Page 440 of Chaos has a Name
“That I do have. It was the first thing I ran.”
Elizabeth stopped him.
“So you’ve had the results for a while?” she asked.
All of the investigators standing behind her were shaking their heads, trying to save the man from what he’d just said.
And he didn’t notice.
“They came in around two this morning.”
Elizabeth glanced over at Chris, and he cleared his throat, getting their attention.
It was a good thing they were leaving when this case was over. She was going to start eating the techs as snacks since they weren’t doing their job.
To her standard.
“When you get a piece of evidence back, immediately, an email should be sent to the investigator in charge, so she can have it to see the results.”
Ben looked confused.
“That’s not how…”
She stopped him.
“You’re not in Kansas, Toto. This is a whole different arena, and I need the information as it comes in. It’s not my job to track it down. It’s your job to attach it to an email, or give it to MATE to get to me. I can’t do my job without it.”
Ben shrugged.
“Okay. We just didn’t want to bother you last night after you were abducted.”
Oh, well, she was going to bother all kinds of staff while she was here.
“Again, we email, call, or get MATE the information when it comes in.”
He nodded slowly.
“Uh, okay.”
Because this was a steep learning curve, she’d let them have that one error. Later, if it happened again, she’d bust balls.
“What did you find?” she asked.
He went there.
“The samples had no drugs. We did find a little bit of blood in some of the veins in the fleshy bits that weren’t eaten. He was drunk. Like big-time drunk.”
She was weighing that in her head, and that would likely mean he didn’t know he was followed, or he hadn’t been ready to defend himself.
The man had a gun in his house.
And hadn’t used it.
When she opened her mouth, Tony went there.
“Like I suspected, the newest was cooked. I saw the evidence of someone being roasted over a fire. The rest of the flesh, not so much. Maybe they took it home for snackies. Like a doggie bag.”
She shook her head.
