Careful not to touch anything, I did as close an examination as I could muster. Blood stained the material of the socks, and they were ripped in some parts, showing slivers of flayed and bruised skin. Bastinato—a cruel practice of the ancients to punish those who took the property of others.
The plot thickens.
“I don't know how the hell this happened in this day and age, but, unless the killers had a knowledge of history coupled with a s******c and wild imagination, which could entirely be possible... Vianetti was executed in the style of a thief in Ancient Egypt. Granted, they wouldn't necessarily kill the accused back then, only horribly m**m him.”
I stood to my feet. “I remember a book I read in college. During Ramses III’s reign, there was a case called the ‘Great Harem Conspiracy’,
