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Valentine
Chapter
Three - Evidence
Grissom
found Sara in the observation room, watching Brass interview the couple through
one-way glass. He raised an eyebrow at her and she shrugged.
‘Hey,
he wanted to go ahead without you,’
she said. ‘Don’t blame me.’
‘Anything
yet?’ he asked, taking up position at her side and looking through the glass at
the couple, who he guessed were in their late teens, early twenties.
‘Not
really,’ Sara told him. ‘They met up with Clive and Mary at around
‘Where?’
‘A
fast food joint, just off the Strip.’
‘So
that’s what? A thirty minutes drive from where we found their bodies?’
‘Give
or take,’ Sara replied, glancing at him. ‘And time of death is between
‘Do
they have an alibi for those two hours?’
‘Say
they were at home in their respective beds, and that their parents can confirm
that. We’ll see.’
They
stood in silence for a moment, watching Brass finish up the interview. Grissom
thought Missy and Daniel seemed honestly upset by their friends’ deaths. When
he thought of the emotion of the crime, they didn’t seem to fit. But he knew
that people could lie. The evidence didn’t. And if the evidence led back to
this couple, he’d look hard at them.
After
a few moments’ silence, Sara cleared her throat. ‘So, uh… did Ecklie say
anything?’
‘What
about?’ Grissom asked, still watching the interview.
‘About
anything he might have overheard?’
‘Oh.
No,’ Grissom looked at Sara and saw the deep relief on her face. ‘No, he wanted
to talk about one of the latest victims. Seems she’s the daughter of a friend
of the Mayor’s.’
‘Uh
oh,’ Sara said. ‘Politics. Your favourite.’
Grissom
made a sour face and turned his attention back to the interview.
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Catherine
found Nick and Warrick in the CSI garage, going over the first couple’s car
with a fine-toothed comb.
‘Anything
yet?’ she asked them.
‘Found
a partial on the driver’s door. Doesn’t appear to be either of the victim’s.
Jackie’s working on it now,’ Warrick told the strawberry blonde.
‘So
far, all I got is a couple of ticket stubs from the multiplex down off the
strip and used condom,’ Nick told her.
‘Used?’
‘Yep.
Sex in the back seat. Guess they’re not using the back row of the movie theatre
anymore.’
‘Guess
not,’ Catherine replied. ‘DNA?’
‘Gave
it to Mia a little while ago. She said she’d let me know when she had
something. She was still working on the hair and skin from your scene.’
‘So
what do you think, Cath?’ Warrick asked her. ‘Same perp?’
‘If
it’s not, then there are two unrelated sick people out there,’ Catherine
replied with a shake of her head. ‘Cutting out hearts is not exactly common
place.’
‘What
about Greggo’s theory that it’s to do with Valentine’s Day coming up?’ Nick
asked.
‘I
don’t know Nicky,’ Catherine shrugged. ‘Nothing would surprise me anymore.’
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Greg
caught up with Grissom and Sara as they returned to the lab.
‘Hey
Sara! Grissom. Mia just handed me the DNA results on the skin and hair samples
we found at the second scene.’
‘That
was fast,’ Sara remarked. ‘So, did they match the first case?’
‘They
hair from this case matches the hair Grissom and Nick found at the first
scene,’ Greg confirmed.
‘So,
we got our confirmation,’ Sara said. ‘We’re looking for a serial killer.’
‘That’s
not all,’ Greg told them. ‘The skin sample didn’t
match the hairs.’
‘So,
whose is it?’ Grissom asked.
‘No
match to either victim. But it’s XX. And the hairs are XY.’
‘Our
killers are a man and a woman?’ Sara
asked.
‘We’re
not just looking for a serial,’ Grissom remarked. ‘We’re looking for Bonnie and
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