Before The Sun Sets on the Eighth Day

AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE DNA LAB-

"We have successfully seperated all of the blood and DNA and prints of the four victims and have isolated the arterial spray that was found in the first apartment on the ground in the hallway and in the second apartment to one person.." said Dr. Marcy Martin, Deputy Coroner..

As Lab technicians worked...

"This DNA in this blood is in both apartments and on the floor and on the bloody palm print found on the door handle leading to the backstairs of the apartment... It all belongs to the same person...and it's not any of the four victims or anyone else in the complex...

"Hop, Sirena, My Husband, Duke and Angie did a great job of getting DNA samples from everyone in that building and the building maintenance crew ,so we could rule them out as suspects..They were all very co-operative and eager to help....Sorry this took so long Siss, but we wanted to be sure...100 percent sure and now we are...You're looking for a white male, caucasion, late twenties, maybe early thirties." said Hazel.

"Well that narrows it down some." joked Sissy... "Just kidding Hazel, Marcy...We are getting closer...We know now that it's one person, one person who has no business having his blood in both apartments in the hallway and on the door.."said Sissy.

"This wasn't professional...This was a crime of passion and pure rage and it doesn't appear to have been planned..It was spur of the moment."said Angie.

"He was said to have been dating or trying to date all three of the girls..."said Carlotta.

"But we checked everybody's phone and everybody in their phone...We found no one that fit that description."said Tyriq..

"Yeah because the girls probably blew him off...They wouldn't have his number...They weren't interested and he wasn't important enough for them to talk about." said Jimmy.

"Jimmy's right... If the girls weren't interested in this guy at all...They wouldn't have had his number and he obviously wouldn't have been somebody they'd talk about." said Sirena.

"But somebody outside of them knows something...They all hung out at the same bar.. Somebody there must know...Maybe this guy hung out at the same bar too!" said Hop.

 As they stood around talking....

Meanwhile at C.I.D.  Headquarters, I sat with Duke and Sharon...

"I got nothing on that palm print or the other fingerprint...I went through VICAP, Interpol even and Civil Service.. found nothing... I hate cases like this." said Deputy Special Agent in Charge, FBI /ATF, Sharon Hopkins.

"Rico and I did get something... We caught a white Hyundai leaving the scene in a hurry around 12:15 AM , we got a partial on the plates..."said Duke..

"That's got to mean something... Ohhh here come the others..." I said.

"Hey Keith, Duke, Sharon...They have isolated the blood and DNA down to one guy...It's no one else in that complex...We've successfully ruled everyone else out.. The Blood was in both apartments ,in the hallway on the floor and on the door handle to the back stairwell on the palm print...So we know that much... Let's go over a time line here.. What do we know?" asked Sissy.

"Wellll we believe the murders unfolded between 11:45 pm . and 12:00 midnight., according to the witness accounts. Bobby Bouseliea got a DoorDash order at the apartment at about 11:30 pm., according to the driver. he paid with his credit card.  One of the other tenents  said she woke up around midnight or a little after. from what sounded like screaming and shouting ,coming from one of the apartments and then another and crying and wailing and moaning." said Carlotta.

"Another neighbor said "she looked out of her apartment down the hallway, but did not see anything when she heard a male voice screaming Stop,No...Please," or something to that effect.  said. "She opened her door a second time when she heard what she thought was crying coming from Heather and Stacy's room..." said Tyriq..

"Apparently..according to another account...The argument started in one room and the two other girls in the room across must have joined in...My witness thought it was an argument between Stacy and Heather and Tracy...Which she thought was odd because the three were inseperable..Turns out it wasn't..They must have come to aid Bobby and Tracy and they wound up getting slaughtered as well."said Jimmy.

"One thing we do know...All four victims knew their assailant ."said Hop.

''And none of them thought he was important enough to call or talk about.." said Sirena.

"Which could be the key to this entire thing." said Sissy.

"One of my witnesses said she opened her door again when she heard the crying, and that's when she saw the tall, slender male, . She described the intruder as 5-foot-10 or taller, and "not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows," . At about 12:17 a.m., a security camera less than 50 feet from the complex picked up sounds of a barking dog and "distorted audio of what sounded like voices or a whimper followed by a loud thud," said Carlotta.

"And a white Hyundai pulling off." said Duke.

"Well we've got this composite drawing of our guy...and a description of his car... Let's go in their circles, and show it around...Somebody has to know who this guy is." said Angie.

"Good Idea...I've got to call the Deputy of Operations.. I've been keeping him appraised on the status of our investigation...I thanked him for getting Lt. Tragg out of our way." said Sissy.

 

"I want to thank him too! Less Stress, Nobody breathing down your back, asking dumb questions, demanding to take over and then giving press conferences which wind up tipping off the killer."said Sharon.. 

II-

The search began... Good Old fashioned police work, mixed with Modern Forensic Science...

They went in teams to all of the local watering holes these four people hung out at , armed with a composite and a description of the car, a 2021 Hyundai..

Carlotta , Jimmy and Rico went out...

Sirena and Hop went out...

Duke and Angie went out...

And even Sissy Went out...

Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery-Homicide went out with her....

And Sgt. Brice of Homicide went out with her...

In the end, they got a name...Brian Lyedecker..

A Photo and an address.. He was a Bartender at the No ID Bar...but he was on Vacation... he was in Florida...and had been there for 7 days...meaning he left town, the day after the murders.

"I can get a warrant for his arrest and to search his apartment." I told Sissy.

"He'll be back in two days...He's scheduled to work the day after he returns...We'll bring him in for questioning..."said Sissy with a smile..

We had our first suspect....he'd have to explain his car leaving the scene at that time and his relationship to the girls..

We had identified him through painstaking ,old fashioned grind em out police work...but we would need modern forensic evidence to convict him.

Before the Sun had set on the eighth day of this investigation, we had identified a possible suspect!

III-

Meanwhile on the Marine Boat...Lt. Tragg still steamed..

"Eight days, Eight days going on nine days and they haven't found a suspect, nothing...This case is going cold.. They need me...That's what they need." he declared..

It was a warm night... He was sober and he was off.. He decided to catch a cab to Curleys.... They hadn't seen him in awhile...

Usually Lt. Tragg would be like a kid in a candy store , all these targets...but this morning his mind was on the night he had previously..

FRIDAY NIGHT

"WOWWWW! Anothe country heard from...I haven't seen you in months... I thought you might have gotten married or something!" said Assistant District Attorney Jill Jones..

"Nah, just working hard that's all..." he said.

He ordered a bottle of Tequila.. It had an amazing effect on her...It made her horny as hell, She unzippered his trousers at the bar and began fondling him...He had his hands up her dress, deep into her panties....both of them were moaning to the point that other patrons unaware of what they were doing were looking at them.

He was trying his best to control himself, but he couldn't.. he had to firmly remover her hands and fix his clothing..

He needed this..He hadn't been laid in awhile...

"Let's take this back to your place?" he said,laughing slyly...

''Okayyyyyyyyyy...." she slurred.

And gave him a sloppy kiss..

"Looks like you're getting lucky tonight..eh Artie? "said Curly, smiling..

Lt. Tragg had a pleased as punch look on his face, which was as red as a beet. He smiled.. He didn't say anything..

She stared at his trousers which were standing out like a circus tent...

"WOW! Somebody has been missing me.." she said and giggled.

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Sometime later in her apartment complex...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Lieutenant! " she moaned as they kissed passionately....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VA VA VA VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" he cried out..

He helped her out of her dress 

and her panties..

He bent her over the sink....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GODDDDDDDDD!" she moaned. She was having an intense orgasm already! Her body trembling/

"GEEEEEEEZ!!! THIS FEELS GREAT!" he moaned..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW..VA VA VA VOOOOOOOOOOOM!" he moaned.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned.. She was passionate enough when sober, but drunk she was even more horny and more passionate..

They were on her kitchen floor really going at it....

She was prone to do things she had never done before...They sat on the side of her living room couch and she moved up and down on him and kissed him passionately....

They went in her bedroom and made sweet love for the next NINE TO TEN HOURS.

She admired his stamina. He admired hers...She was driving him to near delirium...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GODDDDDDDDD!" she moaned. She was having another intense orgasm! Her body trembling...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WEEEEEEEE!" he screamed out, cumming so hard, he felt as if he was going to die..

It was near daybreak and she was still kissing him passionately...

"Arthur....I love you....Do you love me?" she whispered in between slow ,soft kisses...

He was certain that was the alcohol talking.. He didn't answer..

She began riding him slowly...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned. This broad was a machine, did she ever get enough? He wondered..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, ARTHURRRR...UMMMMMMMMMMM!" she cooed.

They made love for another THREE HOURS!! He came and came hard again... Her body was trembling something crazy...

He showered and got dressed.. .

She was at the door in just her panties..

"Thank you for last night Arthur..."

"Anytime baby!" he said..He meant another time...He was drained..wore out!

"ANYTIME?" she asked and felt his crotch...He was still hard..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM YOU'VE GOT A NICE BONER! OUUUUUUUU!" she said..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! OHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOO!" he moaned.

They started kissing...

"Ouu, you're still hard....you're a nasty boyyyyyy!" she giggled.

"YES I AMMMMMMMM!" he laughed.

Within minutes. his clothes were off..

and they were on her living room floor making love.. He couldn't help himself..He was hooked.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! MEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!" she moaned..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he yelled out...They were back in bed, making love again for another FIVE TO SIX HOURS! 

She was sleeping soundly  when he left..

He felt good... He had missed a day of work on that boat....but he didn't care...last night was worth it..

He stopped at a local diner..

He had his usual breakfast of Fried Eggs, Hash Browns and Sausage...and a hot steaming cup of coffee, minus the Jameson's irish whiskey...

When he reported for duty the next day.. He was clean shaven, showered and fed...He had also been laid, which made him much more bearable than the days before.

IV-

DAY 10-

At Philadelphia International Airport...We had a photo of Brian Lyedecker..

Jimmy saw him first....

Hop saw him second....

He was at Baggage collection when Rico and Duke walked up to him..

"Mr. Lyedecker...Brian Lyedecker?" said Tyriq..

"Yeah that's me...What's this about?? You two look like cops." he said and smiled.

"I'm Detective Tyriq Pile.." said Rico.

"And I'm Detective Duke Baylor...We'd like you to come downtown with us and answer some questions." said Duke.

''Questions about what?" he asked, as cool as a cucumber.

''We'd rather not discuss that here." said Carlotta.

''Am I under arrest?" he asked.

"No you are not..." said Sirena.

"Well, then I'm not going anywhere with you guys..." he said and laughed ,grabbed his suitcase and walked out.. Hailed an UBer and pulled off..

Later at headquarters..

"That's okay...We know where he lives...and we've identified his car...Keep an eye on him...Duke, put a team of plain clothes men on him...I want hm watched around the clock.. If he goes to the toilet, I want to know what kind of toilet paper he is using..If he smiles, I want a picture taken.."said Sissy.

"I'm on it Siss." said Duke.

"I showed his photo to our witness and to other tenents in that complex... They positively identified him as the man they saw that night...." said Angie.

''He's our guy....we are going to reel him in just a little bit longer and then we are going to grab him."said Sissy.

"Not bad and with 4 days to spare,." I said, laughing.

While outside of the Moscow Apartment complex ,

Brian Lyedecker stood with his arms folded....he knew he'd been seen by a number of residents on that floor.. but he also knew that they didn't know him...but one person had seen him in particular.. he knew where her apartment was was and he had to silence her.  He hadn't seen her...He subtley inquired about her.. but no one had seen her in a week. Now he was worried.. If the police knew his name, that meant he was in trouble or soon to be... He had to find her and shut her up.

He had no idea that she wasn't in the city or even the state.She was tucked away safely in Deleware at a holding facility on Dover Air Force Base, where he and no one else could get to her.

(TO BE CONTINUED)