Criminal Minds [Multiship] * H I A T U S *

《4 - Too Soft》

"I don't know how you do it, Maria. You always bring me the craziest cases I've ever seen," Dr. Ryan Ashley Malarkey chuckled as the three agents entered the lobby of the lab, the smell of death lingering in the air.

"You know me, sweetheart," Maria chuckled. "You remember Agent Parente and Agent Cerulli."

"Nice to see you again, agents. And I believe once, but he was pretty young when he joined the bureau, if I recall," Dr. Malarkey smiled as the men shook hands with her, then she smirked. "Now, let's get creepy."

***

"The victim's face was hard to identify," Dr. Malarkey said as we entered the examination platform. "Lucky for you guys, my people are only the best of the best and are working on the ID right now."

We then approached a table with a body under a white sheet as Dr. Malarkey pulled on some latex gloves, then walked over to the table.

"Gentlemen, brace yourselves," she said, and pulled the sheet back.

"Dear god," Angelo said.

Chris felt like he was going to lose his lunch.

The man's entire face was disfigured, looking like some animal attacked him. His right arm was almost detached from his body, his eyes missing, and his torso shredded as well, revealing some broken or missing rivs and organs.

"Wow," Maria said, shocked. "Talk about a hot mess."

"Yeah, only seen this on a Ripper victim. That's why the others are calling him Mary Kelly," she chuckled.

"You sure we aren't looking at a poor bastard who went on a hike and got mauled by a bear?" Maria asked.

"What... Can we gather from this, Ang?" Chris gulped.

"Well.... The guy is clearly sadistic, and holds no mercy on his victims," Angelo said.

"Yeah, no shit," Maria said, a bit of a chuckle in her voice. "Roadkill went nuts on this guy."

"By what we got, victim is in his mid to late 20's, Caucasian, and suffered massive sharp force trauma to his entire torso and facial regions, bullet wounds on both knees, and.... extensive damage to the pelvic region," Dr. Malarkey said. "What did make one of my interns vomit was this."

She lifted the sheet more to reveal his pelvis region.

"Where's his penis?" Maria asked, shocked.

"Extracted deep from his esophagus," she said. "Along with his testicles replacing his eyeballs and his eyeballs forced up.... A special place..."

"Ohh," Chris cringed as he held his abdomen.

"Can I...?." Angelo asked, looking green and pointing to a nearby trashcan.

"Go for it, Ang," Dr. Malarkey said.

Angelo then went and puked into the trash can.

"Yeah, one of my interns, Jordan, tried holding it. Poor guy even fainted after getting sick. Had to send him home," Dr. Malarkey frowned as Chris held back Angelo's hair.

"I don't blame him," Maria said as Angelo composed himself.

"Personally, Roadkill was too soft on the bastard," Dr. Malarkey said.

"All anger aside, Ryan Ashley," Maria said.

"Dr. Malarkey," a voice spoke and we turned and saw an intern walk up.

"Alex got an ID on our Mary Kelly. He is a visitor from the UK," he said, handing her a blue folder.

"Thank you, Tyler," She said, then handing the file to Chris as he examined it.

"Samuel Pepper, age 26," he said. "Accused of sexual assault before, but no evidence could be pinned."

"Sounds like Roadkill's type," Maria said as we all examined the papers.

"DNA from Clara Gideon's rape kit confirmed that he had raped her," Dr. Malarkey said.

"Well, at least he's dead," Angelo said.

"But we still need to find Roadkill," Maria said.

"Hang on. What if this wasn't him, but maybe a copycat, or someone from the mafia?" Chris said.

"He could be right. We need to also be open to options. It could be possible the mafia is behind this," Angelo said.

"Doesn't look like Demon's guys could even bear the sight of this guy, much less do something like this. I'll have to ask him. But not sure how," Chris said.

"I may know someone who can get us to his gang," Angelo said.

Maria thought about it.

"Ask the local gangs, anyone close to them, too," Maria said. "As of this moment, this case officially belongs to you two. You know how to do your jobs."

"Yes, ma'am," Chris said, nodding his head.

"Let's get out of here before I throw up again," Angelo said.

"Oh, come on Angelo. My cousin had a stronger stomach," Dr. Malarkey teased.

"TJ played with dead squirrels as a kid," Angelo said. "This is nothing to him."

The beautiful coroner chuckled softly. "Good luck, boys."

We exit the offices as Maria left in her car, wishing us luck.

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Think I'll leave it like this for a while longer so I can get more drafts up. Let me know what you guys think.

♡~ sapphire.