D & D -DETECTIVE: "NO discount for MURDER!"

D &D -Detective: "NO discount for Murder..."


 ....No-one knows what was going through D & D's mind on the "Day of the Dead (Dia de las Muertes)." He'd seen more than his share: THE DEAD? And his re-remembrance? Stuff of fondness? Unlikely, considering his De-tect KIDS: "Lost & Found" Investigations Business? Or night-mares, less we forget; THE HORROR?... D & D had had his share IN THE ECONOMY SIZE and "discount for Murder" always comes at - personal - inflationary prices. Ask any Coroner... or Cops? Some Cops (Case Detectives) go to their graves with murderer-taped victim's  pleas/screams bouncing 'round their heads?... As for the latest?

MANUEL LABOR, so called 'cos he took his time over freaking out, murdering, then dissecting his KNOWN 80 (Eighty) VICS, South side of San Diego, North side TIJUANA, Mexico, suggestive? PERP must have had a big kitchen? -and was, according to LEW-tenant YOLONZO, a product of "Bad Salsa", bad "Something." -like the thriving worm in a bottle of prized Tequila? -which made NO sense down at City Hall (L.A.), but NOT for Private Dick, D & D (U lose 'em, WE find 'em) Detective Agency.

D & D "nailed da TABASCO" up at PEPE'S TACO GRILLO down on Pico Blvd, the  border of West Hollywood and Santa Monica. (Always a famous TWILIGHT ZONE). It was a NO-BRAINER. Senor PEPE, owner-manager-sadistic pervert was expanding his Taco food Chain and knocking off UN-documented Waitresses, "Illegals", essentially Socially sanctioned Murder-Rape fodder!

D & D got him on a PEPPE'S TACO GRILLO "napkin" tucked inside a VIC's "Intimissi" power bra which Pepe - in frantic butchery? - had failed to observe.  Plus? PEPE'S TACO GRILLO (the one on West Pico) was a KNOWN eatery for Serial Killer/Ghouls-wannabees, having once been featured in a "Slasher" B-movie.

D & D discounted several of the known "regulars"/Usual suspects/wannabee Serial Killers... and took a lonesome look at the Eateries owner who vaguely reminded him of an Hispanic WAYNE GACEY! And sharper than an HABENERO Chilli, Pepe (Manual Labor) "checked-in" when confronted by D & D presenting him with photos of his dead VICS. So enamoured with the Cop's blatant murder photos, he let it slip that HE had a matching pair! Arrogant/Idiot? "AY CARAMBA!" Who knows the ways of Psycho-killers?...

...His later - official - "confession" was extracted by TWO BRUISER Detectives from West Hollyhocks Division down at the LAPD sweat shop from Hell (In SAN PEDRO) where he was given the "legal choice" of "Confess or DIE"?

So D & D, yet again, had scored. But to the Working Folks/Hispanic, largely Illegal Los Angeles community, he would remain largely unknown: A Gabaucho!"Da Kops got dare Manno! And many Padres and Madres breathed a sigh of relief for their little Senoritas.



c 2015/davedelacroix, Nov.