A Dragon's Crimson Cry
By: Tippi
A/N: This is a short chapter but it moves everything along.
For Luiz4200 The cop who found Jake will remain nameless and will not appear again.
Ch 3 Medic
The medical examiner Christine Master examined the bodies and identified them.
The detectives were in the lab ready to hear what Dr. Master had to say.
"I been over the bodies and identified them all" an African American woman know as Chris said.
"There's like 30 bodies and you identified them all" Lee asked amazed.
"It wasn't to hard they're all related, in other words the same family once I found that out I just pulled up records of all the family line" Chris explained. "All but two of the family is accounted for. There's some one called Lou Shi and Jacob Long, I'm guessing Jacob is the surviving boy they found."
"So what can you tell us of the dead" Chris asked.
"All died due to blood loss due to accurate cuts from some sort of sharp weapon. I can't figure where the burn marks on some of bodies come from. I take all their death between the times of 2:50- 3:40" Chris answered.
"It only took about 50 minutes to take down this many people" Mick asked in shock.
"I know I'm surprised but the police showed up at about 4 and it takes about an hour to go into rigor. But I did find that one member died more along the time of 3:30, 3:40, since the body was still warm when found" Chris added.
"Who is it" Lee asked.
Chris went over to one of the metal tables and lifted the sheet to show the head of an Asian woman about mid 30's.
"If you take a look at the back of the head she has a wound in a place when hit right commonly cause unconscious" Chris said turning the head for a moment to show the detectives before moving it back.
"The murderer must of figured she was dead due to some of the wounds earlier but they weren't life threatening. But she must of regained conciseness before he/she left and was killed then" Chris explained.
"She must be our victim #2; the one hit her head on the table then carried her self down the stairs. If she died when you said she did then the boy was home by then according to the neighbors who saw the boy walking home right around that time" Lee said. "Then there's a good chance he saw our perp." Lee finished with a hit of excitement.
"Now for the bad news" Chris said interrupting Lee's moment of excitement. "This is Susan Long… mother of Jacob Long. I got the boy's clothes and ran the blood none is his but most of it is from an uncle with trace amounts of his mother's. Your witness most likely watched his mother die."
"So…" Mick asked.
"A young boy just found his entire family dead and watched his mother die" Lee said crossing his arms. "We're dealing with a kid who just went through a very traumatic experience; it's not going to be easy to get anything out of a kid like that."
"We still got to try" Ellen said. "Lee you and me can go to hospital and see if we can learn anything from the boy. While you, Mick, see what you can dig up from the people who live close to the crime scene maybe some little details have resurfaced."
With that finished Ellen and Lee left for the hospital and Mick went back to the crime scene.
A/N In the next chapter we see what effect the event has on Jake. This may get confusing later on if it isn't already so any questions just ask. Review