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"I thought you said that there were 5 Mercer boys. You've shown me Bobby, Jeremiah, Jack and Angel's missing. That's 4. Where's the 5th?" Fowler asked his partner.
"Joey." He said, seeing the crying 16 year old walk out of the house and onto the front steps.
"Where is he?" Fowler asked, following his gaze and looking for a delinquent teenager.
"Not he, she. Josephine Mercer. Her mother was a drug addict and her father was a rapist murderer. She was brought to the foster care office by her 7 year old brother when she was a year old. She tested positive for HIV so Evelyn took her in and her parents fled with the little boy. When she was 4, they realized that there'd been a mix up with the tests and that she didn't have aids, or HIV and that she was perfectly healthy, but it was too late for Evelyn to give her up. She was a part of the family." He explained.
"So she's not a delinquent?"
"No, but with her brothers, you can be pretty sure no one will mess with her. She can hold her own and the payback from those four…" he let his voice trail off, knowing what would happen if the Mercer boys found their mother's killer before the cops did.
"I meant does she have a record?" he asked.
"She had one actually, but it mysteriously disappeared. About 10 years ago, Bobby got a break-in on his record that he wasn't there for because he spent the entire night playing hockey in an arena filled with over 200 people."
"So she's a closet case?"
"She broke into her second grade classroom during Spring Break to feed the class Hamster and she stole a car to rush a gunshot victim to the hospital. We don't have to worry about her." He laughed, defending his favorite Mercer kid.