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I'm back and I'm ready to write! horray! I'm going to finish up this one and I'm currently in the middle of 4 new stories for the Littlest CSI series! I am also branching into other fandoms as I am starting a CSI:NY series(up soon)!
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Emily in LA chapter 4
The next morning, Emily was back at the FBI building. She was seated comfortably next to Colby. The rest of the team was gathered around as Charlie explained the results of his calculations.
"So, as you can see here, their lives show some striking similarities at this point. There's just one problem."
"What's that?" Asked Don, sitting slightly forward in his chair.
"We couldn't find any cases or similar events in the victim's lives in the files that correspond with this data," said Emily.
"So we thought," continued Charlie, "that there might be something that we haven't found that could explain this point of intersection."
"We'll do some digging then," said Don. "Emily and Colby, take the Miami victim. Charlie and Sinclair, take our first LA victim. Megan you're with me on our most recent victim. I want every piece of information on their lives that corresponds with that period of time. We'll meet back here in…" Don checked his watch. "Six hours. Let's go."
"Come on," said Colby, standing. Emily grabbed her files and followed him to his cubicle. Emily began digging through the files for that particular year, 1998. She pulled out all the information she could find. Colby began making phone calls and searching databases.
Four hours later, Emily gave a frustrated moan. She wasn't finding anything.
"Wait," said Colby. "What do you have there about August, 1998?"
Emily shuffled through her papers. "Just some notes on a couple of cases. Wait," Emily paused, pulling a small, stapled packet of papers from among the stack. "I didn't see this before." She bent down reading.
"Colby, it's a serial killing case. It's so similar, how could I have missed this? Victims all killed with severe stab wounds, lying on their stomachs…"
"Yeah I found a couple newspaper articles from that year. Several reports from San Antonio of a string of serial killings. The killer was never caught. Apparently our vic worked on it. The case was dropped because the killings eventually ceased."
Colby stood up quickly, rushing over to Don's office.
"What do you have Colby?" Don said turning his chair.
Colby and Emily explained their findings.
"We've got the same thing, only ours is December 1998, but also San Antonio." Don said.
Charlie and Sinclair ran up. "July 1998, San Antonio." Charlie said waving a file.
They pinned their findings to a board.
"So," Don said, pacing in front of the board. "Let's go over what we have now."
"We have a string of serial killings, in San Antonio, 1998." Charlie started.
"We have six victims from that string, and three FBI agents who opened and closed the cases on their own, one after the other." Colby said.
"No arrests were made." Emily added.
"And now," Megan interjected, "We have all three FBI agents who opened and closed these cases show up dead. They were all lying in the same position, all killed with possibly the same weapon, and all foreign DNA found at the scenes matches. However, we cannot find a match to the DNA in our databases."
"So now what are we going to do?" Asked Sinclair.
"We reopen the San Antonio case." Don answered.
Two hours later they stood around a board. The files had been brought out from the San Antonio serial killings.
"Nine victims, all killed by the same guy. The DNA just came back and all the foreign DNA from all nine cases matches." Don said, surveying the board.
"So how do we find this guy?" Emily asked.
"Let's go back to the original serial killings. If I have enough information, I can probably come up with a way to connect the victims, and possibly come up with where we can find this guy now," said Charlie.
"You do that Charlie. Emily, work with him. Megan, Colby and Sinclair, you guys will be working with me to find anyone else who might have tried to solve this case. We need to keep this guy from striking again."
They split up, ready to work overtime.