"The post mortem indicates that she was bitten in the neck, sir. But there are other places as well. Looks like who ever did this had a nibbles party!"

He watches as the examination is happening, the body torn in many areas. The blood now cleaned up for closer investigation. Her chest cut open to examine her innards

"This one is worse that the last one, sir, she also suffered from a blow to the head by an unknown object but looks like it's a narrow long staff of sorts... but this was done after the actual death. From looking at it, it looks like this blow may have come at least four hours from the original death, which I have discovered to be about 72 hours, sir."

The woman removed with a pair of teasers the evidence of small wooden shards. The light directed into the skull, also shining through the eyes of this once beautiful model. He walks closer to her and inspects the torn body who once was once a well- known model in South Beach.

"So what do you think, sir? So far it looks like this body been dead for over 72 hours. The crew found no trace of her blood at the scene, only fragments of dry blood and a bit of her brain matter around the area. There were signs of a struggle; it's not her blood on the pier at all. It's an unknown victim. They have not found a body as of yet, they are sweeping the waters now -- unless the body floated down stream..."

He stood near the body for a little while. He put gloves on and as doing so he scanned the body; he looked at her feet and noticed dirt on the soles and around, like she'd been walking in mud.

"Looks like she'd been walking a while. We have to find out where this is from" - he says, as he pulls a flower thorn deep in the skin by the tweezers.

He continues to look the body over and as he is doing this, the investigator gasps in astonishment.

"Look over here, sir" - in the model's throat she pulls out a small package. The woman now intrigued takes her tools of the trade and slowly opens it. Inside a small root of an unknown plant and also a small stone.

Both of them look at this in wonder. They set the objects aside and continue to look. Laredo steps back and looks at the body again. He thinks that this is getting stranger and stranger by the minute. Looks like voodoo to him but he does not want to go down that path again. Not this time.

"I am going to head back to the scene on the pier, see if there is anything else that we can find. Keep going and let me know if you find anything else that can be useful. By the way, have the family been contact yet?"

"Yes sir, Morelas has already done that; the family will be taking a plane as soon as possible to I.D the girl. Sir, I have a question before you leave"

"What's that?"

"Sir, looking at her, she is the same type of attack as the other girl, but there seems to be less care in this one, more like a pack of wild dogs... Then there is the blow to the head that I just can't explain right now. But to me it looks like she was walking after being ripped up. The signs are all here, by her feet, her legs show the blood in her body sank to her feet because of the gravitational pull; unless she was hanging but there again there are no signs at all of that on her body, not one. I guess what I am trying to get at is that this is weird stuff"

He lowers his head for a moment. Knowing what she was hinting at, what she is suggesting but that time is long gone; that time was put to rest many years ago when his father was an investigator... He made sure with his last dying breath that this could never happen again. There can't be anyone else who knows this magick, his father ensured of that. He unfortunately will have to start digging in his father's notebook.

"Keep digging hun, and I will keep doing the same, we have to get to the bottom of this."