He walked through the halls of his lab waiting to greet the newest member of his team that already consisted of Det. Stella Bonasera, Det. Don Flack, Det. Danny Messer, Dr. Shelden Hawkes and newcomer Det. Lindsay Monroe and of course himself, Det. Mac Taylor. Mac had met this young lady before, he knew her father who was a new jersey detective, he knew her ever since she was a baby but had lost contact when she was a child. "Jacquelyn?"(Jack-lynn) He asked seeing a young woman with long blond hair and blue eyes with fair skin stand in his office "Wow you've grown up so much" He observed and brought her in for a hug, something he didn't do much. "Yeah well it has been twenty years" Her voice sounded like an Angel. "Stella" He gestured to a woman who was walking past, She had brown curly hair with tanned skin. "This is Detective Hayes" "Oh yes you're new CSI. I'm Stella Bonasera" "Hi it's nice to meet you Stella" "Come meet the rest of the team, they're waiting to meet you"
"You must be Detective Hayes" A young man with Glasses holding a case file firmly shook my hand "I'm Doctor Shelden Hawkes" "And I'm Danny" A man with a thick new yorken accent said "And this is montana" He said introducing his co-worker "It's Lindsay Monroe" She corrected. "Sorry to cut this so short but we've got a scene" Mac interrupted.
We arrived at an apartment building and went up to the 17th floor "Vic's female, 17. She was found by her mother, Alice, at around 7 this morning" the young man in a suit with jet black hair and blue eyes told us pointing to a crying woman holding a boy who looked about 10. "Detective flack" He said "Detective Hayes" "Jersey?" "Born and raised" "Ugh" "what's that supposed to mean?" I Laughed "Nah nothing just remind me not to drive with you" He joked
"Ms Williams I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm detective Hayes may I ask you a few questions?" "Sure. Jackson go down the hall to Mrs Hendersons" She told the young crying boy. "Was their anyone who maybe wanted to hurt your daughter?" "No. Everyone loved her she was a good student she was going to college in a few months her birthday was next week" "Did she have a boyfriend?" "No. She wanted to focus on her studies" "What about friends?" "Many of her friends were preparing for college she hadn't talked to them in a while" "And her father?" "He left 3 years ago" "Again I'm very sorry for your loss" "Just please find Bailey's killer. Please find the person who killed my baby!"
"I went through the vics social media and turns out she did have a boyfriend, His name is Thomas Jeffs" Sheldon told me handing me a picture of the two.
"Hayes" Flack smiled "Jets fan" I laughed "Hawkes sent me the picture of the perp" "Well we don't know he did it" "In this city everyone's guilty of something" "Well then I guess we approach stuff differently" "yeah that's cause you're form jersey" "You don't think Jerseys hardcore?" I laughed sighting the suspect running after him. After a block and jumping over countless stuff he had thrown over in an attempt to make us loose sight I finally reached him and hand cuffed him "Damn Hayes you're fast" Flack huffed "Told you Jersey's hardcore"
"Baileys dead?" he asked shocked "Don't act surprised Thomas we found your prints all over her room" Flack interrogated "Well of course you did, I was there but before she died!" "Why didn't her mother know about the two of you?" I asked "I don't know. Bailey and her mother never saw each other. Her mom had two jobs Bailey was studying and had her own job. She had hardly any time for me." "Ok Thomas where were you at 7 o'clock this morning" Flack questioned "I was at work" "Anyone can verify that?" I asked "yeah my boss, 2 co-workers and security cameras" "If you're so innocent then why did you run?" I politely asked "I had a bag of weed that's all I swear"
"So is that how you always are or were you just trying out the 'good cop ' thing" Flack asked handing over the suspect for release "Are you always a bad cop or was that a one off?" "Jersey got sass" "Don't call me jersey….Call me Jac" "Okay Jac."
"The apartment across from the Williams apartment had an engagement photoshoot right around TOD so I got the photos sent over and enlarged it" I told Lindsay "Did you get the face of the killer?" "No but I got a witness" "Who?" "The vics little brother, Todd."
"Ms Williams We're sorry to bother you but may we speak to your son?" Lindsay asked "Todd? why?" "We believe he may have witnessed you're daughters murder" "No he didn't he would have told me" "Ms williams we understand that this is difficult but he be able to help us solve your daughters murder" "Okay. Todd! The police want to ask you some questions" "Todd do you know who hurt your sister?" I asked he didn't say anything he sat quietly. "Todd If you know who hurt bailey you have to tell the police" His mother said but again he didn't say a work but just stared out the window. "I'm sorry he didn't say anything" Ms Williams said letting us out of the apartment "It's ok Ms Williams" "Now that I think of it he hasn't spoken a word since this morning" "We understand, call us if he says anything" I said giving her my card.
"It's so great having you on the team" Lindsay said handing money over to the man selling coffee "It's great being on the team" "I only joined 3 weeks ago so it's nice not to be the newbie anymore" she laughed "Oh yes dumpster diving and M.E visits. I love being a newbie" I sarcastically said "So are you still in Jersey or are you staying in New York?" Lindsay asked "I moved to New York a few weeks ago. Believe it or not Staying in New Jersey for the rest of my life was not my plan" I joked "I still have to unpack some boxes though" "I'll help you sometime" "Really? That'd be great" "Yeah I know what its like I moved from Montana about 2 months ago" "I can help you to if you want" "Thanks"
"Hey you're Adam Ross right?" I asked seeing the man who looked around my age sit in front of his computer "Yes and you must be Detective Jacquelyn Hayes" "Yeah but just call me Jac" "ok cool" "So you paged?" "Yes. I got into the victims phone and found out she was receiving threating messages from a burner cell the texts were 'I know what you saw' 'I'm going to make you shut up' and stuff like that" "Can you trace the cell?" "No. It disconnected right after the murder" "So what did she see"
"Hey mac I think I found something" I told Mac who was doing paperwork in his office. The team followed us into the conference room. "After seeing the texts that Adam found I thought what could be worth killing for? And I realised another killing I believe that the Victim witnessed a murder, the murder of this man, John Wilikson. He was killed on the corner of 71st and 72nd street 3 months ago. 71st and 72nd street is also on Bailey Williams commute to school. After he died Bailey googled murders and bought newspapers everyday and then her google searches turned into googling the first victims name" "Was there any suspects in the first case?" "Yes a local known perp sent to jail many times. Mostly for small stuff but it was believed that the suspect William Jose tried to rob Wilikson but Wilikson put up a fight and the gun accidently went off but they didn't have enough evidence and Jose got released." "Do we know where Jose is now?" "Yes Flack Is picking him up now"
"I didn't do that bro if I did I'd be locked up now man" William Jose said to me and Mac in interrogation "You're not here on the murder of John wilikson you're here on the murder of 17 year old Bailey Williams" I said placing pictures of the scene in front of him "Man I ain't never seen that girl in my life" "Are you sure? You didn't see her witness you murder John wilikson?" "No because I didn't murder him" "Thank you for your time Sir" I said letting him leave "What was that?" Mac asked "He killed Bailey Williams because she saw him murder John Wikison and Todd Williams, Baileys little brother witnessed his sisters murder" "So you think he's going to go after the brother"
"I've got uni's following William Jose and parked outside the Williams apartment" Flack said "So now what" Lindsay said "Now we wait" I said
"They lost Jose" "We need to get over to the Williams place now"
Flack and me walked over to the cop car parked outside "We haven't seen anyone suspicious come in or out of the apartment building" They said right before Ms Williams ran out of the building "My baby! Somebody took my baby!" She screamed.
"We're so sorry but any little detail could help us find your son" I said "He went down to collect the mail for me and he never came back up if I went instead this wouldn't be happening" she cried "You can't blame yourself for this" "This is the worst day of my life"
"How could you not notice a man kidnap a little boy!" Flack screamed to the officers who were supposed to be watching the building "Detective" I called Flack away "You can't be too rough on them they're like 12" "They're the reason a ten year old was kidnapped! You've been here for 2 seconds so don't act like you know what's going on around here!" He yelled
Me and flack awkwardly drove to William Jose girlfriends house.
"I don't know where he is" She said chewing her gum "Ma'am William killed 2 people and has kidnapped a little boy. Imagine if it was your little boy" "Well it's not" "Listen lady a ten year old boy saw your boyfriend kill his seventeen year old sister and now your boyfriend has kidnapped him!" Flack yelled "I don't know where he is but he's most likely at his dads meat shop"
"I told you being the bad cop pays off sometimes" Flack said as I rolled my eyes.
"William Jose NYPD" Flack called before kicking in the door. With guns pointed and flashlights on we searched the premises. I heard a sound coming from the back room. I signalled flack to follow me. "William Jose step away from the child" I yelled "Come on Will we both know you don't want to hurt him" Flack said He thought for a second and let him go. Todd ran behind me as Flack arrested the suspect.
"You did a great job today Jacquelyn" Mac said "Thanks Mac" "Tell your dad I said hi" "Sure mac"
I pressed the button to the ground floor so I could finally go home "Hold it" Lindsay said as the doors started to close so I put my arm between and held it open "Thanks" She smiled "So me and Danny are going to get some drinks, want to come?" "Yeah sure"
The clock only read 1:30 A.M but me and Lindsay were already tired "It's only one you can't leave" Danny pleaded "We're not from new York like you danny" Lindsay said grabbing her coat "Plus I've got be at work In five hours" I said as me and Lindsay left.