THE DAY THEY WISH NEVER HAPPENED
By Grace Richardson
The Vegas nightlife had always been very lively. Vegas had it all the nightlife, the scenery even the social life to go with it. There was one part of Vegas though which had been left undiscovered for many generations. This side was dark and it had cruel twist around every corner that you passed. This Vegas was a side not many people saw let alone noticed. This was old Vegas and for those who saw it there world was never the same again.
Her day started as any other. She got up at the same time, she ate the same things for breakfast she even left the house at the same time but what she didn't know was that trouble was just around the corner and for her there was no way out of it.
CSI LAB - MONDAY JUNE 14TH 2005 - 7.45 PM
"And Greg and Sara have a Homicide on the corner of Bleaker and Henderson"
The pair left the break room and carried on walking down the hall
"Lovely" Sara said. "You want to drive?"
"Me!" Greg said a little startled
"Yeah" Sara said looking a little bemused. "You got a problem with that?"
"No, it's just that, you usually like to do the driving"
"Well a girl can't get everything she wants" Sara said with a smirk.
The pair walked out of CSI headquarters and began to make there way towards Bleaker and Henderson. The drive was pretty silent apart from the odd car stereo going past. As the pair arrived they jumped out of Greg's Tahoe, removed their kits and entered the building.
Crime scene - Bleaker and Henderson - 8.45 pm- Monday 14th June
The building itself was situated in an unknown area of town. The buildings around it looked unused in fact the whole area in general looked like it was ready for demolition. Apart from the obvious police presence the whole area looked like it had been dragged through a hedge backwards. As the pair entered house the change was instant. The rooms were painted and the carpets looked and smelt clean. In fact the whole place was in complete contrast to the outside.
She should have known something was wrong. After all a building with a better inside than outside would suggest that someone took great pride in there work but why work on the inside but not the outside?. Why make the inside look like a castle and leave the outside to look like a pauper's layer. Some of her questions were about to be answered.
"Hey David" the pair repeated in unison
"Hey this is Ryan Jacobson he's 21. Drivers licence confirms I.D, no other I.D in his wallet"
"Rest of his wallet been checked" Greg piped up
"Nah thought I'd wait for you guys"
"Ta"
"Care to hazard a guess at the cause of death" Sara continued
"Probably asphyxia but I don't want to chance it. Going to wait for the autopsy to confirm"
"Thanks David" Sara said
"Yeah sure"
The body itself was laid in the most awkward of positions. The left leg was laid on top of his head while his arms were placed behind his leg. The body itself had a massive chunk taken out of it right around his left ear. The intact ear was placed in a vertical position and laid around 15 feet away from the body. The other ear was intact and still attached to the body.
As Sara bend down to look at the body something caught her eye.
"Other ears nearly gone"
She bent down to take a closer look at the ear. It was marginally intact but it looked like a blunt heavy object had been used to it to try to remove it. The object what ever it was, was no where to be seen but it there were trace marks from the object around the ear. Sara looked at the ear snapped a few shots and took cast marks for closer inspection.
"Something's missing"
"What do you mean" Greg said
"Come take a look"
As Greg was still training to be a CSI he had quite passed his training yet. Sara decided to give him a little test.
"What do you see?"
"A body!"
Sara was not amused.
"Besides the body, what's missing?"
"Blood"
"If we decided to amputate one of our major organs"
"Then there'd be blood"
"So where is it? And more importantly where's that weapon"
"Ill check the perimeter"
As Greg moved out of the building Sara bent down to take a closer look at the rest of the body. She took several photos, all of the pictures she took took into consideration the tool marks she had found on his body and any other marks she thought maybe relevent to the case.
She moved over to her right to take a look at the ear. She noticed that it had the same tool marks as the other one but this one had been taken clean off where as the other one had to have a few goes at chopping it off and even then it stayed on his head. As she crouched down to take a closer look at the ear she was able to see that the ear contained a bug of some sort. As she examined the remains further she noticed that the bug had a blue body and a blue head. Behind her the body was being taken away and Greg re-entered the room with an empty and reserved look on his face.
"Anything" Sara said
"Nada"
"You sure?" Sara said a little eager
"Yeah there's a load of grass and there were some bugs around a footprint I found"
"Were they blue by any chance?"
"Yeah"
"Did you bag one?"
"I did and a few of his friends, even bagged some of the soil, and before you ask I even took a cast of the footprint"
"Good. I say we take a trip back to the lab"