'And you didn't want to overplay your hand.'
Pulaski said, 'I like that, what you just said. You slapped down my cliche with one of your own.'
The kid was really coming into his own. 'Anything you could deduce?'
'I tried to see if he was from California but he wouldn't say. But he was tanned. Looked healthy, balding, stocky. Southern accent. Name was Dave Weller. I'll check him out.'
'Well, good. We'll see if he makes a move. If not, I'll talk to Nance Laurel in the DA's Office about getting a subpoena to scoop up the funeral home records. But that's a last resort; I want to keep you in play for as long as we can. Okay. Not a bad job, rookie. We wait. Now: to the task at hand. Unsub 11-5. He's still got his message to complete. "the second". "forty". "seventeenth". He's not through yet. I want to know where he's going to hit next. We have to move on it.'
He wheeled closer to the chart. The answers are there someplace, he thought. Answers to where he would strike next, who he was, what his purpose in orchestrating these terrible attacks might be.
But those were answers as shadowed as the sleet-laden skies of New York.
* * *
582 E. 52nd Street (Belvedere Parking Garage)
Victim: Braden Alexander - Not killed
Unsub 11-5 - See details from prior scenes
- Six feet
- Yellow latex mask
- Yellow gloves
- Possibly man in Identi-Kit image - Possibly coveralls
- Probably from Midwest, West Virginia, mountains - other rural setting - Had scalpel
Sedated with propofol - How obtained? Access to medical supplies? (No local thefts)
Potential Kill Zone - Underneath garage
- Similar infrastructure to other scenes IFON
ConEd Metro-North rail Emergency Communication Link
Handcuffs - Generic, cannot be sourced
Tattoo - Implants
- '17th'
- Loaded with concentrated nicotine Nightshade family Too many locations to source
Trace from plastic bag - Human albumin and sodium chloride (plastic surgery in his plans?) - 'No. 3' written on bag in red water-soluble ink generally used for water treatment but not in prior locations or here, so could be a poison for future attack (however too many sources to find)
Sidney Place, Brooklyn Heights (Pam Willoughby's apartment)
Victim: Seth McGuinn - Not killed, minor injuries
Unsub - Red centipede tattoo
- Confirmed had American Eagle tattoo machine - Fit general description from earlier attacks - Coveralls
Sedated with propofol - How obtained? Access to medical supplies? (No local t