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.Who did he think was going to believe him, especially with his initials scrawled in Marcy Edwards’s blood?PIB would believe him.At least enough to check out his story.Quietly of course, but thoroughly.The cheese eaters would not have to look far to find enough inconsistencies between the Edwards case and the others to fuel their suspicions.Marcy Edwards’s killer had used his hands to strangle her, not a cable tie.The letters were drawn on the floor, not carved into her flesh.And what about the time line? Would the Lamb of God Killer have had time to murder Marcy Edwards and kidnap the mayor’s daughter on the same night? Or was it more likely that the discrepancies between the two cases meant the Edwards murder was a copycat crime?And what about the DNA on the cigarettes outside Marcy Edwards’s house, waiting like nails to be driven into Murphy’s coffin? Maybe an oral swab during the autopsy had picked up even more of his DNA left behind during his failed attempt to resuscitate her.PIB would ask for a DNA sample to exclude Murphy as a suspect.Murphy could refuse, but that would focus even more suspicion on him.Eventually, the Rat Squad would get a search warrant and force him to give up a sample.When the DNA came back a match, what would he say?I thought she might be the next victim, so I was staking out her house the same night someone broke in and murdered her.Then I found her in the bathroom and performed CPR.What if when the serial killer was caught he decided not to talk? What would happen then? Eventually, the case would go to trial.In preparing for that trial, the DA’s office would pressure Murphy and the task force for every shred of evidence.The crime lab would certainly compare the suspect’s DNA to the DNA found in the cigarettes.The Wingate murder would be exposed as the work of a different killer, and the case would remain unsolved and open.Because of the telltale “LOG” signature, someone might suspect that Marcy Edwards’s killer may have had inside information from the investigation.Maybe the killer was a cop.New Orleans had a history of killers with badges.Antoinette Frank, Len Davis, Weldon Williams—all convicted of murder.Two of them handed death sentences.So how much of a stretch would it be to imagine the department ordering every cop who had worked the Wingate crime scene to provide a DNA sample? Just like in Jennings.The killer, no matter how many times he was convicted and how many death sentences he got, would sit on death row at Angola through more than a decade of appeals, all the while holding on to a secret that could land Murphy in prison.But what if he were killed instead of caught? Shot down like John Dillinger as the police closed in to arrest him.Then there would be no trial, thus no pressure to tie up every loose end, to dot every i and cross every t.As part of its standard operating procedure, the police department would issue a final report on the investigation and stamp it “closed.”The Homicide Division, specifically, the task force, and even more specifically, Murphy himself, would be in charge of writing that final report.The Edwards murder could be added to the other serial-killer crimes as little more than a footnote.I have to kill him.But how? Dillinger at least had the decency to run when Melvin Purvis and his team of G-men tried to arrest him outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, back in the days when it was accepted practice to shoot fleeing felons in the back.Now, that was out of bounds.By today’s rules, Purvis would have ended up in prison, and Dillinger’s family would have gotten rich from a lawsuit against the government.Serial killers don’t go down in a blaze of gunfire.Bank robbers do.Matix and Platt killed two FBI agents and wounded five more in Miami in 1986 before being shot down.In North Hollywood, Phillips and Matasareanu shot ten cops and wounded seven civilians in 1997 before going down for the count.Religious fanatics do
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