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Ten years. Ten long years since Detectives Juliet O'Hara and Carlton Lassiter had seen their former friends and fellow crime solvers, Shawn Spencer and Burton 'Gus' Guster, let alone been in the same building as them. To say that the two police officers were dreading solving this current case would be an understatement.
“There's been a murder in the state's federal prison,” Chief Vick informed the two once her office door had been closed. “An inmate was brutally murdered in the early hours of this morning,” the Chief continued before being interrupted by Juliet, no longer Jules, Jules reminded her of someone she would rather forget.
“Wait a minute Chief, this murder, did it occur in the male or female prison?”
“Good question O'Hara”, Lassiter complimented, “we need to know where we are heading so we can get mentally prepared. Well Chief, which is it?”
“Now see, I had wanted to give you a bit more information, get you really hooked on the case so that when you found out that it was the male detention centre, you would still be keen to take it,” admitted the Chief with a slightly guilty expression plastered on her features.
“Chief, it wouldn't have mattered where the crime was committed. We are officers of the law. It is our duty to solve crimes and put criminals behind bars or in this case, keep them there,” Lassiter replied, smiling at his little joke.
“Thank you Carlton. If you have finished, and there are no objections, I will continue with my briefing. The victim is Horatio Ramirez. He was convicted for the kidnapping and repetitive raping of 3 individual women. As the women were of different ages, occupations, race and no connection between them, it took a while to realise that we had a serial rapist on our hands. He was captured by the SBPD when he attempted to kidnap a fourth woman. The 3 original victims were found alive in his soundproofed basement they received counselling and are fully recovered leading normal, happy lives. Ramirez, however, was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole. The prison warden informed me that he joined a gang, the 'Black Diamondheads', where he quickly rose through the ranks and became the gang leader's right-hand man. We know that the gang had a very strong rivalry with another gang in the prison, unfortunately the warden did not provide any information on that gang. Remember, just because Ramirez and his killer were already behind bars doesn't mean that you take this case any less seriously. For this murder to happen inside the prison with the guards and warden having absolutely no clue as to who committed this crime is an astonishing feat. Okay, that is everything, keep me updated and you two had better get going,” the Chief concluded, shooing the two detectives out of her office.
“Well this should be an interesting case,” Detective Lassiter began “especially if we end up having to interview anyone we know inside.”
“We'll be fine Carlton,” Juliet replied as she closed the car door ready to begin the drive that would take her and her partner to the prison so they could begin solving this case.
'I wonder if we will have to see them?' Juliet thought to herself.