Hawkes looked at the deformed face of Fiona Albright in his autopsy photos. Across her right cheek were three deep lines --- marks of a bear attack. Her ears were uneven, like her left ear had been torn off and sewed back on.
There are rare times when a CSI like Hawkes feels sorry for a sociopath like Fiona.
Danny walked in. "What's the COD on Fiona?" he asked.
"She had breast cancer" Hawkes answered. "Stage 4. She would have been very weak from the chemo"
"Can we place time of death?" Danny asked.
"Funeral director says she's been alone in that wake for seven days" Hawkes answered.
"So she couldn't have murdered Abby Gelman. That coffin looks mighty pricy" Danny said as he looked at the wooden white coffin Lindsay had found Fiona in. "Can we check who paid for her funeral?"
"Funeral director says he'll check his records then he'll get back to us" Hawkes answered.
On the VCR, Danny pops in the Abby Gelman video again.
"Danny, we've seen that video a thousand times. There is no identifiable angle or sound that will help us find out where Abby Gelman was killed" Hawkes said.
"Fiona turning up dead confuses me" Danny said. "So I had to take another look at this video".
It's funny how something as shocking and as gory as watching someone get shot in the head could make the mind ignore important details. Danny realizes this now.
"Look at the gun woman" Danny said "How tall did the ME say Fiona was?"
Hawkes looked at a file folder "5'11 to 6'0. Big girl" he answered.
"Yeah, I remember Jason DiCarlo saying that too --- Big, thin girl. But look at this woman" Danny pointed to the video "Does she seem tall to you?"
Hawkes looked at the gun woman on the video. "Abby Gelman's about 5'8'. Sitting down, she'd be about 4'5"."
"If the gun woman was Fiona's height, the top of Abby's head would be about her chest level." Danny said.
"The top of Abby's head is almost above her chin" Hawkes said. "This woman's about 5'3" or 5'5" tops".
"Same height as Rosie Cheung" Danny concluded.
"Wait a sec" Hawkes said as he rewinds the tape to the scene where Abby is shot in the forehead. As the gun woman walks behind Abby, Hawkes pauses the tape to reveal the blank back wall.
"How far from the chair do you think that wall is?" Hawkes asked.
"Two feet, three feet max" Danny said.
"If Abby was shot in the head, how come there's no blood spatter?" Hawkes said.
Hawkes' phone rings.
"Yeah?" Hawkes answered his phone "Alright. Great." Hawkes said as he scribbled on a piece of paper "Thanks"
Hawkes turned back to Danny "Fiona's funeral was paid for by a Hongkong-Shanghai Bank Card --- Visa. Owner is a Yi Yin Zhou"
Danny paused to think. He moved towards one of the computers and started to type. "Let's find out Rosie Cheung's Chinese name".
Rosie Cheung's records pop up on the computer. Her Chinese name is not registered.
"Try her immigration records" Hawkes said.
Danny typed in another command and Rosie's immigration records show up on the screen.
"Check it out" Danny said "Rosie Cheung came to the US on a student visa. Her scholarship was sponsored by Bantam Books. Abby Gelman's publisher"
"And her Chinese name" Hawkes pointed at the computer "is Yi Yin Zhou".
Danny smiled to himself. "Wow. I think I'm starting to get this"