Bad Day,Long Night

Green Hill Correctional Center is a men's prison....It's one of two prisons that bordered Angel City....The other located on the other side of the city was the Pennsylvania Correctional Facility at Stanga...

Stanga was 25 miles Northwest of Angel City....Stanga was for honor inmates if there is such a thing, inmates awaiting parole and non-violent inmates...Though there was a few inmates there on Murder raps...but they were the type that were considered non-threatening...again if there was such a thing...

Green Hill on the other hand was the exact opposite...It was nicknamed "The land of Hard Luck.." by the inmates.. It is a maximum security prison where the states most desperate and violent criminals were housed..It also is where the State's new Death Row was housed....Half of the inmates here were condemned men...Sentenced to die for murder...

Former Detective Barbara Dennison  is the only female inmate held in the prison at this point...She is housed on Death Row...She was brought here from the Women's Correctional Center at Muncy just two nights ago...She is scheduled to die for masterminding five murders in the city of Philadelphia...

I saw Lt. Sissy Van Buren and Captain Ed Cantrell off last night...They took a small commuter plane upstate to Green Hill...

It was raining cats and dogs when they arrived...

"Oh My God...it's pouring...I'm soaking wet.."said Sissy...

''That's okay darlin...You can dry off in my room..I'm sure the Motel has a laundry room...and I have some towels.."said Ed Cantrell..

"In your dreams Ed." said Sissy...

He looked at her salaciously....

''You're married...and so am I..Let's not go there..."said Sissy...

"You're right....You're right...I sure do miss Carol." he said.

"I know...This will be over soon..." said Sissy as they headed to the Prison.

II-

 In Philadelphia ,it was a clear day and on a clear day...You can see murder...

On a side street in Olde City.... a man was found shot to death in a car...he was at the steering wheel,slumped over...

Duke and Angie examined the body...

"I know this guy...Moe Fisher...a suspected hitman....High priced..." said Duke...

Angie was wearing latex gloves....She took the .38 smokeless pistol out of his dead hand...

''Rigor is already setting in...How long has he been dead Hazel?" she asked..

"Rigor, Body temp and lividity says he was killed around midnight.." said Hazel...

"This is crazy...and nobody heard or saw anything?" I asked..

"Nobody I have talked to...If it wasn't for two drunks stumbling on to this scene...He might have been here even longer."said my wife, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace...

"Looks like he got one shot off before he bought it...Look here...a trail of blood and some footprints that lead all the way around this corner" said Jimmy, who along with some uniformed officers followed the trail of blood and footprints...

"Hey guys...make a plaster cast of the footprints and the tire treads..." said Jimmy to some CSI people..

"Somebody shot him twice in the head and once in the chest...and he wounded his shooter...Hazel...See if these are two different blood types..Maybe we'll get a DNA hit and get lucky...." said Tyriq...

Just then Sirena came running down the street...

"We got another body guys!" she said.

 ''WHAT? A second body?"I said.

''Where?" said Duke...

''Down the street...Hop and I saw a puddle of blood right under this abandoned car...We popped the trunk and found a guy in the trunk...Two gunshot wounds to the head..."said Sirena...

''Secure this area...Don't let anybody near here...Especially reporters."said Carlotta to the uniforms....

"Yes detective."said the uniforms

Down the street ,Detective Tony Hopkins stood at the trunk of a car where another man was found with two gunshot wounds to the head...A uniformed police officer stood with him...


''We got a real mess here Jimmy." said the officer as Jimmy and the others arrived.

"Considering nobody heard the shots on your vic Duke and this one...I'm saying the killer used a silencer..."said Hop...

"I know this guy...Vinnie Collata....high priced hitter....ALLEGEDLY of course!" said Jimmy...

"Same caliber bullets as our triple on Sunday...Nobody heard anything...Are you thinking what I am thinking?" said Carlotta.

"I sure am...Our thief has a bounty on his head ...and he just took out his would be killers..."said Angie..

"Yeah, but one of em got him....I'm guessing he's seriously wounded or else he would have cleaned up better..Scrub those Street,ATM,Business and Traffic Cameras Hop, Jimmy....I suspect our boy has to be on them and with a bad wound...He can't go to a hospital...This slowed him down a bit and maybe, just maybe we can take him."said Tyriq.

"This guy has killed five people in my city already...I want him taken down before he kills anymore..He can't turn this city into a bloodbath over some damn five million dollar Tiara."I said.

''Let's go talk to Marlowe and Magnus..." said Angie.

''For what? They won't cop to this...and now that these two are dead...They don't have to...We have to catch this Reese fella..." I said.

I watched as one body was carted over to the M.E.'s wagon...

Carlotta put her arms around me...

"Don't worry honey bunny, we'll get him.." she said...and kissed me softly...

We watched as another body was carted off.......

I definitely wanted this guy taken down before anyone else had to lose their life...And I wanted that Tiara back.

III-

At Green Hill Correctional Center-

Barbara Dennison walked into the visiting room...The years behind bars had not been kind to her...She had lost a little weight...Without her make up ,she looked hard and worn...Her hair had grayed a little...She lit up when she saw Sissy and Ed Cantrell...

"SISSY!!  You came!" she said smiling..

"Yes I came...but..Barbara..I gotta ask...Why would you want to see me? I arrested you...I'm responsible for you being here.."said Sissy.

"No..No..I'm responsible for me being here...I masterminded the murders of five people...That's why I'm here.."She said.  She was reflective....

"The only one I regret killing was Joshua Washington's wife...She was innocent..Just collateral damage..the rest...That sleazy lawyer ,Feingold...Willie "Shoes" Shoemaker they were pond scum..I did the world a favor by offing them."she said.

"Barbara, Joshua Washington was a good man...He was my friend."said Ed Cantrell..

"Steady Eddie...Lieutenant Cantrell.." she said.

"Captain Cantrell now." he said.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh you got a promotion...Good for you..Joshua Washington is the reason I lost my shield..."she said.

"You lied under oath and then you planted evidence on a suspect...That's why you lost your badge." said Ed Cantrell.

"Joshua Washington was scum...He wasn't going to get a conviction on Willie "Shoes" Shoemaker...He was a killer...You know that...How many bodies did he have on him? He was just going to kill again..and I'm sure he did after we blew that case...But he won't hurt anybody else...When I get to Hell...I'll give him your regards." she said and laughed maniacally...

Sissy would tell Carlotta and me later that at that moment she realized what a true psychopath Barbara Dennison really was...As much as any killer that she arrested and put behind bars...

It was raining when Sissy and Ed got back to the Motel.... They had stopped and had a quiet dinner and a couple of beers in town before turning in...

 The motel left much to be desired, but it was cheap....And they were only spending a night...

"Well Siss...This is my room...You..uh you're about three doors down...right??"asked Ed Cantrell,smiling sheepishly...

''Yes...Uh...I guess I'll uh be turning in..." said Sissy..

She walked to her room and slowly closed the door...

She breathed heavily as she lie against the door..

Ed Cantrell watched her walk to her room...

God! She was a sexy woman...The one who got away....he mused.

He was married and he loved his wife, but he still wondered...sometimes ..What would sex with Sissy have been like?

Sissy for her part remembered how this man used to make her moist, when she was a young detective...how aroused he could still make her....

Then she thought of his wife...Her good friend ,Carol Redding of the DEA... She could never betray her friend....

The rain poured down hard...She called her husband...Eddie C.  They talked into the wee hours of the morning....

 She missed him..She longed for him...She missed lying beside him in bed...His massive arms pulling her to him....

She couldn't wait for this to be over...

(CONCLUSION NEXT)