ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
Erika Berger carefully cut through the reinforced tape holding the cocooning sheets wrapped about the body removed from Chloe Macbeth’s apartment.
With the aid of her assistant, Keith, she then rolled the body, still wrapped in an inner sheet, from one side to the other and freed the outer layer which was rolled up and bagged to be sent to CSI.
Not without some difficulty Erika and Keith gradually unwrapped the body, releasing a noxious blast of decomposition gases and several blowflies which flew around her head before she waved them away. Erika then studied the reeking corpse for a few seconds before turning to Grace with a raised inquisitive eyebrow. ‘Unless your Chloe Macbeth has changed her gender and ethnicity, this is not she. This is the body of a black m
