"Hey Adelle." Calleigh said as she and Speed got out the hummer at the home of man who swallowed the bullets.
"Bullets full of cocaine?" Adelle questioned.
"We've seen stranger things." Calleigh smiled.
"You should have seen Judge Macintyre's face when I told him." Adelle chuckled.
"I'll bet."
"Miami-Dade Police." Adelle said as she pounded on the door in case there was anyone inside.
"I got his keys from his personal effects." Tim said bringing out an envelope.
"Do you smell something?" Calleigh asked.
"Maybe." Speed replied.
Adelle took the keys and opened the door.
"Oh my god." She put her hand over her mouth. "I think something died in there."
"Miami-Dade police." Calleigh called setting down her kit and taking out her gun out. She nodded to the uniformed officer who had accompanied them to go in so they could start to clear the building.
They cleared the building working systematically.
Calleigh pushed open the door to final room which was the kitchen. The stench was worse in there; she cleared the room and located what was making the smell.
"Tim, you're going to need to see this." Calleigh called.
"What is it Cal?" Speed asked entering the kitchen. "This room is definitely the source of smell."
"Dead bodies will do that." Calleigh lifted the edge of the table cloth after putting gloves on to reveal a naked dead Caucasian woman she had obviously been shot right between the eyes there were bruises around her neck.
"I'll call Alexx."
"I'll start photographing the place." Calleigh said standing.
"Did you figure out what the smell was?" Adelle asked when she came outside to get her kit.
"Dead woman under the table. She's been dead a couple days at least. Close range gun shot between the eyes. Bruise as if some had tried to strangle her. Alexx will be able to tell us more when she gets here."
"If you hadn't been persistent about those bullets she probably wouldn't have been found until they came to liquidate this guy's estate. I'll call it in."
"Tim's going to take care of it. Can you get the whole building taped off for us? We're going to be here a while."
"Of course."
"Timothy." Alexx said as she walked into the house.
"Hey Alexx."
"You have a body for me?" Alexx questioned.
"Last door on the left. Calleigh's in there process the scene."
"Thank you." Alexx walked back and pushed open the door. "Hey Calleigh."
"Hey Alexx, she's under the table." Calleigh said as she dusted the counter.
"Sweetheart what happened to you." Alexx asked as she crouched down beside her. "She's been dead for approximately 48hrs." Alexx told Calleigh after taking the woman's liver temperature.
"I'm thinking she was almost strangled before she was shot."
"That would seem consistent with the pattern of bruising." Alexx confirmed. "Someone wanted you dead didn't they sweetheart."
"Our bullet swallower has been dead less than twenty-four hours, it's a good chance he was the one who killed her." Calleigh said.
"I'll take scraping from under finger nails when I get her back to autopsy. You tried to put a fight didn't. She has defensive wounds on her hands and lower arms."
"Do you think she was sexually assaulted?" Calleigh asked.
"It's possible. I'll know more when I conduct an autopsy."
"Be on the lookout for more bullets in her stomach."
"I think the one that killed her is still in there somewhere."
"Blood splatter indicates she was killed over there and dragged under the table." Calleigh said.
"That would be consistent with the marks on the back of her heels. If you're done taking pictures, I'll take her back with me."
"Thanks Alexx."
"Come and see me when you get back I may know more then."
"I bet this isn't how you expected it to turn out when you handed me those bullets this morning."
"That's one thing about this job you never know what is going to happen next."
TBC
