A woman and a Man jump out, dressed as clowns....They enter the bank.. two other masked men jump out with them..
This does not look good.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a hold up!" announces the female clown...
The security guard laughs....He aims a gun at the people too!
The two clowns and the two masked men loot the bank's vault, which they seem to know the combonation to...
Just then...the real security guard runs in..
"HEYYY...HEYYY, Drop it.."he yells...
"You drop it pops." says the female, who shoots the security guard, killing him instantly...
"Let's go!" she commands...and she and the clown and the fake security guard and the other two men leave and jump into the hearse , waiting outside..
They speed off into the afternoon....
II-
Crime Scene Investigators and Forensic specialists were snapping photos of the dead security guard...
My sister in law, Dr. Monique Talbert-Cotton- The county coroner had on latex gloves and was checking the body...
''Two gunshots to the chest....One right above the heart.....One punctured a lung...." she said.
Her identical twin sister and my wife and partner, Detective Monica Talbert...A mutant , who could hear people's thoughts and feel their emotions concurred...
"This is a bad one...He was going to retire next week....He had already retired from the police department...This was like a second job to supplement his income.." she said sadly...
"His name was Brice, Homer Brice....a detective at one time...Bunco squad and Robbery-Homicide..Married, had two children, four grandchildren...." I said.. I'm Nate Nellis, part human, part cyborg, but mostly human...Homicide Detective...
''I don't get it...This is the sixth one of these bank robberies...All very well planned, even down to knowing the combonation to the safe...They come in just before closing, they take the bank down strong and they leave.....None of these robberies have ever resulted in violence or a murder...Why this time? They had the manpower...This harmless guy couldn't have stopped them.."wondered Lt. Cotton, our boss and my brother in law.. He's married to my wife's twin sister, Monique.
"Same M.O. Lieutenant... Two clowns, a male and a female....Two goons....an inside man...in this case, the security guard....We got em on video...The female clown shot and killed the guard." said Detective Kylie White, our friend and confidant, who often helped us...Besides Lt. Cotton, Monique and I...She was the only person who knew Monica was a mutant.
"I want these guys....All five of em...I want em in the worst way....Clear your desks...This takes priority.."said Lt. Cotton as he walked out...
'Wow! he's taking this personally." said Detective Kylie White.
"Did he know Brice?" I asked.
"Yes...Brice had been his training officer...Like I'm yours. I knew him too! I worked with Detective Homer Brice briefly...He helped me on a major case...right before he retired...He was a good cop."said Monica to me..
"Yeah, but Brice doesn't have legs like yours and doesn't kiss like you do.."I whispered in her ear...
Monica giggled..
Ours was an unorthodox partnership... I transferred to Homicide from Special Victims Unit five years ago... Monica was my partner and training officer.. I was smitten with her from day one...and soon after our first case, we fell in love ,within a year we were engaged and soon after, Married..
Kylie and Lt. Cotton left...
"You can release the body sis."said Monica
"Yeah, we are done here." I said..
"Okay guys, wrap him up!" said Monique..
Monica, Myself and Monique watched as the body was put in a body bag and taken out of the morgue.
III-
48 HOURS LATER-
At Headquarters, Lt. Cotton chaired our meeting..
"Alright...Tell me something I don't already know.. You guys been on this for two days now." he said.
"All six of these banks were expertly cased....The robbers knew where to stand, How to stand away from the cameras and the location and combonation of the safe...Definitely an Inside job! All of em."I said.
''All of the Bank jobs were three months apart...and they've been going on for a year....The bank robbers have used an inside guy...We suspect , this man..."said Monica.
"He has used six different aliases and phony credentials to get inside the bank as a security guard...He doesn't have a rap sheet...because facial identification had failed to bring him up...but he made a mistake...One mistake..He was bonded at one of the locations and we got his fingerprints.... His real name is Ronald Napier....No City, State or Federal criminal record, no juvie record, but is an ex Navy man....He 's worked at all six banks....Up until today...He never took part in the actual robberies..but turned in his letter of resignation, shortly after a bank robbery...He has used the names, Frank Sullivan, Frank Hamilton, Ray Karpis, Alvin Hamilton and Oliver Byrd today..." said Monica.
"These two cool cats..
naturally can't be identified by conventional means, but they made a mistake...One of them did anyway, He's losing hair and several strands of his blonde hair fell out....
We identified him as Russell Cook.....from the DNA ,taken from his hair...It's a 100 percent match to similar strands of hair found at three of the other banks that were robbed. He has a sheet as long as he is tall...He's an experienced Heist guy......His cell mate and running partner...The shorter guy is more than likely...Lawrence Duval...Another experienced heist guy." said Kylie..
"OUTSTANDING...You've identified three of the five participants..."said Lt. Cotton... He looked at the photos of the ring leaders..
"Nothing on these two clowns..No pun intended." he said.
''Naw Nothing."I said..and the getaway car??
They've been using stolen license plates on the car in every robbery....We haven't been able to get up on it." I said.
"They've stolen close to 15 million dollars total and killed a good man...Let's take down who we can.."said Lt, Cotton..
IV-
We took and all flying squadron to the first residence..
A Flat where Russell Cook and Lawrence Duval were staying...
"Let's not waste any time...Let's take em."said Monica..
"Right behind you baby.." I said..
"I'm with you.."said Kylie bringing up the rear..
backed by the tactical squad...
We hit the place from three sides....and made a grisly discovery....
Russell Cook and Lawrence Duval were found in different parts of the house...Dead...Shot to death, execution style with about $2000.00 cash laying all over the floor of their home..
Once again, Crime Scene Investigators and Forensics Experts were all over the house, collecting shells and snapping photos..looking for evidence..
''Collect that cash...I'm betting it's from the robberies."said Lt. Cotton...
''What a mess." said Kylie...
''Who are you telling? I've got to clean this up and get them to the morgue..."said Monique..
I pulled Monica to the side..
"Mo Mo....there is something going on here....This wasn't just some robbery or double cross....I have a feeling this whole thing was staged for our benefit and not just to throw us off the trail either."I said.
"I'm thinking the same thing partner....The same thing...There is some sort of crazy mind at work here.."said Monica..
We didn't know at the time just how crazy it was..
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