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This is the second episode of my idea of the CSI Miami series - the first episode was named "Serial" if you wish to read it - you don't have to though, you can start from here, the episodes are unrelated.
PART 3
*** CASE 2 - CSI lab
Calleigh placed her hair firmly in a bun on the back of her neck and placed the goggles firmly on her eyes. She took the gun that they found at the victim's apartment and placed her arm with the gun inside the metal sleeve. The device was a large metal box, attached to a metal sleeve. The box was filled with water and by firing into it they would be able to recover the bullet (that would not be compromised by any other markings cause by a wall for instance) and inspect it against the bullet that killed their victim.
She fired and opened the box, recovering the bullet and placing it under the microscope next to the bullet she recovered from the kitchen wall. Eric walked into the ballistics lab and waited for her to finish - not wanting to interrupt her in the middle. He looked around the lab that was practically Calleigh's private kingdom and noted that there were no family pictures on her desk. He often wondered about that - his own desk was covered with pictures of his parents and sisters.
"Stop snooping around and come have a look at this" Calleigh said with out taking her eyes off the microscope and Eric could hear the smile in her voice. He went over and took a peek
"It's not a match." Calleigh told him what he could already see for himself "the markings are totally different"
Eric nodded and sat down at the nearest chair "I went over the husband's clothing, tons of blood, all belonging to the victim, but they were all transfer stains" He said showing her the pictures he took "No spatter"
"So he could have gotten it when he was trying to help her" Calleigh nodded "Maybe we should go about this a different way"
"What else do we have?"
"Well" She shrugged "maybe we should go back to the body"
*** CASE 1 - CSI Coroner lab
"So what do we have here Alexx?" Horatio asked from his place at the observation gallery
"Cause of death was a massive blow to the back of the head with a blunt object, I also found some dirt inside the wound. She has scratches on her wrists and on her ankle, there's also a large cut on her left thigh"
Horatio zoomed in on the cut Alexx was referring to and inspected it "This must be from the window seal, we found some blood there and the size and shape seem to fit" he concluded "What else?"
"There are contusions on the upper torso, and around her neck, like someone was holding her forcefully and shaking her, she was definitely in a struggle"
"You're holding back on me Alexx" he told her playfully "What else did you find?"
"Signs of recent sexual activity, looks consensual, and she was pregnant"
"Pregnant?" Horatio said in astonishment
"Almost two month" Alexx replied gravely
* CUT to the Kramer residence
"According to the mother Lori didn't have a boyfriend, no enemies, she was popular, smart and with a bright future ahead of her" Detective Sevilla said from the doorway after spending the last hour with the parents
"I don't buy it" Speed said from his place outside the window
"Yeah, me too" Jamie said from her place kneeling next to the window seal dusting for prints "No teenager is that perfect"
"Well if she was sneaking out with a boyfriend, her parents knew nothing about it" Detective Sevilla said
"Well who would she share her secrets with?" Horatio wondered out laud
Smash cut to a different room of the house:
Hortaio sat in front of Dana Kramer and smiled at her, trying to put the 15 year old at ease "Dana, we need to ask you some questions about your sister OK? Now it's important that you tell us the truth so we can find who ever did this to her."
When the girl nodded he started asking her his questions "Dana did your sister have a boyfriend?"
"Yes" She replied "she was seeing a boy named Brian, he's older, like 19 or something. She didn't want to tell my parents, she thought they would be mad at her"
"Dana, do you know where we could find Brian?"
"He works at the video library, that's where they met"
"OK, thank you Dana. Now, did Lori sneak out a lot at night to meet him?"
"I don't know, she didn't tell me everything. I only knew because I caught them one time. In her room, when my parents were gone" she shrugged
Horatio thanked the young girl and left the room, leaving detective Sevilla with the girl to complete the questioning. He went outside and joined Speed in the yard. Speed had been working on the back yard for a few hours by then. The whole area has been divided into small sections using strings and creating small 20 by 20 squares that were each labeled and combed through for evidence.
"Check this out" Speed said as Horatio approached him, indicating a large rock on the ground that was covered in blood. "I think this is what was used to bash her head in" he took a pair of tweezers and lifted a few hairs from the rock, placing them in a plastic evidence bag. " there's also a lot of footprints and turned grass, like there was a struggle here"
"Bag it and tag it" Hortio said and put his sunglasses on "and let's get all this to the lab"
*** CASE 2 - CSI Coroner lab
"Not much I can tell you guys" Alexx said as Eric and Calleigh stood by her next to the victim. "One shot, straight to the chest, the bullet punctured a lung and two major arteries before going out the back. No gun powder residue, so this wasn't a close range thing"
"the angle of the bullet is kind of strange isn't it?" Calleigh asked after inspecting to wound more closely
"Yeah" Alexx agreed and grabbed a large metal stick from the table. With the help of Eric and Calleigh they pulled the body to a sitting position and Alexx drove the stick through the entrance wound and all the way out the exit wound, allowing them to see the angle in which the bullet went.
"That's a pretty high angle" Eric said as he surveyed the results of their little experiment "It looks like almost 70 degrees"
"68 to be exact" Calleigh said as she checked the computer screen that calculated the angle. "That's too high, the husband isn't that tall - even if she was sitting down"
* Cut to the crime scene - Stevens residence - 57 Lincoln Drive
"Ok so lets go over this again" Eric said as they both stood in the kitchen again "The victim was here" he indicated.
Calleigh took the dummy they brought with them and placed her at the spot where they estimated the woman was. They sat the dummy down in the chair and Calleigh took a metal stick and drove it through the dummy at the exact same angle as the bullet.
"There's o way that could have been the husband" Eric said as soon as he saw it "He'd have to be 3 feet tall to do that. We're missing something" He took out the file and started spreading some pictures around, the location of the body, a broken piece of glass, the fallen chair...
"Hold on a second" Calleigh grabbed the picture from his hand and looked at it carefully "The angle of the chair"
She started walking around the room making mental calculations "We assume she fell backwards with the chair, then managed to get up and walk to the hall. From the angle it fell in - the chair should have been standing like this"
She placed the chair in the right angle and lifted her head - a small smile came on her face. To her it was a thing of beauty when the clouds suddenly lifted off a crime scene and all the pieces of the puzzle suddenly came together.
Eric followed her gaze and nodded "She was facing the open window."
"That high building across the street" Calleigh pointed "If you fired from one of the higher windows, you could get our 68 degrees angle"
"Shooting someone from across the street through an open window - you'd have to be a pretty good shot" Eric commented
"Or just plain lucky" Calleigh replied gravely.
This is the second episode of my idea of the CSI Miami series - the first episode was named "Serial" if you wish to read it - you don't have to though, you can start from here, the episodes are unrelated.
PART 3
*** CASE 2 - CSI lab
Calleigh placed her hair firmly in a bun on the back of her neck and placed the goggles firmly on her eyes. She took the gun that they found at the victim's apartment and placed her arm with the gun inside the metal sleeve. The device was a large metal box, attached to a metal sleeve. The box was filled with water and by firing into it they would be able to recover the bullet (that would not be compromised by any other markings cause by a wall for instance) and inspect it against the bullet that killed their victim.
She fired and opened the box, recovering the bullet and placing it under the microscope next to the bullet she recovered from the kitchen wall. Eric walked into the ballistics lab and waited for her to finish - not wanting to interrupt her in the middle. He looked around the lab that was practically Calleigh's private kingdom and noted that there were no family pictures on her desk. He often wondered about that - his own desk was covered with pictures of his parents and sisters.
"Stop snooping around and come have a look at this" Calleigh said with out taking her eyes off the microscope and Eric could hear the smile in her voice. He went over and took a peek
"It's not a match." Calleigh told him what he could already see for himself "the markings are totally different"
Eric nodded and sat down at the nearest chair "I went over the husband's clothing, tons of blood, all belonging to the victim, but they were all transfer stains" He said showing her the pictures he took "No spatter"
"So he could have gotten it when he was trying to help her" Calleigh nodded "Maybe we should go about this a different way"
"What else do we have?"
"Well" She shrugged "maybe we should go back to the body"
*** CASE 1 - CSI Coroner lab
"So what do we have here Alexx?" Horatio asked from his place at the observation gallery
"Cause of death was a massive blow to the back of the head with a blunt object, I also found some dirt inside the wound. She has scratches on her wrists and on her ankle, there's also a large cut on her left thigh"
Horatio zoomed in on the cut Alexx was referring to and inspected it "This must be from the window seal, we found some blood there and the size and shape seem to fit" he concluded "What else?"
"There are contusions on the upper torso, and around her neck, like someone was holding her forcefully and shaking her, she was definitely in a struggle"
"You're holding back on me Alexx" he told her playfully "What else did you find?"
"Signs of recent sexual activity, looks consensual, and she was pregnant"
"Pregnant?" Horatio said in astonishment
"Almost two month" Alexx replied gravely
* CUT to the Kramer residence
"According to the mother Lori didn't have a boyfriend, no enemies, she was popular, smart and with a bright future ahead of her" Detective Sevilla said from the doorway after spending the last hour with the parents
"I don't buy it" Speed said from his place outside the window
"Yeah, me too" Jamie said from her place kneeling next to the window seal dusting for prints "No teenager is that perfect"
"Well if she was sneaking out with a boyfriend, her parents knew nothing about it" Detective Sevilla said
"Well who would she share her secrets with?" Horatio wondered out laud
Smash cut to a different room of the house:
Hortaio sat in front of Dana Kramer and smiled at her, trying to put the 15 year old at ease "Dana, we need to ask you some questions about your sister OK? Now it's important that you tell us the truth so we can find who ever did this to her."
When the girl nodded he started asking her his questions "Dana did your sister have a boyfriend?"
"Yes" She replied "she was seeing a boy named Brian, he's older, like 19 or something. She didn't want to tell my parents, she thought they would be mad at her"
"Dana, do you know where we could find Brian?"
"He works at the video library, that's where they met"
"OK, thank you Dana. Now, did Lori sneak out a lot at night to meet him?"
"I don't know, she didn't tell me everything. I only knew because I caught them one time. In her room, when my parents were gone" she shrugged
Horatio thanked the young girl and left the room, leaving detective Sevilla with the girl to complete the questioning. He went outside and joined Speed in the yard. Speed had been working on the back yard for a few hours by then. The whole area has been divided into small sections using strings and creating small 20 by 20 squares that were each labeled and combed through for evidence.
"Check this out" Speed said as Horatio approached him, indicating a large rock on the ground that was covered in blood. "I think this is what was used to bash her head in" he took a pair of tweezers and lifted a few hairs from the rock, placing them in a plastic evidence bag. " there's also a lot of footprints and turned grass, like there was a struggle here"
"Bag it and tag it" Hortio said and put his sunglasses on "and let's get all this to the lab"
*** CASE 2 - CSI Coroner lab
"Not much I can tell you guys" Alexx said as Eric and Calleigh stood by her next to the victim. "One shot, straight to the chest, the bullet punctured a lung and two major arteries before going out the back. No gun powder residue, so this wasn't a close range thing"
"the angle of the bullet is kind of strange isn't it?" Calleigh asked after inspecting to wound more closely
"Yeah" Alexx agreed and grabbed a large metal stick from the table. With the help of Eric and Calleigh they pulled the body to a sitting position and Alexx drove the stick through the entrance wound and all the way out the exit wound, allowing them to see the angle in which the bullet went.
"That's a pretty high angle" Eric said as he surveyed the results of their little experiment "It looks like almost 70 degrees"
"68 to be exact" Calleigh said as she checked the computer screen that calculated the angle. "That's too high, the husband isn't that tall - even if she was sitting down"
* Cut to the crime scene - Stevens residence - 57 Lincoln Drive
"Ok so lets go over this again" Eric said as they both stood in the kitchen again "The victim was here" he indicated.
Calleigh took the dummy they brought with them and placed her at the spot where they estimated the woman was. They sat the dummy down in the chair and Calleigh took a metal stick and drove it through the dummy at the exact same angle as the bullet.
"There's o way that could have been the husband" Eric said as soon as he saw it "He'd have to be 3 feet tall to do that. We're missing something" He took out the file and started spreading some pictures around, the location of the body, a broken piece of glass, the fallen chair...
"Hold on a second" Calleigh grabbed the picture from his hand and looked at it carefully "The angle of the chair"
She started walking around the room making mental calculations "We assume she fell backwards with the chair, then managed to get up and walk to the hall. From the angle it fell in - the chair should have been standing like this"
She placed the chair in the right angle and lifted her head - a small smile came on her face. To her it was a thing of beauty when the clouds suddenly lifted off a crime scene and all the pieces of the puzzle suddenly came together.
Eric followed her gaze and nodded "She was facing the open window."
"That high building across the street" Calleigh pointed "If you fired from one of the higher windows, you could get our 68 degrees angle"
"Shooting someone from across the street through an open window - you'd have to be a pretty good shot" Eric commented
"Or just plain lucky" Calleigh replied gravely.
