It was already after 3 pm by the time they hit the road on the way back. Greg covered his mouth to hide his yawn from Catherine. A couple seconds later, Catherine was also yawning. Greg could not help but chuckle.
Catherine eyed him suspiciously. "What are you laughing at?"
"Oh just how we are still on the same shift and our next shift starts in about 5 hours."
She rolled her eyes. "Yeah this has been a long one. We can maybe catch a few z's before 8 pm."
"If we are lucky. I wonder if Sara and Nick are still at it?"
Catherine shrugged her shoulders. "I doubt it. They are probably at home sleeping nicely now," she sighed.
"Remind me to hate them when I see them," Greg frowned.
Catherine grinned. "You know, I won't care if you happen to catch a few winks here before we get back to the lab."
"Nah, I'll be okay. I'll just buy stock in Blue Hawaiian Coffee after all that I will be consuming."
Catherine caught the grin on his face growing. "I'm surprised you haven't already."
"Well, I now see that it might be a good investment seeing how much I down in a week."
Catherine laughed.
"Changing gears, so did the housekeeper or motel manager have any useful info for us, " he asked her.
She filled him in on the little information they provided in interview.
"So nobody saw or heard anything?"
"Well there was a guest who checked out at about 9 am who the sheriff deputy is trying to track down. Otherwise the place was empty from guests last night with the exception of our victims."
"Hopefully somewhere in the tons of fingerprints, hairs, or blood samples we have we will find out killer."
When they got back to the lab they unloaded all their DNA evidence on Wendy and trace evidence with Hodges.
Catherine told Greg to go home for a few hours sleep, as she had to go home to be with her daughter, Lindsay for a few hours and rest some her self.
Catherine checked back in at the lab at 9 pm. Sara and Nick were already there going through some evidence from a home invasion and murder case they had.
Sara looked up from the microscope at Catherine. "I heard you and Greg got called out to a pretty nasty scene."
"Yeah it looked like our killer had a slashing frenzy with our Vics. I am going to Doc Robbins now to see what exactly was done. When Greg gets in tell him where I am."
She walked into the coroner's lab. Doc Robbins stood over James Williams' lifeless form.
"So what do you have for me, Doc?"
Doc Robbins looked at her over his glasses. "They both have numerous lacerations on their bodies, but COD was from their necks being slashed."
"Are all the lacerations made by the same knife, you think," she questioned.
"No, it would appear some of them were made by possibly a small pocket knife and a serrated edged knife."
"So our killer had multiple weapons," Catherine thought out loud.
"Actually you might have more than one killer."
Catherine's eyes grew bigger. "Really? What gives?"
"Well, here on the male, the knife wounds were made at a different angle than the knife wounds on the female. It looks to be one person was left handed and the other right."
"So we have two killers working together on this. Great!"
"It also appears she was sexually assaulted by the bruises to her pelvic area." He walked over to Tessa's body and pointed out the bruising to Catherine.
Catherine shook her head. "They were on their honeymoon."
Doc Robbins looked at her. "Yeah well DNA can tell us for sure if the semen was her husband's or someone else's."
Greg came into the autopsy room. "Hey Doc! Hey Cath! Say I ran into Henry on the way here. He had the toxicology results from out victims. Said he found traces of Midazolam in them. They were drugged."
Catherine frowned. "So these killers seemed to know what they were doing. We need to see if there have been any similar crimes like this elsewhere."
"Did I hear you say Killers, as in more than one?"
Catherine nodded her head at Greg. "Doc Robbins says we probably have two based on the knife wounds on each victim being different angles. A lefty and a righty."
Catherine filled him in on the rest of Doc Robbins findings on the way to DNA to see Wendy.
Wendy looked up when she heard them coming. "Hey, you just dropped all this on me a couple hours ago. Give me some more time to get through this all. And you of all people should know that," she said pointing to Greg.
Greg held up his hands in defense. "Hey, we did not even say anything yet. We were just simply going to ask how it is coming along."
She glared at him for a moment, but since he looked tired as hell, she dropped it. "Okay, well I do have a couple of results for you anyway. The semen stains on the bedding all belong to James Williams."
"Really? Did you get the results from Tessa Williams," Greg asked her.
"Again it was James'. She was not raped from what my results say."
"I did tell Doc Robbins it was their honeymoon," Catherine said as a possible reason again for the bruising.
"Anything else for us, Wendy," she asked before continuing on.
"Check back in an hour."
They headed over to Mandy to check if any fingerprints had come through with matches yet. She was having no luck so far with any. She told them she would page them when she had something for them.
They went into the conference room and spread out the crime scene photos on the table. "So let's try to piece together what we have so far."
"Well we have two victims and possibly two killers who enjoy their work, by the looks of things," Greg commented.
Catherine agreed. "Yes and they bring stuff with them, like bleach and a couple knives to do their work. So they must be carrying a bag or something with them."
Greg looked at the photo of the bodies and how they were positioned. "Do you think they purposely placed the bodies like that and if so why?"
Catherine thought for a moment. "I am thinking it was done on purpose. Why I'm not sure exactly. Maybe they did it to show off their work. I mean the male vic has most of his slashes on his back, whereas the female seemed to have more on her front side. They wanted us to see what they do."
"So if there are two killers, they picked two victims, one for each. How do they get into the room? There were no signs of forced entry. Do the victims know them? Maybe the killers acted like they were working for the motel or something?"
Catherine nodded. "That is a good possibility. Hopefully Wendy or Mandy will get some matches for us to look into soon." Catherine's cell rang. She answered it.
"Okay, be over in a second." She hung up and looked to Greg. "Doc Robbins has something to show us on the bodies."
They went back into the autopsy room. "Come here…I found needle marks on both victims, both in the neck area." He pointed to Tessa and showed them the tiny bruise made from the needle puncture in her neck. Then he went over to James' body and showed the similar markings on his neck.
"So that is where they were most likely injected with the Midazolam and subdued," Greg assumed.
"Yes, I would agree." Doc Robbins noted.
"Thanks," Catherine said and left with Greg to head back over to the DNA lab. An hour had passed.
"Hey I was just about to page you two. I got a couple hits through CODIS from the hairs you found. One was of your victim, Tessa Williams. Then I got two more hits. One is Rachel Mastic. She is on file for petty theft. The other is more interesting. Jessica Myers, aka Jessie May. She recently got out of prison after seeing a 5 years sentence for stabbing her ex-boyfriend. She got out early for good behavior."
"You got a current address for her," Catherine question Wendy.
"Yes, I gave it to Brass already to look up."
"Thanks Wendy. At least we are getting someone to look into."
Catherine called Brass on her cell phone while Greg went to Mandy, who had paged them while they were with Wendy.
"Hey Greg! I got a print match for you."
He grinned. "Let me guess, Jessica Myers."
She frowned, looking at him over her glasses. "Wendy beat me to it, didn't she?"
Greg nodded his head. "Sorry."
"Well, I also got another match off a partial print. Trevor Kazan, he has a prior for assault. Never did any time for it though. Don't have a current address on him."
"Hmm, anything else I should know?"
Mandy shrugged her shoulders. "It's all I've got for now. All the others came back to the victims."
Greg was headed towards Catherine's office when David Hodges called after him.
"Hey Sanders, I got something for you."
"This better be good."
Hodges turned around to face Greg. "When do I not have something good?"
"I can think of a few times," Greg smirked.
"Yeah when?" Hodges demanded.
Too tired to argue, Greg sighed. "Look, forget about it. Just tell me what you found."
Hodges huffed a bit. "I'll let it drop this time." He pointed to his scope then. "Look and tell me what you see."
Greg looked down the microscope and saw a fine blue dust. He lifted his head. "Is that pool cue chalk?"
Hodges grinned. "Very good. I am surprised you got it."
"I did use to do this kind of stuff before you were around. Anyway was this off the clothes from the victims?"
"From the woman's blouse, on the shoulder area."
"So they play a game of pool before going on a killing spree, how nice." Greg thought out loud.
"That or they carried pool cue chalk around with them and it rubbed off on their stuff," Hodges suggested.
"Just strange. Anything else."
"Nope, that's all for now." Greg started to leave.
"Oh Greg, concealer works good for those dark circles under your eyes." Hodges yelled after him.
Greg stopped for a second and was about to turn around with some retort, but then decided not to bother. He had better things to do then go another round with Hodges.
Hodges looked after him, surprised, as Greg kept on walking.
Greg met Catherine in her office. He slumped down in a chair. "Didn't get much sleep, did you." She sympathized with him.
"Unless you call 3 hours a lot of sleep, no. What about you?"
"Got to spend an hour with Lindsay then slept for 2, so I got you beat on the hours slept," she winked at him.
"Not something I would want to win," he replied sheepishly.
"True. So anyway Brass went to the address of Jessica Myers. No one is living there right now. So Brass has notified her parole officer of this and made him aware we need to question her if she gets in touch with him."
"I have a couple things," Greg said, and then informed her of what Mandy and Hodges gave him.
"Trevor Kazan was the last guest to stay in that room, according to the motel records. We've already been in contact with him. He has a solid alibi for that night in question."
Greg looked displeased. "So the only possible lead we have we cannot find. That seems rather convenient."
"Agreed, she must have something to do with this or knows something."
Catherine and Greg continued going over what they had so far and tried piecing it all together, but so far there were no other leads.
A/N-I will try to update at least twice a week. I work a lot of overtime so I do not always have time to type up what I have written.