Week 403 – Coroner finds foreign DNA on body

Coroner finds foreign DNA on body.

“You were right.”

Garret looked up as Tony came into his hospital room. It had been three days since he’d been found after the accident. Another almost twenty-four hours he’d wandered lost and concussed in the forest.

Four days that Calico had been in the hands of a madman.

“About what?”

“DNA found on the last victim was a match to a close relative of Derek Daniels,” Tony informed him.

“His father.”

“Yep. You were right the old guy is involved. I don’t know whether it was both of them at first, or if it was Derek, or Dr. Daniels, but regardless he was the one who caused the crash.”

“And the one who took Calico.” He might not have known her long, but the ache in his chest told the story of how deep he’d fallen for her.

It sucked being stuck here instead of out looking for Calico, and he was forever grateful that Tony was keeping him in the loop.

When his partner’s phone rang, he felt a sinking feeling in his gut.

Bad news.

“Hello?” Tony said into the phone.

For the next sixty seconds or so Garret was forced to sit there and wait for news, unable to make a guess at who was on the other end of the line or what they were saying.

“What is it?” he demanded the second Tony disconnected the call.

“They found a body.”

The bottom dropped out of his world. “Who’s?”