Investigator Mike Quiet's Victory
February 2: One week after Investigator Mike took up his new post.
Edmond Carrie (age 21) was taken into protective custody after being found wandering the parking lot of an LA supermarket, his face frozen in a trance-like expression, blood splattered on his t-shirt.
Three miles away, in a car stopped in the middle of a national highway, the brutally mutilated body of Aisha Inning (age 34) was found.
The results of further investigation proved that the blood on the t-shirt was Aisha's.
Edmond was immediately arrested without a warrant under suspicion of murder.
As a result of a search performed on the suspect's residence, strands of Elisa Cell's hair, as well as her body parts, were found amongst the disarray in the rooms themselves. After finding Edmond's fingerprints consistent with those found on the scene of Elisa's murder, the police department determined that Edmond was guilty of the murders of both Elisa Cell and Aisha Inning.
When asked his reasoning for the murder, he said, "If I do not offer a sacrifice, Satan will kill me."
Also, Edmond's residence was close to the general store where the crime took place, and he had also just been fired from his own job there shortly before-- it was also discovered that he had been institutionalized for mental disorders in the past.
Coincidentally, with Edmond's blood type being A, in addition to all the other factors explained previously, there was no possible way that he could have been in any way connected to the Black Maria Incident.
What was most shocking to the world at large about this was that Edmond's description matched Investigator Mike's criminal profile basically down to the letter.
This proved a great success in proving Inspector Mike's credibility, and the townspeople welcomed him as their new hero.
Police Inspector Hank, having completely disregarded the Investigator's theory and as a result done absolutely nothing to prevent the brutal murders before they took place, completely fell out of favor, and Investigator Mike Quiet rose victorious out of the showdown that had been occurring between the two men.
In both name and practice, the focus of the investigation was given to Investigator Mike, and he set his sights on the speedy resolution of the Black Maria Incident, focusing all of his resources on solving the case.
First, he sent out a search party, ordering them to search for all missing persons who were female and approximately of the same age as Vivian, as well as a thorough search of every location in the general area where it would be easy to abandon a body.
His reasoning for this was that due to the skill with which the body in the Black Maria Incident was handled, it was probable that she had not been his first murder; so, if the victims of his previous, inexperienced murders could be found and connected to him, there was a high probability of several pieces of evidence coming together to assist in his arrest.
As a result of an investigation spanning several months, the LA City Police Department discovered several bodies in the California woods and adjoining marine areas. Among them, three bodies were of missing women of similar age to Vivian: Amanda Scream, Jessie Rule, and Sara Straussummer.
The women's bodies all suffered several puncture wounds to the back, and their bodies had been completely drained of all of their blood; through this, it was acknowledged that these women were killed in the same manner as the victim of the Black Maria Incident.
Inspector Mike's analysis of these crimes read, "Such criminals are very rare: This man has killed four women; Vivian, Amanda, Jessie, and Sara...and with each murder, and the more time that has passed, the more precise he has become in his methodology...so, it is extremely possible that these previous murders were conducted as experiments to perfect the flawlessly artistic murder. The discrepancy between these past murders and the Black Maria Incident—the fact that the murderer hid these bodies—is a result of the murder not wanting to show the world his incomplete work, a preoccupation that would likely exist in the mind of a murderer who believes himself to be an artist."
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