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.It didn't come to him easily so he started to read the reports.When he did he saw a pattern, one he didn't like.One that threw all the accidents into the doubtful column.He tracked the accidental deaths, and in doing so he found that many of the first suspicious ones were young neolion cubs.Each are young, under 5 years old.Each death was death by strangulation, a fall, on a train track, or drowning.The identities were withheld because the victims were all minors, but the circumstances.he compiled them.Several were almost word for word identical, identical victim, identical location, circumstances.it read like a bad holo novel drama.What started to bother him was no one else had noticed.You'd think going to the same crime scene 3 times in a year for the exact same thing would have made someone sit up and take notice!He wasn't sure if the two crime signatures were related though, after all, one series were children, the other were prostitutes.His damn instincts though.he dug deeper, focusing on the changes to the older kills.He switched from the train track deaths to drowning, the trains wouldn't have left much.Ring City had a power house north west of the city in the foothills.Instead of using a hydroelectric dam to contain the water, they tapped water coming from the mountains through the forests north west of the city.The snow melt had a great deal of force behind it.Some of the water from the canyon river was diverted into a flume.On top of the flume was a trestle and train track.When the water reached a high hill above the power house it was diverted once more, this time into narrow pipes called a header which concentrated the flow into a tight powerful stream running at 800kph when it hit the bottom and the turbines in the power house.The power house had six turbines, but usually only three or four were in use in late spring.During the spring melt all six and the excess flow system were in use.The water came crashing out from under the power house, spewing out from under the arches and then back to the main river.New Seattle had a similar system, in fact the system here outside Ring City had been copied from the Seattle one.It was more modern even though it was a century old, with a recent upgrade in turbines to make it more efficient.It could now put out over 14,000 kilowatts of power, enough to power ninety-five percent of the city.Ring City was shaping up to be a Major city.but it was all tourists, logging, and fishing.He shook himself to regain his focus and continued reading.According to the reports several bodies had been found in trash traps and in eddies and even in one of the turbine intakes.The bodies were found both above and below the power house.It was theorized that the people had been playing on the flumes and had fallen in and drowned.Now though, Nohar didn't buy that.One maybe, but 22 in a year? When the flume had a record of only 2 deaths in over a century of use.and all of them were from workers who had slipped on slippery wood? No, something else was going on here, something sinister.Unfortunately the bodies were too badly damaged to get much from them.Or so the local paper said.Again, he didn't believe that.The water may have flushed most forensics off a body, but a lot of data could be gathered.You could normally tell for instance, if an injury was made post or premortem.They weren't saying that though.Again, he suspected someone was just sweeping the mess under the rug.Most of the early deaths had been Neo's.Only recently had human fatalities started to surface.That told Nohar something was very wrong.It was a pattern of escalation, but the police were focusing on recent events, not looking at the older crimes for clues.Usually a serial killer was sloppy in the opening moves.Most killers planned the act in minute detail, but didn't plan the aftermath.He'd have to start there.The river deaths were out though, he was fairly certain he wouldn't get a lot there, and besides, some of the bodies had been cremated.Dead end.But he could look elsewhere.First he had to do some research, in this case, on scene research.Chapter 5He went to one scene where a 1 year old neolion had allegedly fallen off a three story building and died, crushing his skull and snapping his neck.He looked up to the building.“It doesn't add up.” He climbed to the roof, it was hard to get to the lowest railing of the fire escape, hard for him, a full grown Neo tiger [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]