Full Sumary: A serial killer turns out to be hard to catch. Calleigh and Horatio will have their twins any day now. Will the twins be alright? And what happens when B escapes from the mental facility? Alexx is having trouble in her marriage. And Ryan is in love. SLASH
Warning: SLASH!
Tuesday 23 May, 2008
Horatio got out of his hummer and surveyed the crime scene infront of him.
A dead female body had been found in a garden.
"Horatio." Frank greeted as Horatio ducked under the crime scene tape.
"Frank. What do you know so far?" Horatio asked.
"The victim is 19-year-old Becky Williamson. We found her ID inside her wallet. No money is missing or credit cards. The houseowner Lilly Jones found our vic when she went out on her porch do eat breakfast." Frank said.
"Is Alexx here?"
"Yeah. She's almost ready to take the body to the morgue." Frank said.
"Okay, thank you." Horatio said and he and Frank walked over to Alexx and the body.
The victim was dressed in a short black skirt and a white blouse.
"Alexx. What have you got?" Horatio asked.
"Hey Horatio." Alexx said, "Her throat was cut from ear to ear and she has deep wounds in her stomach area."
"Okay. There is no blood spattern here, so she was killed somewhere else." Horatio said.
"She has no defense wounds." Alexx said.
"TOD?" Frank asked.
"Eight hours ago." Alexx said, "Now I'm taking this body with me and I'll tell you more after the autopsy."
"So she was killed at midnight then." Horatio said, "Alot of people are out on the streets at midnight."
"So she must have been killed in an alley or house." Frank said.
"Yes, she's dressed as if she was planning on going to a club. Maybe she met her killer there." Horatio said.
"I'll see if we can find any family." Frank said, "And I'll get her picture out on TV."
Horatio nodded, "Do that."
Ryan and Eric arrived at the scene. They walked towards Horatio.
"The house is rigth next to a beach and there's a sidewalk just outside the fence. So there will be alot of shoeprints." Horatio said, "But you should find shoeprints in the actual garden. Our killer must have carried the body to the garden."
"And that leaves deep impressions." Ryan said.
"Exactly. And hopefully our killer left us some fingerprints somewhere." Horatio said, "Get to work gentlemen."
"Will do H." Eric said, "Oh, how's Calleigh doing?"
"She has mood swings and cravings. But she's fine." Horatio smiled.
"Good to know." Eric smiled.
-I-
Calleigh sighed. She loved being pregnant. But she wouldn't mind if the twins decided to be born anytime soon. Her back was aching and she felt like she was a whale. She was due in one week.
Right now she was sitting at home on the couch, watching old episodes of Ricky Lake. The twins were kicking like crazy.
"What are you doing? Trying to play football?" She asked her twins. Their answer was another kick.
"Maybe you two will grow up to be gun and explosion loving footballs players." She grinned.
The phone started ringing and she go up from the couch and walked over to the phone.
"Calleigh." She answered.
"Hey Calleigh! It's Nat."
"Hey Nat, how are ya?" Calleigh asked.
"Fine, how are you and the twins?"
"Well, they are kicking like crazy." Calleigh chuckled, "But I'm just fine. Aren't you working on a case right now?"
"I just solved it. Some young guy robbed a candy store. I was dusting for prints when the same guy robbed another candy store two blocks away. "
"What happened?"
"He was running from the very angry store owner. So he didn't notice that he ran right into the police. The first store owner that he had robbed recognized him. So now he'll be going to jail."
Calleigh laughed.
"Anyway, I'm on my way to the lab. I'm waiting for evidence from a crime scene that the boys are processing."
"Do you now what the case is about?"
"A young girl got killed."
"Killed how?"
"Her throat was cut. "
Calleigh sighed.
"Poor girl."
"Yeah, I know. I also called to see if you're on for lunch today?"
"Absolutely. Here in my house at twleve."
"See you then."
Calleigh said goodbye and hung up. Then she went back to the couch and Ricky Lake.
Just as she sat down the phone rang again.
She growled and once again stood up and walked over to the phone.
"Calleigh." She answered.
"Hi Calleigh, this is Mary at The Whiskey Stop, you're dad is here."
"And now he's been drinking too much again?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Well, I can't come and get him."
"I know. I was hoping that maybe Horatio would be there."
"No, he's at work. Listen Mary, just call a cab and tell them to drop my father off at his house."
"I will, Calleigh. Take care."
"You too. Bye."
Calleigh sighed and almost started crying.
Her father hadn't been drinking for almost a whole year and now he was back at it again.
She wanted him to be sober so badly. She didn't want her children to know their grandfather as an alcoholic.
She had told Duke that, and he had stopped drinking. She should have known that it wouldn't last very long.
-I-
"Alexx, what do you know?" Horatio asked.
"Well, getting her throat cut is definetely COD, no suprise there." Alexx said, "But I found two things that suprised me. Her uterus is missing and I found this note, or shredded note in a plastic bag inside her body."
She gave Horatio the plastic bag with the note.
"I'll have Natalia piece it together." Horatio said, "Uterus? Trophe maybe?"
"I think so." Alexx said, "But to do something like this, you have to know alot about human anatomy."
"So that makes every doctor, surgeon, coroner or medical student a suspect." Horatio said, "In the state of Florida."
Alexx nodded.
"You didn't find any trace or prints?" Horatio asked.
"No, not even a small fiber from a piece of clothing." Alexx said.
"And she hasn't been washed?"
"No."
"Alright, thank you." Horatio said and left.
He walked back towards the lab and gave the note to Natalia.
"Well, it's not going to be so hard. It's a small note and not shredded very severly either." Natalia said.
"Keep me posted." Horatio said.
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Two hours later. The whole team was gathered in the layout room.
"Frank you got anything new?" Horatio asked.
"Yeah, your victim works as a prostitue." Frank said, "When her picture was shown on the news, two of her friends called and told the police about her."
"She's only 19-years old, poor girl." Natalia said.
"Yeah, according to her friends, her parents kicked her out when she couldn't find a job." Frank said, "She found her way to Miami and prostitution."
"Where does her family live?" Horatio asked.
"South Carolina." Frank said, "And get this, they both died in a car accident two weeks ago."
"And there is no other relatives?" Ryan asked.
Frank shook his head.
"Alright, Ryan and Eric?" Horatio asked.
"Dozens of shoeprints like you said. But there is one set of shoeprints that I found in the garden." Ryan said, "It's Nike. The model is from 2005."
"Alright, well that narrows it down to thousands of people." Frank said.
"I got nothing, no fibers, no trace and no prints. Nothing." Eric said.
"So our killer didn't leave anything on the crime scene except shoeprints and nothing on the victim?" Ryan asked, "That's bad."
"What about fingerprints on the note?" Frank asked.
"Nope, nothing. But the note says:"
Here reside the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, though not sinful, did not accept Christ. Here also reside those who, if they lived before the coming of Christ, did not pay fitting homage to their respective deity.
"So what? Our victim didn't accept Christ?" Frank asked.
"Apparently not." Natalia said, "Does this text sound familiar to anyone?"
"A little bit, but I can't remember from where." Ryan said.
"So someone killed a prostitue because she didn't accept Christ." Frank said.
"Maybe the fact that she is a prostitue doesn't matter for our killer." Horatio said, "Let's think about all of this tomorrow. It's already seven pm and our shift ended two hours ago."
Everybody nodded and started leaving.
"Oh wait! I just remembered." Horatio said, "There will be a new detective working with us. Her name is Molly Sanders. She's replacing Berkley. She starts tomorrow."
"It's taken them almost nine months to find a replacement?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, she just got her detective badge three weeks ago. And she's transferring from L.A." Horatio said.
"And she's already working on a murder case?" Frank asked.
"Yeah, the Chief put her on this case." Horatio said, "Now go home and get some sleep."
-I-
Horatio got home at around seven thirty. He found Calleigh asleep on the couch.
When he gave her a soft kiss she stirred and woke up.
"Hey handsome." She smiled.
"Hey gorgeous." Horatio smiled back.
"How was your day?"
"Well, I know you had lunch with Natalia so I guess you know a little about our case." Horatio said.
"Yeah."
"Well, it seems to be a tough one. All we got is shoeprints and a note."
"A note?" Calleigh asked, "What does it say?"
"Here reside the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, though not sinful, did not accept Christ. Here also reside those who, if they lived before the coming of Christ, did not pay fitting homage to their respective deity." Horatio said.
"Okay." Calleigh said, "So your victim didn't accept Christ?"
"Maybe. We don't know yet. But we do know that the shoeprints belong to Nike shoes from 2005." Horatio said.
"Shoeprints. That brings back memories." Calleigh said.
"I know. But we're safe. B can't hurt us." Horatio said.
He knew that Calleigh was thinking about their case with B. When they had found a strange set of shoeprints, and that was almost all they had to go on.
"I know." Calleigh said, "My dad is drinking again."
Horatio sighed.
"I got a call from Mary at eight, just a few minutes after you left." Calleigh sighed, "Only eight am and he was already drunk."
"You didn't go get him did you?" Horatio asked.
"No, I told Mary to call him a cab." Calleigh said, "But I'm so pissed right now. He almost managed to be sober for a whole year and then this happens."
"He will stop one day."
"You think so?"
"Yeah I do." Horatio smiled, "Now, I feel like giving my beautiful pregnant lady a hot bath."
"That sounds wonderful." Calleigh smiled.
TBC...
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