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Chapter 4

"Did we get any fluids from her?" Elliot asked the M.E.

Melinda took off her gloves before answering. "No, it seems he wiped his semen from her before he left. But if he was going to take that much time why would he do it in Central Park where anyone could walk by?"

"From what our witness says, it wasn't planned it looked like the guy just snapped. Well, now we know that whoever it was had enough common sense to make sure he left nothing behind," Olivia reasoned.

"How did she die?" Elliot asked.

"She was beat up a bit, but she has red marks around her neck. She was probably strangled to stop her from struggling," Melinda told them.

"Okay, thanks; anything else?" Elliot asked.

"She has some bite marks on her thighs and we found one piece of hair that could be hers, but we're looking into that."

"Can we match bite marks?" Olivia wondered aloud.

"I believe that we can," Melinda informed her.

The detectives looked at each other and then back at Melinda.

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"Anthony Wellston?" Olivia asked. The man turned around. "Detectives Benson and Stabler…Do you have a moment?"

"Of course," he said. Then he hesitated. "May I see your badges though?"

Elliot showed Anthony his badge and Olivia did the same.

"Sorry, just have to make sure…you understand…right?" he probed.

They just nodded.

"We have a few questions to ask," Olivia said.

"I heard form Laura. I don't know why this happened; Marie was such a great person. I don't know why anyone would want to hurt her."

"We heard that she was having problem with Paul Richards because he didn't like you," Elliot told him.

"Paul didn't like me. I don't know why. He just said that he didn't trust me. But I think he was just angry that Marie wouldn't trust his instincts about me, even though I would never hurt her. I don't think he liked that she wouldn't drop everything for him," Anthony told them bluntly.

"He told us that he confronted you, but you walked away," Olivia pressed him.

"I wasn't going to stand there while he accused me wanting to hurt Marie. Like I told you, he was pissed that she trusted me more then him and he was dating her."

"As we understand it, you wanted Marie yourself," Elliot said, hoping it was true.

"Well…yes I did. She was beautiful and had a great heart. She loved everyone and everything. But she turned me down. After she and Paul broke up, I asked again, but she turned me down and I let it go."

"Did she tell you why?" Olivia asked.

"At first she said it was because she didn't know me, but after she and Paul broke up, she said it was because she just didn't think of me like that. She said she didn't want to ruin our friendship."

The detectives looked at each other. Then Anthony voice brought them back to reality.

"Do you think Paul did this? Do you have any leads?"

"We're working on it. We'll keep you informed. Here is my card, call if you remember anything," Olivia told him.

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"So what do you think?" Olivia asked when they were in the car.

"Right now I think it's either Paul or Anthony. Paul seems to have a bigger reason to just snap, though," Elliot replied.

While Olivia was thinking about it, Elliot was thinking about her. Her hair looked so soft. He wondered what it would be like to run his fingers through it, what it would be like to have his fingers in her hair while they were kissing…

"Elliot?"

Her voice snapped him back to the present. "Yeah?"

"Ready to head back to the station?"

"Uh-huh." Elliot wondered if he could get through a day without thinking about Olivia.