Chapter 25: Ralphie Pearce I
September 2012, Guy’s Hospital
Sam was seated inside her Lab, hunched over the table with her eyes glued on her laptop. On the screen was her colleague from Germany, Dr. Unglaube, the head of the Forensics team of the German Federal Police. The blond lanky man on the screen was in his scrubs, standing in a morgue in Frankfurt.
He had reached out to her in hopes she could give an opinion on the case in hand. A woman by the name of Krista Muller had been found dead in the backseat of her car 2.5 miles away from her residence. The woman had ligature marks around her neck, and her pants were on backward.
"Were her clothes wet, or dry?" Sam asked, thinking.
"It was damp."
"How about the car? Was it damp inside?"
"No, it was dry."
"That may mean she had been outside and was placed inside the car after."
"That makes sense since her clothes had drag marks on them."
"Any gravel and dirt embedded into the skin?" Sam inquired, "Yes, some dirt was embedded on her sacral region." Unglaube states, nodding.
"Pre or post mortem?" Sam asked. "There were no signs of bleeding on the site." Unglaube states, no bleeding means that Muller was dragged to her car after she was dead.
"Anything that stood out on the gravel and dirt sample analysis?" Sam asked, "No, unfortunately. We had three different forensic labs do the analysis, but none of them could identify anything unique on the samples." "With nothing else on the body but dirt as a clue. I advise you to get an expert Forensic Microscopist to take a look at the case. Hopefully, they might find something that forensic geologists can’t."