She was able to get a partial print off the outside door handle. As she was working, she never realized Lt. Jamison was watching her intently. Standing in the bathroom, she was just merely looking around. It confused Lonnie as to why she was just standing there seemingly doing nothing. There was no apparent wounds on the victim and no blood splatter that she could see. She took her digital camera out and began taking photographs of the bathroom and of the body.
"Miss? The coroner's here to pick up the body." One of the rookie cops stated
"Ok. I'll be done in here in a few minutes. Thank you." Jette replied
Lonnie had moved to talk to Virgil who had just arrived. The Lieutenant told the detective everything he knew up to that point. Virgil made his way into the house, with Lonnie, to see what the young women were up to. Jette was almost finished processing the bathroom.
"Miss Lefebvre, I want you to meet Detective Virgil Tibbs. Virgil this is one of our new CSIs, Jette Lefebvre." Lonnie said as he introduced the pair
"It's a pleasure, Miss Lefebvre." Virgil stated as he held out his hand
She took her gloves off before shaking his hand, "Please, call me Jette. And the pleasure is mine, Mr. Tibbs."
"We're pretty informal down here. Call me Virgil. So, what do you have so far?" Virgil questioned
"Well, I have a partial print off the outside bathroom door and scrapings from the door frame where it was jarred open." Jette explained
"I have some partial prints as well from the outside of the house as well as some shoe prints. The back door was definitely shimmied open. I found no prints on any of the windows so he didn't try to look inside before he broke in." Dominique stated as she came to a stop next to the trio
"Detective, I'd like to introduce you to my sister Dominique Lefebvre. This is the lead Detective Virgil Tibbs." Jette stated as she introduced her sister and the detective
"Have you finished processing the inside yet?" Dominique questioned
"No, I just finished the bathroom. Haven't started anywhere else yet. You take the bedroom and I'll take the living room?" Jette offered
Dominique excused herself and her sister as the two women went in opposite directions. Virgil could only watch as the two women walked away. Lonnie was watching after Jette but tried to hide it. Virgil was quite interested in how the ladies worked. He followed Jette into the living room.
Virgil watched for a few minutes as Jette began dusting various surfaces to gather fingerprints with a pink fluorescent powder. She was meticulous with how she did things and made sure to label everything correctly. Virgil was satisfied with how she was working and headed outside to talk to some of the neighbors. Lonnie finally followed Virgil outside. When Jette was finished with her dusting for prints, she stood in the middle of the room and just looked around.
Jette was biting her lower lip as she thought about her crime scene. She got down on her knees to look under the furniture in case anything was hiding there. Unfortunately there wasn't much to be found. She took her kit and headed into the hallway leading to the bathroom and closet.
Jette wondered how the perpetrator woken her up. If he was in the hallway or her bedroom she had to run past him to get into the bathroom. If he were in the living room or kitchen, why did she run to the bathroom? Something was odd here and it didn't make much sense! She took her ALS lite, slid her glasses on, and took a closer look at the walls and bathroom doorframe.
She smiled when she saw a bit of some sort of spatter on the wall opposite of the bathroom but several feet from the actual door. Taking her camera out, she got some pictures. Her next task was to get out some swabs and her Hemascein. It was better than luminol for most things. She sprayed the liquid on the wall where she saw the spatter. It glowed and showed that the spatter was indeed human blood. She took a few swabs and labeled them.
Something was definitely wrong here. Things weren't adding up in her mind. Too many questions and not enough answers! Dominique emerged from the bedroom with her kit and the samples she took. They exchanged knowing glances and went about their work. There were no other spatter places on the walls or any other indications of any other bodily fluid anywhere.
Satisfied she had collected everything, she packed her up kit and headed outside. Bubba, Lonnie, and Virgil were standing around as the rest of officers were finishing up. Virgil waved the two young women over to where they were quietly chatting about the house. They cautiously walked over to their new coworkers were at. Virgil wanted to know what they thought about the crime scene.
"There's something very wrong here." Jette was quick to state
"Why do you say that?" Bubba inquired
"If the intruder woke her up while he was in the living room or the front of the hallway, wouldn't she have locked herself in her bedroom? If he were in her bedroom or the back part of the hallway, she had to run past him to get to the bathroom. If she got past him, why didn't she run out of the house?" Jette explained with a sigh, "It just doesn't make sense."
"Hmm, interesting." Virgil stated
"Gentlemen, we need to get back to the lab to start analyzing what we've collected. We'll see you later." Dominique said with a warm smile
The trio bid their goodbyes before the ladies headed to their vehicle. After the CSIs were out of earshot, Virgil stated Jette did make sense. Bubba just nodded and Lonnie remained quiet. Bubba and Lonnie finally headed back to the Police Station while Virgil finished up at the crime scene.
Parker wanted to know what happened at the crime scene but the ladies had to get to the lab to begin analysis. When Bubba and Lonnie arrived, he was quick to start asking questions. Bubba could only shake his head and laugh slightly. Lonnie chose to ignore the barrage of questions as he sat down at his desk.
