Bonnie & Clyde (alternate ending)

Chapter 8

The usually quiet road was now filled with multiple police cars and an ambulance. The crime scene had already been checked over, but they needed additional backup. Two Detectives stepped out from their police car. The gravel crunched underneath their shoes while they made their way to an Officer. They had arrived at a barn just on the outskirts of the town. It had been around two in the morning when they had been notified of a murder, and they immediately rushed to this address. They both wore long grey trench coats over their suits but one had his fully done, and the other had a few buttons lose.

They didn't know what to expect but certainly not this. The barn looked empty as if nothing had happened in it for a while.

Parts of the barn had already been sealed off by some officers that arrived twenty minutes before them, but they were allowed to walk under it.

"What have you found so far, Officer?" One of the Detectives, DC Payne, asked. The man had chocolate brown hair styled in a quiff and a bearded face. His usual soft brown eyes were not looking as bright, the potential seriousness of the case made him look more solemn. DC Horan, the man beside him with blonde hair also styled in a quiff with a clean shaven face and bright blue eyes, wrote a few notes on his notepad. He too looked deeply troubled by the circumstances.

"There is a lot of blood in the barn, and it is quite fresh, so this was kind of recent. There is a furnace in there that was on fire when we got there, and we decided to put it out. We saw remnants of body parts in there; the person had apparently tried to clear the scene before we got there but hadn't done it time. We haven't found any evidence to give us any suspects, but we are working on it."

"Thank you. We'll have a look around now."

The two Detectives walked through the opened door, and they walked into the large space. DC Payne's eyes widened once he fully saw the scene and DC Horan muttered out a 'shit'.

They didn't realise how much blood would actually be there, but it was disturbing, to say the least. They walked past the small numbered papers, seeing the bloodied tools and the blood on the table sent a shiver through their spines.

The last thing they saw was the parts of the body in the furnace. Some of it was severely damaged, but some of it was still intact.

"Oh, my..." DC Horan muttered.

"This is terrible, how could someone do this?"

"Wow, this is probably one of the worst things I've seen."

They were about to look around the scene more, but they were called out by another Officer.

"Sirs, we've found something. There are some car tracks in the field."

"Good, where do they lead?"

"We think they lead to the main road."

"I presume they are recent, let's go and follow it then," DC Payne sighed before they walked towards their police car. They quickly drove down the path and followed the path that was left behind, trying not to cause any more damage to the other plants. The two Detectives stopped when they arrived at the main road but couldn't see which way the car went.

DC Payne huffed, looking both ways as he tried to see which way to go.

"Wait here," DC Horan said, climbing out of the car.

DC Payne frowned as he watched him move to the front of the car and crouch to the ground. After a few seconds, he stood up and pointed to his right before climbing back inside the car.

"See Liam, you've just got to use your brain sometimes," he smirked while DC Payne rolled his eyes.

"Oh shush Niall, let's just go."