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Melissa liked her third visit to the morgue no better than she had the previous two – she didn’t think she would have liked it any better if all three visits hadn’t occurred on consecutive days – but that was no surprise given that two of the visits had been to identify bodies, and this one was to get the results of a post-mortem, something she had never thought to have to do.
The two police officers introduced themselves to the young man at the counter and were directed to the office of the pathologist.
“Come in.”
“Hello, Sergeant Mitchell, from Oakhurst,” he introduced himself as he entered the office. “You called to say the reports on the post-mortems of the two murder victims we discovered over the weekend are ready.”
The pathologist looked blankly at Mitchell for a moment and
