by Jill Jacks

Created on: June 10, 2008

When Detective Willows arrived back at his desk there were three messages waiting, one of which was the anticipated call from the District Attorney's office advising they would be dismissing the case of The People vs. Gerry Jerry. It didn't matter that Willows was expecting the call and knew the outcome. His mood darkened nevertheless.

He pulled the file from his briefcase and placed it on his desk. Ironically he noted how thick the file had become. Considering the lack of evidence it should have been paper thin. what made it a mile thick were the pictures and information on the three victims along with countless surveillance logs of the defendant. In addition were interviews with anyone having any association with the defendant of any kind. Also in the file were medical records for the defendant which included a dentist report indicating the defendant had been behaving in a threatening manner while having dental work done. The file also contained a criminal record of said defendant which of course had been inadmissable during the trial.

Willows leaned back on his chair and recalled the day in Court. Gerry Jerry had sat there expressionless throughout. He gave Willows the impression of a mannequin. Still and lifeless, and rather ugly. Actually a better word to describe that creep would be zombie thought Willows.

There wasn't a whole lot of useful information available on Gerry Jerry. The work history was sporadic and out of date. The man had to live, right? why didn't the surveillance logs give anything away? Gerry Jerry didn't appear to go out of his apartment much at all. Dectective Willows had only done a few days of surveillance in the beginning of the case. As not much was doing in the surveillance he gave it up to one of the precincts surveillance teams so that he could run some leads in the case and personally handle the interviews.

As much as he liked to be a one man show murder cases were too active for that. Instead he tried to keep the higher priority items for himself and pass off the more tedious aspects and usual dead end stuff to general assisting staff members. He handpicked the assisting members of the team himself. He knew which officers followed through and which ones dropped the ball.

For instance he knew one of the surveillance teams frequently left the surveillance site to go get midnight snacks and another team that often let one or the other go home for a little shut eye. This meant there was no team. There was only one lone member at

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