Chapter 1
He picked the lock to her apartment like he had the master key. He opened the door slowly, so slowly that it took him almost a full minute before he got his head in like in a Poe horror. His 'tell tale heart' was as steady as ever though. He knew what he was there for, he knew what he wanted to do with the woman sleeping inside. When he finally got inside he looked around making sure that even though he had watched her apartment all day and her every move in the days past he didn't want any surprises, of his own anyway. He walked slowly, carefully down the hall to her room. He smirked as he stared at her bedroom door. He turned the knob and pushed the door open.
She was sound asleep. She had no idea he was there until he covered her mouth with one hand and flipped her on her back with the other. She tried to scream but nothing came out.
He ripped her nightgown off of her. He ran his free hand down her side to her leg. He put his hand between her legs and caressed across the lining of her underwear. He pulled them down and then while he was straddled over her he began undoing his pants. "Try to scream again and I'll kill you," he said before he took his hand off of her mouth.
She was crying in fear that even if she didn't scream for help this man would kill her anyway. He was already half way there by raping her she thought.
Once he was finished he got off of her bed and bent down to her side. He kissed her cheek like he was simply her lover bidding her goodnight. He walked out the door just as he had come in, calm and collected, and now satisfied. He looked at her heart in his hand
"What's up?" Detective Elliot Stabler said to the patrolman out in front of the apartment building. He took a small notebook out of his breast pocket of his jacket.
""24-year-old female, perp broke into her apartment raped her," the patrolman told the detective and then he coughed. "And before he left he cut out her heart." He shook in terror of his own statement.
"Thanks, we got it from here," Detective Olivia Benson said coming up to them from the behind Detective Stabler and putting a hand on the patrolman's shoulder. "That's the third one this month now," she said to Elliot as they walked inside.
They walked up the three flights to the woman's apartment and walked in past the patrolmen in the hallway. They looked around the front of the apartment and then walked back to the bedroom. ME Melinda Warner was already examining the body.
"The sick bastard is at it again," Melinda said as she looked up at the detectives.
Elliot shook his head as he looked at the face of the victim.
"Colleen Nini," Olivia read when she picked up the girl's wallet off of the nightstand. "She was a law student."
"Law just like the others," Elliot said taking a deep breath.
"So this guy is saying that he is above the law," Melinda questioned not to anyone in particular.
"Or he is stealing lawyers' hearts because one stole his," Olivia said looking at the girl.