The detectives stood around the squad room talking among themsleves until the captain walked in with Lieutenant Knowles. “Ok guys listen to Tom and pay attention. You can all chat in the tea room if you get time to.” said the captain. “Ok boys. The girl found dead at the mall last night is unidentified as her purse was obviously stolen. The guys at forensics are checking out the DNA but you all know how long that takes and I want a result on this quick so that we can all get back to routine. All we know about her is that she was in her mid twenties, pretty and carrying this blanket thing,”he said pinning a photograph to the board. “Excuse me sir” said a young blond detective making all the eyes in the room to her and causing her to blush. “That’s not a blanket it’s a yoga mats”she said.
“And you know this because?”Tom asked. “I do yoga. That’s what we use to do our exercises on” she said. “Ok thank you Kath. That puts a new light on things. You all have a photograph of the dead girl, not very flattering for the poor kid but all we have; he said pinning it to the board. “You don’t know her do you Kath?” asked Jack and all the room broke out in laughter.”OK that’s enough. Now that we know this thing is a yoga mats we need to check out all the local gyms and health centers, anywhere where they do yoga. Kath you can perhaps help there. Right, move it guys” he added stalking out of the room closely followed by the captain.
It was befitting that the girl was known as the yoga mat girl from then on and she was soon recognised and her assailant was soon behind bars.