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around the perimeter, looking for any sign of forced
entry.
    “I hate it when you two do this shit. Twins are
strange, man. She’s fine, been having false contractions and said she’s been
worrying about you, that’s all.”
    “Tell her not to worry. It’ll all work out in time.
I’ll stop over when I can.”
    “Make it soon or she’ll drive me nuts until you do.”
    He nodded and motioned for Josh to follow. Cooper
slowly moved up the cement steps, inched open the screen door and stepped
inside. “You get a feeling we’ve done this once before?”
    “Shit, I was thinking the same thing.” He added in a
whisper, “This is giving me the willies.”
    “Know what you mean. I’ll wager a month’s pay that’s a
heart boiling and entrails frying.”
    “Christ! I can’t believe it.” Josh turned away from
the cooking human remains.
    Cooper retrieved rubber gloves from his pocket and
snapped them into place. “Take notes, Josh, we’re doing this one by the book.
Slow and easy with no mistakes. I want everything photographed and videotaped.
Get a sketch artist in here.”
    Josh glanced at the white-faced officer standing near
the back door. “Better get Sparks
and Weaver to case the neighborhood. Have them concentrate on racial, ethnic,
and social data.” He paused, then shook his head. “Now, what the hell you
waiting for?”
    “Good, they were in charge of that on the previous
case, we’ll have them do a comparison.” Cooper stepped over a large pool of
blood, then moved toward the living room. He dreaded what he knew he’d find.
    “Christ, it’s just like before.” Josh stood unmoving
in the middle of the room.
    Cooper studied the body of a young woman hanging from
the rafters of the open beam ceiling. As in the first case, the killer had
shoved the back of her neck through the hook of a butcher’s gambrel. Her legs
were fastened open. She’d been slit from neck to pelvic, dressed out like a
deer carcass.
    Cooper swallowed hard, his mouth went dry. “Have them
check if the wounds are post-mortem. Sixteen I’ll bet.” His thoughts drifted to
Megan’s book … she’d described it exactly like this. Had she given this killer
a blueprint for murder, or had she awakened the real killer? “Well, LeAnn
Haffer, what can you tell us?”
    Cooper turned to observe the rest of the room. As
expected, drawn in blood, an arrow pointed down the hallway. “Well, Josh, looks
like you lead the way.”
    “Not this time. I still have nightmares about that
night. Shit, I’m ready to piss my pants right now. This is damn spooky. It’s
time to call in Bicsak and Fortune to back up everything we see and find. I
don’t want to give IA one damn excuse to come down on us.”
    “I know what you mean. But, we have to follow this
through. We asked to be on this team and we’re going to get to the bottom of
this case. Now I want you to follow that arrow like last time. Observe
everything and write it all down. We’re going to do some comparisons, and damn
it, Josh, there is no way a killer could duplicate the entire scene unless he
committed both crimes.” Cooper snapped his glove and motioned toward the hall.
Crime scenes like this one were never easy, but to have to go through then
twice was mind-fucking.
    “When you’re right, you’re right. Let’s get it over
with.”
    Cooper nodded, then followed Josh down the hall. The second
blood arrow pointed to the bathroom. Cooper placed his palm on Josh’s shoulder.
He came to an abrupt stop.
    “What?”
    “Do you remember a second arrow before?”
    “Can’t say I do.”
    “Me either. Be careful, it could be booby trapped.”
Cooper pulled his Beretta from the holster under his arm and step-by-step
followed Josh into the small room.
    “Just like before. God damn.”
    Cooper leaned over the bathtub and took a mental note
of the victim’s organs. “He gutted and rinsed her body right here. Have them
take pictures from all angles. It seems I remember each