Ritual Killer

The entrance to the St. Anthony Cathedral was crowded with people. Reporters, onlookers and police. Nestled in the heart of Rail Port, a crime made ​​Logan Springwood call Detective Daniel Herrera urgently. A policeman waited the guy and opened the way for Dito could enter the church and walk to the back of the archdiocese.

- Do you believe in God, detective? - Asked the policeman. Daniel made ​​the sign of the cross when they entered the huge cathedral.

- Yes Since I know as a person I was taught that faith is comforting.

- So prepare your faith, because what you will see here, it not seems the Lord's work.

They walked across the hall, passed the Episcopal secretary and went in the gardens of the archdiocese. When they reached the curia, followed right into the garage. The police waited for the detective. Logan looked at Daniel and the detective viewed the crime scene in disbelief. A man nailed to a cross. Both object and man, were upside down. The victim was naked and chest letters and numbers. Blood seeped through the floor and the smell of rotting flesh and urine completed the demonic environment.

- Don't worry, son. It is not a cross! - Who referred to the detective was the bishop responsible for the curia.

- What happened here? Already determined the facts? - Daniel questioned Logan.

- We do. Come with me! We'll talk within the curia!

"The victim is Liceu Caranovinco, owner of three docks in the southern district of Greencliff. The information we get is that Caranovinco was an anti-Christian sect, as well as his wife Tamara Caranovinco. Man is not nailed to a cross, but in a box in which was kept the Cross of St. Raphael. It was made of bronze and adorned with gold and sapphire stones, and was at the top of the Cathedral. Two days ago, she was removed to be taken to Bangor and receive restoration. So, the cross was stolen. It's clear that whoever committed the crime was one of the sect. We are looking for the sect leader, Arthur Depree. Another suspect is Homer Wellington, responsible for the company that made the removal and that would transport the object. Both were not found until now. The body has been there for about five hours. Who found was the bishop of the Curia, Don Evangelino Papolle. quickly called the police department. How do we solve this case, Daniel? guess that will be a long time until we find the culprit!"

The case left Daniel extremely uncomfortable. Who would put someone like that inside a cathedral? Daniel looked back at the body one last time. "Rev. 20-7".

- Do you know what those letters in the middle of the body? - Asked Logan

- It is a verse. "But when the thousand years, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," something subtle and fearful. It is the release of Lucifer before doomsday. This gives us a clue that the killer knew the Bible. Come behind Arthur Depree.

For the first time, Logan and Daniel were working together on a case. Daniel would have much greater access to the benefits that the police had. It was ten o'clock when they reached the mansion Depree. The man was known for what I did in the whole country. A satanic cult strong with few apparent faithful, but very rich. The place was strange to Daniel: black and red. It seemed that the blood oozed from the walls and the scenery looked scary movies. Depree was tall and personable. Really, was charismatic and well educated. Invited to sit and poured them glasses of iced tea.

- So, officers. May I know why you are here this time of night?

Logan showed a photo of Caranovinco and Depree nodded, acknowledging that knew him. Then the police showed a photo of the victim in his last moments. Arthur Depree not outlined any sign of panic.

- It's a pity. Liceu was a great priest, very faithful.

- Do you know anything about the Cross of St. Raphael? - Logan questioned.

- Only what is in the newspapers. Would be taken to restore a few days.

Daniel did not pay attention to the conversation. Was analyzing the house and the furniture. Everything was expensive, it was all symbols: the inverted pentagram glass over the fireplace, Baphomet within the hall and the verse found in the victim's body, framed, written in Italian, in the face of very old paper. The detective watched. Depree approached.

- Dou you knew Baphmet was the Templars god? They say he can reveal the "treasures of life." It believer in something, Detective?

- My faith says that thing with goat's head loses for an angel in the end, sir Depree. - Daniel replied firmly.

Depree laughed adorable. Logan and Daniel left. Both commented on the writings of the box, but not proved anything yet. They needed more than a little verse. Weapon. Reason.

By the radio, Logan was warned that a unit was in the Caranovinco's house and that they should follow to there. The trip lasted five minutes. The house was large and also had some objects of cult. "Baphomet again!", Daniel thought. Tamara Caranovinco was a beautiful brunette with black eyes, curly hair and high. She had on a cop in the room talking and being comforted. Logan went over to the woman. Daniel decided to stare at the house. The detective had to recognize the symbols. On your Iphone, researching for serving each. Rituals, books, gods, demons. Were pagan worshipers, but also citizens. Then he stopped before a mobile containing on its surface a velvet case with a hammer and thirteen voids.

- Mrs. Caranovinco, what are these gaps?

Tamara approached Daniel. The woman exuded a strong and rugged perfume to the nostrils.

- Are the nails thirteen of Mount Cenis.

- Collector's item?

- Symbol of the Carthage crucifixions.

The woman could kill her own husband? It didn't make sense. The size would not suit a lot and were not the size that shove fists in a man. Logan couldn't take anything. Left and went to the police station.

A morning spent with the findings of the two detectives. It was a strange crime. No one was beating the evidence. The nails were not the size of the voids of the case, the hammer was missing, as well as the cross and had the picture of the verse as a distant track. It was time to search for Homer Wellington. The police were all behind the man since the beginning of the investigation. He was the possible suspect with some ass arrested. Early in the morning, Logan arrives with two stories.

- One good and one bad, what do you want first?

- The good!

Logan brought a picture of the body of Homer Wellington in a pavilion in the Bridge I district, beheaded amid rats. The man's car had been found on the docks of Greencliff. The bad news was that the bishop Evangelino Papolle was ultra-conservative. So, if it were possible to punish with death the anti-Christian. Both followed the good news. Went to pier 27 on Ocean Docks district on the Greencliff Island.

Police closed the place in the early morning. Logan and Daniel opened deposits. The spot only kept two things: a bag of nails of great length and a black book called "The Ancient Rituals" of Arthur Depree. It still didn't make sense. It was time to look at what they had and to get some sleep. Logan and Daniel had gone home too. The detective took the book with him to his small apartment and slept for six hours. Throughout the day, woke up, made ​​coffee and was looking at the book. The work of Depree brought many pagan rituals that explained how to gain power, admiration and salvation. "What a deplorable!", Dito thought every line he read. So, Logan called.

- The boys found a clue. Liceu Caranovinco had a terminal illness! The outlook for his brain tumor was three months. This helps a bit?

- It may come in handy with the beautiful work I'm reading.

SALVATION! Needed to find a ritual salvation of body, soul or anything like that. And found.

Daniel and Logan met Arthur Depree and Tamara Caranovinco along with Bishop Evangelino Papolle at the department. Daniel picked up the Depree's book and read aloud.

- "The Salvation of the Soul to Eden - Thief's blood with offering flesh into the consecrated-reverse cross address so that body be taken to the blessed paradise. For sacred words of other-salvation and freedom, enough the verse that the voice of the merciful angel bring to the divine gates the sacrifice made."

Everyone looked at each other. The bishop did not understand, Depree smiled and Depree turned pale.

"On the day that the Cross of St. Raphael was withdrawal to the top of the St. Anthony Cathedral, Homer Wellington stole the cross, leaving the box in which the object had been in the back of the curia. Liceu had read this ritual saying. offering flesh into the consecrated-reverse cross address'. He interpreted as the box of the cross into the soil of the Cathedral. With little time left and due to their belief, decided to perform the ritual of Arthur Depree for your soul to be Paradise, fearing Hell. Paid Homer to steal the sacred object and then killed him by taking his blood, so would the 'thief's blood'. Placed in the box and nailed, spread the blood on the cross and was put only the location of the biblical verse in your body, where it reveals 'enough the verse.' who could do this? Tamara Caranovinco was the one who would agree to save her husband the way it was. Picked up the hammer in her living room and bought higher nails because the collectibles were too small. Crying, preached her husband in the expectation that was right. Where is the Cross of St. Raphael? Never got out of Wellington' car standing on the dock 27."

Tamara handcuffed and taken away. The bishop heard everything and left. Logan stared at Arthur.

- How can you lie to these people?

- Faith is believing in something that cannot be proven. Just as the Christian God, my God expects the same of me.