Cat Morgan FBI

by Bonnie Morawa

  " Yeah, I told him if anything happened I make sure he never see the light of day."

  " You can change his Sentence, As the head Agent you hold that right."

  That statement made Cat Smile. " I am, Thank you ." " Welcome, You ok."

  " Yeah you know the job gets to you." " Yeah, Not all wine and roses."

  She shrugged. " I know but those days when we save the day,and catch the killer make it worth it. " " Yes they do."

  After a few more minutes . They got refills and walked back to the station.

  Many Hours later . Cat,s Mom called frantically . " Cat Its your sister she is missing." Cat was panicking . " Ok Mom we are on our way."

  Cat was Near trembling . " Guys we got to go , My sister is Missing."

  They left swiftly and drove back to the farmhouse Monroe police in tow.

  Upon arriving they began searching. Cat was trying to calm her mother down.

  " Mom we will get her back safe , You need to breathe mom, just relax ,I know its Hard Mom Please." Sobbing " Find Her." " Mom I will."

  And at that moment the hospital called. Cat answered . " This is Mercy hospital are you Sara Morgans sister." " Yes is she there." " Yes someone just dumped her here." "On our way." " Mom shes at the hospital "

  Cat, Her mom and dad rushed to the hospital .

  They arrived there. and went right up to the counter. " Sara Morgans room."

  " Yes I am Dr. Channing, She will be ok Come with me."

  They followed the Dr Into a room Sara laying there Semi -Concious.

  " Tell me what happened Sara." " I was walking to my car, And This hand came from behind me Began Choking me ,He pulled me into a van began hitting me repeatedly." " Did you get an Id any details." " He was all in black and kept saying Telling Me Tell Cat to back off or Next time I kill you."

  " Your safe now no harm will come to you, We will get you protection."

  Looking at her sisters bruised and beaten body. Cat Felt So sad and hopeless.

  Cat went to her team Furious. " I want the SOB who did this , And I want my family watched 24/ 7, I am off the case , Going to need you all to step up."

  They nodded " You know we will do whatever it takes Cat." Jenna reassured her. They all hugged her. " I am staying with Cat." James said.

  They went back to Mall and searched for any clues they could find.

  Cat sat in a chair and held her sisters hand. " I promise you, you will be ok and we will catch who done this to you.." Sara barely Had enough strength.

  " Rest Sweety, Mom You and dad want anything James and I are going to get coffee." " I am ok bring a coke " Darlene said . The Nurse came in and gave Sara some pain medicine .Some Daladin through her I.V.

  and she nodded off to sleep. Meanwhile Jenna and Violet Demanded to see

  Sean Greene. Only he held the key to catching the killers.

  Sitting down Angry. " Your going to tell us where to find them, Her sister was left for dead , You scum bag." " Is she ok." He acted like he was concerned. " You can,t allow them to hurt anymore people."

  " OK,OK. I will help." Looking at him with a raging glower. " I will shot you myself." Violet said. " There is a place, In The east end on Half street by the tracks." " We will check it out."

  Jenna and Sean went to go Check it out. It was dirty place. Run down.

  There was one person there , A young women . " Freeze,Your under arrest." She sounded surprised and Began crying." What did I Do."

  " You know where the mastermind is Along with Caroline and Bryan Senior."

  " They left and packed up everything , They just let me stay here I am homeless."

  Jenna handcuffed her. and they took her in. She was run through the system and it was true she was just a homeless woman named Amanda.

  She was let go. They were back to sqaure one.

  One Week later Sara went home she was on her way to recovery.

  It was killing Cat to not be on the case . She was getting cabin fever

  Anxious to be back at work doing anything .

  She decided to go hit the Gym , Running a few miles on the treadmill.

  And She Showered and called James.

  " Hey , You want to go out." " Yes, sure pick you up in a half hour."

  Half hour later james showed up. Cat went and got in his car.

  " I just need to get out of here James." I Know, It will all be over soon."

  He said with Empathy.

  He took Cat to a Mexican restaraunt . La Fiesta

  " This is so nice, To be here and be out of Uniform." " Glad you like Cat, You look nice." She smiled for the First time with a hint of blush red on her cheeks.

  James flashed a smile back. " We had a few strong leads on the case."

  Cat shook her finger no. " No case talk." He apologized." Sorry."

  " No just no case talk ." " Just wandering if your going to leave after this is over."

  She Blushed again . " I Might find a reason to stay , I am kinda getting used to you." Made James smile and he felt his face turning red.

  Both very smitten with each other. The case was streching Into 3 Long months.

  Everyone working daily 14 long hours most days. Everyone Getting anxious and feeling the Exaustion. From the very long days Little or no sleep.

  Jenna and Violet were in The Office looking over the evidence .

  Jenna found a Notebook they recovered from the apartment on Half street.

  And Found Numbers on a page . Thinking what are these numbers .

  She Got up swiftly Made her way to The Crime lab .

  " Hey Maggie ,Take a look Can you tell me what these numbers mean."

  Maggie taking the notebook from her hands Glancing over the pages.

  Within minutes. " They are Map coordinates." Jenna smiled and hoped.

  " Can you tell me where these places are ." Maggie smiled." Sure thing Jenna."

  Meanwhile James was bringing Cat home after a wonderful first date.

  They were sharing a long tender Kiss. When both their phones rang.

  Answering his first ." Hello." " Yeah we got a much needed crack in the case."

  Cat answered her phone it was Violet telling her the same thing. " We got some map Coordinance." " Ok james is with me we are on our way."

  They made the 10 minute drive in 5 minutes flat.

  Both running into The station . up to the office. " OK were here." Sounding out of breath. " They have a spot marked in Dundee ,Hoping its their hiding spot."

  " We go now they won,t be expecting it ,Not this late."

  Quickly piling themselves into two vechiles they drove the 20 minute drive.

  Out To Dundee a Shack of a farmhouse . Sitting there back off the street.

  They approached Quietly. Surrounding the place. From the side of the house they peered inside to see if anyone was in there. James and Cat Walked down the long dark driveway . Up to the back door . Sean and Tyler kicked the front door in . They all had their guns drawn. Searching room by room

  Finding a Floor that was freshly laid over like a piece had been purposely cut.

  Sean and tyler removed the piece. there was a door leading down to the basement. And Once down the dark stairs they all put their flashlights on the Three figures standing there. All Guns were drawn . And The killers began firing first . Cat and her team taking cover shooting back gunfire was going off at

  A rapid pace . Shot after shot Sean and Jenna both hit in their arms.

  Cat Stood up with nothing to loose and fired her whole clip Into the Unsubs.

  Not missing. Their limp bodies all fell to the dirty basement floor.

  " Call for an Ambulance." Cat shouted at James. He called for an ambulance.

  As the trial of Sean Peterson reaches its final stage, Cat Morgan looks back at the evidence of the only person who knows the full truth of what Happened at a farmhouse In Dundee,Mi

  On the twentieth day of the Monroe trial at the Monroe court house, Sean Peterson walked from the glass-sided dock
into the witness box, took the oath, and in a low, scarcely audible voice began to tell his version of the deaths of 16-year-old Jessica and Lily Moore

  For two-and-a-half days he went over and over his story in all its grim and terrifying detail, while at the back of the court the parents of the girls sat and listened, as they have listened day after day and week after week. He was the only witness in his own defence. He is the only person who knows the full truth about what happened in Dundee Mi

  For four weeks, the prosecution had presented its case against Sean andJennifer Peterson They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy

  River Raisin.

  But right at the start of the trial, in Charlene Morgans opening speech, it was revealed that Peterson would concede that he let the girls into his home, that he was the only one present at their deaths, and that he had dumped their bodies. Nevertheless, though pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice, he was pleading not guilty to their murders.

  And on Tuesday 25 November, in the final few minutes of the day when Stephen sloane lawyer, was cross-examining the Home Office pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary, came another dramatic revelation Jessica slipped and she fell into a bath, said Coward. Jessica died when Sean Peterson put his hand across her mouth to stop her from screaming.

  All of the rest of the evidence - the minute-by-minute reconstructions of the girls' movements and of Peterrsons, the forensic examination of fibres (there were 154 transfers of fibres), pollen, tyre tracks, fingerprints, mud, blood - has circled around this black hole at the centre: what happened inside Dundee farmhouse, between 8:30 and 9:45 And behind this question, of course, lurked another question: why did it happen? Why did Jessica and Lily - the dark-haired girl and the blonde, the 'tomboy' and the 'angel', the swimmer and the majorette - die that evening?

  In June of this year, afte Jenniferr had broken all contact with him, Sean peterson tried to kill himself in prison, taking a near-fatal overdose that sent him into a coma. Afterwards, he claims that he started to recover the buried memories of that terrible evening, and he made a promise to his parents to come to the court to tell the truth so that the girls' parents would at last know what happened to their little daughters

  His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because LILY had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where LILY sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Lily into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Lily back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.

  He says that he never meant either death to happen ('One died as a result of my inability to act and the other died as a direct result of my actions', was how he put it on the following day) and that afterwards, when he had pulled Holly from the bath and checked her pulse, which was still, leant his cheek to Jessica's mouth and felt for breath that wasn't there, he vomited in the hallway, and then sat huddled in the corner, in a kind of psychological freeze.

  Of course, his story doesn't end there. He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to River Raisin and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red Cheerleading shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their Panties,Lilys black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match. The flames flared and he climbed back into car, and drove away.

  And the story doesn't end there either, of course. It leaves troute we are all familiar with by now: the 11 days of careful concealment, of repeatedjournalists in which he spoke about how the girls came to the door of his house ('giggly', 'happy') and then walked away again, 11 days of lying and misdirection and even of approaching Lily and jessicas father ('Kev' as he even called him in court) to express sympathy - until, in the early hours of 17 August, he was arrested and plunged into a silence that lasted until September this year, when he finally told his legal team that the girls had died in his house; that he had been with them when they died; that he had disposed of their bodies.

  Stories get picked apart under cross-examination. Single words are scrutinised; phrases deconstructed. Tiny inconsistencies are gazed at until they magnify. Narrative is broken up into separate pieces: the threshold, the bathroom, the bedroom, the bodies.

  Sean Peterson was actually inside the house, suggested, when the girls came down the road; Jennifers statement had placed him there, with the television on, and the dog not dirty after all. So it wasn't by chance that he met the girls at the door; he was 'watching'. 'No', said Peterson He was 'annoyed' after a phone call with Jennifer, in which she'd told him she was going out 'again' with her mother that evening in Dundee ('Do you like to control people?' asked Morgan 'She was out of your control. Did that irritate you?') and just minutes later, when he saw Jessica and Lily, 'It was just too tempting, wasn't it... two girls of ten?' 'If you mean what I think you mean, no,' said Huntley. 'You lured them into the house, didn't you?' 'I did not.'

  The possibility of a sexual motive behind the deaths of Lily and Jessica had not been raised until last week, but it then dominated many of the exchanges - first between Peterson and the prosecution and again later, whenJennifer took the stand. Peterson admits to taking Lily into the bedroom (he agrees this was 'inappropriate'). He says she sat upon the bed, and a single drop of blood fell on the sheets, for which she apologised. Later Jennifer would insist that on her return from Monroe the entire duvet and its cover were cleaned and wet in the washing machine, although Sean peterson (a 'slob' who slouched on the couch, never washed up, never used the vacuum cleaner) didn't even know how to use the machine.

  All the time, Peterson was forced back to the actual deaths. First Lily 'And you watched her drown.' 'I just froze.' 'You watched her drown.' 'I wasn't watching.' 'Lily drowned in that bath because you wanted her dead.' 'I did not want her dead.' 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.' 'I was not holding her...'

  And of Jessica, whose smothering he was made to demonstrate by placing his hand over his own mouth: 'Something prevented her from turning her head. Once again, please - what were you doing with your other hand?' 'I don't know.' 'What must you have been doing with your other hand? 'Probably restraining her somehow.' 'This was a fit, active 16 -year-old who... would have been doing what?' 'Struggling.' 'Fighting for her very life.' 'Yes.' 'If you had given that girl the slightest chance, she would have lived.' 'Yes.' 'You didn't give her the slightest chance, did you?' 'No.'body down the stairs? That you had just killed?' Another long pause. 'Well?' 'Not good,' said Peterson.

  He was also forced to describe how it felt to deal with the bodies of the girls; the horror of the questions drove him into silence. 'Which did you pick up first?... What did it feel like, this girl's body, when you did that?' 'Limp.' 'Difficult to carry, no?' 'Yes.' 'Because a dead body is floppy?' 'Yes.' 'Her body was wet, wasn't it?' 'Yes.' 'How did it feel as you carried this dead body down
the stairs, Mr Peterson ' No answer. 'How did it feel?' No answer again. 'How did it feel when you carried Jessica's

  And at one point during this day of insistent probing, Peterson lost his temper: when Morgan asked him to explain his actions afterLily fell into the bath, he raised his voice: 'In these circumstances, you can be very rational. In those circumstances, it is not so rational.' Then he snapped, 'Believe me, I know.' 'You can get quite angry, can't you MrPeterson' said the prosecution lawyer in reply. 'Yes.' 'You just lost your temper with me, didn't you?'

  Jennifer stepped into the witness box (for what her lawyer called 'the final stage') after Petersonleft it. He had called her 'Jennifer she called him 'Mr Peterson, Sean peterson, 'that man' and, once, sobbing and gesturing, 'that thing'. ('I'm not going to be blamed for what that thing in the box has done to me, or those children.')

  Jenniferwas in Monroe when Jessica andLily died. Although when she was in Monroe women leaned from their cells to shout 'Myra Hindley Mark Two' at her, she is not charged with murder, but with perverting the course of justice and - although she admits to systematically and repeatedly lying to provide her former boyfriend with an alibi - she is pleading not guilty because she insists that she 'knew' Huntley had not killed the girls. 'Those girls walked away from my house,' she said, over and over.

  She says she lied because she loved him and because it never crossed her mind to suspect him of anything so terrifying and 'disgusting'. And, under cross-examination, she cried out that she lied because she was his victim as well: 'I was pushed into a corner...' 'I had no choice...' 'You have no idea what kind of relationship I had with that man...' 'I've a mind of my own now that I've had 16 months away from him...'

  The case really is in its final stages now. This week, the jury will hear the closing speeches, and will retire to consider whether Sean Peterson is guilty of the murder of the two little girls whose Plus 7 more.

  In2000 Sean Petersons insatiable sex drive led him to begin the first of his 'public' affairs with secretary Donna bing.