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Chapter Twenty Five – Investigating

16th Precinct, Manhattan, New York

July 24th 10.22 am

"Ok so fill me in." Olivia said after saying goodbye to Katie and Amanda and walking over to Munch who was putting all the case details in Bessie.

"Ok well Holly Jones was found at three this morning by a couple of drunken frat boys. She'd been raped and murdered." Munch said as he bought up some of the pictures from the crime scene.

"And what are your leads?" Olivia asked and Munch looked at her as she studied the pictures.

"We have none, the Mayor has been far from helpful especially when he thought he wasn't going to get you working on this case he was calling us all incompetent buffoons and saying that none of us would ever mount up to you." Munch chuckled.

"Yeah well can't help it that he loves me." She laughed. "Ok so has anyone found out where she was last night?"

"Nope all we've been given is that she was at a friends house, we haven't even got the name of the friend Liv. I mean how could anyone let a twelve year old out without knowing where especially the Mayor's granddaughter who is more likely to get a ransom kidnap than any other child in the city?" Munch snapped.

"I don't know Munch, some people don't think twice…" The phone rang and Munch answered it while Olivia continued to flick through the pictures.

"Liv Warner's got something fancy a trip to the morgue?" He asked and she nodded and pressed her hand to the gold shield in her pocket, she may not have been allowed to carry a gun but just having a part of her back in her hand made her feel stronger.

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Autopsy Suite, Morgue, Manhattan, New York

July 24th 10.49 am

"So Melinda my darling what have you got for us?" Munch asked as he and Olivia walked into the morgue.

"Olivia?" She said doing a double take towards the female Detective.

"Hey Mel." She smiled. "Don't worry I didn't run off, we came into the city and I bumped into the Mayor in Cragen's office and he wanted me on the case." Olivia explained and Melinda nodded. "So what is it you've got for us?"

"Well your victim didn't die where she was found." Warner said. "I've sent her clothes off to CSU I'm sure they'll be able to tell you more but I found some stuff in her hair that at first I couldn't identify so I put it under the microscope and found that it was carpet."

"Any specific brand?" Olivia asked and Warner shook her head.

"No most common form you can get." Warner explained.

"So what was the COD?"

"She was strangled, see the rope burns?" Warner asked and Olivia and Munch nodded in reply.

"Rape kit?" Olivia asked.

"She was raped and sodomised with a foreign object."

"How do you know?" Munch questioned.

"Splinters." Melinda said picking up a test pot. "From both the vaginal area and the rectum."

"Post mortem?" Olivia asked cringing.

"Yes, she was spared some." Melinda sighed softly. "She was kicked around a bit before-hand, her ribs were broken and a few fractures on her arms."

"Ok anything that would help us find her killer?" Olivia asked.

"Maybe." Melinda said rolling the sheet down from the body. "Look at this footprint, I can't tell you what type of shoe it was but I can tell you the shoe size is six."

"Like most women in the United States." Olivia replied.

"Yes but what's the most common Olivia?" Warner asked.

"Seven?" She wasn't too sure.

"Exactly, what shoe size are you?" Melinda continued.

"Uh Six and a half why?" Olivia questioned.

"Small feet." Melinda laughed. "Well I'm an eight, I was seven and a half when I was a teenager, your feet grow slower than anything else when you reach a certain age so if you'd ask me the person who kicked Holly Jones is possibly someone around the same age. Holly's shoe size is six too."

"Ok so our killer might be a teenage girl. Good to know." Olivia sighed.

"Maybe but I'd put a bet on the killer being female at the least." Melinda said as she covered the body back up.

"Ok thanks Mel." Olivia said.

"Yeah thanks Melinda." Munch said before following Olivia out.

"Ok so our perp is probably female and she was supposed to be hanging out with her friend, once we know who that is I think we will have our first suspect." Olivia said to Munch and he nodded in agreement with a smile on his face, it was good to have her back.

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16th Precinct, Manhattan, New York

July 24th 11.26 am

After going back to the precinct and filling everyone in on what the ME had told them they were gathered around Bessie with Munch filling in the pictures from the flash drive Melinda had given them.

"So who is the friend she was supposed to be staying with?" Don asked.

"No idea but we need to find her." Elliot said as he sat on the desk with Olivia leaning against him, his arms wrapped around her because technically she wasn't on duty.

"Anyone any ideas where we go from here?" Cragen asked.

"There's got to be one friend the Mayor knows that we can find." Olivia sighed.

"Olivia you talk to the Mayor he likes you and you're the least likely to lose your temper with him, Elliot and Fin go down to CSU and kick them into giving us something from the crime scene, Munch go through everything and see if we missed something." Cragen instructed and everyone went their separate ways.

The Mayor wouldn't leave the precinct so Olivia went to the good coffee shop and bought both herself and the Mayor a coffee before meeting him up in the lounge.

"Here." She said as she handed the coffee cup over.

"Thank you." He replied shakily, it was obvious he'd been crying more.

"So Mayor…"

"Please call me Robert." Mayor Jones said.

"Fine, Robert, we need to find Holly's friend and to do that we need your help, have you got any information about any of Holly's friends that could help us find where she was supposed to be staying that night?" Olivia asked.

"Uh no but… search her bedroom… there might be a PDA or something in there with everything." Mayor Jones said pulling keys out of his pocket.

"Thank you." Olivia said. "Do we have your permission to take anything we deem valuable for our investigation?"

"Of course Detective Benson." He said taking her hand. "I don't know why you're off sick but I am very grateful that you're here."

"It's not a problem." She smiled feeling her heart warming to him.

"But whatever it is, I hope you get well soon." He said and she nodded.

"I think I'm almost there." She said with tears in her eyes. "I'll find out who hurt Holly Robert, I promise."

"I know you will. I have faith in you Olivia." He said and she gave his hand one final squeeze before heading off to gather Munch to search Holly's bedroom.

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