Dawn of DeathA Chapter by DingDongA horror thriller mystery homicide detective fiction.
CHAPTER 1 : THE DAWN The clock on the fading wall struck sharp twelve as Jacob’s
phone rang , rudely jolting him from his blissful dream. Jacob Thompson had
just woken up after receiving a call from the office notifying him about a
crime scene at St. Cross. He scratched his head and headed towards the kitchen.
Popping a tea bag into his coffee mug while reading the today’s news headlines.
Jacob Thompson, was a fresh graduate from the LAPD class of 07’. The call from the office was referring
Jacob to his first case as the helper of the department’s most acknowledged
detective. Jacob had been aspiring to become an astonishing detective just like
his great grandfather was in the old western days. Jacob’s passion to become a
detective fired up in heart since the days he began watching all those
detectives television series on those cheap cable channels.
Jacob got dressed as he
usually would with a shirt and matching tie. He grabbed his briefcase and left
his front door with a wide smile on his face knowing today was the day he would
began his journey on the road to becoming a great detective. Jacob reached the
St. Cross crime scene the earliest before the coroner’s examiners and his
partner had arrived. The police officers who responded to the 911 call were the
first on the scene to discover the victim. The 911 call was made by the
victim’s husband who had just returned home after business trip to Hong Kong.
The police officer on duty was taking down the husband alibi as Jacob was about
to enter the victim’s residence. Just before he could put a footstep down into
the house, a hand grabbed him on his shoulder from behind followed by a loud
voice asking, “Who are you and what on earth are you doing at my crime scene,
son? Jacob turned around to discover that the loud voice was owned by none
other than the department’s most acknowledged detective and his new partner. He
introduced himself to the detective and the both men shook hands. The both men
entered the victim’s residence and headed upstairs to the scene of the crime
where the victim laid in a pool of blood of her own.
The victim was
discovered with a knife stabbed into her back and her head bashed badly. The
victim’s face was destroyed far beyond face recognition which meant identity
confirmation was a result of the owner of the residence. With one look, the
detective said, “ This must have been one hell of a crime of passion.” The
coroner’s examiners clocked the time of death to be around 2.a.m to 4.a.m by
the examining the temperature of the body. The main cause of death was a blood
forced trauma to the back of her head with a blunt object. The victim received
the stabbing of the knife in her back post trauma. Jacob flipped open his small
notebook which he kept in his front pocket and took notes of what he observed at
the crime scene. His partner kept silent throughout his observation and took
his notes down by pure sight observation. The coroner’s examiners finished
their duty and packed up their gear and headed out the door. Gerard, the
astonishing detective asked the head coroner examiner, “ Are we still on for
the poker game tonight?” and the coroner examiner answered, “ Sure we are, make
sure to bring a lot of money.”
Jacob and Gerard headed
out the door and back to the office. Gerard introduced Jacob to his co-workers
at the Department Of Homicides as the “ fresh meat” of the department. As usual
the large rectangular white board was rolled into the office to be used as a
notice board of all the information based on their case. On the board, Jacob
pinned the picture of their victim and her husband’s alibi. Jacob and Gerard
took turns creating theories on what they thought had taken place on the night
of the crime while awaiting the results on the fingerprints found on the knob
of the master bedroom’s door. Gerard has sent Jacob down to the 3rd
floor to get the result from their very own crime scene analyser. The crime
scene analyser of the Department Of Homicide was none other than the beautiful
and intelligent Aussie Gale. Aussie had long brown hair, a skinny body and an
irresistible smile. When Jacob had reached the analyzing department, Aussie was
already prepared with the full report on the analyzing she had completed.
Aussie explained to Jacob that after analyzing the fingerprints through the
Combined DNA Index System
(CODIS), she discovered the fingerprints belonged to a man named Tommy
Shulman. Tommy was previously apprehended for domestic violence, theft and the
most recent crime he committed was assault against a bar owner. Jacob shared
the news with Gerard and brought up to progress with the case as they headed
out to find Tommy Shulman. Gerard got a tip from one of his best informants
that Tommy usual hangout is a bar at the corner of 23rd and St.
Pines. They drove out the police carpark in Gerard’s steel black Camaro and
headed to the bar. As they entered the bar, they found Tommy getting into a
heated argument with the bartender. As
Jacob identified himself as a detective to Tommy, Tommy dashed out through the
back door of the bar with Gerard right on his heels. Jacob chased after using
the front entrance hoping to intercept Tommy and the back lane. Gerard was in a
hot pursuit after Tommy, jumping over gates and through heavy traffic. Tommy
took a wrong turn that caused him to a dead end, as he turned around to exit
the dead end at the back lane he was confronted by none other than Jacob who
hit Tommy with the cover of a trash bin. The hit was so hard that it left Tommy
lying on his back in pain while holding his broken nose. Gerard arrived just in
time to assist Jacob to place Tommy in the back seat of their car. Gerard patted
Jacob on the shoulder and congratulated him on making his first arrested and
what a first arrest it was with such a hot pursuit. Tommy was taken to the
interrogation room and left alone for period of time. Jacob and Gerard entered
the interrogation room together and begin interrogating Tommy. Jacob accused
Tommy of killing the victim but the motif of the murder still remained a
mystery. Gerard pressured Tommy to confess by telling Tommy that he was seen
arguing with the victim a week back before the murder. Tommy explained that
argument was complete misunderstanding, Tommy and the victim were actually
former high school classmates. Tommy was shocked to hear that Jane, the victim
had been murdered brutally in her residence. After checking out, Tommy’s alibi,
the detectives learnt that Tommy was about 5000 miles in the opposite direction
having dinner with his lawyer while discussing his divorce case. Tommy’s alibi
was checked out with his lawyer and restaurant waiter who testified to back up
Tommy. After dismissing Tommy as a suspect, Jacob and Gerard were back to
square one. The case still didn’t have a motif or a suspect to interrogate. The
atmosphere in the Department Of Homicide was quiet and empty as all detectives
were out on the streets trying to find clues on what really did happen at the
victim’s residence. © 2017 DingDong
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