country. We know he likes to kill face to face and we know he follows his press coverage, even though there is almost too much of it to keep track of.
“Here’s an interesting story about Kevorkian that not many folks know about. Second year in, one of the murders we were investigating in New Jersey turned out to be the work of a copycat. I caught it right away, the guy was even more inept than Robertson was. We linked the copycat to the vic but before we could even get warrants, Kevorkian got him.”
“Kevorkian killed the copycat?” Kane asked.
“Within a day, before we could even move on him, before we could even bring him in for questioning, his tongue was gone and he was dead. I guess Kevorkian was displeased that somebody else was pissing in his yard. Too bad this Iceman character wasn’t as motivated when it came to FunnyPants, it would have saved us a lot of running around in the snow.”
“Do you think that it matters to the Iceman, his copycat?”
“Oh yeah, it matters. If the Iceman could have figured out who FunnyPants was, then he would have done something about it. Granted, it didn’t take a genius to figure out who Kevorkian’s copycat killer was, any local homicide investigator would have eventually busted him. But Kevorkian was on him quick, like stink on shit, he was that fast.
“It was the first real glimpse we’ve had into Kevorkian’s character. His ego. His ego is large. This guy is off the charts, we don’t have anyone like him on the books and that’s why it’s been so fucking hard to catch him. Rarely leaves any consistent forensic evidence, very rarely. Makes the Iceman look positively sloppy. What’s the first rule of forensic science?”
“Every contact leaves a trace,” Kane answered.
“Every contact leaves a trace, that’s it. Well, Kevorkian seems to be onto that one. Trace is varied and oftentimes deliberately misleading. I was lead profiler on the case, three years, when I got retired.”
“What happened, why were you retired?” Kane asked.
“The ASAC on the case, the guy I was reporting to, he got himself perished.”
“Killed?”
“Dead and tongueless.”
“Kevorkian killed the ASAC running your case?”
“Not just him, either. He also tagged the ASAC’s boss, the special agent in aharge of the whole shebang, one day later. Kevorkian killed two federal agents, not just investigators, but the ones running the show, just like that, one two bing bing.”
“I don’t fucking believe it,” Kane said. “Wait a minute, I remember this when it happened, but the news said they were killed in a car accident.”
“The news also said that the real reason we invaded Iraq was to free the Iraqi people.”
“How can you … do you know for certain that it was him?”
“Absolutely certain, I vetted both crime scenes. I was there. He killed them and they covered it up.”
“I don’t fucking … how could they do that?”
“Come on, Kane, you work for the government now, wake up. They can do whatever ever they want to do and spin it however they want to spin it. We can put whatever story we want in the news, regardless of how true it is, we can arrest and detain anyone we want for as long as we wish without giving them access to counsel, hell, we can step outside right now, shoot the first person we see and call them a threat to Homeland Security and make it stick. This is the federal government, wake up and smell the coffee.
“The director decided that he did not want word to get out that some serial killer killed the federal officers chasing him; he felt that it might reflect badly upon the Bureau. So he squashed it, sent out a press release saying the two men were killed in an unfortunate car accident and that was that. The families went along with it and the men were buried with honors.
“Kevorkian has killed a number of local cops in different states at differing levels of authority and some with none at all. But this was the first time he
“Here’s an interesting story about Kevorkian that not many folks know about. Second year in, one of the murders we were investigating in New Jersey turned out to be the work of a copycat. I caught it right away, the guy was even more inept than Robertson was. We linked the copycat to the vic but before we could even get warrants, Kevorkian got him.”
“Kevorkian killed the copycat?” Kane asked.
“Within a day, before we could even move on him, before we could even bring him in for questioning, his tongue was gone and he was dead. I guess Kevorkian was displeased that somebody else was pissing in his yard. Too bad this Iceman character wasn’t as motivated when it came to FunnyPants, it would have saved us a lot of running around in the snow.”
“Do you think that it matters to the Iceman, his copycat?”
“Oh yeah, it matters. If the Iceman could have figured out who FunnyPants was, then he would have done something about it. Granted, it didn’t take a genius to figure out who Kevorkian’s copycat killer was, any local homicide investigator would have eventually busted him. But Kevorkian was on him quick, like stink on shit, he was that fast.
“It was the first real glimpse we’ve had into Kevorkian’s character. His ego. His ego is large. This guy is off the charts, we don’t have anyone like him on the books and that’s why it’s been so fucking hard to catch him. Rarely leaves any consistent forensic evidence, very rarely. Makes the Iceman look positively sloppy. What’s the first rule of forensic science?”
“Every contact leaves a trace,” Kane answered.
“Every contact leaves a trace, that’s it. Well, Kevorkian seems to be onto that one. Trace is varied and oftentimes deliberately misleading. I was lead profiler on the case, three years, when I got retired.”
“What happened, why were you retired?” Kane asked.
“The ASAC on the case, the guy I was reporting to, he got himself perished.”
“Killed?”
“Dead and tongueless.”
“Kevorkian killed the ASAC running your case?”
“Not just him, either. He also tagged the ASAC’s boss, the special agent in aharge of the whole shebang, one day later. Kevorkian killed two federal agents, not just investigators, but the ones running the show, just like that, one two bing bing.”
“I don’t fucking believe it,” Kane said. “Wait a minute, I remember this when it happened, but the news said they were killed in a car accident.”
“The news also said that the real reason we invaded Iraq was to free the Iraqi people.”
“How can you … do you know for certain that it was him?”
“Absolutely certain, I vetted both crime scenes. I was there. He killed them and they covered it up.”
“I don’t fucking … how could they do that?”
“Come on, Kane, you work for the government now, wake up. They can do whatever ever they want to do and spin it however they want to spin it. We can put whatever story we want in the news, regardless of how true it is, we can arrest and detain anyone we want for as long as we wish without giving them access to counsel, hell, we can step outside right now, shoot the first person we see and call them a threat to Homeland Security and make it stick. This is the federal government, wake up and smell the coffee.
“The director decided that he did not want word to get out that some serial killer killed the federal officers chasing him; he felt that it might reflect badly upon the Bureau. So he squashed it, sent out a press release saying the two men were killed in an unfortunate car accident and that was that. The families went along with it and the men were buried with honors.
“Kevorkian has killed a number of local cops in different states at differing levels of authority and some with none at all. But this was the first time he
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