[Another day, another murder - so it seems. But while the story doesn't show up until the following night's 5 o' clock news, the time of death was only a few hours after the discovery of last night's corpse in the abandoned department store.
It also isn't immediately tied to the first death. The body isn't desiccated, neatly sucked dry. It was torn apart, as if mauled by a wild animal. Bits of the corpse are scattered haphazardly throughout the alleyway where the murder took place, back behind an empty lot a half mile from the store.
The victim is a young man identified as a Carlos Perreira, 22, who worked as a clerk in the bank around the corner. He lived at home with his parents, who are caught by news cameras railing against whoever or whatever killed their son.
There is unease at the second death, but no panic. It isn't as if murder is a shock in Gotham, even strange murder. And this death was outside, with no desiccation of the corpse and plenty of fresh blood at the scene. It can't be the same killer, or the same animal, which now seems the more likely culprit. It's all just a terrible, tragic series of events, with no connections between them and no witnesses to either. Animal control is put on high alert, and throughout the night, forensics cover the scene. In the dawn hours, the cleaners spray the blood from the sidewalk, and that, it seems is that.]
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