「Forensic Science Division.」
Holz led Dean and Harry down to the underground morgue.
Mike Smith's body had been dismembered, its parts connected only by skin and flesh, like an animal gutted and ready to be hung in a roasting kiln.
With an almost perverse enthusiasm, Holz, wearing gloves, lifted Mike Smith's head and pointed at the nape of his neck. "Mike Smith was cunning, using a scar to cover this area. If not for your reminder, Dean, I really wouldn't have been able to discover this tattoo."
On the nape of Mike Smith's neck, where a scar had originally been, a tattoo emerged: a thorny human figure on a cross!
Tattoos can't be completely removed. Neither lasers nor scars can hide the stained cells beneath the epidermis, not unless the piece of skin and flesh is cut out entirely. Clearly, Mike Smith hadn't done that.
