“I see a man. He is dressed in rags and coarse long beard. His hair is disheveled and appears to be pushing a grocery cart,” and with that Brian Middleton collapsed. Detective Jackie sat back in his chair and shook his head and said, “what the fuck is that supposed to mean. That describes about every homeless person in the city.” The chief stared at him and put his finger to his lips to let him know to be quiet. 

Billy continued with his description of where the body of Jonie Mitchell could be found. It was near a dumpster in an abandoned building in a small industrial area. The chief smiled and looked at Detective Jackie as if to say “Well, what are you waiting for?”. Mike jumped to his feet and went out of the interview room slamming the door. He knew he would regret that later.

Mike walked up to his partner Jackie Bullton and said “Ok, the psychic says we need to go down to the small industrial site on the west side of town.”  He made sure to use air quotes to put emphasis on psychic. Jackie smiled at him and said, “So the chief is buying this crap, huh?”. Mike shrugged and said, “I suppose so.”  They grabbed their jackets and headed out.

The industrial section of town was a disaster, and every building looked the same. “I wonder which abandoned building this supposed dumpster is supposed to have Jonie’s body in it?” Mike said as he kicked a rock. Jackie smiled at him and grabbed her cell phone to call and have some uniformed officers come down to help with the search.

After six hours of searching one of the uniformed officers came running up to detective Bullton and said, “We’ve found her, or at least it’s a body.”. Jackie called Mike on her radio, and they went to where the officers and sure enough there she was. She had been beaten pretty severely around the head. Mike looked over at the CSI officer and said, “Go ahead and see what you can and let me know as soon as you have finished so I can take a look at what you got.”. 

Both detectives headed over to the police station and just sat down at their desks when the phone rang. Mike answered the phone and his jaw just about dropped to the floor and said, “Are you sure?”, and he kept saying it over and over before he finally hung up. He looked at Jackie and said, “They found Brian Middleton’s card on her body.”.  Looking at each other they called down to the chief to ask if Middleton was still here and what was found on Jonie’s body.

When they got to the chiefs' office they rushed in and told them what they found. The chief looked at them and said, “He left about four hours ago. He said he had to go overseas, he looked at his watch, and said, “His plane left about two hours ago.”. 

Mike was afraid to ask the next question, but he knew he head to, “Has he offered to help with other cases?”. The chief dropped his head and said, “Yeah, at least 20 other cases.”. They realized then they had probably just let a serial killer go and who knows where the hell he was now.