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A freaking lead O-kay

“If it belonged to the shooter, he just ditched it so he wouldn’t be recognized This coat wouldn’t have been in the trash for long”

Headlights swept the parking area I looked up to see a van co around the one-cruiser barricade to the criame museum

It was CSI’s mobile forensic lab

Thank you, God The cavalry had arrived

CHAPTER 26

THE CRIME SCENE investigation van was parked outside the barrier tape, which enclosed a sixty-square-foot area of asphalt, a dead worants

CSIs and techs poured out of the van and began setting up lights and an evidence tent Moments later an SUV rolled up to the outer peri area on the Embarcadero side and stopped

I heard shouting and saw Casey and Baskin try to block a gray-haired ed from the vehicle But they broke past the cops and ran toward the body on the ground And now every gory detail was illuhts

A third person got out of the SUV I recognized her froestures and body language I gathered that Millie Cushing was telling the cops at the barrier that she knew me

I called out, “She’s okay”

The tape was lifted Cushing skirted the inner peri close to thearea quickly When she reached me, she said, “I phoned Laura’s husband I had to let him know”

The teenage girl screamed, “Oh, et up Oh, my God, Mommy Pleeease”

The shrieks and cries cohter pierced the ambient sound of police radios, traffic on the E from beyond our crime scene out on the pier

The rabbed her into a tight hug as a CSI forced them away from the body of someone they loved