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A/N: I'm surprised this got done tonight. But my mom is ready to kick me off the computer. And I have to go study for a math test. Thank you to everyone and anyone who is reading this, especially my reviewers! So... Enjoy!!
45 hours earlier (4 am)…
"Do we have a match?" Sara asked, entering the glass walls of the DNA lab.
"Yes and no… The lone blonde one you gave me matched the others. But I'm still running them through the database. And I've also established that because the roots are still attached to the hairs-"
"Means they were yanked or pulled out," Sara continued for him. "Does that get us anywhere?"
"Well, the hairs are XX…"
"Female."
"So our killer is a girl?"
"Not necessarily Greg. Teenagers hung around the deserted building all the time."
"Yeah, but wasn't one found on the body?"
"Yes, but it could be from someone who just didn't report it, because they were afraid they would be blamed for murder… Thanks Greg, I'll pass it on. Right now, I have to go see Warrick about some footprints," Sara said, leaving Greg to stare at his computer screen, still hoping for a DNA match to the blonde hairs…
"Where did you guys find the footprints?" Sara said, approaching Warrick in the layout room. He was going through piles and piles of lists of shoe sales.
"Catherine got two nice molds from the dirt beneath one of the windows. But it could be meaningless, it's not like they were actually found near the body."
"Yeah, that's true," she said, lifting up a picture of the shoe print in dirt, before it was molded. "Were the prints made by the same shoe, or were they two separate people?"
"The same. A running shoe made by Nike, men's size 12. There are at least two-thousand names here," he said, referring to the shoe sales list. "We should just search for a particular name, not go through the whole list; it probably wouldn't get us anywhere anyway."
"Okay, and once we get a suspect we can just look their name up. Hopefully, when we need it, that'll help us get a warrant for anything else, so we can solve this case."
44 hours (5 am)…
"Hey Jim, it's Gil," Grissom said, after the third ring, once Brass picked up.
"Hey. What do you need?"
"Sara wanted to interview the teenagers who found the bodies."
"Sure, not a problem, I'm still with them now."
"Still?"
"Well, their parents are cooperating, they don't exactly want their son accused of murder, so why not be compliant… I'll have them down at the station an hour before shift ends, that good?"
"Yeah sure. I'll let Sara know," Grissom hung up and pushed speed dial five on his phone.
"Sidle."
"It's Grissom. I called Brass; he said that the boy's parents were more than happy to cooperate with us. So Brass will bring them to the station an hour before shift ends."
"Okay, sounds good. Are you coming for the interviews too?"
"No, but take Greg with you."
"Sure… Speaking of Greg, he determined that the blonde hairs were pulled or yanked from someone's head, and they were-"
"XX, female."
"No one likes it when you do that. How'd you know?"
"Greg dropped by a few minutes earlier."
"I told him I'd pass it on… If you knew, why'd you keep letting me talk?"
"Because, I like to hear your voice…" he could see the smile break out across her face, even though they were on the phone.
"Did Warrick stop by too?" That quickly, they were back to acting professional.
"No. What did he find?"
"Footprints that were found outside, came from a man's Nike running shoe, size 12."
"Not near the body? It could be irrelevant."
"So could the hairs," she said, hanging up and ending the conversation.
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