With the other two eliminated, Mackenzie was able to focus on the remaining one. The initials in question were DCM. Joey Nestler was the officer who brought her the results of the first two, and before he could leave her tiny working space, Mackenzie stopped him.
Officer Nestler, do you have any idea what these initials might mean? Are there any businesses, organizations, or even individuals in the city that these might apply to?
Ive been wondering that myself ever since we got the results, he said. But Im coming up with nothing. Weve got some guys working on it, though. Were also looking over the Kurtzes financial records to see if theres any sort of connection.
Great work, she said.
Nestler left her alone after that. She then turned her attention back to the crime scene photos. It was weird, but the vast amount of blood in both photos was not what unsettled her the most. There was something even more gruesome about the way the bodies had been arranged. As far as she was concerned, there was no question that the bodies had been moved and staged to be lying on their backs. With the evidence of a struggle of some sort having occurred at the Sterling residence, it was all but a given that the scenes had been purposefully set up.
But why?
She kept looking at the posturing of the hands. Whats he trying to tell us? That the couples are linked somehow? Is he highlighting the couples need for one another?
She was fairly certain that there was some sort of symbolism in the posing of the hands in both photos: in the Kurtz photo, Julies hand was touching her husbands thigh, almost draped lovingly over it; in the Sterling photo, it was Gerald Sterlings hand draped over his wifes thigh.