I Can See You

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Author: Karen Rose
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here?”
    You want a damn list? “This scene,” Noah said. “I’ve seen this scene
before.”
    “Well, of course you have,” Micki said reasonably.
“After fifteen years, you’ve seen almost every crime scene before. So have I.”
    “No. I’ve seen this scene before, down to the
placement of the victim’s shoes.”
    “I haven’t,” Jack said, dead serious now. “When did
you see it and why didn’t I?”
    “Friday morning, a week ago. You were home… sick.”
    Jack tensed at Noah’s hesitation, flags of angry color
staining his cheeks. “I was.”
    Noah let it slide. This was not the place for
confrontation. “It was Gus Dixon’s scene. I’d borrowed his mini recorder
because mine broke and I needed to interview a witness.” For a case he’d closed
without Jack, because Jack had been sick . “On my way back from the
interview, Dix called. He needed his recorder at a scene, so I took it to him.”
    “And it was this scene?” Jack asked, eyes narrowing.
“A hanging?”
    “Exactly. The stool was overturned, same distance and
angle from the body. The vic wore this dress and the same style shoes. One shoe
lying on its side, the other standing straight up. The type of hook, the noose,
the open window, everything is the same.”
    Micki frowned. “Déjà vu all over again.”
    “But this victim was hung,” Londo said. “Petechiae in
the eyes, the ligatures on her throat… All the injuries are consistent with a
short-drop hanging.”
    “Dix’s was the same,” Noah said. “But her eyes are
glued open just like Dix’s victim.”
    Jack winced. “I was just kidding about the Bette Davis
eyes.” Studying the scene again, Jack pointed to the stool. “You done with it,
Mick?” He picked it up and, placing it directly under the body, stepped back,
and Noah’s suspicion was confirmed.
    The stool sat two full inches lower than the tips of
Martha Brisbane’s toes.
    “Holy fuck,” Londo muttered. “Was that the same on the
other hanger, too?”
    “I don’t know. When I got there some other ME techs
had already cut her down.”
    “This vic couldn’t have stuck her neck in the noose
and still been able to kick the stool away,” Micki said quietly. “Somebody
helped her.”
    Noah looked up into Martha’s wide eyes. “Somebody
killed her.”
    “And went to a lot of trouble to make it look like a
suicide,” Jack said. “Any note?”
    “We haven’t found one,” Noah said.
    Micki took more close-ups of the red stilettos. “No scuffs.”
She held a shoe next to the victim’s foot. “And too small. Why go to all this
trouble and leave the wrong shoes?”
    “I wonder how many others he’s staged,” Jack said.
    “And how many we missed.” Noah nodded at Londo. “You
can take her down now.”
    “Let’s check this apartment,” Jack said, “then go talk
to the neighbor who found her.”
    “Sarah Dwyer. Martha promised to water Dwyer’s plants
while she was away.”
    “How long ago was that?” Jack asked.
    “Two weeks,” Noah said. “Officer Pratt said Dwyer got
back today, pissed because her plants were dead. She came to yell at Martha,
but nobody answered the door so she climbed the fire escape to bang on the
bedroom window, and saw her hanging.”
    Micki’s brows went up. “She went to all the trouble to
climb the fire escape?”
    Jack’s lips twitched. “Three guesses as to the plants
she was so attached to.”
    “I thought the same thing,” Noah admitted. “But I bet
she got rid of any pot she was growing on her windowsill before she called 911.
Let’s finish up here. I’ve already searched the bedroom and bath. You take the
kitchen, I’ll take the living room.”
    Noah was searching Martha Brisbane’s empty desk
drawers when Jack came in from the kitchen, a can of cat food in his hand. “The
vic had a cat,” he said.
    “There weren’t any cats here,” Noah said and Jack
frowned.
    “A multiple murderer and a missing cat. Not good. You
finding
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