Police Detective Jeffery Gould Philadelphia Homicide had a new case. The
body of a white female age approximately 35 years was found stuffed behind
the desk at a downtown office. The coroner's report was still being prepared
but it looked like the women was strangled. The Women entered the office at
11:00 AM Saturday morning to visit Thomas Verdoun a well known and
well off Real Estate developer. Mr. Verdoun left the office 10 minutes later,
the mystery woman did not leave till the coroner removed the body. Anna
Klein the receptionist discovered the body while turning off lights closing the
office at 1:00 PM. The office was normally open a half day on Saturday.
Mr. Verdoun's car was still in the parking lot. Gould put out an APB on
Verdoun. Examination of the woman's purse found the normal range of
contents ID included. Her Name was Margot Hayweather of Devon, PA. As
he checked out the victim's past things got weird fast. Miss Hayweather
was wanted for questioning in an axe murder on the Main Line. The Victim
of the axe murder was wanted for an arson that killed 4 people in Princeton.
One of the fire victims was wanted for vehicular homicide in Stanford. The
Stanford victim was a Boston police officer who had shot and killed a
woman in broad daylight at a baseball game. He soon had a chain of 32
unsubtle murders starting in northern Nova Scotia. The perpetrator/victims
were all "normal upstanding citizens" three were cops, one was a Royal
Canadian Mounted policeman.
Police Detective William (Cash) Register, Jeffery Gould's partner, was still at
the crime seen. An attractive young woman knocked on the office door.
Register opened the door and said," Ma'am this office is closed and it is a
sealed police crime seen." "Sir, I have some information that is germane
your murder investigation," she said. "How do you know there was a
murder" Register asked. "A murder no sign of a struggle, the victim and the
perpetrator not known to one another, no apparent motive," she droned.
"Lady maybe you better tell me what you know about this case" the detective
said to the strange red hared woman. "You will not believe me," she stated.
"Let me be the judge of that," he said. "Very well! You, despite all
appearances, are looking at the work of a serial killer," she said. "Can you
identify this alleged killer," the detective scoffed. "I will help you by
showing you a key feature of his modus operandous," she said. "Just what
are you talking about," Register asked. "I can no longer try to stop this
predator myself, so I must convince you that you are looking for a being
from another dimension," she calmly stated. "Trick or treat is a long way
off, what do you really know about this case lady," an annoyed Register
questioned. I will demonstrate," she said. William Register felt everything
that he was wrenched and contorted his mind could not deal with it, it
rebelled and went unconscious.
