oblique moss
I went back to the surveillance room- hoping that I had just missed something. And I had. I was looking at the wrong floor like an idiot.
With this new revelation, I finally got…
Nothing. No new people at all.
Then a second murder happened. In the apartment next to the last one, and a few floors below the office where the surveillance system was. I repeated the surveillance process again- nothing.
Then I had a thought. There was a consistency in all of the surveillance footage after the first murder and during the second- the enforcer guarding the scene- right outside the two rooms where the murders took place and in the perfect position to have committed the second murder.
I’ve never arrested an enforcer before, so the idea never even entered my mind- but those guys are all kinda psychopathic so I suppose it makes sense.
I snuck up behind him, and searched through his pockets, and guess what I found?
A Hamilton rifle and a box of .309 ammunition- matching the deaths exactly.
I also managed to scan his prints without being detected- type J.
His wallet told me his name, Aaron Laurent. Maybe it was a stretch, but the name on the arms dealer's sales ledger, 'A', could have matched him.
I forgot to read his address- but I could use a city directory to locate it. Unfortunately, there were two 'A. Laurent' addresses, so I noted both and decided to go to the first.
And finally, a bit of luck in this otherwise cruel case- it was his: the prints on the doorknob confirmed as such. As it turns out, Aaron lived with the perp of an older case, I recognised the room, but there were new notes scattered bout that read: 'all of them dead walking none of them have a clue'.
It was fairly apparent that I had my guy- he clearly had some kind of psychotic break. There was no obvious motive a s far as I could tell, but the courts don't need one anyway.
spare moss