Sublime

Die Tatorte in drei verschiedenen Bundesstaaten haben eine schreckliche Gemeinsamkeit. Bei jedem einzelnen Fall wurden Eisenkäfige verwendet, in denen die Opfer vor ihrer Hinrichtung eingesperrt wurden.

A shot of some alley somewhere. A body covered with a tarp. Lots of little flags marking shell casings. Cops milling about. Albert couldn’t turn away, hoped that these two would be leaving soon so he could rewind it to watch it all again.

Holmes, however, has an idea. “Of course, this blood belongs to a second individual—presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed,” he tells the two policemen. “It reminds me of the circumstances attendant on the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year ’34. Do you remember the case, Gregson?” Gregson confesses that he does not. “Read i

He also enlisted Dr. Daniel Muñoz, an acclaimed forensic anthropologist who, in 1985, had helped to identify the remains of Josef Mengele, the Nazi fugitive, and who could help confirm the origins of any object they might find from Fawcett’s party: a belt buckle, a bone fragment, a bullet.

Harvey and Rita Cooper, having recently been found in their basement shot to death. Rudy said that so far it was looking a lot like a murder-suicide, with the wife doing the honors, but that was NYPD’s problem.

More, in that it takes on a larger, more general significance, as an object of broad speculation and inquiry, a scientific conundrum, if you will. It has contours that inevitably were seen before in earlier problems and will certainly repeat again, broader principles that can apply to other moments that may not even seem at first glance related. Le