Title: Distorted
Disclaimer: I do not own anything
Rating: M to be safe
Summary: A series of attacks verify that a killer is on the prowl, and eagerly hunting for his next victim. (GC)
(spoilers) Set this season
Except there is no Sara and Gil...
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Glen Sterling walked through his house checking doors and windows to make sure they were locked before heading off to bed.
"You coming to bed hun?" his wife called from the bedroom
Glen took a detour through his kitchen to fill his empty glass with water "yeah," he called walking down the hall. "When did the water cooler get delivered?" he asked finishing off his glass of water.
"I wasn't home." She slid in the bed "But at least it was delivered on time, and not three days late like last month."
"Yeah." He smiled kissing his wife good night.
Liz and her husband hadn't been asleep for long when she was jolted awake.
"Glen?" she sat up looking over at her husband "Did you hear that?"
She didn't wait for a response from her sleeping husband as she listened for another minute and then returned to warmth under her blankets.
Seconds later she sat up again, something wasn't right and she could feel it.
"Glen." She shook her husband's sleeping figure; "Wake-up!"
"Glen I…" she froze in fear as she watched her bedroom door open.
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Gil Grissom slipped under the yellow tape that surrounded the Sterling residence.
"Gil;" Brass headed toward him "Where's your team? I couldn't get a hold of anyone, and I'm going to need all the help I can get."
"What's going on?"
"One victim," Brass turned to the man sitting in the police cruiser. "Glen Sterling." He pointed " Says he went to bed last night with his wife and when he woke up this morning he was covered in her blood and she was next to him." He paused "Dead."
Gil watched the man as he grieved the loss of his wife. "He doesn't remember anything?"
Brass shook his head "Says he slept through the whole thing."
"Gil!" Catherine called as she approached the two men. "Sorry I'm late. I was at the dentist with Lindsey."
Gil nodded "I was just heading in."
Catherine gripped her case and followed in behind him.
"The house is immaculate" Catherine commented as the two headed through the living room.
Gil was the first to reach the bedroom, when he pushed the door open the grisly scene before him stopped them in there tracks.
"My god;" Catherine whispered "talk about overkill."
Gil nodded as he cautiously approached the body; instantly he noticed that the victim's throat was cut.
"She fought like hell." Catherine pointed to the small cuts on her hand which she assumed were caused by the knife as Liz tried to stop blows her attacker delivered.
Gil knelt down "Hair." He grabbed his tweezers "maybe we'll get lucky."
Catherine placed her kit on the floor and began photographing the scene. "I've got a shoe print in blood leading outside the window."
Gil joined her at the window. "I'll process the outside. Maybe our attacker got sloppy trying to flee."
Catherine didn't respond as Gil left the room.
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Once outside Gil approached the bedroom window. He immediately collected the discarded running shoe that was left underneath bedroom window sill.
"Hey Grissom;" Nick and Greg arrived on scene "Where do you want us?"
Gil bagged his evidence and turned to both men "Catherine's inside. Take over where she left off, "I'm sending her back to the lab with the body."
Nick nodded and the two men headed inside.
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Catherine waited patiently as Doc Robbins preformed the autopsy on Liz Sterling.
"Blunt force trauma." He noted pointing to the back of the victim's head "I pulled these splinters of wood from the wound. I'm guessing by the quality of the wood it would have been a table of some kind. But that's not what killed her."
"She took one hell of a beating. What was the time of death?"
"Judging by the temperature of the body she died somewhere between one and two this morning."
"It took awhile for her too bleed out." Catherine remarked
Doc Robbins nodded "She was sexually assaulted, a condom was used; you will have to determine whether or not the husband used protection and if he and his wife were together that night. During the assumed assault the condom that was used broke and your attacker left a piece behind, spermicide killed whatever semen may have been left behind. But I sent the latex down to the lab."
"So which one of these wounds killed her." She pointed to the lacerations.
"Eleven stab wounds in all," he reported "Strangely not one of these wounds on her torso was fatal, in fact one or two of them are superficial, they barely penetrated the body. I figure she slowly began bleeding to death and the attacker got tired of waiting and slashed her throat."
Catherine didn't respond as she kept her eyes on the body
"I hear the husband claims he slept right through the attack?"
Catherine nodded "Yeah try and figure that one out." She commented
"You know." Doc began "I remember a several months back a case that." He paused "A case Warrick had worked, where the husband claimed the same thing, his wife survived, she claimed that someone entered her home and assaulted her, he attacked her, the same way."
"I'll make sure to check that out." She sighed as she pulled out her cell phone to call Grissom.
TBC