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Creative Writing: The Murder Case - School Essays

Creative Writing: The Murder Case



It was April, and El Nino was pelting the rooftop in full force. The
rain came down in buckets, only to let up for a few seconds, then resume
with a crash of thunder and a torrential downpour. Detective Jack Barretta
hated being called out on a case on days like this. He and his partner,
Wally Cruz got the call to go to the scene of a homicide on the East side
of town. A body had been found in a batchelor's apartment apparently
stabbed to death in a home invasion robbery. When Jack and Wally arrived
on the scene, the entire apartment complex was taped off with yellow
streamers that read "Police line, do not cross."
As they entered the apartment, there were several uniformed ...

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determine the possible motive for
this killing.
"Does the victim have a name?", asked Jack to no one in particular.
"The apartment was rented to a Reid Jennings," said one of the
uniformed officers. "The manager has identified the body."
Wally was interviewing a short, fat lady in a housedress just outside
the apartment door.
Over by the window was a bloody butcher knife with a wooden handle.
"Is that the murder weapon?", asked Jack.
"As far as we can tell, there was a struggle, the victim was stabbed,
and the perpetrator escaped out the front door," said the officer. "Nobody
saw or heard anything."
Wally entered the apartment. He was a young go-getter and always
enthusiastic about his assignments. A shock of black hair fell across one
eye as if it were intentionally styled to give Wally a boyish look.
"The manager says the victim was quiet, payed his rent on time, and
was away on business for weeks at a time. He didn't have any visitors, ...

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where the murder weapon came from." Wally thought
out loud. "Did someone dust these cabinets for prints?" Wally asked.
"Yeah, the lab guys have been though here with a fine tooth comb,"
answered one of the uniformed officers. "They took what they had back to
criminology."
"There's not much else we can do around here," Jack said. "Let's go
back to the office and study the photos and whatever else the lab guys have
for us."
"Tomorrow we can check out this West Coast Imports, maybe we can come
up with something," Wally replied.
Jack Barretta had been on the force for 16 years and he was never
surprised by the sight of a crime scene. There was blood soaked into ...

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