CASE #64Justice KillerWeek FiveFollowing the lead provided by Officer Helten Jon, units are sent out to both Ridgewood and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Zeroing-in on a complaint about a constant knocking-sound coming from a neighbor's apartment in Ridgewood, the unit there breaks down the door of the offending residence to discover Justice Killer's victim strung up to the ceiling fan by the neck. The body sways around limply in a circle and, on every rotation, one of its feet strikes the wall the neighbor shares with the victim's apartment.
The victim turns out to be an employee of the state prison system, in charge of overseeing prisoner paroles, and had been accused in the past several times of demanding sexual favors from prisoners eligible for parole in return for their release, and denying parole if they were refused said favors.
The victim was hanged from the ceiling fan with a standard-issue prison bedsheet woven into a rope.
Units heading out to Bedford-Stuyvesant receive incoming intel from the station-house that a potential victim has been located there by the I.T. Department.
In that district there resides a woman who used to work as a police station's cleaning staff. She had been under suspicion, quite a few times, of stealing items from high-profile cases from the Evidence Room and potentially selling them off to collectors of such memorabilia. Eventually, an item of evidence from a sensational case against an infamous mobster went missing before the trial was over. The woman in question was fired but the mobster walked free.
The police rush to the victim's residence and smash open the door, only to surprise an elderly woman into falling off her sofa and spilling her not-the-first-of-the-night martini all over her cat.
The old biddy is taken into protective custody. Her cat is given a bath and one of the attending officers adopts him.
The next day a new letter arrives at the NYPD from the killer:
Hello,
So, you finally got the drop on me?!
Well, it took you long enough.
I was casing that old bitch's place and I saw you scare the living crap out of her.
I guess she can count her lucky stars that there was at least one of you noobs that could find the hole in their donut without a flashlight and a map.
Meh, she's old, she'll be dead soon enough anyway.
However, you HAVE left me in a rather uncharitable mood for now.
I had been quite looking forward to scalping her and selling it as a wig online as an item from THIS famous case at some point in the future!
So, yeah, you've got me a little pissed off here.
I got two more to go before I'm done and disappear forever so good luck catching me!
NO MORE CLUES FOR YOU!!!
Yours Sincerely and GOODBYE,
Justice Killer.
Here is the city map for ease of reference, which also contains the exact crime-scene locations to date as provided by the "goblins" down in Logistics, updated to include the last two locations, including the rescued lady's residence: