"NYPD, open up!", Cragen shouted. He stepped back, before nodding to the SWAT team guy with the battering ram. They ran inside, catching the two people inside who were found with a meth lab, cocaine, crack, and EX.
"Serena and Joseph Benson, you are under arrest for possession of illegal drugs, murder, attempted murder, accessory to murder, and the sexual assault of Emily Underwood. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. Do you understand these rights?", Elliot and Fin said, after handcuffing each of them.
Each person nodded, before being taken away in separate police cars. Amanda was about to leave, when she heard a noise, kind of like a whimper, but scratchy.
"Captain, did you hear that? It sounds like an animal. We have to find it!", she exclaimed, before shushing everyone, and the noise was heard again.
"Search every room for a trap door, a crawl space, a locked or covered up door." he ordered, before searching around.
Amanda looked in the parents bedroom, and the noise got louder. She found an area of the hardwood floor that was under a carpet, that sounded more hollow than the rest.
"I need a crowbar in here!" she yelled, standing up quickly. A rookie cop brought her the crowbar with shaky hands, scared of what might be found.
Amanda pushed with all her might, and the piece of hardwood flew up and landed on the bed. She turned on her flashlight, because the area was pretty dark. A ladder led downward to a dirt floor, with bits of wood, rocks, glass, and clothes scattered on the floor. She picked her way around the bits of glass, before coming to a cage. The light from the flashlight shone through the cage, before landing on an extremely skinny leg in a ball and chain. She realized then and there that it wasn't an animal at all.
It was a human.
