A/N: Next week looks very busy for me and I do not believe that I will be able to update. I hope you enjoy this chapter and I will be posting in two weeks, :) Thanks for reading!
Chapter 14
"Thanks to Imam Cemal, we have identifies two more victims. Rabbi Tuckman gave us a name, Chaya Belkin, so we're down to nine more photos to identify," Captain Cragen announced to the group.
"Well that's not entirely true," Kenny had a frown on his face, something that immediately told those around him, the news wasn't good. He had just checked his e-mail and that was where the bad news was originating.
"What have you got Kenny?" Olivia wanted to know.
"Melinda got back to me. It's as I feared," he shook his head.
"How many?" Elliot asked.
"Including Kelebek Aksoy, five," the younger detective said.
"What did Melinda say about them?" Fin prodded. Kenny grabbed the stack of photos and placed the pictures of the other four girls that were missing of the board. Now they were down to five victims to find.
"I see you got my e-mail," the coroner said as she walked into the bull pen.
"Nice of you to join us Doc," Munch smiled at her.
"Well I can just send files but what is the fun in that?" She asked.
"So I'm guessing the files don't tell the whole story," Captain Cragen gave her a look.
"Not entirely for all of them. We'll start with what you found first. Kelebek Aksoy was in the middle of committing jaywalking when that car hit her. Upon interviewing the driver, the detectives down at the one-five, discovered that she just walked into the street. He tried to stop but he couldn't. When I did my examination of her body, there was no way to tell that she'd been assaulted. Despite traffic cameras and the driver's testimony, her family refused to believe she committed suicide. Her friends on the other hand had noticed a change in her behavior. I ruled it an accident because we couldn't definitively prove otherwise with her parents refusing to admit their daughter had a problem," Melinda explained.
"The Imam said he was told it was an accident but given what the one-five discovered, I would have leaned suicide," Fin frowned. He knew that Melinda had written accident on her report so that the family wasn't upset but he also knew that she was right. It was a lot of speculation and very few leads.
"The next two were actual accidents. Kelly Sanchez died in a car accident when her car was hit by a drunk driver. You remember that truck that slammed into the city bus a few years back? Amy Velocci was the one passenger on the bus that died," the coroner let them know.
"So the last two?" Munch wondered.
"Kathy Philips was killed by her abusive husband in front of their kids. Needless to say, he's upstate doing life. Our final victim, Mary Pearcy, definitely committed suicide. More than one witness watched in horror as she jumped off the Verrazano Bridge," she finished.
"No one could get to her?" Olivia asked.
"Most of them said she just jumped out of the cab she was in and before they knew it, she was taking a header. Her parents told me that she'd been seeing a therapist and they suspected something bad had happened but she refused to open up to them about it. Mary suffered from depression before the incident so this probably pushed her to feel like killing herself was the only way out," her friend shrugged.
"That's just lovely. Any chance we can charge Gus with Mary's death? Or maybe Kelebek's?" Munch wanted to know.
"We'd have to prove that what he did to them caused them to commit suicide and any lawyer worth their salt is going to claim Mary was already suicidal and that Kelebek had an accident," Elliot frowned. Fin's phone rang and he picked it up.
"All right. First, thanks for bringing us to speed Doc. Now what we need to do is to see if we can get Chaya and Zehra to talk to us. They need to be first priority. Munch, take Kenny and see if Chaya's parents will let her talk to you. I know that Fin is waiting on a call…" the Captain didn't get to finish.
"Zehra's parents are going to be down at the mosque in an hour. I need Liv," Fin said as he got off the phone.
"All right go. Elliot, my office," Cragen said.
"Good luck!" Melinda said as she watched the group quickly split up.
To Be Continued…
