-1Thanks to everyone who reviewed!! Here's chapter two. As always reviews are welcome and no I still don't own CSI I am just borrowing the characters for a little while!
Grissom pulled up to the Johnson house some twenty minutes later. On any other night it would have looked like a nice house on a peaceful upper class suburban street. Tonight it looked like something out of a movie with more than a half a dozen cop cars lining the street the house blocked off with crime scene tape.
Grissom parked his car, got his kit out of the back, and head up the front walkway. He saw Catherine fingerprinting the front door.
"Hey Grissom, looks like someone may have come by dressed as a flower deliveryman. Warrick found a vase by the front door cellophane wrapped with a card. It was addressed to Mike Johnson, the husband."
Grissom stepped over the threshold of the house careful not to knock over the flower vase. To his left was the dining room. To his right was the living room. Straight ahead was a staircase and a hallway which lead to he assumed the kitchen. Greg was in the living room with Nick processing the scene of the teenagers' murders.
"What have we got?" Grissom said as he approached the pair.
"Well it looks like the girl was strangled. The boy it looks like suffered blunt force trauma to the back of the head. I found this small bronze statute and it has traces of blood on it," Nick said as he snapped some photos of the statue. David from the coroners office was with the girl determining a time of death.
"David, it doesn't look like her body was originally placed here," Greg noted as he looked down at her body. He noticed scuff marks on the hardwood floors consistent with her being dragged across the floor then placed down next to her brother.
"No it doesn't, time of death looks like roughly 24 -34 hours ago. Same with the brother. I'll know more when Doc does the autopsy but right now it looks like she was strangled to death and he was hit in the back of the head."
"Thanks David," Grissom said as he knelt down next to the young woman's body. She couldn't have been more than 14 or 15 years old. No matter how long he did this job certain aspects of it never got any easier.
He left the two kids and headed up stairs where Catherine said Warrick was with the bodies of the parents. Up the stairs and to the left was the master bedroom. The two parents were found in their bed.
"It looks like the husband was killed first. A fountain pen was shoved in the side of his neck, nicking the carotid artery and he bled out. The wife was killed with a letter opener that looks like it came from the desk next to the bed. She was stabbed looks like six or seven times. Look at the pen," Warrick handed Grissom an evidence bag with the fountain pen it.
"Congratulations Joey." Grissom read aloud.
"Yea not sure who Joey is. Not any of the kids names. Probably the perps pen," Warrick said just as David walked in the room.
"Lividity is fixed and body temp on the mother is similar to her daughter. I Haven't looked at the husband yet but my guess they were murdered around the same time."
Grissom carefully scanned the room looking for anything that looked out of place. The room had a king size bed and the far left wall and a large flat screen TV hung on the opposite wall above a long dresser. There were his and her walk-in closets and a large bathroom with a Jacuzzi tub and steam shower. The TV was on and it was tuned to CNN. The station had turned all it's attention to the recent tragedy in Minnesota. Grissom finished looking through the parent's bedrooms before heading out to search through the rest of the rooms upstairs.
Greg and Nick headed down to processes the basement.
"Hey Greggo would you look at that?" Nick said as whistled.
"What?" Greg answered as he walked over to wear Nick was standing.
"A Movie theater. I mean this is the real deal. It has a concession stand track lighting and a velvet curtain. Look at the movie theater seats," Nick said looking for a light switch.
"Gives new meaning to staying home and renting a movie," Greg said as checked the AV closet in the back of the room.
It took nearly six hours to process the whole house as it was quite large. When they left Grissom called Sara and told her he'd drop of food before he headed to the lab.