Chapter Sixteen
Carl opened the email from Dean Lang and read its contents.
Forensics’ tests indicated the rope fibres found in Mitchell’s rubbish matched the fibres retrieved from the victims’ neck wounds. That’s something, thought Carl, but he knew it wasn’t conclusive, given the amount of green nylon garden rope in circulation. He scrolled down and read the list of items found in Mitchell’s recycling bin, and agreed with Dean’s assessment that none of it was incriminating or helpful to his investigation, except for the fact they now had several fingerprints tentatively identified as being Mitchell’s.
Carl wondered what had spooked Mitchell. On the surface, they had very little evidence connecting him to Christine Viking’s murder and none at all linking him to Kelly Palmer’s. He thoug
