Tell me what you want to know oh come on, there ain't no motive for this crime, Jenny was a friend of mine—The Killers, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
"What do you have so far?" Steve asked Chin and Kono as he and Danny returned to the office after striking out at the hospital.
"Elyssa Matthews,24. Currently a freshman at U of H studying library science." Chin reported as he pulled up her college ID picture on the plasma screen.
"24? Isn't that kind of old for a freshman?" Steve asked.
"This is her second time around. She originally attended Northwestern University where she studied musical theatre. She was a senior but never graduated. She moved to Hawaii six months ago and is currently living in Kaneohe Bay." Chin replied.
"Kaneohe Bay? That's the Marine Corps Base. What's she doing there?" Steve wondered aloud.
"She lives there with her brother, Lt. Colonel Jack Matthews, USMC. He was recently assigned here at MCBH." Chin continued as he pulled up a photo of the Colonel.
"What can you tell us about the frat house she was found out?" Danny asked as Chin pulled up the new information on the computer.
"Simga ki. THE fraternity on campus. It's members include a very prestigious list of students such as 3 prominent U.S. senator's sons, a handful of high ranking CEOs and a couple of sons of foreign diplomats. If you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth you don't stand a chance of making it in." He informed.
"Great, only thing worse than tourists are trust fund babies." Danny complained.
"Wow Danny, you almost sounded like a native there." Kono said, smirking at the mainlander who just frowned back at her.
"Who runs the show over there?" Steve said, continuing on.
"That would be Landon Johnson, son of U.S. Senator Michael Johnson from North Carolina who happens to be a very high ranking member." Chin pulled up the ID picture of a smug looking blonde who had an air of arrogance and authority about him and knew it.
"Great, politics. I hate politics." Danny muttered under his breath.
"Elyssa said something about a guy named Nick." Steve said.
"That's probably Nick Green II, son of Senator Miranda Green from Oregon. He seems to be one of Landon's lackeys." Another picture was added up alongside of Landon's. Nick didn't have quite the look that his friend did but there was still no denying the fact that he was somebody who knew his place was above others.
"Okay, so Nick convinces Elyssa to go to the frat house where one of these pricks puts something in her drink and now even more defenseless than she was before, she ends up getting raped. Tell me, what kind of sick freak takes advantages of a deaf girl?" Danny ranted, clenching his hands that he had been waving around into fists.
"Did the hospital get anything off the rape kit?" Steve asked, ignoring his partner's outburst.
"The exam was positive for DNA. It's been sent off to the lab with a rush order. They also found skin cells under her fingernails so she at least tried to fight back." Kono explained from the crime scene reports.
"Good for her." Chin remarked.
"Also, her blood work came back positive for ketamine." She added.
"Oldie but nasty." Said Chin. Ketamine had been the date rape drug of choice a decade ago but had fallen out of favor with the younger generation when it became listed as a controlled substance making it harder to obtain. He couldn't remember the last time he had seen it used in a case.
"The levels weren't very high. Whoever dosed her wanted her incapacitated but able to remember." Kono informed them.
"Five minutes, when we find this guy I just want five minutes alone with him." Danny declared.
"Alright, Chin see if you can track down her brother. The hospital said they tried the contact number and got no answer. Kono, I want you to track down her friend Nick and figure out how he's involved in all of this. Danny and I are going to have a chat with Landon." Steve stated. Danny rolled his eyes.
"This ought to be good."
"Nick Green?" Kono asked as she approached him in the Student Union on campus. He had his face buried in his laptop.
"Ya?" He responded, barely picking his head up from the screen.
"Officer Kalukauha, 5-0." She stated, placing her badge between his face and computer.
"I'm sorry. Is there something wrong officer?" Nick asked, looking at her now.
"I have some questions for you about your friend Elyssa Matthews?" She said, carefully watching his reaction when she said Elyssa's name. For his part, he remained relatively neutral.
"What about her?" He said with a shrug but Kono could see his casualness was forced.
"You brought her to a party at your frat house last night, right?"
"It wasn't really a party. More of a causal get together to de-stress from finals." He corrected.
"Right," Kono tried not to roll her eyes. "But you did bring her along, did you not?" She repeated.
"Elyssa is a friend. She's been working hard with finals and I thought she could use a break. It's not easy for a girl like her and she doesn't have many friends, so I invited her." Nick explained.
"A girl like her?" She asked, playing dumb.
"You know, with her being deaf and all. She doesn't really talk and most people can't sign so they just leave her alone. I felt bad for her and since I know some basic sign language, I thought she could use a friend." Nick said and Kono could tell that he was sincere.
"So what happened when you got there?" She asked, wondering if his sincerity would last.
"We were just sitting around talking. I could tell she kind of had a thing for one of the other guys and the two of them disappeared somewhere." He told her, his eyes shifting back down to the computer.
"She just took off with some guy?" She asked, not quite believing what she was hearing.
"Hey I didn't ask. All I know is that I didn't see them the rest of the night…did something happen to Ellie?" He inquired, suddenly seeming worried.
"Funny you should ask. Someone spiked Elyssa's drink, then raped her and left her for someone else to find." Kono declared purposely being harsh to see what kind of reaction she would get from him.
"It's wasn't me." Nick insisted immediately. "I was downstairs with the rest of the guys the whole time. You can ask them."
"Oh I will but if you really want to clear your name you can give me a DNA sample to rule you out with." She stated and she could see his hesitation. "If Elyssa is as much of a friend as you claim she is you should want to help find whoever did this to her and eliminate yourself as a suspect. Because right now you're pretty high up on that list consider you're the last person that she was seen with on campus." She pushed.
"I wouldn't rape Ellie." He declared. "I'm not that kind of a person."
"Then prove it by giving us a DNA sample." She repeated.
"I think I want my lawyer present first."