Stella stared at the computer monitor, her eyes wide as she read the results. Mac happened to enter the lab at the exact moment she'd dialed his cell phone.
"You called, Stella?" He asked, and she jumped and turned to see him standing in the doorway.
"Yeah, I got a hit in CODIS on the partial fingerprint found on the toothbrush lodged in Lance Talkington's throat," she said, and Mac raised an eyebrow.
"The dead inmate at the prison?" He asked, and Stella nodded.
"Yeah, Jeremiah Williams, the Warden." She said, indicating the computer monitor.
Mac stepped closer, scanning the information on the screen. It was the same Warden who's behaviour at the crime scene had caused both detectives to make notations in their reports.
"He sure didn't like us being there," Mac said, and Stella nodded.
"I couldn't hardly interview Lacy Dalton. He asked me to leave before I'd finished talking to her," Stella said, and looked up at Mac.
"Looks like our Warden's got a history of domestic abuse," Mac observed, reading the synopsis from CODIS.
"See if you can get Ms. Dalton to come in for an interview," he said and turned to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Stella asked, and Mac turned again to face her.
"I'm going back to talk to Warden Williams," he explained.
"I don't like what I'm seeing, and I have a feeling our Warden is hiding something."
Turning, he left the lab, leaving Stella to contact Lacy Dalton. She frowned as the phone rang and rang, but Lacy didn't answer. Something wasn't right, and Stella closed out the CODIS results and turned to leave, planning on paying a visit to Ms. Dalton's residence. There was a sense of urgency in her voice as she phoned Lieutenant Flack.
"I need you to go with me on a welfare check," She told him as she walked down the hall.
"Sure thing," He said, and hung up the phone.
Something was very wrong about the whole thing, and Stella had a very bad feeling that what they were about to find out at Lacy Dalton's place wouldn't be good news.