Chapter 6:

"Maybe there is something to this," D.B. said after talking to them, "It's possible that someone is copying old cases. Sara, you stay on that and keep me update."

Sara thanked him, kissed her husband and headed back to the computer. In her mind there is no such as a coincidence. Two hours she called D.B. and asked him to grab the rest of the team and met her in the layout room.

"OK guys," she said, "I think there is more to this then I first thought."

Sara pulled a cover off the board she had been working on and pointed as she talked.

"The first 'coincidence' was the fast food robbery's. The second was the B&E's. I thought that was all but I did some digging. Day shift has been working three convenience store robbery's and four years ago we worked seven of them before the case went cold after they stopped," she said, stopping to take a breath.

"I know what you are thinking," she said, mainly looking at Nick, "That these types of crimes are common. I would agree with you but if you look at the sheets I gave you the similarities are to close to be a coincidence. They are identical."

Everyone grabbed their copy of the information and started talking.

D.B. looked at Sara, "I'm beginning to think your right. This is no coincidence."

Meanwhile Grissom was sitting in his office when he heard a knock on his door, looking up he motioned for Casey to come in, "How can I help Miss Dunn?"

"I'm not really sure, Dr. Grissom," she said, "My tablet … well let's just say it caught a fatal virus. I was talking to Molly about it at lunch, I said I was not sure if I could afford a new one."

Grissom said, "You need some money?"

"Oh no!" she said, "Robert came up to me and said that he just got a new one and would sell me his old one for a good price."

She handed one to Grissom. He took it and looked it over, "Looks like a good one."

Casey smiled, "It's a great one."

"So what is the problem?" Grissom wanted to know.

"I went to…well to make a long story short, I wanted to wipe it clean but when I seen a file still on it so I decided to open it, you know, just to make sure it wasn't something that Robert may want. It was pictures."

Casey opened the file and showed it to Grissom, "Robert said this is not his family and not to worry about it. I asked him where he got it from. He just kept telling me not to worry. Robert also said he had a friend that can hook him up with anything I needed. It just sounded a little strange to me."

Grissom looked at the pictures, he recognized something about one of the pictures.

"I'm going to need to keep this," he said to Casey.

"OK," she said, "Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," he said, "But there is something about the house."

Grissom opened his wallet and handed her a bank card, "Go to the campus book store and get yourself a new tablet and do not tell anyone about our conversation."

"I wont," she said, "But I can't take your money."

Grissom smiled, "Consider it a gift from the WARRICK BROWN FOUNDATION."

After his death the team had started a fund to help promising students with expenses they needed. It all went into an account at the local bank and Grissom, because he was around the kids a lot, was in charge of it.

Casey left. Grissom looked at the picture again. It was a picture of a house and a caption that read 'Our new home 607 Chestnut St.'

Grissom opened his phone, "Sara, if you have a few minutes I need to see you."

Sara told him she could be there in about an hour. One hour later Sara was sitting across from Grissom listening to him tell her about his conversation with Casey. He showed her the picture. Sara opened an evidence bag and he placed it into the bag.

"I'll take this back to the lab," she said, "Talk to you later."

Further investigation showed the table belonged to Kevin Miller, the owner of the first B&E. Brass had Robert Keller brought in for questioning. Grissom stood the other side of the glass as Brass and Sara talked to the boy.

At first he denied knowing anything about it but after a while he looked at Brass and said, "I needed the money."

"You needed the money?" Brass said.

"Yes. I know it sounds crazy but I got the idea from class. We read about all these unsolved cases and how the other guy got away with it so I just copied what he did. I mean I didn't hurt anyone. I could have taken a lot more," he said.

"Where is the stuff you took?" Sara asked.

"I sold most of it to the kids on campus, the rest is at my cousins place," Robert said.

He gave them his cousins name and address, then told them all the names he could remember before he was escorted to booking. By the end of the week the NEW B&E cases were closed, the old ones remained open.