Heroes Of The Day

I cut all of my employees loose...The ones from Morris Communications upstairs and my administrative staff from Morris Investigations downstairs...

All that remained were Sean Jackson, Clerow, Owen Todd, Lockpick Johnson and Peeping Tom... Along with my 5 additional investigators...They had wired me up good....in addition, I was wearing a light kevlar vest and a small trauma plate under my clothing as well... I had my .22 in my ankle holster...and my .38 smokeless in my jacket pocket...

"Looks like you're ready boss.." said Clerow ,smiling..

"Now you guys know the plan... I am supposed to meet up with this guy outside the playground...Clerow, you will be in a parked car with tinted windows across the street....Sean...You'll be snapping photos...They'll match the camera footage we already have of him meeting and picking up both Crandle and Slyde and the footage we got from the camera on the row house where he left Slyde's body...."I said.

"Your friend Hazel Baylor called...She got the DNA and prints you sent her..

She said it's a direct match to the semen she removed from both bodies..." said Owen Todd....

I smiled...

''We are making progress...We are making a case." I said.

Sepia and Bonnie entered with Pizza, Cheese Steaks, Hoagies and Sodas...

 "You almost ready lover?" she asked..

"Kevin, be careful..." said Bonnie..

"I'm more than ready....I'm thinking this guy is no mastermind....and this should be easy.."I said..

I was hoping I was right...

We all ate and tried not to think about the job ahead....Catching a serial killer.

II-

We had traced an ip address to one "Dick Dangler" aka as Phillip Marlowe....This 'Dick Dangler" used the Humpin Around Site a lot...

What we did know was that he was a heavily closeted gay man...I had done my due dilligence...

Markoff was the son of Sonya Hayes and Richard Marlow, a dentist from the main line. He had an older brother, John Marlow. He graduated in 2004 from a tony private school in the suburbs, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, the History Club, the Youth Court, and the school bowling and golf teams.

After high school, Marlow attended SUNY Albany in New York where he was a pre-med student and member of the College Republicans. He graduated from SUNY Albany in 2007.

 He was a second-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine  He ^{dropped out of school for reasons unknown.}

Marlow  met a woman ,Megan Calloway, a native of New Hampshire, in 2005 while they were both volunteers at the Albany Medical Center Hospital emergency room. They were engaged to be married, with their wedding planned for August 14, 2009. Calloway was to have begun medical school in the fall of 2009.

For reasons that were never explained...The engagement was broken off and His father and the parents of  his fiance expressed displeasure with him..

He moved to Philadelphia, took a few jobs as an EMT driver and settled in a small apartment downtown... It was then that he began hanging out at Gay bars and picking up men....He eventually found it easier to do online surfing and meet men that way....He had been using the Humping around site for about a year....

But something went very wrong, horribly wrong when he picked up Dennis Crandle...He was the only one who wound up dead......Crandle's one time lover, Yogen Slyde was determined to find out what had happened to him and had set up a fake profile...Much like the one Bonnie had set up....and now he too had met the same fate...

Tonight...I was going to put an end to this..I hoped..

III-

While this was going on...Lt. Tragg stopped by his favorite watering hole....

"Smitty, hit me with my regular..." he said..

"Okay Art.." said the bartender....

Lt. Tragg looked down the bar, he saw a familliar figure...

"Sally?  Sally Conroy is that you?" he asked, smiling...

''Artie....Hey baby...What do you say? What do ya know?" said a busty and shapely blonde woman...

She was Detective Sally Conroy....a one time Narcotics Detective...

"Hey lady, you still lookin good....You still on the job?" he asked..

"Yeah...I'm over in Auto Theft...I hear there is an opening in Missing Persons...I might go over there...Work with Sgt. Smith..Sam Smith." she said..

"I know him...Don't care for him too much."said Lt. Tragg...

"You're still making friends huh Artie?" she laughed..

"I heard you got in a little trouble a few years back..."said Lt. Tragg...

"Yeah...I was Datin Timmy, You remember him Timmy Delorca...He was selling smack on the side and he got me caught up in a murder....I almost lost my gold shield behind that....But I turned in States evidence..

Lt. Sissy Van Buren let me keep my shield...but she took me out of Narcotics, sent me to Auto Theft.."said Sally...

''Yeah, Lt. Van Buren is getting too big for her britches."snarled Lt. Tragg..

"Oh stop...She did the right thing...I was wrong...dead wrong, dating Timmy and covering up for him...He was dirty...and I knew a lot more about his activities than I told...She did me a solid...I'm grateful she didn't throw me in jail...So enough about me...How you been?" she asked.

"You don't watch the news do ya?" said Lt. Tragg...

She shrugged...

"Yeah...You've been in one mishap after another..." she said..She had heard about him being beat up by a collared suspect and the suspect taking his pants , suit jacket and service revolver...Everybody knew about it...And his other mis steps....Like totaling two police cruisers and leaving the scene of an accident...and being suspended... Arresting a number of suspects later to be found not guilty...He was the laughing stock of the department...She didn't want to hurt his feelings and tell him that though!

"If I could just catch a break...Close a big one...I'd be back on top again..." he said..

''Who you huntin?" she asked.

''A Gay serial Killer" he said.

"Oh Beautiful..Well, I'm drunk and you're almost drunk. Want to hunt something else?" She asked and winked.....She was horny....Any man with two working legs would do the way she felt...

They laughed and drank well into the night.....

They wound up at a motel......

Sally laid in the bed, waiting for Lt. Tragg to come in the room....

"I can't believe I'm doing this with you Art.." she said..

"Believe it Baby.." he said, smiling sheepishly....

They undressed and shared a naked ,drunken kiss...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmph , ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweet baby..." he moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhh Arthur...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" she cooed...

 "Ummm Arthur...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu my goodness, ouuuuu you feel good..baby...Whooooooo Arthur...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu"she cooed..

"Ohhhhhhhhhh..awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!Sal, so do you..Sweet lord,so do you...I wanted you so much...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he moaned..

The bed began to move up and down, the headboard began to slam against the wall...

What followed was SIX TO SEVEN HOURS of hot sweaty and sweet lovemaking....Lt. Arthur Tragg  felt as if he was losing his mind...So did Sally Conway.
 
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." he moaned...

"ARTHURRRRRRRRRRRRRR...WOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned!Well, here was one thing he could do right...she mused to herself...

He lifted Sally up and began to thrust inside of her mightily...

 ''Wooooooooooooooooo. Arthur???..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu my goodness....OOOOOU! OHH MY GOD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"she squealed..

"This feels so good, so right Sally.." he moaned..

"Yes Arthur, Yesssssssssssssssss..."she cooed...He had brought her to orgasm twice already and she felt another one coming....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, AWWWWWWWWWWWWW SWEET BABY!" he cried out!!!!

"Oh Arthur, yess...yesssssssss...ohhhhhhhhhhhh yesssssssssssss daddy....ouuuuuu" she said, crying...

ANOTHER TWO HOURS DRIFTED BY...SHE ADMIRED HIS STAMINA!

  Sally began to climax....She was shaking ,sweat and tears was running down her cheeks and Arthur himself began to climax....Harder than he had in a long while...

Within minutes...He was fast asleep....She got showered and dressed..She didn't want to get caught coming out of this joint. She grabbed her purse and headed for the door...

 While Lt. Tragg and Detective Sally Conroy were in the motel making sweet love...I stood by myself outside of the Playground...

I was wired....Clerow ,Sean Jackson, Bonnie Shay and Sepia sat across the street in a parked car with tinted two way windows.. waiting...

Like clock work the car showed up.....Phillip Marlowe got out...He was blond, thick, built like a linebacker...With Blue eyes....

He smiled..

"Ohhhh you're Black...I've never been with a soul brother before..." he said and smiled...He was almost licking his lips...

I smiled and we got in the car together...

We drove along....

"This your first time too?" he asked..

"Most people don't know I'm uh...gay..." I said...

He smiled..

"Me neither...Which is why I use this dating service...Very discreet...I like that..." he said.

"Yes, I uh like it too." I said..

We stopped at a liquor store...

"You wait right here...I'll be right back." he said..

While he was in the liquor store...I placed a GPS unit under the seat ,so that my guys could track us from a distance...

He came back with a Pint of Vermouth....

"This always relaxes me...Do you drink?" he asked..

''A little." I said.

"When we get to the room.... this will loosen you up.." he said.

We drove to the motel...The same motel that unknown to us...Lt. Arthur Tragg and Detective Sally Conroy were in...In fact we walked past their room...

The Bed in their room was squeaking out of control....The headboard was banging against the wall...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." moaned a man's voice...

"ARTHURRRRRRRRRRRRRR...WOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"  moaned a woman!

 ''Wooooooooooooooooo. Arthur???..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu my goodness....OOOOOU! OHH MY GOD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"she squealed..

"This feels so good, so right Sally.." he moaned..

"Yes Arthur...Yessssssssssssssss.." she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, AWWWWWWWWWWWWW SWEET BABY!" he cried out!!!!

"Oh Arthur, yess...yesssssssss...ohhhhhhhhhhhh yesssssssssssss ouuuuuuuu....ouuuuuu" she said, crying...

For a minute the voice of the man seemed familliar to me...Could it be? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh! I mused.

Phillip Marlowe smiled..

"Soon you and I will be making sounds like that.." he said , smiling...

I wondered if this was the right guy....He seemed non violent....Not at all a psycho killer..

Once inside the room,I was certain...He was the right guy...The Air conditioner was blasting...Mind you, it's December...a few days after Christmas and cold outside...This room was frigid..

"It's freezing in here.."I said.

"I sweat a lot...Soon we'll be in the bed and you won't even be worried about that." he said.

He took a swig of the Vermouth...

"Want some?" he asked..

"No....Uh listen...I uh had a friend, Yogen Slyde...He used this website...Humping Around...I haven't seen him in weeks...He had a friend too...A Dennis Crandle...He used this site also...I haven't seen either of them since they used this site..."I remarked.

His entire mood changed...

"You....YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! This is a trap!!  You set me up didn't you?" he screamed...Just like he did...Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he said..

His entire being changed....It was as if he was another person...He went into a rage...He grabbed me around the neck with his thick hands and threw me up against the wall hard!!

He knocked the wind out of me...

He was as strong as hell...A lot stronger and more violent than I figured...

He was squeezing the breath out of me and practically lifting me off of the ground...I took what strength I had left and kicked him in his groin as hard as I could...He grunted, but he loosened up his hold just enough for me to elbow him in his jaw, snapping his head back and sending him flying...

I didn't have the time to catch my breath before he was heading toward me....He was silent, didn't waste a lot of time talking..I liked that.

I landed some good lefts and rights to his body, but he was equally good with his hands...he landed some good lefts and rights to mine...I countered and landed some lefts and rights to his face, but he equaled me with some well placed lefts and rights to mine...I landed some more well placed lefts and rights to his face and spun and did a nice kick to his jaw...He fell up against the wall...I decided to press the action...

 I cracked him hard in his jaw and saw blood trickle from his mouth...I cracked him again and saw the sweat fly off of his face...I hit him in his stomach and he bent down in obvious pain..I landed some more lefts and rights to his jaw which sent him into the wall...and down on the hotel floor..He lay there for a minute...still conscious and  breathing heavy...I was holding my neck and still gasping for air...


I pulled out my .38 smokeless and put it to his temple..


There was no need...All the fight was out of him....He was beaten....


"You must be a cop....The way you fought...No more....No More...I did it...I killed both of them....Daniel was too demanding in bed...I didn't mean to kill him...but he angered me and so I tricked him into having a drink with me...a drink laced with a pill..a pill that caused him cardiac arrest...The other guy, Slyde...I knew he was a phony the minute we got in the car...he talked too much gave himself away...I drugged him at gun point , made him drink some whiskey laced with the same pill.....I didn't mean to kill any of them...I don't like what I do...I swear..I swear...but, but I can't fight who I am...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." he said and continued to cry profusely....


I tied him up.....

 Bonnie came into the room, gun drawn...

So did my wife Sepia...

She kissed me passionately...

"I'm so glad you're alright..." she said...

Clerow, Sean Jackson, Owen Todd , Lockpick Johnson and Peeping Tom came in...

"Did You get it?" I said...

"Every word....His entire confession and with all of the other stuff we have...He's as good as convicted.." said Peeping Tom...

''Great work guys..Get out of here...The three of us can handle it from here...Thanks again guys...Go home, enjoy your families." I said..

''See ya Kev" they said as they left.

"Guess you have to call Lt. Tragg huh?" said Sepia..

I sighed..

"Yeah, it is his case...He is the Case Detective.." I said. Wishing it was Sissy...

"He said he would arrest us if we interfered with his investigation...."said Bonnie.

"We just closed his case for him...I'm sure he'll overlook arresting us.."I said..

"Yeah and he'll take credit for the whole thing." said Sepia.

"I know, but we've got to call him....Funny, his phone is going to voicemail.....Okay, call Captain Cantrell." I said.

IV-

Captain Ed Cantrell arrived with seven uniformed officers...I turned over our suspect ,Phillip Marlowe and all of the evidence, Bonnie and I collected on him.. An officer handcuffed him, another officer read him his rights.

Captain Cantrell smiled..

"Outstanding work you two!!!...Damn good work!!!!..." he said to Bonnie and I..

"Thank You Sir." said Bonnie.

"Thank you Captain." I said..

Just then ,Lt. Tragg emerged from one of the rooms down the hallway in his boxers....Detective Sally Conroy appeared at the door..Fully dressed!

''What the hell is going on? Morris what are you doing here?" he snarled..

''Oh...Hello Captain! I uh was just leaving" said Sally Conroy, smiling sheepishly and exiting the room.

"Bye Artie." she said as she headed for the elevator..

"Looks like they just closed your case for you Art...They captured the murderer of Crandle and Slyde...He was two doors down from you....."said Captain Cantrell..

"I warned you two....I told you if you interfered in my investigation...I'd arrest you both for obstruction of justice and pull your licenses...." snarled Lt. Tragg..

"You'll do no such thing!..These two closed your case for you...And mind you....They did it in 72 hours...You're at four weeks now and you had no suspect....Leave them alone...Go back in your room and uh put some pants on..Apparently your uh lady friend has already left." said Captain Cantrell...  There was an awkward silence...Then Captain Cantrell said softly, but firmly...

"For God's Sake Artie...Reporters are on their way...I don't want them to see you in your drawers and realize you didn't crack this case...You've embarrassed this city, this department and yourself enough...Go put some pants on!" he said.

 Lt. Tragg stomped his foot in frustration and went back to his room.....He was furious. He violently slammed the door!

I almost felt like laughing.

Captain Cantrell was very Gracious... He called a press conference...

He announced that Phillip Marlowe, killer of two gay men was in custody and he said that the city owed a debt of gratitude to "Private Investigator, Kevin Morris and Attorney and Insurance Investigator , Bonnie Shay..whose independent investigation cracked the case....

When asked about Lt. Tragg, Captain Cantrell said diplomatically..

"I don't know where he is, but uh he'll be informed that an arrest has been made." he said.

We posed for photos with Captain Cantrell and were both given commondations by the Mayor...

It was a great day.....

Sepia was waiting in the wings for me...she gave me a nice soft kiss...a bedroom kiss..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that's for my hero..." she said..

I smiled sheepishly...

Bonnie Shay kissed me on the cheek...

"Thanks again friend...Nice way to end the year." she said.

I smiled sheepishly...

Nice Indeed!

EPILOUGE-

Phillip Marlowe was convicted of two counts of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life...

He never made it to prison...He was found hanging in his cell....A suicide....

Sepia and I and Bonnie and Ronnie  Shay celebrated at the Brewery a few nights later... Just as we were about to order our drinks...Some familiar figures surrounded us...

 Lt. Sissy Van Buren

"There they are...The Heroes of The Day."she said,.

 Dr. Hazel Baylor-

''Yes...They brought this case in.."she said.

 Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace...

''Three Cheers for Kevin and Bonnie..Heroes of the day!" she said.

 Detective Tyriq Pile

"Once I heard you were on the case...I knew it would be solved ."said Tyriq.

 Detective Jimmy Barlow-

"Yeah Tragg cried like a baby to the Deputy Of Operations. Got us taken off the case...and you guys did in three days what he couldn't do in four weeks." he said.

 Detective Sirena Pile

''And what's worse...He's in a hotel room having sex,with Detective Sally Conroy of Auto Theft while you guys caught his killer , who was a few doors down...Scary thing is...He could have struck again, right under his nose"said Sirena..

 Detective Tony Hopkins

"Yeah and he wouldn't have even known it." said Hop...

 FBI Deputy Special Agent in charge , Sharon Hopkins..

"I think the Deputy Of Operations is pretty much through listening to him...at this point...Captain Cantrell is too...From what I heard, they're both very pissed with him." she said.

 Detective Angela Belton-Barlow remarked,

''Detective Sally Conroy and I used to be drinking buddies... I haven't talked to her in a few years...If she is sleeping with Lt. Tragg, she must have really hit rock bottom.. Oh My God...." she said.

"Captain Cantrell said she was dressed and in a hurry to get out of there, when he and the police got there.."laughed Sissy...

"That was true..She didn't want to be caught leaving a sleazy place like that...Early in the morning..I know I wouldn't."laughed Sepia..

Angie busted out laughing and high fived Sepia..

"Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! and with Tragg tooo???" she laughed...

"Tragg is working at his desk now of days...Keeps his office door closed..."laughed Angie..

 Detective Sam Smith clapped his hands and laughed......

"Good...That way real police can close cases without him butting his nose into the case." he said.

They all surrounded our table and clapped and cheered...

"Thanks guys.." I asked.

''We came here to cheer you two on..Thank You!!!You cracked that case and embarrassed the hell out of ole Lt. Tragg..."said Detective Edwin "Duke"Baylor...

"I let Lt. Tragg have that case...because it wasn't major and I knew he'd screw it up anyway and I wanted to give my detectives some vacation time...It was close to Christmas.I thought even he'd have it wrapped up by the time we got back from Christmas Vacation..."said Sissy...

''I told Sissy and the guys that you and Mrs. Shay had built a very good case and would probably crack it...Looks like you did.." said Sam Smith..

''Captain Cantrell told us that you guys cracked it and were right down the hallway from Lt. Tragg and Sally Conroy..." said Carlotta..

They all laughed...

Beers came out...

''Well since you guys are here...pull up a seat and let's all celebrate..." I said.

Sissy smiled..

"Thank you so much for deep sixing Lt. Tragg...Out done by two P.I.'s..."said Sissy laughing....

Sepia sat in my lap...she kissed me again...

"My Hero.." she said.


It was indeed a nice ending to a very eventful year!