Chapter seven- talk

The school was canceled the next few days. Kate and Butler's bodies were found chopped up and in the air conditioning system.

The cops found no trace of anyone else inside the school at the time of the murder.

They checked the cameras, checked the bathroom, and touched on the bodies for DNA other than the corpse of the victims. Nothing was found. As if someone was smart enough to clean the bodies without touching the skin of the victims.

Cameras were flashing while Nick Collins came walking in. The lead detective on this case.

He walks into the cafeteria where they pulled the bodies out from the conditioning.

It was lit and noisy due to the other police trying to solve the case as much as they could. But Nick Collins was like Madison, smart and would predict what could happen next.

He was a tall African American guy. Light skinned and thin.

He took his phone out and knelt down before snapping a picture of Kate. Her face was mashed up. Her hand stuck out of her throat as her vagina was folded inside out. Nick looks at her breast to see that her nipples were cut off and placed on her eyes while her eyelids were removed and used as fingernails on the body.

Nick turned and looked at a couple of cops. "No DNA was found?" Nick asked. A few other detectives shook their heads.

Nick nodded. He flexed his sharp jawline and slid his phone back into his pocket. "This was indeed a murder. And I don't believe this was meant to hide. I believe the person that did this wanted us to find the body in a matter of hours," Nick suggested. A cop came forward.

"We have no suspects," a cop says. Nick held up a finger and nodded. "We will in a few days. Go through her phone and find her closest friends. I want to interview them," Nick says.

Nick then knelt down and used his raw hand to tilt Kate's head.

In the background, you could hear Kate's sister and mother screaming and crying while Butler's wife cried while holding his son.

"Conner?" Nick calls. Conner, a cop comes up and knelt down as well.

"I want a sheet of paper telling me everyone who was absent and who was present at school yesterday. And whoever is absent is innocent, the people present is a potential suspect until I get done questioning them. Thank you," Nick says.

Conner nodded and stood up.

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The day went by and they finally removed the bodies from the school.

The school would be back in session in a few days. Madison's plan was going as planned. A person crossed off of her list.

Nick pastes back and forth in his office. His hand on his chin.

"For Butler to be killed with such ease but for the person to do such a thing to Kate tells me something. Tells me that the person that killed Kate hates her the most. From what I have seen on her phone, that only leads to three people. Her sister, Chris Johnson, and Madison Hu." Nick looks at three other cops who listened to him.

"A teacher couldn't have done it. The security footage shows all of them leaving beside Butler who's in fact dead. So that would lead one of those students to be the suspects. Chris was the last student to leave the school after Butler told him to stay in the class when he heard Kate scream." Nick thought a little more.

Nick crosses out Madison's name. "It never showed her being at school yesterday. So Madison is off of the suspect list. Bring Kate's sister in. Bring all three students in for a lie detector test. I want to see if my suspicions are correct," Nick says.

Three cops nod and began walking out of the door while Nick kept thinking.