Chapter 14

Benjamin Hutte's Home, Friday at 4:00 pm

"Open up Ben," Sheriff Skye knocked on the door to the trailer and got no response.

"I'd better go around back," Booth suggested. Skye nodded and left the porch looking through the front windows. Booth headed around back and found the window on the bedroom open.

"Sheriff!" He called for the Mattaponi lawman and Skye came running.
"What is it?" Steve asked. Booth pointed to the window and the Sheriff shook his head.

"Let's go through the front door and see what we've got," Skye told him. The two quickly went around to the front door and easily entered the trailer, as the door wasn't locked.

"Ben! I'm here with Agent Booth! Come out with your hands where we can see them!" The sheriff shouted but to no avail. Within moments the trailer had been searched and the elder Mattaponi man wasn't there.

"He didn't leave after we visited him the first time. All his clothes and personal items are still here," Skye said.

"Something is screwy. Why would Ben want either Duc Lin or Lee Chang dead?" Booth asked.

"What makes you think he wanted them dead?" Steve gave him a look.

"Well the coroner said that someone would have had to of broken Corporal Kistler's mental block to bring him back to reality. The only way that happens is if Ben or his son were there when he shot Duc," the G-man said.

"So one of them watched Duc die and did nothing to stop Peter. That would certainly fit with what Doc Jones was saying," Skye nodded before pulling his radio from his shoulder and calling down to his men at the station.

"I want Ben's place searched forensically and I want this place marked as a crime scene until further notice. If Ben returns, arrest him on the charge of murder."

"You got it Sheriff. Be right there," came the response from which Booth thought was Timmy.

"Well you'd better head back to the West Point Precinct. See what Dr. Brennan has discovered. I'll help the boys shift through all this stuff," Skye said.

"All right I'll meet you there," Booth nodded before heading to his FBI standard issue SUV. He quickly made his way back to the coroner's office where he knew he'd find his partner gleaning what she could from the bones of Lee Chang.

"Booth you have good timing," she said as he entered the autopsy room.

"Why is that?" He asked.

"I just got off the phone with the lead man out at the Laundromat. Also Cam called while you were gone," Brennan smiled.

"What have you got?" He smiled back.

"Cam confirmed that the clothes and headdress were a match to the ones found on the coffin. Other than that she doesn't have anything that will help us. Although Simon and Angela are looking forward to being sent the new body. The team at the Laundromat found something and have requested my presence at the site," she explained.

"Lets roll then," Booth told her as she stripped off her latex gloves and grabbed her kit.

The Laundromat, Friday at 5:45 pm

"What do you have for me?" Brennan asked the senior tech in charge whose name was Michael Tamko.

"What I believe to be authentic Native American artifacts," he explained.

"Did you call anyone at the Jeffersonian?" She wanted to know.

"I waited until you got here. I didn't want to call them to send a team if I wasn't even sure what I was looking at. Besides by now there probably isn't anyone in the archaeology department," Michael said.

"He's right Bones. After five o'clock on a Friday…" Booth trailed off.

"Very well. Let's have a look," the forensic anthropologist nodded. The tech took the partners over to one of the holes that had been made in the asphalt.

"Here we found arrow heads," Michael pointed out. Brennan nodded and followed him to the next hole.

"Here we found what appear to be some sort of tools. Hard to tell since all the wood has long since rotted away. But the best find is probably inside," Tamko led the partners inside where they had bore a hole through the concrete floor.

"Well that explains a lot," Booth said as he looked down into the hole with a flashlight.

"We haven't moved the rest of the flooring because we didn't want to possibly damage the find," Michael said.

"Very smart. Stop all digging right here. I'll call Cam," Brennan gave a slight smile before pulling out her cell phone.

"Cam, it's Brennan. We have a fascinating discovery. There is a third body down here."

To Be Continued…