Chase glanced at Alix as she cursed, saying pretty much the exact same thing he was thinking. First day on the job and he was put on the case of a double homicide… maybe even a serial killer if this psychopath was still on the loose. It was a lot to take in. His dark eyes flicked back to the cadaver as a grimace made its way onto his face. Well, in a way, this was what he’d asked for. Even though this felt more like a nosedive than a splash in the shallow end, he was going to get the experience he needed to be a good detective.

He was definitely going to need a drink later.

As Alix evaluated that the killer might have tried to preserve the bodies, Chase felt nearly sick. Who the hell would poison someone and then salt them like fresh meat? It sounded like the plot of a horror flick. However, with the disgust also came a sense of determination. Whoever was doing this needed to be stopped, and it was now his job to help bring them down. He had to do everything he could to solve the case before they took any more lives.

“Yeah,” he murmured when Alix said they should go to the dockyard. Looking up from the body, he frowned. “I want to know more about the victims too… who they were; if they had any common connections to each other. There’s gotta be something here.”

With a sigh, he turned away from the cadaver to head back out of the lab with her. “I hope the rain cleared up,” he mused a bit absently, still chewing on the prospect that there was another serial killer in New York. “The way it was coming down earlier, it might be hard to find anything outside.”