Girl Four

12:00 Midnight...Any other time I'd be home asleep... but tonight...I'm at the scene of a gruesome murder...Another gruesome murder...

I'm Assistant District Attorney, Keith Wallace... They only call me when it's the big ones...and I think this is one of the big ones...
 

"Same M.O. Counselor... Cause of death, manual strangulation and possible sexual assault..The doer used a condom with a spermicide...just like the others...." said a Crime Scene Investigator..

Crime Scene Unit police secured the area...

Captain Louis Stewart of Special victims unit looked down at the body, then turned and looked at Sissy..

"Sis, This looks like Girl number Four." he said grimly..

 "I'm afraid you're right..."said Lt. Sissy Van Buren of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Police Department.. They get the big cases... Crime Bosses, Criminal Organizations and enterprises..Major Crimes....

''Same M.O., Sexual Assault, Strangulation and left on Broad Street..." said my wife, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace..

"This matches the girl Top, Jimmy and I found last week...I'm bettin this girl is a working girl too!" said Detective Tyriq Pile....

"Yup Same M.O. This definitely, Girl Four. Condom, spermicide...No semen left." said Detective James "Jimmy " Barlow.

"Sexual Assault, Strangulation and left on Broad Street...Just like the murder me and Hop caught two weeks ago." said Detective  Sirena Pile.

"We had Girl Two.The Asian Girl." said her partner, Detective Tony Hopkins....her partner...

"Same M.O. as our girl, who was "Girl one. A Black girl.." said Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor..

"We arrested two suspects , who both turned out to be the wrong guy...They both had alibis and were not DNA  matches..." said his partner , Detective Angela Barlow....

"Those were the only arrests related to this case at all and those two guys had an alibi for the other two girls and were not DNA matches for the other two. girls either and I doubt if they will be DNA matches for this girl either..." said Sissy..

"Not much if any DNA at the scene.. No semen...sketchy fingerprint impressions..It was all inconclusive. I'll get on this right away Sis..Ugh Oh...Heads up..."said Dr. Hazel Baylor, Duke's wife and our coroner...

Lieutenant Tragg  of Homicide rolled up...

He looked at the body..

"Another Dead Hooker on Broad Street huh?" he asked..

"She was raped and strangled... just like the three other young women...From the body temperature...She's been dead for at least three hours..." said a CSI guy...

 "What are you doing here? This is a C.I.D. investigation...I've got my detectives working on this." said Sissy, very annoyed at Lt. Tragg walking on her crime scenes and trying to take over... It was bad enough that Captain Louis Stewart had already inserted himself into the case.. He was a few months shy of retirement from Special Victims Unit...

All of the detectives, Carlotta, Tyriq, Jimmy, Sirena, Hop, Duke and Angie all sighed... They hated seeing Lt. Tragg too on a case that was already a bit too crowded..

"Lt. Tragg, these guys have everything covered..." I said.

''Oh yeah, they've got it covered alright.. Duke, you and Angie arrested two people, two people who were washouts and you've got a case that is two weeks cold... Sirena, you and Hopkins have no suspects and no action on your case at all....and Rico, you, Carlotta and Barlow have a case that is almost two weeks cold...and now here we have a fourth girl...We are obviously dealing with a serial killer...and you guys got bupkis.." said Lt. Tragg...

Hazel sighed... It was bad enough when he was the Primary... Now here he was on Sissy's case..and trying to take it over... She despised him with a passion.

"Now look...MY DETECTIVES ARE ON ALL OF THESE CASES...We are cross checking financial and DNA and fingerprint information on all the girls as we will do with this one.. We are interviewing and questioning family members and friends of the deceased and we have teams on all of these traffic and street cameras along Broad Street...We are doing all we can... Seven detectives working this case if more than enough....We don't need you interfering with this case....." said Sissy...

"Hi ya doin Artie..... You're uh Jack's Nephew....Artie Jr.'s boy eh?? How ya doin?   I'm uh co-ordinating this case along with Lieutenant Van Buren... I could use your help to help us run this thing...You being a Lieutenant too! " said Captain Louis Stewart....

"Good , tomorrow... we'll meet with everyone involved at Sam Mother's Diner...We'll have breakfast and discuss which detectives will work on which cases..."said Lt. Tragg..

"How About they work on the cases they were assigned to originally and they co-ordinate with me, since it's my case." said Sissy angrilly...

"Now don't go gettin your panties in a bunch now Lieutenant...We are just trying to help and to centralize this thing..." said Captain Lewis Stewart,

"EXCUSE ME!! My panties are not in a bunch....but this is MY CASE!! I'm trying to explain that to both of you and I won't have it hijacked.." said Lt. Sissy Van Buren....

"You're speaking to a superior officer...This man is a Captain Sissy...He's forgotten more about police work than you know." said Lt. Tragg.,

Sissy ignored them both...

"Hazel, you can release the body." said Sissy.

"Okay guys, let's wrap it up..." said Hazel...

The body was put in a body bag and strapped to a gurney....and wheeled away...

''Sissy,I'll email the results of the Autopsy Report as soon as we are finished." said  Hazel..

"Sissy, no disrespect, but that's usually the call of the superior officer at the scene..." said Captain Lewis Stewart...

"No that is the call of the primary or superior officer in charge of the case... That would be me in both cases." said Sissy.

"I've tried to explain that to her." said Lt. Tragg.

It was a tense night...another murder in Philadelphia..

II-

We all went home... Sissy called a meeting of all of us in the courtyard of our cul de sac...

 "Listen....Until you are told otherwise... You'll report to me and run any info you get on this case through me... We'll tell Captain Stewart, only what he needs to know... He pointed us to those two suspects and they both turned out to be busts and even though he said he didn't say anything...The Press turned up everywhere we were and in front of everyone we tried to interview in the other three cases..and already they're saying we are after a serial killer the press have nicknamed the "Broad Street Strangler..."He means well...but ever since he attached himself to these cases...We've had leaks in information...The Press knows too much about these cases..and now he wants to add Lieutenant Tragg to the case...No wayyyyy..No Wayyy....I'm going to the Deputy of Operations and Captan Cantrell tomorrow morning...You guys eat in our cafeteria.Don't go to Sam Mothers... You hear me?" said Sissy.

"Loud and Clear Boss Lady." said Carlotta.

"I didn't want to have breakfast with either of them anyway." said Tyriq...

"Hey me neither..and the thought of Lt. Tragg being second in command of this investigation makes me skeeve." said Jimmy..

"Me Too!..He'd just ruin it..and be busy having Press Conferences and then he'd go off half cocked and wind up arresting the wrong suspect and forbidding us to go any further...No wayy."said Sirena..

"You know this investigation is confusing enough as it is...without internal fighting going on." said Hop.

"You're right...and that's why I didn't want Captain Stewart involved... In his day, he 's screwed up as many investigations as Lt. Tragg... As a Detective.. he was assigned to that Marine Boat a number of times himself. As a Lieutenant he was a little better...He kinda slipped off the radar....but he's not much better than Lt. Tragg...Maybe a lot less vocal." said Duke.

"How'd he make Captain?" asked Angie.

"Politics..he knows how to play the game....Come on...Let's get some sleep guys...gals.. Sissy I'll go with you tomorrow, back you up..." I said.

"Thanks Keith..." said Sissy as we all went inside our homes and said goodnight..

I was at home , naked in our bedroom when Carlotta got home that night.

I said nothing.

''This case has got you so tense papi...I haven't seen you that tense in a lonnnnng time. Maybe I can loosen you up." she said as she began to undress. She smiled at me devilishly...

Our case was at a stand still . We now had four murders....All women appeared to be working girls...Prostitutes or Escorts...and all were murdered and left along Broad Street... The Papers were calling our killer, the "Broad Street Strangler." 

Carlotta knew how frustrated I felt.. ..She and her fellow detectives felt frustrated too!  It was difficult enough running these investigations and now they had Captain Stewart and Lt. Tragg threatening to derail the entire thing...

''Aye Mios Dios...Look at youuuuuuuuu..You couldn't wait could you?" she said, Laughing. "You are hung like a horse...OUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she said seductively...

"No...I couldn't.."I said, just staring at her as she slowly undressed on purpose to get me aroused..

"Let me hang up my clothes...I'll be with you shortly..." she said...

I walked over to her...

"Let me help you..."I whispered...

"You are sooooo horny...Just look at you...I don't need you to help me out of my clothes"she laughed as I unhooked her bra..

We stood in the middle of the floor ,kissing...

really kissing and practically devouring each others lips..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMM CARLOTTTTTA!" I moaned....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI, YOU ARE AS BIG AS A HORSE....OUUUUUUUUUU!" she said ,taking both hands and fondling me....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu papi….."she moaned...kissing me passionately....

I softly and slowly parted her legs.......she trembled....Her head moved from side to side......Tears streamed down the side of her face...

"Ayyyye Mios Dios..."she moaned softly as we crashed on the bed and we began to make sweet love....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm…" I moaned as the bed began to squeak beneath our combined weight...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CARLOTTA..." I moaned..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu papi, you are sooo hard, soooo huge...So damn huge!! OUUUUU!" 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 another 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...

We started kissing some more and before we knew it..

We were making love again for the second time...

"I never get enough of you." I moaned..

"I seee.OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU papiiiiiiiii" she said and laughed...

ANOTHER THREE TO FOUR HOURS went by before we both climaxed again.....

Carlotta lie on top of me, breathing heavily .  I was breathing heavily too...We both finally calmed down and drifted off to sleep..

III-

The next morning, we all reported to our headquarters, The Former Hotel, we got from a Russian Mobster, now deceased, which was remodeled and turned into a complex headquarters for the Criminal Investigation Unit and The FBI and ATF .... The building had several beautiful hotel rooms in case any of us needed to stay over night after working on a big case...We had three floors staffed by a vetted administrative staff as well as vetted uniformed officers assigned to us..The Feds had the next three floors...There was a beautiful Dining hall and a Gym and a Spa..

 We loved our building... On most days..We didn't have to worry about seeing Lt. Tragg at all.. We knew when we came to breakfast..that this was not going to be one of them..

We all sat down and ordered our food..

"I heard you guys caught a fourth murder last night.... I ran a check through VICAP, to see if there are any other crimes with this M.O.  Turns out there are.. I'd like to share them with you guys later on." said Sharon Hopkins, Detective Tony Hopkins wife and the Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the FBI and ATF in our region...She and her agents shared this building with us. She aided us from time to time in our investigations and we aided her.

"Yeah we caught another one...Same M.O.  Strangled, sexually assaulted and left on Broad Street." said Carlotta.

"Captain Lou Stewart is now openly trying to take over the case... Last night , he "appointed Lt. Tragg his second in command and said we all should work together...Run everything through them." said Tyriq.

"Which means they give all of the orders and assign us and maybe others to each murder case "said Jimmy.

"They both love press conferences...and they'd both wind up taking credit for everything."said Sirena.

"They are supposed to be meeting with all of us for Breakfast at this very moment at Sam Mother's Diner.."said Hop.

''What does Sissy think about that? Those two bozos hijacking her onvestigation?" asked Sharon...

" She hates it..She told us not to go to Sam Mother's Diner.. but to come here....She's going to Captain Cantrell and the Deputy of Operations this morning to plead her case.

"Her record speaks for itself.. She has the highest closing rate in the depatment..We make good cases...That has to amount for something...She doesn't need help...Not from them anyway..."said Angie.

At Sam Mother's Diner...Captain Louis Stewart and Lt. Tragg were visibly angry...

'They're not coming Artie...You know I've respected Sissy and her closure record all this time and I've tried not to step on her toes...but this is a clear cut example of insubordination by her and her entire staff.." said Captain Lou Stewart...

"Yes it is...Come on Lou...Pay your bill...Let's go over to her headquarters..., I'm not going to write the detectives up...They were obeying her orders...They are extremely loyal to her...but I am definitely writing Sissy up...This is insubordination...Even to you..A Captain for godsakes.." said Lt. Tragg...

The two men drove to our headquarters...

"WHERE IS SISSY?   I WANT HER FRONT AND CENTER!" barked Lt. Tragg.

Captain Stewart was silent.... He looked at Sharon...

"You're FBI aren't you?" he said.

"Yes I am...I'm the Deputy Special Agent in charge of the FBI/ATF.."said Sharon..

"This is a Philadelphia Police Matter...would you excuse yourself?" he asked.

 ''She's staying...Neither you nor anyone else gives anyone else in this office orders...I want that understood...THIS IS MY CASE...and some people are coming to explain that to both of you.." said Sissy.

Carlotta smiled wryly..

Tyriq remained stoic..

Jimmy smiled .....

Sirena pinched him...She didn't want him saying anything smart to get himself in trouble...

Hop was quiet...

Duke smiled broadly..almost laughing..

So did Angie..

Sharon didn't move..

I walked in with Captain Eddie Cantrell and The Deputy Of Operations..

Captain Cantrell had actually been made a Captain a year before Lou Stewart, so he was the superior officer as that went..

''Artie what are you doing here? Don't you have a number of open cases to close?" asked Captain Eddie Cantrell.

Deputy Of Operations, Don Donaldson, Philadelphia Police Department   also walked into the office.

He didn't often visit here...He very rarely if ever had a reason to come over here. Sissy ran a tight shop..She had seven very good detectives and the uniforms over here were the cream of the crop in the department.. They did good work over here and made good cases... He liked that...

"I'm going to say this one time and I don't intend to repeat myself...So listen up...This is Lt. Sissy Van Buren's case... SHE IS THE SUPERIOR OFFICER ON THIS CASE...SHE MAKES THE CALLS...ALL THE CALLS...SHE ASSIGNS THE DETECTIVES OF HER CHOOSING TO THESE FOUR CASES....DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?" he said.

'"With that said, Artie...YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS INVESTIGATION...GET BACK TO YOUR OFFICE AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT YOU SHOWING UP AT A CRIME SCENE OF THEIRS AND GIVING ORDERS..YOU GOT THAT?" he said.

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet.... "Yes Sirrrrrrrr SIRRRRRR!" he said. He was furious that Sissy had gone over both his and Lou Stewart's heads to get her way.... This was a big case and he wanted to be a part of it...

Jimmy couldn't control himself.. He laughed out loud...

"JIMMY! " said his wife, Angie Belton-Barlow...

"Jimmy!!! Cool it!" cautioned Sirena...she didn't want him to get into trouble...She knew that Lt. Tragg disliked him more than any of the rest of them...

An angry Lt. Tragg got in Jimmy's face...

"SOMETHING FUNNY DETECTIVE?" he snarled angrilly....he had no grudges against any of Sissy's detectives except Jimmy Barlow...He especially did not like him...The feeling was mutual...Jimmy hated him and wasn't the least bit intimidated by him...Rank not withstanding.

"TRAGG!!! GET BACK TO WORK!!!! " screamed the Deputy of Operations..

"Yes sirrrr sirrrrrrrr!" said Lt. Tragg as he rushed out of the office..

Now Sharon laughed....

Captain Cantrell addressed Louis Stewart...

"Lou...if you want to hang around and be an observer or consultant that's perfectly okay...but understand... Lt. Sissy Van Buren is running the case..." he said.

"Ohh I had no intention of stepping on Sissy's toes... That was Artie...you know how he gets...heh heh heh....I just want to help them with this case in any way I can." he laughed, not the least bit ashamed of throwing Lt. Tragg under the bus.

"You're almost out of here anyway aren't you?" asked the Deputy of Operations..

"Next Year in May...I'm as good as gone.." laughed Captain Lou Stewart.

Sissy smiled ruefully....She had even less respect for him for throwing Lt. Tragg under the bus and doing a complete 360 in front of the bosses. She had a case to solve... She wanted everyone gone except

her detectives...

IV-

 "Okay tell me about these three , now possibly four murders." said Sissy...

"We cross checked and none of the four women knew each other, none of them attended the same schools, worked the same jobs...hung out at the same bars.." said Carlotta.

"We talked to the families and friends of these women...there was no connection to the other women whatsoever...They never heard of each other as far as that goes."said Tyriq..

"Two of them worked for Escort services...Not the same one... We interviewed and thorougly checked out their johns..all alibied out on the night they were last seen." said Jimmy..

''Same here..Me and Hop interviewed friends and family members...No connection..We checked Bank records, credit card statements, the works..They didn't even shop at the same stores.." said Sirena.

"They all lived in different parts of the city...The odds of them all being at the same place at once is scarce." said Hop...

"Angie and I had teams on the Street Cams and the Traffic Cams all up Broad Street..This guy is good.. He knows all of the weak points of the cameras.. all the points the cameras wouldn't catch...We 've been searching footage for weeks and we don't have a clue as to how he dumps the bodies..."said Duke.

"But from the fibers...we know this much....We know they were all killed somewhere else and dumped along Broad Street."said Angie.

"I ran a check through VICAP, to see if there are any other crimes with this M.O.  Turns out there are..There was two unsolved murders like this on Broad Street six years ago...They were months apart..Both women were prostitutes...Neither woman knew the other..both were sexually assaulted and strangled and left on Broad street...One happened the night the Eagles won the Super Bowl and the other happened later on in the year... Both cases went cold..." said Sharon..

"Hmmm somebody get me the case files and the detectives who worked those cases over here.. I want to look into those cases..." said Sissy.

"Our killer may be more active and prolific than we thought." I said.

''Yes perhaps he was." said Captain Lou Stewart.

CURLEY'S BAR...

Angry and unhinged Lt. Tragg was standing in the middle of the floor whining and complaining and trying hard to pick a fight with his other favorite targets, the attorneys... 

''You know...I'm seriously considering not coming here for a long while." said Jazzy..
 

"I'm considering not comeing back here again." said Dabnis.

''Me too! You can't enjoy yourself with him crowing." said Kayla.

"I feel like belting him one.." said Ray...

"But that's the whole thing...Your afternoon is still ruined because you had to do that." said Jessica.

"What happened to that ADA he was dating?" asked Chip..

"She woke up, got some sense and dumped him." Said Karen...

B.L. , Natalie, David ,Brooke and Sean cracked up laughing...

Their laughter seemed to make him angrier and more agitated as he railed on and on about how lawyers twisted the law around to bend it the way they wanted it and as a result several criminals went free...and how most of the attorneys present wouldn't be lording it up off the public dime in his father and uncle's day...

"God this guy never shuts up... He's still whining and complaining.." said Zoey...

"He's a pain in the ass..." said Lem..

"Ahhhhhhh he's ruined my high..." said Renee.

"Yeah mine too!" said  her husband, Tyrell.

 

"I called the Bus service...Let's settle up with Curley and wait at the door folks. This is it in here for me for awhile." said Olivia.

 

"Some people just take the joy out of life." said Donnie Ray.

"I know, it's not even fun jousting with him anymore.." said Beverly...

''No more Sam Mother's Diner, No More Curleys...Not for me for awhile." said Nelson.

"Yeah I feel the same." said Josie.

"This was supposed to be Couple's night..He ruined the whole thing." said Paris  as one by one they got up and settled their bills...It was 9:30...They usually stayed until closing.

Bresha and Tony were kissing passionately...They were paying Lt. Tragg No Mind..

"BREAK IT UP!!! BREAK IT UP YOU TWO.... GO GET A ROOM !" he bellowed..

"Don't you get tired of hearing yourself talk?  Leave them alone.. Leave us alone!"said Alfreda,.

"NO I DO NOT!  I GET TIRED OF YOU ATTORNEYS TWISTING AND BENDING THE LAW AROUND TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS.." he bellowed...

''Don't say another word to her...You get away from our tables." said Rockland.

"I HOPE YOU HIGH FALLUTIN LAWYERS AREN'T DRINKING AND DRIVING TONIGHT!!! I'D HATE TO HAVE TO WRITE YOU GUYS UP FOR A DUI...." snarled Lt. Tragg.

 

 "You sound like a broken record...You say the same thing every time we come in here and you know we aren't driving." said Yvette, who was exasperated..

''Don't say anything to him, you're just feuling him."said her husband Gary...

"This is it for me with this place.. It'll be awhile before I come back here." said Keith Jones..

"Same here...There are other places we can go."said Bee Bee.

"He'll get himself in trouble..be back on the Marine Boat again..." said  Sofia.

"Yeah, then I'll come back." said Kahlil.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu he makes me soo angry.." said Jade..

"He makes everybody angry..."said Lt. Danny Ho..

"I paid our bill...come on let's go outside and wait for the bus."said Virginia.

"Good Idea."said Jetty... "I'm just minutes from decking this guy....

B.L. and Karen left first...They had driven here... They walked a few blocks down to the other parking lot and got in her car and pulled off..

They piled into their mini buses and pulled off, headed towards home...

Leaving Lt. Tragg alone and angry at the days events...

Halfway across town... at the same time all of us were finishing up our day and about to go home... Captain Louis Stewart had long gone home..

 "Hopefully the City will be quiet tonight... Give us some more time to figure this thing out." said Sissy.

"You think Lt. Tragg will stay out of our way?" asked Carlotta.

"He will.. Captain Cantrell and the Deputy of Operations set him straight today."said Tyriq..

"We gotta catch a break...The longer we take to crack this case and the more bodies pile up...The  more he can hold this over our heads.." said Jimmy.

"Yeah, we don't want him and  Stewart to gain leverage." said Sirena.

"Something about that  Stewart guy...I don't trust him." said Hop.

"I don't either...Watch what you say around him.."said Duke.

"Yeah..."said Angie.

"I get bad vibes from him too...He's quiet, sneaky..The type that will undermine you." said Sharon.

"I agree." I said.

'Well folks ..we ready to go home, call it a day?" asked Sissy's husband, Eddie C.

"I am...I'm off tonight...I sure miss Marcy." said Hazel.

We all headed out to our cars and headed home for the night...

A Thursday Night...Hopefully a quiet night...and hopefully a night another young woman's body wouldn't be found on Broad Street.

(TO BE CONTINUED)