“Are you OK?” Steel asked, placing a reassuring hand on Tina’s shoulder. She turned, smiled and nodded. He stood up and offered his hand to help her up.
“Sorry, Steel,” she told him. “I can’t give a TOD as the liver has been removed. DNA may be a problem because of the burning of the body.” She shrugged and shook her head. “Someone went to a lot of trouble to hide this person’s identity. The ribs have been smashed, and so has the pelvis.” She pointed out the broken chest cavity and pelvic area.
“They didn’t want us to know if this is a male or a female,” Steel said, shocked at the depths of depravity the killers had sunk to. He turned to Tina with a hopeful look.
“But you can, can’t you?” he asked, looking into her deep dark eyes. “You can find out who this was.”
She smiled. “I will se
