Sweet Salvation

Chapter 20

Bits and piece evi evidence

We had collected every tiny bit of evidence and were on our way back to our car when we noticed Warrick and Nick searching the driveway and the grass at the front of the house. “Hey Nick, did Grissom put us all on the same case?”

“Yeah he did, nothing much came in tonight he’s working one case solo. And besides that, the sheriff is on his throat because of this case. He’s afraid of the reactions of the gay community.”

“Yeah, I figured something like that would happen.” Catherine said admitted. “It surprised me that they allowed Sara and me to work this case, but now I see why. If it comes out in the press that two gay CSI’s are working on this case the crowd probably silences. Which means less problems for the sheriff.”

“Anyway, we have some evidence for Greggo, see you later.” I added while I pulled Catherine with me. Releasing the grip on her arm when I saw a van from the local news arrive. I knew that what we were doing wasgerogerous but I didn’t want to provoke anything.

We both got into the car and left the crime scene, an officer held up the yellow tape and we drove past it.

~*~

Hours later we were still processing the evidence. Catherine was processing the blood spatter on the sheets, while I was searching for evidence in the knot. I had found a hair, but it didn’t contain a hair tag.

Greg opened the door to the lab. “How are my ladies doing today?” he asked with a boyish smile on hise. e.

“We’re doing fine, Greg do you have anything for us or are you just entertaining us?” Catherine asked with an innocent smile.

“Oh no, I would never bother the two of you without a good reason. I’ve tested the cloth and I can tell you that you were right, it’s drenched in chloroform, nothing special there. However, there was a small spot on the cloth that looked like blood. So I processed it and I have DNA, but I haven’t found a match, soe mee me something to coe ite it to and I’ll be able to tell you more.”

“Greg did you compare it with the DNA of the girls?” I asked, just to check.

“Yep Doc Robbins gave me a sample of their blood.”

He put down the test results and saluted before leaving the lab, another one of his crazy gestures. Catherine examined the results. “Nothing special here.” she mumbled before she put them back on the table.

“I’m going down to the morgue to see if Doc Robbins found anything on the victims.” she says before she leaves me alone with my thoughts. I watch her walk down the corridor through the glass walls.

I must have been staring through the glass for a while because next thing I knew I saw Catherine coming back; she opened the door and entered the room. She sat down next to me and opened the case file that she was holding in her hands. “I just came across Brass and he handed me this case file. The victims’ names are; Jonatha Campbell, that’s the dark haired woman on the bed and the other one is Simone Mitchell. They have been living there for the past six months and the neighbours say they are both lovely girls who wouldn’t harm a fly, according to Brass.talktalked to the neighbours at the scene. They were all devastated.” She read on a little bit of information but decided that it wasn’t worth mentioning and went on with the details that Dr. Robbins gave her.

“They passed out from the chloroform, which made it easy for the perp to do whatever he wanted. Doc. Robbins thinks that the ‘Mitchell’ victim was the one who was killed last. The perp probably made her watch as he raped and murdered her girlfriend. He had stabbed both woman several times and shot the ‘Campbell’ victim with a nine mm. Doc Robbins’ is trying to extract a mould from the stabbings, maybe we can find out what kind of a knife he used.”

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That morning when they arrived home they both fell onto the bed exhed. ed. Almost too exhausted to take of their clothes and, they fell asleep holding on to each other. This case was really getting to both of them.