Chapter 1 - Knightfall

Vlax explains to Rogers that he wants confirmation not only inpersonbut in their reports, that this victimis not the person who pretended to be the super earlier. He also needs to compare his memory of that guy and the description he put out, to Rogers memories.

Vlax considers what the officer said about 30 years older and tries to consider that option. Might the man here be an older version of the other? "Is that just because he's older, or do you think there is a resemblance?" He asks.

Vlax makes a note in his notepad, a reminder, to ask if the station has a sketch artist on staff or retainer that had been trained in any kind of age progression or in this case regression. It was a stretch to hope for, but perhaps a larger, neighboring jurisdiction might have them, or the staties or feds? He sighs at the though of having to ask for help.

He also writes a few bullet points in the margin, to ask the coroner later.

No wounds?
No blood?
Skin strips?

"Make sure crime scene folks get good pictures, especially of his face, and collect those family photos. Since we had someone impersonating him earlier." he tells some of the on scene officers.

Turning his attention to the bigger picture he starts looking for signs that the victims clothing may have been taken. Versus the impersonater just dressing differently. Matter of fact, it doesn't look like anything's been taken.

Lastly, he searches for items that would identify family members, friends, and better yet a list of tenants.. If this person in fact was the super, then they should have all kinds of records somewhere.

Vlax first puts the numbers into his notes, for safe keeping. He scans the safe for any type of anti-tampering mechanism. It wouldn't do much good to ooen it and set something off that destroyed the contents. Maybe he's paranoid, but this murder has him on edge.

Only after he's convinced it's safe does he try to open it.

Vlax tells processing to get a picture of what's in the safe, and then spend some time studying the list of dates. He tries to see if there's anything logical or any kind of pattern to the dates. Clearly it's one day each month, but rent is typically collected on a specific date each month such as the first day or maybe twice a month the first and 15th. He wants to compare the next date coming up, to the current date to see how far out it might be. You might be beneficial to have someone here, staking this place out on that day.

Sighing. He makes one more pass through the place, hopeful that the crime scene folks can make heads or tails of it. He tries to get a really good look at the body too, without touching it of course. Looking for anything out of the ordinary. He then of course asks everyone else on scene if they have found anything.