Disclaimer: I don't own Cold Case. I don't even own the music; they belong to the artists that are mentioned in this story. I only own the victim and his family and friends.
A little note: Just so you know that the place of the murder happened at the girlfriend's sister's sweet 16. I didn't have enough room to fit it in the summary. Hope that clears it up!
Chapter 2
"Seventeen year old Adam Carter, found dead from a fall at the bottom of the stairs at the Chateau in February of 95" Scotty said, reading from the file in storage.
"Cops said that Sara found the body only after fifteen minutes after he died" Lilly said.
"No one was around when he fell?" John asked.
"Nope only whoever did and took this picture" she replied, handing Boss the photo.
"It said here that he was invited to Katie's Sweet 16 that night, only was there for a couple of hours before he went to the restroom" Scotty said.
"Only to never come back" John said.
"Either it was an accidental death, so the report say or someone meant to do it" Lilly said.
"Nick and Will are talking to Sara's mother who remembers that night" John said.
"Then I guess Scotty and I will go talk to Sara's sister" Lilly said as the three of them headed back upstairs.
"I haven't heard of Adam since he died" Elle said at her home later that afternoon. She is in her mid fifties, light brown hair with a little gray.
"Can you tell us what you remember from that night?" Nick asked.
"Well, I do remember how I found out. Sara came running into the room in tears, screaming that Adam was dead. I didn't believe her at first until I saw the police showing up. I was too busy trying to see if everything went right for Katie that night" she replied.
"Was your husband around for that night?"
"He was in and out of our lives since work called him away a lot. He's lucky enough to be around for Sara's wedding" she said.
"Have she and Adam ever had relationship troubles?" Will asked.
"Sometimes but it happens with every couple. But for some weird reason, Katie didn't approve the relationship" she said.
"How so?"
"Well, Katie looked up to Sara rather than Blake. However, there was this one time when we were setting the invites for her party" she said.
Flashback
Hungary like a Wolf-Duran Duran
"Okay so we got Joan, Alex, Taylor and Brad" Katie said in her room, talking to Sara. Elle is walking up the stairs with laundry and is putting the towels away.
"Kat, you would be fine if Adam can come right?" Sara asked.
"Why would he want to be at my party?" Katie asked.
"Well he is pretty much part of the family for the past few months now and I thought you like him" Sara replied.
"He's not that bad of a guy or anything it's just well, I don't know why he should come. He's always around you" she said.
"That's not true, he does have a home you know" Sara said.
"Not my fault you never got a sweet 16" Katie said snidely.
"What the hell is your damn problem? Is it wrong that my boyfriend should be invited to your party?" Sara said angrily.
"This is my party, not yours. It's not my fault that you never got a sweet 16. Maybe if you spend less time with your boyfriend, you would've been helping me out" Katie said. Sara took one last look at her before storming out of the room, with Elle, watching her daughter's retreating back.
End of flashback
"I thought Katie liked him" Elle said, finishing her story.
"Does your daughter still live in town?" Nick asked.
"She lives in downtown Philly. She is the maid of honor of Sara's wedding so she's busy with that right now" she replied.
Lilly and Scotty walked into a lawyer's office where they saw a girl sitting at a desk. She looked like to be in her early to mid twenties and was on the phone. She had long blonde hair and wore nice clothes. She looked up as she saw that the two detectives were walking over towards her.
"I got to go" she said in the phone as she hung up. "Can I help you?"
"Are you Katie Moore?" Scotty asked.
"Yeah" she replied.
"Detectives Rush, Valens homicide" Lilly said, as they flashed their badges.
"Homicide?" she said.
"We're looking into Adam Carter's murder" Scotty said.
"Really?" she asked.
"You sound surprised" Lilly stated.
"I thought that he took a wrong step and fell down the wrong way. I didn't think he would be murdered" Katie said.
"New evidence came up" Lilly said.
"Do you remember what you were doing the night he died, since it was your birthday party" Scotty asked.
"I was in the hall talking to a few friends when Sara left the hall to look for him that was around a few minutes after he left the room" she replied. "My sister asked you to look into his murder, did she?"
"Yeah" Scotty replied.
Katie sighed before she stood up from her chair. "I had a feeling that she did that. She loved him more than anything."
"What makes you say that?" Lilly asked.
"Don't get me wrong but he was a nice guy but…"
"But what?"
"There was something about him, I couldn't place. I don't know what though, but a few months before he died, he came over to the house. I was home and I overheard them talking…
Flashback
Time-Hootie and the Blowfish
Adam and Sara were in the living room, watching TV and books sprawled everywhere. Katie walks downstairs into the kitchen where she overhears the two of them talking.
"So are we going to be hanging out tomorrow with Annie right?" Sara asked.
"I can't I have to go to that thing, remember?" he replied.
"Yeah I forgot. You don't mind going to see him every week?"
"Not really I mean it does help out with what I've been through recently but it's still not the same" he said sadly.
"Well you still got your mother and you still got me" she said.
"I know that's what I love about you" he said as he snuggled closer to her while Katie is silently watching them with a confused look on her face.
End of flashback
"Did you ask Sara what were they talking about?" Lilly asked.
"Please, she would've kicked my ass if she knew I eavesdropped in on their conversation. I've done that almost too many times" Katie replied.
"If you have any more information, just let us know" Scotty said handing her his card.
"Detectives, it seemed that Sara wanted this case to close right?" she asked.
"Yeah, why do you say that?" Lilly said.
"I don't know, there was something going on with those two, I didn't know what" Katie said.
A/n: Here's the second chapter. Don't mind me if I switch up the music for this story, I sometimes remember the songs from the nineties and a little from each decade so I'll be focusing on music from the nineties and a bit from the eighties.
I'll update next week. Not sure when since college and work are making me busy.
Don't forget to review on the way out and thanks for the alerts and review I've gotten so far!
Signing out for now,
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