“I can’t believe this! What about the possibility of an earlier victim?” Val could barely contain herself. So much in this entire case didn’t add together. This was just one more thing.

“This is what I heard from Blythe. Due to where the skull was found, Blythe was confident that the extensive injuries came from that source. There was more trauma than just the missing teeth, which is unlike the other victims. Plus, with Colin already in jail, and all the ironclad evidence against him, why speculate about another victim until there’s reason to believe there is one? It would be a different matter if they’d found another set of teeth. The media attack with this type of information could be nightmarish at best, and quite damaging to already strong evidence against Colin.” Gwen added, “See what I mean, it all sounds convincing.”

“Why wouldn’t Gavin investigate this? Who cares if Blythe sounds convincing?”

Gwen paced back and forth. “Blythe also told Gavin that if the media gave the public reason to believe Colin might be innocent and that the wrong steps were taken for the arrest in this case, the lead detective would look like an asshole and probably get demoted or at very worst, fired. That lead detective is Gavin.”

Val was stunned by what she heard and her thoughts ran wild.

“Val, I’m not a medical examiner and I’ll be the first to admit Blythe has knowledge and experience way beyond what I could ever hope to have. But I’m not sure how he came to those conclusions. I saw him go into the autopsy room with the skull and I also saw him come out. He was in that room for all of five minutes. He didn’t go back in there until his meeting with Gavin. How do you reach those detailed conclusions in five minutes?”

“You can’t,” Val said.

“Something isn’t right. Gavin didn’t challenge Blythe. Unless another set of teeth are found, this is going to be swept under the rug and then it’s going to disappear. Detective Gavin’s happy that Colin has been arrested and he’s not going to do anything to screw that up. The only way to have someone look into it is to have Jack Styles and Thomas Hayden do it.”

Gwen was right, but, what to do? If Blythe was hiding information from Gavin, if he was purposely trying to sway the case in the wrong direction, then Blythe’s mixed up in it somehow. Any way she looked at it, Blythe’s odd behavior needed to be investigated.