Jack Malone was the only Missing Persons Agent to attend the execution. Vin didn't count because he was counted as both a Pack member and a victim. It wasn't very elaborate, just a tall tree and a short length of rope. The entire pack was there to watch, with Buck in wolf form and Jack wearing his FBI hat and jacket to make sure that no one called the cops. He had informed the local authorities what was happening, but this was an extra precaution.
Personally, Jack was impressed with the operation. It took some skill to do a hanging properly so that a person's neck was broken. If it wasn't done properly the person being hung often strangled to death.
As was usual with this sort of thing, the set up took longer than the actual event. Once Amanda Jenkins' head was placed into the noose it was all over in a matter of seconds. There was no lingering, no strangulation, just a quick jerk of the rope when she came to the end. Jack had never attended a hanging before and was surprised that he could actually hear her neck bones snap in the quiet.
Nathan Jackson reached up to check her pulse; called the time of death and filled out the paperwork he had waiting. He then waved the coroner's people over and gave them the paperwork before joining the rest of the pack in leaving. The pack's interest in her was over; she could stay in that tree and rot for all they cared. The only reason that Nathan was against that was because of the public health risk that would be.
Back in New York, Vivian had gone to a judge to get 'hack' warrants. These warrants were only given in death by magic cases and the case had to have some serious weight behind it before it could even be considered. With the confession, they had that. The warrants would allow them to hack into the computer files, bug the offices of the adoption agency, and to bug the phone lines of everyone named in the warrant. The reason that these warrants were so seldom given is because they didn't have to be served. They only had to be displayed in the computer room where the hacking was taking place and the office where the investigation was being held.
For law enforcement these warrants really straddled the line. Any information collected that was not strictly covered by the warrant had to be thrown out. If it wasn't, even if it was just the slightest bit off, then the officers who had been given the warrant was guaranteed to never get one again and the entire case was thrown out. As this was only given out in death by magic cases, which were hard to prosecute anyway, everyone was adhering closely to the rules.
Jack knew this and was keeping close tabs on Danny and the pack members. He was thankful that Larabee was backing him up and making sure that everything was kept between the lines. The only information that Danny didn't get himself was given to him by Dr. Jackson. As a physician, he could legally access the computers of any hospital in the country. He hadn't told Danny anything more than which hospitals to look at and what years were of interest. He couldn't say anything more because of doctor/patient privilege.
It was enough, however, to get the ball rolling. While Danny called Sam and gave her the list to look at, Jack packed them up and got them checked out. They would be returning to New York tonight. The legal process to get Vin's name changed back was underway and Mrs. Tanner had already quit her job at a local restaurant in order to move to New York to be near her son. Whatever arrangements the pack had made Jack wasn't sure about, but he couldn't ask until the case was closed. The only thing that he could ask Vin was if he was staying in Missing Persons.
"Probably not Jack. Ya see, Chris don't like it when we go gallivantin' off on 'im. He likes to keep us close. We may all go fed this time around tho'. Depends on how they treat us," with an amused and gleeful expression on his face, one that Jack had learned to be wary of, Vin nodded and walked back to where his pack was waiting for the plane.
"I'd better warn the AD," Jack muttered.
"You'd also better warn him that if we don't get them, we'll be the laughing stock of the law enforcement world. Not only do we have two of them already FBI right now, these guys aren't still called the Magnificent Seven for nothing," Danny warned. "I've been looking into their history. These guys are incredible, and I'm not just talking about the reincarnation stuff.
"The first mention I can find anywhere is in 1870 when a circuit court judge named Orrin Travis hires them to be the law in a small town named Four Corners, New Mexico. They kept that town's bank so safe that until their deaths, it was never successfully robbed. That was an enormous achievement back then. Banks were robbed frequently.
"After they died the first time they were reborn and joined the Texas Rangers. Now only three of them actually joined the Rangers because the other four weren't old enough. In 1913 the Seven put a huge gambling and extortion ring out of business. It was the first time any of them had mentioned that they were under a curse and there was an investigation into it. They were of course proved right and less than a year later they were all dead again. They were killed in retaliation for shutting down the ring.
"The next time they showed up was in 1934 to 1939. Four of the Seven join the US Marshals. They all went into the service during WWII as a pack after Two Bloods were discovered. Vin, Nathan and JD were all killed in action. The survivors rejoined the US Marshals until they died in action. And that is what brings us to now.
"Jack these men are so good at what they do that they are literally legends. There wasn't a single member of the FBI office in Houston that didn't know who they were. There are seven badges waiting for them in both the Rangers and the Marshals. Four Corners not only holds their original land in trust for them, but the pack that they founded still survives to this day and runs a horse ranch on it for them. They even turned the original sheriff's office and jail into a museum just to them. I even got pictures! Well, ok they're off the website, but take a look!"
Danny turned his laptop around so that Jack could see the images that Danny had downloaded from the small museum. The faces that stared back from the screen were identical to the men, and two women, who were sitting across the way from him. "My god," Jack breathed. He knew that they really had been reincarnated, but to see their faces looking out of the old black and white pictures stunned him.