The Face Of Sudden Death

We were back in the Squadroom and welcoming the return of detective Kylie White who had spent two weeks on the Moon at the FBI Global Law Enforcement Training Seminar (GLETS) and then a week of vacation on the Moon in Luna City afterwords...

"I missed you guys.." said Kylie..

"We missed you too girlfriend...Nobody to go shopping with...My sister and Lou are still on their Honeymoon...

They want to stay in bed all day Saturday..." said Monica...

"Awww does that mean the honeymoon is over for you and Nate?" asked Kylie, jokingly...

"Not hardly...It's just that we make up for it on Friday Nights..." I laughed...

We hadn't been out drinking or to a movie the past two weeks..We meant to, but once we got home...We wound up in bed ...the rest of the afternoon and early into the morning...

"If I let him, I wouldn't make it to work sometimes...And speaking of which...Since you and Wally mutually decided to call it quits...How did you spend your time in Luna City Missy?  Did you meet up with a certain Detective ,whose name I won't call?" asked Monica..

Kylie blushed...

"I did indeed...And we had a wonderful couple of nights.....We didn't sleep together if that's what you mean...but we did catch a couple of movies  and a show..I wanted to sleep with him...And I'm sure he wanted to sleep with me, but the timing just wasn't right...He's just getting out of a relationship too. Your old flame, Ed Lawlor was there..God Mo-Mo, he's got it bad for you...He bent my ear everyday at lunch about you, how Nate wasn't the man for you...yadda yadda yadda...I started ducking him..."laughed Kylie..

"Yeah she has that effect on guys ..We ran into another of her old flames the other day at our crime scene...She went to the prom with him...He hasn't gotten over it..He doesn't think I'm the man for Monica either...I'm starting to get a complex." I said Smiling..

"If anybody is the man for Mo-Mo...It's you Nate......Hold up Wait!  Crime Scene???...You guys picked up a case?" asked Kylie..

"Yeah...a double..An old man and his wife...Loaded....Necks broken...but nothing stolen and get this, The security camera was disabled as well as the street cams and the traffic cams have picked up no cars or vehicles..My sister and her people

couldn't find any Blood, No DNA, No prints anywhere...."said Monica..

"Wow,it's almost like a ghost or something not human committed the crime....You said nothing was stolen...So you got any suspects?" asked Kylie..

"No but we got people of interest...Like 75....Family, Friends, Business Associates...We gotta interview em, establish motive, where they were at the time of the murder, everything.."I said.

"I'm not doing anything...Let me help....Bring me up to speed with the case file...We can even take my car.."said Kylie..

"Love you girl.." said Monica, hugging her...

"While I'm at it...Let me give you two these." she said and tossed two plastic capsuls to us..

"What are these?" asked Monica..

"Shock Capsuls...New playthings from the FBI...Watch it with these....These capsuls contain enough C-4 to blow a small door off the hinges...If you're ever kidnapped and locked away someplace...They're great to have.." said Kylie..

"Great to have, I'll remember that.." I laughed..

"Oh God...Ed Lawlor has these too?" laughed Monica.


II-

Kylie,Monica and I spent the better part of the day interviewing 25 people each in the murders of George and Molly Dodd...

Family and Relatives, Friends and Business Associates...We established where they were in the hours leading up to the murders...We checked Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Bank Accounts and holdings and cleared all 75 of them...

None of them had a motive or opportunity to kill the two...None had a bad thing to say about either of them...

At the end of the day, we wound up right back where we started...Nowhere....Talk about a cold case...This case began cold and seemed to be getting colder by the minute...

Then I got a call....

"Detective Nellis...Nathaniel Nellis??" said the caller.

"That's me.."I said.

"You're investigating the Dodd double Homicide correct??" came the voice..

"Yeah." I said.

"It's important that we meet in private...Just you and I, not your wife, not anybody else..." said the voice..

"Where do you wish to meet?" I said..

He gave me an address...I agreed to meet him there...

''What is it bae?"asked Monica..

"Somebody said they had information on the Dodd Murder...Wants to meet with me alone..." I said.

"I don't like the way this sounds...Kylie trace Nates last number..."asked Monica.

"I did...it's a protected number...probably a burner phone..." said Kylie..

"The voice was electronically altered too! It's the only break we've got so far in this cold ass case...Just track me through my phone..."I said to Monica..knowing she could track me telepathically...We hadn't yet told Kylie that Monica is a mutant with telepathic powers enabling her to hear people's thoughts and feel their emotions.

"Okay, but be careful bae..."said Monica..

"Would you uh like to wire me?" I asked ,arching my eyebrows and smiling sheepishly....

"You'd love that wouldn't you horndog..." she laughed ,shaking her head...

III-

I headed up to the roof  towards my flying car....I hadn't flown in it all day...As soon as I saw it ,I noticed something wasn't quite right..

I noticed a really fine ,thin wire..running down the front of my car....Normally,I and everybody else might not have noticed this...but I've been a Homicide Detective long enough to know exactly what this was...a bomb!!! Monica had taught me to observe everything around me...Everything...

I called the bomb squad immediately and they sent a guy down who sure enough disconnected a small bomb,laced with enough c4 to take down a city block....I sighed relief...It was set to go off when I reached a certain height.

Just as a precaution...the guy, who was wearing a huge rubber like suit and a helmut that made him look like an astronaut decided to check inside.... I stood at a distance and then out of the corner of my eyes...I noticed another fine, thin, trip wire...thinner than the first one...It was hooked up to a second bomb....The first wire was the one I was meant to see...It would have been disconnected,I would have thought I was safe and it would have exploded also....


It was a very neat trick....Very neat...Unfortunately for whoever put this together...I had seen this before...!!!!!


"They siphoned your fuel too Detective Nellis...You had just enough to get you to a certain height and then you would have exploded...Even if you didn't..You'd of dropped out of the sky....."said the Officer from the Bomb Squad...

"Do a forensic Autopsy of my Flying car....I want DNA, Prints and the works done....I want to know who was on this roof and at what times..." I said.

''We're on it Detective...The roof camera was disabled...but we now have back up cameras....Lieutenant Cotton just had em installed...We'll get whoever was on this roof and messed with your car."he said.

"Thanks" I said.

IV-

Monica and I  and Kylie checked out the address I had been given...It was phony....A long closed establishment..

"This place has been closed for three years...No way you could have met up with anybody here."said Kylie..

"That means this was a set up...The caller wanted you in your flying car alone so you could be blown to bits.."said Monica.

"But why me? I'm not even the primary on this case?  You are!!!" I pondered...

"Your caller is a male chauvinist pig." joked Kylie...

I hugged her...

"I have missed you and your gallows humor."I said and kissed her forehead...

"At any rate...We've stepped on somebody's toes and they want this investigation stopped."said Monica..

"But we don't have anything...No motive, No suspect...No clues ,Forensic or otherwise.."I said.

"Yeah, that is a bit confusing..."said Monica..

We headed back to the squadroom...

The patrol officer who had first called us ,who liked to look at Monica was waiting for us...

"Detective Nellis..I checked out the ATM camera across the street from the Dodds and I got something....This is your guy ,entering the house ,according to your timeline...minutes before the murders....The neighbors claimed they heard yelling and a scuffle...Now look,there he is leaving the house..THEIR house...He didn't know about this camera.." he said..

Monica looked at it...

"Wow...whoever this man is...We need to talk to him, Ask him what he was doing in their home at that time...Good work Officer.."said Monica ,smiling..The officer just melted...

"Let me get a look....He doesn't look familliar...Not at all.."I said..

Kylie took the photograph...

"I'll run it through Facial Recognition...Ours, the State, the Federal and Interpol and I'll cross reference Motor Vehicle..." she said.

"Now we are getting somewhere." said Monica..  "But there was something about his skin...It looked ..I don't know..Kind of waxy!" said Monica.

The officer from Bomb Squad walked in just then...

"Nate...Your Flying Car is clear, ready to fly again..."He said..

"Thanks Bobby..." I said.

"We didn't get any fingerprints and no DNA....but we did get a waxy, oily kind of specimen from the car..."he said..."I've never seen it before...I sent the sample to your sister Detective Nellis." he said looking at Monica.

"She said it matches the substance taken off of the necks of your double murder victims...She said it was a one hundred percent match..."he said.

"So whoever killed the Dodds...Tried to kill you bae." said Monica.

"Damn...I feel sooo much better...Did you see how strong his hands are..What he did to their necks??" I said.

"We got a photo of your perp too...The back up cameras caught him.."said another officer..

IT WAS THE SAME GUY!!!

"Oh My God!!! Look...That's him, sabotaging my flying car...."I said...

"He's our killer..but who is he?" asked Monica.

"Damn if I know...He doesn't turn up in The City,State or Federal files...No Military record, He's not in Interpol and apparently he has no drivers license of record anywhere....This guy does not exist..."said Kylie..

"Check the street cams...He must have gotten into a car..." said Monica..

"I did...and check this..Look...He WALKED....He walked away.....And look at the speed he's walking.."said Kylie..

We watched him walk until he was out of sight...

"No human being walks that fast....That's impossible.."said Kylie..

"No...No human being does...I'm beginning to have a sneaky suspicion here....I sure hope I'm wrong.."said Monica. She then shushed me...

I used my Cyber Eye and I located at least three listening devices and three micro-cameras...The three of us left the office...A Sweep team came in and swept the office clean of devices...

"You were lucky....Whoever was using these hadn't activated them yet...They were freshly planted..."said the Officer..

"Good, Destroy all of em..." I said.

"Come On Bae, let's go home....We've done enough today..."said Monica..

"Thanks for your help Kylie...."I said.

"Heyy That's what I'm here for.." said Kylie.

And meanwhile at the "Living Doll Robotics Company"  , Evan Doll stares at a life size glossy of a young Monica Talbert...

"Damn, she sure looked good then...She looks good now.." he said...

He had another life size glossy of her taken about a week ago...He had been outside of our Duplex and used a telephoto lense to photograph her sitting on the bed..

She had been wearing a Black Knit Blouse...It was partially open and her black lace bra was showing...

He masturbated to both of these photos often.... He was breathing heavy now....

"Ohhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm..."he moaned...

"Monica ,why doesn't your husband just go away?  Why couldn't he have died today???It would have been sooo easy....You'd have insurance money.....I'd come around and comfort you like I did before when that damn Sky Reynolds broke your heart..We could make sweet love for hours....It would be different now...I'm not some awkward school boy...We'd make love for hours....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." he moaned....imagining it..

"Ohhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm..."he moaned... 'Why do you have to be investigating those damn Dodd murders? Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"he moaned ,still thinking about Monica..

(TO BE CONTINUED)