Disclaimer: All right, all right I don't own CSI. But thanks a lot CBS. I wish I did, of course CBS does a good job with the show! w

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"Senator Riley is gonna be here soon to ID the body so get to processing." Brass said as he entered and then left the morgue.

"Catherine you handle the Senator when she arrives. Warrick you try to get a hold of those letters. Sara, Nick you two stay with me and we'll process the body after Doc Robbins finishes his report." Grissom ordered. "Doc? Mind if we sit in on the autopsy?" Grissom asked. Catherine and Warrick left the room.

"Go ahead." Doc replied. "Alright well it looks like there's some blunt trauma to the head." Doc stated. "Not fatal. Postmortem."

Sara took a few pictures of it while Doc shaved that part of her head and Sara took a few more pictures of it.

"When I clean the skull better you can take an impression." Doc told Nick and he nodded." As I'm sure you already know, cause of death is asphyxia. Looks like she was strangled judging by the bruising around her neck." Doc then started the official autopsy by making the Y shaped incision and began the process while Sara and Nick took the Victims clothes and personal items found with her back to an examination room.

"Doc, page me if you find anything else will you?" Grissom asked.

"Of course." Doc replied as Grissom followed Sara and Nick.

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Catherine sighed as Senator Riley Kefier walked into the room she had prepared for her. Catherine stood up from the couch and extended her hand, "Nice to meet you Senator Kefier."

"Please call me Senator Riley." She took Catherine's hand and shook it.

"Catherine Willows, CSI." Catherine said and smiled.

"Yes I know. Ms. Willows where is my daughter?" The Senator asked.

"Right this way." Catherine replied and lead the Senator to the morgue. "Is this your Daughter Senator Riley?" Catherine asked when she revealed the girls face.

"Oh my god." Senator Riley said and grabbed onto the nearest thing so she didn't fall down. "Y-Yes where did you find her?"

"The desert." Catherine replied.

"Was she sexually abused?" The senator asked.

"We're still waiting for the full report but we know she was stoned." Catherine told Riley.

"Oh my god, Ashley." The Senator said and covered her mouth with her hands.

"Ms. Kefier." Catherine said and put a comforting hand on the Senators shoulder. "Lets get out of here."

The Senator nodded and Catherine took her back to the room where they were before. "I need to ask you a few questions about your daughter."

The Senator nodded. "Ashley was a good kid, straight A student, she wanted to be a lawyer. She was a real risk taker she gave me a few scares back in the day. Always sneaking out at night to meet her boyfriend at the movies or something nothing bad, I always knew when she left and had someone follow her there without her knowing."

"I'm gonna need his name." Catherine said.

"Why? Do you think he had anything to do with this? He really is a good kid you should of heard the way Ash talked about him."

"I'm sure he was great but I still need his name, I also need your prints and DNA. Its procedure." Catherine told the Senator.

She nodded. "Fine. His name if Jeff Mitchell."

"Thank you." Catherine said as she got her kit out to print Riley and take her DNA. Sara was on her way to the break room when she stopped to listen to the Senator and Catherine's conversation.

While Catherine printed her the Senator asked, "Ms. Willows do you have a daughter?"

"Yes I do." Catherine said as she handed Riley a paper towel to wipe her hands. "She's 13 almost 14 and just like your daughter she gives me quite a few scares sometimes."

"Are you married Ms. Willows?" She asked.

"Divorced." Catherine answered.

"Is it hard on you daughter?" The Senator asked.

"I really don't know. You never really know your kid especially at this age. Why?"

"Well Ashley never knew her father, you see he abused me and I left him when Ashley was born, her whole life she never knew him but she got wise and started to ask me about him lately. She did some research and found out his name and demanded to meet him. I told her no and we had a fight and I sent her to her room. Later I went to check on her and she was gone so I sent out a missing persons report and had everyone looking for her then a few hours later I got your call."

"She disappeared tonight and she died tonight?" Catherine asked.

"Yes." The Senator replied. "I sent her to her room at about 3:00 and went to check on her and ask if she wanted dinner at about 6:00, and I called it in right away when I found the window open and saw she was gone."

"So." Catherine said. "We brought her to the lab at about 3:00 AM this morning and the concluded she died at about 8:00 last night. I have to ask you why didn't you press charges on your Ex-Husband?

"Oh." She said. "He told me if I told anyone about him he'd kill me and my daughter."

Sara and Catherine's eyes widened and then met. Sara turned around and entered the break room. Catherine stood up. "Thank you for all your help Ms. Kefier." Catherine said as she stood up to shake the women's hand. "I only need one more thing, your Ex-Husband's name."

"His name is George Rover, but be careful." She said.

"Thanks, we'll keep you posted, oh I almost forgot, open your mouth I need your DNA. The Senator opened her mouth and Catherine got her sample, then escorted Riley out.

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Warrick was over viewing all the letters when Grissom came in with Nick. "Need any help? We just got done processing the vic's clothes no more than what we got from her at the scene some glass, carpet fibers, a few hairs, some dog hair possibly, and her phone had several calls mostly from mom but a lot of calls from the same number at least 20, Brass is looking into it now. The rest of the evidence is in trace."

"Hey Griss." Catherine walked in with Sara. "Though you might need some help now that the ID's been made."

"Great." Nick moaned.

"Its not like I didn't expect it to be her." Warrick said.

"Yeah." Sara said. "But the case is priority now."

"And…" Catherine added. "Dear old daddy who the daughter never even knew existed is an abuser who threatened his wife that he'd kill her if she told anyone about him. So guess what the mom and daughter argued about the day she disappeared which was yesterday between about 3-6 PM.

"Daddykins?" Grissom guessed.

Sara sniffled a laugh.

"Yep." Catherine said.

"Um guys?' Warrick said as he picked up a letter that read 'I'LL KILL HER IF YOU EXPOSE ME.'

Catherine looked at Sara and Nick and said. "I feel a double shift coming on.

"Ill get the coffee." Sara said with a sigh.

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Sara sent the letters to get fingerprinted to see if it had the dad's prints on it. Brass was off in his office making phone calls trying to track down the dad. Grissom and Catherine were just getting ready to meet Greg in DNA. A/N: I know Greg doesn't work in DNA anymore, I just liked it when he did. It kind of made the show. He was funnier then than he is now.

"Hey Greg." Grissom apathetically said as he and Catherine entered the room.

"Hey Griss!" Greg said with his goofy grin as he handed Catherine their results. "I got the results from the blood samples on the vic's shirt. No alleles in common. Sorry. But I did get a hit in the system. Name's Ryan Folie. He's a registered sex offender in the Las Vegas district. Brass is hunting him down now, bringing him in for questioning."

"Thanks Grego." Catherine said with a wink as her and Grissom left the room.

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Sophie started down Ryan Folie as he fingered his water. "Where were yesterday at about 3 pm? Maybe a little earlier." Sophie said keeping eye contact with the suspect.

"Look lady, if this is about that girl I didn't do nothing to her. Just let me explain." He replied with much attitude in his tone.

"Start talking." Sophie said as she barely moved.

"Well see I saw this girl and she was walking all alone and such so I thought maybe she was lost, she looked real sad. So I went up to 'er. She was crying. I asked 'er if someone hurt 'er. Then she just flipped out on me. Shoved me down. I scraped my palms on the pavement and I grabbed 'er by the shirt and threw 'er. But I swear she was breathin' when I left 'er! I have all my bruises to show. You gonna arrest me for self defense!" He barked.

"Did anyone witness this that can back your story up Mr. Folie?" Sophie asked calmly.

"Uhh yeah. Now that you mention it this was pretty weird. This dude, He ran over to me after I pushed her. Seemed about 'er age, maybe a lil' older. He told me never to touch 'er again and if I did he'd kill me. Didn't really scare me. He was just a kid. We argued a bit and I explained myself. After we stopped she was gone, ran off. If you ask me she scared him more than I did." He said with a little laugh.

"Would you be able to describe him to a sketch artist?" Sophie asked.

"Sure lady." Folie replied with a shrug.

Sophie led Mr. Folie to a sketch artist and went to the break room.

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In the break room Sara and Catherine were chatting about little things and Warrick was eating a sandwich and talking to Greg. Sophie went to go join the girls. Grissom was of course working on the case. Nick was with him. They were at the mother's house interviewing her one more time. The job's never done until Grissom does it. Griss knocked on the door while Nick looked at the ground and shuffled his feet. Nicky looked up as the senator opened the door.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"Yes." Grissom started. "I'm Gil Grissom from the crime lab and this is Nick Stokes." Both men flashed their ID badges.

"Oh yes. Come in" The senator gestured them inside. "I'm not sure why you're here, I've already told Ms. Willows everything I know."

"Well you told us everything you think is relevant. But if there is anything else about Ashley, her school life, her personal life, please tell us." Grissom said as all three of them sat down on the couch.

"Well," She started. "I'm not nearly the one to ask. You can imagine the type of mother I am. I'm never home. I barely know anything about her. She has good grades, a boyfriend, lots of friends."

"Has she been acting any different lately?" Grissom asked.

"Now that you mention it, yes. A little. She seemed out of it. She hadn't been sneaking out lately. She might have been having some problems with her friends, or her boyfriend. I don't know too much of what goes on in her life. She doesn't talk much at dinner. Doesn't ask me to take her places. She does her homework eats and sleeps. That's all. Like her social life has disappeared. Do you think she ran away?" The senator said with a scared look on her face.

"I'm considering all the possibilities." Grissom replied.

All of a sudden Nicks phone ran. He left the room to pick it up. "Stokes."

HE said a few words into the phone to the person on the other end. He hung up then walked back into the living room. "Senator Kefier, when was the last time you spoke to you husband directly?" He asked.

"Not since he left me. Why?" The senator said getting up.

"That was Brass, he says a call was placed to your husband from here at about 2:30 yesterday. Lasted about ten minutes. Brass has your husband in custody and is getting ready to question him." Nick said looking at the Senator and then at Grissom who was already halfway out the door.

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A/N: Ok i remember I said there was a big shock coming in this chapter. THAT was not it. XD. This chapter got too long for me to put it in here. SOOO next chapter a big shock is coming. : YES fellow snickers it does involve Sara and Nick. Review and ill update as soon as I can.

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