A Kiss Before Strangling: Death Returns: A Kiss Before Strangling, #2

By Douglas Sandler

Detective Peter Younger is back. Now a Lieutenant he again has to deal with a serial killer two years after he thought he was through with them. Once again Tillman, Nebraska is turned into a slaughter house and he's the only one who can stop it, he hopes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: douglas sandler
• Release date: Sep 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781548035372

Douglas Sandler

Douglas Sandler (b. 4/13/67-) Born in Brooklyn, NY I am the author of 9 indie books.I Graduated from Gulf Coast Community College with an A.A. History in May 2010 and an A.A.S. in Paralegal studies from Gulf Coast State College (former Gulf Coast Community College) in May 2012. I graduated from Florida State University Panama City, Florida with a B.S. History/Political science 2017 and finally a Master's degree from Purdue Global in 2021.

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my goddess Hecate and goddesses Diana also ISIS who have helped me greatly and to my two guardian angels.

I also dedicate this book to the readers who purchased my 1st book in this series A Kiss before Strangling; I hope you will enjoy book two. I also dedicate this book to my parents and my college professors at Florida State at Panama City, Florida and Gulf State College Panama City, Florida. I also dedicate this book to the Webster’s Dictionary, yes an actual paperback, Dictionary that helped better than spell check.

THIS is the 2018 re-edited re-release

Douglas Sandler Panama City, Florida

June 11, 2017

Chapter One

It was a cold night in Tillman, Nebraska as Detective Lieutenant Peter Younger’s mind wandered as he drove the unmarked car down Main Street. Incredible it’s been 2 ½ years since Sally was killed, 2 ½ years since we got the killer, and I still miss her as he passed her former rooming house on Seventy-eighth Street. Lieutenant Younger loved the fact that he was promoted as the extra $100 a month would help. He thought on how the lipstick Strangler case, finally caused the city and county governments to separate. Chief Carter and Sheriff Davids still hated each with a passion.

Sergeant Jim Houser a two-year veteran sat in the car beside Younger; it’s cold as shit here he thought. As they drove down Main Street, he turned to Younger, Peter? Peter?

Oh, sorry Jim. I was thinking to myself.

What were you thinking about Peter?

I was thinking about Sally Painter, two years ago she was murdered, we got the bastard who killed her, I shot the fucker dead myself, but I still miss her. I make $475 a month $50 more; we could have rented the house we wanted.

Don’t beat yourself up Peter; there was nothing you could do.

I know Jim, I... before Younger could finish the dispatcher called Detective 3, Detective 3 come in.

Houser picked up the mike and responded Detective 3 here.

Go to the corner of Eighteenth Street and Sixty-fifth Avenue, report of a body on the street.

Detective 3 Rodger, Sergeant Houser replied as Younger hit the emergency lights.

As Younger and Houser drove up to the crowd at Eighteenth and Sixty-fifth Street, they saw Patrolman Bill Danvers and the body of a young woman on the sidewalk outside Bill’s Pool Hall. Detective Lieutenant Younger got out of the car and asked Danvers what happened?

I was flagged down by that couple by the telephone pole. Danvers said while pointing to a man and a woman both in their mid-twenties. they then pointed to the body and I called it in.

Did you call the crime technician and photographer?

Yes. I called them after I called dispatch from the call box,.

Did someone call the coroner?

I was about to when you pulled up, He then went to the phone in the pool hall and called the coroner. The coroner arrived fifteen minutes later.

Lieutenant Younger rolled the body over after the police photographer took a set of pictures. When she was on her back a cold chill ran through Lieutenant Younger, she looked like Sally but wasn’t she did show signs of strangulation but no smeared lipstick. He shuddered again, and not from the cold. One of the ambulance attendants was waiting while the coroner finished up.

Hello Coroner Wilson, cold morning? Younger addressed the coroner.

Yes, too damn cold! The coroner snapped. Lieutenant Younger sat in the car filling out the report while shaking his head at the comment.

Younger looked at her driver’s license and thought just like Sally and still had a cold feeling in his soul about the bruises around her neck. He finished the report and went back to ask the coroner what killed her. Coroner Watson replies, Without me doing a full autopsy, I would have to say manual strangulation. Let me post her, and I will be able to give a better report. The ambulance attendants loaded her up and took her to the Stiller Mortuary. The city has contracts with the three funeral homes each home gets a body on a rotating basis.

The call to police headquarters was received by Officer Charles Lee at 01 30 hours May 13, 1956, about a murder at Ninety-seven Rose Lane; Apartment B. Officer Lee keyed the radio, Detective Unit 2, Detective unit 2 come in.

Soon the speaker squawked, Detective 2 here.

Dead body reported at Ninety-seven Rose Lane, Apartment B crime photographer en-route.

As Detective 2 responds Rodger Officer Lee writes it in the police daily log.

As the police vehicle speeds to the address, Detective Dan Hamilton asks his partner, Sergeant Robert Smith, what he plans to do this weekend. I am taking Mary to Omaha to visit her parents. As they pull up to Ninety-seven Rose Lane, they see the crime photographer standing beside a uniform officer.

What do we have Billings? Detective Hamilton asks the big Thirty-year veteran. The uniform officer writes their names and badge number and time in the patrol log.

We have a woman dead inside it looks like manual strangulation, but we’ll have to wait for the coroner.

Detective Hamilton turns to the ambulance attendant and asks, Why were you called to a homicide?

We got a call for a woman down, and when we arrived, we could tell she was dead. We checked her vital signs and called it in.

Detective Younger arrived and says, What do we got Dan?

"Hi Peter, we have a woman identified as Margret Spanner, age 35 works or was a clerk at Samuel’s Food World.

Younger asks the coroner to help roll her over as they roll her over on her back, Younger freezes and shudders. Detective Hamilton notices and asks, What’s wrong Peter?

Younger responds in a shaking voice, I know her. She was Sally Painters best friend.

Sally Painter, Detective Younger’s fiancé,