Alien FootprintsA bloody heel print lay splattered on the floor near the wall, nowhere near the doorway. The toe of the shoe print was on the floor on the opposite side of the wall. It looked as if someone had walked there before the wall was set in place, but the house was old, the blood fresh.
“Somebody lured our victim into this abandoned structure,” Police Officer Morrow said.
More prints led toward the opposite wall and disappeared with another heel print at the wall, as if the person had walked right through it to the outdoors.
Officer Morrow was stymied, but not quite. He was the only officer open to possibilities beyond the norm, especially when investigating homicides that included some strange elements and weren't quite normal. There were a few of them lately, in neighboring t
