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POSTMORTEM
Chas Murdoch stood up straight and stepped back from the autopsy table. Laid out before him were the mortal remains of Marla Hayes. The large ‘Y’ incision in her torso had been stitched and sealed, Murdoch’s work completed. Mike Holland and George Wright stood off to one side about six feet from the table. They had seen autopsies before and although not unduly bothered by the sights and sounds that accompanied the procedure, they never actually encroached any closer than their current distance. It was possible to see too much sometimes!
“Well, Chas?” asked Holland. “Can we be reasonably certain that we’re looking for the same killer who butchered Laura Kane?”
“In my opinion, the wounds inflicted on Marla Hayes were done so with the self-same knife that killed your p
