Half an hour later, there was a dozen police cars, three ambulances, and a huge crowd of people crowded around one of the houses on the street. The coroner just arrived and there was yellow crime scene tape all around the house. Sergeant Frost was walking up the walkway. She had arrived just before the coroner and was immediately put in charge.
She walked into the only bedroom in the house and let a gasp escape her mouth. There was blood on the bed, the walls, even on the ceiling, and the body was almost unrecognizable. The T.V. was so covered in blood that no one could have watched television if they had wanted to. It was immediately evident that there had been a struggle here. It was Mrs. Eggemeyer, identifiable only by the clothes that she was wearing. She was extremely eccentric, even for a seventy-three year old widow. Sergeant Frost couldn't bear to look at the body and walked back out of the house.
When she stepped outside, the Crime Scene Investigators arrived. They drove a black van with green lettering on the side. There were two men and a woman.
Sergeant Frost walked up to them and said, "It's a real mess in there guys."
The woman replied, "We can handle it." With that, they all walked inside.
When the investigators got to the bedroom, they immediately set to work. The woman took the bathroom, while the two men took care of the body. Cindy walked into the bathroom and discovered that there was cigarette smoke in the air. She got a sample of it and put it in a bag. She then looked in the sink, and saw nothing. She then brought out a spray bottle and sprayed the sink, which made blood appear blue. She took a sample of the blood and moved on. Then, she lifted the toilet seat to look for hair, but she found none. She made a fleeting glance at the shower and saw something in the bottom. She took a closer look, and discovered a clump of hair caught in the drain. She took out her tweezers and grabbed a hair, put it in a bag, and wrote an evidence number on it. Then she exited the bathroom to check on the guys' progress.
The guys had found bruising on the victim's neck, forearms, and torso. They had also discovered stab wounds in her back. There was evidence that the murderer also used a blunt object and beat her in the face so much that all that was left was a bloody pulp. The victim's neck had been broken after she was stabbed. They had also found that the victim had recently had intercourse, which was told by several clues.
As Cindy started to walk away, she saw something under the bed. It was the victim's purse, and sticking out of it was a couple of business cards that were obviously just been shoved into the purse. This was just the break that she needed. "This must be my lucky day," Cindy thought. She got down on her hands and knees and got the purse out from under the bed. She flipped through the cards and found several people who she could contact and get more information from. She carefully put the cards back into the purse and put the purse in a plastic evidence bag.
As she was walking out to the van to use the cell phone, someone who was wearing blue pajamas and a matching stocking cap approached her. He identified himself as one of the neighbors and asked what had happened. When she told him, all he could do was sit on the curb and cry. It was obvious to her that he was the closest thing the victim had to a father image. She decided to get someone to comfort him while she was on the phone. By the time she was ready to leave, the guys had come out of the house and had also finished the initial search for clues. They all got in the van and decided to go to the lab.
When they arrived at the lab, George greeted them at the door and had a cart on which they could sit all of the evidence on. He took the evidence to the lab, and all three investigators followed him. George chose to look at the hair from the shower first. He took that hair and a hair from the body and compared them under the microscope. They were different which meant that the hair from the shower was from the murderer. Next, he chose to look at the sample of blood found in the sink and compared it to the sample taken from the body. When he compared them, he found that they were also different, which indicated that there was blood from the murderer.
The investigators decided to leave George to his business, and went to the office to make some phone calls. Cindy called the name on the first business card, which happened to be a psychiatrist. When she got through, a secretary answered the phone and Cindy set up an appointment.
Chapter 2