Rios was mulling over her notes from her interview with Sarah Cohen, trying to fit it in with the rest of the evidence, when a stack of case files dropped on her desk, pulling her out of the zone. “What the hell?”
Morris wore an expression of concern tinged with shame. “I found these. They were ‘misfiled’ with some cold cases,” she said using air quotes. “I found them by chance.”
Johnson stopped what she was doing as Rios rifled through them. “Somebody killed three members of the Athena Sisterhood?”
“And sexually assaulted them. Maintenance worker found the bodies behind a building at a rest area off I-17.”
“This happened a week ago. Why am I just seeing them now?”
“Not only were the cases misfiled, they were marked closed—unsolved on the system.”
“I remember that call out,” said Joh
