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Nico arranged to meet the Forensic Pathologist in the Government Mortuary. The smell of industrial strength disinfectant hung in the air. The mortuary was kept clean and sterile judging by how the surfaces seemed to sparkle. The sparkling almost belied the fact that the only thing to be found in this basement was a bunch of dead people. He thought it was strange that it was cleaner here, where they kept these dead bodies than many hospitals where people were fighting to stay alive.
The Forensic Pathologist, Dr Michael Keartland, was standing over Theresa van Wyk’s corpse with Dr Pete Papenfuss when Nico walked into the mortuary. Her clothes had been peeled off her flesh slowly and carefully to limit the damage, but despite this, some of her skin was stuck to her jeans and jersey, leavi
