Nikki and Annie

"Yes mam...We turned over all of our case files to FBI Special Agent Ed Lawlor and his staff and I instructed my detectives to co-operate with him to the fullest and not to interfere in any way and to the best of my abilities they did just that mam!  Yes....In the meanwhile...Detectives Nate Nellis , Monica Nellis and Kylie White got a hot tip from a confidential informant on the whereabouts of one of our suspects....He's named in the files...We had to move on it as quick as possible and we captured the suspect.....We have him here now, along with a lot of incriminating evidence found with him...My detectives have him in the interrogation room as I speak...  No mam....I don't know anything about any FBI stakeout at an abandoned storage unit....No one here spoke to Agent Lawlor yesterday at anytime...My detectives weren't even in the office..They were out looking for clues...I don't know where he got that information from,but it wasn't here....Yes mam...You are quite welcome...MY detectives thank you." said Lt. Cotton,who put his phone away and laughed his head off...

"Is it bad Lou?" I asked..

He was laughing so hard he could barely contain himself...

"Oh Frankie, is it THAT funny?" asked  my sister in law, Dr. Monique Talbert ,who was sitting in the office with us...

"Oh My God....Nate...Lawlor and two of his agents sat out in the parking lot of that old defunct storage unit until 3:00 am in the morning...3:00 am in the damn morning....The fact that no squad cars arrived should have been a dead giveaway after about an hour....So you know he called and complained to the Commisioner...but he stopped short of telling her he illegally bugged our office for what ,the third time and overheard a conversation he shouldn't have been privy to....The Commissioner is pleased with the work you,your wife and Kylie are doing.."he said and continued to laugh so hard,tears were coming out of his eyes...

I laughed too...I looked at Monique..



"It is funny..."I said.

"Yes ,I suppose it is....Ed is something...Did you know he tried to put the moves on me yesterday?" she whispered to me. She didn't want to take Lt. Cotton out of his good mood.

''Did he?" I said..

"Yeah...It's not the first time...The whole time he was dating my sister, he was low key trying to make a play for me... Texting me late at night...Trying to call me..He's such a dog!" she laughed...

"He gives new meaning to the term Dumb Animal" I said.



Now it was Monique's turn to laugh....The three of us were laughing very loud....



Detective Kylie White came to the door..

"Must be funny..you can fill me in on the joke already....Me and your wife questioned him...He admits to nothing ..He says that it's his sister and he came here to stop her...Says it was her who killed the pimp in St.Louis and says he doesn't know where she is."said Kylie...

"We can only hold him for 36 hours and if we don't charge him with something..We have to let him go...We've had him for about eight."I said.

"Mo-Mo asked him to take a polygraph....He agreed to it and we called a Public Defender here to represent him..."said Kylie...

This raised an eyebrow...Monica was a mutant with telepathic powers....She really didn't need a polygraph...She could read somebody's thoughts and know when they were lying or telling the truth...She already told me that he was telling the truth....So I wonder why she was ordering a polygraph?



"I'm going to get her a tumbler of coffee...I haven't talked to her in a couple of hours."I said.

"You are sooo sweet and attentive to her...You really love her don't you?" asked Kylie...

"Kylie...He's crazy about my sister...been that way since he first laid eyes on her.."said Monique..

"He's whipped...but that's okay....It's why they work so well together and crack cases...So I don't care."laughed Lt.Cotton...

I just smiled..

II-

 Monica had the lie detector set up ...A Public Defender was in the Interrogation Room with her..

Rollie Nowles looked at Monica as they strapped the cords to his arms..

"You have nice breasts and you body looks really tight in those jeans....Do you work out Detective?" he asked.

"Not as much as I should.." she replied..



I walked in with a tumbler of coffee...

"Here you go partner."I said.

"Thank you baby!" she said and kissed me softly...



Rollie Nowles looked surprised...



"You two are dating?" he asked.



"Uh ,we are beyond that...We are married!"said Monica...



His eyes got big..



"Really? Wellllll that explains a lot.."he said smiling...

I looked at the Public Defender...A middle aged White woman..



''We are ready."I said.



"Okay..proceed."she said.

"What is your given name?" asked Monica.

"Roland Arthur Nowles.....My friends call me Rollie for short." he said.

"How Old are you?" she asked.

"23...I'll be 24 in a few months..."he replied.

"Do you have a twin sister?" asked Monica.

"I do...Her name is Nicole."he said.

I took over the questioning then..

"Is it true that she has killed seven people in the past week?" I asked.

"Yes.."he said.

"Do you know her whereabouts?" I asked.

"No." he said.

"Do you know why she is killing?" I asked.

" She is getting revenge on all of the men and women who have used her sexually and driven her to a world of immoral sin."he replied..

"Do you know if she has targeted anybody else?" I asked.

"I don't know..."he said.


I motioned to Monica to walk outside of the interrogation room..

"The machine says he's telling the truth."I said.

"Yes..and I've been reading his mind....He's telling the truth.." she said.

"We gotta cut him loose."I said.

"Any other time I'd agree...but it's something about him...Something about him that's janky....We still have a few hours...Let's hold him...Call it a hunch." she said.

"Okay...You know I'll back your play.."I said.

She kissed me softly...

"Ummm I know you will bae...."she said softly...

Detective Kylie White walked over to us-

"Monica...Nate...I just caught a case....They found the body of a young woman....Orange Hair...two .45 slugs to the head...Want to come with?" she asked.

"Yeah...Officer ,take Mr. Nowles back to central booking."said Monica as an officer escorted Rollie Nowles to Central Booking.

III-

We flew to a familliar place... The Floating Condo of Guido Diaz...

We had discovered his body on the boat outside of his floating condo a week before....

"Neighbors complained of an odor coming from the house" said Kylie...

"This was a crime scene..We had this place closed up...Who was here?" I asked.

''Somebody must have come here after you found Guido." said Kylie...

Several Uniforms were at the scene....

Monica told them...

"Open it up."

They opened the door and for the second time in as many days the ungodly smell of death hit us...and with the heat...It was 97 degrees today,It was worse..

 "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" said Monica..

"Good Night Nurse! Whooooooooooooooooooooooo!" screamed Kylie...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh HElll..Cover your noses girls." I said.

"You don't have to tell me twice.." said Monica...

Inside in the living room lay the decomposing body of what had been a shapely and attractive woman with blond hair....an orange wig lay near her body.....It appeared she'd been shot with a .45....The gun was lying on the floor a few feet away from her..

"I'd better call your sister."I said.

Monique and her staff arrived shortly, So did Lt. Cotton....

"You got an identification....??" he asked.

I took her fingerprint from her cold dead hand and ran it through decks....It took no time at all for me to get a hit...

"It's Nicole Nowles..." I said.

"Hmmmm,interesting..."said Monica..

"Suicide?" asked Lt. Cotton...

"Nope? But somebody wanted it to look that way....From what we know about her..She was right handed...Why are the wounds in the left side of the temple ? and why is the gun over there in that direction?" asked Monica..

"Right ...the force of the shot and the fall would have tossed the gun this way.."I said and instructed a police photographer to snap a photo of the entire scene...

Just then, we heard the familiar voice of FBI Special Agent Ed Lawlor..

"WELLL LOOKS LIKE THIS CASE MAY HAVE WRAPPED ITSELF UP!" he said.

I looked at him...

"I guess we didn't find all of the devices you planted or were you listening to the police scanners?"

He looked at me like he wanted to strangle me...He was so angry his hands were shaking..

He looked at Monica.

"You've made an accurate assumption...This was a murder made to look like a suicide."he said imperiously.

"I just said that."said Monica.

Kylie laughed....

Monique ignored us all..She studied the body....

"Two shots from a .45 and they were from behind...We have the shell casings....Nate? Mo-Mo? Kylie??Can we release the body?" she asked..

"Yeah, release the body."said Kylie..

"Did you people dust for prints...?" asked Ed Lawlor..

"We did! Would you like us to use luminol and check for blood too?" I asked.

He ignored me again...

"Monica...I'd like to sit with you and go over the particulars...Perhaps we can glean a clue as to who a viable suspect might be." he said.

"We already have our suspect....He's in custody...We picked him up last night!" said Monica and walked away from him without allowing him to ask her another question.

We watched as the body was being removed from the house...

Monica said to me and Kylie and the Lieutenant...

"I want to take another go at Rollie Nowles...I have an idea."said Monica.

"The lie detector test cleared him.."said Lt. Cotton..

"Yes it did...It cleared HIM." she said.

I walked over to her..

"I know where you're going...I was thinking the same thing in the back of my mind ever since we caught him..and we found all those clothes in that cab."I said.

She smiled the sweetest smile...

"I think I always knew you were my true soul mate Nate.."she said and was about to give me a big kiss..when Kylie walked over to us...

"Clue me in." she said..

"Follow my lead Kylie and do not mention to him that we found his sister's body.Just trust me."said Monica.

"I'm with you girl."said Kylie.

IV-

Kylie brought his sister's wigs, bras and panties ,all of the articles of clothing we found in that taxi and laid them across the table..

Monica sat at the table..

Special Agent Ed Lawlor and Lt. Cotton stood outside the interrogation room....

"I need to be in there with them during this interrogation."he said.

"No you don't...I'm trusting Monica's hunch....All we have is circumstantial evidence..We need a confession..."I said..

''So you have nothing right?" he said.

"See,that's why you aren't going in there."said Lt. Cotton...

"I see I am going to have to call the Commisioner."he said.

"Put that phone down or I'll break your hands.."said Lt. Cotton sternly...

Before he could respond...I brought Rollie Nowles into the room...

He smiled upon seeing both Monica and Kylie...

"Why don't you both show me your breasts ,just a little bit?" he remarked...

"That's not what you want to see Nicole....Now is it? Or do you like women too?" asked Monica..

"Why are you calling me Nicole...That's my sister...She's killing people.."he said.

"No she's not Rollie...YOU are killing people...Admit it.."she said..

Kylie picked up a bra and looked at it...

"Ouuu this is nice...I might buy one for myself..Where did you get this Nicole..?" she asked..

All of a sudden we saw the strangest transformation we had ever seen...Rollie Nowles began to sweat and he began to twitch and his entire demeaner began to change....It was as if  he was becoming someone else...He put on the purple wig and the aviator shades...He began to switch and move just like a woman and his voice began to change..

"I got that and the matching panties from Victoria's Secret Honey...."he said.

"Nicole....Do they call you Nikki for short?" I asked.

"Ouuuu you're cute....You and her....You two are together aren't you?" he asked..

"Yeah we are married..." I said.

"How long?" he asked.

" About six months now."I said.

"That's nice...."

"Nikki, did you kill those girls?" asked Monica.

"I killed one,maybe two of them...Annie killed the third girl...I killed Guido and Annie killed my man,White Boy Slim..."he said.

"Where is Annie?" asked Monica..

Again we saw Ronnie sweating profusely ...His body was giving off a peculiar odor...and we saw yet another transformation....

"ANNIE CHRISTIAN IS HERE!!!!.....I KILLED ALL OF EM....NIKKI WAS TOO WEAK, TOO AFRAID...I'LL DARE HER TAKE CREDIT FOR WHAT I DID!!THEY WERE GODLESS SINNERS ,ALL OF THEM....I AM HIS ONLY DAUGHTER!!! I WILL NOT BE CRUCIFIED!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."he said.

"Did you kill your sister?" I asked.



''YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS NIKKI WAS WEAK....SHE LEFT ME IN ST. LOUIS...BUT I AM ANNIE CHRISTIAN...I AM LEGION...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Monica signaled to three officers...One to handcuff Rollie...and the other to read him his rights...He laughed maniacally...He was back in Nikki mode now....

They took him out....

"Wow ...He was as crazy as a loon....Mo-Mo, how did you know?   He passed his polygraph?" asked Kylie..

"Yes..He did...Because he truly believed that he didn't do this....and really HE didn't....Nikki and Annie Christian committed the murders.. The women's clothes in that cab and no fingerprints in the cab except his was a clue that something else was going on here." said Monica.

"Norma Jean Broward and Nicole and  Rollie  Nowles  grew up in the same foster home...It was quite obvious even then that Rollie was deeply disturbed...When both girls got old enough ,they left him behind and drifted into a life in the streets...He assumed their identities and killed their pimp in Kansas City...They both made their way here to Philly.....and were fine for about three years until Rollie found them....and once again assumed their identities and began his killing spree..."I said.

"Nice work...All three of you."said Lt. Cotton...

"He was two other personalities...wowwwww....When do you think Rollie will come back?" asked Kylie..

"Who knows? He's inside of him somewhere....Right now..Only Annie Christian and Nikki are dominant...I knew I could bring those personalities out of him if I confronted him a different way."said Monica.

I kissed Monica and hugged her..



"My Baby is a genius aint she?" I said.



"She is very good ,A very brilliant detective ,I knew that from the first time that we worked together...and she's been carrying you."said Ed Lawlor..



"You know what? If that makes you feel better ,then own it...Bottom line..The three of us cracked this case without any help from you...You could have stayed in Boston."I said.

"WHYYYYYYYY YOU!!" he bellowed...

 "What Ed? What?  This whole angle of multiple personalities was HIS idea.. Yeah that's right...Nate thinks outside the box...He just felt that I could bring it out of him better than he could..He and I ..we are a team....and Kylie here..She helped us every step of the way...This was a team effort...We put egos aside."said Monica.

"Well..uh...well...I..uh..Well." he stammered..

"I believe you were leaving right?" said Lt. Cotton.

Ed Lawlor stomped his foot and stormed out...

"Excellent work guys....8 murders cleared.....I love it."said Lt. Cotton as he walked away.

"Bae I appreciate you standing up for me...But you didn't have to lie to Agent Lawlor...About it being my idea."I said.

"I didn't lie...I heard your thoughts when we took a run at him the first time..You were thinking about it and that gave me an idea of how to go at him.." she said..

I pulled her to me ...

"Can you tell what I'm thinking now?" I asked her...

She smiled..

"Yesssssssss....you are so nasty....and no...I'm not going to take my clothes off with all these people walking around...but we can go home in a few and I'll take care of you..."she whispered...

"My girl" I said and kissed her passionately in the back hall.

EPILOUGE-

Rollie Nowles ,though guilty of eight murders was deemed incompetant to stand trial...He is presently being held in the Institution for the criminally insane....His true personality as Rollie has never returned...He dresses in womens clothes and goes back and forth as "Nikki" or "Annie Christian" ,his most frightening personality...

Monica and I sat in the Bistro shortly after the case wrapped eating lunch...

 "I'm going to need you to stay real close to me bae...I'm going to have nightmares about this case for a long while."joked Monica.

"Not a problem at all...you know how much I love sleeping with you."I joked..

"Yes I knoww..Nasty man..." she laughed and playfully punched my arm...

An FBI agent walked over to where we were sitting...

"Hey guys....I'm Special Agent Thornton, FBI.....I came to ask you guys a favor..."he said...He looked like he was about to bust out laughing..

''What can we do for the FBI?" I asked..

"Listen I know Ed Lawlor is a pain in the ass..We don't like him either...but we have to work with him...Next time you guys are planning to yank his chain...clue us in....I had to sit in that empty lot with him until 3:00 in the morning.."he said and busted out laughing...

The three of us busted out laughing...

"Where is he anyway?" asked Monica.

"Packing his bags....They need his uh expertise on a serial killing case in Anchorage, Alaska..."said the agent...

The three of us busted out laughing some more...


(REST IN PEACE ,PRINCE ROGERS NELSON  -1958-2016)