The Pawn Shop Murders

The Day After Christmas Found me with

Detectives Edwin ''Duke"Baylor, Angie Belton Barlow and Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery- Homicide at a Pawn Shop of all places...

I am Assistant District Attorney, Keith Wallace, I investigate Homicides and Major Crimes......

The Crime Scene Investigators and Forensic boys were snapping photos and picking up shell casings and looking for DNA , prints...anything the killer might have left behind...

Duke's wife, Dr. Hazel Baylor , the Deputy Coroner and Forensics Investigator kneeled down and looked at the body of the dead proprieter..

"His name is Louis Wingman...67 years old.... killed with one shot to the abdomen...He bled out.."said Hazel..

"There is a lot of blood..."said Angie, observing...

"The gun was a Nine Milimeter Glock, judging by the shell casings...The kind cops use..."said Duke.

"I called you guys in on this because this is the sixth one of these in as many months...Same weapon...Ballistics match on all of the other four...I've been keeping it under hat because I didn't want you know who to see a pattern and go blabbing about a serial killer." said Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery-Homicide..

"Oh you mean the uh "Great Detective" (our nickname for Lt. Tragg)said Duke..

"Exactly.." said Danny Ho..

"Five other Pawn Shop Robberies , resulting in the killing of the manager or proprieter.."I said..

''According the officer on the scene here...The safe was opened and looted..About 100 large stolen and the cash register was rifled, some watches stolen and the proprieter shot and killed.."said Duke.

"The guy watches these places...When they appear empty, he moves in fast and efficient..."said Angie..

"You get street cam or traffic cam footage?" I asked.

"Yeah...The guy is white, about six feet, two or three...We never get his face...He has worn a wig and a  mask in some of the robberies..We've recovered about four cars he's used...All bleached down, no prints, no DNA....The first one was in April....The second one was at the end of June...The Third and fourth were one week in the middle of August... and the fifth one was the day before Labor day.."said Danny Ho..

"All before Holidays...." said Angie....

"But this one is after Christmas.."said Duke..

"He needs cash for New Years." said Angie..

We all busted out in gales of laughter..

"I'm putting a team on the ATM camera, The street and traffic cameras in the area...Maybe we'll get something more, anything.." said Duke..

"I'll gather up some Plain Clothes and Uniforms and have them do a business to business and house to house search for a five block radius and see if we can find any witnesses.."said Angie..

"Good, I'll co-ordinate with Sissy..." said Danny Ho..

The body was bagged up and escorted out...

II-

A few days later....We are at a gruesome finding....Skeletal remains found in a trash dump...

 "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Aye Mios Dios...It smells like hell..."said my wife, Detective Carlotta Wallace...

 "It does...but this find is worth something.."said Detective Tyriq Pile..

 "I don't know how long these two have been here...but their clothes are intact somewhat and I found a wallet.."said Detective James Barlow..

'"What does the ID say?" asked Lt. Sissy Van Buren...

''This one says Mickey Dolen…."said Jimmy..

''And this one reads, James Butler.."said Carlotta.

''We've been looking for these two guys for a longgg time Sis.....They were wanted for killing a cop, A dirty cop...but still a cop...We got their boss , the one who hired them...He's doing Life, plus 99 years at Stanga...but the two shooters were never caught..and here they are.."said Tyriq..

"Both have two holes in their head...They were executed....I'm not even interested in knowing who did it...It's been what ,five years now?" said Sissy...

''At least.."said Carlotta..."But look at the size of this hole...They were shot with a nine millimeter slug if I'm not wrong..."said Carlotta..

"Good Pull Top....Yes they both were...the kind a cop would use..Hmmmmm…" said Tyriq..

"Makes you wonder huh?" said Sissy..

CSI and Forensics guys snapped photos...

Hazel smiled..

"Thank God you guys found them....Lt. Tragg would be here claiming they were the skelatons of Richard Grave's missing wife..." she said..

Sissy, Carlotta, Tyriq and Jimmy all burst into laughter....

III-

THE NEXT DAY-

Another Pawn Shop  and another murder....

The Crime Scene Investigation Boys and the  Forensic Lab guys were once again, picking up shell casings and snapping photos of the bloody crime scene...

 Detective Sirena Pile  had on Latex Gloves and Booties and was observing the body...

''White Male, Age 68, Name, Otis Teller....Death caused by one gun shot wound to the right temple..
, Nine Milimeter shell..." said Sirena...

 "Wow, the safe has been looted...and the cash register rifled.... Just like the case ,Duke and Angie caught yesterday..."said Hop..

"In that killing...The killer usually committed one robbery-homicide and chilled for awhile, weeks...a month maybe...Then he or whoever struck again...It was usually around a holiday  and you didn't hear from them again..."said Hazel..

"Yes...but there was one time he struck twice in one week...back in August..."said Lt. Danny Ho, who was there with me and Sissy...

''We definitely have a pattern here...This makes seven of these Pawn shop robberies...They're all in densely populated areas, away from the main streets...They're all cased pretty well...The killer waits until there is nobody in the shop and then he goes in and takes the place down strong...Killing the only eyewitness..The Owner..."said Sissy...

"And taking every cent in the joint...The safe here was blown and the cash register rifled..."I said..

"There is Street and Traffic Cams outside....I'll put a team on it.."said Hop..

"I've got a team of uniforms...We are going to do a business and house to house search, questioning any and everybody in a five mile radius....See if we can find any witnesses..."said Sirena..

"Oh God...heads up...It's the Great Detective..."said Hazel...

Lt. Tragg and two uniforms walked in on the scene....

''What have we got here?  Who is the primary?" he asked..

"I am."said Sirena..

''We have a Robbery and a Homicide..." she said...

"There was one like this yesterday wasn't it? Duke caught it...Was this the same caliber shell casing?" he asked..

"I see you read the 20's....Very Good Lieutenant..."said Sissy sarcastically and smiling..

''And this makes what? six or seven of these since May...Same M.O., that you haven't solved Danny...I'm going to be sure to bring this up at the next COM STAT meeting...Perhaps you're not up to the new rank you have...Instead of vacationing in New Orleans you should have been working these cases..."said Lt. Tragg..

"We've been working these cases hard....This one is a little different...So I called Sissy and her guys in...I plan to get it solved.."said Lt. Danny Ho.

"You've got two Junior detectives working it..Is that how you plan to get it solved?" sneered Lt. Tragg.

"My detectives are not Junior anything...Their clearance record and arrest conviction record is actually higher than yours.."said Sissy...

Which was true..

The room got quiet....We knew a storm was brewing and shots had been fired..

But I had no time for these or any shenanigans..

"Lieutenant Tragg...Detectives Baylor, Barlow, Pile and Hopkins have teams of plain clothes and uniforms going from door to door in a 5-15 mile radius looking for any possible eye witnesses...They have  teams on all of the cameras, street and traffic and business....and the CSI and forensic guys are working all of the crime scenes hard and cross checking the evidence from the other five take downs..And as you see, TWO Lieutenants are supervising this...There is no need for a third..." I said firmly...

''As I said before counselor, you work your side of the street and let me work mine...Now as the Senior officer here...I want a full autopsy report and a …" said Lt. Tragg before he was interrupted by his phone..

''Excuse me, I have to take this...It's the Deputy Of Operations. Yes Sir....I am at the scene of the SEVENTH of these Pawn shop murders...Lieutenants Danny Ho and Sissy Van Buren are here with two of the detectives working the case...What is that sir? What am I doing here?...well I am the Senior Officer, I was here to Co-Ordinate...What is that sir?  No I am uh not interfering with another detectives investigation...What is that sir?" he said...He was as red as a beet....He passed the phone to Sirena...

"Yes sir..I am the Primary....We have Uniforms and Plain clothes guys doing a business to business search for a five to fifteen mile radius, hoping to find any eye witnesses and my partner has put a team on the street,traffic and business cameras and we are cross checking evidence from the other crime scenes with Lt. Danny Ho, Detectives Duke Baylor and Angie Belton-Barlow...Yes Sir, Thank you sir.."said Sirena , who then passed the phone to Sissy..

"Yes...I was the senior officer at the scene until Lt. Tragg showed up...."said Sissy... "Thank you sir..but I think it would be better if you tell him that yourself sir..." she said and passed the phone to Lt. Tragg , who was smiling..

''Yes sir?" he said.. ''What?  Yes...I realize that two Lieutenants are working this case....But I thought...Yes sir...Yes...Alright sir...whatever you say sir...." he said and hung up...

He stomped his foot and stormed out of the Pawn Shop with his two uniforms...

"He didn't look too happy.."said Hazel...

"Who cares?  I'm the senior Officer in charge Danny, but it's your case...I am only here to help. You run it as you see fit!"said Sissy..

"I wouldn't have it any other way Siss...You ready to release the body Sirena?" asked Danny Ho..

"Yeah, release the body..."said Sirena..

We all watched as yet another body was released...

IV-

That night at home..

My wife, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace sat in our bedroom..

"You guys had a rather interesting day...Another Pawn Shop Murder huh? Wow! Same M.O. Same Gun.."she said..

''That's what it looks like...And they are tied to five others that occurred this year...Danny Ho called us in after the sixth and seventh ones...Duke, Angie, Sirena and Hop may need your help..."I said..

''And right after Christmas too.."said Carlotta..

She and I had gone to Puerto Rico to visit her family for Christmas and had just come back...Danny Ho had been in New Orleans with Olivia,Beverly and their crew and Yvette Jones and her people..He had just come back...And now here we were,caught up in a big case..

"Come here...sit on my lap." I said to her...

She did..

"Ouuuuuu you are a dirty old man.....I can feel that huge bulge in your pants..." she said and smiled at me...

I held her tight for a long while...she giggled....

I smiled raffishly and rubbed her sexy legs and ran them up her dress....I slyly slipped her panties down her legs and off her foot....

She turned toward me...

"You are the horniest man alive counselor...Aye Mios Dios....You always want it.." she giggled..

She kissed me slowly and softly for close to a HALF HOUR....and began to unzipper my trousers and slowly slip them down...I stepped out of them...I slipped her dress off...

soon we were both naked and on our bed...making love...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi, you are sooo hard, soooo huge..." she moaned.....

I was losing my mind slowly....The way I always had when we made love...Carlotta was so warm, so soft, sooo wet....I was delirious....

before long we were making sweet love...Our bed squeaking loudly, our headboard rattling out of control...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi...I love you soooooo much!" she cooed..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Carlotta, you are driving me crazy.." I moaned..

She turned over and moved herself up and down on me...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I like this papi.."she moaned..

"Ohhhhhhh not as much as I like it.." I said..

The next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS was incredible...

Both of Carlotta's legs were shaking furiously, her head was turning from left to right...she was sweating profusely....

"AYE MIOS DIOS....OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AYE  YI YIIIIIII." she moaned..she was having an intense orgasm....

which caused her to kiss me more intensely.....

I was almost angry when I did start cumming….Carlotta's screams and whoops seemed to get me more excited and to make me cum harder.....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi…..you make me cum so hard...." she sighed..

"You make me cum so much,..." " I said..

As we lie in each other's arms...both of our bodies trembling...

During that time at the neighborhood watering hole known as Curly's..

Lt. Tragg sat muttering in his beer...He spotted ADA Karen Page, drinking alone..

She saw him and at once was sorry she was drinking in here..

''Welllllllll hellllo….How was your Christmas?" he asked..

''It was okay.." she said...

"Just okay? You and your boyfriend didn't do anything special?" he asked..

"We uh had a little uh spat...We aren't speaking to each other right now.."she admitted, which didn't mean she wanted to speak to him.

''Ohhhhh such a shame.." he said and ordered two more drinks....He rubbed her legs and ran his hands under her skirt..

She removed his hands...

"Don't start, that's not a license for you to grope me.." she said firmly...

Lt. Tragg suddenly saw somebody he knew..

"Hi Ya Frankie..." he said..

"Heyyy Artie...How's it goin?" said Lt, Frank Hutton of  Vice...

''Haven't seen you around.." he said..

"I been busy...I heard Lt. Sissy Van Buren and her detectives found the bones of James Butler and Mickey Dolen yesterday..." he said..

"WHAT? I didn't know that!!!....That was your case....You put away their boss, Jack DeAngelo...the capo who ordered that cop killed..The one that was into him for all of that dough..."said Lt. Tragg..

"Yeah...I made the case..I always thought those two were the button men...I couldn't find em...Sissy and her guys found their remains in a trash dump...after all these years....You know anything about that?"  asked Lt. Hutton..

"No, I didn't..."said Lt. Tragg..

''Do me a favor Artie..I know you and her don't get along...but uh be nice...get me uh any information you can on their investigation...Okay?" he asked..

''Sure Thing Frankie.."said Artie..

"Thanks Artie." said Lt. Frank Hutton as he got up and ordered some drinks.

"Bourbon Curly...Straight!" he said.

..He got on his phone...

"Hello!" came a voice..

"Look, they found those bodies...yesterday....Dolen and Butler."said Frank Hutton..

''So what? They been dead five years...Nobody cares...They were criminals.."came the voice..

"We got another problem.."said Lt. Frank Hutton..

"Oh Yeah? what's that?" came the voice..

"The Gun I popped em with...My service revolver...The Glock!  Somebody broke in my house and robbed me a year ago...They stole my Glock....whoever robbed me...is using my glock in a series of Pawn shop robberies and murders..."said Lt, Hutton..

"So what are you gonna do about it?" came the voice..

"I gotta find whoever is doing this with my old gun and ice him before the cops do...and then get rid of that gun...It ties me to a double murder...A double murder I did for you..."said Lt. Hutton..

"Then by all means Frankie...Find whoever and take care of it..This time, do it clean..."came the voice.


(TO BE CONTINUED)