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LET SLEEPING BLOOD LIE
Chapter 2 - The scene
The crime scene visit reveals only one extra clue they hadn't found last night, a piece of crumpled paper with an obscure address on it a few meters from the body's location, which may or may not be related to the case and the wind could have blown it there. It looks like the dirt has been disturbed near where the body was but it's impossible to tell if it was just students from the day before. She photographs it anyway.
Same as last night, no shoe prints, no blood, no prints.
Maura stands close to Jane, it's windy and she seeks shelter from Jane's body. She didn't want to leave Jane at the scene but knows she won't be of much help.
"This is a strange place to leave a body don't you think?" Jane ponders mostly to herself.
Maura looks around, the obelisk is in the middle of the campus, exposed other than a tree a few meters away. The tree is covered in markings made from students expressing thoughts and emotions for all time. Across the quad about 15 meters behind the obelisk is a brown stone building with a side door and no windows. Nothing looks out of the ordinary to Maura.
Jane takes a few more photo's, one of some markings on the tree that look fresh, an 'm' with a line under it, one of a branch with grooves about 4 meters up that looks like it had something tied to it at some stage, and a few of the monument itself. "Lux Et Veritas" She reads off the plaque insignia.
"Light and truth", Maura translates from behind her.
"Mmmm. What is this thing anyway?" Jane asks waving her hand at the monument.
"It's an Obelisk Jane." Maura steps closer to Jane, and gently takes her elbow to get closer, the wind is brutal today.
"What, like from Asterix and Obelix" Jane scratches her head giving the obelisk a once over look.
"In a sense yes, Obelix's name is a pun on the French word obélisque, suggested by his rotund physique and his habit of casually carrying heavy stone monuments called a menhir around with him. A menhir is a single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times while an obelisk is a tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument. The Washington monument is an obelisk, there is also one at the Vatican. However the original o-'bel'-isk actually means the 'shaft of Bel'"
"What does that mean?"
"The obelisk is a phallic symbol, It is 'Baal's organ of reproduction'."
"Ewww" Jane scowls wishing she could un-hear that
Maura continues "Esoterically, The ancient Babylonianians used it with sun worship"
They stand in silence for a moment, deep in thought.
"What did you mean, it was a strange place to leave a body?" Maura queries, her curiosity finally getting too much.
"It's so exposed here, anyone walking or driving round here would have seen something, If you were going to kill someone here you'd surely be seen." Jane turns around with her arm out to demonstrate the lack of privacy.
"Oh, I see." Maura feels a bit silly she hadn't though of that, "He wasn't killed here though Jane, the body was moved."
"Yeah, speaking of that, lets go check out the body", Jane grins putting her camera away linking her arm through Maura's turning them towards their cars in the carpark only 15 meters away.
Maura finished her autopsy and was putting the finishing touches on her report when Jane came down.
"What did ya' find doc?" she smiles at Maura while trying to make herself comfortable on one of Maura's new expensive pieces of furniture.
Maura clears her throat before beginning, "Well, there are some strange things?"
"Things Maur'? Thats not very technical of you." She smiles to herself
Maura glares at her, "Jane, their are certain perplexing incongruous anomalies..."
Jane's mouth opens slowly her eyes focusing, "Strange...things...right"
"The toxicology report revealed extremely high levels of benzoylmethylecgonine."
"Cocaine overdose... and someone dumped him there so there was no links" Jane begins to speculate.
"No, the Injection sites were.."
"What do you mean NO?" Jane interrupts looking very upset.
"...I wasn't done."
Jane waves her hand for Maura to continue and crosses her arms.
"The injection sites were inter-muscular, in the deltoid muscle, and the vastus lateralis, these are not typical locations as it has a high risk of infection, plus there would be no euphoria so users would consider it a wasted shot. These sites are also harder to reach."
"So what, He had never used before and didn't know what he was doing?"
"He had help Jane."
"Speculating Maura?" Jane pulls a shocked look, her eyes wide.
"Conjecture"
Jane twists again trying to get more comfortable slapping the cushion into shape.
"So someone helped him overdose and left him to be found."
"I'm still not done Jane."
"Arghhh, fine...continue Dr. Death."
Maura hides a smile at Jane position, in the most uncomfortable looking position she had ever seen, so stubborn however, pretending she is comfy lying sideways with one leg over the back of the chair.
"The right side of his back was covered with scrapes, contusions, and debris on a single plane of injury."
"Meaning?" Jane shifted so both legs were over the back of the chair. She was still irritable from sleep deprivations and her third coffee fix had almost hit the spot but not quite.
"This means the damage had come from only one impact, against a broad, flat surface."
"Right?"
"He'd broken his pelvis, it was a mess of fragmented bone on the right side, corresponding to the contusions on his left hip. And he had a subarachnoid hemorrhage."
"OMG Maura, what killed him?" It was all too much for the irritated detective and the absurdly uncomfortable chair was the last straw.
Maura laughed and walked around her desk to sit beside Jane, pulling Jane's legs onto her lap and massaging her calves.
A sigh escaped Jane's lips, as the comfort instantly multiplied, she could have fallen asleep right there, she would have if Maura hadn't finished her verbal report
"He fell, he landed on his pelvis and smashed the stout pelvic girdle. He fell from at least four stories onto something very hard. The absence of a skull fracture, with intracranial bleeding occurs when the brain shakes back and forth inside the skull, shearing the delicate blood vessels on its surface. This relatively minor injury to the head was proof that it was the last part of his body to hit the ground. And the traumatized tissue around the injection sites showed up bright red, from vital reaction, which meant these injuries had been inflicted while his heart was still beating."
"English Maura" Jane whispered happy to not move.
"It was the fall that killed him"
Silence
"You have another crime scene to find Jane, unless you think a fall from a obelisk or tree killed him."
No response
"Jane?"
"Shhhh, I'm sleeping" Jane says unable to help the mischievous grin on her face.
Maura smiles back, "That wasn't any of the - strange things"
Jane cracks an eye open, "It all sounded really strange to me."
"There was blood in the stomach contents, we are analyzing it now but it will take time"
"That is strange, just five more minutes though" Jane whines
Maura continues to rub Jane's legs
"Have you found anything interesting, Jane"
Jane sighs in frustration at the case "Yes, no, I'm being stonewalled by everyone. The principle and the dean are both 'unavailable'. The Father of the victim still hasn't made contact. The lawyer is doing his own thing. And Korsak's phone is fused to his ear just trying to get info on the kids dorm and classes."
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to be continued
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