Chapter 6

The next few weeks were amazing Nick and I were officially dating but as of work we kept it to ourselves. Both Gregg and Warwick had asked to take me out and I had to turn them both down. I had become really good friends with Morgan who was Conrad the day shift supervisor for the crime lab She didn't really get on with him and neither did anyone else.

I was starting to enjoy working for LVPD and I was fitting in well.

I had been working for LVPD for 7 months and Conrad was now the sheriff , and Grissom had left. Csi had a new supervisor for the grave yard shift who's name was D.B Russell, I had met him and worked with him a few times and I got on well with him. One night we had a 419 in a porn film studio. I arrived on the scene to find a mummified body on a bed. I contacted CSI and called the owners of the studio, who said that they had left for a convention 2 days before so I knew that the body had been placed there, not killed there.

Julie Finlay was the first CSI on the scene followed by D.B and a reporter called John who was hanging with them for a few days to do an article for his magazine.

After seeing the crime scene our first thought was someone with a vendetta against the porn company, so my first job was to go through all employee's past and present to see what I could uncover.

Nick arrived on the scene and found a long rectangular object with 0's all over it when he opened it a spider came crawling out, I did a dash across the room.

"calm down" he laughed.

"That's a black widow" Julie said.

"No it's a false widow it's harmless" he laughed.

"what ever it fucking is GET IT AWAY FROM ME NOW!" I shouted.

Nick put it in a tub and took it out to the car, and I eventually calmed down. Gregg called us to tell us that they were going to re hydrate the body, they found a gold heart charm inserted into her heart.

They went public with the dead woman's face and we had a prostitute come forward called Angela, I spoke to her and she knew the dead woman. Her name was Megan Romerez she wanted out of the game so she had been going to the fellowship of fallen angels, which was a a ministry run by Brother Larson. Angela had last seen Megan 2 months ago at a support meeting and then she just disappeared along with other girls one of them including Brass' daughter, who I knew but didn't care much for but I knew it would hit Jim hard as he loved her dearly even though she treated him like shit.

So the next thing we did was get the potentially missing girls photos out there asking the public for information. We had a phone call from a doctor at the hospital saying that a Jane Doe ,had come in 2 weeks before strangled and left for dead in an alley, matching one of the girls description. Julie and I went down to the hospital to speak to the doctor and for Julie to process the girl. Her name was Teresa Hill, she was on a ventilator as I spoke to the doctor Morgan arrived with Teresa's personal items that day shift had found on her when they first processed her.

After some research I found that Teresa was advertising herself online claiming she was a virgin. In her personal items there was a charm bracelet with exactly the same heart charm that they pulled out from the dead bodies heart.

As the girls started processing I had a phone call to say that a body of one of the other missing girls had been found. So I told Julie and Morgan before heading out to the crime scene to meet Nick and Gregg. The next victim was a Chloe Rudolph, the scene was staged again with the girl sat up dressed in an apron in front of different kinds of cakes. Nick said that by the looks of her she had been there for around 12 hours as full rigor had set in. As the guys were processing the scene I had a phone call with some intel from PD stating that Chloe was an employee at a food fetish site, where people paid her to watch her eat. The way they had found her was her website started shooting around an hour ago, the camera was set up and still running but they had closed the website down. Cyber had traced the IP address and found the location. It was her boyfriends place not hers. There was an APB out on her boyfriend and I was waiting to here back from them when they had found him. I was talking to Nick ,telling him what I had found out, when Gregg called out.

"you may wanna cancel that APB" he said. Nick and I walked over to the freezer to find a male body with what looked like a GSW to the head.

I called it in to PD, whilst the guys processed the scene.

Nick said that by the looks of it the female COD was choking and what was really weird was she had choked on chocolate covered locusts. Again there was a rectangular object in the diary and I backed away when Nick found it, but this time it was another gold heart charm.

After the autopsy on the second dead body, they found that in fact she too had been strangled, Hodges called me in to show me she had an inscription on her back it said Thou shalt not bare false witness, which was from the tenth commandments.

I was leaving when I saw D.B and Julie in the office, D.B waved at me to come in.

"what do you make of all this?" he asked,

"7 missing girls, bibles girl with cakes?" I said.

"yeah" he replied looking confused at the evidence lay out in front of him.

"I'm thinking the 7 deadly sins" I said.

Both D.B and Julie looked at me with their eyes wide open along with their jaws.

"what?" I asked.

"you've cracked it" D.B said "why the hell are you not working for me?" he got up and grabbed me kissing me on the lips.

There was a buzz then everyone was doing research on the sins, whilst Nick and Gregg went to question Brother Larson and Angela down at the ministry.

Nick found that Brother Larson's bible also was hollowed out like at the crime scenes, him and Morgan ran some tests on it and called me with the results. From the finger prints and DNA on the bible they found out that before Brother Larson was a street hustler called Daniel. PD sent me an email with all his priors on, which included pimping and in possession of a fire arm and according to Nick it was the same calibrate as the bullet that was found in the body from the freezer. I was at PD having a coffee break when Nick called me.

"I ran diagnostics on the web cam and it turns out it was switched on remotely at an address, and guess where the address is?" he asked.

"the Ministry?" I replied.

"got it in one" he said.

"I'll meet you over there with back up" I said.

It was pouring down with rain, so I grabbed my LVPD waterproof jacket and drove over with back up.

Nick had the journalist with him and he made him stay in the car whilst we went in. Gregg was also there, we called out for Daniel Larson when we heard is voice coming from the office. We all had our guns drawn and followed the sound into the office to find it was a recording playing on the computer. As Gregg shut it off there was a blood curdling scream which sounded like it came from a women, we all looked at each other and ran towards the sound, we followed the sound and busted a door open to find a woman strapped to a bed with Angela stood over her holding her down.

"get the fuck off her Angela" I shouted, I ran and pulled her off the screaming woman.

"you don't understand" Angela said.

I went back to PD with Angela and after I dried off I proceeded to interrogate her.

Angie claimed that the girl she had strapped to the bed was an addict and that she was weaning her off the drugs, she said she didn't know where Larson was.

During the raid the Journalist had spotted someone smoking outside the building, he had gone to investigate and gotten hit over the head by someone he didn't see.

D.B called me and said he had worked it out it wasn't the 7 deadly sins it was Dante's inferno, with was the 9 circles of hell, which is why the first victim hadn't died as she was in limbo.

I had a call from Brass to tell me that they had picked up Larson, they had found his gun and ballistics had matched it to the weapon that was used to kill freezer guy. Brass and D.B was interviewing him whilst I checked some leads.

Daniel was denying he had anything to do with them, but he admitted that he took the girls off the street and pimped them out to a higher class of men. He had pictures on his phone of all the missing girls that he had apparently sent to an anonymous client, he would then drop the chosen girls off on a corner somewhere to be picked up by the clients.

He told D.B that he wanted a deal to ensure his freedom. "how can he say that, what could he possibly have to bargain with?" I asked.

"he says he knows where Ellie Brass is, he claims she isn't missing and he spoke to her this morning" he replied.

"The son of a bitch" I shouted. I was driving over to the lab to be bought up to speed by the guys. It was another hectic double shift and I didn't know if I was coming or going.

"well turns out the guy put in another request for a girl tonight and Morgan has a plan, she will pretend to be one of the girls and go under cover" he said.

"oh hell no, I can't have that, Is Conrad allowing this?"

"he's not happy but if we don't have an undercover operation then all we're doing is sitting around waiting for another body to drop" he replied.

"then I will do it" I said.

"we already thought of this, but if that was the killer who was lurking at the ministry then it's possible that he could of seen you, which will blow our cover" he replied.