Bryan placed a bigger mug filled with coffee on the table. He had finished the last one already.
Today, he was going to pull an all nighter because he had some investigation results to look through.
His eyes were heavy and he felt his head throb really badly. He recalled what he had done throughout the day. It was such a busy day for him.
He took the next file and flipped through it.
It was the lists of all pharmacies that sold Halothane and the people who purchased them in the last one year.
"Whoo! This is so voluminous!" He held his head and began reading slowly so as not to miss a single dot.
Only seven pharmacies sold Halothane and they were scattered across Haston city.
The reason it had taken this long for him to get this information was because the pharmacies were hesitant to disclosing their customer information as it was against their "ethics". It took the police some great deal of hard work to comb through each pharmacies record.
Most of the pharmacies, 3 in particular, only had close dealings with major hospitals and hence only supplied drugs for customers referred by the hospital.
Two were privately owned and they supplied drugs to almost anyone.
The other two were government owned.
Bryan flipped past the information as he found that they were irrelevant. He stopped on the page were information about the sales of halothane by the seven pharmacies was recorded.
He had to peel his eyes away some times and drink his coffee as his eyes were getting sore like grains of sands were embedded within them.
There were a lot of names. Mostly the hospitals took most of the cut.
A handful of regular people also purchased the drug within the last year.
Why would regular people have need for these kinds of drugs? Bryan asked himself rhetorically as he already pinned them as primary targets of investigation.
He also had to bear in mind that the real killer might have used someone else to get the drugs for him, hence, he didn't form any circle of suspect list.
Next were names of doctors that bought the drugs outside the hospital's ambit.
He ran across series of names;
"...Dr Raymond, Dr Chris, Dr Mendy, Dr Gustavo, Dr Neil..." Bryan stopped as he read the last name. He felt he had seen this name before or heard of it but he couldn't remember where exactly.
Soon, the mug was empty. Bryan shook his head and stood up to go make some more.
The night was quiet and it made it so serene. He had decided to stay at his rented apartment in Raymond Street for tonight because of this very reason.
Soon, the coffee mug was refilled. He continued his reading and flipped from page to page.
After he was satisfied with the file did he put it away.
The next file was on his laptop. Apparently, the person who had handled this part of the investigation didn't find typing a report in the traditional way to be fun.
The file opened up. It was the list of doctors, surgeons in Haston city, with past records of psychological problems.
This list wasn't too long compared to the last one. It only contained information about what the doctors were involved in and their present location and jobs.
The list didn't include those who were still at a treatment centre since it was difficult for them to have much freedom outside, thus, Bryan wrote this category off his suspect list.
Bryan scrolled through the reports reading it with utmost seriousness.
It took him time to realise that he had finished another mug of coffee.
He rolled his eyes as he decided not to get anymore coffee, after all, he didn't like coffee in the first place; he preferred tea.
As Bryan read through the list, he stopped for a few seconds and picked up the last report he had already gone through.
He was surprised to find that most of the doctors who purchased Halothane independently were also on the list of doctors with mental issues!
Why would a mentally ill doctor purchase halothane for personal use?
Or maybe it was not for personal use but for murder... The small voice in his mind added.
But there were up to four mentally ill doctors who had purchased the drugs, it couldn't be that all them were the "exorcist" right?
Bryan took a deep breath to calm his mind before looking at the four names again:
Dr Mendy....
Dr Neil....
Dr Moore....
Dr Edith....
He will have them investigated and followed for a few days; this could help in discovering any abnormalities.
Despite drawing out this list, he still had it in mind to do a little bit more cross-referencing; after all, these doctors were all declared reformed before being released from the mental care facility. He still had a lot of options but this offered the easiest start.