Chapter Thirty-Five
Carl was returning to his office from a meeting with Assistant Commissioner Thaler when his mobile phone rang.
‘Carl, got a minute?’ said Mike Jonas.
‘Sure, Mike.’
‘You aware of the body found in the forest up behind Appleby yesterday?’
‘Yes,’ said Carl. ‘Pretty badly decomposed, isn’t it?’
‘I think it’s your missing woman, Gail Swan. I got a match with a DNA profile from her apartment which Forensics think is hers. I’m just chasing up her dental records.’
‘Got any clues as to cause of death?’
‘Shot at close quarters would be my guess,’ said Mike. ‘There’s a hole in the back of her skull consistent with a gunshot wound.’
‘How long ago?’
‘Be at least a month, perhaps a little longer.’
That meant she’d been taken out not long after Doug Clarke’s murder, thought
