The White Angel Murder
“He snorted out of his nostrils, as if to get the air from inside out of his lungs.
With little light and no context, Stanton was still able to see the pattern. The animal-like ferocity of the attack, the torn and ragged flesh, breasts bitten or ripped away from the body. There was no doubt in his mind that it was the same as Tami Jacobs.
He called Jessica and told her what he had found. He asked her not to call it in for two hours to give him time with the body. She told him she would wait one....
It was a brisk walk to the shore. Laid out in front of him was a blanket of small bones and he could see through his childhood eyes why he thought they were seashells. He cleared a space with his foot and sat down; the crunch of bones he missed underneath him as he stretched his legs out and then curled them back against his body. It had caught him off guard, like the photos of Tami. As a detective in the thick of his career, he had distanced himself from horror. Desensitized was the word his father had used to describe it when Jon had told him how he felt.MoreLess
With little light and no context, Stanton was still able to see the pattern. The animal-like ferocity of the attack, the torn and ragged flesh, breasts bitten or ripped away from the body. There was no doubt in his mind that it was the same as Tami Jacobs.
He called Jessica and told her what he had found. He asked her not to call it in for two hours to give him time with the body. She told him she would wait one....
It was a brisk walk to the shore. Laid out in front of him was a blanket of small bones and he could see through his childhood eyes why he thought they were seashells. He cleared a space with his foot and sat down; the crunch of bones he missed underneath him as he stretched his legs out and then curled them back against his body. It had caught him off guard, like the photos of Tami. As a detective in the thick of his career, he had distanced himself from horror. Desensitized was the word his father had used to describe it when Jon had told him how he felt.MoreLess
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