In the quiet suburbs of Chicago, police detective Rowan Williams was called to a gruesome murder scene. When he arrived, police officer Joe Dunken was outside and warned him of the horror that he was about to walk into. As detective Williams entered the front door of the house, he glanced around. So far nothing seemed off until he walked into the kitchen. On the kitchen floor between the island counter and the other cabinets, detective Williams saw the blood-covered body of Beverly Bono. He also observed the blood splatter all over the cabinets and a white peace lily lying on Ms. Bono’s chest.
Officer Dunken walked up behind detective Williams, “what kind of psycho would leave a flower on the person they killed?”
“It’s a peace lily, and I don’t know, but there is something seriously wrong with them,” Williams said.
Detective Williams took visual note of everything he saw in the kitchen. The viciousness of the attack was obviously made by a knife. The multiple stabs wounds that were made, and the knee prints on the floor were left most likely by the killer. He also noticed an invoice lying on the counter from a local landscaping and nursery. When Williams was done in the kitchen, he checked other rooms in the house for clues.
The coroner arrived to tend to the victim and also made note of everything with the body. He recorded that Ms. Bono has been dead for at least fifteen hours and that she was sexually assaulted after she was killed. The bloody prints on the body were most likely left by the killer, but after the crime team did a thorough investigation of the rest of the house, nothing else was touched by him.
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