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little solid information. Apparently he had been kidnapped by an unknown party or parties and another boy's body had been substituted at TopTree. Matty spoke only vaguely of some real, far-out stuff . . . fighting dogs and being locked in a cage. Wild imaginings, and no details. Police assumed that most or all of what he said had to be delusional. The forensic examination of the exhumed remains had not, so far, revealed an identity that checked with any known missing youth. Whatever had happened to Matty in the nine days he had been missing and presumed dead would forever remain a mystery. |
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As for the four men who had attacked Calvin and Terry, three were dead, including the blond, who was pulled from the bottom of the pool. The fourth had lost an arm. The identities of two revealed previous records for armed assault in New York and warrants for arrest in connection with gangland slayings in Pennsylvania. The third had no record. The one-armed survivor, who was indicted on various charges, including conspiracy and attempted murder, was uncooperative when asked who had hired him, leaving investigators to assume it had been the late Julius Wick. |
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Of course, the media jumped on the story of Wick's connection to BiOmega, the genocide virus, and the murky world of hired guns. The president publicly expressed his shock at the revelations. He and Wick had been friends for years, and he had always regarded him as a man of the highest moral integrity who apparently had tried to cover some past mistakes, or what appeared to be mistakes, taken out of their time and place. Yet some called for investigations of the government's role in BiOmega, citing the genocidal objectives of Black Flag as flagrant violations of the Geneva Convention. |
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Responding, the attorney general set up a team of investigators to examine improprieties committed by BiOmega. Those investigative efforts, the media reported, were headed up by an attorney for the Treasury Department and, according to President Morgan Reese, "a man with an impeccable record." Daniel McDermott. The following week the president found a replacement for the post of biotech czar. Because of the time lapse, the lack of records and the unfortunate, accidental death of Julius Wick, the investigative efforts were eventually dropped, with no new revelations. In time the story of Matthew Hazzard and BiOmega faded from the public conscious- |
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