Chapter 2
After speaking to Nick and Warwick, Nick walked me back around to the front of the house and we both put our shoe covers and gloves on. As we stepped into the house we were greeted by an older man in his mid 50's.
"what you got Nick?" he asked.
"we have tire treads, shoe impression's, a match and a bidi" Nick replied.
"a bidi?" the man asked looking confused.
"it's a type of cigarette, most commonly used by teenagers as they think they're less harmful than normal cigarettes" Nick said.
"anything else?"
"the impressions are on wet soil, and as detective Jackson pointed out, the sprinkler's must be on a timer so If they were on the time of the murder then we know that the bike and the person were here at the time of the murder" Nick said.
"detective Jackson?" the guy asked looking confused again.
"oh yeah sorry" Nick said, "Gil Grissom this is Detective Katy Jackson, just transferred here from Brooklyn and this is her first case"
"pleased to meet you Mr Grissom" I said holding my hand out to shake his.
"pleased to meet you too Detective but I would prefer just the Grissom" he smiled, "sorry it's under such gruesome circumstances that we meet"
"Is it that bad?" I asked.
"it takes a lot for me to be shocked, but this one has" he said.
"I'll show you around, whilst Nick you find out when the timer's are set for" Grissom said.
I followed Grissom into the house and straight away smelt a strong smell of iron, which meant there was a lot of blood. I followed Grissom up the stairs and only stepped where he had. Being a homicide detective for so long I had learned very quickly, never to mess up a crime scene, or you would have a very pissed off CSI team. I had my note book out and was already scribbling down notes, "we can have our notes copied for you" Grissom said.
"yeah I know, but I also like to take my own" I said. Grissom paused and looked back at me, the corner of his mouth turned up a little, I wasn't sure if it was a sarcastic smile or a praise kind of smile.
As we got to the top of the stairs I saw the first body, It was of an older male which I presumed was the father. I looked at the door it was outside and saw it said Brenda, I took notes as Grissom spoke about the blood and the wounds to the victim. He showed me a marking on the wall from the blood of the victim.
"notice it is a very cult like marking" Grissom said, " what do you make of that?"
"this neighborhood, the house makes me feel they were planted to make it look like a cult, I highly doubt that this is the work of a cult" I said "If so why didn't they take the girls?". Grissom did the same kind of smile again, it was annoying me some what as I couldn't read this guy and if he was being sarcastic then we had a problem on our hands.
He showed me around the rest of the house, the bodies of the mother and the two sons. There was another cult like marking in the bedroom, which I drew a rough sketch of in my note book. Grissom then took me into the kitchen and showed me where there was a knife missing, which made Nick and my theory more solid, that the killer knew the family and the house.
The coronor arrived, Grissom told me to meet him at the crime lab for the autopsy's and to follow up with the tire treads.
When I arrived I was introduced to the Chef medical examiner Dr Albert Robbins and he gave me the initial once over of the bodies, their wounds and what could of caused them. The knife that had gone missing from the block was consistent with the wounds on all four victims.
I had a phone call from Nick saying that he had matched the tire treads and he had the names of the lad's who lived in the area of the crime scene. So I headed up to the Lab, the receptionist gave me a visitors pass and called Nick to meet me.
"hey" he smiled.
"hey so you have me some suspects?" I asked.
"yeah and the sprinkler's were timed for around the time of the murder" Nick said.
"good, so what do you have to show me?" I asked.
"follow me" Nick said.
We went into Nick's office and he showed me the paper work for the bikes "I'll called this in to get some officers to pick them up, you wanna interrogator them with me?" I asked.
"yeah, any word from Brass about the witnesses?" Nick asked.
"Not yet we can find out when we head over to PD" I said. So I called in to get the officers to pick up these guys. Nick gave me a coffee and showed me around the lab. I met Gregg, Hodges, and Wendy in the break room. Gregg was also a good looking guy and he seemed like a cool dude. Even Hodges seemed hot in a strange way, I decided that I must have been getting desperate in my old age as all these guys were attractive to me. Nick shared his food with me as we waited for them to page me at PD . They eventually did and I drove us over there. Jim gave us the interview video, before we interviewed the suspects Nick and I watched it together.
"I don't buy this shit" I said switching the monitor off.
"neither do I, it's something to do with her parents not allowing her to see this boyfriend she has and he bumped them off" Nick said.
"No that's not it" I said "if that was the case why kill the brothers as well, but not the sister?"
Nick looked at me "what you thinking?" he asked.
"Not sure, have we had any word back from Sarah about Brenda?" I asked.
"all I know is that she hasn't said much only she was scared about the Buffalo" Nick said.
"The Buffalo?" I asked.
"Yeah that's all she has said"
"well we need to ask Tina about this then, maybe it's the boyfriends nickname?" I said.
"maybe lets go and interview them and find out" Nick said.
I told Brass about the buffalo thing and told him to ask Tina about it, before Nick and I went to speak to the guys.