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__Chapter 1__
 * At FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is the main character, and is from Richmond
 * Emily Steiner (11) October 1st diary: She likes Wren. He gave her a fireball. She is supposed to meet him early and not tell anyone.
 * She left walking at 6 PM to go home (in Black Mountain, NC)
 * They all think it was Gault, a killer in Richmond. But this seems an odd place for him to do it
 * Pete Marino- experienced homicide detective in Richmond. Involved with Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. He is convinced that Gault killed Emily Steiner. Dr. Scarpetta is upset that him and everyone else is assuming it was Gault
 * Her niece is Lucy. She is at UVA and interning at FBI Academy
 * Max Ferguson- State Bureau of Investigation in Asheville.
 * Lietenane Hershal Mote- Black Mountain Police
 * Benton Wesley- Unit Chief
 * Steiner was found on the morning of October 7th. Only had on a robe/gown and underwear. She was sexually assaulted and there was missing flesh on her inner thighs, upper chest, and shoulder. Died from a small caliber-gunshot wound to back of head.
 * She should be in worse shape if she has been dead six days in the pictures
 * Thinking she was killed somewhere else
 * Dr. James Jenrette did the autopsy
 * She was kidnapped at two in the morning

__Chapter 2__
 * Kay thinks Emily's body could have been refrigerated. He skin was doughy and dry and she was well preserved. Not infested by anything
 * Lucy is working on using Pc's to develop CAIN, the Crime Artificial Intelligence Network. It is designed to track violent criminals all over the world. It is supposed to be an "automated system that models the real world as much as possible." "Supposed to think and act the way we do." The program will store all information and can be searched
 * Carrie Gretchen works with Lucy. Kay doesn't like her.

__Chapter 3__
 * 6:29 PM- call from Lieutenant Hershel Mote that SBI Agent Max Ferguson is dead.
 * Mote cut him down, but Kay says to not let anybody do anything else to the scene
 * Mote's chest has been hurting since he found Ferguson. He's never had this kind of pain before. Kay wants him to call an ambulance for himself, but he doesn't.
 * They are all immediately going to the scene (Kay, Wesley, Marino). Ferguson was from Black Mountain also (which is why he was part of the case)
 * Wesley wants Dr. Katz (a forensic scientist colleague of Kay's from They Body Farm in Knoxville) on the case
 * Kay saw Lucy close with what seemed to be her girlfriend
 * Ferguson hadn't been home long
 * "Looks like an accident. Like autoeroticism gone bad. But we don't know." I seems like he was killed by falling off of a chair while in a noose during masturbation.
 * Marino had gotten shot at Hogan's Alley.
 * Ferguson had been dead about 5 hours when they got to him.
 * Condom wrapper wasn't near the stool and noose. Instead it was in the trashcan.
 * Lieutenant Mote collapsed and was in cardiac arrest

__Chapter 4__
 * Dr. Katz arrived with his "Cyanoacrylate Blowing Contraption"
 * There was a small package wrapped in freezer paper that Wesley fond. Inside of it were shrunken pieces of frozen flesh. It was sitting on top of other things in the freezer. The hair in the flesh is fine like human hair. Kay said she didn't see any bite marks or anything from Ferguson's body that someone would have tried to take out.
 * Katz's contraption pumped Super Glue vapors into the room that Ferguson was killed in.
 * Found a print on the underwear- it's probably Feruson's
 * Kay needs Katz and Dr. Shade, an anthropologist at UT, to do an experiment for her. It is with fresh bodies and will take a week

__Chapter 5__
 * Wesley and Kay went down to examine the basement.
 * Wesley had to break the window to get in. The latch was stuck and when it gave Wesley gut his arm pretty badly.
 * It looked like no one had been in there in years
 * They saw nothing that made it seem like Emily Steiner had been in the basement
 * Marino is cranky because he has feels for Kay.
 * Kay and Wesley slept together in the hotel after she stitched up his wounds

__Chapter 6__
 * Marino went to talk to Denesa Steiner
 * Kay went to the morgue in the Asheville Memorial Hospital to help Dr. Jenrette with Ferguson's autopsy
 * The only porn they found in the house was what was near his body when he was found dead. Usually "these guys keep trunkloads of it." Kay is uneasy that they only found the four current issues by his body
 * No women's clothing except what he had on. No perfume found, though the fragrance was on the sock. Old rope and there was no other rope. The condom on him was the only one from the box. Tied a dangerous knot, but wrapped a towel around his neck. Hangman's knot is hard to tie
 * Cause of death looks like it is "asphyxia due to hanging."
 * Looking at Emily's brain, Kay sees that the gunshot was no an immediately fatal wound. There should/could be another cause of death. It doesn't look like she was drowned, smothered, or strangled.
 * Denesa called Dr. Jenrette 1-5 times a day since Emily was found. He says she wants to make sure Emily didn't suffer. She needs someone to talk to.
 * There was an unnatural brown blotch on the skin of Emily's left buttock, "no bigger than a bottle cap." Her body was on something that left the mark, so it could help the case
 * Kay want to get her out of the grave to re-examine her.
 * They went to talk to Judge Begley. He says they have to get Denesa's permission

__Chapter 7__
 * Marino got Denesa to come to the courtroom. He can't take his eyes off of her.
 * She agrees to letting them exhume Emily.
 * Kay went to Lake Tomahawk alone to try to retrace Emily's last steps.
 * She became scared when she was there alone in the dark
 * She found jawbreakers, or Fireballs, as Emily called them, on the ground.
 * She got out of the trail and found Marino leaving the Steiners' house
 * She wants to talk to Wren b/c of the fireballs
 * Kay thinks Marino is starting to like Denesa

__Chapter 8__
 * Marino and Kay at the Cemetery behind Third Presbyterian Church
 * Epitaph: "There is no other in the World-- Mine was the only one." Denesa said it was Emily Dickinson
 * Lucias Ray- funeral director
 * Marino yelled at the reporters that showed up to question them about Emily's body being exhumed
 * He got sick after
 * Kay asks for the fluids that were used for the embalming to take to toxicology
 * Emily's casket was painted white "as white as the Queen Anne's lace that had grown around her plot."
 * Confused about how the press found out about what they were doing

__Chapter 9__
 * She had bitten her tongue multiple times, so they know she had a seizure "associated with her terminal episode."
 * She took out the mark on Emily's body, but they can not yet understand what the pattern is and what it is from
 * They found a box with her and inside was a dead kitten. It was killed because it's spine was fractured. It had been twisted 90 degrees clockwise. The mom placed the box in Emily's grave right before the funeral
 * They go to question Denesa. The cat died after Emily was taken/killed. Someone called Denesa saying he had seen Emily riding her bike, and another older boy said "He wasn't finished." A day later, she found Socks dead.
 * Marino's feelings for Denesa are more evident when they are at Denesa's house.
 * Other daughter, Mary Jo, died of SIDS. She was 1
 * Ferguson talked to Denesa before he died
 * Kay questions Wren Maxwell. He was crying and told her he didn't meet her there early, he just wanted to see if she would go.
 * Creed is the person who told Wren about the place at the lake. He is the school janitor. Creed gave Emily some flowers he had picked and he gave her candy.
 * Kay doesn't think Wren was at the scene or that Emily actually took the short cut home
 * Kay found out there is "rather a crisis situation" with Lucy in Quantico, but he doesn't say what it is because the line is not secured. They are bringing her back for this "among other things."

__Chapter 10__
 * The fingerprint from Ferguson's panties was Denesa Steiner's
 * The ABO grouping from the tissue in the freezer was O-positive, and Emily Steiner was O-positive. It seems like Ferguson stole the lingerie from the home when he broke in to take Emily. Still waiting on DNA. This is Wesley's assessment but Kay corrects him saying "someone," because they don't know it was him yet. Could still be Gault playing games
 * Lucy broke into ERF at three in the morning and went into files about "electro-optics, thermal imaging, video and audio enhancement." And she printed from the electronic version of case management that she has been working on (CAIN). She went into pretty much everything, so they don't know what she was looking for or for whom she was doing it.
 * She might have done it for money. The information is very valuable.
 * It was someone with her PIN and her thumb print, so they think it must have been her looking for something in particular. Maybe even wanting get caught.
 * OPR (Bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility) will have an investigation. If she stole anything it is a felony. At the least she won't be working with the FBI anymore.
 * Lucy won't admit to anything and says she didn't do it and that she was set up. she is hurt that her aunt thinks she did it. She and Kay are now at Kay's house in Richmond.

__Chapter 11__
 * Kay is in court and being questioned by lawyer Tod Coldwell about th murder of Jonah Jones. Coldwell is defending the suspect, a gang member, and Kay is on the prosecution side.
 * Kay goes to see friend/colleague Gloria Loving and is asking Gloria to check an alleged SIDS for a Mary Jo Steiner supposedly born in CA about 12 yrs ago
 * Peak age for SIDS is 3-4 months. It's unlikely after 6 months, and it apparently happened when the child was 1. Most likely talking about another form of death at that age.
 * Lucy asks Kay for a lawyer.
 * **Back in DC now
 * Kay goes to see Senator Frank Lord. He helped get Lucy the internship. He is going to try and help Lucy, but doesn't want Kay to tell Lucy that she met with him about her.
 * Jack Cartwright- director of the crime labs.
 * Meeting with Jack, Benton, Seth Richards, and George Kirby.
 * Skin found in freezer was O-positive, so was Emily Steiner. Sizes of wounds and cut outs are consistent with her. A sharp knife with a single edge was used. Knife with a point and single edge. No blood on knives sent in from Ferguson's house.
 * "unusual microscopic material on Emily's hair, body, and bottom of shoes.
 * Blue acrylic fibers consistent with blanket from her bed. green fibers matching her coat she wore to the meeting.
 * Unknown wool fibers and dust mites.
 * He showed a plant called Sambucus simpsonii. The stained areas are tannin sacs (vessel that transports material up and down the plant's stem). The pith is the part of the plant that has the tannin sacs. The pithwood is trace evidence and can be used to hold small parts or pieces of jewelry. It was mostly in the bloody areas of the body. It can be ordered from a company in Silver Spring, Maryland.
 * insects
 * White and black paint- not from a car
 * sawdust in her hair. mostly walnut but also mahogany
 * Wounds had the material, but skin in freezer didn't
 * Richards thinks the orange duct tape will be most important thing
 * This is special duct tape manufactured in Shuford Mills of Hickory, NC (only 60 miles from Black Mountain). It is flame retardant.
 * Tape used to tie up Mrs. Steiner and Emily was pre-cut from role and waiting on furniture to put on. The sequence of how the tape was put on the mother is messed up. What should have been put on first was put on last. What came off second, was fifth instead of second. But Emily was taped in sequence, but should have been easier to control.
 * No furniture residue found on the body. (bothers Kay)

__Chapter 12__
 * Kay and Benton sleep together again. She later says she is in love with him.
 * Lucy says she knows who did this to her and is thinking about going to Quantico and doing something about it
 * Benton thinks Lucy is definitely guilty
 * Marino has a theory about Creed, the janitor, killing Emily. They think he killed a boy in a hit-and-run four years ago. He is gone now. He "payed a lot of attention" to Emily. Doesn't go with other theories though
 * Nothing is matching up