suspects.
Chapter Eleven
Natalie was excited to follow up on Damian’s leads. She had a feeling that if she gave him the data that he would figure out how to put it together effectively with a computer so that it was a more efficient use of time. She had tried doing what he did manually and hadn’t been getting anywhere as there were simply too many facts to comb through.
She made an appointment to meet with her SJPD detective contact, Kevin Shimoda, and discuss the two cases. She knew that Kevin, on the one hand, hated that the work had been contracted to her, but rationalized the need to solve the old cases and at least they had worked together before she retired. Once Damian had the fingerprint matches, she went back and pulled the same stuff manually in the SJPD system. She didn’t want Kevin to know that Damian had hacked into the FBI system. Kevin would be doubtful about how she’d gotten the print matches, but that didn’t matter, he would be more excited about pulling the two suspects in for questioning and trying to solve the cold cases.
Sitting in a drab conference room in her old division, she discussed the two cases with Kevin.
“They both appear worthy of questioning. I think we can bring Mr. Avery in for questioning, and we’ll ask the Phoenix PD to go out to Mr. Watson’s home and question him for us,” Kevin said.
“Are you going to get a search warrant for either suspect?” Natalie asked.
Kevin paused, thinking of the pros and cons and then nodded. “It will take longer, but I suspect our thug at the local convenience store won’t willingly come in for questioning and if he does indeed belong to the Aryan Brotherhood, he’ll have a sophisticated gang behind him.”
“I agree and with the information about Greg Watson. Phoenix PD will have a sophisticated client for a different reason. Before we interview that gentleman, I want our coroner to look at the case and tell us if the knife’s edges match the victim’s remains. It will take longer but it will be an amazing piece of physical evidence if the coroner can make the connection. Thankfully, the man who committed the other crime with that knife is still incarcerated; otherwise we might not have the knife still in evidence. Is Dr. Patterson still on the job at the coroner’s office? He was always excellent with knife wounds on the body,” Natalie mused.
“He’s still working and that was exactly who I was going to tag for this investigation. He’ll have to compare the photos taken by the CSI techs when we recovered the bones. I know they photographed what they thought were knife striations according to the case report.”
“Let’s hope for a match.”
“Yeah. I wonder about John Avery. He appears to have had three kills attributed to him about twenty years ago and would appear to meet the FBI’s definition of a serial killer. I wonder why he stopped killing women? Or did he? Maybe I can do more fingerprint searches and see if his prints were found at any other older crime scenes before we computerized prints to the degree that we have today.”
“Natalie, the problem with that is so many prints for the time period you’re talking about exist in individual jurisdictions and haven’t been computerized yet.”
“True, but it’s worth a look. How do you feel about taking on the AB gang?” Natalie asked curiously as she hadn’t had any real dealings with the group during her career.
“I’d almost rather take on any other group of people including ISIS. They are a large white extremely violent prison gang that operates drug manufacturing and distribution outside of prison. I bet that convenience store is a source of meth distribution. I think I’ll call my contacts in gang investigations and the covert response unit. I think the three of us could work together to set up surveillance on Mr. Avery. It would help to have something criminal to hold him on while we
Chapter Eleven
Natalie was excited to follow up on Damian’s leads. She had a feeling that if she gave him the data that he would figure out how to put it together effectively with a computer so that it was a more efficient use of time. She had tried doing what he did manually and hadn’t been getting anywhere as there were simply too many facts to comb through.
She made an appointment to meet with her SJPD detective contact, Kevin Shimoda, and discuss the two cases. She knew that Kevin, on the one hand, hated that the work had been contracted to her, but rationalized the need to solve the old cases and at least they had worked together before she retired. Once Damian had the fingerprint matches, she went back and pulled the same stuff manually in the SJPD system. She didn’t want Kevin to know that Damian had hacked into the FBI system. Kevin would be doubtful about how she’d gotten the print matches, but that didn’t matter, he would be more excited about pulling the two suspects in for questioning and trying to solve the cold cases.
Sitting in a drab conference room in her old division, she discussed the two cases with Kevin.
“They both appear worthy of questioning. I think we can bring Mr. Avery in for questioning, and we’ll ask the Phoenix PD to go out to Mr. Watson’s home and question him for us,” Kevin said.
“Are you going to get a search warrant for either suspect?” Natalie asked.
Kevin paused, thinking of the pros and cons and then nodded. “It will take longer, but I suspect our thug at the local convenience store won’t willingly come in for questioning and if he does indeed belong to the Aryan Brotherhood, he’ll have a sophisticated gang behind him.”
“I agree and with the information about Greg Watson. Phoenix PD will have a sophisticated client for a different reason. Before we interview that gentleman, I want our coroner to look at the case and tell us if the knife’s edges match the victim’s remains. It will take longer but it will be an amazing piece of physical evidence if the coroner can make the connection. Thankfully, the man who committed the other crime with that knife is still incarcerated; otherwise we might not have the knife still in evidence. Is Dr. Patterson still on the job at the coroner’s office? He was always excellent with knife wounds on the body,” Natalie mused.
“He’s still working and that was exactly who I was going to tag for this investigation. He’ll have to compare the photos taken by the CSI techs when we recovered the bones. I know they photographed what they thought were knife striations according to the case report.”
“Let’s hope for a match.”
“Yeah. I wonder about John Avery. He appears to have had three kills attributed to him about twenty years ago and would appear to meet the FBI’s definition of a serial killer. I wonder why he stopped killing women? Or did he? Maybe I can do more fingerprint searches and see if his prints were found at any other older crime scenes before we computerized prints to the degree that we have today.”
“Natalie, the problem with that is so many prints for the time period you’re talking about exist in individual jurisdictions and haven’t been computerized yet.”
“True, but it’s worth a look. How do you feel about taking on the AB gang?” Natalie asked curiously as she hadn’t had any real dealings with the group during her career.
“I’d almost rather take on any other group of people including ISIS. They are a large white extremely violent prison gang that operates drug manufacturing and distribution outside of prison. I bet that convenience store is a source of meth distribution. I think I’ll call my contacts in gang investigations and the covert response unit. I think the three of us could work together to set up surveillance on Mr. Avery. It would help to have something criminal to hold him on while we
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