I

Debi, stared down at Alicia’s body.  The instructions given to her by “Hera” were very clear. Strip, remove all jewelry and dump the body.  While waiting for Ace and Damon to return, Debi decided to get started.

Rolling Alicia over on her back she looked at the pretty face. Her eyes closed, her mouth slightly opened.  No sign of the surprise or shock (and pain) the unfortunate Alicia had felt when Debi’s knife struck her in the upper back, near the base of the skull. Debi had a deadly proficiency with throwing knives and the angle and impact of the knife produced the desired result: almost instant death.

Debi noted her gold earrings and quickly removed them, Twisting the head she took the earrings out of the other ear as well. Debi then looked at Alicia’s right hand.  On the third finger, she was wearing what appeared to be a ring with a green stone (emerald?) possibly her birth stone. No problem. Debi pulled and tugged and managed to get the ring off. Debi inspected the lovely green stone and then with the earrings she set it aside. Debi then moved to the left hand.

Alicia was wearing a thin gold band with a thicker gold ring displaying a large diamond. Must have been a caret. Debi got to work removing these bands as well. They had been on the finger for a longer time and the poor Alicia’s fingers were a little swollen. No problem, she would cut the finger off if she had too. It would be a pity to damage that beautiful engagement ring.

Ace and Damon appeared just as Debi, after some effort managed to get the wedding and engagement rings off Alicia’s finger.  Debi let the arm drop which landed with a plop across the dead woman’s stomach.  Debi stopped to inspect the rings.  A part of her felt remorse at the idea of tossing the rings away. Could she just keep one of them?

            “I know what you’re thinking,” Damon said. “Stop it.”

            “He’s right. We want nothing to tie us to this body,” Ace added. “With the money, we’re getting paid you can buy yourself a whole box of diamonds and other jewels.”

            “You saw the boss?” Debi asked.

            “She repeated your instructions to us so let’s finish.” Ace said as he knelt beside the body.

            “How’s the Punisher?” Debi asked.

            Ace answered her, “We left her in the cell. She was starting to moan and stir as we locked the door. She’s gone have the granddaddy of headaches tonight.”

            “Come tomorrow she’ll be all   cleaned up and ready for the games. The last day of her life,” Damon said as he leaned down and taking a hold to the waist band of Alicia’s blue shorts.

Nothing was said as Damon yanked the shorts down exposing Alicia’s black thong underwear.

“Damn, I would have taken her for a bikini panty person,” Ace laughed.

“Just get on with it,” Debi said getting the men back on task.

 Ace took hold of her arms and pulled them over her head.  Then he took her blue top and pulled it off over her body. Past her head and arms.  She was wearing a tan bra.

Ace and Damon laughed.

            “No matching bra and panties?” Ace asked. Both men laughed. Debi looked at them.

            “You guys! We rarely wear matching undies. Where have you been?” Debbi asked them. “Just finish up and let’s get moving.”

Ace raised Alicia’s back off the ground and began fumbling with her bra hooks in the back.  Her arms hung loosely by her sides, her hands upturned toward the sky.  Alicia’s head hung forward, her chin touching her collarbone.

With his left hand, Damon took hold of her ankles and raised her legs. With his right hand   he pulled her thongs up, past her smooth thighs and her calves and ankles. He fumbled getting the thong past her ankles but he managed.  Alicia did not mind anymore.  Once he got the thong off, he let her legs drop and they plopped on the ground her lets slightly parted.

Unable to control himself, Damon touched her toes, her feet. He found himself dusting the soil off the bottoms of her feet… 

 Meanwhile Ace let go of the bra and it dropped into Alicia’s lap.  Without another word, Debi pulled her arms through the bra straps and tossed the brassiere aside. Ace let the body fall back onto her back with a soft thud sound.

The three sociopaths looked down at Alicia’s body.

Alicia lay on the ground her head turned to the left. Her limp arms by her side and her legs slightly apart.  Her abdomen was flat for the most part but she did have a slight roll of soft skin around the belly button. Below the navel, her dark pubic hair, neatly trimmed but not shaved bare. She bore some very faint stretch marks. Her 32 C cups lay flayed across her chest, the dark brown nipples small and somewhat prominent. Ace had to fight the urge to give the breasts a squeeze. 

            “She’s had a baby,” Debi said, “Probably several years ago…breasts not all that perky.”

            “What’s wrong with her breasts? They look okay to me,” Ace said.

Noticing a ring in her belly button, Debi removed this piece of jewelry as well. 

            What?” Debi asked when she noticed the men staring at her.

            Damon spoke up, “You think she has a … clit ring?”

The car pulled to a stop off the foot trail in the public park. It was nearing 11 PM the time for all automobiles and people to be out of the park.  Police patrols were irregular so they had to move fast.  Ace got out of the car and Debi opened the trunk. Damon got out and with Debi looking out they removed the blanket that Alicia had been wrapped in.  Damon took the body by the ankles and Ace lifted her by the wrists.

Together they carried the body over to a spot with plenty of vegetation and tossed it without ceremony a few feet. Alicia landed with soft plop rolled over and then lay still. The two men got back in the car and Debi drove away. Slowly, not to attract attention.  On the way back to the estate, Debi dropped a plastic baggy filled with stones and Alicia’s jewelry off a bridge into a river…

                                                                        II

Several hours later a pair of joggers came across the nude body of a young woman.  Before long the police had cordoned off the area and were busy looking for pieces of evidence or any purse, clothing or anything to identify the woman.  The ME placed her age at between late twenties and early thirties. He paid special attention to the wound covered in dried blood.  Knife wound? Only a full autopsy would determine the cause of death.  He noted the tan line around her fingers and deduced that robbery must have been the motive.  There were no outward signs of sexual assault but the ME wanted to be sure.

The ME making use of his rectal thermometer could gauge the body temperature.   He made a note of the body temperature. Plastic bags were placed over her hands and taped around her wrists. After about half an hour, the body was placed in a body bag and two police officers placed it on a stretcher and into the hearse. 

At the county morgue Alicia was photographed full frontal and rear. Several photos were taken of her dead peaceful looking face.  They paid special attention to the wound in her back. Taking photos and measuring the length of the wound. An assistant took swabs in and around her anus, genitalia, and mouth.  These samples were placed in tubes, tagged and set aside to be analyzed. The body was weighted and placing a sheet of freezer paper under her, a technician took a fine comb and began combing her pubic hair. All hair and particles collected were placed in a tube and tagged and set aside.  Finally, a fingerprint tech from the sheriff’s department came in and took two sets of fingerprints from the “Jane Doe”.  Another tech took blood samples. The police hoped that with the fingerprints and DNA they would have an ID on who she was and next of kin could then be notified.  After gathering all the evidence, they could think of Alicia was washed, the soil and grass stains washed from her pretty face and body.  Then she was given a toe tag, “Jane Doe” with the date and time the body was discovered and placed in a morgue drawer to await autopsy.

Luckily Alicia was a federal employee and her fingerprints were on file. Once they got a match the “Jane Doe” was believed to be one Alicia Navarro, 32-year-old clerical supervisor at the FBI field office. Next of kin was husband Armando Navarro, 35 a local television news cameraman  and the couple had one 5-year-old daughter…

Alicia had gone to the beach with her cousin and both women had failed to return home.

Mr. Navarro would be contacted to come down and make a positive identification. After that was done later that afternoon, Alicia would be placed in a refrigerated drawer and her autopsy scheduled for 11 AM the next day.

The police now had to list the cousin, Luz Enid Zapata as a missing person and possible murder suspect…