February 21, 2008

Mac and Danny met Don at the crime scene. Mac had finally given in and let Danny into the field again, but on limited access. His primary job would be swabbing, since he could do it left-handed. According to their lover, the murder was pretty brutal, but they'd probably seen worse in their years.

"Vic's name is Jack Areden, 29. His girlfriend, Melissa Porter, called the police after she got a phone call from her ex, Thomas Karrow, and he said he'd killed Jack," Don explained.

"And called you on the telephone to take off my disguise," Danny murmured.

"What was that?" Mac asked.

"It's like the song "My Bloody Valentine" by Good Charlotte Today's theme song as a matter of fact. Was the guys throat ripped out?" the blond asked.

"Yeah, and he was found in his bedroom, the window was open. Heart cut out, and they'd been on a date a few hours before she got the call," the youngest informed, he'd heard the song, and now that he thought about it, the case was a dead ringer for the fictional murder. "Snow insteada rain, but it's pretty close."

"What are you two talking about?" the former marine asked, having never heard of the song, let alone heard it.

"There's this song, and so far, this murder is playing out just like it. Dark, rainy, or in our case snowy, night, waiting outside the bedroom window, breaks in and kills the guy, rips out his throat, and cuts out his heart. Guy goes home, cleans up, and calls the girl cuz he's still in love with her, and did it cuz he wants them to get back together. The vic drops off the girl, then the killer follows him home," Danny explained.

"And so far, that's exactly how our homicide reads," Don added.

"So we're pretty sure it's this Karrow guy?" Mac questioned.

"According to the girlfriend, he's not all there upstairs. Really detached from the world. Said that's why they broke up," the other brunet answered, having already talked to Ms. Porter.

"So he's probably a sociopath, and he's obsessed with her," Danny stated.

At the moment, Don's cell phone rang.

"Flack," he answered.

"Hey Don, we've got a guy in here who says he killed your vic," Detective Angell said at the other end.

"I'll be there soon," Don said and hung up.

"What's up?" Danny asked.

"Sounds like Karrow just showed up at the precinct. Angell says he showed up and said he'd killed Areden," Don told them.

"Alright, we'll catch up with you later, we've got a scene to process," Mac said.

Don left for the precinct, hopefully it was the right guy and this would get wrapped up quickly.

Mac and Danny entered the bloody bedroom. There was arterial spray covering one wall, the younger of the two starting there. Mac approached the body, which had a knife sitting next to it, covered in blood. He photographed the knife, the carefully picked it up to look for any visible prints. He had a feeling this guy hadn't been very careful. The incision in the vic's throat was deep, cutting almost half way through the man's neck. The green-eyed detective started photographing.

A few hours later everything was photographed, bagged, and tagged, ready to go back to the lab for processing. They'd pulled a number of prints off the outside of the window; hopefully they would match the man Don had in custody. The youngest of the three had called and said they'd confirmed that the man was Thomas Karrow. He'd been in the system previously for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

Back at the lab they scanned the prints they'd taken from the window and the knife into AFIS, initially checking them against Karrow. Just as they'd suspected, they were a match. They would, of course, process the rest of the evidence, but they had enough to arrest their suspect. Danny called it in, and set to work on the rest of the evidence. They'd found blood near the window that hadn't come from the vic as far as they could tell, hopefully it too would be a match, DNA was irrefutable evidence.

The CSIs had a long night ahead of them, but knowing they were putting a killer behind bars gave them all the motivation they needed. It didn't hurt that Don decided to show up and keep them company while they waited on results. Once everything was in, it was decided that the story they'd come up with based on the song, was what had happened. All the evidence pointed that way. The guys decided to just go home. Although they'd gotten the guy, it didn't change the fact that a man had died needlessly.