Collateral Damage: The Case of the 3 Dead Neighbors

About this book“…saddled with 3 homicides in 3 weeks MarshalBailey is running out of options when the killerhimself finds out that he is marked for death aswell; which opens the door for the entire NYPDsystem of justice to come under question…”This 52 day multiple homicide investigation beginswhen the body of a young woman is found shotdead lying in the middle of the hallway to herapartment. The shot is initially determined tohave come from someone standing in front of her.With in days a second homicide is discoveredwithin 100 feet of the young woman by aneighboring precinct. Her apartment buildings andthe second crime scene are literally next door toeach other adjoined by a ground floor bodegawhose landlord has an easement to join the alleybetween the two buildings. Surprisingly a secondcanvassing of the young woman’s neighborsresults in the discovery of a third body on the roofof that same bodega.Now we have three bodies and two investigationsrunning in two different jurisdictions. When thethird body is finally discovered and linked to thesame gun Marshal Bailey is brought in.The target of the initial murder was a black mailerwho had hard evidence about a multi-milliondollar court case fixing ring run by a major lawfirm and was bleeding the culprits dry.