Thorne: Scaredy Cat Page #3

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# 41 days and 41 nights

# 41 years to wear

the ball and the stripes #

How did you get in here? Front desk

said you were working late.

For a change.

Yeah. What do you want?

Had a bit of a busy day.

Something about these women

is bugging me.

What? It's not one of your hunches,

is it?

We all know where

they can lead us to, don't we?

Can I take another look?

No, you can't.

I'm not doing those kinds of favours

for you any more.

Don't you understand?

How many more times? I f***ed up

and I said I'm sorry!

I thought we were through this!

We've missed something.

Yeah? What did we miss? You know?

Hey, if you want to get a look at

their entrails, come back tomorrow.

It's driving me mad. I've looked at

every unsolved murder in ten years.

I've widened the parameters. Luton,

Chelmsford, Bromley, the suburbs.

Every pair of unsolved murders

on the same day. Nothing!

Yeah, well, murder in the suburbs

technically isn't murder at all.

It's a justifiable reaction

to aesthetic deprivation and golf.

I need your help on this, Phil.

Please.

Only unsolved murders, you said.

Yeah, why? The police are capable

of charging the wrong man.

You know.

January, maybe February. Two women,

both stabbed the same day.

One was done and dusted.

They charged the guy before

I finished my postmortem.

Yeah. February 15. Jana Lovik. 22.

Stabbed outside a cinema in Ealing.

Single stab wound.

Bladed penetrated the heart.

And the other victim?

Fiona Hutchinson.

What?

25. Found Thames Barrier Park.

23 separate knife wounds.

Partial decapitation.

Case still open. Yeah, I know.

No arrests.

One a vicious attack,

the other a single knife wound.

One savage, one not,

like those two in there.

Knives used - similar.

Neither ever found.

They charged Jana Lovik's boyfriend.

Arrested Stansted Airport

same night.

Always the boyfriend, lazy bastards.

Who was the arresting officer?

Tughan. You're joking?

I suppose it's not impossible to get

from Woolwich to Ealing in that time

Why would he do that?

Not he, they. Two killers.

Two pairs of victims, same methods,

same day. That's the pattern.

Serial killers don't work together.

These ones do.

Look at the state of the place since

I've gone. How you going? Good, sir.

Get yourself a tie, young man.

You're a police officer.

Micky, how's the kids?

Youngest one well? Good, fantastic.

The Lovik case is done and dusted.

It's as tight as a camel's arse.

Pavel Kozinski, the boyfriend.

He's on remand.

They had a steaming row in front of

20 witnesses, immortalised on CCTV,

ten minutes later,

she's found dead in the alley.

It's always the boyfriend. No, not

always. But in this case it was.

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