A few minutes later, Henry came out and they spoke in a conference room; he sat across from Scotty and Kat.

"How can I help you?" Henry asked. Henry was tall, had short black hair and no longer needed glasses.

"We have reopened the case of your sister's car accident," Kat said.

"You are? Is Detective Black doing the case?" Henry asked confused and troubled.

"Yes, we are looking into it. No, Detective Black retired a few years ago, so he will not be near this case. We got some new information," Scotty said.

"Glad Detective Black isn't doing the case; he was a jerk, to put it mildly. What do you want to know?" Henry said then asked.

"We understand you didn't like some of Michelle's boyfriends at the time," Scotty said.

"No. I liked Andrew Earnest for her because he was such a cool guy and when she dumped him for Nick Vera, I was upset. After she died, I found out some things about two of her boyfriends I didn't really know and it seemed Nick was the only one who was nice to her."

"What did you find out?" Kat asked.

"I was at a party a few weeks after she died, I overheard some guys, Grant Thoms and Andrew Earnest, talking in an adjacent room."

[Flashback]

March 8, 1986

A young Andrew Earnest had very short brown hair, slender build, and was medium height. He was drinking while talking to Grant Thoms who was black, with an afro and was of medium build.

"Hey Grant, did you hear about Nick?" Andrew asked.

"No, what?"

"Joe Mainsheim told me that Nick killed her in a rage and caused her to crash. I should have been dating Michelle, not Nick. Michelle was one special lady," Andrew said

"Well maybe it was really Joe. I heard that Joe Mainsheim went out with Michelle, too, and I went out with her a couple of times as well."

"You and Joe went out with her? Nick never knew we'd hooked back up. I had sex with her a few weeks before she died and since Nick is said to have killed her, they have to believe the baby is his," Andrew sneered.

"How are they going to think the baby is his? And isn't Henry your friend?"

"Henry thinks I'm perfect and let me tell you something, I did a lot of things to Michelle that he will never find out about," Andrew said.

"You better hope he never finds out."

"Just watch, the cops haven't talked to me yet but I'm gonna steer them in Nick's direction and we shall see Nick confess," Andrew said with a devious laugh.

"But, I thought she was killed in a car crash."

"Of course she was killed in the car crash," Andrew said.

"Well, how did it happen?"

Andrew laughed, "Nick made her swerve by turning the steering wheel and covering her eyes, then when she wasn't looking, she hit a tree. But I do know that Michelle didn't stay faithful to Nick. She hooked up with several of her ex-boyfriends while she was dating Nick," Andrew said.

"Does Nick know that she went out with other guys?"

"Stupid fool just doesn't believe it, but he knows and I bet he knows about the engagement ring and locket she wore the day she died," Andrew said.

"Who proposed to her?"

"I actually did, but I guess Nick did too," Andrew said in laughter.

They both laughed.

[End Flashback]

"So that's when I realized that Nick was getting railroaded," Henry said.

"Did you tell Detective Black?" Kat asked.

"Yeah, I did but he was so sure it was Nick."

"Did you ever find out who the father was?" Scotty asked.

"No, I didn't know for sure other than hearing what Andrew said. But then, he was sounding like smartass."

"Thank you for your time," Kat said as she and Scotty got up.

"Anytime. Let me know if you need anything," Henry said as they walked out of the conference room.

"If you think of anything, give us a call," Scotty said as he gave Henry his card.

"Thanks again."

After Kat and Scotty left the councilman's office, they chatted in the car.

"Sounds like someone didn't tell me everything. I did have the sense Detective Black really had it out for Nick and only cared about Nick," Kat said.

"I don't think I saw the report about that incident Henry told us or the engagement ring. Let's have Lilly and Will meet us at the car storage area."

Lilly and Will finished their interview with Randall, who didn't give them much information. The four detectives briefed each other about their interviews, then looked at Michelle's car. Since the case was re-opened the car was retested for fingerprints and fibers that were still being processed in the lab.

"Well, the front of the car is smashed," Scotty said.

"I'm just not sure the person in the car would have been killed. The crime scene photos do show she was wearing her seat belt but she was going at more than 35 miles per hour and there was no precipitation either," Will replied.

"I would think she would have survived that accident," Kat said.

"That's what I'm thinking too. And fingerprints were taken just on the doors of the car. The seats and belt buckles have been tested for fingerprints for the first time. It wasn't done back then." Lilly said then continued, "David?"

"Yes?" David, the CSU tech asked as he walked up to Lilly.

"Is there a report on the testing of the car after the accident?"

"Yes. In fact after the prints were taken, I finally found this file that showed the car was tested for any problems in '86."

"That would explain why there was no record of the car being tested for any problems in the box," Scotty said.

"No mechanical problems or any seatbelt issues either, the brake line looks to have been poked by a small cylindrical object, perhaps a nail on all four tires," David said, as Lilly's cell phone rang and she picked it up.

"Yeah? Okay, we'll be there."

"What's up?" Scotty asked a bit nervous.