The Landlord of Grace Bontz, 39, led
Detectives Olivia Benson and Fin Tutuola up the stairs to her apartment. Grace
had none been seen for a few days, and a friend had called in her
disappearance, and suggested she could have been rape. When they reached the
door, the Landlord knocked on it.
"Ms. Bontz," he said. "Ms.
Bontz, are you in there? I have two detectives here who would like to speak
with you."
When no response came, Tutuola butted in.
"Open it up," he barked.
The Landlord nodded, took out his keys and
unlocked the door for them. Benson and Tutuola entered the apartment, drawing
out their guns. They separated and began searching rooms. Each room their
searched was clear until Olivia entered the bedroom.
"Fin!" she called. "I've got
something!"
Tutuola raced into the room with his gun
pointing at the bed. Lying in a pool of blood was the body of Grace Bontz. She
was completely naked except for a towel which covered her face.
"Looks like she was raped,"
Benson said before radioing the M.E., and CSU to come deal with the crime
scene. After radioing them, Benson sat down on a chair in the living room,
putting her head on her hands, seeming like she was going to breakdown. Fin
came out from the bedroom and walked over to her.
"Liv, you okay?" he asked,
putting a hand on her shoulder.
"This job just gets harder and harder
without Elliot," she replied. "I'm fine though."
Within fifteen minutes, CSU and Medical
Examiner (ME) Dr. Melinda Warner had arrived on the scene. Warner had a look at
the victim while members of CSU looked around the crime scene for forensic
clues.
"Looks like your victim was raped
pre-mortem," Warner concluded to Benson and Tutuola.
"Cause of death?" asked Fin.
"Manual strangulation," Warner
replied. "Thing is, there's something unusual about how she was
killed."
"How so?" Olivia asked.
"It looks like two people were
involved."
"How do you get that based off the
strangulation?" Fin asked, flabbergasted.
"There's obvious marks on her neck
where she was strangled, but there's also some marks on her chest to suggest
she was held down from behind while she was strangled. I'll know for sure after
a do a full body exam."
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By the next day, Olivia and Fin had questioned
Grace's father, brother, uncle and boyfriend and had cleared them all as
suspects. None of them believed anyone had any reason to attack Grace, so the
detectives were left with very little to go on. However, Warner called Olivia
and told her she had found some things out about the victim. They drove to the
ME's office and met with Warner.
"Like I said yesterday, there was a
good chance there were two perps," Warner said.
"And?" Fin said.
"And it looks like I was right,"
Warner continued, walking over to the body of Grace and showing parts of her
body. "See the bruising on her back and chest? It suggests to me she was
held down by one of your perps while the other raped her. She suffered too
before she died."
"How so?" asked Olivia.
"She was raped at least three
different times. I found sperm in her throat, anus and vagina."
"Bastard raped her every way he
could," Olivia said, clearly disgusted. Suddenly, her phone rang and she
turned to answer it. "Benson," she answered while Fin continued
talking to Warner.
"Do you have a time of death?" he
asked.
"Based on body temperature, I estimate
about twenty-four hours ago. She was possibly dead about four hours when you
found her."
"Thanks, call us if you find anything
else," Fin said.
Warner nodded and covered Grace's body
again while Fin turned back to Olivia, who had a grave look on her face.
"What's up?" he asked.
"That was Munch. There's been another
attack. We got two more victims to deal with."
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