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“The family says that Mr Marchand was on heavy painkillers for an old back injury and arthritis The theory is that the wereleopard could smell the meds in his body and wouldn’t eat it”

“Maybe I have some friends I can call and ask later if they’d smell meds on someone, but I’ll need to know the exact prescriptions”

“I’ve got it written down I’ll give you the list”

“I do know that people poison carcasses to illegally kill lions and other big cats, and they take the bait People use poison to get rid of rats, mice, moles, and then the local cats eat them and die I’m not sure a wereleopard would be any different”

“They found Bobby passed out cold in his bed, nude, covered in blood, but his bed wasn’t as messy as he was”

“You mean the sheets weren’t stained with blood, just his body?”

“Yeah”

“Were there bloody handprints, knee prints where he crawled into the bed just before he passed out?”

“No, there weren’t”

“Well, he didn’t levitate into bed Even most vampires can’t do that,” I said

“I know, and also his human body should have been cleaner than that It was his beast form, which killed the uncle, that should have been drenched in blood, but if he left the area before switching back to hu the change”

“Were there bloody footprints leading from the crime scene to the bedroom?” I asked

“Yes, but there’s so about them that’s off, too”

“What do you mean, off?”

“I don’t know, but it looks like the foot is a bigger shoe size than Bobby’s If this was a norather evidence and tell ht, but because it’s a supernatural-on-human crime, they won’t even bother with forensics unless I canthem”