Chapters 5 - 8 (PG13ish)
“Here ya go, Sel. That info you were looking for on Taylor
Lowry,” said officer Mitchel Musso as he handed Selena some files. He
continued, “..there are no criminal records on this 21 year old.”
Selena took the files from Mitchel with a surprised expression, “Twenty-one year old? Hmm…thanks, Mitchel.”
Officer Mitchel Musso nodded and walked away.
As Selena looked at the files, Mike walked up to her desk and slammed down some papers down on her desk saying, “Hey, check it out!” Selena looked up at him as if he had lost his mind. Mike continued, “Here is a motive against the parents of Lindsey Cyrus.”
“Jonas, what are you talking about?”
"Lindsey is worth thousands, almost a million dollars if she is dead.”
“Dead!? Jonas, Lindsey is not dead. At least we don’t know that yet. Besides, what are you doing looking for that kind of information?” Selena finished with an attitude.
With a serious expression and tone, Mike replied, “What do you want me to do? Sit around and wait for your command?” Selena looked at him in amazement on how handsome he looked when he looked so serious. Then she got angry at the fact he even talked to her in that way. She replied, “What? Wait a minute…Just who do you think –“
“Look, Ramirez, you have to keep all options open. You can't sit and wait for details to come to you. See in Pittsburgh, we –“
“Look, Jonas, that’s the thing, you’re not in Pittsburgh! You are in Chicago, and in Chicago, we do things differently! You got that?” Selena said angrily interrupting Mike.
By this time, fellow officers in the station started to stare at both Mike and Selena. Annoyed and frustrated, Mike replied more calmly, “You know what? I don’t need this, Ramirez. Now I see why no one wanted to be paired up with you. Ever since your partner, Washington, died, you have been a dry ass egg to everyone who tries to help or work with you.” Selena looked slightly hurt at the words Mike just said to her. She didn’t know everyone felt that way about her. Mike continued, “Ramirez, you have to move on. When you are in this field of work, unfortunate things happen. And unfortunately, it happened to you, and we are all sorry about that, but you have to trust me and work with me. I have put up with your sarcasm and when your sarcasm criticizes my craft in my work, you just pushed the wrong button. All I ask, Ramirez, is for you to respect my opinion as a partner.” Mike finished.
Selena only stared at Mike for a moment. She then looked around and realized some of her colleagues who were staring at them, tried to pretend as if they weren't looking, while others still stared. Selena finally responded, “You know what Jonas? I don’t need this either.” She then stormed out with her belongings.
Mike stood there speechless, not sure if he should go after her or not and apologize. Just when he decided to go after her, Jennifer stopped him and said, “Let her be, Mike. She needs to be left alone.”
Mike nodded and went to his desk.
Hours have passed and still, Selena had not returned back to the station. Mike was still at his desk, thinking and waiting on Selena to come back so they could visit and question Taylor Lowry. Mike took a deep breath and gathered up some papers as he stood up. He walked over to Jennifer’s desk with his coat and papers in hand. “Hey, Jennifer.”
“Yes, handsome – I mean, Mike.” Jennifer blurted as she looked up from her computer with a smile.
Mike smiled and replied, “If Ramirez comes back, tell her I waited and waited, but I am heading to Taylor Lowry’s house, the possible suspect in the case of the missing Cyrus girl.”
“Are you sure?” Jennifer asked.
“Yeah, I wanna catch this guy at home and I can’t just sit here and wonder anymore.” Mike started to walk away when he stopped and said to her, “Hey, can you do me a favor?”
“Anything.” Jennifer responded.
“Can you try to get in touch with a guy named Steve Urkel from the Computer Analysis Company. See if he can do something about hacking into Lindsey Cyrus’s laptop computer. I have been trying to contact him all day.” Mike said. “Okay, sure thing, Mike.” Jennifer said with a smile.
“Thanks, sweetie,” Mike said with a wink and walked away. At that, Jennifer felt her heart skip a beat when she heard him call her sweetie. She then said to herself, “Wow! He is such a hottie!”
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Selena took the files from Mitchel with a surprised expression, “Twenty-one year old? Hmm…thanks, Mitchel.”
Officer Mitchel Musso nodded and walked away.
As Selena looked at the files, Mike walked up to her desk and slammed down some papers down on her desk saying, “Hey, check it out!” Selena looked up at him as if he had lost his mind. Mike continued, “Here is a motive against the parents of Lindsey Cyrus.”
“Jonas, what are you talking about?”
"Lindsey is worth thousands, almost a million dollars if she is dead.”
“Dead!? Jonas, Lindsey is not dead. At least we don’t know that yet. Besides, what are you doing looking for that kind of information?” Selena finished with an attitude.
With a serious expression and tone, Mike replied, “What do you want me to do? Sit around and wait for your command?” Selena looked at him in amazement on how handsome he looked when he looked so serious. Then she got angry at the fact he even talked to her in that way. She replied, “What? Wait a minute…Just who do you think –“
“Look, Ramirez, you have to keep all options open. You can't sit and wait for details to come to you. See in Pittsburgh, we –“
“Look, Jonas, that’s the thing, you’re not in Pittsburgh! You are in Chicago, and in Chicago, we do things differently! You got that?” Selena said angrily interrupting Mike.
By this time, fellow officers in the station started to stare at both Mike and Selena. Annoyed and frustrated, Mike replied more calmly, “You know what? I don’t need this, Ramirez. Now I see why no one wanted to be paired up with you. Ever since your partner, Washington, died, you have been a dry ass egg to everyone who tries to help or work with you.” Selena looked slightly hurt at the words Mike just said to her. She didn’t know everyone felt that way about her. Mike continued, “Ramirez, you have to move on. When you are in this field of work, unfortunate things happen. And unfortunately, it happened to you, and we are all sorry about that, but you have to trust me and work with me. I have put up with your sarcasm and when your sarcasm criticizes my craft in my work, you just pushed the wrong button. All I ask, Ramirez, is for you to respect my opinion as a partner.” Mike finished.
Selena only stared at Mike for a moment. She then looked around and realized some of her colleagues who were staring at them, tried to pretend as if they weren't looking, while others still stared. Selena finally responded, “You know what Jonas? I don’t need this either.” She then stormed out with her belongings.
Mike stood there speechless, not sure if he should go after her or not and apologize. Just when he decided to go after her, Jennifer stopped him and said, “Let her be, Mike. She needs to be left alone.”
Mike nodded and went to his desk.
Hours have passed and still, Selena had not returned back to the station. Mike was still at his desk, thinking and waiting on Selena to come back so they could visit and question Taylor Lowry. Mike took a deep breath and gathered up some papers as he stood up. He walked over to Jennifer’s desk with his coat and papers in hand. “Hey, Jennifer.”
“Yes, handsome – I mean, Mike.” Jennifer blurted as she looked up from her computer with a smile.
Mike smiled and replied, “If Ramirez comes back, tell her I waited and waited, but I am heading to Taylor Lowry’s house, the possible suspect in the case of the missing Cyrus girl.”
“Are you sure?” Jennifer asked.
“Yeah, I wanna catch this guy at home and I can’t just sit here and wonder anymore.” Mike started to walk away when he stopped and said to her, “Hey, can you do me a favor?”
“Anything.” Jennifer responded.
“Can you try to get in touch with a guy named Steve Urkel from the Computer Analysis Company. See if he can do something about hacking into Lindsey Cyrus’s laptop computer. I have been trying to contact him all day.” Mike said. “Okay, sure thing, Mike.” Jennifer said with a smile.
“Thanks, sweetie,” Mike said with a wink and walked away. At that, Jennifer felt her heart skip a beat when she heard him call her sweetie. She then said to herself, “Wow! He is such a hottie!”
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Mike got into his car and drove to Taylor Lowry’s house. As
he pulled up to the house he noticed a familiar car parked on the road. He
looked in the direction of Taylor’s house and noticed Selena coming from the
house. Furious, Mike parked his car behind Selena’s car. Mike hopped out of his
car, and before he could say anything, Selena stated, “Don’t worry, no one is
home.”
“What the hell are you doing?” Mike asked as they both reach each other in the street.
Walking calmly to her car, Selena replied, “The same thing you are doing.”
“I waited for you at the station.” Mike said now following her.
Sarcastically, Selena responded, “Obviously, you didn’t wait there long enough.”
Mike returned the sarcasm by responding, “Apparently, you had no intention to hurry back. What are you doing here?” “The same reason you are here.” Selena responded as she attempted to open her car door.
Slamming her car door shut, Mike said angrily, “Why didn’t you tell me? See, Ramirez, this is the kind of bullshit that Im talking about! You could have been hurt or something!”
Trying to calm him down, Selena replied softly, “Can we not do this here?”
Noticing how she was getting ashamed, he replied, “Or what?” Mike then blocked her way to get into her car.
Selena looked up at him as if sizing him up. “Just move, Jonas.”
“Not until you smile.” He said with a smirk.
“What?” Selena asked confused and giving him a weird look.
“You really have no idea what Im capable of.” He continued to smile at Selena.
Selena rolled her eyes. This guy really loves to smile. He is so weird, Selena thought. “I don’t have time for this, let’s just go alright?” Selena said pushing him to the side.
Mike chuckled as he moved out of her way. “Great! You want to follow me or what?”
“I’ll follow you,” she said quickly as she opened her car door.
Noticing how quickly she responded, Mike said, “You’re not going to leave me hanging are you?”
“No, it’s getting late, the sun just set, and I would like to call it a day and pick up my kid in an hour, if I can.” Mike looked shocked when he heard her mention a kid. “Well, you wanna grab something to eat?”
“Whatever, Jonas.”
“Nice. Follow me.”
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“What the hell are you doing?” Mike asked as they both reach each other in the street.
Walking calmly to her car, Selena replied, “The same thing you are doing.”
“I waited for you at the station.” Mike said now following her.
Sarcastically, Selena responded, “Obviously, you didn’t wait there long enough.”
Mike returned the sarcasm by responding, “Apparently, you had no intention to hurry back. What are you doing here?” “The same reason you are here.” Selena responded as she attempted to open her car door.
Slamming her car door shut, Mike said angrily, “Why didn’t you tell me? See, Ramirez, this is the kind of bullshit that Im talking about! You could have been hurt or something!”
Trying to calm him down, Selena replied softly, “Can we not do this here?”
Noticing how she was getting ashamed, he replied, “Or what?” Mike then blocked her way to get into her car.
Selena looked up at him as if sizing him up. “Just move, Jonas.”
“Not until you smile.” He said with a smirk.
“What?” Selena asked confused and giving him a weird look.
“You really have no idea what Im capable of.” He continued to smile at Selena.
Selena rolled her eyes. This guy really loves to smile. He is so weird, Selena thought. “I don’t have time for this, let’s just go alright?” Selena said pushing him to the side.
Mike chuckled as he moved out of her way. “Great! You want to follow me or what?”
“I’ll follow you,” she said quickly as she opened her car door.
Noticing how quickly she responded, Mike said, “You’re not going to leave me hanging are you?”
“No, it’s getting late, the sun just set, and I would like to call it a day and pick up my kid in an hour, if I can.” Mike looked shocked when he heard her mention a kid. “Well, you wanna grab something to eat?”
“Whatever, Jonas.”
“Nice. Follow me.”
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They were now seated at a restaurant. There was an awkward silence between the two. Mike decided to break the silence. “Listen, Ramirez,
I just want to start off by saying Im sorry about what I said back at the
station a little earlier today. I was way out of line. I had absolutely no right
to say those things.” He paused to see if Selena would respond. However, she
remained silent. He continued, “Uhm, I wanted to tell you that as soon as you
left, that I was sorry, but Jennifer stopped me. She felt that you should be
left alone.” “Yeah, well she was right.” Selena said as she looked at the menu.
At that moment a waiter approached their table and took the drink orders. Once the waiter left, Mike took a deep breath saying, “So…you have a kid, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Girl or boy?”
“Girl.”
“Nice.” Mike noticed how Selena didn’t seem intrigued in the direction the conversation was going, so he decided to change the subject. “So…where did you go when you left the station today? If you don’t mind me asking.”
“I mind.” Selena stated coldly.
Mike just stared at her for a moment. He then let out a small chuckle. “You are one tough cookie.”
Selena didn’t respond.
“Okay, Ramirez. You win. I give up. I mean, I don’t know what you want me to do. This partnership thing is not working. I promise, as soon as we get this case over and closed, I will ask the Lieutenant to reassign me, because that is what it looks like you want me to do.”
“You promise?” Selena asked sarcastically.
Slightly hurt and annoyed, Mike replied, “Yeah. It’s a done deal. But in the mean time, I don’t plan on kissing your ass. I will do what I have to do to try and solve this case, although, I will work in accordance to you. Because unlike you, I will be the partner and detective I was assigned to be.” Mike said and looked at his menu.
Selena didn’t know what to say. Her only response was, “Whatever, Jonas.” Selena sneaked a peek over at Jonas as he looked down at his menu. Selena felt he could look so sexy when he was so serious, but he really got on her nerves. She was happy that he would ask the Lieutenant to be reassigned. She never wanted a partner anyway. Mission accomplished.
The waiter came back with their drinks. He then asked, “Are you ready to order?”
Selena’s cell phone started to ring. “Detective Ramirez,” she answered.
The waiter looked over at Mike to see if he would like to place his order first since Selena was on the phone. “Yes, I would like a large order of –“ Mike was interrupted by his cell phone ringing. “Excuse me, can you come back to us?” he asked the waiter before answering his phone.
The waiter nodded and walked away.
Mike answered his phone, “Detective Jonas.”
A couple of seconds pass and both Mike and Selena ended their call and looked at each other. They both quickly hopped up from the table. Mike quickly grabbed his wallet and pulled out a couple of dollars to pay for their drinks. “I got it.” He said to Selena paying for her drink. They both walked out of the restaurant and hopped into their cars putting their sirens on the roof of their cars. They sped off in the same direction following each other.
At that moment a waiter approached their table and took the drink orders. Once the waiter left, Mike took a deep breath saying, “So…you have a kid, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Girl or boy?”
“Girl.”
“Nice.” Mike noticed how Selena didn’t seem intrigued in the direction the conversation was going, so he decided to change the subject. “So…where did you go when you left the station today? If you don’t mind me asking.”
“I mind.” Selena stated coldly.
Mike just stared at her for a moment. He then let out a small chuckle. “You are one tough cookie.”
Selena didn’t respond.
“Okay, Ramirez. You win. I give up. I mean, I don’t know what you want me to do. This partnership thing is not working. I promise, as soon as we get this case over and closed, I will ask the Lieutenant to reassign me, because that is what it looks like you want me to do.”
“You promise?” Selena asked sarcastically.
Slightly hurt and annoyed, Mike replied, “Yeah. It’s a done deal. But in the mean time, I don’t plan on kissing your ass. I will do what I have to do to try and solve this case, although, I will work in accordance to you. Because unlike you, I will be the partner and detective I was assigned to be.” Mike said and looked at his menu.
Selena didn’t know what to say. Her only response was, “Whatever, Jonas.” Selena sneaked a peek over at Jonas as he looked down at his menu. Selena felt he could look so sexy when he was so serious, but he really got on her nerves. She was happy that he would ask the Lieutenant to be reassigned. She never wanted a partner anyway. Mission accomplished.
The waiter came back with their drinks. He then asked, “Are you ready to order?”
Selena’s cell phone started to ring. “Detective Ramirez,” she answered.
The waiter looked over at Mike to see if he would like to place his order first since Selena was on the phone. “Yes, I would like a large order of –“ Mike was interrupted by his cell phone ringing. “Excuse me, can you come back to us?” he asked the waiter before answering his phone.
The waiter nodded and walked away.
Mike answered his phone, “Detective Jonas.”
A couple of seconds pass and both Mike and Selena ended their call and looked at each other. They both quickly hopped up from the table. Mike quickly grabbed his wallet and pulled out a couple of dollars to pay for their drinks. “I got it.” He said to Selena paying for her drink. They both walked out of the restaurant and hopped into their cars putting their sirens on the roof of their cars. They sped off in the same direction following each other.
Ch 5 Part 2
As both Mike and Selena got out of their cars, they were welcomed with police lights and yellow crime scene tape surrounding an old abandoned coal mine. There were crime scene investigators, police officers and photographers flashing camera lights surrounding the mine that was down a woody hill. Up the hill, away from the crime scene was a small group of curious people trying to see what was going on. Selena and Mike walked slowly and carefully down the hil past some officers blocking the onlookers. That is where they see the Lieutenant. Lifting the yellow crime scene tape so both he and Selena can walk under it, Mike steps up to the Lieutenant and asks, “What we got Lieutenant?”
“Young white female. Hope you guys have been doing your homework. Go take a look, see what you can find out.” The Lieutenant said and walked away toward another officer.
Selena and mike looked at each other, then continued to view the scene.
As the walked closer, they saw a dead, and pale white female. “Oh my God.” Selena whispered at the sight of the dead body lying on the ground. Mike sighed and rubbed his short curly hair with his fingers. He then turned to an officer and asked for some latex gloves. He then proceeded to put the gloves on his hands. Selena also put on some latex gloves and walked toward one of the crime scene agents, David Henrie. “Hey, David.” Selena said.
Standing up to his feet to greet Selena, David replied, “Hey, detective Sel. How’s it going?”
Taking a deep breath, she replied, “Not too good, apparently. What happened?”
As David began to talk, Mike walked up toward them and stooped down to get a closer look at the dead body and listened to David speak. David starts, “Well, it’s a young female…well looks like she’s pretty young, but then again, you can’t really tell. Her face is totally disfigured. Apparently, she was severely beaten.” David paused to clear his throat. He then continued, “And the weird thing is…her finger tips have been cut off and removed from both of her hands.”
“Any luck in finding them?” Selena asked as she too stooped down beside Mike to get a closer look at the body.
“Nope. Not yet.” David replied.
“It was as if this body is not meant to be identified...” Mike said, “...the face is disfigured, and missing finger tips.”
Selena nodded in agreement. Selena then took a small rod and used it to strand thru the head of hair to the female’s body. She noticed it was dry, yet damp. As if it had been wet and towel dried. Selena looked up at David and asked, “Can you tell how long she has been dead?”
“Uh, no not really. I’d say, give or take, two to four days. I say that by looking at the color of the dried up blood. But I believe the body will go to Dr. Abdulla for an autopsy.”
Selena stood up and looked at Mike as he too stood up. “What are you thinking?”
Taking a deep breath, Mike replied, “Well, this female has red hair, and as I lifted was I could of her eye lid, her eyes are blue and she has on a pink shirt and faded blue jeans….all seems like the fitting of our missing girl, Lindsey Cyrus.” Mike turned to look at Selena and continued, “What do you think?”
“I think I would have to agree with you on this one.”
Taking off his latex gloves, Mike said, “Hey, check it out. She’s missing a shoe. The left shoe.”
“So, missing finger tips and a missing left black wedged heel shoe...interesting.” Selena said as she started to follow behind Mike.
They were both walking slowly around the body within the area to find any sort of clue. As Mike looked up at the small crowd at the top of the hill, he asked, “Hey, David, how was the body found?”
“Uhm they said some kids were playing around here and sort of stumbled on to it.” David replied and continued to write in his notepad.
Selena turned to Mike saying, “What do you say we call out that search warrant for Taylor Lowry.”
“Sounds good to me.”
“Im on it.” Selena said and quickly grabbed her cell phone to make all the necessary calls for a warrant.
As Selena made the call, Mike walked up the hill to where the onlookers were standing. He scanned through the crowd to try and pick out if the kids who found the body were still sticking around. There were a group of black kids about the ages between eight and twelve standing to the side behaving a little rowdy. Then there was a little boy with pretty brown skin standing away from the other kids, with a bewildered look on his face. Mike thought he looked to be at least ten years old. Mike decided to walk to the little boy with his hands in his pockets. “What’s up champ?” he said to the little boy as he stood next to him facing the scene of onlookers.
The little boy was standing the same way, with his arms folded across his chest. The little boy looked up at Mike. “You a cop?”
“Yep.” Mike said and extended his hand out to shake the little boy’s hand. “Im Mike. What’s your name?”
The little boy hesitated at first, but he went ahead and shook Mike’s hand responding, “My name is Robby.”
“Really? Wow, that’s cool. My little brother’s name is Robby. How old are you, Robby?”
“Eleven.”
“Nice. So, Robby, do you know what happened here?”
Hesitating, Robby continued, “Well, not really. No, sir.”
Pointing at the group of boys and girls in front of them, Mike asked, “What about them?” You think one of them know something?”
“Nah. They always think they know it all. But I was the one who saw it first.” Robby said folding his arms back in front of his chest.
Amazed at his unknown confession, Mike stated, “Ah, so you do know something.”
Realizing what he said, Robby started to hesitate once again. “Oh…well…yeah, I guess. I mean, we didn’t mean to find it. It was just there.”
“Find what, Robby?”
“The body. We were playing tag and hide.”
“You mean, you and those kids?”
“Yep.”
“You guys always play around here?”
“Yeah, but we never go by the mine. They say its haunted down there.”
“So, if it’s haunted, what made you go down there?”
“Because all this week, we kept smelling something, and everyday it got stronger…the smell, I mean. The smell was nasty.”
“Yeah, I hear ya. So what happened, next?” Mike asked curious.
“I told Lewey over there that it might be a dead animal and we should check it out. But Lewey punked out and got all the rest of them.” Robby said pointing at the group of kids. He then continued, “Then they all dared me to go down the hill by the mine, so I did, cuz I ain’t no punk! When I did, I tripped and fell down the hill and that’s when I saw the dead body.” “Wow. That must have been pretty scary, huh?”
“Yep. Then they came half way down and saw the body a little, and then they ran. Me too. I told my dad and showed him the body…then he called you guys.”
Putting his hand on Robby’s shoulders and congratulating him, Mike stated, “Good job, Robby. You did the right thing.” Robby looked up at Mike with a slight smile and said, “Thanks, mister.”
“Please, call me Mike.” Mike turned his attention to Selena at the top of the hill talking to the Lieutenant. She motioned for him to come over and join them. At that, Mike continued, “Hey Robby, do me a favor. If there is anything else you think you remember seeing over in this area that may have looked kind of weird to you, give me a call.” He handed him a card. “Hold on to this, and whenever, you just call me…Detective Mike Jonas. Ask for me, alright?”
“Wow! You’re a detective?” Robby asked with amazement.
Smiling, Mike responded, “Yep, that’s right. So don’t forget about me.”
“Sure thing, mister – I mean, detective Mike.” Robby smiled big.
Mike walked away and hurried over to Selena and Lieutenant Banks. As he walked up to them, he said, “What’s up guys?” “I was just telling the Lieutenant that we got the warrant out on Taylor Lowry. Hopefully we can bring him in tonight if they find him.”
Mike nodded. He then filled them in on the conversation he had with Robby on finding the body.
Lieutenant Banks looked at both Selena and Mike and asked, “So, do you think we should let Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus know we found their daughter or what?”
“I think so. Or maybe ask them to make an identification.” Mike said.
“Yeah, but how? Who can make an identification, it’s awful.” Selena said.
“I think we should let them know. I think it is Lindsey Cyrus. What did you guys find? Anything suspicious?” Lieutenant Banks asked rubbing his bald head.
Taking a deep breath, Selena replied, “Well, we have a disfigured face, missing finger tips on both hands, and a missing black wedged heel shoe…size seven.”
Mike added, “The female is wearing the exact same clothes as stated in the missing report which Lindsey was last seen wearing.”
“And her eyes are blue, just like Lindsey’s.” Selena added another fact.
“Any foot prints or anything?” the Lieutenant asked.
“Walking down the hill, I noticed skid marks in the dirt.” Selena stated.
“Oh, that may have been the little boy, Robby, who found the body. He said that he fell down the hill.” Mike informed. “Well, that’s not good. There goes our footprints if there were any.” Lieutenant Banks sated. He continued, “So what’s the deal on Taylor Lowry?”
“He’s our only lead to Lindsey. He is definitely a suspect. Everyone we talked to leads up to the fact that she was to be with him during the ski trip.” Selena stated.
“What about his house?” Lieutenant Banks asked.
“No one home when we went there.” Selena responded.
“Really?” Lieutenant Banks said analyzing the thought. He then continued, “I heard about you two and your little spat you had earlier today.”
Selena folded her arms across her chest as if ready to defend herself.
Mike took a deep breath waiting for the Lieutenant’s scolding words.
The Lieutenant continued calm, yet firm, “Perhaps Taylor Lowry could have been home if you two didn’t have your spat. I don’t know how many times I have to tell you two, that you need to put personal differences behind you. We now have a homicide case on our hands, and we don’t have time for your differences.” He then turned to Mike and said, “This is the Chicago police department, we work together and not ahead of each other.” He then turned to Selena and said, “Get over it!” he finished and walked away from them.
Scratching his head, and taking another breath, Mike said, “Well…I guess he told us.” Selena squinted her eyes at him as if to say, don’t talk to me. However, before Selena could say anything, her cell phone rung. A couple of seconds go by and Selena ended the call. She then looked at Mike saying, “They got’em.”
“Got who? Taylor Lowry?”
“Yep. They just picked him up at a local convenient store about 3 miles from his house.” Selena responded.
“Damn. That was quick. Let’s go!”
With a slight smile, Selena said, “That’s Chicago.”
Mike only smiled at her response.
“Young white female. Hope you guys have been doing your homework. Go take a look, see what you can find out.” The Lieutenant said and walked away toward another officer.
Selena and mike looked at each other, then continued to view the scene.
As the walked closer, they saw a dead, and pale white female. “Oh my God.” Selena whispered at the sight of the dead body lying on the ground. Mike sighed and rubbed his short curly hair with his fingers. He then turned to an officer and asked for some latex gloves. He then proceeded to put the gloves on his hands. Selena also put on some latex gloves and walked toward one of the crime scene agents, David Henrie. “Hey, David.” Selena said.
Standing up to his feet to greet Selena, David replied, “Hey, detective Sel. How’s it going?”
Taking a deep breath, she replied, “Not too good, apparently. What happened?”
As David began to talk, Mike walked up toward them and stooped down to get a closer look at the dead body and listened to David speak. David starts, “Well, it’s a young female…well looks like she’s pretty young, but then again, you can’t really tell. Her face is totally disfigured. Apparently, she was severely beaten.” David paused to clear his throat. He then continued, “And the weird thing is…her finger tips have been cut off and removed from both of her hands.”
“Any luck in finding them?” Selena asked as she too stooped down beside Mike to get a closer look at the body.
“Nope. Not yet.” David replied.
“It was as if this body is not meant to be identified...” Mike said, “...the face is disfigured, and missing finger tips.”
Selena nodded in agreement. Selena then took a small rod and used it to strand thru the head of hair to the female’s body. She noticed it was dry, yet damp. As if it had been wet and towel dried. Selena looked up at David and asked, “Can you tell how long she has been dead?”
“Uh, no not really. I’d say, give or take, two to four days. I say that by looking at the color of the dried up blood. But I believe the body will go to Dr. Abdulla for an autopsy.”
Selena stood up and looked at Mike as he too stood up. “What are you thinking?”
Taking a deep breath, Mike replied, “Well, this female has red hair, and as I lifted was I could of her eye lid, her eyes are blue and she has on a pink shirt and faded blue jeans….all seems like the fitting of our missing girl, Lindsey Cyrus.” Mike turned to look at Selena and continued, “What do you think?”
“I think I would have to agree with you on this one.”
Taking off his latex gloves, Mike said, “Hey, check it out. She’s missing a shoe. The left shoe.”
“So, missing finger tips and a missing left black wedged heel shoe...interesting.” Selena said as she started to follow behind Mike.
They were both walking slowly around the body within the area to find any sort of clue. As Mike looked up at the small crowd at the top of the hill, he asked, “Hey, David, how was the body found?”
“Uhm they said some kids were playing around here and sort of stumbled on to it.” David replied and continued to write in his notepad.
Selena turned to Mike saying, “What do you say we call out that search warrant for Taylor Lowry.”
“Sounds good to me.”
“Im on it.” Selena said and quickly grabbed her cell phone to make all the necessary calls for a warrant.
As Selena made the call, Mike walked up the hill to where the onlookers were standing. He scanned through the crowd to try and pick out if the kids who found the body were still sticking around. There were a group of black kids about the ages between eight and twelve standing to the side behaving a little rowdy. Then there was a little boy with pretty brown skin standing away from the other kids, with a bewildered look on his face. Mike thought he looked to be at least ten years old. Mike decided to walk to the little boy with his hands in his pockets. “What’s up champ?” he said to the little boy as he stood next to him facing the scene of onlookers.
The little boy was standing the same way, with his arms folded across his chest. The little boy looked up at Mike. “You a cop?”
“Yep.” Mike said and extended his hand out to shake the little boy’s hand. “Im Mike. What’s your name?”
The little boy hesitated at first, but he went ahead and shook Mike’s hand responding, “My name is Robby.”
“Really? Wow, that’s cool. My little brother’s name is Robby. How old are you, Robby?”
“Eleven.”
“Nice. So, Robby, do you know what happened here?”
Hesitating, Robby continued, “Well, not really. No, sir.”
Pointing at the group of boys and girls in front of them, Mike asked, “What about them?” You think one of them know something?”
“Nah. They always think they know it all. But I was the one who saw it first.” Robby said folding his arms back in front of his chest.
Amazed at his unknown confession, Mike stated, “Ah, so you do know something.”
Realizing what he said, Robby started to hesitate once again. “Oh…well…yeah, I guess. I mean, we didn’t mean to find it. It was just there.”
“Find what, Robby?”
“The body. We were playing tag and hide.”
“You mean, you and those kids?”
“Yep.”
“You guys always play around here?”
“Yeah, but we never go by the mine. They say its haunted down there.”
“So, if it’s haunted, what made you go down there?”
“Because all this week, we kept smelling something, and everyday it got stronger…the smell, I mean. The smell was nasty.”
“Yeah, I hear ya. So what happened, next?” Mike asked curious.
“I told Lewey over there that it might be a dead animal and we should check it out. But Lewey punked out and got all the rest of them.” Robby said pointing at the group of kids. He then continued, “Then they all dared me to go down the hill by the mine, so I did, cuz I ain’t no punk! When I did, I tripped and fell down the hill and that’s when I saw the dead body.” “Wow. That must have been pretty scary, huh?”
“Yep. Then they came half way down and saw the body a little, and then they ran. Me too. I told my dad and showed him the body…then he called you guys.”
Putting his hand on Robby’s shoulders and congratulating him, Mike stated, “Good job, Robby. You did the right thing.” Robby looked up at Mike with a slight smile and said, “Thanks, mister.”
“Please, call me Mike.” Mike turned his attention to Selena at the top of the hill talking to the Lieutenant. She motioned for him to come over and join them. At that, Mike continued, “Hey Robby, do me a favor. If there is anything else you think you remember seeing over in this area that may have looked kind of weird to you, give me a call.” He handed him a card. “Hold on to this, and whenever, you just call me…Detective Mike Jonas. Ask for me, alright?”
“Wow! You’re a detective?” Robby asked with amazement.
Smiling, Mike responded, “Yep, that’s right. So don’t forget about me.”
“Sure thing, mister – I mean, detective Mike.” Robby smiled big.
Mike walked away and hurried over to Selena and Lieutenant Banks. As he walked up to them, he said, “What’s up guys?” “I was just telling the Lieutenant that we got the warrant out on Taylor Lowry. Hopefully we can bring him in tonight if they find him.”
Mike nodded. He then filled them in on the conversation he had with Robby on finding the body.
Lieutenant Banks looked at both Selena and Mike and asked, “So, do you think we should let Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus know we found their daughter or what?”
“I think so. Or maybe ask them to make an identification.” Mike said.
“Yeah, but how? Who can make an identification, it’s awful.” Selena said.
“I think we should let them know. I think it is Lindsey Cyrus. What did you guys find? Anything suspicious?” Lieutenant Banks asked rubbing his bald head.
Taking a deep breath, Selena replied, “Well, we have a disfigured face, missing finger tips on both hands, and a missing black wedged heel shoe…size seven.”
Mike added, “The female is wearing the exact same clothes as stated in the missing report which Lindsey was last seen wearing.”
“And her eyes are blue, just like Lindsey’s.” Selena added another fact.
“Any foot prints or anything?” the Lieutenant asked.
“Walking down the hill, I noticed skid marks in the dirt.” Selena stated.
“Oh, that may have been the little boy, Robby, who found the body. He said that he fell down the hill.” Mike informed. “Well, that’s not good. There goes our footprints if there were any.” Lieutenant Banks sated. He continued, “So what’s the deal on Taylor Lowry?”
“He’s our only lead to Lindsey. He is definitely a suspect. Everyone we talked to leads up to the fact that she was to be with him during the ski trip.” Selena stated.
“What about his house?” Lieutenant Banks asked.
“No one home when we went there.” Selena responded.
“Really?” Lieutenant Banks said analyzing the thought. He then continued, “I heard about you two and your little spat you had earlier today.”
Selena folded her arms across her chest as if ready to defend herself.
Mike took a deep breath waiting for the Lieutenant’s scolding words.
The Lieutenant continued calm, yet firm, “Perhaps Taylor Lowry could have been home if you two didn’t have your spat. I don’t know how many times I have to tell you two, that you need to put personal differences behind you. We now have a homicide case on our hands, and we don’t have time for your differences.” He then turned to Mike and said, “This is the Chicago police department, we work together and not ahead of each other.” He then turned to Selena and said, “Get over it!” he finished and walked away from them.
Scratching his head, and taking another breath, Mike said, “Well…I guess he told us.” Selena squinted her eyes at him as if to say, don’t talk to me. However, before Selena could say anything, her cell phone rung. A couple of seconds go by and Selena ended the call. She then looked at Mike saying, “They got’em.”
“Got who? Taylor Lowry?”
“Yep. They just picked him up at a local convenient store about 3 miles from his house.” Selena responded.
“Damn. That was quick. Let’s go!”
With a slight smile, Selena said, “That’s Chicago.”
Mike only smiled at her response.
© 2011 CelebritySuperFan
4/18/2011
4/18/2011
Chapter 6
Before walking into the interrogating room to interview Taylor Lowry, Selena tightened her ponytail. Mike walked up to Selena and says, “Alright partner, I’ll let you have him. I’ll just sit back and listen. I”ll jump in when I feel I need to, because I want to see how Chi-town works it out.” Mike teased as he smiled showing his dimple.
Selena rolled her eyes and said, “Works for me.” She then walked into the interrogating room with Mike following her.
They entered into a small basic four-wall room, with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling. There was a police officer standing in the corner behind Taylor. Taylor sat at the end of the table with his hands cuffed in front him. Selena walked up to the opposite end of the table from where Taylor sat, and slapped down some paperwork in a folder. Mike closed the door behind him and leaned up against the wall. Selena started, “Taylor Lowry.”
In a choppy yet settled voice, Taylor replied looking up at Selena, “Yeah, that’s me. Look, I don’t know why you guys arrested me and brought me in! I haven’t done anything!”
Ignoring his comment, Selena continued, “So, Taylor, are you really 21 years old?”
“Yeah. And?” he replied with an attitude.
“So what’s a 21 year old still doing in high school?”
“What’s it to ya?”
“Do you know Lindsey?”
Nonchalantly, Taylor replied, “Lindsey, who?”
Selena replied firmly, “Eighteen year old Lindsey Cyrus. Red hair, blue eyed girl who supposedly has been your girlfriend for quite some time now.”
There was a brief moment of silence as Selena waited for Taylor to respond. He finally answered, “Oh…well…yeah. Maybe I know her. I haven’t seen her.”
“Then tell me why is it that everyone says that Lindsey was to be with you before her disappearance.”
Taylor cleared his throat and responded, “Yeah. I know her. But that doesn’t mean I did anything to her! I didn’t know she was dead until you guys told me!”
Putting one hand on her hip, right above her police badge, Selena responded, “And give me one good reason why we should believe you?”
Taylor calmly replied, “Because I am innocent until proven guilty.”
Walking a little closer toward Taylor from where he was sitting, Selena ignored his last statement and continued, “When was the last time you saw or spoke to Lindsey?”
With his head down, he replied, “I don’t know.”
“Were you two a couple?”
“I don’t know.”
“You ever loved her or like her?”
“I don’t know.” He replied looking back up at Selena.
Quickly getting annoyed, Selena continued, “Do you remember having anything to do with her?”
Still looking at Selena, he replied slowly, “I ..don’t ...know.”
“Why didn’t you go on the ski trip? Were you with Lindsey?”
With a slight smile noticing how aggravated Selena was getting with him, Taylor replied, “I don’t know.”
Selena was furious. She knew Taylor was being cocky and she had had enough. Selena quickly slammed both of her hands hard on the table in front of Taylor and leaned forward, close into Taylor’s face and spoke thru her teeth. “Listen to me you little prick! You better tell me something! I know you know something, because you tell me why the hell the police saw that you have pictures of you and Lindsey all over your bedroom?! From both the past and the present!”
Selena rolled her eyes and said, “Works for me.” She then walked into the interrogating room with Mike following her.
They entered into a small basic four-wall room, with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling. There was a police officer standing in the corner behind Taylor. Taylor sat at the end of the table with his hands cuffed in front him. Selena walked up to the opposite end of the table from where Taylor sat, and slapped down some paperwork in a folder. Mike closed the door behind him and leaned up against the wall. Selena started, “Taylor Lowry.”
In a choppy yet settled voice, Taylor replied looking up at Selena, “Yeah, that’s me. Look, I don’t know why you guys arrested me and brought me in! I haven’t done anything!”
Ignoring his comment, Selena continued, “So, Taylor, are you really 21 years old?”
“Yeah. And?” he replied with an attitude.
“So what’s a 21 year old still doing in high school?”
“What’s it to ya?”
“Do you know Lindsey?”
Nonchalantly, Taylor replied, “Lindsey, who?”
Selena replied firmly, “Eighteen year old Lindsey Cyrus. Red hair, blue eyed girl who supposedly has been your girlfriend for quite some time now.”
There was a brief moment of silence as Selena waited for Taylor to respond. He finally answered, “Oh…well…yeah. Maybe I know her. I haven’t seen her.”
“Then tell me why is it that everyone says that Lindsey was to be with you before her disappearance.”
Taylor cleared his throat and responded, “Yeah. I know her. But that doesn’t mean I did anything to her! I didn’t know she was dead until you guys told me!”
Putting one hand on her hip, right above her police badge, Selena responded, “And give me one good reason why we should believe you?”
Taylor calmly replied, “Because I am innocent until proven guilty.”
Walking a little closer toward Taylor from where he was sitting, Selena ignored his last statement and continued, “When was the last time you saw or spoke to Lindsey?”
With his head down, he replied, “I don’t know.”
“Were you two a couple?”
“I don’t know.”
“You ever loved her or like her?”
“I don’t know.” He replied looking back up at Selena.
Quickly getting annoyed, Selena continued, “Do you remember having anything to do with her?”
Still looking at Selena, he replied slowly, “I ..don’t ...know.”
“Why didn’t you go on the ski trip? Were you with Lindsey?”
With a slight smile noticing how aggravated Selena was getting with him, Taylor replied, “I don’t know.”
Selena was furious. She knew Taylor was being cocky and she had had enough. Selena quickly slammed both of her hands hard on the table in front of Taylor and leaned forward, close into Taylor’s face and spoke thru her teeth. “Listen to me you little prick! You better tell me something! I know you know something, because you tell me why the hell the police saw that you have pictures of you and Lindsey all over your bedroom?! From both the past and the present!”
Taylor didn’t respond. He just stared back into Selena’s brown eyes and down to her rosey pink lips. He started to look down Selena's low cut shirt and then back to her rosey pink lips. The corner of his lips curled as he suddenly stuck his tongue out attempting to lick Selena’s lips. Selena quickly drew back with a disgusted look on her face.
Selena stood there for a second as she noticed the wide smile spread across Taylor’s face. How dare he try to lick me, Selena thought. The look of pleasure on Taylor’s face pushed her last button. Before Taylor knew it, Selena grabbed his collar and jacked him up from his seat, shoving him up against the wall. Taylor was startled, yet he was totally at Selena’s mercy. Selena snapped, “You son of a bitch! You don’t know who you are fucking with! You –“
Pulling Selena away from Taylor by her waist, Mike yelled, “Ramirez! Calm down!”
As he separated Selena from Taylor, the police officer that was standing in the far corner of the room grabbed a hold of Taylor and scuffled with him to sit him back down. “No way man! I don’t have to take this shit from no cops! It’s not right, Im telling you! It’s not right!” Taylor yelled sitting back down in his seat.
Mike shoved Selena out of the interrogating room to talk to her. As he got her out, he closed the door behind him. Selena took a couple of steps ahead holding her head and taking a deep breath and speaking fluent Spanish to herself. Mike listened to her and was confused for a second as he put one hand on his gun belt. He then said, “I hope you are counting backwards from ten. What’s up Ramirez? You can’t lose your cool in there.”
Pacing a short distance back and forth in front of Mike, Selena replied, “I know, I know. But that fucking asshole tried to lick me! I had to let him know that he was not going to get away with that!”
“I understand, but that kid could press charges against you. I mean we got nothing on him. Nothing. We get to his house and all we find are a whole bunch of pictures of him and Lindsey and some other lovesick stuff that a lovesick kid would have. But we still got nothing on him to connect him to Cyrus’s death. And as far as that goes, the bastard is right…he is innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately. But until then, we still have to get him to tell us something.” Mike finished as if almost pleading with Selena to calm down and realize what has to be done.
Selena took another deep breath and was now calm. “Alright. You’re right. Unfortunately. But I can't talk to him anymore, cause I might punch him or something.”
Mike smiled. “And I believe you. C’mon let’s go.” He opened the door to the interrogating room.
Mike walks in first and Selena closes the door behind her standing where Mike was originally standing when she was interrogating Taylor. Mike grabbed a chair that was up against the wall, turning it backwards as he sat down straddling the chair to face Taylor. He propped his arms on top of the backrest of the chair. Taylor just sat there glaring at Selena for a minute. He then glared at Mike sitting close to him. “Listen, Lowry. We gotta work something out here.” Mike said. “Whatever man. Just don’t let super chick over there attack me again!” Taylor said keeping his eyes on Selena.
“Don’t worry, she wont hurt you.” Mike said looking back at Selena as if to reassure Taylor.
Selena didn’t move. She continued to match Taylor's stare back at him.
Looking back at Taylor. Mike continued, “Ok. What can you tell us about Lindsey? Don’t say you don’t know, because you must know something. We searched your house. We see all these pictures of you and her…so what can you tell us, Taylor?”
Taking a deep breath and bringing his head down, Taylor finally gave in. “Yeah….we were in love. She was my everything…her parents never liked me. They always prevented me and her to be together.”
“Why is that?” Mike asked.
“I don’t know…that, I really don’t know. Maybe because she was a beautiful girl and I was the creep coming to take their precious daughter away.” He paused and continued, “I mean, it wasn’t like they paid her any attention to her anyway. They got on her nerves. Everyone got on her nerves. Her parents, her friends. I bet it was her parents who lead you guys to me, huh? Or was it her so-called friends? We couldn’t stand any one of them!”
With his hand over his forehead, Mike asked calmly, “Taylor, were you with Lindsey the day some students went on the ski trip?”
“No.”
“Why does everyone keep saying she was with you in place of the ski trip? When is the last time you seen or talked to her?”
“I don’t know, man. It’s been a while.” He said calmly.
“What’s a while?” Mike asked getting very annoyed with Taylor.
“I don’t know…a couple of weeks maybe.”
“A couple of weeks when? Before you found out she’s dead or what? Come on man, be specific!” Mike snapped.
“I don’t know alright! Damn!” Taylor snapped back.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Mike continued, “So where were you when everybody else was at the ski trip?”
Taylor just stared at him as if Mike never asked a question.
Mike stared back waiting for him to answer. Realizing Taylor wasn’t going to answer immediately, Mike looked back at Selena to see her reaction. Selena shrugged her shoulders a little. Mike turned his attention back to Taylor. He then responded in a sarcastic tone, “Uhm, d-d-did I st-st-stutter? Where were you?”
Taylor looked down and responded with shame, “I was in Detroit at an A.A. meeting with my cousin Kristin. So there is no way Lindsey was with me."
A bit shocked, Mike replied, “Did Lindsey know?”
“Nope. No one knew.”
“What clinic did you go to?”
“It was at Detroit Shelter of America.” Taylor responded quietly.
Mike looked back at Selena to see if she heard what he said. Selena nodded indicating she heard him, and then turned to leave the room. Mike looked back at Taylor and stood up. “You better be telling the truth, Lowry. For your own good, you better.” Mike then looked at the officer and nodded to him to let him know he was done. Mike turned to leave out of the room.
“So am I free to go or what, man?” Taylor asked puzzled.
Holding the door open, Mike replied, “We’ll let you know.” Mike exited the room.
Mike walked along the halls to get to his and Selena’s desk. He walked up to Selena who was already sitting at her desk on her computer. Mike sat on the edge of her desk, and took a deep breath. “So what do you think?”
Hesitating a bit, Selena replied as she slowly grabbed for her desk phone. “Well…we shall soon find out.” She started to dial.
“Calling DSA?” Mike asked referring to Detroit Shelter of America.
Selena nodded yes.
Mike looked down at his silver rolex watch and noticed the time. It was half past 11 at night. He then asked in almost a whisper, “Do you think you can find this kind of info at this hour of the night?”
“Why not? Arent they open 24hrs a day?” Selena stated rather than in a question as she held the phone away from her mouth.
Before Mike had a chance to respond, Selena began to talk into the phone.
“Hey Mike.” Jennifer said in a tiring voice as she walked up towards them.
Mike slightly turned to Jennifer’s direction a bit surprised to see her standing there. He stood up saying, “Hey, sweetie. What are you doing still here?”
Jennifer sighed and replied, “Busy day. Im so freaking tired. I am going home, finally.”
“Yeah, you should!” Mike said gently rubbing her arm.
Jennifer was about to melt from his touch. “Yeah…” she smiled gazing into Mike’s light brown eyes. She then continued as if snapping out of her daze, “But anyway, uhm, I have a message for you. I did get in contact with Steve Urkel, finally, and he said that he will be free tomorrow afternoon. He wants you to call him around noon if you can, so you guys can set a definite time for him to come in.”
“Ahh, fantastic! Perfect! Thank you so much, Jennifer. By any chance did you tell him the situation? Do you know if he said he could hack into the computer?”
“Yep. He said it shouldn’t be a problem.” Jennifer said with a smile.
“Great. Love you for that, sweetie. Now go home and get some sleep.”
“Oh, you better believe it. Goodnight.” Jennifer smiled and looked at Selena to see if she were off the phone yet. Selena had just hung up the phone, so Jennifer spoke to her saying, “Goodnight, Sel.”
“G’night Jenn.” Selena responded.
Mike turned to Selena to get a response for the details from her conversation on the phone.
“We have to let him go.” Selena said with a disappointed expression.
“The bastard was telling the truth?” Mike asked surprised.
“That little prick was there for a week. His cousin Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lowry checked into the shelter as alcohol anonymous patients and participated in a camp rehab for a week….son of a bitch was telling the truth. We got nothing on him. Now we have to let him go.”
Selena stood there for a second as she noticed the wide smile spread across Taylor’s face. How dare he try to lick me, Selena thought. The look of pleasure on Taylor’s face pushed her last button. Before Taylor knew it, Selena grabbed his collar and jacked him up from his seat, shoving him up against the wall. Taylor was startled, yet he was totally at Selena’s mercy. Selena snapped, “You son of a bitch! You don’t know who you are fucking with! You –“
Pulling Selena away from Taylor by her waist, Mike yelled, “Ramirez! Calm down!”
As he separated Selena from Taylor, the police officer that was standing in the far corner of the room grabbed a hold of Taylor and scuffled with him to sit him back down. “No way man! I don’t have to take this shit from no cops! It’s not right, Im telling you! It’s not right!” Taylor yelled sitting back down in his seat.
Mike shoved Selena out of the interrogating room to talk to her. As he got her out, he closed the door behind him. Selena took a couple of steps ahead holding her head and taking a deep breath and speaking fluent Spanish to herself. Mike listened to her and was confused for a second as he put one hand on his gun belt. He then said, “I hope you are counting backwards from ten. What’s up Ramirez? You can’t lose your cool in there.”
Pacing a short distance back and forth in front of Mike, Selena replied, “I know, I know. But that fucking asshole tried to lick me! I had to let him know that he was not going to get away with that!”
“I understand, but that kid could press charges against you. I mean we got nothing on him. Nothing. We get to his house and all we find are a whole bunch of pictures of him and Lindsey and some other lovesick stuff that a lovesick kid would have. But we still got nothing on him to connect him to Cyrus’s death. And as far as that goes, the bastard is right…he is innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately. But until then, we still have to get him to tell us something.” Mike finished as if almost pleading with Selena to calm down and realize what has to be done.
Selena took another deep breath and was now calm. “Alright. You’re right. Unfortunately. But I can't talk to him anymore, cause I might punch him or something.”
Mike smiled. “And I believe you. C’mon let’s go.” He opened the door to the interrogating room.
Mike walks in first and Selena closes the door behind her standing where Mike was originally standing when she was interrogating Taylor. Mike grabbed a chair that was up against the wall, turning it backwards as he sat down straddling the chair to face Taylor. He propped his arms on top of the backrest of the chair. Taylor just sat there glaring at Selena for a minute. He then glared at Mike sitting close to him. “Listen, Lowry. We gotta work something out here.” Mike said. “Whatever man. Just don’t let super chick over there attack me again!” Taylor said keeping his eyes on Selena.
“Don’t worry, she wont hurt you.” Mike said looking back at Selena as if to reassure Taylor.
Selena didn’t move. She continued to match Taylor's stare back at him.
Looking back at Taylor. Mike continued, “Ok. What can you tell us about Lindsey? Don’t say you don’t know, because you must know something. We searched your house. We see all these pictures of you and her…so what can you tell us, Taylor?”
Taking a deep breath and bringing his head down, Taylor finally gave in. “Yeah….we were in love. She was my everything…her parents never liked me. They always prevented me and her to be together.”
“Why is that?” Mike asked.
“I don’t know…that, I really don’t know. Maybe because she was a beautiful girl and I was the creep coming to take their precious daughter away.” He paused and continued, “I mean, it wasn’t like they paid her any attention to her anyway. They got on her nerves. Everyone got on her nerves. Her parents, her friends. I bet it was her parents who lead you guys to me, huh? Or was it her so-called friends? We couldn’t stand any one of them!”
With his hand over his forehead, Mike asked calmly, “Taylor, were you with Lindsey the day some students went on the ski trip?”
“No.”
“Why does everyone keep saying she was with you in place of the ski trip? When is the last time you seen or talked to her?”
“I don’t know, man. It’s been a while.” He said calmly.
“What’s a while?” Mike asked getting very annoyed with Taylor.
“I don’t know…a couple of weeks maybe.”
“A couple of weeks when? Before you found out she’s dead or what? Come on man, be specific!” Mike snapped.
“I don’t know alright! Damn!” Taylor snapped back.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Mike continued, “So where were you when everybody else was at the ski trip?”
Taylor just stared at him as if Mike never asked a question.
Mike stared back waiting for him to answer. Realizing Taylor wasn’t going to answer immediately, Mike looked back at Selena to see her reaction. Selena shrugged her shoulders a little. Mike turned his attention back to Taylor. He then responded in a sarcastic tone, “Uhm, d-d-did I st-st-stutter? Where were you?”
Taylor looked down and responded with shame, “I was in Detroit at an A.A. meeting with my cousin Kristin. So there is no way Lindsey was with me."
A bit shocked, Mike replied, “Did Lindsey know?”
“Nope. No one knew.”
“What clinic did you go to?”
“It was at Detroit Shelter of America.” Taylor responded quietly.
Mike looked back at Selena to see if she heard what he said. Selena nodded indicating she heard him, and then turned to leave the room. Mike looked back at Taylor and stood up. “You better be telling the truth, Lowry. For your own good, you better.” Mike then looked at the officer and nodded to him to let him know he was done. Mike turned to leave out of the room.
“So am I free to go or what, man?” Taylor asked puzzled.
Holding the door open, Mike replied, “We’ll let you know.” Mike exited the room.
Mike walked along the halls to get to his and Selena’s desk. He walked up to Selena who was already sitting at her desk on her computer. Mike sat on the edge of her desk, and took a deep breath. “So what do you think?”
Hesitating a bit, Selena replied as she slowly grabbed for her desk phone. “Well…we shall soon find out.” She started to dial.
“Calling DSA?” Mike asked referring to Detroit Shelter of America.
Selena nodded yes.
Mike looked down at his silver rolex watch and noticed the time. It was half past 11 at night. He then asked in almost a whisper, “Do you think you can find this kind of info at this hour of the night?”
“Why not? Arent they open 24hrs a day?” Selena stated rather than in a question as she held the phone away from her mouth.
Before Mike had a chance to respond, Selena began to talk into the phone.
“Hey Mike.” Jennifer said in a tiring voice as she walked up towards them.
Mike slightly turned to Jennifer’s direction a bit surprised to see her standing there. He stood up saying, “Hey, sweetie. What are you doing still here?”
Jennifer sighed and replied, “Busy day. Im so freaking tired. I am going home, finally.”
“Yeah, you should!” Mike said gently rubbing her arm.
Jennifer was about to melt from his touch. “Yeah…” she smiled gazing into Mike’s light brown eyes. She then continued as if snapping out of her daze, “But anyway, uhm, I have a message for you. I did get in contact with Steve Urkel, finally, and he said that he will be free tomorrow afternoon. He wants you to call him around noon if you can, so you guys can set a definite time for him to come in.”
“Ahh, fantastic! Perfect! Thank you so much, Jennifer. By any chance did you tell him the situation? Do you know if he said he could hack into the computer?”
“Yep. He said it shouldn’t be a problem.” Jennifer said with a smile.
“Great. Love you for that, sweetie. Now go home and get some sleep.”
“Oh, you better believe it. Goodnight.” Jennifer smiled and looked at Selena to see if she were off the phone yet. Selena had just hung up the phone, so Jennifer spoke to her saying, “Goodnight, Sel.”
“G’night Jenn.” Selena responded.
Mike turned to Selena to get a response for the details from her conversation on the phone.
“We have to let him go.” Selena said with a disappointed expression.
“The bastard was telling the truth?” Mike asked surprised.
“That little prick was there for a week. His cousin Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lowry checked into the shelter as alcohol anonymous patients and participated in a camp rehab for a week….son of a bitch was telling the truth. We got nothing on him. Now we have to let him go.”
Chapter 7
Once Taylor Lowry was set free, Mike and Selena were off to the morgue for Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus to make an identification. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus stood there behind a glass preparing to view their daughter’s body. Mike and Selena stood not far from them but also in view to see the body. Mr. Cyrus held his wife, Vivian close in his arms as he comforted her. Mrs. Cyrus was already alightly sobbing.
“Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus? Are you ready?” Selena asked with a comforting tone. They both nodded. “Again, please brace yourself due to the results. Its not going to be easy.” Selena continued. She then nodded to the male nurse inside the morgue to proceed to show the body.
The nurse pulled out a bed with a body laying on it covered under a thick white sheet. He then slowly revealed the body from the shoulders up to Mr. and Mrs Cyrus. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus let out a gasp at the sight of the disfigured face. Jack, Mr. Cyrus, started to sob and said out loud, “Oh dear God! Not our daughter, Lindsey! Why!?!”
Mike waved to the nurse to quickly cover the body up again.
Just as the nurse started to, Mrs. Cyrys said, “No, wait! Please.”
The nurse stopped.
“Vivian, please. We don’t need to see Lindsey like that.” Jack said to his wife.
“But Jack, that can’t be our daughter! Look at her! Noooo!” Vivian started to sob uncontrollably. Within the next second, as if snapping out of it, she angrily continued, "No, no, no. That is not my daughter! It doesn’t look like her! That is not her. That is someone else’s child!”
Mike waved to the nurse to cover the body once again. The nurse covered the body.
Shocked, Selena asked, “Mrs. Cyrus, are you saying that is not Lindsey Cyrus, your daughter?”
Starting to sob again, she replied, “No, it’s not my baby. Please no!”
Burying his wife’s head into his chest, Jack responded, “Yes. That is our daughter. Don’t listen to Vivian, she is a bit hysterical right now.”
Still sobbing, Mrs. Cyrus shouted, “Nooo! Please, not my baby! Oh God! Nooo!”
“Ok, come this way, let’s get her some water.” Selena said leading them away from the viewing.
Mike followed.
Sitting her down and trying to calm her, Selena handed Mrs. Cyrus a cup of water. Rocking back and forth, Mrs. Cyrus kept repeating to herself, “No. Nope. No, not my daughter. Won’t believe it. Please God. No, nope, no, not my daughter. Won’t believe it….” Her voice trailed off.
“Is she going to be okay?” Selena asked.
“She did the same thing at her cousin’s funeral. Yes, she is going to be fine.” Mr. Cyrus replied.
“You both want us to go on with the autopsy, correct?” Mike asked.
In unison, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus responded, “No.”
“Im sorry, what was that?” Selena asked surprised at their answer.
“Well, I guess. If you must.” Mr. Cyrus said.
Mrs. Cyrus continued her mumblings quietly, “No. Nope. No, not my daughter…”
“Mr. Cyrus, are you going to make it home alright? Do you want us to get you both home safely?” Mike asked.
“No, we’ll be fine thank you.” Mr. Cyrus said as he raised to his feet and basically started to carry his wife out the door. Mike and Selena watched them both leave out.
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Taking a deep breath, Mike said, “Well, it’s official, Lindsey Cyrus is dead, and we don’t have a clue as to who did it.” “Yeah…it sucks, huh?” Selena said walking slowly to exit the morgue.
As they both walk into the parking lot to their cars, Selena continued, “Why do you think Mrs. Cyrus kept saying it wasn’t her daughter?”
“She was delirious. Did you see her rocking back and forth…I mean, I can’t imagine what she’s going thru to find out your daughter has been murdered.” Mike replied thoughtfully.
“Yeah, I know. I don’t know what I’d do if something was to happen to my Jessie.” Selena said as she reached her car. Mike looked at her puzzled wondering who Jessie was. Selena saw his confused expression and continued, “My ten year old daughter, Jessica.”
Mike nodded with a smile realizing she actually volunteered information. “So what are you about to do now? Im starving…wanna finish grabbing something to eat?”
“Uhm, no. I better get home. I need to pick up Jessie from my mom’s and go home and think.”
“Think?” Mike asked puzzled.
“Yeah. Think about this case. Something just isn’t right.” Selena said opening her car door.
“Ahh, okay. I see. I think I should go home and think too. But, after I get something to eat.” Mike said opening his car door.
Selena smiled and shook her head. “G’night Jonas.” Selena said as she got into her car.
Mike gave her a casual salute and closed his car door to prepare to drive off.
Both Mike and Selena drove off into separate directions.
Heading into the direction of her mother’s house to pick up Jessica, Selena looked at the time and realized it was already after 2 a.m. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed her mother’s house. After five rings, Selena’s mom, Mrs. Ramirez, answered the phone in a tired and sleepy voice, “Hola?”
“Hola mami.”
“Sel? Qué hora es?” (what time is it?)
Selena responded in English. “Past 2 in the morning. I know, Im sorry I’m calling so late.”
“Sí. Let me guess…you worked late again when you said you were getting Jessica earlier today.” Mrs. Ramirez said starting to wake up.
“I know, I’m sorry. You know I can’t help it.” Selena said defensively.
“Sel, mi hija, I hope you are not on your way over here to get Jessie?” Mrs. Ramirez asked in a tired voice. “I don’t want to get up and your father here is knocked out to the world, and Jessie is fast asleep. She has school in the morning.” Selena sighed. Mrs. Ramirez continued, “So, go on home.”
“But what about her clothes? Does she have something to wear to school in the morning?” Selena asked as she turned the car around to head home.
“Sí. Sel, she has half of her wardrobe over here. Now maybe we’ll see you tomorrow. Buenas noches mi hija.” (goodnight my daughter) Mrs. Ramirez said into the phone and ended the call.
“I hate it when she does that.” Selena said to herself as she ended the call on her cell phone.
“Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus? Are you ready?” Selena asked with a comforting tone. They both nodded. “Again, please brace yourself due to the results. Its not going to be easy.” Selena continued. She then nodded to the male nurse inside the morgue to proceed to show the body.
The nurse pulled out a bed with a body laying on it covered under a thick white sheet. He then slowly revealed the body from the shoulders up to Mr. and Mrs Cyrus. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus let out a gasp at the sight of the disfigured face. Jack, Mr. Cyrus, started to sob and said out loud, “Oh dear God! Not our daughter, Lindsey! Why!?!”
Mike waved to the nurse to quickly cover the body up again.
Just as the nurse started to, Mrs. Cyrys said, “No, wait! Please.”
The nurse stopped.
“Vivian, please. We don’t need to see Lindsey like that.” Jack said to his wife.
“But Jack, that can’t be our daughter! Look at her! Noooo!” Vivian started to sob uncontrollably. Within the next second, as if snapping out of it, she angrily continued, "No, no, no. That is not my daughter! It doesn’t look like her! That is not her. That is someone else’s child!”
Mike waved to the nurse to cover the body once again. The nurse covered the body.
Shocked, Selena asked, “Mrs. Cyrus, are you saying that is not Lindsey Cyrus, your daughter?”
Starting to sob again, she replied, “No, it’s not my baby. Please no!”
Burying his wife’s head into his chest, Jack responded, “Yes. That is our daughter. Don’t listen to Vivian, she is a bit hysterical right now.”
Still sobbing, Mrs. Cyrus shouted, “Nooo! Please, not my baby! Oh God! Nooo!”
“Ok, come this way, let’s get her some water.” Selena said leading them away from the viewing.
Mike followed.
Sitting her down and trying to calm her, Selena handed Mrs. Cyrus a cup of water. Rocking back and forth, Mrs. Cyrus kept repeating to herself, “No. Nope. No, not my daughter. Won’t believe it. Please God. No, nope, no, not my daughter. Won’t believe it….” Her voice trailed off.
“Is she going to be okay?” Selena asked.
“She did the same thing at her cousin’s funeral. Yes, she is going to be fine.” Mr. Cyrus replied.
“You both want us to go on with the autopsy, correct?” Mike asked.
In unison, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus responded, “No.”
“Im sorry, what was that?” Selena asked surprised at their answer.
“Well, I guess. If you must.” Mr. Cyrus said.
Mrs. Cyrus continued her mumblings quietly, “No. Nope. No, not my daughter…”
“Mr. Cyrus, are you going to make it home alright? Do you want us to get you both home safely?” Mike asked.
“No, we’ll be fine thank you.” Mr. Cyrus said as he raised to his feet and basically started to carry his wife out the door. Mike and Selena watched them both leave out.
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Taking a deep breath, Mike said, “Well, it’s official, Lindsey Cyrus is dead, and we don’t have a clue as to who did it.” “Yeah…it sucks, huh?” Selena said walking slowly to exit the morgue.
As they both walk into the parking lot to their cars, Selena continued, “Why do you think Mrs. Cyrus kept saying it wasn’t her daughter?”
“She was delirious. Did you see her rocking back and forth…I mean, I can’t imagine what she’s going thru to find out your daughter has been murdered.” Mike replied thoughtfully.
“Yeah, I know. I don’t know what I’d do if something was to happen to my Jessie.” Selena said as she reached her car. Mike looked at her puzzled wondering who Jessie was. Selena saw his confused expression and continued, “My ten year old daughter, Jessica.”
Mike nodded with a smile realizing she actually volunteered information. “So what are you about to do now? Im starving…wanna finish grabbing something to eat?”
“Uhm, no. I better get home. I need to pick up Jessie from my mom’s and go home and think.”
“Think?” Mike asked puzzled.
“Yeah. Think about this case. Something just isn’t right.” Selena said opening her car door.
“Ahh, okay. I see. I think I should go home and think too. But, after I get something to eat.” Mike said opening his car door.
Selena smiled and shook her head. “G’night Jonas.” Selena said as she got into her car.
Mike gave her a casual salute and closed his car door to prepare to drive off.
Both Mike and Selena drove off into separate directions.
Heading into the direction of her mother’s house to pick up Jessica, Selena looked at the time and realized it was already after 2 a.m. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed her mother’s house. After five rings, Selena’s mom, Mrs. Ramirez, answered the phone in a tired and sleepy voice, “Hola?”
“Hola mami.”
“Sel? Qué hora es?” (what time is it?)
Selena responded in English. “Past 2 in the morning. I know, Im sorry I’m calling so late.”
“Sí. Let me guess…you worked late again when you said you were getting Jessica earlier today.” Mrs. Ramirez said starting to wake up.
“I know, I’m sorry. You know I can’t help it.” Selena said defensively.
“Sel, mi hija, I hope you are not on your way over here to get Jessie?” Mrs. Ramirez asked in a tired voice. “I don’t want to get up and your father here is knocked out to the world, and Jessie is fast asleep. She has school in the morning.” Selena sighed. Mrs. Ramirez continued, “So, go on home.”
“But what about her clothes? Does she have something to wear to school in the morning?” Selena asked as she turned the car around to head home.
“Sí. Sel, she has half of her wardrobe over here. Now maybe we’ll see you tomorrow. Buenas noches mi hija.” (goodnight my daughter) Mrs. Ramirez said into the phone and ended the call.
“I hate it when she does that.” Selena said to herself as she ended the call on her cell phone.
Selena finally pulled into her driveway to her home. After barely able to move quickly, Selena realized how tired she was. She slowly gathered her belongings out of the car. As she walked closer to her door, she noticed a shadow figure walk past her window inside the house. Selena froze with fear. Her mind was working a mile a minute. With Jessica over at her mom’s house, there should be no one inside the house. Selena quickly thought – INTRUDER. She quietly put her things on the ground and swiftly grabbed for her gun. She smoothly moved around to the side door of her house. Selena noticed the side door was slightly opened. The sight of that gave Selena an adrenaline rush. She put up her guard with her gun in hand. She quietly slid thru the side door and was now in her laundry room. She then slowly crept thru the laundry room which would lead into her kitchen.
She waited and listened at the laundry room door. She could hear the intruder in the kitchen. The intruder then walked out of the kitchen and into her livingroom. With her heart racing, Selena slowly sneaked her way into the kitchen and edged her way to the doorway of the living room.
Saying a quick prayer, Selena jumped around the corner aiming her gun at the intruder and yelled firmly, “FREEZE!”
She waited and listened at the laundry room door. She could hear the intruder in the kitchen. The intruder then walked out of the kitchen and into her livingroom. With her heart racing, Selena slowly sneaked her way into the kitchen and edged her way to the doorway of the living room.
Saying a quick prayer, Selena jumped around the corner aiming her gun at the intruder and yelled firmly, “FREEZE!”
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4/20/11
4/20/11
Chapter 8 Pt 1 (PG-13ish)
Whipping around scared to death, the male voice yelled holding his hands up in defense, “WHOA!! WHOA!! It’s me! It’s me, Justin!”
Putting her gun on safety, and bringing it down to her side, Selena drastically sighed out of relief. She was relieved that it wasn’t a dangerous intruder that she would have had to bring force to. Finally, Selena responded with exasperation, “God damn it, Justin! What are you doing here?”
Holding his chest trying to calm his heart beat down, Justin replied, “I came to see you. When I saw your car wasn’t there, I wanted to surprise you…not try to get shot!”
Putting her gun back into her holster, Selena replied with a frown, “How did you get in here?”
“I used Jessie’s keys. She left it in my car earlier today.”
“Earlier? You were with Jessica today?”
“Yeah, I took her out for dinner, then dropped her back off at your mom’s house. Damn girl, I told you that job of yours always gets the best of you. You always forget about us little people.” Justin said shaking his head as he walked to the kitchen to grab a beer out of the refrigerator.
“Yeah, whatever.” Selena mumbled as she walked out of the house to grab her belongings she left outside on the ground.
As Selena walked back in the house with her things, she looked at Justin drinking his beer looking back at her. Selena noticed how handsome Justin looked in his red t-shirt and baggy blue jeans and bleach white sneakers. As if snapping Selena out of her daze, Justin walked up to her saying, “Need some help?”
“No, I got it…thanks. Why are you still here?” Selena asked with an attitude. She then continued as she walked upstairs to her bedroom, “Won’t your girlfriend be worried about you?”
Following close behind Selena up the stairs holding his beer in his hand, Justin responded, “Ahh, here we go... You always have something to say.”
Once she walked into her bedroom, Selena put her things down on the bed and started to take off her coat and shoes. She asked, “So why haven’t you gotten married to her yet? It’s been long enough, right? What’s her name, again? Janet or something like that?” Selena smirked with sarcasm.
Watching her get undress, Justin responded, “Who me? Justin Bieber? Married? Yeah, right.”
Selena took off her gun holster belt and then took down her ponytail allowing her long dark hair to flow over her shoulders. Justin stared at Selena. He always felt Selena was sexy with her hair down. Justin put his beer down on her dresser, and walked up closely behind her. He gently moved her hair aside so he could start softly massaging her shoulders. Justin continued in a low tone, “Besides, I have my family right here. Im still young…I have plenty of time.” He finished with a smile. Selena closed her eyes with ease from Justin’s touch. She had to admit, Justin always gave a great massage.
As he continued to massage Selena’s shoulders, he said, “But I still wonder to this day, why do you continue to let this job get you so tensed. I mean, damn girl, you almost shot me just now.”
With her eyes still closed, Selena responded softly, “I should have.”
Justin didn’t quite hear her response so he remained quiet.
Selena was truly enjoying his massage. Before she knew it, she could feel Justin’s lips softly begin to kiss on her neck. He gently allowed his tongue to touch her skin and suck it into his mouth as he continued to softly caress her shoulders. Selena was in a trance and didn’t want him to stop. Justin continued to kiss and gently suck on her neck as his hands slowly rubbed down the side of her body. He wrapped his arms around her waist giving her a light squeeze as he continued to kiss the back of her neck. It had been a long time since Selena had felt a man’s touch the way he was touching her. In fact, Justin was the last person in the past 6 months she had been intimate with. Selena welcomed his touch and kisses on her neck as she raised her arm to lightly grab a hold of the back of Justin’s head helping him to bury his head into her neck. Still holding her from behind, Justin began to pull up her shirt and slide his hands underneath, tenderly touching her stomach. He raised his hands up to her breasts and began caressing her breasts over her bra. Selena allowed a moan to escape her lips. She then turned around to kiss Justin’s lips passionately. As their kiss grew hungrier, Selena started to pull Justin’s shirt off over his head. Justin did the same with Selena as he took her top off exposing her black bra. Selena began to quickly unbuckle Justin’s belt to his jeans. Justin kept his lips attached to Selena as they both started to walk backwards towards her bed. They ended up falling backwards onto the bed with Selena lying on top of Justin. Still kissing each other in a heated passion, Justin rolled on top of Selena and began to unbutton her pants. Selena was pulling at Justin’s jeans trying to pull it down as Justin unzipped Selena’s pants pulling it down exposing her black panties. They were kissing and breathing heavy with passion when, Selena’s cell phone began to ring. It had already rung twice without Selena realizing it. Her ears finally perked up and heard her phone ringing. Selena pushed Justin away from her, “Justin, wait! Stop!”
Justin leaned back down onto Selena as he continued to try and kiss her, mumbling, “No. Don’t answer it. Let it go to voicemail.”
Selena’s phone rung again. Selena then shoved Justin as hard as she could to get him off of her saying, “Justin, stop! Move!” Looking frantically for her cell phone as it continued to ring, Selena hopped off the bed pulling up her pants. She saw the phone on the floor, which apparently they had knocked it off her bed. Trying to recollect herself, and pushing her hair behind one ear, Selena answered the phone quickly, “Hello? Hello?”
“Oh, hey Ramirez. I was just getting ready to leave a message. I was just calling to make sure you made it home alright. You know…you and your daughter.” Mike said on the other end of the phone.
“Jonas?” Selena said surprised but yet slightly relieved. Gathering her thoughts together, Selena continued, “Uhm, yeah. Everything is fine. I uh – I didn’t get Jessica. I let her stay with my mom. But – uhm – yeah, everything is fine.”
Noticing her hesitation, Mike replied, “Are you sure. You sound a little – “
“Yeah, Jonas.” Selena responded by interrupting him. She then looked back at Justin who was half naked on her bed waiting for her. She then continued, “The phone just scared me…that’s all.”
“Oh. Sorry about that. But, uhm…I was also calling you to remind you not to forget those notes that David took at the crime scene. We are going to need that to compare with Dr. Abdulla when he does the autopsy.”
“Oh yeah, that’s right. Alright, thanks, Jonas.”
“Okay…see you in the morning.” Mike said and ended the call.
Selena ended the call and put her cell phone on the charger next to her bed.
Sitting up on the bed and reaching for Selena’s hand, Justin said, “So who is Jonas? A male, or female? It sounded more like it could have been a male.”
“Jonas is my new partner.” Selena said pulling her hand away from Justin. She then continued, “Look, Justin…you have to go.”
Shocked, Justin replied, “What?”
Zipping up her pants and throwing her top back on over her head, Selena stated, “You have to leave. Go home.”
Moving to the edge of Selena’s bed and standing up holding his jeans up on him, he responded, “What do you mean leave? You want me to leave?” he then grabbed her waist pulling her closer to him.
Selena pulled away saying, “Yes, Justin, leave. You are not even supposed to be here.”
“You’re just going to leave me like a humped dog? Come on now…” he then grabbed her around the waist once again sliding his hand up under her top. He continued in a low whisper, “Girl, you know we both want this.”
Scuffling to break free for a minute, Selena finally pushed Justin away from her with all of her might forcing Justin to fall back on the bed. “Justin, you have a girlfriend of whom I know you are fucking and I am not going to be that other woman you fuck anymore! So you need to leave!” Selena said fixing her clothes.
“Why are you trippin’ Sel? You know I don’t just fuck you! I make love to you. You are the one I have always loved, but you always put your fucking job ahead of your family. Your job is the only thing that is between you and me. You need to quit and get a regular 9 to 5 job and be at home with your family!” he yelled standing back up and getting into Selena’s face.
Furious, Selena calmly walked toward her gun holster and pulled her gun out unlocking the safety. She then pointed the gun in Justin’s face and said firmly, “Leave.”
Justin paused for a second. He looked at Selena as if she had lost her mind. He then turned to grab his shirt off the bed and put it on over his head. “See what I mean. You’re crazy! You and your fucking job are crazy! I’ll leave. But I know the next time I talk to you, your ass have better calmed down by then.” Justin stormed out of her bedroom.
Selena didn’t put her guard down until she heard the front door close shut indicating that Justin was gone. Selena sighed and sat on her bed. She then thought to herself how much she really wanted Justin, but she had already promised herself that she was going to move on from him. In order for her to do that, she couldn’t have sex with him anymore. Thanks to Mike calling, she was able to come to her senses.
Mike.
Selena couldn’t believe he called just to see if she and Jessica were alright. What was that all about, she wondered. Selena raised to her feet and went into her bathroom to take a shower. She needed to get ready for bed and be prepared to head off to work in a couple of hours.
Putting her gun on safety, and bringing it down to her side, Selena drastically sighed out of relief. She was relieved that it wasn’t a dangerous intruder that she would have had to bring force to. Finally, Selena responded with exasperation, “God damn it, Justin! What are you doing here?”
Holding his chest trying to calm his heart beat down, Justin replied, “I came to see you. When I saw your car wasn’t there, I wanted to surprise you…not try to get shot!”
Putting her gun back into her holster, Selena replied with a frown, “How did you get in here?”
“I used Jessie’s keys. She left it in my car earlier today.”
“Earlier? You were with Jessica today?”
“Yeah, I took her out for dinner, then dropped her back off at your mom’s house. Damn girl, I told you that job of yours always gets the best of you. You always forget about us little people.” Justin said shaking his head as he walked to the kitchen to grab a beer out of the refrigerator.
“Yeah, whatever.” Selena mumbled as she walked out of the house to grab her belongings she left outside on the ground.
As Selena walked back in the house with her things, she looked at Justin drinking his beer looking back at her. Selena noticed how handsome Justin looked in his red t-shirt and baggy blue jeans and bleach white sneakers. As if snapping Selena out of her daze, Justin walked up to her saying, “Need some help?”
“No, I got it…thanks. Why are you still here?” Selena asked with an attitude. She then continued as she walked upstairs to her bedroom, “Won’t your girlfriend be worried about you?”
Following close behind Selena up the stairs holding his beer in his hand, Justin responded, “Ahh, here we go... You always have something to say.”
Once she walked into her bedroom, Selena put her things down on the bed and started to take off her coat and shoes. She asked, “So why haven’t you gotten married to her yet? It’s been long enough, right? What’s her name, again? Janet or something like that?” Selena smirked with sarcasm.
Watching her get undress, Justin responded, “Who me? Justin Bieber? Married? Yeah, right.”
Selena took off her gun holster belt and then took down her ponytail allowing her long dark hair to flow over her shoulders. Justin stared at Selena. He always felt Selena was sexy with her hair down. Justin put his beer down on her dresser, and walked up closely behind her. He gently moved her hair aside so he could start softly massaging her shoulders. Justin continued in a low tone, “Besides, I have my family right here. Im still young…I have plenty of time.” He finished with a smile. Selena closed her eyes with ease from Justin’s touch. She had to admit, Justin always gave a great massage.
As he continued to massage Selena’s shoulders, he said, “But I still wonder to this day, why do you continue to let this job get you so tensed. I mean, damn girl, you almost shot me just now.”
With her eyes still closed, Selena responded softly, “I should have.”
Justin didn’t quite hear her response so he remained quiet.
Selena was truly enjoying his massage. Before she knew it, she could feel Justin’s lips softly begin to kiss on her neck. He gently allowed his tongue to touch her skin and suck it into his mouth as he continued to softly caress her shoulders. Selena was in a trance and didn’t want him to stop. Justin continued to kiss and gently suck on her neck as his hands slowly rubbed down the side of her body. He wrapped his arms around her waist giving her a light squeeze as he continued to kiss the back of her neck. It had been a long time since Selena had felt a man’s touch the way he was touching her. In fact, Justin was the last person in the past 6 months she had been intimate with. Selena welcomed his touch and kisses on her neck as she raised her arm to lightly grab a hold of the back of Justin’s head helping him to bury his head into her neck. Still holding her from behind, Justin began to pull up her shirt and slide his hands underneath, tenderly touching her stomach. He raised his hands up to her breasts and began caressing her breasts over her bra. Selena allowed a moan to escape her lips. She then turned around to kiss Justin’s lips passionately. As their kiss grew hungrier, Selena started to pull Justin’s shirt off over his head. Justin did the same with Selena as he took her top off exposing her black bra. Selena began to quickly unbuckle Justin’s belt to his jeans. Justin kept his lips attached to Selena as they both started to walk backwards towards her bed. They ended up falling backwards onto the bed with Selena lying on top of Justin. Still kissing each other in a heated passion, Justin rolled on top of Selena and began to unbutton her pants. Selena was pulling at Justin’s jeans trying to pull it down as Justin unzipped Selena’s pants pulling it down exposing her black panties. They were kissing and breathing heavy with passion when, Selena’s cell phone began to ring. It had already rung twice without Selena realizing it. Her ears finally perked up and heard her phone ringing. Selena pushed Justin away from her, “Justin, wait! Stop!”
Justin leaned back down onto Selena as he continued to try and kiss her, mumbling, “No. Don’t answer it. Let it go to voicemail.”
Selena’s phone rung again. Selena then shoved Justin as hard as she could to get him off of her saying, “Justin, stop! Move!” Looking frantically for her cell phone as it continued to ring, Selena hopped off the bed pulling up her pants. She saw the phone on the floor, which apparently they had knocked it off her bed. Trying to recollect herself, and pushing her hair behind one ear, Selena answered the phone quickly, “Hello? Hello?”
“Oh, hey Ramirez. I was just getting ready to leave a message. I was just calling to make sure you made it home alright. You know…you and your daughter.” Mike said on the other end of the phone.
“Jonas?” Selena said surprised but yet slightly relieved. Gathering her thoughts together, Selena continued, “Uhm, yeah. Everything is fine. I uh – I didn’t get Jessica. I let her stay with my mom. But – uhm – yeah, everything is fine.”
Noticing her hesitation, Mike replied, “Are you sure. You sound a little – “
“Yeah, Jonas.” Selena responded by interrupting him. She then looked back at Justin who was half naked on her bed waiting for her. She then continued, “The phone just scared me…that’s all.”
“Oh. Sorry about that. But, uhm…I was also calling you to remind you not to forget those notes that David took at the crime scene. We are going to need that to compare with Dr. Abdulla when he does the autopsy.”
“Oh yeah, that’s right. Alright, thanks, Jonas.”
“Okay…see you in the morning.” Mike said and ended the call.
Selena ended the call and put her cell phone on the charger next to her bed.
Sitting up on the bed and reaching for Selena’s hand, Justin said, “So who is Jonas? A male, or female? It sounded more like it could have been a male.”
“Jonas is my new partner.” Selena said pulling her hand away from Justin. She then continued, “Look, Justin…you have to go.”
Shocked, Justin replied, “What?”
Zipping up her pants and throwing her top back on over her head, Selena stated, “You have to leave. Go home.”
Moving to the edge of Selena’s bed and standing up holding his jeans up on him, he responded, “What do you mean leave? You want me to leave?” he then grabbed her waist pulling her closer to him.
Selena pulled away saying, “Yes, Justin, leave. You are not even supposed to be here.”
“You’re just going to leave me like a humped dog? Come on now…” he then grabbed her around the waist once again sliding his hand up under her top. He continued in a low whisper, “Girl, you know we both want this.”
Scuffling to break free for a minute, Selena finally pushed Justin away from her with all of her might forcing Justin to fall back on the bed. “Justin, you have a girlfriend of whom I know you are fucking and I am not going to be that other woman you fuck anymore! So you need to leave!” Selena said fixing her clothes.
“Why are you trippin’ Sel? You know I don’t just fuck you! I make love to you. You are the one I have always loved, but you always put your fucking job ahead of your family. Your job is the only thing that is between you and me. You need to quit and get a regular 9 to 5 job and be at home with your family!” he yelled standing back up and getting into Selena’s face.
Furious, Selena calmly walked toward her gun holster and pulled her gun out unlocking the safety. She then pointed the gun in Justin’s face and said firmly, “Leave.”
Justin paused for a second. He looked at Selena as if she had lost her mind. He then turned to grab his shirt off the bed and put it on over his head. “See what I mean. You’re crazy! You and your fucking job are crazy! I’ll leave. But I know the next time I talk to you, your ass have better calmed down by then.” Justin stormed out of her bedroom.
Selena didn’t put her guard down until she heard the front door close shut indicating that Justin was gone. Selena sighed and sat on her bed. She then thought to herself how much she really wanted Justin, but she had already promised herself that she was going to move on from him. In order for her to do that, she couldn’t have sex with him anymore. Thanks to Mike calling, she was able to come to her senses.
Mike.
Selena couldn’t believe he called just to see if she and Jessica were alright. What was that all about, she wondered. Selena raised to her feet and went into her bathroom to take a shower. She needed to get ready for bed and be prepared to head off to work in a couple of hours.
Chapter 8 Pt 2
“Alright sweetpea, you have a good day at school and I’ll talk to you later. I love you.” Selena said speaking into her cell phone as she pulled into her parking space at work.
“Okay, mommy, I love you too. And hey, mom…take it easy today, okay?” Jessica said on the other end of the call.
Selena laughed and said her goodbyes before ending the call.
“Okay, mommy, I love you too. And hey, mom…take it easy today, okay?” Jessica said on the other end of the call.
Selena laughed and said her goodbyes before ending the call.
Selena walked into her department and headed to her desk. She walked past Mike standing at the fax machine eating a donut. He wore a maroon shirt and a black tie with matching black slacks. Selena couldn’t help but smile at him. However, Selena didn’t want him to know she was smiling at him, so she stopped smiling when she spoke to him. “Hey, Jonas. I see you’re here early.” With his mouth full, Mike responded, “Hey, Ramirez…so are you.” He looked at Selena as she walked past him. She wore a white blouse with a red scarf and khaki brown boot cut trousers. Mike quickly grabbed his papers from the fax machine and followed Selena to her desk.
Selena felt his presence behind her as she reached her desk. “You know what, I’ve been thinking.”
“What’s up?” Mike asked taking another bite of his donut.
“There is a missing black wedged heel shoe from Cyrus’s body, right?”
Waiting for her to finish, Mike responded, “Yeah…”
“Well, I was looking at the picture of her other shoe on her foot, and I think I have seen that shoe before.” Selena finished.
“Okay,” Mike said sitting on Selena’s desk, “…it’s great that your mind is working and all, but uhm, Ramirez, those shoes are all over the shoe stores here in Chicago.”
“No, Jonas. I’ve seen that shoe outside of a shoe store and other women. I think it might have appeared here in our evidence room from another case.”
Taking her more seriously, Mike replied, “Really? Well that’s something serious, Ramirez…you might want to check on that.”
“Yeah, I know.”
Starting to walk away from her desk, Mike stopped and said, “Oh yeah, I talked to Dr. Abdulla’s assistant nurse, and she said that he will get to the autopsy in about another hour and she said we are welcome to join him. Also, Steve Urkel, our computer hacker should be here any moment now.”
“Ok, great. Well, do you think you can handle Urkel alone? I want to go check out the evidence room on that shoe.” “Yeah, sure…knock yourself out. If we come up with something drastic, I know how to reach you.” Mike said with a smile. Selena gave a slight smile in return and walked toward the evidence room.
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Selena walked up to the guards desk where an officer sat guarding the evidence room. “Buenos dias officer Lopez.” “Detective Ramirez. Cómo está usted?” (how are you?) Officer Lopez replied in his deep Spanish accent. He then pulled out the sign in log sheet for Selena to sign.
Taking a deep breath, Selena responded, “Well, Im here.”
“I hear ya.” He replied. Selena signed the log in list. “How long are you going to be?” he asked.
“No more than 15 to 30 minutes tops.”
“Okay.” He responded as he pushed a button to open the door to the room full of evidence from previous cases. Selena smiled at him and walked thru the door. She carefully strolled by the aisles full of boxes and files.
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Selena felt his presence behind her as she reached her desk. “You know what, I’ve been thinking.”
“What’s up?” Mike asked taking another bite of his donut.
“There is a missing black wedged heel shoe from Cyrus’s body, right?”
Waiting for her to finish, Mike responded, “Yeah…”
“Well, I was looking at the picture of her other shoe on her foot, and I think I have seen that shoe before.” Selena finished.
“Okay,” Mike said sitting on Selena’s desk, “…it’s great that your mind is working and all, but uhm, Ramirez, those shoes are all over the shoe stores here in Chicago.”
“No, Jonas. I’ve seen that shoe outside of a shoe store and other women. I think it might have appeared here in our evidence room from another case.”
Taking her more seriously, Mike replied, “Really? Well that’s something serious, Ramirez…you might want to check on that.”
“Yeah, I know.”
Starting to walk away from her desk, Mike stopped and said, “Oh yeah, I talked to Dr. Abdulla’s assistant nurse, and she said that he will get to the autopsy in about another hour and she said we are welcome to join him. Also, Steve Urkel, our computer hacker should be here any moment now.”
“Ok, great. Well, do you think you can handle Urkel alone? I want to go check out the evidence room on that shoe.” “Yeah, sure…knock yourself out. If we come up with something drastic, I know how to reach you.” Mike said with a smile. Selena gave a slight smile in return and walked toward the evidence room.
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Selena walked up to the guards desk where an officer sat guarding the evidence room. “Buenos dias officer Lopez.” “Detective Ramirez. Cómo está usted?” (how are you?) Officer Lopez replied in his deep Spanish accent. He then pulled out the sign in log sheet for Selena to sign.
Taking a deep breath, Selena responded, “Well, Im here.”
“I hear ya.” He replied. Selena signed the log in list. “How long are you going to be?” he asked.
“No more than 15 to 30 minutes tops.”
“Okay.” He responded as he pushed a button to open the door to the room full of evidence from previous cases. Selena smiled at him and walked thru the door. She carefully strolled by the aisles full of boxes and files.
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Pushing his glasses up on his nose, Steve extended his hand out to Mike to greet him. “Ahh, Detective Mike Jonas. Finally, we meet. Nice to meet you.”
Greeting his handshake, Mike replied, “Likewise, Mr. Urkel.”
“Please call me Steve.” Steve said with a smile. Steve was your typical computer geek. He wore a beige suit with his pants leg slightly hanging above his ankles exposing his white socks. “So where is the computer in question?”
Mike escorted him to his desk where Lindsey’s laptop sat. “This is the laptop in question. We are dying to find out what is inside. We’re hoping maybe we can get some answers.”
Pushing his glasses up on his nose, Steve sat down and opened up Lindsey’s laptop and turned it on. “Alright. Let’s see what we got here.”
Mike stood behind Steve and watched him go to work. Steve started pulling up screens that made no sense to Mike. Steve was typing away. Different screens were flashing up then they would disappear. The next thing Mike knew, a screen popped up and opened up Lindsey’s files. The laptop speaker played aloud in a computer voice, “Welcome.” Steve was pleased with his fast work. “There you go. We have connected.”
Shocked at how fast he was able to hack in, Mike replied, “What? That’s it? We’re in? Just like that?”
Steve replied with a smile, “Yep, just like that.”
“Wow. You’re a dangerous man, Steve. Okay, let’s check her email.”
Steve did just that. There were emails from her friends such as Carrie, that were dated as far back as a month. Then there were junk mail from different internet advertisements. Mike noticed that there were no emails from Haley or to Haley.
“Is there a way you can tell who these screen names belong to?” Mike asked looking at the screen.
“Sure.” Steve answered. He then worked his magic. He went to her buddy list and filed out all the screen names. Mike could only recognize Carrie Swifts, Haley Williams and Taylor Lowry’s screen names. There was one email from Taylor dated a day before Lindsey was supposedly on the ski trip. Pointing to that email, Mike replied, “Click there.” The message was noted as an ‘unread message’. It read:
~~ Hey beautiful! Why haven’t I heard from you in a while? Do you miss me? I miss you. I cant
wait to see you again. Im coming home early. I cant take another minute here in Detroit.
I wish you were here with me. I luv u. Talk later! Taylor. ~~
“Interesting.” Mike said out loud. Mike started thinking about how Taylor lied saying no one knew he was in Detroit. According to that email, Lindsey knew he was there. He then wondered what Taylor meant when he said he was coming home early…could it be early enough to kill Lindsey? After checking her emails, Mike asked, “Is there any way you can track down where she visited on the web? Like the types of websites?”
“Not a problem.” Steve said as he once again pushed his glasses up on his nose. He began typing away working his magic. After his research, Steve came to the conclusion, “Looks like this young lady has a passion for the chat room. By the info I am pulling up, she has been visiting one chat room for the past month or two. Constantly.”
Stooping down beside Steve to get a closer look at the laptop, Mike responded, “To whom has she been talking to? Can you tell?”
“Ahh, yes. I found one of her pen pals. She has been talking to a pen pal with the screen name of… [email protected].” Steve answered. He then looked over at Mike and continued, “I have no name because this is located in Canada. There seems to be somebody using a shared screen name from a company in Toronto Canada.”
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Selena started to get frustrated when she couldn’t find what she was looking for in the evidence room. She took a deep breath and mumbled to herself, “I know I am not going crazy. I could have sworn I remembered seeing a shoe come thru here from at least a few weeks ago.” Selena stood up from stooping down on the floor and put her hands on her hips. She looked up and saw a box with today's month on it. Selena quickly grabbed the tall step ladder and rolled it over to the box. She climbed up the ladder and reached for the box. Inside the box was a file sheet marked ‘Arson’. Selena carefully stepped back down the ladder with the box in her hands. She placed the box on the floor and kneeled down on the floor and started to search thru the box. Selena pulled out a plastic bag with a black wedged heel shoe inside. She read the date on the label to the bag. It was 5 days after Lindsey was supposed to have left on the ski trip. The label also stated that it was a size 7, black left shoe. It was the exact match of Lindsey’s missing shoe. Selena said out loud to herself, “Bingo.” She then quickly read thru some of the other file sheets in the box.
It read: Arson to Car: Honda Accord, Blue, year 1999.
She then dug deeper into the box and pulled out another plastic bag with a half burnt car tag in it. The car tag was from Canada.
Selena gathered the items and placed them back into the box. Carrying the box in her hands, Selena exited the room and stopped by the guard’s desk. “Hey, Officer Lopez, who was working on this arson case... on this date?” She showed him the file sheet to the evidence box.
Officer Lopez took a look at the file sheet and typed in some information from the sheet onto his computer. He finally responded, “Looks like it was Detective Zac Efron.”
“Thanks, Lopez.” Selena said with a slight smile. She took the file sheet from officer Lopez placing it back into the box and started to walk off.
“Hey, detective, I can’t allow you to take that with you.” Officer Lopez said stopping Selena.
“Oh come on, Lopez. Give me a break.” Selena complained.
“Sorry. You know the rules.”
Slowly backing away from officer Lopez with the box still in her hands, Selena responded, “Tell you what, Lopez. If you get in trouble, tell them I put a gun to your head or something. Call the Lieutenant if you have to, okay? Thanks!” Selena turned and walked away.
Officer Lopez sighed and watched Selena walk away with the evidence box.
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Mike asked Steve to find any other relevant websites Lindsey may have visited on her laptop computer.
“Other websites just look like sites for school. A couple of porno sites and traveling sites are all in her computer history.” Steve said as he pushed his glasses up on his nose.
“Traveling? What kind of traveling? Any specific destinations?” Mike asked.
“No, there are no specific indications…just traveling around the U.S.”
Mike took a deep breath and rubbed his fingers thru his short curly hair. “Okay, I guess that wraps it up.”
“I guess it does.” Steve said with a smile as he packed up his belongings and stood up. Extending his hand out to shake Steve’s hand, Mike continued, “I really appreciate your help, Steve.”
Welcoming his handshake, Steve responded, “Oh not a problem at all. Anytime you need my help, you know how to reach me.”
At that moment, Selena walked up to both Mike and Steve putting the evidence box on top of Mike’s desk. “Hey. What did I miss?”
Mike introduced Steve to Selena and vice versa. Shaking Steve’s hand, Selena said, “Nice to meet you. So glad you are able to help us.”
“Like I was telling Detective Jonas, anytime.” Steve said pushing his glasses up on his nose. “Well, Im off. You know how to reach me.” Steve then walked away.
Mike looks at Selena and the box she put on his desk. “So…what’s this?”
“A little theory I had told you about earlier this morning.” Selena said with a smile. She then pulled out the slightly burned shoe in the plastic bag. “An exact match of the missing shoe from Lindsey.”
Grabbing the plastic bag from her, Mike replied in shock, “No way.”
“Way. And read this.” Selena said handing over the file sheet to Mike which explained the date and case of the arson. Quickly reading over the file sheet, Mike responded looking into the box and pulling out the half burnt Canada tag, “A Canada car tag? Well, damn.”
“I told you I remembered seeing that shoe come thru here. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier.”
“Yeah, but how about the fact that Lindsey Cyrus has been chatting with someone using a Canada screen name.” Mike said in deep thoughts.
“What?” Selena asked puzzled.
Mike filled Selena in on what they discovered on Lindsey’s laptop.
“What the hell is the connection with Canada?” Selena asked in deep thoughts. She continued, “And then there’s Taylor Lowry. I mean, he lied and said no one knew he was in Detroit. Somebody is lying to us. Something is not right.”
Mike nodded in agreement. Speaking out loud in frustration, Mike shouted, “Will somebody please give me some answers!”
As if on cue, Jennifer walked up to both Selena and Mike speaking mainly to Mike. “Well, I’ll see what I can do…here are those copies you asked for.” She smiled handing him some papers.
“Ahh, thank you sweetie.” Mike said with a smile and taking the papers from Jennifer.
Giving him a wink and a smile, Jennifer replied, “No problem, handsome.” She then walked away.
Selena rolled her eyes with annoyance.
Mike noticed her gesture. “What?”
Shaking her head as if saying never mind, she then said, “I swear if she weren't already dating someone, you two would surely be made for each other.”
Showing his dimple as he smiled, Mike teased, “Really? You think so?”
Walking to her desk to grab her coat, Selena changed the subject saying, “Can we go see the doctor about this autopsy, please?”
Looking down at his watch, Mike said, “Oh yea. We’re running late.” He grabbed his coat and followed Selena as they walked out of the department.
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Greeting his handshake, Mike replied, “Likewise, Mr. Urkel.”
“Please call me Steve.” Steve said with a smile. Steve was your typical computer geek. He wore a beige suit with his pants leg slightly hanging above his ankles exposing his white socks. “So where is the computer in question?”
Mike escorted him to his desk where Lindsey’s laptop sat. “This is the laptop in question. We are dying to find out what is inside. We’re hoping maybe we can get some answers.”
Pushing his glasses up on his nose, Steve sat down and opened up Lindsey’s laptop and turned it on. “Alright. Let’s see what we got here.”
Mike stood behind Steve and watched him go to work. Steve started pulling up screens that made no sense to Mike. Steve was typing away. Different screens were flashing up then they would disappear. The next thing Mike knew, a screen popped up and opened up Lindsey’s files. The laptop speaker played aloud in a computer voice, “Welcome.” Steve was pleased with his fast work. “There you go. We have connected.”
Shocked at how fast he was able to hack in, Mike replied, “What? That’s it? We’re in? Just like that?”
Steve replied with a smile, “Yep, just like that.”
“Wow. You’re a dangerous man, Steve. Okay, let’s check her email.”
Steve did just that. There were emails from her friends such as Carrie, that were dated as far back as a month. Then there were junk mail from different internet advertisements. Mike noticed that there were no emails from Haley or to Haley.
“Is there a way you can tell who these screen names belong to?” Mike asked looking at the screen.
“Sure.” Steve answered. He then worked his magic. He went to her buddy list and filed out all the screen names. Mike could only recognize Carrie Swifts, Haley Williams and Taylor Lowry’s screen names. There was one email from Taylor dated a day before Lindsey was supposedly on the ski trip. Pointing to that email, Mike replied, “Click there.” The message was noted as an ‘unread message’. It read:
~~ Hey beautiful! Why haven’t I heard from you in a while? Do you miss me? I miss you. I cant
wait to see you again. Im coming home early. I cant take another minute here in Detroit.
I wish you were here with me. I luv u. Talk later! Taylor. ~~
“Interesting.” Mike said out loud. Mike started thinking about how Taylor lied saying no one knew he was in Detroit. According to that email, Lindsey knew he was there. He then wondered what Taylor meant when he said he was coming home early…could it be early enough to kill Lindsey? After checking her emails, Mike asked, “Is there any way you can track down where she visited on the web? Like the types of websites?”
“Not a problem.” Steve said as he once again pushed his glasses up on his nose. He began typing away working his magic. After his research, Steve came to the conclusion, “Looks like this young lady has a passion for the chat room. By the info I am pulling up, she has been visiting one chat room for the past month or two. Constantly.”
Stooping down beside Steve to get a closer look at the laptop, Mike responded, “To whom has she been talking to? Can you tell?”
“Ahh, yes. I found one of her pen pals. She has been talking to a pen pal with the screen name of… [email protected].” Steve answered. He then looked over at Mike and continued, “I have no name because this is located in Canada. There seems to be somebody using a shared screen name from a company in Toronto Canada.”
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Selena started to get frustrated when she couldn’t find what she was looking for in the evidence room. She took a deep breath and mumbled to herself, “I know I am not going crazy. I could have sworn I remembered seeing a shoe come thru here from at least a few weeks ago.” Selena stood up from stooping down on the floor and put her hands on her hips. She looked up and saw a box with today's month on it. Selena quickly grabbed the tall step ladder and rolled it over to the box. She climbed up the ladder and reached for the box. Inside the box was a file sheet marked ‘Arson’. Selena carefully stepped back down the ladder with the box in her hands. She placed the box on the floor and kneeled down on the floor and started to search thru the box. Selena pulled out a plastic bag with a black wedged heel shoe inside. She read the date on the label to the bag. It was 5 days after Lindsey was supposed to have left on the ski trip. The label also stated that it was a size 7, black left shoe. It was the exact match of Lindsey’s missing shoe. Selena said out loud to herself, “Bingo.” She then quickly read thru some of the other file sheets in the box.
It read: Arson to Car: Honda Accord, Blue, year 1999.
She then dug deeper into the box and pulled out another plastic bag with a half burnt car tag in it. The car tag was from Canada.
Selena gathered the items and placed them back into the box. Carrying the box in her hands, Selena exited the room and stopped by the guard’s desk. “Hey, Officer Lopez, who was working on this arson case... on this date?” She showed him the file sheet to the evidence box.
Officer Lopez took a look at the file sheet and typed in some information from the sheet onto his computer. He finally responded, “Looks like it was Detective Zac Efron.”
“Thanks, Lopez.” Selena said with a slight smile. She took the file sheet from officer Lopez placing it back into the box and started to walk off.
“Hey, detective, I can’t allow you to take that with you.” Officer Lopez said stopping Selena.
“Oh come on, Lopez. Give me a break.” Selena complained.
“Sorry. You know the rules.”
Slowly backing away from officer Lopez with the box still in her hands, Selena responded, “Tell you what, Lopez. If you get in trouble, tell them I put a gun to your head or something. Call the Lieutenant if you have to, okay? Thanks!” Selena turned and walked away.
Officer Lopez sighed and watched Selena walk away with the evidence box.
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Mike asked Steve to find any other relevant websites Lindsey may have visited on her laptop computer.
“Other websites just look like sites for school. A couple of porno sites and traveling sites are all in her computer history.” Steve said as he pushed his glasses up on his nose.
“Traveling? What kind of traveling? Any specific destinations?” Mike asked.
“No, there are no specific indications…just traveling around the U.S.”
Mike took a deep breath and rubbed his fingers thru his short curly hair. “Okay, I guess that wraps it up.”
“I guess it does.” Steve said with a smile as he packed up his belongings and stood up. Extending his hand out to shake Steve’s hand, Mike continued, “I really appreciate your help, Steve.”
Welcoming his handshake, Steve responded, “Oh not a problem at all. Anytime you need my help, you know how to reach me.”
At that moment, Selena walked up to both Mike and Steve putting the evidence box on top of Mike’s desk. “Hey. What did I miss?”
Mike introduced Steve to Selena and vice versa. Shaking Steve’s hand, Selena said, “Nice to meet you. So glad you are able to help us.”
“Like I was telling Detective Jonas, anytime.” Steve said pushing his glasses up on his nose. “Well, Im off. You know how to reach me.” Steve then walked away.
Mike looks at Selena and the box she put on his desk. “So…what’s this?”
“A little theory I had told you about earlier this morning.” Selena said with a smile. She then pulled out the slightly burned shoe in the plastic bag. “An exact match of the missing shoe from Lindsey.”
Grabbing the plastic bag from her, Mike replied in shock, “No way.”
“Way. And read this.” Selena said handing over the file sheet to Mike which explained the date and case of the arson. Quickly reading over the file sheet, Mike responded looking into the box and pulling out the half burnt Canada tag, “A Canada car tag? Well, damn.”
“I told you I remembered seeing that shoe come thru here. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier.”
“Yeah, but how about the fact that Lindsey Cyrus has been chatting with someone using a Canada screen name.” Mike said in deep thoughts.
“What?” Selena asked puzzled.
Mike filled Selena in on what they discovered on Lindsey’s laptop.
“What the hell is the connection with Canada?” Selena asked in deep thoughts. She continued, “And then there’s Taylor Lowry. I mean, he lied and said no one knew he was in Detroit. Somebody is lying to us. Something is not right.”
Mike nodded in agreement. Speaking out loud in frustration, Mike shouted, “Will somebody please give me some answers!”
As if on cue, Jennifer walked up to both Selena and Mike speaking mainly to Mike. “Well, I’ll see what I can do…here are those copies you asked for.” She smiled handing him some papers.
“Ahh, thank you sweetie.” Mike said with a smile and taking the papers from Jennifer.
Giving him a wink and a smile, Jennifer replied, “No problem, handsome.” She then walked away.
Selena rolled her eyes with annoyance.
Mike noticed her gesture. “What?”
Shaking her head as if saying never mind, she then said, “I swear if she weren't already dating someone, you two would surely be made for each other.”
Showing his dimple as he smiled, Mike teased, “Really? You think so?”
Walking to her desk to grab her coat, Selena changed the subject saying, “Can we go see the doctor about this autopsy, please?”
Looking down at his watch, Mike said, “Oh yea. We’re running late.” He grabbed his coat and followed Selena as they walked out of the department.
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