Detective Robert Goren was used to being called into unusual cases. He had been to several places outside of New York solely to solve a crime, but being sent to OKlahoma on the fastest flight possible to solve a University student's murder? That was still a mystery to him. The president of the University of Oklahoma, however, had insisted on the brightest mind coming to solve this case. So he came. As Detective Alex Eames hopped into the drivers seat, as always, she made a remark about how airline food was never any good. Goren laughed at this. It seemed to be an inside joke amongst all travelers to make fun of airline food.

It was a twenty minute drive from the airport to the University, but Eames managed to make it in ten. As they pulled up to the crime scene there were college students everywhere in their pajamas, rubbing there eyes from lack of sleep or tears. It was this that made Goren realize what time it was. Four a.m. Sleep was beginning to mean so little to him. A strip of yellow caution tape marked off an area next to the Couch Cafeteria. They arrived three hours after the body had been found, so the body had already been moved. Goren, however, had called the detectives from Oklahoma with specific directions on how to photograph the body so as to not miss a single detail.

One of the Oklahoman detectives approached and introduced himself, shaking hands.

"The name's Matt Sullivan, Detective here in OKlahoma with Major Case. We got a call around 1:45 this morning that a body had been found. The caller was an intoxicated student making his way home from the dorm. The responding officer seemed to think that due to his intoxication he was over reacting. He arrived ten minutes later to find the intoxicated student reduced to dry-heaving next to the body, which had been... mutilated. We ID'd him as Bobby Heupel, illegitimate son of the President's Son's Wife."

"Well," replied Eames, "Thats quite the connection he has to the President. Looks like he was being well taken care of."

There was a wincing in his face when the Detective said mutilated. Small, but Goren had picked up on it. He stepped forward towards the blood stained ground and asked "When you say mutilated, you mean how?"

Detective Sullivan went red, then regained his composure. "We found him handcuffed to this bush here" He said pointing to a taller thicker bush, "He had been stripped naked and had been stabbed six times in the shoulders, twice in the neck. But thats not the worst. This poor kid. Had his genitals cut right off. Found them staked in the ground about a foot away. "

"You say he was positioned right here?" Goren asked pointing to the area by the bush and the blood stain.

The detective nodded. Goren stared for a moment then said "You see," He said this cocking his head to the side and pointing to an indention in the ground."this is where his shoulders were. They were pressed into the ground. But the curvature is wrong. If his hands had been cuffed to the bush, there would be two deeper impressions where his shoulder blades were. Instead its rounded; his arms were by his side. His hands weren't handcuffed yet. Someone was pushing him into the ground, right on his shoulders."

"Or sitting on them." Eames pitched in. "Our killer could have been making sure our vic couldn't struggle."

"Yes, but why not use the hand cuffs? I think the way he was murdered was becoming a struggle for our killer. Didn't realize Bobby would fight back so much. They we're probably small, female. Looks like they ditched their original plan and just focused on killing him."

Goren had gone to visit the medical examiner who examined the body. The only thing that came up was that new was the small traces of chloroform in his system. It was enough to make him incompetent while trying to move or talk but not enough to knock him out. The Killer had wanted Bobby to remain conscious while he killed him. Which meant the kill wasn't too quick. It was meant to be torturous. The handcuffs were beginning to look like a message or a sign about who Bobby person who killed him had a serious grudge. He called Eames and said he wanted to make a visit to the Fraternity house where Bobby had been living and ask his Fraternal Brothers if they had any idea who had something against him.