“Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength”5. Morris Kotite, Albuquerque Police Department, homicideHM, DOB9-14-56, DOD 9-24-94Weapon: service, S&W 38Two shots, one impact-HeadPOD: residence. No witnessPoe quote: “Haunted by ill angels”6. Sean McEvoy, Denver Police Department, homicideWM, DOB 5-21-61, DOD 2-10-95Weapon: service, S&W 38One shot-HeadPOD: car. No witnessPoe quote: “Out of space out of time”Jack McEvoy and the FBI composed a theory as to why the killer was doing what he was doing. They thought the offender committed the first homicide in order to draw a homicide detective in the frame. The first kill was used as bait, presented in such a fashion as to attract a homicide detective’s obsession allowing the killer to set up the suicide scenario. As McEvoy and the FBI traveled to Denver to look at the most recent crime scene, they received a call from Quantico. The call stated that the field office in Phoenix responded to the alert they had posted about The Poet. The information was about a Phoenix detective’s alleged suicide, who had been working on a case regarding the abduction and murder of an eight-year-old boy. The boy who they knew as Little Joaquin, was abducted one-month prior and the only thing the police found was his head. The plane they were in diverted to Phoenix to take a look at the detective’s body before the funeral service. With very little information to go on the agents and McEvoy received the brief from the Phoenix PD detective in charge. Of course the crime scene was disguised to look like a suicide, but there were a few factors from the crime scene that did not fit. The first was the fact that William Orsulak had been coming to the office for twenty years with his hair parted on the left and when they found him his part was on the right, left suspicion among the investigating detectives. Also, they checked the victim’s mouth for GSR an...
