Chapter 22-New Year Part 2
They followed the woman to the body. Elliot knelt down and checked for a pulse. "She's cold," he said shaking his head.
"Did you see anyone hanging around here when you found her?" Olivia asked the woman taking out a notebook.
"I think I saw a guy but it was dark and he took off fast so I didn't get real good look," the woman said.
"Ok thanks anyway," Olivia said walking away to meet Elliot and Fin. "Any ID?"
"Nothing. Not so much as an article of clothing. The perp must have taken everything with him," Fin said angrily. Monique came up to him and tried to calm him down. She looked at John who looked like he had no idea what to do. He looked like a rookie who had never seen a dead body before.
"John?" Monique said with worry in her voice.
"Don remember that conversation where I said that when I retire from this squad I would do it for good and never revert back?" John said staring at the body.
"Yeah," Don said looking up at John.
"Well forget everything that I have ever told you about that," he said as he walked over the side and took out his cell. "Melinda its Munch. We need you down here. Dead Caucasian woman, mid-twenties, stripped and it looks like she was strangled to death."
"I'll be down ASAP," she said as she hung up the phone and rushed out the door.
She got there and checked the body. "She has been dead only about an hour."
"Cause of death?" Olivia said looking down at her. "Was she raped?"
"Strangulation. Possibly with a chain of some sort. See the link like bruising forming around the sides of the neck," Melinda pointed out to the group. "There is some vaginal bruising but I am not sure yet. I will taken some samples and test them at the lab.
"Oh-My-God!" A man came running up to the group of police officers.
"Sir can we help you?" Brian said taking the man by the shoulders.
"That's my sister," the man said in a panic to get away from Brain and over to her.
Olivia looked at the man as he knelt down beside her and hugged her close. "What is her name?"
"Alex…Alex Eames of the Major Case Squad."
They all looked at each other trying to think over the fact that this was one of them. A man ran up to the group. He seemed to know the other officers at the scene. "What's up?" He said looking at one of them.
"I'm so sorry man. They just found Alex, dead," the officer said sorrowfully.
"No…that can't…I just…Oh-My-God," Bobby said in a panic.
"Sir did you know the vic?" Olivia said looking at Bobby who had started to cry.
"She was my partner."
Olivia looked over at Elliot. John looked at Fin and Monique. Casey and Alex looked at each other.