Later, Hayward was officially assigned to the Underground Murders case and helped D'Agosta catalogue and map the homeless murders. Waxie panicked, while D'Agosta earned a modicum of respect from Hayward for keeping a cool head. As they gathered the head and some of Walker's effects, the homeless began to throw glass bottles and stones. There they found a blood-soaked mattress and the head of the victim, Shasheen Walker. Hayward led an exploratory excursion with D'Agosta and Waxie into the tunnels to investigate the scene of one of the murders. She expressed her frustration with her commanding officer, Captain Jack Waxie, who did not believe the homeless murders were worth investigating. She shared some rumors that she had heard in her time as a "rouster", about half a dozen murders among the homeless matching the MO of the Pamela Wisher case. Hayward made her first appearance in Reliquary, showing up unannounced in Lieutenant D'Agosta's office, wanting to speak to him about the New York Underground Murders. “Ho, Scriblerian!” - Spoilers for Reliquary follow. Following a series of related high-profile cases involving the Pendergast brothers, Hayward accepted a lateral assignment to the commissioner's office, but after back-office politics result in her being passed over for a coveted task force appointment, she returned to the Homicide Division. Following the events of Reliquary, she turned down a promotion and left the department to focus her efforts on her degree, graduating from New York University with a master's degree in forensic psychology, she returned to the NYPD, where, through a combination of drive, merit, and fortuitous timing, she was made the youngest female captain in the history of the department. Hayward eventually joined the New York City Transit Police, and became a sergeant in the NYPD's homicide division when the Transit Police merged with the department. An eighteen-month stint as a substitute dispatcher for the New Orleans Police Department solidified her interest in a law enforcement career and prompted her to enroll in the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She would lose both of her parents to cancer within the next two years, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Her older brother was killed in action in a "friendly fire" incident when she was eight years old. Laura Hayward was born in Macon, Georgia, the second child of a welder father and a mother who was a homemaker. When another murder investigation in Brimstone brought them together again, they began a long, off-and-on relationship that finally led to their engagement in Two Graves and marriage just prior to the opening of Blue Labyrinth. The couple met while investigating the New York Underground Murders in Reliquary, while Hayward was still a sergeant. Hayward is married to NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. Hayward practices shotokan karate and sometimes does exercises in her office. Her thesis was on caste structure among the "mole people" living in the tunnels under New York City she had a related article published in the Journal of Abnormal Sociology just prior to the events of Reliquary. Hayward has a master's degree in forensic psychology from New York University. Despite her stature, she exudes a natural self-confidence and sense of authority. She has a thin well-endowed 5'3" figure and a deep contralto voice that belies her smallish frame. Laura Hayward is a petite woman with pale skin, rich blue eyes (originally clear brown in her first appearance in Reliquary) and blue-jet black hair.
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