(Notes and Warnings found at the beginning of Chapter 1)


Chapter Four

Fin pounded on Munch's door trying to get him to respond.

"Munch if you don't respond in the next thirty seconds I'm using my emergency key and I don't want to here any bitching," Fin yelled through the door.

"Munch, opened the door in boxers and t-shirt."

"What are you trying to wake up my neighbors."

"Well you weren't opening the door I thought you were dead or something."

"No I'm not dead but I wish I were."

"How much of that bourbon did you slug back."

"Oh, only a quart or so."

"Munch…"

"Oh spare me Fin."

"You do realize that it's 7:15 and unless there is a new dress code for New York's Finest that I wasn't made aware of, I would say you need to get dress."

"Yeah, Yeah give me thirty, okay?"

"Fine."

"Make yourself at home."

SVU Squad Room

Manhattan

When Munch and Fin got to the precinct Munch jetted to his desk immediately. He knew that Fin was just waiting for the perfect opportunity to harass him more and he wasn't looking forward to that conversation.

Cragen approached him and Fin few minutes after they entered the squad room. "We've got a positive ID on the victim and we have three more hits so far in VICAP for possible related cases. The victims name Jeremiah "Jeremy" Cohen. His parents live at 340 Park Avenue," Cragen said. "Fin, I want you and Munch to go talk the victims parents find out what you can about were he spent his time. They were notified and identified the body late last night so go easy on them, okay?"

Sure Captain, Munch replied as he stood up to leave the squad room.

Victim's Residence

Park Avenue

"Whoa," Munch whistled. "Nice place, he said, looking up at the four story brownstone.

"Yeah. I can't say I wouldn't mind living here."

"On our salary, not in this life time."

Fin rang the doorbell. A maid came and opened the door promptly.

"May I help you?"

"Yes, I'm Detective Munch and this is Detective Tutuola. We would like to speak with Mr. and Mrs. Cohen."

"It will just be one moment, let me show you to the sitting room. Unfortunately Mr. Cohen is not here right now," the maid said beckoning for the Detectives to follow her.

"A few minutes later a tall elegant red headed woman walked into the sitting room, Detectives, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. This morning has been a little hectic."

"Not a problem Mrs. Cohen. We understand." Fin replied as soon as Mrs. Cohen had seated herself across from Munch and himself.

"Well, I know you Detectives would like to ask me some questions about Jeremy. I regret that Mr. Cohen had to go into the office today, it was completely unavoidable."

"Okay, Mrs. Cohen. We would like to know where Jeremy was headed the day he turned up missing," Munch questioned.

"Well Jeremy, was very independent. He went to school and came back here by himself. He was twelve and we had recently given him more independence. Obviously that was a mistake. He was suppose to be going to school that day and heading directly back because we had plans for that evening. A social function. Around five that evening Jeremiah hadn't showed up so I called the school. It turns out that Jeremiah hadn't shown up for school that morning. I've never known him to skip school. He's had his fair share of problems in school but recently that had stop and he actually started showing some discipline thus the reasoning for his newly gained independence. After I talked with the school, I called the police. I don't know how this could have happened."

"Mrs. Cohen, do you know if your son had recently been spending a lot of time somewhere? Had he mentioned any new friends, Fin asked."

"No, not really. I mean besides church and home, he didn't spend much time anywhere else, except for on his computer. Jeremiah didn't have many friends."

Munch raised his eyebrows, looked at Fin, and then turned back to Mrs. Cohen. "His computer," Munch asked.

"Yes. He would spend hours and hours on it. He always finished his school work so we just let him do whatever he wanted. I know that sounds awful, looking back on it but Paul and I thought it was the best approach with kids".

"Do you have any other children besides Jeremy?

Yes a daughter, she's at William and Mary right now. This is just going to devastate her."

"Well, Mrs. Cohen we want to thank you for your time. We would like to take Jeremy's computer to have a look at it if you don't mind."

"No Detective, anything that will help you to find who did this."

"Looks like we don't have much to canvas." Fin said as they stepped out of the Cohen residence.

"I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing," Munch replied.

"What do you mean?"

"Did Mrs. Cohen seem a little cold to you."

Fin looked at Munch considering for a second, "the Lady was probably in shock, she just lost her son."

"Yeah, whatever," Munch replied. "Let's get this laptop back to the station."