Search For A Serial Killer

Chapter 1

Detective Mitchell Burnlee and his partner Detective Lieutenant Jacob Maloney are seated in the car in the parking lot observing the funeral for Laura Jones, the latest murder victim of The Drowner. So far there have been here that they know of, and if they don’t stop him soon, there will be many more to come. The serial killer got his nickname from his habit of dropping the women into the water, stuffed in a gym bag and weighed down with a cinder block, all while the poor girl is still alive.

Mitchell is snapping still photos of the people with a digital SLR camera while Jacob is videotaping the proceedings.

“You think he’s in the crowd?” Mitchell asks.

“It’s a possibility,” Jacob says. “Agent Steese said serial killers like to show up to the funerals of their victims, a perverse look at their handiwork.”

Mitchell grimaces as he nods, how sick these bastards are that prey on the weakest members of society,

As the two officers get their footage of the mourners, the parents of the murdered woman are inconsolable, tears are running unchecked down their faces. Mitchell grits his teeth his own wife is pregnant, and he can’t imagine what the parents are going through. This is every parents’ worst nightmare, burying their child — it’s supposed to be the other way around.

“Anyone stick out to you?” Jacob asks.