The Rabbit Hole

Chapter 10

At the Baltimore police department, officers and detectives are hard at work trying to catch the next criminal. Collin Edwards, lead detective on the Rabbit Hole case has been at his highest alert. Scanning through old and new cases alike, trying to figure out some minor thing that may lead him to finally catching his man. The first victim that popped up from the Rabbit Hole case was twenty year old college student, Kimberly Myers. She was found by two teenage skateboarders who were in for the thrill of learning new tricks, their trail of tail-whipping and board grinding led them to a construction site where they found a hole dug up. The kids were intrigued by the size of the hole and decided to edge closer for a little inspection. Their curiosity led to the finding of a naked blonde woman wearing a handmade and stitched rabbit's mask on laying inside, dead. The displaying of that young woman was all he needed to see. Edwards has been on the trail of this man for over six months, six months and six bodies. A body for each month, and according to what he's learned of the killer's M.O is the time it takes for him to drop a body, which is three days. In three days a body would always appear displayed at a random site.

The surprise abduction of Heather Brooks doesn't seem to fit the killer's M.O. From the evidence of his findings, every victim prior to Heather Brooks have been abducted in a public place. From Edwards' evidence, the first victim was last seen on campus when she was abducted, and in indication, she was abducted on campus premises. Her shoes were found set up on campus ground, placed perfectly with the laces tied -as well as all the other victims, shoes found at a public place. But with Heather Brooks, her abduction is not fitting the killer's M.O, she was abducted in a house and her shoes were not found at the site of the abduction. Her abduction comes off as an impulse rather than premeditated and perfectly timed. His conclusion is that; Heather was not kidnapped by the Rabbit Hole Killer.

Edwards leaves his office and starts towards exiting the building until a fellow officer calls out to him. Joshua Goodman, CSI and forensic unit. "Ed, wait up." He says approaching with a pamphlet in his hands. "Josh. What's up?" Edwards says.

"There's something you got to see." He says excitedly.

"Can't it wait? I'm on my break."

"No, it can't. And, I know you're going to love this."

"What's it about?"

"The abduction case at the Bridgewater house."

Edwards sighs uninterested at his statement, because in his head, he's already written off this case. All he's interested in is finding the Rabbit Hole Killer. "Now, now, before you completely brush this case off, you'd want to see what I've found. C'mon." Josh says and leads Edwards to his office. On the table are dozens of crime scene photos spread across the desk. Crime scene photos of the Rabbit Hole case. Edwards takes one look at them, "These are photos of the Rabbit Hole abductions." He says sternly.

"Yes they are."

"And what do they have to do with the abduction at the Bridgewater house?"

"I've been staring back and forth at these pictures individually, trying to find a connection of some sort."

"Yeah, and you won't find one because whoever abducted this girl, is not the Rabbit Hole Killer." He states, "The modus operandi is completely different."

"Yeah, I knew you were going to say that and that's where you're wrong."

Edward raises an eyebrow at him. Joshua grabs two photos, one from the crime scene from Kimberly Myers' abduction and the other of Heather Brooks' abduction, "Lookie here." He holds up both photos at Edwards, who sees nothing. "Am I supposed to be seeing anything here or what?" He asks while searching through the photos for a similarity. "See anything that pops out? Anything at all?" Josh asks him calmly, "Anything out of the ordinary on the first victim's abduction photo?" Edwards catches something, it's tiny, but he sees it. "That orange stuff around the shoes." He says.