Early one morning the team had just arrived to a location they had been called out to after receiving a report of a body being found.
Eric had gotten out and walked over to where the body was, He stopped and stared when something unexpected.
"Hey Eric what do you..." Calleigh went silent when she saw what had surprised Eric. "Wow."
Natalia came up from behind them. "Hey guys" She looked down "Woah."
All three exchanged looks of shock seeing such an unusual sight.
A car pulled up from behind them, Natalia turned to look. "Alexx is here."
Alexx got out of the car seeing the looks on everyone's faces. "What's wrong you guys?"
"You've got to get a load of this one Alexx." Eric commented.
Alexx came up beside him to see what Eric was talking about, she lowered her sunglasses opening her eyes wider. "There's no organs in this body."
"This definitely a first." Eric commented
Alexx shook her head. "There's not going to be a way to determine time of death at this point." Alexx waved over the crew to collect and transport the body.
Jesse got out of the hummer and ran up to join everybody. "Hey sorry I'm late, what did I miss?"
"Organ less Body." Calleigh told him.
"What, that's crazy!" He reacted.
The team dispersed to start processing the scene.
"Alexx what do we have?" Horatio asked.
"Our victim is missing all organs so that's most likely cause of death." She explained.
"Anything specific?" Horatio looked toward the body.
Alexx continued examining, lifting the arms. "Just these marks look like this poor baby was restrained."
"I'll try to see what more we can find once we get back Horatio."
"Ok thank you Alexx."
"I've got something." Calleigh called out holding something up in the air.
"What did you find?" Horatio came over to get a closer look.
"Looks like a pack of business cards. There's blood spatter on it." She responded handing it to Him.
"Ziggler's Meat Market." Horatio read off from the card.
"Sounds like a lead, maybe involvement." Natalia Acknowledged.
"Let's find the owner and have a talk with him." Horatio put on his sunglasses and walked back to one of the hummers.
-(Ziggler's Meat Market)
"Mr. Ziggler we came to talk to you because one of your business cards was found at a crime scene this morning with blood on it." Horatio explained.
"Well not sure what that has to do with me, anyone could have had that card, we put one on each of our delivery packages." Ziggler shrugged his shoulders.
"Only problem is we found a complete stack, do you want to try to explain that?" Horatio questioned.
Ziggler took a deep breath and lowered his head. "Ok look one of our delivery vans was stolen a few weeks ago, there's often stacks left in each one."
"Did you report it?"
"No but only because it was one of the oldest vehicles, we were getting ready to part with it and get a new one." Ziggler answered.
Horatio stood silent for a moment.
"Look is there anything else? I really need to be getting back to work." Ziggler begged.
"Horatio looked back at him. "That will be all for now but stay close in case we need to contact you again.
Natalia and Valera were working together in dna when Jesse came in.
"What are you two working on?" Jesse asked crossing his arms.
"Trying to find if we can salvage any dna or traces of anything on the victim's clothing that could lead us to a suspect." Natalia claimed.
"Yeah it's so weird under these circumstances that this might be the only way for us to tie anybody to the murder." Valera added while swiping a Q-tip across the shirt.
"Something tells me that whoever did this definitely was going to try hard to cover this up." Jesse chimed in.
"Hey have you guys gotten anything?" Calleigh enquired when she joined the conversation.
"Only thing so far is confirming that the blood on the business cards was from the victim." Natalia declared putting her hands down on the table.
"Ok and Ryan and is down with Alexx taking a closer look to see if there's anything else on the body that could help." Calleigh mentioned.
"I just have to wonder what's behind this, so obviously, the victim was murdered but what would the reason be for missing organs, what is anyone who would've killed her want the organs for?"
Everyone turned around when Horatio spoke up behind them.
"It's possible we are looking at a black-market scheme." He suggested lifting his hands to his sides.
"Is that actually a thing?" Jesse looked around for confirmation.
"It's unusual but not unheard of, difference being is the victims are not normally killed, normally they take away specific individual ones like a single kidney." Calleigh recalled.
"Yes, and Alexx was able to get a copy of previous medical records showing our victim to have been very healthy." Horatio reported.
"Which means if it is what you're thinking then someone must have known and knew what kind of money they could get. Kind of a scary thought." Natalia remarked
Eric was filling out some paperwork at the front desk when the elevator dinged. He turned to see Kara coming out of it.
"Hey where've you been?" He smiled.
"I had a family matter to deal with but I'm here now and don't worry Horatio called to fill me in." She told him.
"We've definitely got our work cut out for us today." Eric responded.
"Any leads?"
"Maybe, Calleigh and I are going to go talk to the medical clinic that submitted the medical history to see what we can find out. Can you go tell her to meet me out front?"
"You got it." Kara rushed off to find Calleigh.
(Miami Regional Clinic)
"How can I help you?" The receptionist posed the usual question.
"Yes, Miami Dade PD we are here to speak with whoever submitted records for a patient from this office that had been found murdered." Calleigh requested.
"That was me." The receptionist informed.
Calleigh looked at Eric before returning her eyes to the receptionist. "Ok then we would like to talk with you in private please."
"Of course, right this way." The receptionist stood up pushing her chair back and motioning her hand to let them know to follow her.
Once they entered an empty conference room Eric spoke up.
"I don't think we caught your name."
"I'm Juli Cramer." The receptionist replied.
"Miss Cramer, we would like to know if there is anyone outside the clinic that would somehow gain access to patient records." Calleigh expressed keeping eye contact.
Juli moved her eyes back and forth and shook her head slowly. "No not that I know of, unless…" She looked to the side.
"Unless what?" Eric urged
Juli turned her head back towards them. "Unless someone could hack into the online patient databases, that's a more convenient way for people to look up test results, see their records or contact us without having to call."
"Now that I think about it, there was some unusual activity with a few of the accounts but I didn't think much of it, I just e-mailed each one suggesting they change their passwords."
"Ok we are going to need you to get us a digital file so we can investigate this further." Eric Proclaimed.
Juli nodded. "I'll get right on it."
"Thanks for coming to help me with this Dave." Kara affirmed
"No problem, thought this sounded interesting, so what are we looking at?"
"Well when it comes to sites that are supposed to be more secure because of private information it's typically set to recognize one or two certain regular devices used by the account holder so when a different device is used to attempt getting in its set to see that a possible security risk. Some sites will lock you out until its safely confirmed to be the user, others might send an e-mail to alert them of the activity but still allow the unregistered device access. "Kara explained
"Ok so you want to see if we can find the unregistered device, right?"
"Precisely" Kara confirmed.
She started typing in some information on the keyboard and letting the database start scanning for a few minutes. Eventually in pinged in on a location.
"Oh man, it's an internet café that means it could have been anyone on one of those computers!" She put her head in her hands on the desk.
"Not necessarily." Dave stated.
"What do you mean?" Kara looked at him.
Places like that sometimes will have unique network cards in each of the pc's which means if this one does we can put in the web address and that should give us a code.
Dave began typing on the keyboard and shortly a set of numbers came up on the screen.
"Got it!" He grabbed a notepad and wrote down what was on the screen and peeled it off handing it to Kara.
"Take this and they should have a log of all the network cards."
"Did I ever tell you how Awesome you are?" She complimented
He turned his head. "All the time."
"I mean it, thanks Dave!" Kara got up and went to find Horatio.