Gangster's Graveyard

This case as it stood was at a standstill..... We had indictments on three murder suspects...We had forensic evidence (prints, DNA) and a number of eyewitnesses putting two of them at the scene of the crime...In one case we had footage of the murder actually being committed...

All these cases were technically down, except...We couldn't find any of these suspects...They had seemingly dropped off the face of the earth....

Deputy FBI Special Agent in charge ,Sharon Hopkins put all three of them on the FBI's Most Wanted Lists...and had a nationwide dragnet out for them...

Sissy put out a Statewide Bolo on all three...Had the State Police looking for them, Had Plain clothes and uniformed officers at the Bus Stations, The Airport and the Train Stations...

She and her husband, Eddie C. then went on a much needed vacation...They went to Vegas and then to Los Angelas...

Ange and Jimmy went to Ireland...and then to Paris......

Things were pretty quiet for awhile...No major cases...Most of us didn't come in until late most days and a lot of the guys left early if they didn't have anything pressing...

This morning...Carlotta and I woke up a little late....

She was thinking of calling out...

I took the phone from her and pulled her back into the bed...

She laughed

''Papiiiiiiiiiiiiii, at least let me call in...Say I'm going to be late..."she laughed...

Then she looked at me...

"Aye yi yi....You wake up like that?" she asked ,staring at me in full erect status...

She tried to run, but I caught her and began kissing her in the middle of the room...I slipped her blue mini nightie off and slipped her panties down....She took her bra off and we began kissing hot and passionately on the floor...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi....you get so excited...." she cooed..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Carlotta, you drive me crazy...." I moaned...

"That is my job..."she said, smiling, in between wet, sloppy kisses...

"And you do it well..." I said...

It was raining hard...Thundering and lightening...I didn't have a court case today....So it didn't matter if I was late...

"Oh my goodness papi...woooooooooooooooooooooo...you are so...so hard..ouuuuuuuuuuuu...."she moaned..

 In between more hot kisses, all I could do was groan....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!  OH MY GOODNESS....YOU REALLY ARE EXCITED!" she moaned..

 What followed next was SIX TO SEVEN HOURS of the sweetest lovemaking Carlotta and I had made in awhile...

The bed was squeaking out of control....It even moved a bit...The headboard slammed against the wall.....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi....I'm losing my minddddddddddddddddddddddd!" moaned Carlotta....

Watching her cum was the most beautiful thing...It seemed her face changed colors...she blushed and she began to tremble....tears ran down her face....

She held on to me for dear life.....before I realized it...I was coming like a gusher....Shaking,moaning...

We showered and got dressed...

"Papi...it's nearly 10:00 am....I might as well not go to work.." said Carlotta.

"You're not even working a case.... Bet;cha we won't be the only ones coming in late.."I said.

II-

The rain had subsided by the time Carlotta and I drove up to headquarters....To our surprise..Sirena and Tyriq were driving up too...

Sirena was fixing her hair...and adjusting her make up....Tyriq had a very satisfied look on his face...Much like mine...

''See Sexy (His nickname for his wife, Sirena)I told you we wouldn't be the only ones late." he said with a sly smile and a look at me...

Carlotta looked at Sirena...

"Did the rain make your husband frisky too?" she asked..

"Girllll, you know....I know you know...That's why you two are late too?" asked Sirena..

''You're a good detective..." said Carlotta as both women laughed...

Once upstairs...we saw a familliar face...Detective Sgt. Sam Jones..

"Hello Detectives... I was just waiting until your boss lady got here.." he said..

"She's on Vacation.....You can talk to me.." said Duke, who was just coming in himself with his wife, Hazel, who was fixing her hair and blushing...Apparently they had taken a late day to..

''Sorry we are late.." said Hazel, blushing terribly...

''That's okay...They were all late..."said Sharon, laughing at us....

Her husband, Detective Hopkins sat at his desk smiling wryly... He and Sharon had been here by themselves , except for uniformed policemen and a sprinkling of FBI agents...It had been a slow,rainy morning..

"Sissy ,Angie and Jimmy will be back tomorrow...They've been gone about two weeks...As you know we have federal warrants and a bolo out on our missing murder suspects....." I said.

"Nothing on them yet?" he asked..

"Not a thing...on any of them...." said Duke..

"I don't know if Sissy told you....but I've been searching for Jack Stratton....and his girlfriend.."said Sam..

''Shot caller and Fence, Jack Stratton? You're missing persons.."said Tyriq....

"His wife filed a Missing Persons report on him...So did his girlfriend....then she vanished...I wasn't looking to arrest him just find him.."said Sam Jones..

''So I take it you have something..."said Sharon..

''Sure do...Who here can requisition a boat??" he asked..

''A boat? What for??" I asked...

"I may have found the final resting place of Stratton, maybe a few others...I got this on good information...Your boss Sharon, Frank Cotton, has an informant who is high up in the underworld...He gave him a tip, which he forwarded to me..because he knew I was looking for Stratton."said Sam Jones...

''Sounds worth looking into...and besides...I'd love a boat ride right abut now." said Sharon.
III-

Just then, Carlotta's phone went off..

"I don't recognize this number... Let me take this...Excuse me.." said Carlotta as she left the room...


"Hello...Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace, C.I.D." she said..

"Hi Carlotta, even when you're being professional, your voice sounds lovely..."came the voice..

"Who is this?" she asked..

''Oh come on Carlotta, you've forgotten me already...I thought we had a connection a few weeks ago when we talked..." came the voice..

"Who is this?" she asked..."How did you get this number?"

"You gave it to me...Don't you remember?" came the voice...

"John? Johnny Toilet (To-Lay)" she said.

''Wow, you pronounced it correct...Yes." he said.

"You have information on our missing suspects?" she asked..

"No...I uh,I uh  just wanted to hear your voice to tell you the truth....It was raining this morning and I thought about you is all...Boy did I think about YOU!!!!" he laughed..

"John...I gave you this number to call me if you had information on this case...Not to chat with you personally..."said Carlotta...

"I can't help it...This boner in my pants dictates otherwise..." he said...

"Okay you're being crude...I have to go now!" said Carlotta...

"Don't go...Don't go...please just talk to me for awhile..." he said.

"John....I' M  MARRIED!!!  MY HUSBAND IS HERE NOW!!  HE DOESN'T KNOW I'M TALKING TO YOU....BUT IF HE DID...HE WOULDN'T LIKE THAT....Now don't call me again...unless you have information pretaining to the case..." said Carlotta, who hung up..

Carlotta walked back into the office in time to hear Detective Sgt. Jones say...

"Special Agent in Charge Frank Cotton has a C.I.  He's pretty damn reliable...I know  him too,He's from my days in the Narcotics Strike force...He says that the underworld uses a service...  A service for getting rid of undesirables quietly....No more shootouts or leaving dead bodies on the sidewalks for you guys to investigate...Somebody giving you a problem....They disappear quietly..discreetly...and are never heard from again...You guys don't miss em and they continue to do business as usual with no attention drawn to them..."

"That sounds sinister.."said Sirena..

"I'll say.." said Hazel...

"Minolo Sennterro was doing something like that...With the Coast guard we found 45 or so bodies of his rivals out in the Ocean...Guys that just dropped out of sight....."

"I remember...That's how we finally put a murder tag on him, set him away for life..."said Duke..

"Wow, these guys could put us out of business.."said Tyriq...

"What did your C.I. say Sam?" asked Carlotta.

"He doesn't know the name of the killer....All he knows is that when someone needs to be dealt with , They use the term..."Time to flush the toilet or time to go to the bathroom.."  That's code for whoever this killer is..He works fast and efficient and clean....and he has no police record...He whacks the guy and the guy's body is weighted down in a cement overcoat and dropped in the river..."said Sam Jones.

"You want to comb that river and see if Stratton is there...right?" asked Sharon...

"You got it kiddo.The guy that told me the story was so afraid , he was looking around the entire time he told it...He said anybody could just drop out of sight at anytime.." said Sam..

"I can get you a boat... We can leave tomorrow morning..." said Sharon....

"Her rich uncle." said Hop, shrugging his shoulders..

Sirena hugged Sharon...

''Dont'cha just love her?"

IV-

The next morning...We all went out on a Coast Guard cutter...With a Helicopter hovering over us for air support...Sissy ,Jimmy and Angie had returned...

 ''Wow...Yesterday I was in Los Angelas on the beach....Today I'm in Philly on a Coast Guard Boat out on the Ocean...Go figure.." said Sissy.

 "Yesterday, I was in Paris...Today I'm here....Right with you Siss,I was planning on going to the hairdressers today.."said Angie..

"This is awesome.."said Jimmy...

The last time I had been out on one of these was when I was trying to find the body of Mickey Lolo, for Carlotta...so she could have closure...

 The Coast Guard used sonar and sophisticated devices to probe the ocean....Just like they were doing today...I didn't expect anything to be found...Who knew how long Sentterro had been dumping bodies out here...I was certain the water had floated these bodies away...

"Heyyy Man, we got a hit!!! We've found something?" said a Coast Guard man...

''What??"  I said...

"Yeah...it's a cluster of cans... We are going to need a sub.." he said...

Within two days....The Coast Guard brought a total of 28 cans from the depths of the ocean.....All 28 cans had body bags in them....inside the body bags was a grisly discovery....The skelatal remains of human beings......

"You know...I thought this was a crap shoot .....But you were right on the money." said the Captain..

"I can't believe it." I said.

"Probably more...that we can't find...A lot of em have probably just washed out further into the ocean..you may never find them...I'm amazed that all of these were found!" he said.

"Yes...So am I." I said.

Carlotta walked over to me..

''What'cha thinkin papi? You look like you're deep in thought.." she said..

"I was thinking about when I came out to find Mickey Lolo and found all of those other bodies.." I said.

 "I remember that...you did that for me...You thought I needed closure to move on with you....but I was already with you...Already invested in you..."said Carlotta..

2013 -

Carlotta and I finally ran into each other a few weeks later.....In the judges chambers of the courthouse...Court was over for the day.....

 
"You've been busy lately ...I've hardly seen you." she said with that sweet smile of hers that always disarmed me.

"Yeah...I uh went up to Stanga to see Soloman." I said.  I had decided I wasn't going to lie to her or hide the truth from her.

"I know...Angie Belton told me....And Doc Gibbons was still fussing as they took the last of the bodies you found out of his morgue." she said.

 

''Guess you heard about Sentterro" I said.

''Yup..He finally got his just deserts....You Happy now?" she asked.

"Not really...This wasn't about him....I was trying to locate Mickey Lolo...and I failed....I don't know where to look now." I said.

"Stop looking...You never needed to look. Not for me!!" she said.

"I have a feeling that you've known what I've been doing all along and why" I said.

"Yes I have and I thought it was sweet...but you didn't have to do it.....I'm sorry about what happened to him, but I don't need closure...I'm good.He and I were over a long time ago..." she said.

"You sure?" I asked.

"Never been surer." she said.

She walked over to me and kissed me....long, slow, soft.....I pulled her to me and kissed her passionately...

"Convinced now?" she whispered...

"I-I-I think I am." I said.

She laughed...''I think you are too." she said.

"Let's go home." I said.

"Your home or mine?" she asked...

"Flip a coin." I said..She laughed and rubbed my back.....

 
"You just want to take me somewhere and relieve me of my clothes." she laughed...

 

''I sure as hell do." I said.

I pulled her to me and rubbed her back...We kissed some more....She took a hankercheif out of her purse..

"You've got my lipstick all over you and on your collar." she said.

"I don't care.  Are we alone in here?" I asked as I kissed her and attempted to open her blouse.....

She gently removed my hands and buttoned her blouse back up....

"Not here... I don't know if we are totally alone..Somebody is always wandering around.." she said..She was right....

We looked at each other and both cracked up laughing.

"Come on, let's get out of here.." I said.

After we left work..We walked along Penn's Landing and stared out at the Ocean....

"It's beautiful isn't it Carlotta?" I asked her...

"It is...Especially tonight..." she said.

"I wish I could give that to you." I said.

"The Ocean?" she asked.

''Yeah..the Ocean." I said.

"I don't need the Ocean...I'm not asking for the Ocean..."she said.

"What are you askin for?" I asked...

She smiled...put her index finger on my lips and said quietly...

"I think you know...I think you've already givin it to me." she said and smiled at me.

Carlotta  leaned her head against my shoulder and I hugged her as we stood and stared at the ocean and the sun that was slowly lowering itself in the horizon.

Wow!  How long ago that all was...I remembered...

Detective Sgt. Jones was talking to Duke and the guys...

"This guy, my contact...is deep within that world...I should have busted him years ago...but his information has been so good,I just couldn't...Now the Feds have him." he said.

"And he told you to look out here?" asked Duke..

"Yup, even gave me the name of the cement company the killer uses to weight them down...Freehly and Son. He didn't give me any names...He just said that a lot of people have quietly dropped out of sight and he said my guy Stratton was a prime candidate...He was underselling his Heroin to a number of drug crews here and he had a competitor who didn't take to kindly to being shut out.."said Sam Jones..

"And That competitor called on this specialist?" said Tyriq....

''Exactly...and not just him....He told me several people, some in the underworld and some who are just in the know has called on this uh service..."he said...

Hop and Sirena joined them just then...

"You won't believe this...The sonar guy in the copter has picked up something..."said Hop..

The Copter pilot and the Ship's captain had relayed the message to us...

"He's picked up several things....Several large objects..."said Sirena...

"This is too gruesome for words isn't it Hazel?" said Sharon...

"Comes with the territory...."said Hazel...

We looked out at the water.

"Ladies...Gents...I believe we are right above... A GANGSTER'S GRAVEYARD!!!...."said Detective Sgt. Sam Jones...

There was something beautiful on the horizon...a beautiful rainbow...Hard to believe something so gruesome could possibly be below us...

DEFINITELY TO BE CONTINUED!!