"Mac, Danny and I just started working on the files Jessie had in her lock box" Lindsey sounded almost breathless as she caught up with him in the hallway. "Right off the bat we've got something…"

She handed him a file and he looked over it then frowned "What am I looking at here Lindsey?"

"Jessie Bancroft hired several companies to do all kinds of tests - crash test simulations on the car, redo the tox reports… she was smart about it too, I'm guessing she divided the work so no one would really realize what she was trying to do. I started checking into the companies that she hired I figured maybe we can talk to them, get their findings, see if they uncovered something we missed the first time around…"

"And?" Mac prompted as the two of them got into the elevator heading down

"One of the companies didn't check out. Jessis hired a company to do handwriting analysis on the suicide note found in the car - I checked the company's website and something about it looked a little fishy so I dug in a little deeper - the company doesn't really exist. The site was set up 2 months ago through an offshore server, there are no documentations of a business by that name ever getting an operating business license from the state of New York, no tax returns no nothing…"

"So someone was running a scam and maybe Jessie found out…" Mac concluded

"The name of the company's manager is Jeff Shelby" Lindsey informed him "I put the name through the police database - no hits yet, but this is a sophisticated scam so maybe our guy just hadn't been caught yet…"

Lindsey followed Mac out of the elevator and the two of them stopped just outside the interrogation room where the current Mrs. Danvers was waiting along with her lawyer and what looked like a very impatient Flack.

"Good work Lindsey. I'll have Flack put out an APB on Jeff Shelby see if we can't bring him in here to answer a few questions. You and Danny keep digging into that case file…"

"Is that the second wife?" Lindsey asked as she looked at the woman sitting inside the interrogation room "God, she seems so young…you really think she could have shot her step-daughter?"

"That's what I'm going to find out…"

He handed the file back to Lindsey and walked into the room stopping for a moment to tell Flack about Lindsey's latest discovery and watching as the young detective excused himself and stepped outside to place the call that would begin the search for Jeff Shelby.

"I want to go on record and say that my client already told your officers all she can regarding her step-daughter and that we'll be answering no more questions" The lawyer quickly stated pulling Mac's attention back to the woman in front of him.

"Fine, don't say anything, why don't I do the talking?" Mac took a seat "Your stepdaughter was found shot in an ally three nights ago with bruises on her face that were a few days old, about as old as the bruise on your arm there. My team is going over your house as we speak and we already found blood on your carpet… my guess is it's going to match Jessie's DNA. So what happened? The two of you got into a fight? You hit her?"

Mrs. Danvers opened her mouth to say something but her lawyer placed a restraining hand on her arm "Like I said, my client has nothing to say."

Mac saw a look pass on Mrs. Danvers's face but she listened to her lawyer and remained silent "That's ok, we'll just let the evidence talk for her…"

He got up and walked over to the door and joined flack who was standing just outside "We're going to take a few pictures of the bruise on her arm and see if it matches Jessie's hand"

"Alright Danny are we ready?" Lindsey asked from her place by the computer and looked expectantly at Danny who was occupying the seat beside the other computer screen.

"Just about" Danny murmured and hit a few more keys, inputting the last bits of data into the computer simulator. "Ok, ready to boogey"

"Ok, so we put all the information from the case file into this simulation, the make and model of the car, the weather and road conditions at the night of Hanna Danvers' death…"

"The legal limit on the road is 60 miles per hour" Danny nodded "So let's start by assuming Mrs. Danvers was driving according to the law and put the estimated speed at 60 miles per hour"

He hit a few more keys and the two of them watched as the simulation displayed on the big screen. The car on the screen went down the road then veered off and jumped off the side, smashed into the railing and flew of the road into the ravine. Lindsey hit a few keys and waited as the computer calculated the distance between the point where the car landed and where the car initially jumped off the road.

"Ok, this ain't right" Danny grabbed the accident police file once the numbers appeared on the screen "according to the police file the car landed 10 feet from the edge of the road, this has her at 35 feet at least"

"Maybe she hit her brakes before the car went off the road" Lindsey theorized

"Nah, look at these photos - there's no skid marks, no evidence she was trying to hit the brakes"

"Who doesn't hit the brakes when their car is going off the road?"

"Tox reports say they found traces of valium in her system, there was a bottle of booze in the car - maybe she was already unconscious or sleeping"

"But there was no trace of alcohol in her system and the levels of valium weren't high enough to cause a woman of her weight and height to pass out like that…"

"Ok, so maybe she was just driving under the legal limit. Try putting in 40 miles per hour, let's see where that gets us"

Lindsey inputted the new data into the computer, watching patiently as the simulation ran it's course a second time. This time the distance was calculate by the computer to be 23 feet from the road. The two of them exchanged a look before turning back to the computer - the next hour or so was spent inputting different speeds into the simulation and watching as it ran over and over again until the simulation finally matched what was found at the scene of the accident.

"Ok, so according to this simulation the speed of the car was about 22 miles per hour before it went off the road" Danny summarized "That's weird. I mean who drives this slow on deserted highway in the middle of the night? Especially if you're trying to commit suicide - wouldn't you gun down the gas pedal and try to get it over with as soon as possible?"

"But it's not out of the realm of possibility" Lindsey sighed "It doesn't preclude the possibility that she drove the car off the road intentionally"

"So what does that leave us with?"

Lindsey leaned against the lab table and looked at him with a sad look, fresh out of ideas.