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Chapter Two
Sickening
Doc Robbins had seen a lot of corpses in his days as a coroner. He had never seen anything quite this grisly in Vegas. Catherine and Gil came in before Robbins had quite finished with the preliminary examination. Catherine went unusually pale at the sight of the body and Gil, who'd seen the body at the scene, winced.
"What did you find?" Asked Gil, his voice soft and almost mournful. Roberts studied the two CSI's carefully. He sighed and turned back to the body.
"I won't know for sure the cause of death until I open her up but it's a safe assumption that she died of exsanguination. I had David count up the number of cuts and their depths. I've never seen anything quite like this. Whoever did this has to be really sadistic even for a sociopath. There are 1,396 cuts that are less than ½ a centimeter and there are 293 that are more than a centimeter deep." Catherine felt her stomach churn at the thought of how long it would have taken to do this, Robbins confirmed it. "We've compared the cuts and... this took at least four to five hours to complete. Gil closed his eyes and his jaw muscles twitched as he struggled to reign in his anger and disgust. He felt a monstrous migraine coming on. He looked down at the young woman's body. She was young, somewhere around twenty years old. Her hair lay around her head like a honey blond halo and the peaceful expression on her face was distorted by the dozens of vicious cuts criss-crossing her countenance. The same pattern was in each set of cuts. It made no sense to Grissom and he didn't know how long he could stare at the poor woman's corpse before he lost his mind. Her entire body was mutilated in this fashion and it sickened Grissom. Things didn't usually bother him this badly, somehow this was different. As he and Catherine left Robbins to his work and they walked down the hall to examine what little evidence they'd been able to find, Gil found himself wondering what kind of sick bastard would murder a young woman barely out of her teen years in such a brutal fashion. Grissom knew they had to catch the murderer before he or she struck again.
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