It was maybe the one case I worked that really called me to question right and wrong very seriously. That's irrelevant to what I do, that's more what lawyers and judges are supposed to do. This was one homicide where I could really see where the murderer was coming from.
It was a Filipino-American couple. We have a large Filipino-American population in Las Vegas , generally very clean, hardworking nice- you know the drill. This couple were actually doctors. I think they worked at that same clinic that Conrad Murray, the doctor that killed Michael Jackson, worked at. I never got the whole propofol addiction thing. How do you get addicted to a drug that's only effect is knocking you unconscious within about 30 seconds? But Michael Jackson gambled his life for it, and failed. Conrad Murray was a sick-o, but I'm not even sure he was the most perverted and sick doctor in the Las Vegas area. The couple from the case I'm talking about would be solid competitors at the very least. If we had known what kind of shit this couple was into, they'd still be alive but they'd most certainly be in jail. David and Lynda Arroyo were not upstanding citizens.
First of all, they were shot in the head from a fair distance away it would appear. Very clean shot, almost had to be a professionally trained individual. This was done with a 1911 style .45 caliber handgun. There was simply no way the murder was going to allow this couple to live. When my partner and I showed up at the scene, there was a mess of brain tissue all over the parking lot at Commercial Center. Where were they found? Right outside of the Green Door . We'd been monitoring the Green Door fairly closely for some time. Technically they described themselves as a social club for legal reasons but it's a sex club. We were watching them for bringing in girls that charged for sexual favors, That was the least of our concerns. The Arroyo's had been spotted coming out of there before they were shot and of course it had to be something involving prostitution or sex or something like that. How could it not be? Homicide outside of the Green Door, that could not have been good.
This was clearly no robbery and done by an experienced shooter with knowledge of firearms. I mean a .45 bullet will pick up a body and lift it in the air, There was nothing stolen from the bodies. They had like five platinum credit cards in there, a few hundred dollars in cash.
The key evidence in the case ended up being from the cellphones. This was a bitch to work on because my partner Billy he is Mormon, as are many officer in Metro. It would have brutal on any individual probably but especially brutal on Billy. Each of them had cell phone movies of themselves having sex with literally dozens if not a hundred different sex partners. And we had to watch pretty much all of them. By the way, the couple was not attractive. I would have rather worked a case involving human fecal splatter, if not decapitation. At their home we found boxes and boxes of these "tentacle hentai" DVDs. Tentacle Hentai is that animated pornography from Japan with the creatures with tentacles raping the Japanese school girls.
Of course, what else did we find? Photographs of the couples having sex with dogs, the wive in particular had a thing for German Shepard's, and also a pony.
I looked across at Billy.
"I have a feeling we have our motive."
Billy noded.
"I suspect you're right."
"I wonder if they might also have been into children."
"You could be onto something. "
We checked the sex offender registry on the Arroyos. There was nothing but we did start interviewing neighborhood families with children over by where they lived and up where they worked.
The thing is, we felt very sure that it had to do with the sex with animals. Those photographs had been sort of recent, only within a few weeks. And there were the various partners they had, one guy fucking the late late Lynda Arroyo after another.
This was a very deliberate hit, somewhat akin to an abortion doctor slaying or something like that. This was someone who had a background in firearms, who did not intended to wound or to immobilize the victims, but rather to kill. It was clear in my mind that this was someone who knew very well what the Arroyos were doing to the dogs and pony. This killer was someone who recognized the perversion, the nightmare of who this couple was, the obscene crime against nature that they had perpetrated and acted in such a way that it was certain that the crimes would not be committed again. Not after a prison sentence, not after a probation period, not after some acquittal, but simply never again. In the old testament the punishment for lying with a beast among the Hebrews was death, and so I played with the idea that this might be a very devote Christian. However, it would not appear that the couple attended church and that most of their social life revolved around the whole Green Door thing, The security guards we interviewed at the Green Door said that the couple was there most nights. These people had no capacity whatsoever to control sexual urges of any kind. They would have probably gone to jail for years for the dog and pony thing had they lived and been caught.
That was also something that we were very curious about was whose dog and whose pony was that?
The pony photographs appeared to be from out of state, it looked like Vermont or somewhere.
A woman that worked serving drinks and handing out towels at the Green Door called as and told us something important. This was really the break in the case. Her name was Kendra Davidson.
"He was raised as an army brat in Germany. He knew firearms inside and out, I believe he mentioned his favorite handgun was the 1911 .45."
Bingo.
This was going to be one bitch of an arrest we thought. That guy around here would likely have accesses to some serious firepower. We had several handguns registered in his name. What we did not know was if he had assault weapons or automatic weapons at his disposal.
This was where the case became a bitch. SWAT was in ready. We used helicopters on his house.
When Billy and I walked to his door and rang the door bell, Mitchell Davis opened up politely.
"I knew about the dogs, and I think they might have even been talking about children. Know you can arrest me, but when this gets in the news, let me tell you something right not. You know how some people view people who kill abortion doctors as heroes? Well even more people are going to view me as a hero. So let them send me to prison but you know just as well as I that I did the right thing."
"That's above my pay rate to determine" I said.
I'll never forget what he said though. The law really doesn't like vigilantes. They have that problem now in other cities with these caped crusaders, these masked heroes running around like comic book characters. They are all going to be stopped by a super villain named Doctor Thorazine. I saw exactly where Mitchell Davis was coming from, and if I'd been assigned to the case there might be an incident of police brutality. Being a cop is a serious bitch. The military might be worse, but law enforcement is pretty bad. You know what's real bad? Those guys who drive the armored cars.
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