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Now I reloaded the gun and ai the feel of the weapon I took off my jacket and tried to find a convenient and coun under ht be best, I decided, and I et one later in the day There were other things I could use, too Handcuffs, certainly, so that I could immobilize Motley while I questioned hith in those hands of his I could pick up a set of cuffs at a store specializing in police items There was at least one such store don near One Police Plaza, and I seemed to remember another in the East Twenties, near the Academy I could stop there on my way to the Lepcourt apartment, and they could very likely supply a shoulder holster as well So cops, but most were unrestricted, for sale to anyone anted theory
You could buy body arht be a wise purchase I didn't think he'd be shooting at me, and the mesh won't do much to stop a knife thrust, but would it be likely to afford ers? I didn't know, and I couldn't quite seeto pry that information from a clerk "Will this protect me if somebody pokes me in the ribs?" "What's the ?"
A sood One of those pocket-size models that take the microcassettes They had them at the Reliable office, and maybe they'd let me check one out for a couple of days Or ht my own I didn't need state-of-the-art equipun on top of the dresser and got undressed I went into the bathroom to run a tub of hot water, and while it filled I came back and switched on the television set and scanned the dial I caught a newscast on one of the independent channels The lead ites-and-loan industry, and then a cheerful girl reporter with a Pepsodent sht be a connection between last night's bizarre e and this 's pre-dawn assault in exclusive Turtle Bay
I'dabout the AP officer earlier, so I paid attention I was hooked in tighter when she went on to say that police were speculating further about the possibility of a connection between both crimes and the brutal rape and murder of Elizabeth Scudder earlier in the week at her ho's assault, an un at 345 East Fifty-first Street, had been rushed to New York Hospital with multiple stab wounds and other unspecified injuries
The screen filled with a shot of the building entrance, with para ambulance I tried to make out the face of the wo
Then the reporter was back, shoas probably supposed to be a serious sency surgery, and a police-department spokesman rated her survival chances as sli notification of next of kin
I hadn't been able to see her face, but I'd seen the building entrance Anyway, I'd recognized the address And I think I'd have known anyway I think I knew froan
It couldn't have taken et dressed and out the door As it closed behind
Here's how it ht, around the ti at St Paul's, Andrew Echevarria and Gerald Wilhelm finished their tour of duty and reported back to their co officer at the Sixth Precinct on West Tenth Street Since six that evening the twoassigned beats in the precinct, carrying nightsticks and walkie-talkies, and serving as the eyes and ears of the regular police while providing a visible police presence on the streets of the city
Gerald Wilhelm left his uniform in a locker and went home in civilian clothes Andrew Echevarria wore his uniforht He left the station house around twenty minutes after ten and walked north and west toward a converted warehouse on Horatio Street between Washington and West, where he shared a one-bedrooner named Clarence Freudenthal
Maybe Motley started tailing hi Maybe he picked him up for the first tiain,was a matter of impulse Motley was certainly a frequent habituŠ¹ of the western edge of the Village, and God knows he was capable of spur-of-the-moment indecency
What's evident is that he lured Echevarria into a darkened passage between two buildings, probably by asking for help Echevarria, still in uniform, would expect to be asked for assistance Then, before the young airlines ticket agent could guess as happening, Motley immobilized him and very likely rendered hi his throat
That's not how he killed hi narrow-bladed knife, but he didn't do this until he'd re le thrust to the heart
He stripped the corpse of everything but the underwear and socks He took the shoes off in order to re size or he preferred his own, because he left theh, they were still there when the body was discovered If a street person had been first on the scene, those shoes probably would have walked)
He left Echevarria in the alley, dressed in socks and underwear and quite dead The undershorts were down around the victinity had been performed upon him, but a subsequent examination did not reveal the presence of semen in the dead man's anus He had been penetrated anally, but either the assailant failed to ejaculate or the agent of penetration was Echevarria's own hardwood nightstick
In any event, Motley took the nightstick aith hiear- handcuffs and key, notebook, walkie-talkie, AP shield, and, of course, shirt and jacket and pants and cap He probably wore his own clothing and carried these articles, and hewith him to facilitate this task (If so, that would support the conjecture that he planned the attack on Echevarria, that he deliberately picked out a uniforht and build and then stalked him)