The team was in the layout room, checking the evidence that they've processed so far. It had been three hours since Calliegh had called Horatio and told him that they might be chasing the same guy.
"So far, there are no fingerprints or DNA left from anyone but the victims" Horatio said, "The only thing we do have is shoeprints from "Rape Hill".
They all knew that this killer were going to be hard to catch.
"Yeah and those shoeprints are strange. Its like its three different shoes in one print." Eric said.
"Is that even possible? And what's the real name for this "Rape Hill"?" Natalia asked.
"Yeah, it is possible, but it has to be done by someone who works with making shoes or something and nowadays shoes are mostly made by machines." Eric sighed,
Shoeprints, that's all they´ve got, he wasn´t used of having this little evidence and it was making him quit frustrated. Those shoes could belong to anyone.
Eric however wasn´t the only one being frustrated at the moment, Natalia was too. She was being ingored by Ryan because he still hadn´t forgiven her for the mole thing. A lot of people still hated her for it.
"There is no other name for "Rape Hill", they were going to name the hill when someone started raping women there. People started calling it "Rape Hill" and it became the name of the hill." Calliegh said.
"Lets focus on the victims for a second, Alex, what can you tell us?" Horatio asked.
Alex told them that the first victim, Sandra Hayes, died when her head was chopped off. It was a clean cut and it was probably done with an axe.
The second victim, Melissa Juanes, was first knocked out with chloroform and while she was passed out someone chopped of both her arms right over her elbows, also clean cuts.
The head wound was maybe from falling to the floor or getting hit with something. Ms. Juanes died two hours and twenty minutes before Ms. Hayes.
"How long does it take to drive from Mr. and Mrs. Jameson´s house to "Rape Hill", Mister Wolfe?" Horatio asked.
"Almost thirty minutes, so our killer could have easily killed both victims." Ryan said.
"Nope, sorry" Franks voice sounded from the doorway. "Ms. Hayes friends says that she was started driving home all the drunk people from the party at one AM. she never stopped long enough at a place for someone to sneak into her backseat without her knowing. Except one place."
"I wonder where that could be, a gas station maybe?" Horatio smiled.
"Yes, she was there for fifteen minutes, but she never bought anything, just simply looked around and flirted with the clerk, he called the police when he heard about the murder." Frank said.
"Good, Calliegh you and I are going to take a ride to the gas station, Eric and Natalia you check every shoe factory in Miami for anything that seems suspicious and Ryan, I want you to question the witnesses at the birthday party. Remember that we are now looking for two killers that are most likely working together." Horatio said as everyone started walking towards the garage to drive away.
-I-
It was a quiet drive for Horatio and Calliegh, they were in the same car. Calliegh´s hummer was having some mechanical problems, so she had to ride with her teammates.
Frank were going to meet Horatio and Calliegh at the gas station, he just had something to take care of first.
Calliegh glanced at Horatio, last night they have had dinner and well, lets just say they had a busy night.
They had been dating for two weeks now and nobody else knew about it. Horatio had wanted them to wait before telling anybody, he had some bad experience from previous relationships and wanted them to get more used to each other before coming out.
She had no problem with that. He was the sweetest man she had ever met and she knew he had a lot of baggage, but she was not bothered by it and she hoped that one day he would tell her a little bit about his past.
"Are you thinking about anything special, angel?" Horatio suddenly asked.
Calliegh had been watching him for quit a while and she had drifted off too la-la land for a while.
"I was just thinking about how sweet you are." she smiled.
"Well, you´re sweet too. I Have a surprise for you tonight." Horatio said and taking her hand in his.
"Whats that?" Calliegh tried, already knowing that he would never tell her.
"If I told you it wouldn´t be a surprise would it?" He said.
"I guess not, but you know how curious I am, please tell me" Calliegh smiled, "I´ll give you a kiss if you tell me".
"Tempting, but you´ll have to wait." Horatio chuckled.
Calliegh giggled, she was so glad that she was able to see this side of Horatio, he should show it to other people as well, but she knew that his fear of being mocked was too strong for that.
After a while they saw a car standing on the side of the road, two people were trying to get someone to stop and help them.
"Horatio, stop at that car, we should help them." Calliegh said.
Horatio stopped and just as they got out of the car it started raining.
"Thank you so much for stopping, we´ve been standing here for almost an hour and nobody has helped us." The man said. "I´m Alan Roberts and this is my wife Shelly" Alan said, he and Shelly shook hands with Horatio and Calliegh as Horatio introduced himself and Calliegh and told Aland and Shelly what they were, CSI´s.
Aland told them that for now reason he could think of, their car broke down, he popped up the hood and he and Horatio started checking the engine.
Calliegh followed Shelly to the back of the car to get umbrellas.
"CSI huh? Must be a tough job?" Shelly asked.
"Yeah, but rewarding" Calliegh answered, she looked over at the hood just as she felt something hard hit her head and the world suddenly started spinning, she tried to say something but everything went black.
"Well, I can´t seem to find anything wrong with your car Mr. Roberts." Horatio said, he took his eyes away from the engine just as Alan hit him with a baseball bat. Horatio never had time to react and he passed out.
"Put the read-head in the boot cover and the girl in the backseat. And throw away their phones." Alan told his wife.
A few minutes later, a silver car pulled away from hummer left on the side of the road.
-I-
Frank, Eric and Natalia stood at a rest stop in the middle of the woods, it was a popular spot where young people came to make out and fool around.
There were a thousand different tire marks at the scene, so it would only be a waste of time to try and get tire marks from a car that could possibly belong to the killers.
"Okay, Frank what do we know so far?" Eric asked.
" Well, a guy named Derek Hope and a girl named Jessica Langdon came out here to make out, after a while the guy leaves the car to take a leak and doesn´t come back. The girls starts hearing sounds from the roof, scratching sounds." Frank said, reading the notes from the first officer on the scenes. "sound familiar?" He asked.
"Yeah, let me guess, the girl tried to leave after a while but the car was stuck and she spend the entire night here, am I right?" Eric smiled.
"Yeah, fifteen minutes ago officers arrived after the guy had been reported missing, they tracked his cell phone. They told the girl to leave the car without looking back. She does look back and faints at the sight of her boyfriend. She woke up after three minutes." Frank said.
They looked at the boyfriend, a young read-head, he was hanging from his feet in a tree above the car and at a closer look they could see scratch marks on the roof of the car. He had dried blood around his mouth.
"Where´s the girl?" Natalia asked.
"Over there" Frank said, pointing towards an ambulance.
The girl was a short blond, with shock written all over her face, the green color in her eyes almost seemed to disappear.
Natalia and Frank walked over to the frightened girl as Eric started taking pictures on the car and Derek.
"Hi, I´m Natalia Boa Vista, from Miami Dade crime lab and this is Detective Tripp. Do you mind telling us what happened." Natalia asked.
"Yeah, sure, Derek and I were just going out here last night around eleven to kind of like, make out. After a while he left the car to take a leak. When he didn´t come back, I decided to leave, but the car wouldn´t move. I started hearing scratching sounds from the roof and it freaked me out. I was too afraid to leave the car, but if I had then maybe Derek would still be alive." Jessica said, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Its okay, this is not your fault, did you see anyone outside the car?" Natalia asked.
"No, no one" Jessicas voice caught.
"Okay, well you´ve been very helpful, we might come back later with more questions, okay?" Frank said.
"Yeah, okay." Jessica said.
Jessica was transported into the ambulance and driven to the hospital, just as Alex arrived.
Three officers slowly cut down Derek from the trees.
"Well, his nails are worn down from scratching the roof. He´s also missing his tongue." Alex said.
"I haven´t seen a tongue around here so far. I'll add it to my do list." Eric joked, getting odd looks from everybody.
"Well, I think someone ripped out his tongue and my guess is that he died from blood loss, and TOD is between eleven and two a.m. last night. Alex said as Derek's body was put on a gurney and placed in Alex´s van.
"Can someone really bleed to death from getting their tongue ripped out?" Natalia asked.
"Yeah, if someone also ripped out the organs in his throat and maybe cut his carotid artery from the inside. Though that is very difficult and you have to be very good at human anatomy." Alex said, leaving the scene.
Frank walked up to Natalia and Eric with a worried look on his face.
He had been standing a few feet away making phone calls.
"I can´t reach Horatio and Calliegh, they´re not answering their cell phones." He said.
"Yeah, now that you mention it, it is strange that they´re not here yet, have you called Ryan?" Eric asked.
"Yeah, he is on his way here." Frank said.
"Okay, Nat go back to the lab and tell Tyler to track their phones." Eric said.
Natalia quickly left. Eric and Frank stayed at the crime scene, Frank sent two officers to the gas station that Horatio and Calliegh were driving to.
-I-
Half an hour later Eric, Ryan and Frank were standing on the side of road 556, Horatio´s hummer was also there. Unlocked and with the keys still in the ignition. No signs of any cell phones so far, but they were probably somewhere in the ditch.
"Why would they stop here?" Ryan asked.
"Don't know. Eric do you think you can get any tire marks?" Frank asked.
"No way, remember it was raining not long ago, the rain washed it away." Eric sighed.
"Well, I´m going to spread the words that two CSI´s are missing." Frank said.
Ryan and Eric looked at the ditch next to the road, the started looking for Horatio´s and Calliegh´s cell phones. Eric and Ryan hoped that who ever kidnapped Horatio and Calliegh weren´t connected to their murder cases because then they knew that they would probably not find anything useful at the scene. They worked in silence, not saying a word to each other. Silently hoping that Horatio and Calliegh simply ran off somewhere, though that's wasn´t very likely.
TBC…
AN: I would like to thank Queen Sunstar, for not only correcting this chapter, but also for the help with the urban legends in this chapter! Though I added a few stuff, such as the tongue being ripped away.
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