Doll Baby..

It was late afternoon... a little after six...It was early Spring, so it was still light out..Quitting time for most Philadelphians.... Strange for me to be getting a call...Well, this type of call....A murder...

I'm the Assistant District Attorney, Keith Porterhouse Wallace...I prosecute murders and serious crimes...I don't necesarily go to all of the crime scenes...Only the really major cases...There are enough detectives to do that...but because this call for help wasn't from one of my detectives...I decided to check it out!

It was from Detective Angela Belton...Of Internal Affairs...Apparently, she was the first on the scene....Interesting...I mused...She did used to be a Homicide Detective, so I'm sure she knew what to do...

I stopped by C.I.D... Lt. Sissy Van Buren had left for the day, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez wasn't there either!!....Bummer, I really wanted to see Carlotta...It had been a few days since she'd spent the night with me and I was jonesin for her already...I admit it...She's an addictive pleasure...  Detective Tyriq Pile, perhaps next to Carlotta, the detective I was closest to had left for the day too... Even Duke wasn't around....The only Detective on duty was Jimmy Barlow...

"Hey Jimmy, Want to take a run with me?" I asked.

"Yeah...I was just finishing up some reports." he said.

"You caught up?" I asked.

"Yeah..." he said.

"Let's roll." I said.

II-

We arrived at the High Rise in no time...I let Jimmy drive....If he ever stopped being a detective, he could have another job being a cab driver...He knew the streets of Philadelphia.

There were already three patrol cars and a group of uniformed cops mulling around..

Two Uniformed Policemen led us to the 13th floor and to the room where to my surprise...I saw Detective Carlotta Rodriguez and Dr. Hazel Hunter, the new forensic investigator ,who had recently joined our unit...

Carlotta smiled broadly when she saw me.....Dr. Hunter gave me a shy smile and waved....

"Hey baby. Hey Jimmy" said Carlotta...

''Hey yourself." I said.. "What do we have here?" I asked.

Dr. Hunter pointed to the middle room...

Detective Barlow and I followed Carlotta and Dr. Hunter into the next room where I saw one of the more odd murder scenes of my career...

A beautiful Black woman ,wearing a white sheer baby doll, white matching bra underneath and white bikini panties was sitting up on the bed, leaning against the wall...Staring at nothing...She was deceased!!  Someone had put too much lipstick and make up on her....She looked like a Doll Baby, a big sexy doll baby...

I thought to myself...What a waste..She was built...shapely and curvaceous...nice sized breasts....The type of woman, with the type of body that made men snap their necks when she walked by...Who killed her?

Detective Jimmy Barlow, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez and Dr. Hazel Hunter all had on latex gloves and all were looking at the body...

"Anybody know the victim?" I asked.

"I know her...Her name is Juanita..Juanita James." said Detective Angie Belton..

I turned......She was the only Detective without latex gloves on...

"She's a friend of mine...or at least she was...Her sister called me and told me that she hadn't been seen or heard from in three days...I stopped by her job and they said that she hadn't been to work or called since the weekend...So I came by her house and uh, here she is....The door was unlocked..." she said.

"No body trauma....No sign of violence." said Carlotta...

"There's puncture marks on her arms..." said Jimmy...

"And a substance that looks like semen on the bed...." said Dr. Hunter....

"There is more in the bathroom on the floor and a lot outside of the door in the hallway......I didn't touch anything.." said Angie...

I walked around... I found another pair of panties on the floor, rolled up...They appeared to be wet....

"What went on here?? You think this was a rape gone bad?" I asked.

''All Rapes are bad ADA!" said Dr. Hunter.  She was after all correct!I immediately regretted saying something so crass and stupid.

"No....This was staged....The killer took his time, posed her body...possibly after death."said Carlotta.

"I used to be homicide...but I figured it'd be better if you guys handle this." said Angie...

Carlotta walked over to her...

"You going to be alright mami?" she asked.

Angie looked at her and hugged her..which was a surprise to me...I didn't see the two as being the warmest of friends..

"I don't know...She was my friend.. She was my friend....I don't know...but thank you for asking Carlotta...Tomorrow,I'll stop by and give you guys anything I can give you to help you with your case." she said.

"Sure ,take your time mami" said Carlotta.

"Look what I found!" said Detective Jimmy Barlow....

It was a loaded condom.....It had been in a trash can in the kitchen....

"There was some kind of wing ding here!" he said as he bagged it and tagged it...

There was what appeared to be semen stains on the sheets ,on the couch and on the kitchen floor....I was puzzled...Killers don't usually leave this much uh ,evidence for lack of a better word around!

"Something went horribly wrong here." I said.

''Or Right, depending on how you look at it." said Jimmy....

I didn't want to laugh at such a solem crime scene, but I couldn't help but look his way and smile, while shaking my head...

"Something isn't right....At once it's too neat....Then again...it's too sloppy.."said Carlotta..

"Crime of Passion it aint. Our guy took his time, posed the body, made her up and then ,excuse me..pleasured himself all over the living room, the bathroom and the kitchen floor....This place is a mess." added Jimmy.

"I need to get all of this semen to a lab, for a DNA analysis...my goodness. I've never seen so much spread out like this..." said Dr. Hunter.

Jimmy looked at Carlotta...

"Reminds you of our days in Special Victims Unit eh?" he said.

''I'll say...but I don't think we ever had anything this weird." said Carlotta.

III-

"We got everything ?" I asked.

"No...Some guys are coming in to take photos and dust for prints..." said Carlotta..

"Hmmmm, okay...Maybe with all of this DNA...we can close this one fast." I said.

Just then, a tall thin young man walked in the room...He walked over to Angie..

"Hey Angie...I came as soon as I heard..." he said...He looked at the body and gasped..

"Whoa, what happened here?" he said.

"Hey how did you get through the police guard?." I said.

"It's okay Keith...I told them to let him through....This is Kenny...Kenny Denmore..He tends bar at a bar we used to hang out at...He's a friend.." she said.

He put his arms around her and pulled her to him...

"It's okay Ang....It's okay...don't worry...I'll take care of you baby..." he said.

He hugged her, a little longer than she would have liked and then forcably kissed her in the lips...She pushed him away...

"Okay Kenny, don't use this as an excuse to dry hump me and kiss me okay!!...Plus I'm not in the mood." said Angie..

"I was just tryin to comfort you." he said.

"You were trying to comfort yourself...Anyway...I thought you liked Juanita so much?Her body isn't cold yet and you're dry humping me." said Angie.

Carlotta, Jimmy, Dr. Hunter and I all turned our heads and walked into another room..
In just minutes after his arrival he had succeeded in making everybody uncomfortable.

IV-

Investigators dusted for fingerprints and Dr. Hunter took the condom and the semen samples ,bagged them, tagged them and left....Carlotta who was acting as the primary on this case released the body....It looked like she and Jimmy would be working this case...

With everything wrapped up....I bid them both goodbye...

"Okay guys....Keep me up to speed." I said.

Carlotta tapped me on the shoulder...

"ADA Wallace...Could I uh speak to you in private?" she asked.

"Uhh sure Detective." I said.

By now all of the police, including Angie had left and was on the street....

"I'll meet you downstairs ADA." said Jimmy as he left...

Everyone was gone...Carlotta took her foot and closed the door...I pulled her to me and kissed her passionately....

She returned my passion...We stood there and kissed for several minutes...finally coming up for air...

"Ummmmmmm that felt so good.." she said.

"Yes lawd..."I said.

Carlotta wiped her lipstick off of my face...

"Probably working tonight huh?" I said.

"No...we've done everything we can do here for now." she said.

We were silent for a minute...

"Hey uh Carlotta...uh..." I said ..then stopped.

"What?" she asked.

"Nah nothin.."I said.

"Keith, you can ask me anything...Do you want me to come over tonight?" she asked.

"Well uh yeah...I know it's only been three days, but damn I miss you girl." I said.

"Awww, that's so sweet. I think all this talk about semen and condoms and wet panties has got you all hot and bothered." she said ,giving me a side eye...

"No...It's you...You in latex gloves..."I said.

"What?" she said ,laughing hysterically....

"Come on...I gotta take Jimmy back to his car...I'll see you later on tonight ." I laughed.

"Crazy,Crazy guy." laughed Carlotta as we held hands and walked towards the elevator.

(TO BE CONTINUED)