C. Erwin Piper Technical Center – Evidence Storage Warehouse

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Chinatown

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[NOTE 02/26/24]: Okay, let me come up with a scenario for “The Closers.” I’m about a 140 pages into this novel, and… the murdered girl, had an abortion a few months before she was killed. She was shot with a stolen gun (so he says) and another man’s DNA was found in the gun (now 17 years after the murder). Apparently this weapon was known to “pinch” the handler, if they weren’t cautious, and some skin, attributed to someone, not the gun’s owner, was found in the gun, from such a “pinch.”

The girl was part of a small group of girls that had known each other since 1st Grade. But, none of the girls seemed to know that the murdered girl had been pregnant. They knew of no boyfriend, other than one that had moved from the area about a year previous to the murder, and who had an alibi, a long way off… which Harry found hard to believe. But, you’ve also got to ask, why would this former boyfriend have a reason to kill this girl.

After the murder, the father left the home and became a “street” person. The mother stayed in the home, made a shrine to her daughter, in her daughter’s bedroom, and made ends meet by collecting items and then selling them online.

I’m going to guess that incest is going to be the reason for the murder. The girl’s father. Her father ran a restaurant, where she also worked. I’m guessing that the father may have procured the murder weapon from someone who stole the gun and left his DNA in the weapon. Could be the burglar threw the gun away in a dumpster behind the father’s restaurant. [end NOTE]