Fun With Dick And Jane

It was mid day when my wife, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace gave me a call..

She didn't always give me a call when she and her partners were investigating a routine homicide...but there was nothing routine about this one..

I'm Assistant District Attorney Keith Wallace...I investigate Major Crimes and Homicides...

So I drove to the hotel, which was in the middle of University City..  A uniformed officer took me to the 12th floor ....

Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor was the first one to see me...He guided me past the police and the CSI people and people from the M.E.'s office,,,

"Right over here Keith." he said..

 "Hey Keith...We waited for you..."said Sissy...

 "Hazel is on her way.." said Carlotta..

 Detective Tyriq Pile was observing the body....A young woman in her panties and bra, who appeared to be sleeping , but was dead...very dead...

Detective James Barlow opened the mouth....

"Same substance around the mouth....."he said..

What was unique about this death?

It was the third such murder in this very building this month......

"Looks like she was poisoned...Just like the other two..." said Carlotta...

"This is the third one.." said Sissy...

"We found the first girl on the 3rd Floor..."said Tyriq..

"The second girl was on the 9th floor." said Carlotta

"And we are on the 12th floor.."said Jimmy...

''So the killer is in this building?" I asked..

"If this is like the one Angie and I found..

said Duke..."No..the room is probably in this girl's name..." he said..

"Sirena and Hop found the second girl a few weeks ago..

The room was in her name too!"said Sissy.

"Really?" I said..

"If Sirena was here she would say-"Here is where it gets cute.."said Carlotta.. "The one Duke and Angie Found..

and the one Sirena And Hop found..

were both high school drop outs.. both runaways...and yet both had extensive dental work done..both had on expensive lingerie and nice clothing, expensive clothing in their closet, like this girl here and yet no visible employment.." said Carlotta...

Sissy pointed out...

"Look at her nails and toes...Expertly done...These panties and this bra...not cheap off the rack stuff, very expensive... This wig even...Look in the closet.. The shoes...Those right there go for at least one thousand dollars.." said Sissy...

"Oh My God...This is beginning to sound an awful lot like someone else we know..."I said..

 ''Way ahead of you counselor.. We thought the same thing..."came the voice of Detective Sirena Pile, who was just entering the room with her partner, Detective Tony Hopkins..

 "Haywood Coley Jr. is safely behind bars.. We went up to the prison and saw him for ourselves..

"He did have a girlfriend...remember? A Plastic surgeon.. We can't seem to locate her.." said Detective Angela Belton.

''So the rooms were registered by all three of these girls.."I said..

"Yes and they had credit cards...in their own names...Apparently they had all been living here for close to a month.." said Carlotta...

"This is a hotel...Clearly they had visitors..?" I asked.

"For sure...We are scrubbing the hotel's cameras now as well as the street cam .."said Duke..

II-

Unknown to us...Three floors above us...A young couple is making sweet love....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Richard...."said the young woman...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jane...babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.."said the man...

"What a rush.."said the young woman..

"Yes...I nearly lost it.." moaned the man.....

'Ouuuuuuuuuuuu....ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...Oh my god Jane, you're driving me crazy..."moaned Richard... as the bed   squeaked like crazy......

  Janes's eyes seemed to be rolling into the back of her head as she experienced ecstacy ,the likes of which she hadn't experienced in awhile...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Dick...Dick..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Dick..." she moaned.


 Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh work me , work me daddy, work me like a job...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, oh my goodness..." moaned Jane..

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" he yelled..

''Dick please ,The cops are here by now and the window is open...you don't want them crashing our party, do you? "moaned Jane..

"We are three floors up...I don't care if the world knows how good I feel right now.......ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" he moaned..

She laughed...

''Glad you're enjoying yourself..You enjoying me more than Jean?.......Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, lawd...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" she giggled..


''Don't spoil it..don't be jealous...you know the rules." he chided..

 "I know..I just want you to love me like you've loved the others.."said Jane..

"The others make me want you morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreee ,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." he moaned.

The bed was squeaking out of control and the headboard was slamming up against the wall so hard, the paint and the plaster was coming off...

SEVEN TO EIGHT HOURS just seemed to idly slip by..

'Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...oh Richard...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu give it to me, give it to me strong....YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" she moaned...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" was all that would come out of Richard's mouth...He felt so good!

 Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."
"Ohhh baby, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph..."screamed Jane

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Jane baby ...ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."he screamed....

"Sock it to me Dick...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

"LAWDDD woman, what are you doing to meeeee?"he said...

"What am I doing to you? What are you doing to MEEEEEE?"she cooed...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh  girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesusssssssssss you are a demon in the bedddddddddd...arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."he yelled.
 
"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. Dick..ouuuuuu......OHHHHHHH."
she wailed...

"Ohhh Jane ,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..I'm losin my minddddddddd!! "

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...This is sooo goood, soooooooooooooo soooo good!...ouuuuuuuuuuuu..Dick!!!!"she yelled out as she experienced an intense orgasm...

He was experiencing a deep orgasm himself... 

III-

Three floors down, the hallway was flooded with reporters and media people...

"Where did these people come from?" I asked..

Sissy sighed..

"You have to ask?" she said..

Lieutenant Tragg walked down the hall ,flanked by three uniformed officers..

"What do we have here?" he bellowed as if this was his crime scene..

"Lieutenant, what are you doing here? And who brought all these reporters..?" I asked.

It seemed as if reporters were filling up the hallway...

"Get them out of here.. They're contaminating my crime scene."said Sissy...

"Sorry I'm late Sissy...Traffic was murder.. No pun intended." said Hazel as she walked in the room and observed the body as cameras snapped..

Her investigators snapped photos and dusted the room for prints and DNA.. If this was like the two prior murders in this building...There would only be the victim's DNA and prints...

Whoever was behind this was good..

Duke and several uniformed policemen moved the media people back and out of the room..

Tyriq and Jimmy closed the door..

 "We interviewed everybody that lives or stays in this building...Nobody seemed to know the girls or remember when the moved in." said Angie..

 "Same here...We studied hours of Hotel camera footage and Street Cam footage.. It's crazy ,but it doesn't seem like anybody came in here that wasn't supposed to be in here..

Angie and Sirena compared notes and examined the bodies..

"Maybe the killer was hiding in the building.."said Carlotta..

"We didn't see any signs of breaking or entering...Whoever killed these three girls was somebody who knew them intimately..."said Duke.

Meanwhile Sissy turned her attention to Lieutenant Tragg..

''Why are you at my crime scene?" she asked..

"YOUR CRIME SCENE?? MINE!  YOU'LL be CO-ORDINATING this entire investigation through me.. Since I am the Senior Officer.."said Lt. Tragg.

"Says who?" asked Sissy...

''Says the Deputy of Operations himself.. He wants action on this and fast...… Ohh..that's him right now.. "said Lt. Tragg.

"Yes sir.. Here she is right here.." he said with a superior grin and passed Sissy the phone.

"Hello!" said Sissy..

"Hi Lieutenant Van Buren...I suppose Artie has given you the news huh?" said the Deputy of Operations. He sounded apologetic.

"Yes he has." said Sissy...

"I'm so sorry...but I feel as though I have to throw the guy a bone...Look...He is the superior officer, but THIS IS YOUR CASE...You run it as you see fit.. Just keep him appraised of what you're doing.. Maybe he'll learn something...For once maybe he'll be involved with the arrest of the right person..."said the Deputy Of Operations.

"Yes sir.." said Sissy..

"Again, I'm sorry Sissy...I'll make it up to your and your team...I promise." he said.

"Thank You Sir." said Sissy..

She passed Lt. Tragg the phone..

''So he told you huh?" He said..

"He told me I am to coordinate everything with you...but he also said that this is my case and I'll run it the way I see fit...So the first thing...No more press...Get those guys out of here and do not compromise this investigation....  Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace is the primary in this murder..

 She'll be working it with

 Detectives Tyriq Pile

and James Barlow....

 Detective Tony Hopkins is the primary on last week's murder

"He'll be working it with Detective Sirena Pile..

Duke Baylor is the primary on the murder of two weeks ago

"He'll be working it with Detective Angela Belton-Barlow...

"We'll be working with the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force ,headed by

Deputy FBI Special Agent in Charge, Sharon Hopkins..."said Sissy..

"And you'll be reporting to ME, correct?" said Lt. Tragg..

"No.. I'll be keeping you appraised on anything we find...Any suspects...It's still MY CASE...I'm still running it...

"Tomorrow, I'll be meeting with The Lieutenants of Special Victims Unit and Vice...They might have some insight into this crime.. You are welcomed to come along." said Sissy..

"Welcomed to come along? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?   I'M THE SENIOR OFFICER HERE??" bellowed Lt. Tragg...

"The Deputy Of Operations said that's it's my case.."said Sissy demurely and then she walked away...

Lt. Tragg then looked at Hazel, who was finishing up her investigation...

"WHAT HAVE WE GOT DR.BAYLOR?" loud enough for the reporters near by to hear it..

She ignored him but spoke to Sissy ,myself and the Detectives..

"Same as the other two...poisoned...She drank something with whoever she was with....She got sick and vomited just before death...just like the other two.. Whatever she ingested is a drug I have never heard of before..I've got to compare this with the previous two samples. .Can I remove the body?" she asked Carlotta..

"Yes.. We know who she is...Her name is Lisa Reynolds...She's from Jupiter, Florida....She's 25, which makes her older than the other two who were both 22."said Carlotta..

Lt. Tragg spoke to the press..

"We have a 25 year old from Jupiter ,Florida...Name is Reynolds...She's the third person found dead in this building...Definitely a Homicide.. Looks like we've got a serial killer on the loose.. I will be coordinating the investigation.." he said.

"YOU?" asked one reporter....

"This may never get solved."  said another.

"You couldn't coordinate a lunch order." said another reporter...

This was met by raucous laughter..

This was met by raucous laughter...

"WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!"screamed an angry Lt. Tragg who charged at both reporters swinging wildly...

People tried to move out of the way as the three men threw punches and fell to the floor..

Sissy sighed..

"Just what I need..Why lord..Why?" she said,..

The body was wheeled out....

The Medical Examiner's people and CSI all piled out....as did

as did all of the detectives and uniform policemen...

Sissy ,Hazel and I filed out....

by the time order was restored in the hallway...

Lieutenant Tragg looked around...Everybody was gone...

The last of the reporters filed out

He stood in the doorway of the hotel looking bewildered..

IV-

At our headquarters, we all sat in our conference room...

 "So before the great detective arrives..what do we know?" asked Sissy...

"Our Victim, 22 year old Sally Austin, left Daly City, California and wound up in Philadelphia about six months ago.. A Homeless Runaway...She had no known relatives or ties to here..."said Duke.

"Next thing we know...She's flashing a lot of cash, has a credit card and buying nice clothes, expensive clothes, hitting all of the clubs, Stoleys, Aqua Bar...Mulberry Street and living in that apartment complex.. Seemingly with no visible source of income.." said Angie.

"Our victim, 22 year old Cheryl Lamberton was a local girl, high school drop out...With a few arrests for possession and prostitution.. Within the past six months, she too is flashing a lot of cash, has a credit card and buying nice clothes, expensive clothes, hitting all of the clubs, Stoleys, Aqua Bar...Mulberry Street and living in that apartment complex..Seemingly with no visible source of income.." said Sirena.

"Both credit cards, our victim and Duke and Angie's victim were issued from two different banks.." said Hop...

"Our victim has almost the same story, Her name is Lisa Reynolds , She's 25 from Jupiter, Florida. Worked off and on as a waitress and cashier up and down the Eastern Seaboard..."said Carlotta.

"She arrives in Philadelphia six months ago...Next thing we know...She's flashing a lot of cash, has a credit card and buying nice clothes, expensive clothes, hitting all of the clubs, Stoleys, Aqua Bar...Mulberry Street and living in that apartment complex.. Seemingly with no visible source of income.." said Tyriq..

"I checked....Even though all three girls lived in that Hotel.. There is no evidence that they knew each other...We can't seem to locate anyone who was even friends with these girls.. They were loners ,they kept to themselves......"said Jimmy..

Sharon walked in and dropped a report on the table..

"We cross checked all three credit cards....It doesn't seem as if these three girls were in the same place other than the hotel they lived in at any one time.. Their paths didn't cross..."said Sharon..

"But their paths crossed at some point with someone..."I said..

"Yeah the someone who killed them..."said Jimmy...

"I just finished an autopsy on the third girl....Like the others, we found a lot of semen...in the panties and saliva on the bra and breasts...It's a DNA match...but no fingerprints...We also found a second set of DNA....and it's definitely from a woman....Our girls entertained at least two people...A man and a woman..I'm sending it through decks to see if there is a match.. I'm still trying to find out where the poison came from that killed them....But I do know how they ingested it.. They drank champaigne..It was mixed into their champaigne.But we didn't find any champaigne  glasses or a bottle." said Hazel.

Carlotta looked at the monitors..

She asked Duke..

"You still got a team on those street cams?"

"Yeah....Street Cams, The Traffic cam...and the hotel cam...You won't believe the traffic that goes in and out of there.." said Duke..

''What if who we are looking for is someone who is already in there?" asked Sissy.

It was a sobering thought and definitely one that bore looking at...


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