Chapter Three:
New Case
Jessica and Lindsay didn't waste any time heading towards the crime scene. Both girls knew it must have been something big in order for dispatch to call on all available units including off duty officers. As they ran the two blocks from the restaurant to the scene, Jessica radioed back to dispatch, letting them know that they were responding to the call out. Jessica and Lindsay arrived at the house and Jess thought it belonged on a hallmark card. It was one of those perfect houses that you only saw on TV and didn't think really existed especially in New York. It had the white picket fence, it even had the Christmas lights shining brightly, it fit the general stereotype of the happy family home except for the police cars that were parked outside of it. Jessica saw the first responders exit the house and recognized one of the uniforms as one of their guys, Joshua Erickson, Lindsay and Jessica walked over to him to see what they were looking at.
"Erickson, What do we got?" Jessica asked
"It's a 187, we got five victims and the scene has been cleared. I thought you guys had the night off, detectives?" Erickson replied
"We did but we were only two blocks away when dispatch gave the call out." Lindsay answered.
Erickson nodded his head as both Jessica and Lindsay started to head into the house. Lindsay didn't have her kit but she could survey the scene until the other CSI's showed up and Jessica wanted to gather as much information on the victims as possible.
"Detectives, this is a bad one" Erickson called out
"Thanks for the warning" Jessica replied.
Jessica had been to her share of crime scenes, she had seen many disturbing things but she had built up a tolerance to all the horrible things that you were bound to see on this job but she took one look around the crime scene and it took all her will power to keep down her stomach contents. Lindsay also had developed a tough outer shell and seen her share of terrible things but this scene took the cake.
Lying in a pool of blood in the porch was their first victims, one was male and if Jessica had to guess, he looked no more than seven years old. Lying next to him was a female victim, Jessica assumed it must have been the mother and by the body position Jess could only assume she died protecting her son. They walked through the rest of the house and walked upstairs careful not to disturb the scene. Once they were upstairs they walked down the hallway to a bedroom that was shared by two little girls, the bubble gum pink paint and the my little pony décor gave it away. That's where they discovered their third and fourth victims, two little girls maybe three years old. They both were lying face down in a pool of blood only an inch from the doorway.
"They were making a run for it" Jessica said to Lindsay
Lindsay nodded her head and walked over to the night stand that rested between the two twin beds and looked at the picture that was there, "they're twins" She said
Jessica followed the blood trail down to the master bedroom and discover their last victim, a male in his late 30's laying just outside the bedroom door. Jessica had managed to gather an ID on the family and she ruled out a robbery gone wrong. She was about to head back to see where Lindsay had gotten too when she heard voices coming from downstairs that distinctly sounded like Danny, Mac and Flack. She walked back downstairs to pass on the information.
"Hey, how did you get here so fast" Danny asked as he saw Jess appear back into the porch area where the two victims lay.
"Lindsay and I were only a few blocks away having dinner when we got the call out" She replied
"What do you got?" Flack questioned intentionally avoiding her eyes.
"We are standing in the Roland household. That would be Jenna Roland, age 37. She's a nurse at Bellevue. Next to her would be six year old Cody Roland. Upstairs in the bedroom to your left are three year old identical twins, Katie and Abby. Found down the hall just outside of the master bedroom is 39 year old Bryan Roland, he's an independent architect. And I've already ruled out robbery as a motive, I found 300 dollars in cash plus credit cards in the vic's wallet" Jessica replied
"Is it me or shouldn't there be more blood here considering the victims injuries" Danny said once he had examine Cody's and Jenna's bodies.
"Yeah about that….umm just follow me" Jessica said, she lead them into the living room. The once mustard colour walls were now stain red from the blood that was splashed across them. Directly in the middle of the living room the killer had drew what appeared to be a broken heart and written next to it was the phrase La famiglia è tutta che abbiamo in questo mondo. li apprezziamo! "I'm thinking that's their blood" Jessica said
She turned to face the guys and noticed that they were all looking a little greenish. Mac was the first to find his tongue "That's not arterial spray."
Danny opened his kit and walked over to the wall he wiped it with a q-tip and poured a solution on it. The q-tip turned pink "but it is definitly blood" he said
"The killer is certainly sending a message" Flack replied
"We'll get a translator to translate it" Mac replied
"I think I know what it says" Jessica said "My Italian is a bit rusty but it's along the lines: Family is all we have in this world, treasure them"
"You speak Italian?" Flack asked slightly impress.
Jess shrugged her shoulders "a bit" she replied.
Bang, crash, bang. "Shhh" Mac said "did you hear that, it sounded like someone's upstairs"
'Lindsay is still up there" Jess replied, "it could have been her"
"No Lindsay is right here" Lindsay said walking into the living room "and we got a problem"
A/N: OK so there wasn't much Flack and Angell in this one but I'm trying to set up the case, maybe more in the next one. And I don't speak Italian so I used a translator and they translate it word for word so the translation might not be totally correct.
