October 18th Mid Monday morning—
Briscoe and Green were at their desks working. The phone kept ringing at Lennie's desk, but every time he picked it up, he would hang up a few seconds later, realizing no one was on the line. He noticed his partner getting agitated, but after 10 minutes, the phone stopped ringing.
"Ed, we got a problem." Lennie says while giving the LUDS of Denise's phone to his partner.
"Ed, we got a problem." Lennie says while giving the LUDS of Denise's phone to his partner.
"Oh, boy." Ed says as Lieutenant Van Buren approaches them.
"Oh boy what?" She asks her detectives as she stops facing Ed near his and Lennie's desk.
"Here. We got a problem." Ed gives her the sheet.
"So some of them are the same numbers so what?" she says in a puzzled tone of voice while looking at her detectives.
"Um.. does EADA Jack McCoy ring a bell?" Ed responds with a question.
"No." She says taken aback with her head-shaking to what they just said.
"I think we should talk to both of them separately." The senior detective stated with his opinion.
"I would love to get a wiretap for both of their phones." Ed says with a smile in his face.
Lennie jumps up, "Absolutely not!" Everyone in the room stops what they were doing as they look towards the area of the Lieutenant, and the two detectives.
Lennie then sat down, "Lennie, calm down. Is there anything else glaring at you?" She nicely commanded then asks; everyone in the room went back to what they were doing.
"Well, Mitch Crandall seemed to have a credit card account and the account went to his work instead of his home since it was used quite a bit at some restaurants. Also, it looks as if he went to a hotel in Wildwood, New Jersey as well as Cape May."
"Looks like Denise asked for time off about the time that Mitch went to Cape May, and Wildwood as well as to the restaurant places. We requested the schedules for all employees of that store and it does show that Denise and Mitch were off work at those times and as well as other employees but Denise and Mitch were off then back at work the same day."
"Detective, here are the pictures of the victims and Denise you requested." Another detective walks up to them.
"Thanks." Ed said.
"Interesting. Follow that up first then bring Denise in for a chat since she has avoided us for so long."
"Okay." Ed says while he and Lennie get up to leave.
After a few hours they realized they have a motive for the murder but were going to take a trip to Cape May and Wildwood the next day, which they did. It didn't surprise them that the people remember Mitch and the other woman, not his wife. The same day, after they got back to New York they went to Denise's house but found out she was working so they pulled her out of work to talk to her.
"So, why have you and Mitch been seen at places to eat, Cape May and Wildwood?" Green asks her as he sat in front of her, Briscoe was in the seat next to her.
"Mitch and I were friends and he felt his wife had no time for him and I would."
"What about the fact that money from his account was wired to your account?" Lennie asked as he folded his hands.
A knock is heard causing Lennie to get up while she watches him leave.
"We don't have enough for a search warrant but we have to let her go."
"Damn." Lennie says as he hits his hand on the wall, turns around then walks into the interrogation room.
Lennie and Ed thought that she may have had something to do with the murder so they didn't want to let her go but hoped to get more evidence against her when they let her go.
5pm—
Lennie left to go home for the day as he had finished his reports and Ed stayed a little longer to finish up on a report for another case. Ten minutes later Ed gets into his car and drives to a fast food restaurant for take out then goes to his apartment.
1am Tuesday morning--
Ed turns over to his side as he is stirred up by the phone ringing. He wipes his eyes, picks up the phone while he turns on the light and gets pen and paper.—
"Hello? Yeah. Okay, I'll be there." He tells the sergeant as he writes down the location.
At the crime scene—
It was dark but the lights illuminated the scene where a woman and her husband were found at a riverside park.
"What do we have—oh no." the senior detective says as he was walking up to see who the murdered victim is.
"Do you know who they are?" the CSU Tech asks.
"Yeah. She was a witness to a crime that I testified in where the suspect was caught. The trial has gone to the jury so it won't impact it much but that's not good,"
"Wow." He says as Lennie looks at his watch then looks around for his partner.
"Is Ed here yet?" He asks as he got a bad feeling since his partner would have shown up by now.
"We did call him as soon as the call went out." The officer told him as she walks towards him.
"He better get here but in the mean time, stay with me, okay." He told the officer who has been in the department for 10 years.
"Okay, detective." She tells him as they walk towards the scene where the husband was.
"Lennie!" Detective LaMotte and his partner McNabb walking towards him.
Lennie turned around to see the men then asked, "What are you guys doing here?"
A/N: Okay, Okay.. McNabb belongs to me and yes, it is the last name of a Philadelphia Eagle quarterback who will be the third African American to be in the Super Bowl. (Williams, McNair) They are the only two I can think of who went to the Super Bowl as a quarterback; I hope I didn't miss anyone.
