Goddess of Justice by Dwayne Clayden (mobi ebook reader TXT) 📕

That lead to two possibilities:

A victim

A close relative of a victim

Then again, if the victim was the sister or girlfriend, fiancée or wife, then a male might react this way and stage the scene. Now he’d talked himself into a circle.

Brad added his connection to the tattoo parlor. The Gypsy Jokers had owned that parlor two years ago. Brad had led a raid that shut the place down, for a while at least.

Teen Rapist, Wednesday, December 3

Burke Bailey Baldwin II

Lord Beaverbrook High School – Secondary killing location unknown

Wealthy, pretentious family

High school jock

Shit-don’t-stink attitude

Raped teen Laura Turner

Found not guilty

Jenni Blighe the crown prosecutor

Put on display at high school

Laura’s father, Al Turner, a suspect?

Biker at T&C, Sunday, December 7

Arnie Fletcher

Forest Lawn

Required Surveillance

Knowing the biker would be alone

Knowing he stayed after his chores and played pool

The side door was forced, yet the biker didn’t react like he was threatened

There were no defensive wounds and/or signs of a scuffle?

He let the killer get close

Again, personal.

Use of broken pool cue is creative,

and a different weapon.

Brad had history with the bikers and this bar. Two years ago, he’d confronted a Satan’s Soldiers biker in the T&C, Lou LeBeau. LeBeau and his creepy biker friends had threatened to rape his then-girlfriend, Sarah Park.

In the ensuing fight, Brad dropped LeBeau and two of his biker friends. Unfortunately, the fourth biker took Brad down. Thanks to the timely intervention of the bouncers, and a discreet phone call by an undercover cop, Brad was hauled out of the bar by cops and he had to suffer the wrath of Briscoe. It had been worth it.

Wife-Beater, Thursday December 4

Vinnie Bevan

Sunalta

Connection with Brad

Beaten

Not dead - yet

He and Griffin had caught Vinnie Bevan beating his girlfriend. Bevan decided he’d take it out on Brad. That didn’t work out for Bevan. Brad had lost control and had to be pulled off Bevan, twice. He was lucky Briscoe and Griffin defended him, but it worried both of them about Brad’s mental health. It came back to haunt Brad in court.

Brad sat back and twirled a pen between his fingers. It was a better idea than chewing another pen. No evidence tied him to the first two murders. It wasn’t until the pimp and driver that evidence against him appeared. What happened after the second murder? Why him? Was framing him a bonus thrill of the kills?

Was it personal with him as well? He went back to his original notes about the evidence.

He thought about that. Who fits that statement?

Crime Scene Investigators

Cops

Lawyers

Judges

Military—Military Police?

Military—Special Forces—Airborne, SEALS, Rangers, Delta

The challenge was that when you matched the list of people who knew about crime scene evidence with the list of occupations that could kill multiple ways, there wasn’t much of a crossover. That the killer was military was number one on the list. But a vigilante cop was a close second.

What cop would want to frame him? There were cops who didn’t particularly like Brad. But he couldn’t think of any who would frame him. Then again, despite all their bluster over a few beers at the Cuff and Billy Club, he couldn’t think of a cop who would commit these murders. He had heard no rumors about a cop’s sister, mother, girlfriend or wife as the victim of a sex crime. Well, except him. Brad had a few reasons to go after perpetrators of sex crimes. Annie had been held and raped. But Brad had sent Wolfe to hell. That case was closed. LeBeau had tried to rape Sarah, but LeBeau had died tragically in a car bomb. And Maggie—well, he resolved that issue at the same time he avenged Annie’s assaults with Wolfe’s death.

An argument could be made that Brad had already taken revenge. Why would he need to commit these killings? Not an argument he’d want to use in court.

When LeBeau died, there had been speculation that with Brad’s tactical training, he had the knowledge and skills to make the bomb. True, but he was cleared. The two Internal Affairs detectives, Genereau and Harker, who had grudgingly cleared him, were on his case. Well, shit.

What was with Griffin? They’d gotten along fine. Worked together well. Was it as simple as Griffin was pissed because Brad escaped? Brad shrugged. Okay, I’d be pissed if someone disappeared on me. But to turn against him? Hunt him for murder?

He grabbed his coffee, but it was empty. His stomach growled. He checked his watch: 12:45. He stood to leave, then had another idea. He headed to the rack of newspapers for the past five days. He hauled them back to his table.

A story buried on page twelve mentioned a traffic fatality in downtown Calgary. The traffic division was still investigating and asking for anyone who may have witnessed the fatal hit and run to contact police. Brad remembered Sturgeon working on this. Brad headed to the archives and found the newspapers for the day after the hit and run. On the surface, it appeared like a drunk driver hit a drunk crossing the road. But what if that wasn’t all it was?

He grabbed his pen and made notes.

Hit and Run, Wednesday, November 26

Jimmy Duggan

Fourth Avenue and Macleod Trail SE.

Did this fit in?

Drunk driver hit while crossing the road. By a drunk driver?

Coincidence?

Was the car stolen for the purpose of killing the drunk?

Then it fit with each killing being different.

The paper mentioned multiple drunk driving charges, yet he still had his license. How many charges exactly?

The cops easily found the car—it had been stolen, and the owner was cleared. He needed additional information on the victim—his entire court records. Steele and Zerr would definitely know a few ladies in the court records section they could charm into supplying them with this information.

Brad replaced the newspapers, gathered his notes, and headed to the elevator. He was content with his research and notes. But was he any closer to identifying the killer?

Chapter Fifty-Four

Detectives Genereau and Harker were parked on the opposite side of the road down the