Callen knew what that meant. It would be someone who handled the bodies last.
The funeral homes.
“I can do that, Elizabeth,” MATE said. “Your other husband is on his way. The techs just left the morgue. They should be here shortly,” MATE admitted, trying to pet the dog.
It was watching her, and Shadow was confused.
Well, he wasn’t alone.
MATE had that effect on everyone who met her for the first time.
“Thank you, MATE. Get Gene the list of funeral homes. He’ll keep me updated.”
That worked for MATE.
Then, as quickly as she’d showed up, she popped out of there.
Now, Elizabeth had to talk to her husband. It was time to get shrinky-dinky with this one.
Pulling out her phone, she video-called him, and hoped he was in a good mood because this was getting funky.
When his face popped up on the camera, he was smiling, and looked…calm.
Well, this sucked.
She was about to ruin his night. Only, before she could go there, he picked up on her mood.
“Uh-oh,” he said. “What happened?”
Yeah, never let it be said that her husbands weren’t hyper-aware that if she called after dark, the shit was hitting the fan.
“Well, we got to the cemetery, and we found something. The person behind this opened a grave, and Steph Lewis was left for us. We don’t know if she was left intentionally, or if we interrupted his game. Oh, and yeah, he left a message.”
Elizabeth updated him.
The whole time, he said nothing—but she knew why. The wheels were spinning. Ethan was thinking about it.
“The woman died‘accidentally’with an insulin overdose,” she said, letting that hang there.
Ethan lifted a brow.
“So another drug death? Gene and I had a case like that once,” he admitted.
Yeah, so Gene had said. Apparently, they were all on the same page.
“Well, that’s not it. Chris ID’d two more sets. We definitely have Lory Vanbruggen’s eyes, and she’s the lady with the no grass on her grave that had me twitchy.”
Ethan listened.
“And we have Alina Mussen. She was killed in a car accident where her vehicle went into a ditch.”
Ethan stopped her.
Yeah, there were too many arrows pointing at this one for it to be pure coincidence.
“That will be him. It fits his MO of car versus person. He simply couldn’t get to her outside her car, so he had to take desperate measures.”
Yeah, she’d thought that too.
