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heat is turned up. As Jack and Wex were reassessing the crime scene they also noticed that the heat was turned off, determining that two people were talking to each other before the murder. The linked case in Chicago also proved to be very interesting to Jack. Along with the Poe quote, other similarities were found in the victimology and with problems in the crime scene. Larry “Legs” Washington was the partner and friend of the detective who supposedly committed suicide, Jumpin’ John Brooks. According to Larry, due to a few facts he doubted the police department’s diagnosis of his friend’s suicide from the very beginning. Brooks was involved in a homicide investigation of a young black child who was brutally murdered. The young boy’s body was also found in a public

park brutally mutilated and the killer had not been found, which greatly impacted Brooks. Brooks, like Sean McEvoy, also sought counseling due to job and life stresses. Brooks also was noted to be highly assertive and determined to succeed. Larry and Brooks were African Americans that grew up together in one of the worst ghettos in Chicago. McEvoy thought it was a miracle that they both survived the horrid childhood due to the conditions they faced daily, which also supported the conclusion of the victim’s desire to live. Larry new first hand that they had worked their way out of hell and he knew that Jumpin’ John was not about to go back by his own hand. Looking at the crime scene another factor seemed amiss. The gun that killed Jumpin’ John fired two shots, one in the

floor and one in his mouth. Larry Legs seemed to think the first shot was the murderer killing John and the second was to get the GunShot Residue (GSR) on John’s hand. Now with two alleged suicide cases being reopened, Jack and Larry agreed that there is a high possibility that there is a serial killer out there killing cops and making it look like a suicide. McEvoy decided to see if he could persuade the Law Enforcement Foundation to allow him to look through their records of police suicides to possibly find if there were other victims. With the help of a Foundation employee, Jack got access to the police suicide records. McEvoy found thirteen files that could possibly be related to his brother and the Chicago cases and narrowed them down to six related cases. By this point

Jack was working with the FBI on an agreement to not write the story until they caught the killer, or until a leak in the case came out. The other four cases that correlated with Sean’s death and Jumpin’ John’s death all were detectives who seemed to be deeply disturbed by a specific homicide case. They each had a line of Edgar Allen’s poetry in their “suicide notes.” When the FBI agreed upon the connection between each of the six detectives, the nation-wide manhunt became official government business. The FBI produced an official chronological victimology report regarding the killer they now named The Poet. 1. Clifford Beltran, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Dept., homicide WM, DOB 3-14-34, DOD 4-1-92 Weapon: S&W 12 gauge shotgun One shot-head POD: residence. No

witness Poe quote: “Lord, help my poor soul” 2. John McCafferty, Baltimore Police Department, homicide WM, 47 years old Weapon: service, handgun Two shots, one impact-Head POD: residence. No witness Poe quote: “the fever called living is conquered at last” 3. John Brooks, Chicago Police Department, homicide BM, DOB 7-1-54, DOD10-30-93 Weapon: service Glock 19 Two shots, one impact-Head POD: residence. No witness Poe quote: “through the pale door” 4. Garland Petry, Dallas Police Department, homicide WM, DOB 11-11-51, DOD 3-28-94 Weapon: service, Beretta 38 Two shots, two impacts-Chest and Head POD: residence, No witness Poe quote: “Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength” 5. Morris Kotite, Albuquerque Police Department, homicide HM, DOB9-14-56, DOD 9-24-94 Weapon:

service, S&W 38 Two shots, one impact-Head POD: residence. No witness Poe quote: “Haunted by ill angels” 6. Sean McEvoy, Denver Police Department, homicide WM, DOB 5-21-61, DOD 2-10-95 Weapon: service, S&W 38 One shot-Head POD: car. No witness Poe quote: “Out of space out of time” Jack McEvoy and the FBI composed a theory as to why the killer was doing what he was doing. They thought the offender committed the first homicide in order to draw a homicide detective in the frame. The first kill was used as bait, presented in such a fashion as to attract a homicide detective’s obsession allowing the killer to set up the suicide scenario. As McEvoy and the FBI traveled to Denver to look at the most recent crime scene, they received a call from Quantico. The call