Silvers and Denelle traded places.

"Good morning, said Ivory, as she adjusted the microphone. As everyone knows by now Rico Valley was murdered yesterday afternoon. The cause of death is tentatively being listed as strangulation because of the electrical cord tied around his neck. This should be confirmed sometime this afternoon when the coroner issues his autopsy report. Any questions"?

"Who found the body"? asked a reporter from the Independent Morning Daily.

"His sister Julie Jones, replied Ivory. When he didn't show up at the park Silvers called Julie and asked her to check on him because he didn't have a phone".

"Do you have a motive for the crime"? inquired a reporter for an national sports magazine.

"Not yet," answered Ivory.

"What about drugs? quizzed a reporter from the local news. Could this have the result of a drug deal gone bad"?

"According to Ms. Jones the answer would be no, replied Ivory. But at this point we aren't ruling anything out."

While Ivory was at her press conference, her two assistants, Tom Reynolds and Buck Schurman were searching Valley's apartment.

Except for the unusual decor of pink and lavender, Reynolds found nothing unusual in the bedroom. All he found as he rifled through the dresser drawer were the usual socks, underwear, two boxes of condoms, one open with a couple missing and one unopened and a silver framed photograph of a woman with stoplight red , curly hair. Sitting on the bedside table next to a bottle of Tylenol and a tube of Ben Gay was an address book bound in red leather.