{"id":3150,"date":"2026-01-03T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/autopsy-cornwell-patricia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:09:32","slug":"autopsy-cornwell-patricia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/autopsy-cornwell-patricia\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy – Cornwell, Patricia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/span> FIERY SUNSET BURNS OUT<\/span> along the darkening horizon in Old Town Alexandria at not quite five P.M.<\/span> the Monday after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The wind is kicking up and fitful, the moon shrouded by fog rolling in from the Potomac River. Trees and shrubbery shake and thrash, dead leaves swirling and skittering over the tarmac. Ominous clouds advance like an enemy army, the flags flapping wildly in front of my Northern Virginia headquarters.<\/p>\n

I crouch down by the fireproof file cabinet, entering the combination on the fail-safe push-button lock. Opening the bottom drawer, I lift out the thick accordion folder I\u2019ve been hauling around for many months. I smell the musty oldness of declassified government documents going back to the late 1940s, many heavily redacted and almost illegible.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got much to review before the next meeting of the National Emergency Contingency Coalition, better known as the <\/span>Doomsday Commission, this time at the Pentagon. My White House\u2013appointed responsibilities aren\u2019t for the faint of heart. But they\u2019re not nearly as pressing as what\u2019s right in front of me, and I can\u2019t stop thinking about the murdered woman downstairs in my cooler.<\/p>\n

I envision the slashes to her neck, the bloody stumps left when her hands were severed, and I don\u2019t know who she is. I know virtually nothing about her beyond what her dead body has to say, dumped like trash by railroad tracks on Daingerfield Island, several miles north of here. After spending the entire weekend on her, I\u2019m no further along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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