Mac went back to the lab to update the others on the current case. Finding the missing witness was the break he needed. Hawkes happened to see him as he came in.
" Hey Mac. Where have you been?"
" Talking to our missing witness?"
" You found her?"
Mac just nodded his head and handed Hawkes a sent of fingerprints.
" I need you to compare these prints to the ones found at the crime scene."
" I'm on it."
Hawes then walked down the hall and Mac went to his office where Stella was waiting.
" I heard you found a break?"
" Found our missing witness. Her name is Abigail Conner, she's 19 and lives in Jersey City."
" What's she doing here?"
" I didn't ask. Flack thinks she might've run away from home. She allowed us to take her prints and Hawkes is comparing those to the ones found at the crime scene. I just happened to she her walking the streets. Flack and I talked to her and she told us what she could."
Stella nodded her head.
" I watched the surveillance over again. There's not much else to it. I didn't see anything new."
" Hopefully what Abigail told us we don't need to. Maybe we need to go over the crime scene again."
" Lindsay and I can do that."
Mac nodded his head and then Hawkes came in with Danny.
" We got a match," Hawkes said," Our missing witness, it's her prints that were on the back door."
" Do we go talk to her again?" Danny asked," If we need to, I'm all for it."
" She's fragile Danny," Mac said," Abigail saw what happened, I don't think she's involved."
" I know that Mac. I saw the tape. I know how scared she looked, but maybe she knows something else."
" At least it didn't take that long to find her," Stella said," We got some answers."
Danny then went out of the office and back down the hall to one of the other rooms. Flack then happened to come up.
" Don," Mac said.
" I found something else on Abigail, our missing witness."
" What is it?" Stella asked.
" According to what I found out, Abigail witnessed another murder, in her own home."
Mac looked confused.
" She told us she's never seen anything like that."
" Maybe she blocked it out for a reason," Flack said," Abigail witnessed the murder of her own father. The shooter was her own brother, James Conner. So far, he's never been found."
" So he's been on the run ever since," Mac added.
There was silence for a moment.
" No wonder what she didn't come forward right away," Stella said," She was scared."
" No missing persons report either. I talked to her mother and she told me it's not unusual for Abigail to come here. However, this time, Abigail didn't tell her mother she was going anywhere. I knew there was more to this girl, so I looked into it. She still might be a runaway."
" I'm going back to talk to her. Maybe she can remember something else," Mac said.
Mac left the office and headed out of the crime lab. Flack and Stella went the other way.
" Stella?"
Stella and Flack turned around to look at Danny.
" What you got Danny?"
" Another break I think. I decided to double check the money that was left at the crime scene and found a print. Ran it through the system and got a hit."
Danny handed what he found to Stella and was surprised by the results, so was Flack.
" It's her brother," Flack said," Our fugitive from Jersey."
" And from our crime scene. We have to tell Mac," Danny said.
Flack ended up calling Mac to let him know what else was found. The answers were slowly coming together, now only to find the perp and see if he was still in New York.
