, we have to follow it.”
He nodded and headed out of the room.
Now, the detectives were curious.
“So, how do you find someone who is taking a dead person’s eyes? They didn’t kill them, so is it a crime?” Tora asked.
Corbin handled that one.
“It’s a crime. You can’t go digging up a body and mutilating it. By the way, if I go down, I’m totally getting cremated. Bet on that. We see some wild shit in this job. I’m not sticking around to be someone’s Halloween decoration.”
Chris laughed.
“Remind me to tell you all about a little case at a funhouse where the killer was decking the halls with corpses of dead victims, and we had to play that game. Spoiler, it wasn’t fun. One of us nearly drowned by the nut’s hand.”
She raised her own hand.
“I’m the one he nearly took out. It’s been a fever dream since that case. I swear it gets weirder every day.”
Yeah, Elizabeth could say that again.
As for being cremated, she was being planted next to Naomi in the burial grounds. Hopefully, the living would let her be when it was her time. If not, she was going full haunt on some asses.
Gene was curious.
“Are we passing this one back to the detectives?” he asked. “This isn’t really our thing. We deal with serial killers. This person isn’t likely killing them. By default, that’s not our problem, but the local law’s.”
She thought about it.
Chris was staring at her hopefully, and she knew why. Then, there was Tora, who looked disappointed she wasn’t going to get to work with her saviors.
On top of that, this case was piquing her curiosity, and she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t entertained by it. It took a lot to give her a case she hadn’t encountered before.
This was new.
But to keep jurisdiction…
This would be a dance.
Still, she was hella curious, so she made up her mind.
“We’re going to work it, but I have to go talk to the homicide captain first,” she said. “Technically, he doesn’t have to let us work this. If that little fact about the embalmed eyeballs gets back to him, he can yank it out from under us.”
Well, that would be their first step then.
“Tony?” she asked, turning around. “What can you tell me about the skulls? Give me something. Is there trauma on the skulls? Maybe this person killed those victims and went back later for the fun.”
Chris was by his side, and with him, Alexi, and Tony, they were carefully bagging up the eyeballs.
Tony picked up a skull.
“Adult, white, and female, and yeah, there’s trauma to the skull. I’m not an ME, so I can speculate that it was BFT.”
Chris sighed.
