Chapter 5
By dawn, the town of Mystic Rock Harbor awoke to see that hundreds of strangers had crowded the dock with their boats. They also carried guns and other weapons.
The police did what they could to control the crowd, but the new-comers ignored the constant orders as they bought supplies.
A car honked its horn in order to get to the police station. Inside, Angel and Dr. Gideon prepared the bodies to show to Dr. Absolon Perrot.
The car finally made it to the station and a dog humanoid wearing a necktie and a sweater vest came out.
"Excuse me, I am looking for a Ms. Lyons-Swagger," he asked the front desk clerk.
"I'm her," Angel replied when she stepped out of the morgue office.
"I'm Dr. Absolon Perrot, head psychologist of the Western British Columbia Sanitarium," he said and shook hands with her.
"I'm Dr. Hannah Gideon, coroner," Angel's friend introduced herself.
Out on the water, the hunting party headed out in their boats, searching for the killer.
In the morgue, Dr. Perrot looked at the victims, checking the stab wounds. "Did you discover the make of the blade?" he asked.
"The knife had a smooth blade, making a clean cut through the skin. I would suspect it was a steak knife," Hannah answered. Dr. Perrot nodded in agreement and he looked through his bag, pulling out some paper documents.
He handed them to Angel, "I know two patients who did acts like this," he said and Angel looked over the documents.
There was a photo of a young dog man with messy black hair, wild looking eyes, and pale skin. The patient's name was Faustin St-Pierre and he had a history of violence since his youth.
"When did Mr. St-Pierre arrive at your hospital?" Angel asked, her eyes still glued to the first document.
"He was transferred from the Maple Tree Psychological Center in Ontario when he turned 18. He had been living at the sanitarium for about 4 years," Dr. Perrot answered.
"Can you give me a detailed background on him? And what is his diagnosis?" Angel asked, again.
"Mr. St-Pierre was diagnosed with ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactive disorder and a bipolar disorder at the age of 5. Children with ADHD usually defied their family's house rules or sometimes forget. St-Pierre on the other hand, ruled his house with an iron fist. His parents sent him to a rehab facility when they received the diagnosis.
"The doctors put him on some medication and sent him home, but everything changed when his parents brought home his baby sister. I never heard anything like this before, but St-Pierre attacked his sister with a knife and cut her wrists," Dr. Perrot explained and Angel and Hannah gasped when they heard the last part.
"His parents discovered him with the bloody knife and his sister was crying in pain and bleeding. After the baby girl went to the hospital, the St-Pierre's sent Faustin back to the rehab center. The doctors put him on stronger doses of the medication and that seemed to work, but I believe it was not enough.
"When Faustin was 13 and his sister, Aurore I believe her name was, turned 8, their parents went out and left them with a babysitter. Something snapped in Faustin that night, from what I read from police records, he had a violent outbrust and grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen and stabbed the babysitter first. He turned his attention on Aurore and stabbed her multiple times in the chest, the killing blow was to the heart," Dr. Perrot continued.
"He was sent to the Maple Tree Psychological Center, but the staff could not keep him under control. He had violent episodes every passing year and he attacked some of the other patients and he was sent to the Western British Columbia Sanitarium. I have had patients with violent behavior and I could tell that Faustin blamed the world for something, maybe he did not receive enough attention when he was young or his mind told him that," Dr. Perrot finished.
Angel asks, "Did he like to go swimming or scuba diving or something like that?"
Dr. Perrot began to think and replies, "Yes, when he came to our facility he took an interest in our scuba diving trips to the ocean. It seemed to calm him quite a bit actually, but one time, he had a fight with another diver while out on the water. Faustin almost killed the diver, who turned out to be tourist, and he filed assault charges against Faustin. Faustin was banned from part-taking in the trips for about a year."
"Did he have a knife with him when he assaulted the tourist diver?" Angel asked.
"No, Faustin pulled on the tube that connected to the scuba tank," Dr. Perrot answered.
Angel looked at the second document, it featured a photo of a much older dog man with brown and gray hair, dark eyes, and dark skin. Angel read the document on Martin Savage, who had a history of arrests for destruction of private property, housing endangered plant species, and attempted murder.
"What can you tell me about Martin Savage?" Angel asked.
"He is, what you call, an Eco-terrorist. He get so mad about housing development projects set in rainforests and oil drilling plants out in the ocean. He would go to rallies to protest, but he would take things to far. He one time attacked a woman who was part of one of the oil drilling projects. When his home was searched, it was full of plants that were on the endangered species list, but they were very toxic," Dr. Perrot explained.
"What about the attempted murder charge?" Angel asked, again.
"Here's where I believe he carried out the murders of these two young people," Dr. Perrot said and explains, "He attacked a group of young surfers with a knife. He wore scuba wear, along with a tank. When he was arrested, Savage kept on saying that he needed to clean the oceans from 'eco-hating scum'."
"What happened to them? Where are they now?" Angel asked.
Dr. Perrot looked down at the floor as if he was ashamed of something, but he answers, "Both of them escaped about a month ago. I don't know how, but they somehow got out of the facility."
"I need to tell the sheriff and the hunting party, now we have names," Angel said and left the morgue.