Mystery, Part II

We scoured the crime scene where the mayor’s son had been kidnapped. The facts so far were this; the mayor’s son was last seen on March 21st at 1:30 AM. He had just come back from club Eclipse, and he was apparently high on some kind of drug, most likely Ecstacy. The only witness was a night guard who said he saw the mayor’s son, bound and gagged, being put into the back seat of a black SUV. That’s when the guard called the police. The only other piece of evidence on the scene was a bloody fingernail found on the grass near where the mayor’s son was seen kidnapped. We checked the DNA of the fingernail and it matched that of the mayor’s son. The blood came up with no match. The only suspect was called in by an anonymous tipper, Jessica Davis. We brought her in for questioning, but the blood did not match hers, and her alibi checked out, so we could not charge her with anything. When we questioned her, she said that she believed the culprit was one Avon Barksdale.

Avon Barksdale was a small time thief with a record of robberies and drug charges. We checked his last known address, and went to find it. Jimmy McNulty was the lead detective, and he and I went to see his last known residence, a run down apartment in the projects. The place was empty, but we checked to see if we could find some of Barksdale’s DNA to get a match for the blood on the fingernail. With some luck we found some dried blood in his dirty sink, and decided to head back to the police department. When we got back we did a test on the blood and found that it was a match with the blood on the fingernail. The mayor’s son must have struggled with Barksdale and lost a fingernail while drawing blood from him in the process. Now that we knew Barksdale was our suspect, we just had to find him.