Too Close For Comfort.
Squad room December 5, 2002
Manhattan
The squad room was crawling with people it was only eleven o'clock but this case was one the press was all over and it made it no easier for the detectives to get the evidence they need.
"So Miss please tell me what you saw, I only want to help you. I want to ensure that he never hurts you again just give me a name a sound something" Olivia pleaded with the victim whose sobs were echoing in her ears.
"I don't know he just jumped me from behind he…" she shuttered as she spoke to the detective "he placed a bag over my face and then he raped" she was crying hysterically Olivia offer her the packet of Kleenex and rubbed her back while murmuring.
"It's going to be okay."
Cragen watched her from the one way window she always got too close these victims and if they weren't solved she was the one who suffered. "Captain I think we got something the crime lab just called and our Jane Doe has semen in her throat" Fin said as he headed for the door to get the results.
"Fin wait up! I want to go see Melinda I found this on Maria shirt maybe it is from our perp" Elliot said holding up a nail in a plastic so that Fin could view it, as they walked out and moved towards the Melinda's office.
Olivia walked out of the interrogation room and stretched her muscles ached and she just wanted to call it a day. She sat at her desk and typed the statement she got the persons at the mall who said they heard the scream but they did not get a good look at the attackers' face.
"Benson my office now please" Cragen said from the door way of his office.
"Yes Captain what's up?" Cragen starred at her but did not know how to come out with it he knew it was going to hit her hard.
"Olivia remember Maria our victim?" he asked the question knowing full well she knew who h was talking about. "Olivia she killed herself." Olivia eyes widened as she heard but she knew it was always a possibility that a victim might commit suicide but something in her gut told her it wasn't so. She suspected foul play.
"Captain I don't think so, I will go check by her apartment and if there wasn't any foul play I will leave it alone." she said knowing the Captain would object.
Maria Mason Apartment
22nd street
December 5, 2002
2:20 pm
Olivia and Elliot walked into the apartment and looked around Melinda was over the body inspecting it, while the police offices bagged the revolver that was used to claim her life.
"Detectives I think I found something" Melinda said as she held the hand of the lifeless victim.
"What is it?" Olivia asked as she moved over to where Melinda was.
"You see this it's a bruise and guy what it has prints."
"But remember she was raped maybe she got the bruise then" Olivia said
"Yea but remember we took pictures of all the bruises she came in with and there was none here." Melinda said with a half smile as she laid the lifeless hand to the ground and instructed the men to remove her to her examination room.