Just Common

The Doc

Folks, welcome back. Get started here in a sec. Ya know met Doc, up in the Great White. Maine ways, nice fella went ta that Croft Institute. Some kinda school I reckon. When I asks, him what it was. He say truth be known Common, it was the first School of Internal Medicine and Psychology, but it was only heard of in Ohio. That all he say, on that matter. Just thought I'd better tell ya that, just so ya know, Doc ain't no fool. Least ways, he don't seem like a fool. So let's get on with it, shall we.

So, was they a fella that was in the house, with Mrs. Bueller? Folks it didn't look that way, they was no sign a any one. Other than her, no glass or cup like they was someone there. Hell I think ifin it was her brother, he a spent the night. Her bed weren't slept in, no other bed in the house looked used. Miss Becky say it even looked the same as she left it.

That said, Mrs. Bueller was much older, than his norm. She was at least thirty, most neighbors say she was 32. Folks his norm is just of age, or near 15-18 not much more than that. Ifin she wasn't found the way, she was. Like she was sleepin an clothes folded. I'd think she wasn't part this madness. Doc, hell he say, she part of it! More on that here in a bit.

She wasn't seen leavin her home, nor was any seen enterin after the servants left. No wagon or carriage out front the house. The stable an carriage house had they horses an carriage. They is a rear entrance, fer delivery an fer the owners carriage ta leave. Cabs only pickup from the front. Then she would had ta a waited fer one ta pass her. The back entrance is gated an locked, the lock was still locked when the cooks helper arrived.

Sorry folks, fer not adding that detail sooner. The local cab companies, had no pickups after 7 near her. They last run is 8 in the evenin. Ifin she left, it had ta been out the back of the house. Lady a wealth, wouldn't walk ta far, least ways not after dark. They is coal oil lamps linin the rear street. They get lit bouts 8, I checked with the man that lites thum.

He say, they was one well-dressed fella. He didn't act lost nor out a place. He was carrin what looked like a Doctors bag. He was let in, at what he thinks was 222 Oak Street. Then he said maybe 223, not real certain Ranger. Folks the road curves some, where he was lookin towards. Be hard ta tell what place he went. Folks 222 Oak is the Bueller place!

Ifin this was, our man? Just where did he kill her? How did he get her out? Folks, he didn't take her away. Our investigation found the spot, on the property. Small unused servants' quarters. He used part a harness fer the carriage ta tie her ta a table. I was sickened by the site. It smelled a blood, even death. Folks it's that smell a urine an defecation, the thins that let go at death. More so when they are brutal. Even Doc, looked a bit distraught over it.

Doc managed ta get a few finger prints, nothin more than that. Now fer what we found at the porch well.

I am not goin inta, real detail folks. He did a dissection of her, upside down Y was cut from the navel ta the pelvic girdle, that what Doc called it. Doc say he have ta open her back up. Ta see what he done, this time he sowed her back up. Folks can, just feel the evil in this one!

We did! Have one good find, that crest a pin must been pulled off him, while placin the body. This one had more detail ta it! Doc even recognized it! Folks it has a pyramid with a staff up the center with a snake wrapped around it. Under it say founders ta the sides, it has a name on each. Burns an Mosser, Doc say it's, Mortons School of Medicine. Burns an Mosser were the main donators ta the school. Doc say it's one of the better Science of Medicine school's in the 13 Lands. Considered the first real school of science, but like I said Croft Institute has been around longer.

This could mean, one of three thins Common, Doc say this person is a Doctor or took some medical trainin or is related ta the many donors that get that crest. That crest I believe has only been given ta maybe six families. This could be a real lead! I say Doc best get this poor lady checked over. Think we need ta get a jump on this one. Best head ta Valdosta soon as we can.

While Doc did that, I went back an talked ta Miss Becky. How did this fella let himself in? Miss Becky say, she has fergot ta lock the rear gate befer. She cried some, I tell her, we are all just people. We can make mistakes. This one is either smart an locked the gate when he was done. Could be he just got lucky picked the lock fast. First just how he know, Mrs Bueller be alone that night?

Folks I checked with, the Constable Bama side ifin the city knew, Mister Bueller a be gone. Folks he announced it in the Savannah Gazette, he was leavin ta make a huge deal, that would brin jobs ta the city. I also think the killer was there, when the young Tarren showed up ta escort her ta the party. She say her brother was in town. Maybe ta get the others attention, but it didn't work. Could be I am wrong about that. Does seem ta fit, what I can put tagether in my head.

Doc, say he didn't remove any thin this time, he just looked like he explored her insides. The cuts seemed clean an precise, then he say it's strange they can look like rage cuts then look like a doctors work. The finger prints match from the last death. Seems we know it's just one man. Of course we knew that all along.

Doc also say, looks like he is both left an right handed from the way the cuts look. Folks I did not ask, just how he knew that. I'll just take Doc's word on it. Now the real kicker folks, this School Mortons it has three branches as Doc put it, Savannah, Orleans an Saint Louis. That folks is not some kinda coincidence, now is it? My name is Common an sometimes I do have common sense.

We left early the next day, ta late ta travel after a long day. We gots about three hours sleep, then off ta Valdosta. Think we best stop here, till next time folks.