Meet Romulus

 Monica and I visited a Pan Asian Restaurant in the middle of the city...We were looking for Basia Zheng, the estranged fiance of the now murdered Neo Nazi Bobby Hofstra....We now had three of our victims, Neidermyer, married to a Black Woman, Henry Lectaur, fathering a child with a Latina woman and now our third victim, Bobby Hofstra, involved with this Asian woman...

Basia Zheng spotted us and came to our table..She was a manager of this establishment..

Since we were there we decided to eat....

"This food is delish Basia....Thank you for seeing us.."said Monica.

''Yes, thank you Basia." I said, showing her photos of all five murdered men....

"I don't know the other two..but I knew Neidermyer..and Lectaur...They had the biggest secret..I mean Neidermyer was actually married to an African-American woamn...It was a matter of public record that could easily be looked up and Lectaur had had a baby with the Latina woman he was secretly involved with...And they somehow found out about Bobby and me..I was pregnant with his child..He made me get rid of it...He didn't even pay for my abortion...He was a big hypocrite...Spewing that racist white supremacist garbage all day long, then at night, coming to my bed, humping and sweating and moaning and telling me he loved me..

I got tired of it...When he discovered Neidermyer and Lectaur, he told them to never come back here again and to never mention his name..but I guess that didn't save him or them! for that matter."said Basia Zheng..

"How many guys were in this cell roughly and did they have a leader?" I asked.

For the longest time , since the first murder...We couldn't get anyone to talk to us and we didn't have a motive, now we had what we thought was a motive...These three guys committed the unpardonable sin..They slept with and fell in love with women of color..and horror upon horror, they were thinking of leaving the cell..

"It was about six or seven guys...No more than that....They feared a man, a man named Romulous!" she said.

"Romulus? Who is that?" asked Monica.

"He is a very loud and arrogant and assertive asshole...He came here a few times...He was very insulting and I came close to throwing him out..but I didn't only because of Bobby... They were all deftly afraid of him that's all I know... "said Bashia.

'' I know you don't know where this Romulus fellow lives, but if you could tell us where to find him we would appreciate it." said Monica , who had already scanned her mind and knew..

"He drinks in a bar out near the river front...Surprisingly, a bar frequented by all races... I think all of these guys are hypocrites...They got something going on..."said Bashia..

"Yes, they definitely do." I said.

As we finished our meal.

II-

I didn't know who this Romulus fellow was , but I was determined to get to know him and so was Monica.

We flew to a familliar place....Our friend, Ziggy's Bar..Near the Port...

As it turns out we were going to arrive there at just the right time...

"Look Romulus....Either buy a drink or get out...Stop hasslin my customers and do not...I repeat, do not pass out that racist trope in here." said Ziggy...

"They call you Ziggy, but that's because your last name is actually Ziggowski...That's Russian isn't it?

Please tell me you're not Jewish...."asked the man named Romulus.. "Bad enough you serve Niggas and Spicks and Chinks in here.."said Romulus..

''Everybody's money is green..even yours.."said Ziggy.

"I think you're a Jew....The way you talk about money...."laughed Romulus..

"Speaking of talking, we'd like to talk to you Mr. Romulus!" I said as I walked into the Bar..

''Don't Eyeball me BOY!!! And you don't have anything to talk to me about.." said Romulus..

"HOW ABOUT MURDER? FIVE COUNTS? " I asked.

"Murder? Who?  Are you a cop?" he asked.

''We both are...HOMICIDE? Now you either answer our questions here or you can answer them downtown."said my wife Monica.

"Both of you's last name is Nellis...What are you cousins or somethin?" he laughed..

''That's my wife....Now are you going to answer questions here or downtown?" I asked.

"This is not my first rodeo boyyy..I don 't have to talk to you at all or answer any of your questions....And You can't move me from one space to another unless you have probable cause or a warrant...of which you have neither...So to answer your question again BOY!  I don't have to say jack to either of you." said Romulus..

Monica had scanned his mind...She had delved deep into his sub-conscious...She could feel the hate and total disdain in his heart...She also could tell something else.. She stared in his face..

"I know you ordered the murders of these five men...I know why you ordered them...Three of them were weak, they fell in love and mixed with women of color..One had the nerve to marry an African-American woman, the other had the nerve to have a baby with a Latina woman and the other was involved with an Asian woman...They were leaving you...You were too much of a chicken shit to kill them yourself so you had one of your henchmen do the deed.." she said.

He was actually shocked at how accurate she was...He was speechless for the first time and taken aback..He had no idea Monica was a mutant, who could feel emotions and hear his thoughts...Even his deepest thoughts.

''We are going to let you go for now pal...but this isn't over...The next time we see you Romulus..We are going to have a warrant and you're going to jail for the rest of your miserable life.." I said..

"Come on Mo Mo..Let's go." I said..

"Tell your boy to leave town now..."said Monica as we walked out....

He looked a bit shaken....

Ziggy smiled, and then he sniffed the air...

"Hey Romulus...you uh smell like you need a visit to the toilet... The bathroom is over there." he said.

III-

"Romulus is our man...He ordered those murders....We just can't prove it....But I know he's our man and I know why he did it..I scanned his mind."said Monica.

"Shame we can't use that in a court of law." I said.,

''Well while you were out , I did some digging and I found out about our boy,"said Kylie.

"Born Eugene Victor Romulus on a Military Base in Germany..His Father was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force..

His Father was known to have pretty extreme Racist views and was booted out of the Air Force with a dishonarable discharge when young Romulus was 13...They returned to the United States where Romulus was educated in Public Schools in Denver, Colorado and Cincinatti, Ohio, where the family moved next..

His parents divorced when he was 18 and they wound up in the Philadelphia area where his father ran a bookstore and lectured and attracted a small group of white supremacist followers..His mother divorced him.....He murdered her the day the divorce was finalized and set his book store on fire.. His badly charred body was found in the rubbish...

Young Romulus was devestated...He entered the Air Force...While in the Air force he became a

An Air Force Judge Advocate General ( JAG) That is a legal professional employed by the Air Force. Working as an Air Force JAG can provide access to a variety of interesting legal cases and opportunities to interact with numerous members of the Air Force, from base commanders to enlisted personnel.

Unlike his father, he received an Honorable discharge from the Air Force.. He took and passed the bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Deleware.  He was a successful Attorney for years defending cops and white supremacists... Later on he became an Assistant District Attorney..He was brought up on Prosecutorial Misconduct charges at least three times and censored by the Legal Ethics board and eventually disbarred...

He began a Radio broadcast, and a Podcast and a career as a Public Speaker...He is ,like his father, an embittered Racist and somewhat of a failure in life...."said Kylie.

"That makes sense...He certainly knew his rights when we fell upon him..."I said.

''Now I know his triggers....This will help us break him down when we do get him.."said Monica.

''We need to follow him...and  put somebody close to him...It obviously can't be any of us.." said Kaylie.

"We'll figure something out...We'll get him.." I said.

IV-

"I want a team of plain clothes guys on Romulus at all times...Find some white guys, young, blonde...

That seems to be his type...The type he won't readily suspect... and I want a team of plain clothes guys and uniforms on all three girls..in case he gets any ideas about retaliation." said Lt. Cotton.

"I'll put that together right now.." said Kylie..

''We want the heat on him as much as possible.." said Monica..

"We still need some solid evidence to tie him to the murders..I think cloning his phones should be in order and wiretapping his place." I said.

ONE WEEK LATER- in a shopping center, 

Romulus was meeting with his lieutenant, a nasty piece of business named Sharpov...

"I'm going to be leaving town for awhile...I'm going to Lemuria.  It appears the heat is on ...Cops and undercovers everywhere I turn and I fear my phone may be tapped...This was the only place I could meet and talk in secret...Apparently the police have linked me to those killings...And if they've linked me, they've linked you...Somebody has been talking...Somebody among us...No way they could know all of this so soon.." said Romulus.

"Those killings were clean.. I bleached the places down, removing all prints and DNA and immobilized all surrounding street and traffic cameras...There is no way anyone would have suspected me or seen me." said Sharpov, a well trained , ex-Special Forces man.

Those five guys all had ties to me, to our cell,,,and a rudimentary investigation turned up those three girls..Who I can't get close to now...Those two detectives, Nate and Monica Nellis are better than I thought...I may have to exterminate them before long..but right now.. I'm leaving town...and you are to join me in a few days.." said Romulus.

''Certainly...Our ranks have been made smaller....but we will recruit more."said Sharpov.

"Our ranks must be pure....Free from blemish, free from the stain of those who are not white....We had to do it!" said Romulus.

And at our squadroom-

"You guys have shook him....He and his number two have left town...They're headed to Lemuria..

Probably going to stay there until the heat is off..

"But the heat won't be off will it Lou?" I said.

"No because we are going to follow him there right?" said Monica.

"I forgot you can read minds Mo-Mo...Yeah, go down to Aqua port and get your tickets...You're on the next sub to Lemuria." said Lt. Cotton.

(TO BE CONTINUED)