#Chapter19 CRASH

A CSI had already processed the scene when Barnes arrived, nearly an hour after Sam called for homicide. Once the shock wore off, the detective did a walkthrough of the scene. Another uniformed officer stayed by the vehicle while Sam guarded the body. Not long after Barnes showed up, the Blackrock Coroner, Stacy Getz, arrived.

"Abe Froman," Detective Barnes said. "Same name the vehicle's registered under."

He was standing to the left of the hanging corpse, wearing latex gloves, viewing the driver's license he had removed from the victim's wallet, which he had found in the left pants pocket.

Stacy had pulled the victim's jacket aside, pulled the...