"Can anyone respond to a concerned neighbor's report about their next door neighbor?" Crackled the voice from Cad over the radio.
"Sierra Oscar 54 to sierra Oscar, show me dealing." Sgt Smith, replied. He was only a few minutes from there. Only minutes later Smithy was pulling up at the address given.
Mrs Jones, I am Sgt Dale Smith from Sun Hill. You have a concern about your neighbor.
"Yes, I am so sorry, it's probly nothing, but Anna is always up in the morning when I get up. When I get my paper she is always coming back from a run or walk and half an hour later I see her going off to work. It's just that I haven't seen her at all, and she is 22 and single. She's like a second daughter to me. I am just worried about her."
"Okay, look what I'll do, is go and knock on her door, okay and see what's happening then I will come back and tell you okay." At this Mrs Jones smiled tentatively.
Miss Campbell, Smithy called knocking on the front door.
No answer, she probably got drunk and is sleeping it off. Smithy thought.
Smithy looked through the mailbox. He couldn't see anyone, but the mail hadn't been picked up.
Walking around the house, Smithy looked into the windows, no one there. He was just about to turn around when he spied a little window near the back of the house. As he climbed to the window, he looked through, he saw Miss Campbell on the floor as if she had been knocked. She was not moving.
Within a matter of seconds Smithy had kicked down the door, and gotten through the house to Miss Campbell. Kneeling down, he felt for her pulse, there was one, very faintly but still there was. He quickly called for an ambulance and waited for them, trying to get her conscious. Ten minutes later when the ambulance arrived she was still not conscious but the ambos' took control. He then looked around the house quickly realizing that she had not just fallen, there had been someone else here. There was mess in some of the rooms like there had been a argument, but then other rooms were clean. So with that knowledge he called up CID. Over the phone he quickly told Mickey what he knew, then after giving as much detail as possible (which was not really that much) he left for the hospital.
After half an hour at the hospital, the doctor called him over.
"When will I be able to talk to her, Doctor.?"
"She was in a serious condition, we had to put her in an induced coma, for a little while. She should come out of it very soon, but it will be quite a while before you can talk to her." The doctor answered simply. A minute later Mickey walked up.
"How is it?"
"We won't be able to talk to her for a while, what's happening at the house."
"The crime scene examiners have found some things, that they are trying to push through, but they're going to be there for a while."