The Twelfth Card

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    AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM SCENE
    • Rape pack:
      • Tarot card, twelfth card in deck, The Hanged Man, meaning spiritual searching.
      • Smiley-face bag.
        • Too generic to trace.
      • Box cutter.
      • Trojan condoms.
      • Duct tape.
      • Jasmine scent.
      • Unknown item bought for $5.95. Probably a stocking cap.
      • Receipt, indicating store was in New York City, discount variety store or drugstore.
      • Most likely purchased in a store on Mulberry Street, Little Italy. Unsub identified by clerk.
    • Fingerprints:
      • Unsub wore latex or vinyl gloves.
      • Prints on items in rape pack belonged to person with small hands, no IAFIS hits. Positive ID for clerk’s.
    • Trace:
      • Cotton-rope fibers, some with traces of human blood. Garrotte?
      • Sent to CODIS.
        • No DNA match in CODIS.
      • Popcorn and cotton candy with traces of canine urine.
    • Weapons:
      • Billy club or martial arts weapon.
      • Pistol is a North American Arms .22 rimfire magnum, Black Widow or Mini-Master.
      • Makes own bullets, bored-out slugs filled with needles. No match in IBIS or DRUGFIRE.
    • Motive:
      • G. Settle was a witness to a crime in the planning—at the American Jewelry Exchange across the street from the African-American museum.
    • Profile of incident sent to VICAP and NCIC.
      • Murder in Amarillo, TX, five years ago. Similar M.O.—staged crime scene (apparently ritual killing, but real motive unknown).
        • Victim was a retired prison guard.
        • Composite picture sent to Texas prison.
          • Identified as Thompson G. Boyd, executions control officer.
        • Murder in Ohio, three years ago. Similar M.O.—staged crime scene (apparently sexual assault, but real motive probably hired killing). Files missing.
    PROFILE OF UNSUB 109
    • Determined to be Thompson G. Boyd, former executions control officer, from Amarillo, TX.
    • Presently in custody.
    PROFILE OF PERSON HIRING UNSUB 109
    • No information at this time.
    PROFILE OF UNSUB 109’S ACCOMPLICE
    • Black male.
    • Late 30’s, early 40’s.
    • Six feet.
    • Solidly built.
    • Wearing green combat jacket.
    • Ex-convict.
    • Has a limp.
    • Reportedly armed.
    • Clean-shaven.
    • Black do-rag.
    • Awaiting additional witnesses and security tapes.
      • Tape inconclusive, sent to lab for analysis.
    • Old work shoes.
    PROFILE OF CHARLES SINGLETON
    • Former slave, ancestor of G. Settle. Married, one son. Given orchard in New York state by master. Worked as teacher, as well. Instrumental in early civil rights movement.
    • Charles allegedly committed theft in 1868, the subject of the article in stolen microfiche.
    • Reportedly had a secret that could bear on case. Worried that tragedy would result if his secret was revealed.
    • Attended meetings in Gallows Heights neighborhood of New York.
      • Involved in some risky activities?
    • Worked with Frederick Douglass and others in getting the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.
    • The crime, as reported in Coloreds’ Weekly Illustrated :
      • Charles arrested by Det. William Simms for stealing large sum from Freedmen’s Trust in NY. Broke into the trust’s safe, witnesses saw him leave shortly after. His tools were found nearby. Most money was recovered. He was sentenced to five years in prison. No information about him after sentencing. Believed to have used his connections with early civil rights leaders to gain access to the trust.
    • Charles’s Correspondence:
      • Letter 1, to wife: Re: Draft Riots in 1863, great anti-black sentiment throughout NY State, lynchings, arson. Risk to property owned by blacks.
      • Letter 2, to wife: Charles at Battle of Appomattox at end of Civil War.
      • Letter 3, to wife: Involved in civil rights movement. Threatened for this work. Troubled by his secret.
      • Letter 4, to wife: Went to Potters’ Field with his gun for “justice.” Results were disastrous. The truth is now hidden in Potters’ Field. His secret was what caused all this heartache.

Chapter Thirty-Four
    Minus the shopping cart, Jax was playing homeless again.
    He wasn’t being schizo at the moment, like before. The Graffiti King was fronting he was your typical fired-ass former vet, feeling sorry for himself, begging for change, a shabby Mets cap upturned on the gum-stained