The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme 13)

--No criminal or national security file.

--Perpetrator: --Calls himself the Composer.

--White male.

--Age: 30 or so.

--Approximately six feet, plus or minus.

--Dark beard and hair, long.

--Weight: stocky.

--Wearing long-billed cap, dark.

--Dark clothing, casual.

--Shoes: --Likely Converse Cons, color unknown, size 101/2.

--Driving dark sedan, no tag, no make, no year.

--Profile: --Motive unknown.

--Evidence: --Victim's phone. --No unusual calls/calling patterns.

--Short hair, dyed blond. No DNA.

--No prints.

--Noose. --Traditional hangman's knot.

--Catgut, cello length.

--Too common to source.

--Dark cotton fiber. --From hood, used to subdue victim?

--Chloroform.

--Olanzapine, antipsychotic drug.

--YouVid video: --White male (probably vic), noose around neck.

--"Blue Danube" playing, in time to gasps (vic's?).

--"(c) The Composer" appeared at end.

--Faded to black and silence; indication of impending death?

--Checking location where it was uploaded.

Wyckoff Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn. Kidnapping Site

--Gasoline accelerant to destroy evidence. No source determined.

--Swept floor, but Converse Con impressions remain.

--Substance trace: --Tobacco.