Tacony

Carlotta, Tyriq, Jimmy and Duke arrived at the scene, The Tacony Creek with Hazel and scores of uniformed policemen...

Sissy and I were also in attendance.....

 A uniformed Policeman with Lieutenant bars walked over to Carlotta and Tyriq...

"You Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace?" he asked...

"I am." she said "And this is Detective Tyriq Pile, the primary and Detectives James Barlow and Edwin Baylor..They're also working on this case...

He smiled...

"I know Duke...Quite well.."he said.

Duke Smiled...

"Heyy Bud.." he said..

"Is that Tyriq?  "

"What's up Bud?  Bud used to be a detective in Robbery-Homicide and Special Investigations...A little before your time Top." said Tyriq...

"And now you're Water Police?" asked Carlotta...

"That's how I made Lieutenant...There was a spot open..."he laughed...He saw Sissy and me approaching and he smiled...

"Oh My God...Sissy, Smooth Keith?" he said.

"Heyyy Bud" we both said in unison...

''So you guys are all Murder police now huh? Well I was reading the decks and I heard that you were looking for a missing guy...We were out here a day ago...a boy drowned and we found his body...but we also found skelatal remains...the body has been down here a long time..maybe two years...but it matched a description of a guy Detective Rodriguez-Wallace was looking for." he said.

"That's my wife Bud." I said...

Carlotta smiled..

"Yes..Smooth Keith is my husband!" she said.

"Wowww...You always did get the most attractive females Smooth Keith...And I see you still are right on par... She's a pretty one...Hope she makes an honest man out of you."he said and we all laughed...

Several Police cars were here now ,along with CSI people and photographers...as the body was removed from the water...

It was a mess, a big mess......The body was mummified and nearly skelatal....It still had the clothes on that it was wearing when it got killed...and they were damn near to the point of deterioration...

Hazel examined the remains....

"He's wearing a Central High school jacket....and  oh my..." she said..She went into the jeans and pulled out a water beaten wallet....It had credit cards and dollar bills that were nearly destroyed because of the time spent in the water...and a drivers licensce...
that read...Paul Witherspoon..

Carlotta, Jimmy and Tyriq glared at the contents of the wallet....The body was in too bad of shape to identify from facial recognition...

"Wow Top, you were right...He was dead..."said Tyriq...

"This body looks like it has been here at least two years...but I'll know better when I do a full autopsy..." said Hazel..

Sissy shook her head....She leaned down and looked at the body...She put on latex gloves...

"Look...Two gunshot wounds in the back of the head....He was murdered....." she said shaking her head...

"Wow...two who done it's in one week...He's been in here so long..We don't have a clue as to how he got here or who dropped him in here..."said Duke.

"It's going to be rough, but I'm going to grab some uniforms and question everybody in a five mile radius of this park...I know it was two years ago, but somebody might have seen something ."said Jimmy...

"Rico, it's been two years...People can't remember what they did last week.." said Carlotta..

"I know Top...but we gotta try.."said Tyriq...

"I think there is a connection...We got to reconstruct what both of these guys did up until the last time they were seen alive...Rico and I will take this guy here...Top, you and Jimmy work on your guy from the other night..."said Duke...

"Chica...Did you and Sirena get anything from the prostitutes you questioned?" asked Sissy.

Carlotta smiled weakly....

"Hop went along with Sirena and I....We must have talked to about 50 women....Most of them didn't know Gary....Maybe three did....One told us that she saw Gary last week with a woman with a floppy hat on and a white curly wig...and a long coat...She said what was strange was that the coat seemed rather odd to be wearing on a night as hot as it has been...but she said the girl definitely was not one of the working girls.."said Carlotta....

"We went out a second night...and this time with Rico and Jimmy and talked to some more people...Not just working girls, but neighborhood guys...And they remember seeing the same woman...Only they said that she had on next to nothing underneath the coat...One guy said just panties and a bra and stillettos and another guy said panties and a bustier.."said Carlotta.

"And all that really proves is that he had a female companion...that maybe he had sex with..It doesn't prove that she killed him."said Sissy...

Hazel  and Duke walked over to us....

"I'm finished with the preliminary examination Sissy.." said Hazel...

"Yeah...we might as well release the body.."said Duke..

Sissy looked at Carlotta and Tyriq....

"Yeah release it." they both said.

II-

We all broke for lunch at Sam Mother's Diner and then headed for the M.E.'s office where Hazel was holding court...We brought her some food back with us...I didn't know how she and Duke ate meals in the M.E.'s office surrounded by dead bodies...Well, I at least understood Duke...I had nothing to do with him being a seasoned Homicide Detective...It had more to do with him concentrating on Hazel's very seasoned and sexy body...

 Sissy, Carlotta,Tyriq,Jimmy,Duke and I gathered around as Hazel examined the body...Also present was Paul Witherspoon's wife, Claudette Robinson Witherspoon, who reported him missing...She positively identified him, saying that this is what he was wearing the last time she saw him....We also used dental records and DNA from his family members to positively identify him...

"This is the missing Paul Witherspoon....My examination concludes that he has been dead for close to two years...He died from two gunshot wounds to the back of his head...and his death was from a .40...The same gun and the same type of bullets found in the dead Gary Campbell.." she said.

"Wait a minute...You're saying...This guy here..dead for two years...was killed with the same weapon that killed our victim of a few nights ago?" asked Tyriq.

"That's exactly what I'm saying...He was shot with this gun two years ago....and two nights ago...This other man was shot with the same gun....So whoever killed this man here on the table...more than likely killed your guy from a few nights before."said Hazel...

''Hmmm...These guys were friends...They shared everything...They shared Sharon...They tried to share me once....Let's backtrack and see if they were sharing anything or anyone else."said Carlotta.

"Babes...Witherspoon's wife said that neither of them had seen Gary in years." I said.

''She didn't have to know...Gary obviously had some woman...Maybe Paul did too."said Sissy...

"It's certainly worth another look."said Jimmy...

"We've certainly got our work cut out for us." said Duke...

III-

Carlotta and I retired to our home...It was the first night in a few nights that she wasn't out with Sirena and Hop or Rico and Jimmy running down leads to this baffling case...Two guys killed two years apart ..with the same gun...Was their killer the same and who was this woman Gary was last seen with??

I was exhausted...I said nothing...I took my suit jacket off and my socks and shoes and my shirt and tie....

"Hey babes...you want to go and get some dinner ?" I asked..

''Nooo, I just want you.." said Carlotta...

I smiled and pulled her toward me...

I kissed her and ran my hands down her back and up her legs and just stood in the middle of the floor of our bedroom kissing her passionately...She unbuckled my trousers and I gently stepped out of them...

I slipped her skirt off, unhooked her bra and gently slid her panties down.....we stood in the middle of the floor hungrilly kissing each other...

Carlotta was so soft, smelled so naturally good and had surprisingly soft kisses that seemed to evaporate into thin air...She was like a drug and I was hooked on her...

I laid Carlotta across our bed...I pressed the head of my pulsing penis into her dripping wet vagina, then pulled out again.She moaned..."Ohhhh, papi don't tease me...ohhhh, give it all to mami..."

I entered her several more times like this, until I could feel her pushing harder and harder against me. I grabbed her hips, and pushed all the way into her. She gasped,

''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.Ayyyyye MIOS DIOS!!!"

as she jerked forward for a moment, then braced herself before thrusting her nice round behind back against my penis. I watched, as each thrust sent waves rippling through her like waves breaking on the shore.

We went at it just like this for close to four hours..Carlotta's moans gradually became louder and louder. I grabbed her hair from behind, and pushed her head into the pillow. Her arms reached for the headboard of the bed and gripped it tightly as her vagina contracted in orgasmic releases.
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu doddy doddy dodddy....I like it....." she moaned...

Her heavy spanish accent  always turned me on.

 I was about to come, I thrust harder and harder into her welcoming flesh. I exploded with a wild abandon... The orgasm felt like it lasted several minutes, even though it was just seconds.She came violently too..Shaking and rattling the headboard against the wall. I collapsed on top of her, kissing the nape of her neck.
She turned and began kissing me and rubbing my penis until I came again....like a gusher.......It seemed as if she was cumming again too...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, dodddy!.....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu it felt so goooood.." she moaned as we both collapsed on top of each other... 

She smiled at me...

"I needed that..It has been about what? Two nights since we last did it?" she said...

"You're not counting the quickie yesterday?" I asked, smiling...

 "Oh that...Well that was nothing like this.."she said.

"We've got two guys who knew each other...Killed two years apart with the same gun and in two seperate places...."said Carlotta.

"You said that at one time both of these guys were kind of like players right?" I said.

"Yes."she said.

"What if they did something really bad to somebody...Something that would make this person want to kill them both?" I said.

Carlotta's eyes lit up...

"That could be any number of girls...including me and Sharon..."she laughed....

It made me wonder.

The other day in the coffee shop-

"Yeahhh...You know I was living in Chicago for awhile....I was a model....You may have seen me in Ebony and in Essence....I saved my money and I opened this place about two years ago when I returned to Philly..." said Mimi...

"You've done well for yourself." I said.

She smiled...

"No...you girls did well for yourself...Married ..and married to good guys that helped you in your careers or at least support you...Not a bunch of thirsty ,horny maggots who only want to get you in the sack and then break all of their promises..."she said, suddenly becoming almost a different person...

Her brief metamorphisis was frightening, chilling...and everybody noticed it..Carlotta, Sharon, even Hop... Mimi realized she had come off kind of frightening and changed up...

"Mimi, do you remember Gary Campbell??  We went to High School together...I found his body a few days ago in a shallow grave...How ironic huh..That's m y latest case."said Carlotta...

"You know I remember him....He stood me up at the prom..." said Mimi...

"He did?" asked Carlotta..

"I remember....He told you he was sick....but he was at the motel with Vonetta Simpson..."said Sharon who seemed to be giddy to mention it..

"Did you know that Paul Witherspoon and I were engaged to be married?" asked Mimi.

"Yeah..his supposed best friend...He tried to talk to me senior year, even though he knew I was seeing Gary....I ignored him then, but after graduation...We hooked up and got engaged...We were engaged for seven months...I was making plans....my whole family was excited and then he broke it off...Next thing I know..He was married to Claudette Robinson...The cheerleader." she said.

 Funny what you think about when you're exhausted and sleepy...I knew that that was Carlotta's friend...but no one was above suspicion now in this crazy case...Maybe it was nothing...but if for nothing else but to rule her out as a suspect...Somebody should check Mimi out...I thought..

Carlotta leaned over and kissed me softly...

"Are you alright Honey Bunny?" she asked...

"Yeah...Just thinking...Thinking about you and Sharon's friend...Mimi....She certainly had an axe to grind with both of those guys...Did you see the way she tensed up, the way she changed so suddenly when both of their names were brought up?? I'm just saying...''I said.

Carlotta rolled over and straddled me...and kissed me some more...I cupped both of her buttocks with my hands and pulled her closer to me...

"I was lying here thinking the same thing papi..."she said. "I don't want to believe it...But just to be on the safe side...I'm going to look into her..I sure hope I am wrong."said Carlotta..

"I hope so too...She seems like a nice person "I said...

Carlotta kissed me for a long time...I found myself getting aroused again...

"Enough shop talk right?" I said looking up at her...

She kissed me softly and tenderly without speaking...

I guess that was my answer!

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