As they reached the ginormous building, they rushed over to the front desk after parking their car sideways. They went straight to the elevator as the security guard tried to tell them about the parking, they just showed their badges and closed the elevator. The ride up two floors was one the most excruciating time of their lives. They never did have small talks. Just business as usual, nothing else.
The elevator stopped, as they rushed across the hallway, to the right, entered a gigantic brown door and there he was. Dr. Gilbert himself. The man was poking and probing around dead bodies. As soon as they entered Dr. Gilbert looked down on his glasses like the old man he was. And saw Lisa and Andrews standing up waiting for the dictum. He then started moving towards them very slowly and said in a tranquil voice.
"Lisa, glad to see you again, even thought the circumstances are totally uncalled for."
"Old man, good to see you too although the greetings need to end, There a murder on the loose and the press is getting suspicious for all the covering were doing. So, old man. Give it me straight. Why did the autopsy take so long? And what do we have so far?" Lisa answered as she walked over to the dead body.
"The woman is Emma Smith. Found six days ago near the side of the road at the Botanical Garden. She is 21 years old and Detective, I have got to tell you, in all my years as a forensic doctor never have I come across something so brutal yet so intricately done. The murderer is very smart, I'll give him that. He killed the woman, before dumping her body. The dead was done by carbon monoxide suffocation. But unfortunately, the cutting of the limbs was done before then."
"What do you mean?" Andrews asked with a quiver in his voice.
"I mean what I just said. The killer dragged the victim and chopped of her legs while she was awake."
"Then why didn't she ran away if se was awake?" Andrews continued.
"Would you just shut the hell up?! Am getting to that part.... Now... the killer used a paralytic drug, succinylcholine, atracurium, and vecuronium. All of them in the right amounts would cause someone to completely paralyze. But now here is the part that astonishes me the most. The killer only used few milligrams of each and he got the right combination of leaving the victim awake. So that means Miss Emma Smith saw her legs being amputated. "
Dr. Gilbert then looked at Lisa and nodded his head. Lisa looked back at him with a sincere face telling him to continue with the dictum.
He continued as he walked over to the other side of the table with the carcass on top. "And that's not even the half of it, he then suffocated her and made sure she died of carbon monoxide poisoning before removing all her blood and making sure she was completely dried of. If you had no blood, you would essentially weigh at least 10% less than your initial weight. Then add the but off limbs that at least another 10%. That's not all, embalming fluid was used to slow of decomposition. So basically, I had to work with the brain to find all that out."
"Well doctor what about the former client who was completely bashed it. Oh well that one we've identified as Evelyn Johson, age 22, she seemed to have the same symptoms as the our victim her. But the murderer left her on the road and she was completely destroyed. I mean her face bashed in. her skull open but we did find traits of the paralytic drugs on her, or what's left of her brain, and the red dress proves it all."
"So it the same killer?" Lisa asked with much concern and perturbation.
"According to my professional opinion from 30 years in the field and a PhD from the University of Florida I would say, Yes. The killer is the same. "
"Okay thank you for your analysis."
"Well am not done. The killer is highly skilled like surgeon. The incisions was made perfectly on the bones such that the bones were not very deformed, no ridges, no edges. professional work I tell you. Killing was done at least 6 to 8 hours before the dumping of the bodies and the make-up was done by a great hand. I mean they look beautiful than most people alive out there. Except miss Evelyn Johson her face was pretty smashed up."
"Is that it?"
" yeah you can go now. Good bye."