The Triple Down

By now I was getting used to this....Driving up to the familiar scene of yellow police tape, seeing police officers holding the crowd back...Walking past them and into a house that smelled like death...rotting flesh,  a decomposing body...Now I understood why Detectives Edwin "Duke "Baylor , who was with me this morning and Tyriq Pile always wore a gardenia on the lapel of their finely tailored suits...To ward off the smell of death...

"Hey ADA Wallace, Duke....They're all inside..Said a young police officer as we walked past the yellow tape and other uniforms and into the row house , where crime scene photographers were snapping photos and CSI people were looking for forensic evidence....

Lt.Sissy Van Buren was already here and looking somberly as Forensic Specialist, Dr. Hazel Hunter-Baylor, Duke's wife and Detective Sirena Pile kneeled and looked at the body...

"It was like the others Keith...A rope around the neck...hanging from the ceiling...a lethal injection in the neck.....Only this was a male and he was completely nude, with a sock in his mouth....And oh yes...I definitely know him..Tyrone "Shakes" McGlorin...a basketball player and from the same high school as the three girls that Chica,Tyriq and Jimmy were investigating.." said Sissy...

"He's been dead for three days or more, judging from decomp..and rigor.." said Hazel.

"I don't need a scientific examination to tell that...The smell alone..ewwwwww!" said Detective Sirena Pile..

Her partner, Detective...Tony Hopkins was helping the CSI guys dust for prints and checking the house...

"Craziest thing I ever saw..." said Hop....

"I'll get unis to search the area.." said Duke..

''Way ahead of you...Already got em doin that." said Hop..

"Got anybody on the traffic cams, ATM cams and crime stopper cams?" asked Duke..

"Got it covered Duke." said Hop...

Duke smiled..."Okayyyy youngin...go head....you all over this..." he said smiling.

"No sign of robbery...His wallet has all of his credit and debit cards and about $500.00 in cash...and they didn't steal his laptop or his computer or his 46 inch flat screen...Checked his closet..Everything seems in tact and his car is outside, across the street...Keys are right here...This was personal.." said Sirena..

"Hmmm..We need to check next of kin."said Duke..Sirena gave him the side eye..

"Duke ,who are you talking to? You know I got that covered...I have his phone book and his phone..I'm already on it." said Sirena..

Duke smiled again...

''Wow..These youngins are on top of it." he said.

I laughed...I passed Sissy a tumbler of coffee...but she declined...Something she had never done before..

I pulled her to the side..

"We've known each other for a long time Sissy....You know that I know when something is bothering you...Are you and Eddie C. okay?" I asked..

"We are great..I miss him....It's only been a day, but I do....but it's this case..."she said.

"I know...It looks like we got another serial killer..I know how you hate those..."I said.

"No...it's not just that...It's something deeper..Something frightening that I hope I'm wrong about..." she said..

"What?  Talk to me." I said.

"Well uh...Let's see what Chica ,Rico and Jimmy have to offer...Because I could be wrong." she said.

"Wrong? Wrong about what?" I asked..

Sissy just ignored me and walked away.....

I didn't have a good feeling about this..

"Are you done here Hazel?" asked Sirena...

"I've got everything I can get from here.." said Hazel..

"Okay..then release the body." said Sirena..

Asthe body was released....Duke looked at me..

"Man..I remember this guy...He was all public a few years back...Power Forward..Him and a cat named Trevor Lee....They were like a one two punch....Went to the City Championship...Won it all their junior year and was on par to win it again their senior year, but the guy named Trevor Lee got shot and killed in school...Damn shame..That cat Trevor had NBA scouts lookin at him..." said Duke..

II-

A little while later back at headquarters ,I was talking to my wife,Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace...

"Rico and I checked all of their financials and we didn't find anything out of the ordinary..Nobody was overdrawn...Nobody's cards were maxed out..nothing..."said Carlotta...

"We talked to their families, friends and associates..These three girls knew each other in high school...They were cheerleaders and all of them were popular with the boys...but after high school they seemed to have drifted apart...The first victim..Rita Ransome went to UCLA and was on the West Coast for four years...She had only recently returned to the area...Marriage, divorce and new job..." said Tyriq..

"The second girl, Gail Hooker went to the University of Pittsburg and then lived in Chicago for awhile and had just returned to the area and had a new job also... None of her friends or associates knew the other two girls." said Jimmy.

"Same with yesterday's victim..Valencia...She went to Penn and lived here...None of her friends and associates knew or socialized with the other two girls...So after high school...These girls went their seperate ways...." said Carlotta..

Sirena and Hop walked into the room just then....

"Well guess what? A Basketball player who attended that same high school is my victim...We found him this morning just like your three girls..hung...only he was nude...At least they had their underwear on...and an injection in the neck..."said Sirena..

"So I checked his financials...He had two credit cards maxed out...but that was nothing out of the ordinary..He had just applied for a consolidation loan...I talked to the people at his job and on his block....Nobody recalls seeing him with any of the three girls that you guys found...His close friends said that they did all know each other...In High School but that he hadn't seen or heard from them since high school." said Hop..

"So what happened to him after high school?" I asked.

"I can tell you that..He got recruited by  Georgia State...Played for them and entered the NBA draft...Went third round to the Clippers, got cut and wound up with Golden State..got traded to the Nets...tore his ACL...and got cut...and wound up back here..Career basically over...He was working at the DMV at the time of death."said Duke.

Sissy walked in just then...

Re canvass all four of the crime scenes...Find out what these people were doing in the days leading up to their deaths...Did they act funny,did they have any strange visitors..See if they have Facebook,Twitter, Instagram accounts..Maybe someone was sending them threatening emails..or messages, tweets, the whole nine." said Sissy.

"We on it lou." they all said and one by one, all six detectives left the office...For once Sissy managed a smile and then a laugh...

"I love it when they all say that.." she said.

III-

Sissy put the thickest case file I'd ever seen on the table...It looked like War and Peace, the novel...

"This is the 2007 Trevor Lee murder case file..." she said.

 "Wow...This is thick.." I said.

"Trevor Lee played basketball with Sirena and Hop's victim...He knew all three of the victims that your wife,Rico and Jimmy found...See..Here are statements I took from them during the Trevor Lee case...We interviewed 250 people...Nobody saw anything or heard anything...The metal detectors were disabaled...We never found prints,DNA or a murder weapon...My detectives and officers tore that school apart and searched the entire neighborhood..Never found a weapon or a witness..." said Sissy.

"Wow...." I said.

"This kid Trevor was a great basketball player and a horrible human being...He is suspected of raping at least two girls..but neither of the girls would come forward..and one girl actually transferred out of the school...He was a bully..Most of the kids were scared of him..." said Sissy...

''So any one of the students might have killed him huh?" I said.

"That's what I always suspected...but whoever killed him was special..They cleaned up well...They knew what we'd look for...They would have been an avid reader.."said Sissy..

"A geek! Right?" I said.

"Well yeah..." she said.

"I know..That was me..a bookworm...A loner for awhile.."I said.

"YOU? Smooth Keith??" she said laughing..

"I re-invented myself...You know..I saw photos of Carlotta when she was in high school and later when she was a young girl...She was beautiful even then...She wouldn't have given me the time of day when I was in high school...She's like my fantasy girl...I met her at the right time in my life.." I said..

"I was always kind of  popular with the boys..." said Sissy..."But I didn't bully anybody or put anybody down...Guys just liked me.." she said shyly..

"I can believe that....So Why does this case disturb you?" I asked..

"It's that same high school, same people I met and a reminder of a murder I couldn't close...and there is more." she said.

"What?" I asked..

"Nothing." she said.

IV-

Carlotta sat on the side of the bed at our home, a few nights later...She had on one of my shirts....Under it, a very sexy lavender lace bra and matching panties....

I walked in the bedroom and tossed her a small bottle of water...It had been a long day, a long couple of days...

"You tired baby?" I asked.

"Yes..very tired...Whoever this killer is...He or she planned these murders very meticulously...Bleached down everything, wiped everything clean....no prints, no DNA...and must have come on foot...We have nothing on the cameras...He's like a ghost...He was just like Duke said..Blended in with the crowd...All of these people lived in heavily populated areas..amongst students..." she said.

"You guys have cracked tough cases like this before..." I said .

"I know...Boss Lady showed us her old case file from the Trevor Lee Murder...Rico, Jimmy, Sirena, Hop and Duke split 246 people up amongst the six of us...We spent two days interviewing 41 people a piece..I had 40...I am soo tired of talking to people papi....Present company accepted.." she said and smiled...

"One person...I couldn't locate..a Thaddeus something or other...but we interviewed them all, checked their alibis....their financials, talked to their families and friends and we got nothing..nothing at all.."she said.

"The killer is not just picking these people at random...There is too many co-incidences..They all went to that high school, they all knew each other...There had to be somebody..Somebody that all of them knew..Somebody that had a grudge against them..." I said.

''Trevor Lee, the basketball player." said Carlotta..

"And he's been dead...Sissy said that he raped a girl..two girls...neither would come forth, neither pressed charges..."I said.

"One of those girls died shortly after high school and Sirena called the other girl...She lives in Seattle ..She's married and has lived in Seattle for six years...Hasn't been back here.."said Carlotta...

"Wow...you guys have been working this case hard..." I said...

"Okay Honey Bunny...No more shop talk....I paid a lot of money for these panties and this bra..." said Carlotta, smiling sheepishly...

I eased my shirt off of her....

"Damn girl...You are...you are so beautiful....I would have loved you even when you were in high school, but if you had known me then, you wouldn't have given me the time of day....I'm so glad I met you when I did..The only time I would have had a chance..." I said and kissed her passionately...

"

"Mmmmmm papi whatever you said was sooo sweet...I love it when you get all romantic and gushy.." she said..

Soon we were standing in the middle of the floor kissing passionately...I was throbbing and Carlotta was softly fondling me and kissing me gently...

She leaned over and kissed me...I eased her panties down and slipped her bra off...I kissed her neck and behind her ears....She kissed my chest...I entered her slowly again...In and out...softly, steadily...slow sweet lovemaking...

She was on top, riding me, her long hair flinging into my face....I cupped her buttocks and moved her up and down....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuu papi...ohhhhhhh that feels good..." she said...

"Yesss lorddd.." I said...

We kept at it just like this for close to an hour and a half....I sat up and began kissing her deeply,slower...

 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 layed 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 another 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 turned me on even more....


Soon , she was facing me and I was staring into her beautiful eyes..and hungrily kissing her butter soft lips..two hours seemingly evaporated as we continued to make sweet love...


I could feel her climaxing..I was about to come myself, 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, KEITHHHHHHHH!!!.....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu it felt so goooood.." she moaned as we both collapsed on top of each other...

I drifted off into a deep sleep...but it couldn't have been that deep...I awoke to the sound of the shower...

I looked over at the clock...I had only been asleep about an hour..Carlotta was getting dressed...It was three thirty in the morning...

"Heyy, where are you going?" I asked..

"We got another murder papi...I wasn't going to wake you up.." she said kissing me.

"Are you kidding me??...I'm going with you." I said as I jumped up and dashed into the shower....and then quickly brushed my teeth and got dressed hastily...

V-

 A half an hour later, we arrived at what was the most gruesome of all of the crime scenes....Sissy was the first person we saw ,other than the police officers, C.S.I. people and Medical Examiner's Office people...

A throng of Television news reporters were on the scene too as well as a crowd of curious neighbors...

 "Hey guys , sooo sorry to disturb you from your sleep...." she said as she led us inside...

Inside the house we saw a well muscled , athletic built man hanging from the ceiling...completely nude with a sock in his mouth..Like the others...he had been injected with a lethal shot of a drug in the neck...but there was more...there was blood...in the living room on the floor was the body of an older man..he was face down...and bleeding profusely.....he had been shot! This made this crime scene different..

"The guy upstairs, hanging from the ceiling is Wally Pike, Former High school Basketball player, age, 22...and from that same high school..." said Tyriq...

"This is his house..he lived here...."said Jimmy..

"This guy on the floor here doesn't..His name is Henry Shenk and his drivers license says that he lives in Mayfair." said Sirena..

"He's not a high school student and he's not posed...What is he doing here...Plus..He's the only victim that's not Black..he's white."I said.

"Hop and I just came from outside...The neighbors said that they saw this one here enter the house around 2:30...Around one they heard a loud argument...Then they heard screaming and shouting and heard gunshots..."said Duke.

"I got a witness outside in the patrol car...She said she saw a man, or a boy, very slender, kind of short, slight with a hoodie come bolting out of there around 2:45 and went running out towards the avenue.."said Hop.

"This man here...I know him...He was the youth counselor in this neighborhood, back when Trevor Lee was murdered.. I didn't interview him because he wasn't connected to the school...But he talked to me about the kids...He knew them..He worked with them all..Oh my God...He was such a nice man." said Sissy..

"The killer is escalating and he's gotten sloppy...He may have finally made a fatal mistake.."said Carlotta.

"We have a partial palm print and a lot of fingerprints...and an eye witness..This may be our first break in this case guys..." said Hazel..

"Release the bodies..."said Sissy hanging her head...

We now had six murders....This might be one of the most terrifying killers we had ever faced...

I put my arms around both Sissy and Carlotta..I felt a cold chill down my spine.

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