Re: Alley Pond Park, Queens: Cerise & Clem & Cris
Forensics will be able to tell you that. [Sure enough, Forensics and the coroner would be able to tell the cause of death, though Clem had been to enough scenes where the victim was still holding on to have her own opinion on things. Just came normal when you spent your days dragging folks out of flaming places.] Think she died from this burning. Carboxyhemoglobin will tell for sure. Think you got enough left for it.
She looked at Cris curious when he mentioned Penny, all them pieces falling into place, and she reckoned maybe she understood better why Penny was all in love with this man. Wasn't the type she expected for Penny, but wasn't surprising for a strong woman to go for a man that was strong too, and no doubt this one wasn't letting himself get bossed.
She nodded, and then it was back to business, after acknowledging with a grin that said her opinion was all kinds of set now.] Five hundred to a thousand degrees over a few hours. Wasn't trying to cremate. He would have got there if he kept on going, even without the heat he needed. He had enough going to get there with long enough time, but he took her out while she was still intact. [Like Homicide, Clem thought this felt like something a man would do. A woman, she'd burn the damn girl the whole way down to nothing.] Dump was real deliberate. Public, out here in the open. [She agreed on that, too.] Tiny slip of a thing, and the accelerant location, that's real telling. Look close, and she burns inside out. Might have put something inside her to get it going. [And that was why SVU was here. Course, coroner would need to go confirming that too. Again, Clem hoped she was wrong as could be.]
We ain't gotten any calls like this recent, but I'll keep an eye out. Let y'all know if anything else fitting comes in.