Chapter 5 Notes of a Crime Scene

Going over the notes he had received from his preliminary questions through various sources he did have some information to go on. As you walk into the Drake Hall from the outside parking lot which is on the right side of the building. By the parking lot is the road throughout the college. Up by the school on one side is another classroom building and a dorm is up ways. The dorm that Karyn was at is actually considered off-campus housing even though it is on campus just farther down the road a bit. You need to take the campus shuttle to get anywhere from that building.

As Karyn borrowed a car, she never used the shuttle until the last fight with her boyfriend. He was locked up this time. Spent 30 days in the pen.

Therefore, you walk in from the parking lot on the side near the classes for 100 to 106. As you walk down the hallway, you come to the sliding doors in the front of the building. There is a billboard there with all of the latest goings-on and class assignments right near the door. Turn left and walk down the hallway to the elevators to take to upstairs classrooms and offices. Near the elevators are offices for some of the faculty there mostly languages. You go up to the second floor and turn right and walk down towards the second hallway from the elevator and go into the first classroom that is her last class of the day prior to her death.

The library is located as you walk outside the sliding doors and to your left and slightly diagonal from Drake Hall. You walk into the building on the side that is the front of the building. When you walk in through the sliding doors and the metal detectors and book detectors you see on your left the check out counter, down the hallway is the magazine center and a lounge area, in front of you is the main library where the computers and stacks are located as well as encyclopedias, the government document room, and regular library books. They have tables and small desks for all of the students to sit at. If you look to your left near the check-out counter is the stairwell to go upstairs or downstairs. Downstairs is your AV department, your student study rooms that are available for an hour at a time, your microfiches, and your stacks. As well as meeting rooms. If you go upstairs it is stacks and study tables. At any given time, you can see study groups meeting or faculties reviewing their previous students' work to make sure no one copies previously handed in the material.

Where Karyn's body was found was in the lower part of the library near the stacks down the hall from the bathrooms. She was face down in blood and had her books scattered everywhere. There were no other visible signs of struggle. Nothing was noted on her clothes, no tears, no scratches, and no ligament marks from hands around the neck. Her hair was disheveled but that could have been from her hands running through it. Her clothes were all on her body they thought but no, according to the pictures, she was naked and her panties were not to be found. Ah, a clue- the killer took a souvenir.

The first person on the scene was Officer Daley. He was the nearest on-duty police officer and he called Detective Ranger. Prior to the detective appearing on the scene, Officer Daley and three other officers cordoned off the area near the body up to the second bathroom, which happened to be the women's bathroom. Persons had access to the stairs and the elevators but not access to the stacks, microfiche, and study rooms. Photographs were taken of the position of the body in relation to the hallway, the stacks, the study room, the nearest cubbyhole, and the windows. They also took fibers from the rug around the body, the clothes from near the body, and the impressions of the cup near the soda can bite marks from the sandwich and the fingerprints off the laptop keyboard. Hoping this will all give a clue as to how she died. There was no gunshot wound visible, no indications of strangulation, and no indication of rape and murder. Overall, it was a clean scene but no over-the-counter medication was found in her bag. They would have to rely on the reports from the medical examines office for toxicological reports and the blood tests from the autopsy. You will also have to rely on the determination of the medical examiner too. The body had been taken to Mountainside Hospital.

I have three scenarios- an accidental murder, in the wrong place at the wrong time; a crime of passion- an ex-boyfriend going crazy or a methodical killing of someone to cover up something worse. Sinister. It may not be any of that. We shall see.

As I walk through the scene, I see three things from the get-go; it was a study night by all intents and purposes. Books are strewn across the table, a calculator an encyclopedia, and a tape recorder. The first officer downstairs turned off the tape recorder but it has stopped recording a long time ago. This may be the one piece of evidence that gives them the killer or at least a hint as to who the killer is.

The first interviews with the other workers at the library are scheduled for a week from tomorrow, which is the fifth of the month. I hope that by then we will have a little more to go on. My mind is fried. I can no longer think.

Start here. On another day.

In his notes on the case, Mark writes: Related to Det. Ranger, Karyn, Frank, and Charly's roommate have no names yet. The argument during the first interview is the family interview and they end up telling the family well find out why you don't know what you don't know. Cousin, the sister whoever you are. We need that information.