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had not been a tattoo artist. He learned that particular skill in prison.
    Chris turned the monitor around to face him again and typed something else and when he finally found it, he froze and looked up at Darren and said, “Would you please come around here and look at this?”
    Darren stood and walked around the desk and Jamie started to as well, but Chris stopped him. “I am sorry Jamie, but these are rape victim photos and I can’t let you see them.”
    Jamie nodded and sat back down. He had had a hard enough time letting Chris see the tattoo and letting him take pictures for evidence and he knew what that type of violation felt like and he was not about to look at other victim photographs. He wasn’t about to make them feel violated again, even though they would likely never know.
    Darren came back around the desk and sat down heavily. “Can you call the Atlanta PD and get those files out here please, photos and all. Also, if they would consent to come, I would like to talk to, if not meet, all of his former victims.”
    Chris nodded and picked up his phone.
    Darren turned to Jamie and said, “I am really very sorry to have to ask you this, but will it be possible to show me the tattoos? I need to see them myself rather than just pictures and if this is what I think it is, then I will need a doctor in here later to do some tests. If that is okay with you.”
    Jamie looked at Chris and saw him looking at him. Chris nodded gently with tears in his eyes as he talked on the phone and Jamie sighed, wiping his own eyes on the sleeve of Chris’s hoodie that he was still wearing from the night before.
    Jamie turned back to Darren and said, “Yeah. But can I shower first? Trust me, you don’t want to look down there otherwise.” He gave a small weak smile that he barely held onto.
    Darren laughed softly and said, “I would appreciate that, and you are right. I really don’t want to look anyway, but I need to. I will call the doctor right now if you wish and have him meet us here and you can go shower, or we can eat first, then you can go shower.”
    Jamie’s stomach growled right at that moment and everyone laughed, including Chris who was just putting down his phone. “I guess that means we eat first.” He looked at Darren and said, “Copies of the files are being overnighted but in the meantime, we are getting electronic copies of them emailed to me right now.”
    Chris stood up and walked over to the box of food to start pulling it all out when Jamie jumped up and said, “Wait!”
    He ran over to the box as Chris stepped back and Jamie looked inside the box. “Chris, the wrappings and containers should not look like this.” He opened a couple of containers and sniffed after examining them and said, “The food should not look or smell like this either. Something is wrong here.”
    Chris grabbed the box of food and walked it back to the evidence room and locked it up. He then grabbed up his phone and called his deputies and told them all to come in, that their day off had been cancelled.
    He then ordered ten large pizzas and Darren in the meantime called the doctor in. Moments after the pizza arrived the doctor and the deputies all showed up within minutes. Everyone dug into the pizzas but no one talked about what was going on until everyone had eaten their fill.
    Chris stood up then and said to the deputies, “Okay guys. We have a bit of a problem here. You all know Jamie. This is District Attorney Darren Williams and Doctor Jim Hughes. Something happened to Jamie a couple years ago that is finally being handled and it appears the man we are after has accomplices and have figured out we know something is going on. In fact, we ordered food from Jamie’s bar and it appears to have been tampered with, possibly poisoned. The doctor here will be leaving with the food shortly and I want Deputy Clark to accompany him to his lab. There he will be testing the food. Deputy Smith and Deputy Jamison, I want you two to