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Authors: Cheryl Bradshaw
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POSSIBLY NEGLECTED OR ABANDONED BY A PARENT
INTELLIGENT, HIGH IQ
CHOOSES WOMEN OF SAME APPROXMIATE AGE, WEIGHT, HAIR COLOR
Maddie stopped about a quarter of the way through the list and said, “You forgot to add sick lunatic whacko, but other than that, you seem to have a good grip on this guy.”
“If it’s all accurate.”
“Oh come on, we both know you have a gift for this kind of thing. I’d be willing to bet you’re about ninety-five percent on target with all this.”
“The reason I wanted you to see this is because this time I want to be kept in the loop. With his last series of killings I couldn’t deal with it, and you and everyone else kept mum.”
“We were just trying to help you get through your loss,” she said, “and giving you all the details back then wouldn’t have been the right thing to do. We all knew that.”
“And I agree, but this isn’t some kind of blood pact you made with each other where you’re obligated to a vow of silence—things are different now. I know you have access to a lot of information, and I want you to share it with me.”
I stared her right in the eye and tried to gauge her reaction. She cocked her head to one side like she had taken it all in and then said, “Fine by me.”
“I bet the chief is going to tell you things too since the two of you are together now. You are still an item, right?”
“Item is taking it a bit far,” she said. “You know how I roll. I just go with it, but I never define it.”
Maddie didn’t like to get too committed to her men. It made her feel like she did when she was in high school and her mother strapped her down at home with all her siblings and she missed out on all the things most teens experience at that time of their life. Her preferred method of dating only worked if it was done on her own terms, which was why it surprised me that she agreed to date the chief in the first place.
“Don’t worry,” she said. “I’ll tell you as much as I can. But I want you to do something for me in return.”
“Anything.”
“Be careful,” she said.
“Always.”
“I mean it, Sloane. I worry about you,” she said.
Maddie’s cell phone rang.
“How’s it going, babe?” she said into the receiver.
“You’re calling him babe now?” I whispered loud enough for only her to hear. “When did that happen?”
She grinned and shushed me with her finger, but within a few seconds, the look of glee on her face turned to genuine concern, and she ended the call without another word.
“What is it?”
“Sinnerman’s killed again,” she said.
I grabbed my keys from the top of my desk. “I’ll drive.”
CHAPTER 16
The body had been disposed of in the center of the track at the city park. I was thankful when I looked around and noted that Nick and Coop weren’t there yet. A mass of spectators had gathered behind the thin plastic roped-off section of police tape.
Maddie stepped inside the perimeter and flashed her credentials to a male officer I didn’t recognize.
“And who’s this?” he said and thumbed in my direction.
“She’s with me,” Maddie said.
He shifted his attention from her to me.
“Where’s your ID lady?” he said.
“Look,” Maddie interjected, “we just came from lunch, and it’s not like I had the time to swing by my office so she could grab it. It seemed more important to me at the time that we get here as soon as possible, so why don’t you lay off and let us do our job.”
He didn’t seem to know what to say to that and let us pass. It didn’t buy me a lot of time, but it bought me a little, and I was determined to make every second count. I glanced back at Taye Diggs who shook his head but didn’t try to stop me.
Maddie approached a young male who was hunched over the dead woman’s body collecting various tidbits of evidence.
“What do you got for me?” she said.
“From what I can tell, the victim appears to have been killed less than twenty-four hours
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Maddie stopped about a quarter of the way through the list and said, “You forgot to add sick lunatic whacko, but other than that, you seem to have a good grip on this guy.”
“If it’s all accurate.”
“Oh come on, we both know you have a gift for this kind of thing. I’d be willing to bet you’re about ninety-five percent on target with all this.”
“The reason I wanted you to see this is because this time I want to be kept in the loop. With his last series of killings I couldn’t deal with it, and you and everyone else kept mum.”
“We were just trying to help you get through your loss,” she said, “and giving you all the details back then wouldn’t have been the right thing to do. We all knew that.”
“And I agree, but this isn’t some kind of blood pact you made with each other where you’re obligated to a vow of silence—things are different now. I know you have access to a lot of information, and I want you to share it with me.”
I stared her right in the eye and tried to gauge her reaction. She cocked her head to one side like she had taken it all in and then said, “Fine by me.”
“I bet the chief is going to tell you things too since the two of you are together now. You are still an item, right?”
“Item is taking it a bit far,” she said. “You know how I roll. I just go with it, but I never define it.”
Maddie didn’t like to get too committed to her men. It made her feel like she did when she was in high school and her mother strapped her down at home with all her siblings and she missed out on all the things most teens experience at that time of their life. Her preferred method of dating only worked if it was done on her own terms, which was why it surprised me that she agreed to date the chief in the first place.
“Don’t worry,” she said. “I’ll tell you as much as I can. But I want you to do something for me in return.”
“Anything.”
“Be careful,” she said.
“Always.”
“I mean it, Sloane. I worry about you,” she said.
Maddie’s cell phone rang.
“How’s it going, babe?” she said into the receiver.
“You’re calling him babe now?” I whispered loud enough for only her to hear. “When did that happen?”
She grinned and shushed me with her finger, but within a few seconds, the look of glee on her face turned to genuine concern, and she ended the call without another word.
“What is it?”
“Sinnerman’s killed again,” she said.
I grabbed my keys from the top of my desk. “I’ll drive.”
CHAPTER 16
The body had been disposed of in the center of the track at the city park. I was thankful when I looked around and noted that Nick and Coop weren’t there yet. A mass of spectators had gathered behind the thin plastic roped-off section of police tape.
Maddie stepped inside the perimeter and flashed her credentials to a male officer I didn’t recognize.
“And who’s this?” he said and thumbed in my direction.
“She’s with me,” Maddie said.
He shifted his attention from her to me.
“Where’s your ID lady?” he said.
“Look,” Maddie interjected, “we just came from lunch, and it’s not like I had the time to swing by my office so she could grab it. It seemed more important to me at the time that we get here as soon as possible, so why don’t you lay off and let us do our job.”
He didn’t seem to know what to say to that and let us pass. It didn’t buy me a lot of time, but it bought me a little, and I was determined to make every second count. I glanced back at Taye Diggs who shook his head but didn’t try to stop me.
Maddie approached a young male who was hunched over the dead woman’s body collecting various tidbits of evidence.
“What do you got for me?” she said.
“From what I can tell, the victim appears to have been killed less than twenty-four hours
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