Walking into the room he saw that he had beaten Sara in and that Warrick was also in the room.
"If it isn't the POW. How is your sentence going?"
Warrick looked up at Nick when he heard his voice. "Just great. Nothing a CSI likes more than being stuck here with all the loony lab rats. How is your case going?"
Shrugging he replied, "Not much we can do until we ID the body. Jim is checking the missing person's records for a female with a starfish birthmark, Doc is trying to get a dental match and I have been running the prints through AFIS. So far, nothing."
Refilling his cup Warrick commiserated with his partner. "Bad enough when you can't ID a vic, even worse when she is young and female. Keep at it, hopefully something will come up. OK, I'm heading back to the mountain of paperwork Cath was kind enough to leave me. Let me know if you need any help. In house of course."
"Of course. Have fun."
Warrick left the room as Sara entered. "Hey."
"Hey. How was your burglary?" Nick asked.
"Straight forward." Sara headed over to the counter and went to pour herself a cup of coffee before she realised that the pot was empty. "Nick! You take the last cup and can't even refill the pot. Even when you know I am coming in for one." Sara slammed down the pot and started opening and closing doors with a little more force than necessary just to show her disapproval.
"Don't blame me, Warrick took the last cup. I left enough there for large mug."
"Right, blame the person who just left."
Nick didn't bother defending himself anymore. Sara would get over it as soon as a fresh cup was poured.
"So do you want to know what I have got or are you going to chew me out a bit more for something I didn't do?"
Excited now she swung round and faced him, "You got something? Tell me quick."
"Actually, no. Got nothing. But I made you forget about the coffee." Grinning he moved sideways slightly to miss the long life creamer package she threw at him.
"You throw like a girl."
"I am a girl."
"That is no excuse." Ripping off the top he poured the creamer into his coffee.
"So what have you been up to while I have been gone?" She asked, her temper tantrum dissipated now that the a fresh pot of coffee was brewing.
"Checked out the blanket and clothes, got some fibres off the clothing that didn't match the blanket she was wrapped in. Looked like high end wool. Red and gold in colour; my guess, carpet fibres. Running the prints through AFIS now and was just about to look at those photo's we recovered. Would you like to join me?"
"Only if you promise to come back and poor me a coffee when this pot if finished."
"I'll even buy you a candy bar."
Together they walked out the door and down to the AV lab and managed to get to the door before Mia caught up with them.
"Got two profiles from your victims nails. Both male, neither related to the vic and neither a match on CODIS." She handed her paperwork over to Sara who quickly perused the files and handed them over to Nick.
"Great, another dead end."
"Sorry." Waving at the pair she headed back down the hall to her lab.
Nick's phone started to ring and he looked at the caller ID, "It's Jim. Keep your fingers crossed. Jim, what have you got for us?"
"Katrina Morgan."
"Is that a positive ID?" Nick asked the detective on the other side of the phone.
"Pretty sure. Fits the description including the birthmark. Went missing 3 years and 8 months ago. I am heading out to speak with the parents soon as it is adecent hour. Do you and Sara want to join me? Might be able to collect something from the house to match to her DNA or fingerprints. Say 7am."
Nick agreed to meet him and after taking note of the address ended the call. "Well at least we have a name. Katrina Morgan. He's sending over the original missing person's report. We are going to meet Jim at the parent's house at 7. Until then, let's look at these snapshots we recovered."
After cleaning up the damaged shot as best they could they scanned all three pictures into the computer for a more detailed look.
Sitting side by side the two colleagues studied the shots.
Each pictures showed a dark haired teenager, approximately 16 or 17 years of age.
"They certainly aren't posed for. I would say he didn't even know he was having is picture taken. Possibly taken from a distance with a high powered zoom?" Sara squinted as she leaned in to get a closer look.
"What is that in the background?" Nick asked. "Looks like a sign of some kind. Let's see if we can't get thisbetter focused."
Cropping the area in question and blowing it up Nick refined the picture until they were able to read the letters on a sign behind the unnamed boy.
SIER
HIGH
LAS V
"Well I am going to go out on a limb and say the last line is Las Vegas." Sara piped up with a smile.
"Good call Sherlock. What about the second line? High School perhaps?"
"Go onto Google and look up Las Vegas High Schools." Sara instructed.
Nick changed screens and typed in as requested. "Results 1-10 of 1,210,000. Lets go for option number one and see how we go." A few clicks later and they were looking at a list of high schools in the Clark County area. "There we go, Sierra Visa High School, Robindale Road. Let's see if they have a home page." A short time later and Nick and Sara were watching a short slide show of the modern school. One of the pictures reflected the same sign that Nick had just blown up from the photographs.
"Want to go to school after we visit the parents?" Sara asked her partner.
"Only if you wear one of those school uniforms." Nick winced slightly at the slap he received on the back of his head. "Bully."