Comments | dr_julianna_cox: Follow the evidence | [rp for <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/detmeganwheeler">detmeganwheeler</a></strong> and <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/det_nichols">det

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Follow the evidence | [rp for detmeganwheeler and det_nichols]

May 17, 2009 21:01

9:45pm, Chelsea.The brownstone of noted Fortune 500 CEO James Payton was swarming with NYPD officers and personnel. Squad cars blocked off part of the street, blue and red lights whirling, silently punctuating an otherwise serene neighborhood like exclamation points. Uniformed officers lazily guarded the building's entryway. One smacked his ( Read more... )

megan wheeler, rp thread, zach nichols

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detmeganwheeler May 18 2009, 02:33:04 UTC

"Wheeler, MCS." She flashed her badge and walked past the uniformed officers standing guard.

For a moment, she covered her mouth and nose with the back of her hand. It wasn't too bad, but the smell of blood had been a bit sudden. Having a heightened sense of smell had its downsides.

Wheeler looked around the room, shaking her head. The officers downstairs had informed her and Nichols how it looked, and they were right. First glance said it was a murder-suicide. However, her time in Major Case had taught her that "obvious" was not always "correct." Hell, it wasn't even almost always. The things she'd seen... Well, some of them were almost unbelievable.

After her first impression, she tuned into the conversation between the M.E. and the tech. "You did what?" she interjected, though the tech seemed more focused on the first woman yelling at him. "What the hell are they teaching these kids?" She paused then groaned slightly. "I sound like Logan. Great. Just great."

det_nichols May 18 2009, 03:20:01 UTC

"Nichols, with her," was what he offered the uniforms as he flashed the badge. Not hard to tell they didn't particularly want to hear Major Case more than they had to. And it was more entertaining ( ... )

dr_julianna_cox May 18 2009, 04:47:18 UTC

Cox still stood with her hands on her hips as the detectives walked in and Stuckey hurried out. "Unbelievable," she spat. It hardly seemed to register with her, at least initially, which detectives had arrived.

The bedroom, like the rest of the house, was a mess. Things from the bureau were on the floor and it was hard to tell at a glance if they'd been thrown or knocked over. The sheets and comforter were twisted and Anna Paxton's body looked almost graceful, her hair fanned out like she'd been posed. Her husband's body on the floor was at an odd angle and there were evidence bags over his hands.

"His body was moved," the M.E. seethed. "If I hadn't arrived when I did, that dipshit would've bagged both bodies and called in the crime scene cleaners." She shook her head. "I had my guys bag his hands...if there is any GSR, which I'm not convinced that there necessarily is, it'll hopefully not have been all brushed off."

detmeganwheeler May 18 2009, 05:00:55 UTC

Wheeler forced herself not to say anything more. Oh, she was thinking about all the things she could do to that tech, all the ways she could get away with doing horrible things to him. Screwing up a crime scene like that! Her partner wasn't helping her mood, but that, too, could be ignored.

"But if GSR isn't found, we won't know if it wasn't there to begin with or if that idiot caused its loss." Wheeler got closer to the body, only noticing then who she was speaking to. For a moment, she smiled a bit. "Dr. Cox?" They'd only had a few casual conversations, but she recognized the woman, or hoped she did, now that she wasn't seeing red anymore.

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Autopsy Results... dr_julianna_cox May 20 2009, 03:11:02 UTC

The medical examiner stood, hands on her hips, as she waited for the Major Case detectives to arrive. She looked slightly disgruntled at the body that was on the morgue table.

"James Paxton," she said aloud, seemingly in her own little world there with herself and the body. "What...were you thinking?"

Re: Autopsy Results... det_nichols May 20 2009, 03:19:41 UTC

"Probably something less than pleasant." Nichols doesn't knock, he just appears. Well, not exactly, but he likes to show up at just the right moment. "You called for us?

detmeganwheeler May 20 2009, 03:22:57 UTC

Wheeler shook her head a bit at the remark, though a smirk ghosted across her features. She looked at the body then back at the M.E., waiting to hear what had been found. No reason to repeat a question already asked.

dr_julianna_cox May 20 2009, 03:40:56 UTC

Julianna was surprised by the detectives' sudden appearance, but she didn't miss a beat, her look of annoyance now focusing on Nichols. "Thanks, Poirot. I did, in fact, call for you." She motioned to the body on the table. "Hadn't put him back in the drawer yet."

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