So Cold, So Old

The Press and Media talked about the woman found in the barrel for another two days....Since none of us were around for a comment or any updates...The story died ,just as we had hoped it would..

But we were far from forgetting about it... We quietly moved into our forwarding headquarters...which we nicknamed "Copland" It was an apartment complex the government seized from some gangster and owned lock stock and barrel..

We usually came here when we were investigating a major crime family or drug crew...or something of a sensitive nature..We shared it with FBI/DEA and ATF agents from time to time and plain clothes guys we trusted from Vice and Narcotics...There were five floors of very nice rooms and suites above... The downstairs was command and control...

Computers, Monitors and crime frighting equipment ,just like what we had at headquarters...There was a law library for me and a make shift morgue

for Hazel...

This location was a well kept secret...With the exception of the Feds...Only people in the police department with a need to know ,knew of this location...

We had taken down many crime syndicates and drug crews while working here..This time there was just us and Sharon and a few of her most trusted FBI agents staying here...

Sissy and her husband, Eddie C.. were the first ones here....

 Deputy FBI Special Agent in charge, Sharon Hopkins , a few of her most trusted FBI agents and her husband,

Detective Tony Hopkins came later the first day....

 Me and my wife,

Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace and her partners and their wives,

Detectives Tyriq Pile and

Sirena Pile...and

Detective James "Jimmy" Barlow and his wife,

Detective Angie Belton-Barlow all arrived the next morning... Only Duke and Hazel hadn't arrived yet...

They would arrive around midnight.....

With us all in place...the work began.

II-

It had been two days since we'd found the body of the girl in the basement of a long closed funeral home..The detectives had been working on it... Sissy and I were eager for updates...

''So what has our little investigation turned up?" she asked..

"Naturally we had to rule out the fingerprints and DNA of all of the people working there, Carpenters, Construction workers et al and isolate the DNA of the deceased female...That took a day or two and naturally there is no street cam footage to look at.Or any witnesses to a 40 year old crime." said Carlotta.

"Top and I interviewed family members of the last owner..Conner Aldrich....They said that he never mentioned anything about a barrel, or oil drum ,but that he often complained about a smell...a foul odor coming from the basement... His cousin told us that they went in the basement several times..and never thought to bother that barrel.." said Tyriq...

"Unbelievable.." I said, shaking my head..

"Hop and I talked to several people from the Gas company and Animal Control and contractors..."said Sirena.

''They all investigated the odor and somehow miraculously overlooked that drum ,which was all the way in the back, almost hidden.."said Hop..

"How about Bert Caulken?" asked Sissy...

"Duke and I made several calls to his office, but he wasn't in." said Carlotta.

"Angie and I talked to several of his family members though, cousins, uncles..and a few friends...They never recalled seeing that oil drum...Although they admitted they never ventured into that basement either.." said Duke..

"But they all remembered that smell.." said Angie..

"You told me to do a property search...To find the previous owner...Well I did.. His name was Augustus  Birch...He bought the property brand new in 1959....It wasn't a funeral parlor then..Just a home...He sold it to Bert Caulken Sr in 1968....Caulken Sr. turned it into a funeral home..."said Jimmy..

"And where is Augustus Birch now?" asked Sissy..

"He died in 1970 and his wife died in 1972...They had no children.." said Jimmy...

"Like you said Sissy..This case is so cold, so old..." I said..

"You guys are used to dealing with Fresh murders...Not Cold cases like this...Hazel said that girl may have been down there in that basement for 40 years..." said Sharon...

III-

"Try 45 years" said Hazel..

"What?" said Carlotta.

"It took a while...but  I know who she is...Her name is Golda Diaz...We identified her through dental records....She was 15 or 16, she attended the local high school...She worked at the local Bodega...It's gone now..been gone for 20 years now and she went missing in May of 1972." said Hazel..

''Wow"said Sissy...

"Doc Gibbons has a friend..

A forensic artist who did an almost uncanny sculpted likeness of her face ,based on the skelatal figure...Then we went to Missing Persons and found a photo of her...This one ." said Hazel..

"Oh My God..It's almost an exact match..."said Sirena..

 "I'll say." said Hop..

"You sure she was just 15?" asked Jimmy...

We had a photo of a pretty Puerto Rican Girl...She was 16, but built like a woman much older...Huge breasts that seemed to be at war with her bra...and her sweater as well and nice shapely hips and legs...

I had to admit, she didn't look 15 or 16....I put her closer to 22...but Hazel had a birth certificate.....She had just turned 16 when she went missing in 1972.

"Had she of lived...She'd be in her late 50's , early 60's by now...and that baby would've been in her or his mid 40's..."said Tyriq, who had a look of pure sadness on his face...

"Damn,I know this is a stone cold and I do mean cold case...a Who done it...But it's a damn shame that two lives were snuffed out..That somebody just through her away...Like she never mattered, like she was the trash.....It's a shame...That whoever did this may have gotten away with this all this time.."said Duke...The hardened streetwise detective almost looked as if he might shed a tear..

Carlotta echoed his sentiment..

"Boss Lady..I know anything could happen and we'll have to move on to a bigger more pertinent case...But I'd like to solve this one...as Cold and as Old as it is.."said Carlotta..

"Me too!" said Jimmy...

"Okay...We know who she is now..She got any family? friends?" asked Sissy..

''Her mother and father are both deceased..But she has a brother...I talked to him...He's coming to claim the remains or what's left of them tomorrow." said Hazel..

"Chica...I want you, Rico, Jimmy and Duke at the M.E.'s office tomorrow to interview her brother.." said Sissy..

''We're on it!" they said in unison..

"Angie...Sirena, Hop, find any of her old classmates and friends and talk to them, See if they remember anything about her, Anyone she was dating..." said Sissy...

"Roger That!!!" they said in unison...

"Nooooooooooooooooo... I like "We're on it Boss Lady" Sissy Joked...

 Just then Sissy's phone rang...It was Captain Eddie Cantrell..

''Hello"said Sissy.

"Hello darlin...Uh Are you guys uh off site?" he asked..

"We are."said Sissy...

"You guys uh investigating the dead body found in that old funeral home by any chance?" asked Captain Cantrell..

''We are? Why?" asked Sissy..

''I got a visit from Bert Caulken, candidate for State Senator and his Attorney today..a A.J. Miller...We had lunch...They assured me that Mr. Caulken hadn't been in that funeral home in two years and knew nothing about that oil drum or any dead girl....He swore it must have been there when his dad bought the joint in 1968..." said Captain Cantrell..

''Well it wasn't...We have positively identified the young lady...She was 16 years old and pregnant at the time of her death and she went missing in 1972...We have Missing persons files to verify that...That was four years after The Caulkens bought that place." said Sissy...

"Good ,you guys are further along than I thought...They uh wanted me to ask you guys to let this go, to make it go away...I don't like the idea of any outsider trying to bribe me and tell me how to run my shop...You guys keep on investigating ...Just keep what you're doing out of the papers...You were smart to move your guys to the off sight...No interference from the Brass or the Press.."said Ed Cantrell.

"What about The Deputy of Operations?" asked Sissy...

"Caulken's not a big enough fish yet to have sway with the Deputy of Operations..Which is why he came to me...I will not be intimidated...Continue your investigation...I want to see where this leads.."said Ed Cantrell..

"I intend to Sir...And thanks for the heads up.." said Sissy..

''Who are you calling sir?  It's Steady Eddie baby!Heh Heh heh!" he laughed..

''Be nice...you're married.." said Sissy..blushing like a school girl....

''Yeah,I know...Talk to you later Siss." said Ed Cantrell.

I was glad Sissy's husband, Eddie C.

didn't hear that conversation or see how Sissy blushed like a school girl when talking to Captain Cantrell...

Lucky for us..He was in another room...

IV-

We turned in early that night...

Sharon and Hop had got an early start...

They were in their room and the bed springs were squeaking early....

"Work me daddy, work me...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu work me like a job!!" squealed Sharon as Hop said nothing, but plowed into her like nobodies business...

Tyriq and Sirena

Tyriq and Sirena were in the shower ,making sweet love..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu Rico....ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."squealed Sirena..

"OOOHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh baby!" moaned Tyriq as the hot water splashed on them..

and Sissy and Eddie C.

were in the throes of passion..

''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh boss lady, give it to me.." he moaned..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu Eddie..all you want baby." she moaned in turn..

Angie and Jimmy weren't wasting anytime either, making sweet love  in their corner room..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE!! OOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!" he moaned loudly...

"Jimmy, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, everybody will hear you..." said Angie

Surprisingly enough...Carlotta and I were not making love..

"Papi this case bothers  me..I feel as though we won't crack it...or we'll find out the killer is dead.."she said.

"I don't think the killer is dead.....Sissy told me that Captain Cantrell called her.." I said.

"I know,I could tell by the way she was blushing and laughing.."said Carlotta..

"He said that Bert Caulken and his lawyer...Our friend, A.J. Miller took him to lunch and uh politely asked him to tell us to stand down...Cantrell refused...He told Sissy to keep a low profile, but to keep on digging..Caulken must have something to hide...Why would he show up like that all of a sudden..? You want to look at a suspect...There is your man."I said.

Carlotta smiled for the first time..

"Papi you've been hanging around us detectives a long time...You sound like us...Come here..Take my bra off.."she said..

"With pleasure.." I said..

"I thought you'd enjoy this..."she said as she took my jacket and shirt and tie off and unzippered my trousers...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuu look at you papi...Aye Yi Yiiiiii." she said smiling...

"Oh My god Carlotta.." I said..

She softly began fondling me with both of her soft hands and staring me in my eyes....and kissing me slowly, softly...

"You are as hard as a baseball bat....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" she marveled...

I was on the verge of exploding!~


"How can I not be?" I said, moaning silently and feeling so good...All at the same time..

Soon I had Carlotta's bra off and her panties and we were standing in the middle of the floor kissing passionately...

"Ouuuu Papi....you are turning me on.....I-I can't take much more of this kissing.." she said..

"Neither can I" I said.

Soon we were lying on top of the bed....Making sweet love....Carlotta was so moist, smelled so good and her skin was so soft.....I was losing my mind.....I knew I wasn't going to get enough anytime soon and we had a big case to start working on...

SIX TO SEVEN HOURS of slow ,tender, sweet lovemaking drifted by...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi...papi...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu you are outdoing yourself..."Carlotta cooed softly as she kissed my chest and my neck..

I was so excited...I came hard, despite myself...and I watched as I was cumming, Carlotta's tears seemed to flow like a river and her body began to tremble and she began to get the sweetest most serene look on her face I had ever seen....

She kissed my shoulder and held on to me for dear life...

"I love you so much papi, so much!" she said....Which made me cum even harder....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she moaned....Carlotta came and came hard....her body shaking, sweat and tears running down the side of her face......She fell asleep in my arms...still slightly stroking my penis...I came again while she was doing this..She was feeling things she'd never felt before...she told me..

A half hour went by....She woke up, smiling at me......Carlotta kissed the head of my penis and licked it and then took me in her mouth and began going up and down...I was losing my mind...

I slowly rolled over on top of her.and continued to move inside and out of her ......once again...

"Papiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" she moaned..

At least another HOUR AND A HALF of good sweet lovemaking continued before I came again for the final time...So did Carlotta....

We held each other closely....

A soft early morning rain began to pour...perhaps to cool off the hot city.... Most of the rooms were silent...

Only Duke and Hazel were still making love..

The rain began to pour harder....

We still had a 45 year old murder case that was so cold, so old...that needed to be solved..


(TO BE CONTINUED)