The Twenty Third Precinct

The place, the Twenty Third Precinct, Brooklyn, Vice. Detective Rodney Townsend, The time, four thirty a.m. Report of incident, death of one John Doe. Ally on the fourteen hundred block, Forth street. The deceased IE; perp is a white male, approximately thirty five years old with lots of tattoos, some of them are kind of indistinguishable. Hair, black, Mustache, black...Lots of rings. The victim, person attacked, Maria Wiegold, tagged for prostitution seventeen times in the past five years, was apparently in the process of being beaten and strangled in said ally. She said the perp had a knife, the Homicide boys said it was a flensing knife, I had to look that up. Flensing knife, I'll have to remember that. The perp was struck down before he could kill her. Is this the Ripper? I think we got us a live one here, in a manner of speaking. Maybe the killings will stop now, by the Grace of God! " Yo, Brick"! " What do ya want Mikey, I'm kinda busy here. " I done some checking with the ME, and your ice berg aint the Rip" He's the broads Pimp, name's Gino Rondo" " arm long rap sheet, attempted murder more assaults than I can count" " Your lucky you can count to ten Mikey, and that's with your shoes off" "Awe Brick, cut it out, will ya"! " Cheese Whiz, Mikey, I thought we had this one in the bag" " You always was a hard luck story Brick" Yeah, yeah, I'm goin down to the Morgue, check on our stiff. " William thirty Baker, central, show me 10-9 at central morgue, I'll be on portable if you need me" " Central, William thirty Baker, will do Brick". Yeah.... " Hullo Doc"! " Hello Brick"! " I'm here for the skinny on my stiff" " You mean MY stiff, don't you"? " Well....the Skinny as you call it, is, One cut, powerful, downward thrust, begins at the breastbone and ends at the groin" " Very precise, almost surgical, except"! " Except what Doc?" " I don't know any surgeons that use a sword to cut into people" " You sure Doc?" " Quite sure Brick, I've seen something like this before, in Japan...If I miss my guess, this was done with a Japanese Katana". Samurai !!!