"Horatio," Horatio said once he picked up the phone, "yes Valera. The blood is Calleighs? Thank you very much."
Horatio hung up the phone and then called Eric on his cell, "Eric, I'm coming to the lab. Please tell me you have something about where Calleigh might be. DNA just confirmed the blood is definitely hers."
When Horatio got to the lab where Eric was working, he found Eric in such a happy mood. He had the biggest smile on his face.
"H, I have very good news. The tire treads I found belongs to a Chevrolet van. I checked it through the database and there are 3 known people who drive them. Here's the list. One of the names sounds familiar I just can't remember what case it's from," Eric said handing Horatio the list.
"Ah yes. Damien Fisher. Calleigh was the one who put him in jail because of his gun that she analysed. Oh, and he recently made bail; how convenient. I guess this is his way of getting back at her. I also remember he had an accomplice that we couldn't put at the scene so we couldn't charge him. I believe his name was Tom Thatcher. Lets see where these men are." Horatio said looking more relieved that they have a lead.
They went to Damien's house. He wasn't home. What they did find though was very horrific. They found a filing cabinet. Inside the filing cabinet there was hundreds of pieces of paper. Each page had what looked like a different form of cruel punishment. There were pages on how to make a prisoner do what you want them to do without even having to talk to them.
"I hope he hasn't had much time to try these medieval methods of torture yet. These are very intricate and the descriptions are very good. It looks to me like he has been fantasising about using these tools for quite some time now," Horatio said in astonishment.
"Well, if he has intricate designs on what he wants to use, maybe he will have somewhere tons of photos on who he was planning on using them on," Eric said disgusted, "wait, there's another drawer on the filing cabinet."
Eric opened the drawer and his jaw dropped to the ground. In the drawer were thousands of Polaroid photos. He picked some up and looked at each one. All the pictures had what looked like the same girl. Pictures of her through all of her life. On the top of the pile had baby photos, as Eric dug further and further into the drawer full of photos the girl got older and older. Childhood, teenage years, going off to college, getting her diploma, getting her first job. As Eric dug deeper into the pile the expression on his face got sadder and even more disgusted with every picture he pulled out.
"Umm...Horatio?" Eric said very worried, "I think I know who this girl is. You probably aren't going to like this. Here's the most recent one I could find."
He handed the photo to Horatio and his mouth immediately dropped. He recognized the girl to. It's hard not to. She is definitely a very individual person. The girl had long blonde hair, green eyes, a camera at hand, looking at a dead body. It was Calleigh.
"So this creep has been stalking her all her life? How could she not know about this? He's been able to take photo after photo of her. What else has he seen. Those torture devices he has drawn; they are from his sick fantasy world with Calleigh. He's planning on using those things he's described on Calleigh isn't he?" Eric said now rampaging around the house frantically looking for something that would lead them to where Calleigh was.
They went over to Tom Thatcher's house to find that he wasn't home either. They let themselves in and looked around. His house was completely clean of anything that would tie him to a stalker charge at least.
"Okay. There's nothing here. Maybe he is being used by Damien. That's why Tom's just the accomplice. He'd do anything Damien told him to do," Horatio said cooly.
Eric however ran around the house looking for another piece of evidence to tell them where Calleigh might be. He found it.
There was a piece of paper on the table. It said '1473 Cornerbrook Drive'.
"Maybe this is where they are keeping her," Eric said happily.