Page 10 of Kian's Devotio
As they passed an alley to get back to their car, they heard a noise in a dumpster.
Reid thought it was a kitten or something and didn’t want to leave the poor thing outside to fend for itself, so they investigated and what they found inside was something that neither man had expected.
A woman was lying inside the closed dumpster. Kian thought she was dead at first, but she let out a small moan and that snapped the brothers into cop mode.
Reid called it in on his radio and carefully jumped in the dumpster, checking the woman and finding a thready pulse and though she was still alive, she was unconscious.
They were struggling with how badly the woman was hurt and had been shocked that she was still alive.
She was so badly beaten and was barely breathing when Reid jumped inside the dumpster with her.
He spoke to her in quiet tones and Kian called for an ambulance, hoping the woman would make it to the hospital.
Reid had carefully lifted the girl from the dumpster. She was giving tiny whimpers of pain.
The ambulance and the other cops came on the scene, all flashing lights and men ready to help this woman who needed their help.
Her only indication of life were the tiny moans she made, and Kian watched as she was loaded into the ambulance, praying that she would live.
Then he had to hold back the horror at taking the pictures of where she was found.
Trying to find out any clues as to who this woman was, why she was there and what happened to her.
The man who did this needed to be brought to justice and Kian couldn’t stand the thought of the man out there roaming the streets, possibly harming another girl.
Their chief asked them to go to the hospital to check on the woman and also to collect the pictures and any evidence that had been left behind on the woman that had been taken there.
She was in surgery and would be for some time. They didn’t know if she would wake up and they went back to the crime scene to check for any more clues as to who she was.
They picked that crime scene apart and Reid was lucky enough to find the woman’s purse buried in the trash in the same dumpster.
It was disgusting, dirty work, but Reid never complained and the two men, along with some of their colleagues looked around for more clues.
They lucked out and after digging through the dumpster and found a wallet with her identification.
There were no cards, no money and she had no jewelry on her, so they knew it was a burglary gone bad.
As soon as they saw her I.D. and they got a good look at her face, Kian had felt sick.
She looked a lot like Emery or Karalee.
She was older than them by about ten years, but he knew she was someone’s daughter. Someone’s sister.
She could be someone’s mom or someone’s wife. And he hated it.
They took pictures of everything and did their best to find her family and the man who beat her within an inch of her life.
So that case, even though they were still working on it, haunted them.
It hit too close to home and when they found her family, they found that she was a mother of two kids and that she had been married for just over 5 years.
The husband was so distraught when they found him and told him about her and her injuries that it was hard.
Her husband had broken down in tears and he sobbed. Asking how he was supposed to tell their kids what happened.
That moment was something that Kian would never forget.
Their friend Grayson, a paramedic had been the one that had been on the scene and he and his brother Graham, struggled with it as well.
