• No other drugs, infection or disease in blood.

• Coast Guard and ESU divers checking for body and evidence in New York Harbor.

• Checking missing persons reports.

Perp:

• See below.

M.O.:

• Perp forced victim to hold on to deck, over water, cut fingers or wrists until he fell.

• Time of attack: between 6 P.M. Monday and 6 A.M. Tuesday.

Evidence:

• Blood type AB positive.

• Fingernail torn, unpolished, wide.

• Portion of chain-link fence cut with common wire cutters, untraceable.

• Clock. See below.

• Poem. See below.

• Fingernail markings on deck.

• No discernible trace, no fingerprints, no footprints, no tire tread marks.

CRIME SCENE TWO

Location:

• Alley off Cedar Street, near Broadway, behind three commercial buildings (back doors closed at 8:30 to 10 P.M.) and one government administration building (back door closed at 6 P.M.).

• Alley is a cul-de-sac. Fifteen feet wide by one hundred and four feet long, surfaced in cobblestones, body was fifteen feet from Cedar Street.

Victim:

• Theodore Adams.

• Lived in Battery Park.

• Freelance copywriter.

• No known enemies.

• No warrants, state or federal.

• Checking for a connection with buildings around alley. None found.

Perp:

• The Watchmaker.

• Male.

• No database entries for the Watchmaker.

M.O.:

• Dragged from vehicle to alley, where iron bar was suspended over him. Eventually crushed throat.

• Awaiting medical examiner’s report to confirm.

• No evidence of sexual activity.

• Time of death: approximately 10:15 P.M. to 11 P.M. Monday night. Medical examiner to confirm.

Evidence:

• Clock.

• No explosives, chemical- or bioagents.

• Identical to clock at pier.

• No fingerprints, minimal trace.

• Arnold Products, Framingham, MA.

• Sold by Hallerstein’s Timepieces, Manhattan.

• Poem left by perp at both scenes.

• Computer printer, generic paper, HP LaserJet ink.

• Text:

The full Cold Moon is in the sky,

shining on the corpse of earth,

signifying the hour to die

and end the journey begun at birth.

—The Watchmaker

• Not in any poetry databases; probably his own.

• Cold Moon is lunar month, the month of death.

• $60 in pocket, no serial number leads; prints negative.

• Fine sand used as “obscuring agent.” Sand was generic. Because he’s returning to the scene?

• Metal bar, 81 pounds, is needle-eye span. Not being used in construction across from the alleyway. No other source found.

• Duct tape, generic, but cut precisely, unusual. Exactly the same lengths.

• Thallium sulfate (rodent poison) found in sand.

• Soil containing fish protein—from perp, not victim.

• Very little trace found.

• Brown fibers, probably automotive carpeting.

Other:

• Vehicle.

• Ford Explorer, about three years old. Brown carpet. Tan.

• Review of license tags of cars in area Tuesday morning reveals no warrants. No tickets issued Monday night.

• Checking with Vice about prostitutes, re: witness.

• No leads.

INTERVIEW WITH HALLERSTEIN

Perp:

• EFIT composite picture of the Watchmaker—late forties, early fifties, round face, double chin, thick nose, unusually light blue eyes. Over 6 feet tall, lean, hair black, medium length, no jewelry, dark clothes. No name.