”What do we have now?”
Section Chief, Kathleen “Kathy” Larsen called Unit Chief, Lucian Neagoe into her office right when he walked through the doors. “Neagoe, I need you.” she gestured with a few of her fingers to indicate that Lucian needed to come over. They both walked into the section chief’s office before she shut the door.
Going behind her desk and sitting down, “An incident happened yesterday and I can surely say it is because of the festival happening in New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and this festival will be going on for a handful of weeks or so. We do not know what is going on with this situation but I can tell you, it doesn’t look good.”
“What do we have now?” Lucian asked while taking a sip of his coffee. Black with a few spoons of sugar. He wasn’t much of a coffee drinker since it bothered him, but he allowed himself to succumb to his food cravings from time to time.
Picking up the file, Kathleen sighed, “You know, the usual ones that piss me off. Some asshole went after young girls.” She was always bothered by women getting killed. Sometimes people believed that she was more bothered by women getting killed than men. It might be a true statement, who knew, she wouldn’t ever talk about it in depth. “Two young girls were found shot in a vehicle in a parking garage near one of the hotspots of New Orleans, Mardi Gras festival. They were not even 25 yet —“ She moved a yellow file over to the side where Lucian stood and opened it. Picking up a picture of two young women. One was a caucasian brunette with tighter curls and brown eyes while the other one was a blonde with straight hair and green eyes. The brunette was shot through the head while the blonde was shot in the chest twice and in the left leg.
Other than that, they appeared to be dressed for the occasion of going out and partying, probably at the bars and other hotspots to hook up with people. They had makeup that was messed up from the whole ordeal. They had jewelry and the necklace that the blonde was wearing looked expensive. They were pretty…
Lucian was holding into the photograph at this point and was staring at it. Allowing silence to fill the room before Kathleen showed uncomfortably, “Stop staring like that…” she raised her voice in a quiet and almost threatening way. Sometimes Lucian staring at pictures with such an unmoving expression would cause her to become uneasy. Though, she understood. Someone with many years in many different fields that all consisted of death would do that to someone.
“I’m sorry…” Lucian seemed to half-consciously reply as he set down the photograph. His eyes began to linger on the papers that were inside the file. Gently running the tips of his fingers under the words. “What is going on with the victim's contacts being blank?” That could mean a few things. The main ones were that the families could not be reached or did not answer or the victims did not have I.D. on them.
Kathleen glanced at the paper and sighed, “The brunette is currently a jane doe. She had nothing on her. No money. No I.D. —” she waved her hand half-heartedly as if to say she was continuing while talking, “— nothing at all. At first, the police thought the brunette was underage because of how young she looked. Then they found a handbag that belonged to the blonde, Emily Solis, but her I.D. was gone. We only know the blonde’s name because of the photograph and what was written on the back. In the corner, it says 2018 Graduation - Emily Solis. While there are a few notes written. We think this one is from dad “You look just like your mother on her graduation day with those beautiful green eyes and perfect smile. Keep smiling honey!” and another note, we assume is from the mother, “We are so proud of you, never forget that!” and we do not know if the two other girls in the graduation picture were with them or not.”
They had a paper copy of the graduation picture in the file and Lucian picked it up. There were four girls, all posed, and all hugging each other. The brunette and Emily are in the middle hugging each other cheek to cheek with big smiles. On the right of Emily, there was a black girl with curly dyed pink hair and on the left of the brunette, there was a caucasian girl with short black hair and blue eyes. It looked like a friend group and he was hoping that the two in the picture and not at the scene were not in this mess.
“We are thinking at least one of the other girls or someone was with them.” Kathleen broke the silence again and Lucian put down the photograph. “Black hair in the brunette’s dead hand and that hair matched hair that was found in a used brush in the car.”
Lucian nodded his head, “So, you think this friend group went to Mardi Gras and had a horrible night?”
Kathleen sighed while shaking her head, “Yes, and by the identification factors that we found from Emily Solis, that car is under her name, but we figured out that her insurance is tied to what we assume to be her father, Edward Solis. The police tracked that car and figured out that it is from the state of Colorado. Meaning the girls were far away from home.”
“Has anyone tried to contact Edward Solis?” He asked while looking for more information on the page about the man.
“The police tried to contact him based on the phone number on the insurance but the phone is out of commission. They ended up finding someone that we believe is related to Emily and left a message. They have not tried to contact the police back, but I would assume that you are going to try to contact the family?” Kathleen questioned with a raised eyebrow.
“You know I can track down anyone.” Lucian smiled while ensuring everything was in the file before closing it up. “Was there any sexual assault?” He asked before walking towards the door of the office.
“It is safe to say that neither girl had experienced sexual assault or regular sexual activity before they passed.”
This wasn’t adding up in Lucian’s head. Jewelry was still on Emily. Meaning the killer’s motive wasn’t money. Neither girl was harassed in a sexual way, meaning the killer wasn’t getting off sexually to this. The only thing that sat in his mind was if one or both of the other girls were there. Maybe Emily and the brunette were just pawns to the killer and they only needed the other girl.
“I see…” With that Lucian left the section chief’s office and went to his own. He was going to study this file before the rest of the group got to work.
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