The Beast of 1977 (Book 1)

Chapter 19

"What time is it?" Linus moaned while driving all too slowly down the desolate highway on a day that was nearing noontime.

Fitzpatrick looked out at the passing farmland scenery and asked, "Does it really matter?"

Linus must have sighed at least three to four times since leaving the house. The man's entire body felt as if it were carrying a load of bricks tied to his heels. No matter what, he just couldn't get the fog out of his brain.

"It's hard to believe that this thing hiked almost three miles away just to eat more people."

Stirring awake from his dull stupor, Linus glanced over and grunted, "Huh?"

"I said, I can't believe the thing hiked three miles just to eat more people." Fitzpatrick replied a bit louder.

"Yeah," Linus sighed again."

"You gotta be kidding me." Alan griped.

"Whaddya mean?"

"What's with all the damn sighing? You sound like my wife whenever she wants sex from me?"

Linus shrugged and said, "We just wrapped up a five and a half month kidnapping investigation, and you're asking what's with all the sighing?"

"For Christ's sake," Alan grumbled, "it's not the first kidnapping we've ever covered."

Linus didn't bother to look over at his partner, instead, he gazed upwards into the grey, brooding sky. "What would make a person do all of that, Al?"

"Do what?"

"Kidnap, rape and kill. He even raped the guys, for God's sake." Linus shook his head in shame. "I'm sitting here trying to figure out what sort of twisted event in this man's life could have brought him to such a point."

"Who knows?" Alan groaned. "He obviously had some kind of sick fetish that needed to be fulfilled. You mentioned it yourself back at the TV station."

"And the smell," Linus lamented. "How can any normal human being tolerate having all those dead bodies in that house and not become sick themselves?"

"After a while, even the most perverted person becomes accustomed to his or hers perversion. The man was obviously tormented."

Bruin only scanned the grazing land that passed by at 33 mph.

"I wonder if Gloria saw—

"That's enough!" A frustrated Fitzpatrick hollered.

A momentary quiet took place inside the car before Linus again sighed and said, "I suppose you're gonna tell me that I'm feeling sorry for myself, right?"

"No, it's not that." Fitzpatrick huffed. "You're shitting bricks because after all these months someone or something else got that fucker before you could. We all wanted to plug a bullet in the guy, but we missed out."

Linus rolled his eyes in the other direction, hoping that he could possibly ignore his partner's rant, but it seemed that the more he tried to focus on other matters, Gloria's pale, terrified image would cross his path in stunning full color.

"Whaddya think?" Fitzpatrick looked over.

"Think about what?"

what Brice said about the fur. Do you believe

"Who's to say?" Linus gripped the steering wheel tighter. "I can't see wolves tearing through a wall like

I ever see the thing that could eat the way that fucker did last night, then I hope

the dead bodies first before he could even place the image of

"I swear that Brice

smirked before asking, "You don't think

hands. "An Ivy league, smarty pants, know-it-all

"Are you trying

like to play it

Linus smiled at the remark while glancing down at the speedometer to notice for

"Damn kids are taking our

"Is

I get home in time this evening to watch 'Battle of

but he restrained himself as a semi-truck roared past them on the other side of the

thinking about calling Linda."

few moments before Fitzpatrick said anything. "It's a shame that

his face. "I hate to say this, but I think

"I can handle

Once more, a drowning silence took place inside the cruiser. For a few moments Linus actually believed that he had slipped into

"Did you catch the body on that one

Linus glanced strangely over at

"The black lady," Fitzpatrick

"Oh yeah,

"I can see you with

Without uttering a single word, they climbed out of the vehicle and dragged themselves towards another squad car just a few feet away where a bald, middle-aged black officer was standing

placed the radio back into the holster inside the car. "Long

"How are

four daughters. The mother was found in the living room. Her entire skull was cracked wide open. The

even got

chocked. "Something just...just

"Who found them?" Linus asked while zipping up his

lives right across the street. She and the mother have coffee every morning.

pine bush and watched as the loudly weeping grandmother was consoled by a number of

"You can hardly take two steps without...it's like something from out of one

"We would like to take a quick peek inside, just to see what we're dealing with." Linus said while glancing

"I heard you

was more like we found what was left of him." Fitzpatrick snickered.

him made its way here." Phelps rubbed his face

right hand on Phelps' shoulder and sympathetically whispered into the

a nephew feels like losing your own son. This is all his mother needs right now.

"Our man kept a recording of all the rapes he committed. Last night, right after he got through with his last victim, something came up from

"Brice, from forensics, doesn't believe it's a bear." Fitzpatrick added. "He says that the paw

Phelps said as he stepped away from

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