CSI: LOVE IS BLIND

CHAPTER 1: UNFORTUNATE THEORIES

My first CSI story, this story was a request from Boris Yeltsin, hope you enjoy it, anyway just so you know the dialogue from the victim in this chapter is based on actual comments from the man he is based on, Glenn Beck, I do not intend to offend anyone with this, in fact I was offened by these comments myself and to force myself to write them. With taht aside I hope you enjoy this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or any of its characters.

James Henderson, a 45 year old talk show host, grey haired, brown eyes, dressed in his usual grey suit was ready to continue his show, his subject for this show was the opinions of his guest and himself on the infamous 9/11 incident. They had been talking for some time and were nearly at the end of the show, despite a few unusual remarks from Henderson that had caused offence to some viewers nothing seemed to go wrong when suddenly he decided to start his usual remarks which always seemed to cause offence, his guest was just finishing his statement.

"...And I'd like to finish by once again expressing my deepest sympathies for the victims of this tragic event, the survivors and the families of those who died".

That was when Henderson interrupted.

"Yes and interesting point but to be honest, you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims families".

There was a collective gasp from the studio audience, the guest jumped from his seat.

"Have you lost your mind?"

"No seriously, it's been over a year, I'm just like 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining".

There was a long pause before he continued.

"But the second thought I had when I saw these people was 'I didn't think I could hate victims...faster, than the 9/11 victims' and seriously, people are just way too fixated over something that might or might not have been a terrorist attack".

Everybody in the studio audience started murmuring amongst themselves, the guest stepped back as James Henderson began a tirade.

"How many people have watched the reports of the 9/11 incident and thought 'there's absolutely no way an aircraft could knock down two buildings like that, it had to be controlled demolition, anyone who thinks otherwise must have a screw loose or be part of the government's conspiracy behind this, or maybe even both!"

By now, the guest had disconnected his microphone and walked off the set, the camera's had been shut off and security had their hands full trying to prevent the audience from venting their anger on Henderson, eventually the chaos had calmed down and the janitor was shutting down the studio, when he found Henderson lying on the seat he had been sitting on during the show, his microphone cord was wrapped around his neck, the janitor rushed over and quickly checked for a pulse, nothing, James Henderson was dead, the Janitor hurried to call the police.

Grissom, Sara and Nick soon arrived at the crime scene, after ducking under the crime tape they approached Brass who began to bring them up to speed on the situation.

"Okay, I'm sure you know about James Henderson".

They confirmed that they had heard of him, his TV show made him infamous for his rather unusual views, Brass then continued.

"He made finished another one of his shows apparently he came up with some insulting comments, a few hours later the janitor finds him lying on his couch dead".

Nick then confirmed.

"So the janitor found the body".

"Yeah".

Nick nodded.

"Okay, I'll go talk to him".

Grissom nodded as Catherine Greg and Warrick arrived, he then asked.

"Any one else personally involved".

Brass nodded.

"Yeah, the cameraman over there, and of course the guest for tonight's show, he's over there".

Grissom then turned to the team.

"Okay, Catherine, you talk to the cameraman, collect his statement, Greg, talk to the guest, see what you can learn from him".

"Right.

"Sara, Warrick, we're gonna be examining the scene, Sara and I will work check the body and the main floor".

"I guess that leaves me with audience".

And so, following their orders the CSI team got to work, Grissom then looked over at the body.

"Given this guys controversial statements…it's gonna be a long night".

Cue CSI Vegas opening credits

Nick approached the janitor.

"Excuse me sir, I'm Nick Stokes from the Las Vegas Crime Lab, I understand you found the body".

The janitor was twitchy as he turned to speak to Nick.

"Yeah, call me Dave, yeah I found Mr. Henderson, I had just come to lock up the studio, after the show he said if I could wait another half hour until closing up, said he some things to do, he wouldn't elaborate".

Nick noted down what the man said and continued.

"Okay, when you found him did you touch the body in anyway?"

Dave nodded.

"I...I checked his pulse but, apart from that no, no I didn't".

"Okay, then what happened".

Dave then straightened up, he seemed to be calming down from the shock of finding a dead body.

"I hurried to try and call the police, I then found Bernie, he's the cameraman for the show, I told him what happened and went to call the police, Mr Edwards, Mr. Henderson's guest, he overheard and decided to stick around, he seemed really concerned".

"Uh-huh, anything else you can think of".

The old man shook his head.

"I don't think so, at least, not at the moment".

"Okay, well if you think of anything, just call Captain Brass okay".

He nodded, Nick finished the interview and went to help Warrick in the audience stands. Catherine meanwhile was talking to Bernie Caine, the cameraman, a young man in his twenties with short dark hair and brown eyes.

"So approximately what time did you last see Mr Henderson".

Bernie thought for moment and then answered.

"It was about, just after quarter to eleven, the show had finished and we were clearing things up, the cameras and microphones and that, he was muttering to himself about something, he didn't look too happy".

Catherine then asked.

"Not happy, why?"

"Well, the show was pretty crazy, he went way too far again".

Catherine raised an eyebrow.

"Again?"

"I've been a cameraman for him for almost a year now, he always goes way to far, he usually talks about controversial subjects and always goes off on his own tangents, voices his own opinions loudly".

Catherine knew what this usually meant.

"Did he have any enemies?"

Bernie laughed.

"Try half the population of the world, he was really unpopular. The best way to understand what I'm saying is to watch his shows, most of them are on YouTube, you wouldn't believe the comments".

Catherine nodded and after finally closing the interview she went over to see Greg who had just finished his interview.

"Get anything Greg".

"Yeah apparently Mr. Henderson was more controversial than usual, especially since their subject was 9/11".

Catherine and Greg then began to work on processing the scene while Brass talked to the witnesses and other people involved.

Grissom and Sara were working on the body, one of the first things they noted was the microphone cord tightly wrapped around the victim's neck, Sara shook her head.

"Unless that was done post-mortem we've probably got our cause of death".

"Well, we'll see what Doc Robbins has to say".

As they continued their examination they found something else of interest, caught in the microphone cord was a single black hair, after collecting the hair they found trace fibres on his jacket, after collecting them and making more through examination they found all they could on the body, Catherine and Greg had been examining the main studio and found a footprint covered in dirt, the only place possible to pick up dirt was the small garden out the back of the studio, a few feet away, Greg was sent to examine that area to find shoe impression that could possible have come from the footprint, after documenting the footprint Catherine continued her investigation, just out of sight, on the floor she found, strangely, a lipstick dispenser, after documenting that she continued her investigation but found nothing else, Greg returned and explained that he had found two different sets of footprints in the dirt, he had documented all of them. Meanwhile Warrick and Nick were searching the audience stands and soon found what appeared to be a woman's handbag, after dusting it for prints they found a clear, usable print, after tape lifting the print they documented the bag as evidence, they also found a smoking pipe which they again checked for prints, they could only get a partial but it was still usable, they also documented the pipe, a through examination of the area turned up no more clues, after making sure they had found everything they could they called the coroner to pick up the body, Greg was in charge of getting the evidence to the lab and logging it in, Grissom and Sara would help Brass make sure the scene remained secure before returning to the lab, the others were on break for the moment, as they were leaving Catherine got a message on her phone, she opened it and read it.

'Mom, will you be able to come home soon, there's someone I want you to meet'

It was from Lindsey, as she was on break Catherine decided now would be a good time to go home so she texted back telling Lindsey she was on her way home right now, as she drove home she wondered who Lindsey wanted her to meet.

End of chapter 1, the evidence ahs been gathered, analysis will begin soon, who does Lindsey want Catherine to meet, wait and see, hope you enjoyed this sotry, read and review please.