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announcer’s voice he had been using to recite the previous information.
    “I knew I was forgetting something when I was looking at that guy’s sheet. The wife actually came in to identify the body last night. I talked to her for a second, she didn’t look like she had any recent marks on her but I caught a glimpse of her kid in the car. He looked pretty bad off. His eye was swole shut. He never got out of the car, so I couldn’t tell how bad it was. The wife ran off as soon as she saw me looking at him. To o bad about that guy, he’s a real loss to the community,” he added with cutting sarcasm. Sofia’s eyebrows rose quizzically at this new information. “Sorry, Sofe. I meant to mention that to you sooner,” Bishop added, staring blankly into the distance as he remembered the boys’ face. As tough a cop as he was, Bishop was as soft as butter when it came to children.
    “Seems pretty clear that the guys in this group see themselves as some sort of vigilantes.” Sofia muttered, not realizing that she had spoken loudly enough to shake Bishop from his trance.
    “Honestly, I don’t really see the point in looking for them. I say we let ‘em keep going and see how much of the scum they can clean up before they take on someone they can’t handle.” He joked openly, getting a few laughs out of the surrounding officers. Bishop’s comment was just enough to set Sofia off.
    “How did I know you would say something like that?” She added angrily, enraged at Bishop’s callous attitude. “We’ve had this discussion, Bishop. I don’t think that’s funny! Accused does not mean guilty. While we believe that the guy is probably guilty, a jury of his peers did not prove him guilty. We don’t get to be their executioners; that’s not how our system works. That doesn’t even begin to take into account what they are doing to these bodies. You’ve seen what they’re doing to these people and you know how deranged they would have to be to do such things!”
    She was shouting in an effort to let everyone around her know that Bishop’s opinion was completely out of line, and that it was equally wrong for any officer on the force to find amusing.
    Bishop began fanning his hands at her in an attempt to calm her as she was drawing the attention of everyone, including a few of the nearby journalists.
    “No need to jump on your soapbox, honey. I’m just saying that they’re getting results where we aren’t. Some of these guys are just slippin’ through the system and we can’t do anything about it. I’m not sayin’ that they’re right, I’m just sayin’ they’re effective.” Sofia wasn’t surprised at Bishops backpedalling given the presence of the media. He knew that anything they picked up on might get put into print and that would cause him a world of trouble.
    Bishop paused momentarily as Sofia calmed down. Taking a look around at the bodies he slipped a pinch of snuff into his lip; wiping the remnants away from his face before continuing, “As far as what’s going on with the bodies, yeah, that’s a pretty sick little twist.” He looked around with a rather disgusted look on his face as he surveyed the grotesque scene.
    They continued to work the site, looking for some clue to lead them in any direction. This site was just like the others in that there were ample amounts of blood and DNA from the victims, but nothing useable from the killers. As was the case with the other attacks, the muscles appeared to have been ripped from the bone. Sofia could see that the remains were not uniform and didn’t show signs cutting, so any sort of knife or other utensil seemed unlikely. Each time they looked over one of these scenes they always came to the same conclusion; the attackers had to be using their teeth to strip the meat away, which should have left at least trace amounts of saliva behind, but hadn’t. The fact that none was found on any of the bodies had led Sofia and Bishop to wonder what the method