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"You got anything on the dead couple?" Eric asked Tara as he walked into the morgue. She looked up from the work she was doing.

"Well, besides cutting their heads off, he stabbed them each several times in the chest. No bullets for Calleigh," she said, handing him a file, "Got anything on who might have killed them?" Eric shook his head.

"Not yet. Calleigh and I are going to talk to Ellie about it later, though."

"Oh. That's good. How's she doing?"

"Who?"

"Ellie."

"She's been better, that's for sure. H has this notion that he can find her biological father. He's got nothing so far."

"Well, that's nice. Let me know if he gets anything."

"Sure thing." Eric turned and headed out. He spotted Calleigh down the hall and ran to her.

"Hey Eric!" she said with a smile. His heart soared. Calleigh was so sweet, especially to him.

"Tara wanted to know if H had anything more on Ellie's biological father."

"No, not yet. But DNA got back to us on those hairs. It turned out they were from Rick Selter."

"Who the heck is that?" Eric was puzzled. Had this Rick come up in a previous case?

"He's the owner of Waterside, the restaurant Ruth worked at. But get this," Calleigh said, showing Eric the profile she had brought up, "Rick went to the same high school as Ruth!"

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"Ellie, do you know anyone named Rick Selter?" Calleigh asked the teen in one of the questioning rooms.

"Yeah, of course," she explained, "He was my mom's boss. Why?"

"Would he have any reason to kill your parents?" Eric asked gently. He didn't want to hurt Ellie's feelings.

"No way," she said assertively, "because my mom's his head dessert chef. That's reason why half the people come to his restaurant."

"How are you so sure?"

"He told my mom that after he promoted her to head dessert chef."

"Really? So who did he pass up?"

"Ummm... her name is Leona Thompson. She did desserts with my mom. Leona got really upset when my mom got promoted," Ellie paused for a minute, "You guys don't think Leona killed my parents, do you?"

"It's possible," said Calleigh. She turned to Eric, "Hey, do you think you could get Leona in here for me. I'm in a little time crunch today Turns out Tara actually did find a bullet."

"Sure, no problem." Eric left the questioning room to track down Leona Thompson.

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"Natalia!" said Ryan, entering the lab, "Got anything on that print Eric pulled from the knife?" She turned away from her computer.

"Well, it was only a partial. But I found a 93.4% match."

"Great. Who is it?"

"Same woman Ellie mentioned. Leona Thompson. She got arrested for DUI last year." Ryan peered at the screen, checking over the data. Natalia couldn't help but give him a once over. He looked different when he was in a suit. Almost... cuter. Natalia got a hold of her thoughts. He was a coworker, nothing more. Or so she had thought up until now.

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"Why am I here?"

"Leona, you're here because you killed Ruth and Thomas McCoy," said Horatio calmly. He slid off his sunglasses and placed them on the table.

"What? That's impossible," said the woman brushing her hair out of her face, "I was at Waterside. There was supposed to be a dinner party later, and I was asked to make the cake."

"Really?" Horatio responded, "Then how are your prints on the murder weapon?" He placed the knife down in its bag.

"Someone stole my bag of kitchen knives. That one's mine," Leona said, "I swear. I even told my boss about it. He said there was nothing we could do."

"Well, we'll see about that.