Blüdhaven PD

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It's a busy afternoon at the precinct. Captain Rohrbach has spent much of her morning wrestling with paperwork and wishing she were back on the street when one of the detectives from the Asian Task Force comes and knocks at her open office door. She waves him in and sighs.

"Okay. How many, when, and where, and before you ask, no, that's all I've got."

Radner offers a sympathetic grin. "Actually, I'm not here to ask for backup."

Amy raises an eyebrow, and sets down her pen. "Don't tell me. They volunteered your department for the chili cookoff next week."

"You can breathe easy, Captain. We didn't get the short straw. No, I'm here about one of the dead Triad members we came across about three weeks back."

She frowns, thinking back. "Young kid, right? Red Dragons bunch, shot six times in the back with a .38. Yeah, I remember him. What's up?"

He hands her a case file. "We found DNA at the crime scene - couple hairs lodged under a ring. We sent it out for testing and the results just came back. I thought you should see this."

She opens the folder, trained eyes scanning through the report. Eyes widen slightly. "We got a hit?"

He nods. "There's a slight problem, though."

"Guy's skipped town on us?"

"No, ma'am. The hit was positive for a guy who's been dead for four months."

She sits back in her chair and stares up at him. "What?"

"We ran a check to see if the guy had an identical twin that might account for it, but nada. I've got two 'tecs checking with the friends and family right now to verify. Seems he had a juvie record about ten years back, which was when his prints got entered into the system."

The captain reads over the remaining details, then closes the file and adds it to the stack on her desk. "Check his background, see if there's any way he could have been involved with these guys before he died, somehow. Keep me in the loop, but don't hold your breath on getting a lead."

Radner nods. "Will do, chief."

Amy scowls at the topmost file for a good two minutes before she returns to her paperwork. Mysteries are better left for novels and TV.