"I ran it three times." Wendy insisted. The blood does not belong to David Moloney or Tommy Barbers, or James Fenton, OR Roger Mandora. It belongs to an unkown male. It's new blood, only there less than 48 hours. I'm sorry Greg."
"Greg, your prints don't match this plumber guy at all. The prints at either side of your blood belong to David Moloney and the other prints on the wires all belong to an unidentified male."
Greg sighed. His theory wasn't looking so great.
"Would you run it against Wendy's unknown male? I want to see if we got the same guy."
"Sure." Mandy said, gathering her files. "Come pick the tests up in an hour?"
Bianca Edmonds was a blonde. She had tangerine skin and turquoise eyes. Her miniature shorts were pink, as was her crop top. She wore 12 inch heels and make-up. Lots of it.
"I swear, I ain't seen David in 3 years."
"Describe your realtionship with him prior to that."
"We were like... involved... for a year. Then I dumped his ass because he would never buy me anything. He would pretend picnics were more romantic than dinner at a five star restaraunt and camping was more fun than hotels. The guy was a miser."
"How did he take the break up?"
"Not very well. Went crazy. Stalked me for a month. I got a restraining order against him. Never saw him again."
"Do you know he left everything he owns to you?"
Bianca's eyes lit up. "How much are we talking here?"
"Well, he was heavily in debt. Once the state sells his house, it still won't pay it all off so, that responsibility falls to you."
Bianca thumped her fist on the table.
"Stupid little shit! So this is how he gets back at me! If he wasn't already dead I would kill this sorry sonovabitch!"
"M'am, I would strongl adivse that you calm down." The officer recommeneded.
Sara showed Bianca a picture of the plumber.
"Do you recognise this guy?"
"No. I ain't never seen him before."
Nick Stokes hoped that Grissom would have a new case for him soon. He didn't like being an assistant to Greg and Sara. Dumpster diving was Greg's job. Not his. He sighed and continued rumaging through the bin. Nothing.
When Greg had found a glove wit blood on it sitting in front of this bin, he had called the other two. The glove was yellow. There had been yellow fibers on David's trousers. These gloves might belong to the person who dragged him across the floor. Sara had ran back to the lab to check the prints inside the glove and Greg decided it would be fun to wait and watch Nick wade through the garbage. After they'd found a gun with more yellow fibers, but no prints, Greg got really excited.
"Having fun?" he taunted.
"Oh yeah... this is great" the Texan replied.
He finally found the second glove.
"Here we go, your majesty..."
"Why don't you keep looking?" Greg laughed. "You might find some more evidence."
Nick narrowed his eyes at Greg and carried on searcing. This was pointless. They had the gloves, why couldn't they just go? He opened up one more bin bag - just to keep Greg happy - and emptied the contents onto the ground. A pair of shoes, a watch, sunglassses and a sweater fell out. They all looked brand new.
"Hey G come take a look at this!"
Greg sauntered up and took a look at what he had just found.
"Bag that stuff and take it back tot the lab. This is the results of David's shopping spree and Tommy's stealing spree."
Nick got out of the dumpster. Finally.
The prints on the stuff from the dumpster matches the plumber so they have enough to finally arrest him. For theft, not murder. The prints inside the yellow gloves matched the unknown prints from the wires. Sara Sidle watched Nick calling Brass and telling him to arrest Tommy/James/Roger. He layed sheets out on the table in front of her. They were going over their notes while waiting to interview the plumber again.
"So, here's what we know so far" he beagn. "The plumber comes in, takes the stuff, put it back in the bag, then takes it out again. He leaves the house and dumps the stuff. There's the who and the how, we just need the why."
"Also" Nick adds "The unknown guy, is touching wires. David tries to strangle him with the wire and then the guy punches David in the nose, drags him across the floor, and shoots him in the head. He then leaves, dumps the gloves and the gun and disapears."
"This probably happened before the plumber arrives" Sara said, looking at the timeline. "So when the plumber came, he was already dead. I think they were in this together, the plumber and the unknown guy. The only thing that doesn't make sense is why he dumped the stuff."
Nick's pager beeped.
"Why don't we go ask him?" he suggested "Brass says they found the guy. He was leaving town, apparently."
"Let's go" Sara smiled.
