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Clue
Chapter VI- Mrs. Peacock
7:56 am 1066 Guinevere Ct
The red adobe house looked like it was covered in ants as police personnel and the media with their equipment scurried about.
A dark blue Suburban pulled up next to a LAPD black and white, and Don, Terry, and David got out. The media gathered around the agents as they tried to push their way to the latest crime scene.
Once inside the house the agents immediately made their way to the body. The crime scene photographer left the room to let the agents work. David handed out gloves and Don picked up the note that said 'Almost time…tick…tock…tick…tock' and Terry picked up the game card.
"He's almost done, the game is almost over," Don traded Terry the note for the game card.
"Yeah, unfortunately for us," Terry murmured.
"The vic was Danielle Bennett age 28; she lives here by herself and goes to Cal Sci. Coroner says that the cause of death was blunt trauma to the back of the head, the wrench matches the wounds," David read off his notebook.
"Time of death?"
"Coroner estimates about one am."
"Major?" Terry asked looking over the books scattered about the table.
"Engineering."
David flipped through a book, "Advanced Number Theory. Man this is way over my head."
"Hey, what's the cover look like?" Don walked over to the table.
David closed the book to reveal a bright green spiral pattern.
"I've seen this book before at the house, I'm pretty sure Charlie uses it and he's the only one that teaches number theory," Don flipped through the book.
"We need to go talk to him," Terry said handing the note to a CSI who walked into the room.
"Yeah, David I want you to wrap things up here and go get a list of relatives, friends, finances, the whole works."
"Got it."
8:39 am Cal Sci Math Department
Don and Terry walked into Charlie's office to find him and Amita quarreling over something written on the chalk board.
"Hey guys," Don said walking over to the board.
"Hey," Charlie and Amita responded in unison.
"Don't you have classes?" Terry asked Charlie.
"Not yet, they don't start until 9:30 today. What can I help you with?"
"We need to talk to you about Danielle Bennett. She is one of your students right?"
"Yeah."
"What do you know about her?"
"Not a lot really, um, she's working on an engineering degree, I think. She's doing okay in my number theory class."
"She's on the cheerleading squad, and she's the vice president of the National Classic League," Amita chimed in.
"Are you giving them a test today?"
"Yeah why? Why? What happened to her?"
Don and Terry were silent, and a light bulb went off and Charlie's face went blank.
"When did this happen?"
"Sometime last night, she was found this morning."
"Your guy?"
"Unfortunately," Terry replied.
"Any leads?" Amita asked.
"Not yet, anything that either of you can think of?"
"No," Charlie said staring at the chalk board.
"Nothing that I can think of," Amita answered.
"Thank you, if you think of anything else, call one of us," Terry said before heading towards the door.
Don walked up to Charlie and put his hand on his shoulder.
"You gonna be okay, buddy?"
Charlie just nodded and Don gave his shoulder a squeeze before leaving.
10:08 am LA FBI Field Office
A morning of hard work yielded no new leads. Don pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"We have nothing," Don said rolling in his chair over to Terry.
"I know, nothing has panned out. All of her friends and family are clean, and there's no connection to the other victims."
"We don't have time for this."
"I know; there's only one more left."
"Maybe it's not about the connections between victims," Terry said trying to make sense, "What if there's a different link? What if the victims are connected to something else?"
David came running to Don with a file in his hand.
"A body's been found with the same knife that was missing from Clara White's house; it even had a partial fingerprint that matched hers," David said after taking a breath.
Don and Terry just looked at each other knowing things were getting worse.
"Where did they find the body?"
"In an alley behind Elmo's Diner. M.E. says that the TOD is about 10 pm last night. The body is at the morgue, they're waiting for you."
"That was before Danielle Bennett," Don remarked.
With that the agents gathered their jackets and headed to the county morgue.
10:29 am LA County Morgue
The air in the morgue was cold and stale. The agents were standing around a sheet covered body. The coroner was pointing out the findings of his primary exam.
"The cause of death was massive blood loss due to a torn aorta. The killer was smart because the knife went in between the ribs through the back, so it went in smoothly."
"Any ID?" Don asked examining the knife in an evidence bag.
"Yes a Cal Sci student ID, Michael Long."
"Thanks," Don turned to David and Terry, "David, get a couple of agents and canvass the area around the diner and see if anyone saw anything. Terry, you and I will go back to the office and get the background on this guy."
"Okay."
11:15 am LA FBI Field Office
Terry sat on Don's desk and watched him as he wrapped up his phone call.
"What ya got?"
"This guy's got a couple of parking tickets, but other than that he's clean. He was majoring in English."
Don rubbed his eyes, "This gets us nowhere."
Don leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. The moment was cut short by his cell phone.
"Eppes."
"It's David."
"Did you get anything?"
"No, no one remembers seeing this guy around the area."
"Alright, comeback and we'll go from there."
Don closed his cell phone and threw it across the room. Several agents stopped what they were doing and watched Don vent his frustration. Terry discretely went and got the pieces and put it back together. She laid it on the side of his desk and sat on the edge. A moment of silence passed before either one of them dared to talk.
"Why can't we catch this guy?" Don asked.
Terry just sat there while Don thought it out.
"Why is this Michael Long dead? We can't find anything to link him to being the killer or who killed him," Don said with frustration.
"This is a bit of a leap, but maybe he's not the actual 'Clue' killer, he might be friends with the real killer. Remember the LA Sniper and viral behavior?" Terry replied.
"A copycat?"
"That would explain why he was murdered with the knife stolen from Mrs. White's house; nothing was taken at the other murders. This guy knew some of the details about the crime scene were never released."
"Yeah, maybe he knew the real killer, and the real killer got mad at him and killed him. We need to go back over everything."
With a stroke of ingenuity Don stood up and began barking orders.
6:45 pm LA FBI Field Office
After running down every possible lead, the agents were exhausted.
"Did we get anything useful at all?" Terry asked propping her feet on her desk.
"Not anything good." David replied stirring his coffee.
"Hey guys!" An agent yelled as she ran towards Don, Terry, and David.
"What ya got?" Don asked sitting upright.
"It turns out that one of Michael Long's friends is losing all of his financial aid due to failing grades. There was also a small fuss over whether this friend plagiarized on one of his papers."
"Who is it?"
The agent handed Don the file she was holding. He opened it and looked at the picture clipped to the inside.
"Terry."
He handed Terry the file and she gasped.
"Don this is the guy from Charlie's class."
6:48 pm Cal Sci Math Department
Charlie was racing across the room scribbling across the numerous chalk boards. He stepped back to his desk to check a file and resumed his work. After a few more minutes he stepped back to look over his work.
Oh no!
Charlie ran to a file cabinet and pulled out his class rosters.
This guy is in my class!
There was a knock on the door, and Charlie turned around to see who it was.
"Hello Professor."
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