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“BASED ON THE AMOUNT of blood on the ropes, here, I don’t think he was holding the victim too long.”
“Victim got free, though, right? They weren’t set free?”
Gary Mankowitz tried not to show too much excitement as he explained what he found. Most detectives just asked a few key questions of the forensic techs, and then got the rest of the info from the report later. Archer was following everything he did, joining him on the floor as he bent down and pointed out the streaks on the concrete.
“From the look of the spatter pattern on the floor, there was a struggle, and either one, or both of them, was wounded. Suspect fled out the door first, spraying blood from his mouth. We found a mixture of blood and saliva in a sporadic pattern, like he was trying to frantically spit som
