Oh, he already suspected more. The jerking off gave this a different angle, and that sexual affliction told him one thing.
Perverts had to pervert.
With his acknowledgement, Elizabeth knew what that meant.
In fact, she sighed.
Oh, and it was an exasperated one, too. This circus was about to get wilder. Someone was sending in the clowns.
BIG.
TIME.
“What?” Corbin asked.
He was new to serial killers, and if he was honest, this team got the weird ones. Yeah, he’d worked under Gene and Ethan, but when they left, he handled good, old-fashioned killings.
This wasNOTone of those.
Elizabeth explained.
This was going to suck.
“The killer views the collection as sexual,” she said. “It’s going to be tied to his masculinity. The second we touch this collection, and remove it, the person is going to spiral. Not only did we steal his collection, but we incapacitated his sexual gratification.”
Ethan was saying nothing.
He was weighing it all in his head, and his wife was right. She’d nailed that. This made it even more difficult, and that was always problematic.
ALWAYS.
“Hit the skulls,” Gene said, curiously. “Let’s see if he’s gotten handsy with them, while getting handsy with himself. If he did, Elizabeth’s right.”
Ben headed that way, and when he shined the light on them, they were clean.
The outside.
Because this wasn’t his first case with a crazy at the helm, Chris went there.
“We can see that the jaw has been wired to the upper jaw, so the killer wanted them intact for a reason. Now do theunderside of the skull. You know, where the back of the throat would be.”
He did as he asked as Tony flipped the one victim’s head over. It lit up like the chair had.
And she knew.
“He’s using the head as a masturbatory aid?” Elizabeth asked, horrified. “Dick on bone? That can’t be comfy.”
All the men cringed.
Someone liked some pain to get off.
Ethan nodded.
“If he’s doing that, he’s likely committing necrophilia, too. In fact, I’d bet on it,” Ethan said. “We need to find the owners of the heads, and eyes, and then, we need to have them exhumed. Buckle up. This is about to get weird.”
Well, holy shit.
Why the hell wasn’t she surprised?
