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Special Agent Livingston was let behind the Upper Darby PD's crime tape and discovered Snake's mutilated body underneath a piece of plastic in between two cars. Because of the proximity that the FBI agent was behind Gunna and Lamar, he arrived late to observe the actual soiree but was there to prove they were there. He had a thirst for shell casings and witnesses for a photo array. It was cool, but the body was emitting an odor. He fanned the funk with a handkerchief.
Snake's stomach was blown out and covered in gastric fluids. What SA Livingston had smelled had not been decayed flesh but human excrement. At the point of death, Snake's bladder and bowels spontaneously emptied.
The blood near the body trailed back to a home with people huddled in front of it with a woman crying loudly and neighbors talking to detectives. Blood had begun to absorb into the concrete, and had started to coagulate. SA Livingston wanted to put a bug into the lead detective's ear to be sure that no errors were made at the crime scene. That was how many investigations failed, ultimately leaving a prosecutor without the necessary evidence to convict the killer. He was determined to assure mistakes weren't made. He would stick around until the body was identified, stored by a medical examiner, and sure that the chief pathologist rushed an autopsy.
SA Livingston pressed his lips together looking up at the night sky before calling AUSA Reynolds. He grimaced at how the Dunken conspiracy continued to unfold, but there would be no problems for jurors to convict his man: Lamar Dunken.