Secrets & Surprises: Exposed, Accepted & Acted Upon

Chapter 86

At the Crime Scene

Korsak: Okay, this is a weird one.

Jane: Well, let's start with introductions. Who's that?

Korsak: Abraham Reynolds. Lived right over there. He died being a good samaritan.

Jane: What happened?

Korsak: 10-year-old boy named Zack says a man tried to grab him and force him into a car. Reynolds saw it, jumped in to try to rescue the kid.

Maura: He appears to have suffered a subdural hematoma.

Jane: Did the boy describe the kidnapper?

Korsak: He said it was a clown.

Jane looks scared and backs away a little.

Maura: What is it?

Jane: In 1986, a 10 year-old boy was abducted by a clown on his way home from school. His name was Nick Hamilton. I'll never forget it. I was 10.
Ma wouldn't let us go anywhere for months.

Korsak: We called it the "summer of the clown." I was still in uniform. It was a bad time.

Maura: Well, what happened to Nick?

Jane: Never found him or the clown.

Frost: A random clown kidnapped a kid?

Jane: No. No. No. There were three attempted kidnappings on young boys before the clown grabbed Nick. I never liked clowns.

Maura: Coulrophobia fear of clowns.
A recent study has confirmed that clowns are disliked by most children.

Jane: What do we know about this clown?

Korsak: Said his name was "Brent" and he was headed for his job at a clown car wash. As far as I know, there are no clown car washes in Boston.

Jane: Frost, can you do a search?

Jane: Yeah, sure.

Maura: Oh, he's holding something. Satin polyester trim. Yellow. Shiny.

Jane: Looks like something a clown would wear.

Frost: No clown motifs on any businesses near here, - including car washes.

Korsak: They found something.

Frost: Yeah. Looks like a petal, maybe?

Jane: Yeah, it's a piece of a plastic flower.

Korsak: We might have a footprint here. Yep. Clown shoe. Big one.

Jane: All right, let's have CSRU get here - and make a cast impression.

Frost: I'm not liking this.
Korsak: Me, either.

They sigh.