Chapter 6: A Case Break

The next day at the police station, Nick and Judy going over the footage the cameras captured yesterday. The two had Officers McHorn and Higgins guard Gazelle for the day while they tracked down who was at the mansion yesterday.

"Let's see if we catch this hyena on camera." said Judy.

They watched the footage, until they saw him. He was sneaking around the house, seemed to be looking for a way in, and they saw when Jacob caught him, and when he got stabbed. Then he ran off after stabbing him.

"Can you go to the camera facing the road?" asked Nick.

"Coming right up."

She tapped a key on the keyboard, and the screen turned to the camera that faced the road. They saw an older gray car, and the hyena got into it, and drove off.

"When did he get there?"

Judy rewound the footage, and saw that the car showed up at around 3:00.

"Please tell me we can get a license plate number."

Judy zoomed in, and was able to get a few numbers.

"Let's see we got a 4, 7, 2, and an 8."

"Nice, let's go run this plate."

In Nick's cubicle, he used ZPD resources to run the plate.

"According to DMV records, the car belongs to a Molly Spots."

"I highly doubt a woman is behind this."

"She couldn't be anyway, according to her records she died a couple years ago."

"Great, a dead end."

"Not entirely, it says that she has a son."

"Where is he?"

"Let's see, Lucas Spots, he lists his residence as his mom's old house. Hello what's this?"

"What is it?"

"It says he was institutionalized for a few years."

"That can't be good."

With enough information gathered, they first went to the mental hospital Lucas was at. They met with the head of the hospital, Dr. Wendell, a black bear.

"I'm sure you know Officers I can't just give out a patient's information." Dr. Wendell informed.

"We know that, doctor. That's why we brought a warrant." said Judy, handing Dr. Wendell the paper.

After reading it over, Dr. Wendell looked up.

"I'll get his file for you."

He got up, and opened the file cabinet behind him.

"Here, it is."

And handed the file to Judy. She opened it, and they both looked it over.

"He has something called psychosis." Judy read.

"A case of erotomanic psychosis." added Nick.

"Unfortunately yes. In this form of psychosis the patient believes that another mammal is in love with them, and when the other mammal doesn't return the affection, things can get ugly." Dr. Wendell explained.

"Thank you, doctor." Nick told him, and the two got up, and were about to head out the door.

"Officers."

Nick and Judy looked back at him.

"He was prescribed pills to keep his delusions under control, if he's been off them, I'd advise you to be careful. He can get violent sometimes." he warned.

"Thanks for the warning, doc."

The two got another warrant to search the house, and after getting back-up, they drove out. When they got to the house, they had their stun guns ready. Judy knocked on the front door.

"Lucas Spots, ZPD, open up!" she yelled.

When no one answered, Judy gave Officer Delgato the signal. The lion broke down the door, and the cops stormed in.

"We have a warrant." Nick announced.

After looking through the house, it was clear the Lucas wasn't there.

"Great, he's not here." complained Judy.

"We'll find him, in the meantime let's search the house."

They went upstairs, and looked around. With gloves on their paws, they looked around, opening drawers and doors. While Judy was in the bathroom, she opened the medicine cabinet, and found a clue.

"Nick, check this out." called Judy.

Nick came in, and saw what Judy had found. There were medicine bottles filled with pills.

"These things haven't even been opened." he observed, taking one into his paws.

"And it says on the label they were prescribed five weeks ago."

"Looks like Lucas stopped taking his pills."

Suddenly Fangmyer called from downstairs.

"Hopps, Wilde, you better come see this."

They went downstairs, and Fangmyer led them to the basement. When they got in the basement they were shocked. All over the walls were pictures and posters of Gazelle, on tables and shelves were mini Gazelle figurines, knick knacks, stuffed dolls, and her music on CDs.

There were also pictures of her at her home, at the gym, there were even pictures of her with cut outs pictures of Lucas next to her.

"Man, this guy could give Clawhauser a run for his money." Nick observed.

"You got that right." agreed Judy.

Then they looked around for clues. There were some journals and in them were love letters to Gazelle, and at the end of one of them was Gazelle's blonde hair tapped to the book.

"Looks like we've got our stalker."

"Right, now we just need to find him."

She took out her radio to contact McHorn and Higgins.

"This is Officer Hopps, Officer Wilde and I are on our way back."

But no one came on the radio.

"Officer McHorn and Higgins, are you there?"

But still no one came on, which meant something was wrong. Nick, Judy, and some of the other officers ran out of the basement, got into their cruisers and hurried to Gazelle's mansion.

That's chapter 6, plz review, and sorry I haven't updated in a while, been busy with classes