Within the inner sanctum of Area Four Violent Crimes, the City News reporter slouched at a battered desk. The office was experiencing the gloomy lull that is characteristic of the third watch, a lull that was disrupted only by muffled blows and stifled yells from within interrogation room F: the sound of an offender being put in shape to meet the assistant state’s attorney.
The reporter cleared the line and put in a call to the watch commander of the Tenth District.
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The sergeant’s voice could be heard in general reverberation throughout the precinct house: “HEY, ANY OF YOU GUYS KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A FETUS FOUND ON WENTWORTH?”
The officers did not know anything about a fetus on South Wentworth.
The reporter asked the nursing supervisor about the fetus.
“No story–well, it’s a little unusual, but–nothing really. The baby was born dead.”
“I don’t even know your name.”
