• Victim: Chloe Moore, 26

  – Probably no connection to Unsub

  – No sexual assault, but touching of skin

• Unsub 11-5

  – White male

  – Slim to medium build

  – Stocking cap

  – Thigh-length dark coat

  – Dark backpack

  – Wore booties

  – No friction ridges

  – Professional tattoo artist or has been

  – May be using a ‘splitter’ for the tattoos

  – Uses bloodline to outline the tattoos

  – Not from area; more rural probably

  – Using book to learn techniques and outthink Rhyme and police?

  – Obsessed with skin

  – Will possibly be targeting the police

  – Organized offender; will be planning attacks ahead of time

  – Probably returned to the scene

• COD: Poisoning with cicutoxin, introduced into system by tattooing

  – From water hemlock plant

  – No known source

  – Concentrated, eight times normal

• Sedated with propofol

  – How obtained? Access to medical supplies?

• Tattooed with ‘the second’ Old English typeface, surrounded by scallops

  – Part of message?

  – Task force at police HQ checking this out

  – Scallops are cicatrization – scarring – and probably significant

• Portable tattoo machine used as weapon

  – Probably American Eagle

• Cotton fiber

  – Off white

  – Probably from Unsub’s shirt, torn in struggle

• Page from book

  – Probably torn from Unsub’s pocket in struggle

  – Probably mass produced hardcover 1996–2000

  – Book is Serial Cities. He was interested in Chapter 7, about Bone Collector.

  – Psychological connection with Bone Collector? Revenge?

  – Using book to learn techniques and outthink Rhyme and police?

  – Obsessed with skin

  – Will possibly be targeting the police

• Possibly used adhesive rollers to remove trace from clothing prior to attack.
• Handcuffs

  – Generic, cannot be sourced

• Flashlight

  – Generic, cannot be sourced

• Duct tape

  – Generic, cannot be sourced

Trace evidence

• Nitric oxide, ozone, iron manganese, nickel, silver beryllium, chlorinated hydrocarbon, acetylene

  – Possibly oxy-fuel welding supplies

• Tetrodotoxin

  – Fugu fish poison

  – Zombie drug

  – Minute amounts

  – Not used on victim here

• Stercobilin, urea 9.3 g/L, chloride 1.87 g/L, sodium 1.17 g/L, potassium 0.750 g/L, creatinine 0.670 g/L

  – fecal material

  – Possibly suggesting interest/obsession in underground

  – From future kill sites underground?

• Benzalkonium chloride

  – Quaternary ammonium (quat), institutional sanitizer

• Adhesive latex

  – Used in bandages and construction, other uses too.

• Inwood marble

  – Dust and fine grains

• Tovex explosive

  – Probably from blast site

Rhyme turned from the chart to Amelia Sachs, whom he caught staring out the window into the sleety morning. She was still obviously troubled by the news she’d received yesterday – that Pam was going on a ’round-the-world tour with her boyfriend, then moving in with him when they returned.

Seth was a nice young man, she’d explained as they’d lain in his sumptuous bed last night, lights out, the wind battering the windows. ‘To date. Not hole up in a hostel in Morocco or Goa. Maybe he’s Mr Perfect, maybe he’s not. Who can tell?’

‘Think it’ll blow over?’

‘No. She’s determined.’

‘Like you. Remember your mother didn’t like you going out with a gimp in a wheelchair?’

‘You could’ve been a marathon runner and she wouldn’t’ve liked you. Nobody could meet my mother’s standards. She likes you now, though.’

‘My point exactly.’