Adventures of Caine and Kerrigan Part One: Family is Family

by Phoebe Darling

Horatio Caine finds out that he has a half-sister. He never knew about her. The first time that he finds out about her is when she reaches out for help. He saves her but who did it. His sister is strong and too stubborn for her own good. She is a Marine which gets NCIS involved. Multiple attempts are made on her life. When the dust settles they go to New Orleans to help a friend.

4. Chapter: A Tale of Two Scenes

Chapter: 4
A Tale of Two Scenes

There are two crime scenes. The secondary crime scene doesn't have a lot. Mainly the wench with the rope that Horatio had cut. Ryan swabs the end of the rope for epithelial's. There is also the eye screw embedded into the concrete. The largest piece of evidence is the blood pool below where Renee had been hanging by her wrists.

The primary crime scene is Renee's house. The house looks trashed with broken picture frames and shattered lamps along with destroyed furniture, and bullet holes in the walls. The evidence shows definite signs of struggle with blood pools and blood smears all over the walls, floor, and furniture.

Calleigh and Eric take swabs of every single bloodstain in the house. The team is hoping that some of the blood is from one of her attackers. Some of the blood is on the shattered glass of a coffee table.

With Horatio at the hospital, the team needs to follow the evidence through to the end. Natalia, the team's DNA expert who had transferred from the FBI, analyzes the blood evidence at both the warehouse and the household.

Ryan's running the trace evidence at the warehouse, and Eric's running point. Walter's the team's go-between. He is going from the lab and crime scenes to Horatio at the hospital. He was keeping his boss up to date on any new development with the case. Calleigh is responsible for the ballistic evidence.

The ballistics are all at Renee's house, and they are all over. In the living room and all down the living room hall, 45 ACP bullets are sticking out of the walls. Calleigh finds several full .357 magazines stashed all over Renee's house. One under the coffee table, one under the couch, and even one tucked into the side table. Calleigh can't help but think, " This woman is definitely prepared for the worst-case scenario."

Near the bookcase is a 9mm slug in the wall with blood spray all around it. It was of high velocity, so Calleigh can determine that it came from a through and through gunshot wound since the bullet is in the middle of the splatter.

Natalia runs the blood from the through and through, and it comes back as Renee's. Along the opposite side of the room is the dead body of one of Renee's attackers. He is hit in the chest, and it doesn't go through, so Calleigh will have to wait until Dr. Tom Loman removes it during the man's autopsy.

First Loman, has to run the dead attackers DNA through CODIS. The ID was easy to get since CODIS spat out a name within minutes. The attacker that Renee shot and killed is ID'ed as "Grayson Clark." Grayson is a well-known mercenary.

Calleigh can see that Renee had been shot with a 9mm. Half-way to the kitchen down the hallway from the living room is a single bullet hole in the wall surrounded by high-velocity blood splatter. There is a bullet hole but no bullet.

There, however, is clear evidence that someone dug out the slug and removed it. Calleigh thinks to herself that whoever it is that Renee shot took out the bullet and must have taken it with them.

The trace evidence that Ryan processes from her house show that Renee did not go quietly and fought like hell to not be taken. Ryan ID'ed several locations in her house where a severe altercation had taken place.

Ryan finds some glass that was found inside Grayson's head, and hands came from the shattered coffee table in the living room from when Renee threw Grayson into the coffee table smashing it.

Calleigh can determine that the gun found on Grayson did not shoot Renee. She had been hit with a Smith and Wesson 9mm, and the gun found on him is a Glock 30.

One of the sites is where she had been shot by an unknown attacker. When she is shot, Renee goes down but forces herself back on her feet to keep fighting.

Her attackers finally overwhelm her by tasing her with a Taser. Calleigh thinks to herself, "That's cheating, tasing someone that you can not beat."
Dr. Loman can remove the slug that killed the attacker at Renee's house. He had been shot with Renee's Sig Sauer P-226 .357.

The Sig Sauer P-226 can fire four different types of bullets with conversions; a 9mm, a 40 Smith and Wesson, a 357, and a 22 long rifle, but Renee used 357's.
Nineteen of the bullets that are pulled from her walls and furniture are traced back to her Sig. Renee managed not only to empty her gun's magazine, but she is able to reload and empty that magazine as well. That would have been twenty-one shots that are linked to her gun. That number sounds right to Calleigh.

A Sig Sauer holds ten rounds in each magazine, and if Renee is like most other officers, she keeps one round always in the chamber. They know that she emptied two magazines since they found one empty Sig magazine at the scene and found her Sig on the floor.
When Calleigh had checked the gun to clear it, she finds the firearm to be empty like the magazine on the ground. The firearms chamber is also clear of any rounds.

When Calleigh finished the firearms tests, she cleans Renee's gun since she could obviously tell that Renee is obsessive about her gun maintenance.

The team just needs to name the person who shot the gun that went through Renee's shoulder and into her wall. The dead one of the attackers never got a shot off since she killed him before he could even clear the holster meaning his gun was still holstered.