Inside Job

Fictional murder mystery story.

Who better to hide evidence than Miami's very best? This is the story of Detective Michael Lundy, a corrupt man who worked Homicide for years and years, covering his own tracks and fabricating evidence, imprisoning the wrong people to avoid getting caught. He was certainly sneaky and insidious, killing his victims in a number of different ways, as not to detect a pattern by other Detectives and brown nosing police Officers. He would stab people, choke people, drown some and even poison a few. He'd use kitchen knives, garden tools, his own fists and different types of rope. Michael liked to experiment, creating his own crime scenes to solve, as a way of boosting his career alongside getting away with murder.

It was only in the year of 2006, that Special Agent Kyle from out of town, began to suspect foul play. He was brought in to investigate a recent death of a local celebrity named Ethan Jackson, whose body was found drowned in one of the V.I.P bathrooms, his head was in the toilet bowl and it had been held there until he could no longer breathe. Forensics determined he didn't just dive in head first and fall unconscious, somebody had purposely drowned him, in presumably his own bodily waste, as the used toilet remained un-flushed. It truly was a disgusting and foul smelling crime scene. One that everyone who was there, still remembers to this day. Of course Detective Michael Lundy was there to cover his tracks, he had already hidden all evidence of him being there from the night before, leaving only false traces behind that pointed the murder towards a loud mouth at the bar, who was caught on CCTV insulting the celebrity by shouting and acting aggressively on camera. However, there was a strange coincidence that many of the Detectives working on the case chose to ignore, Michael Lundy was seen in the nightclub the same night as Ethan's murder. Of course, everyone except Special Agent Kyle found it to be an amusing coincidence and nothing more, the idea that Miami's best Homicide Detective was secretly behind the murder was absolutely absurd. However Kyle did some digging behind the scenes, this wasn't the first time Michael Lundy was spotted near one of his murder victims. Michael was spotted eating outside a nearby restaurant when police were called onto the scene of a gang war shoot out, that had gone horribly, horribly wrong. It was after the shooting took place, that he was eating his dinner. CCTV showed the gun fight from moments before, in a neighborhood around the corner from said restaurant. Special Agent Kyle noticed a masked man on the roof of a building, holding a sniper rifle, it was unclear who this assassin shot in the carnage, but he suspected Michael had gotten in on this action. The masked sniper wasn't part of either gang, he was just there when it took place for reasons unknown. It was the perfect cover to shoot some bad guys without getting caught. Unfortunately this coincidence was impossible to prove that it was Michael, because the shooter dressed nothing at all like the Detective at the restaurant. Kyle still had no solid evidence to pin Michael as a murderer quite yet, all he had was a hunch.

So one night, Special Agent Kyle decided to tail Michael Lundy after work hours were over. Of course, Kyle was acting outside of his duties, spying on the suspicious Detective. Kyle was a pro at this, he always kept out of sight and just out of reach, hiding in plain sight by wearing baby clothes and hoods. Kyle looked like a street thug, the type of man people avoided. It was the perfect disguise, nobody suspected him at all. He was better at this than most detectives who make it obvious, sitting in a suspicious black car, directly outside people's houses. Kyle would instead use a tiny long range drone from his car, parked several houses away. For weeks it seemed Micheal Lundy wasn't up to no good, he had his own family, a life outside work hunting in the Everglades. Just when Kyle was about to shut down his operation, believing he was wrong, his drone spotted Michael up to something particularly odd. When Michael was hunting, he was prowling through the swamps, aiming his gun at a living creature that was not an animal, but a human being. There was another hunter who he crossed paths with, the much younger man was gunned down in an instant, Kyle recorded the whole thing on his drone, he gasped, not fully believing that his hunch about the shady Detective was actually true. Kyle raced his car closer to Michael's location, keeping an eye on his drone which was still hovering on the same spot, looking down at the murder. Kyle kept glancing at the screen on his phone, watching as Micheal began to drag the body away somewhere off screen. Then Kyle's view of Michael was blinded, he couldn't see where he was heading with the corpse.

"I got to get there fast!" He exclaimed, slamming the pedal to the metal, the car stormed through the Everglades, going off-road. His car wasn't built for this terrain at all! Kyle's ride got ridiculously bumpy, as he sunk in and out of the sloshy swampland. Unfortunately the car wouldn't budge, getting stuck too deep into the ground. He fled the sinking ship, mobile phone in hand, which controlled the drone. Kyle fumbled with the controls, aiming it around madly, there to his left was Michael Lundy, carrying the body closer towards the lake, which was positively full of crocodiles.

"He's getting rid of the body! Going to make it look like an accident. I need to stop him. Now!" Kyle cried, sprinting towards Michael. He was only five minutes away, but every second counted. Kyle's sharp black suit was now brown with sludge, his right shoe had gotten caught in the mud and he had to run off without it. The afternoon sun was sinking fast, day was quickly becoming night. Things were looking bad and Michael still wasn't within his sights. Then, he saw him. Michael was in the midst of dumping the body in the water.

"Freeze!" Kyle roared.

"Shit!" Michael dropped the body in shock, then rolled over onto the ground with his rifle aimed at Kyle. Soon a gunfight began, all the while the dead body flowed down the river, already getting devoured by alligators.

"You have no proof now!" Michael laughed, reloading his hunting rifle behind the cover of a large log. Kyle was ducking in and out, behind the cover of a tall tree, trying to shoot Michael's feet in order to cripple him. Little did the killer know, that his murder was recorded by Kyle's drone. He had to keep that a secret, even if the drone was destroyed, the recording would still be on his phone. Eventually Kyle was shot, only in the arm, it wasn't fatal but it needed immediate medical attention.

"I didn't want to kill you, Special Agent Kyle!" Michael laughed. The Detective expected to hear more gunfire, but there was only more silence instead.

"Kyle!" Michael yelled, "playing the quiet game, huh?"

There was no answer. It took Michael a few minutes to realise Kyle had fled.

"Coward!" Michael cheered, believing he had gotten away with murder again. However, Kyle had sneaked off, he tried calling the police but there was no signal out there in the Everglades. He'd let Michael get away this time, but he had all the evidence required to convict Michael of being a killer.

The moment Kyle got back to civilization, he uploaded the footage of Michael's killing anonymously online, as recording him without consent was an illegal act in itself. Kyle would pretend he hadn't been stalking the Detective, everyone would soon believe it was just some random person filming the Everglades for whatever reason, who just so happened to witness the murder and released it online. Soon everyone in Miami knew about the murder, then the whole country was after Michael Lundy. However, the killer was smart, he knew the police system inside and out. Michael somehow, successfully escaped Miami without getting caught, many believe the man killed himself out of shame, but no body was ever found.

Murders still happen, unfortunately quite often around the whole of America, there are some killers that are still out there. Many have been caught on camera or by witnesses, yet never actually arrested by law enforcement. Some of these recent killers were described looking exactly like Michael Lundy. Perhaps this mad man is still out there, hunting for human prey. It's not just bears that target men, in the deep dark woods of America's countryside.