“Wow, this is a violent case.”

“Yeah I agree look at the body.” The two detectives stood by the body. The knife in her back stuck out and gleamed in the light of the flashlight. The first detective called in the morgue. “No point in calling an ambulance she’s as dead as a doornail.”

The hearse arrived and they wrapped up the body after dusting the knife for fingerprints and photographing the scene. The woman was sent in for an autopsy. “Please request Ms. Bridge do the autopsy.” One of the detectives said. They both knew she would inform them the fastest and not miss small details.

Back in the lab Rose opened up the body bag. “What a case.” She first looked at the neck which showed clear signs of strangulation. There was a stab wound in the stomach. But no blood. After opening up the lungs she found signs of water. She took a few samples to test later on the chemicals in the water.

The detectives came in. Rose liked these two they listened and actually thought for themselves. They didn’t expect her to figure it all out. There was water in her lungs that has chlorine in it. “The only problem I find is that the brain was deprived of oxygen and the skin shows no trace of chlorine. The pores would shown the traces.” “That’s quite interesting, what’s your main idea of how she died?”

“I would say strangled.”

They put out a press release saying a female had been murdered and they had suspects being questions. If anyone had information of the murder please come talk to them.

They were interviewing neighbors and co workers. Brian her buisness partner ranted for 15 minutes on how he thought she was stealing money from the company and he was going to sell his share. The neighbors were no help either. The elderly couple next door was too frail to kill her but her other neighbor was mentally unstable and had an ankle monitor. The single man across the street had not seen anything but had no alibi.

The elderly couple had let them search their house. They found a knife set that matched the one stabbed into the girl’s stomach. And their fountain water matched the sample from the girl’s lungs. The only problem. They had a very solid alibi with evidence on video and pictures of them attending an all night seniors garden party where her husband spoke. They had though come home to find their home burglarized and had reported it.

The mental guy had admitted to poisoning the girl and was taken into custody. They later released him to a mental asylum. His story did not match up. He claimed that he had poisoned her. The evidence showed she was strangled. The lab tested her and found no trace of poison. He had read the paper and wanted the attention.

Their final suspects were in a very long interrogation session. “Did you kill the girl?” Annie asked Bob the neighbor. “No, I did not strangle the girl.” He answered.

In the other room Joe asked the same question, “Did you kill the girl?” “No I did not kill Kathy. I had reason but I would not go that far.”

The detectives immediately arrested the neighbor. The press later asked why. The detective answer. “Only the killer would have known how she died.”