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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 5, 2007 18:40:39 GMT 1
Lilly stepped out of her car, looking for her new collegues. she saw the officers standing in front of the circus, telling the people to stay inside. she sighed. this was going to be a long day.
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Post by mystic on Mar 5, 2007 23:44:55 GMT 1
Rhia stepped out of the car and sighed. She had always hated the circus and her aunt had loved to drag her to it. Shaking off all her horrible thoughts, she grabbed her kit from the back seat. Looking around for the others, she waved her free hand at Brian. Lilly was there, too. Rhia flashed her a smile, before turning to Sam.
"Well...plan is like that: Lilly - you're going to take care of that girl. See if you can get anything out of her, foes, anything... Brian, I'm sorry, but your job's the most exhausting one. 200 and what? 40 people are waiting to go home. Surely, you'll have back-ups and call me, if you can't stand it anymore... Sam? We're going to inspect the crime scene...", with these words Rhia had spun around on her heel and entered the tent. An officer was holding a canvas open, so they could slip inside without notice.
Inside there was chaos. People were running around, sitting, chatting. Children were screaming, women arguing with officers. The arena was cut off view by a huge red curtain.
"Okay...that's not how it's supposed to be...", Rhia muttered putting her kit down. She went to an officer nearby and took his megaphone.
"Sorry guys!", she said into it and suddenly the crowd fell silent. "I'm Rhiannon Nerice from the crimelab. We're here to investigate and my colleagues will ask you a few question. Please cooperate! Just answer the questions and you're free to go home. Thank you!"
Her short speec was followed by silence. "There you go, Brian...! They're all yours!", she smiled, while slipping behind the curtain.
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 6, 2007 2:20:22 GMT 1
"Thank you, so so much," Brian muttered sarcastically. Over the next hour and a half, he had people line up, and made sure that they didn't talk to each other while waiting to be interviewed. He fingerprinted everyone that gave him consent - a little more than half the crowd. And despite the statements that all added up to the same thing, he hit a jackpot when one teenage boy let him have his cell phone. When Brian was finished, he went to go find Rhia.
He held up the plastic baggy with the cell phone, smiling. "Rhia, guess who's quick reaction nabbed a cell phone video of the murder?" When she turned around, eyes wide, Brian pointed to a boy, about 15, sitting on a chair in blue jeans and a gray shirt. "His name is James Valen. I've seen the video, and there were two shooters, wearing masks. They used assault rifles, AK-47's, I believe. Someone's going to have to enhance this so we can get a better look."
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Post by mystic on Mar 6, 2007 16:42:35 GMT 1
The next hour Rhia spent photographing the crime scene and the usually work. She looked at the bodies exactly, took blood samples from the sand, took a footprint that looked suspicious to her and confered with Sam.
"Have you found anything interesting? I wish Sheldon was here already, so we can start moving them...", she pointed at the bodies in the sand. Then she shrugged.
"There are about thousands different hairs from the animals. I can't collect them all...", she said desperately. "The killers must've been pros. They know we don't stand a chance to find anything that relates to them in a manege. The sand's agitated - there are so many traces from artists and animals..."
Suddenly the curtain was opened and Brian stuck his head throug the curtain. Rhia listened and gave him a weak smile. "Great job! Did the boy notice anything else? Well, as far as I know Arthur now makes everything related with video analysis and so on... Either you bring it to the lab yourself or you give it to me and I'll take it with me, when I leave here... Have you seen Sheldon yet?"
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Post by scorpii on Mar 6, 2007 17:02:48 GMT 1
Sam decided to observe a bit for now, just to get the hang of collecting evidence. Sure, back in University, when she studied Forensics, she had learned how to collect evidence but that was already six years ago. When she remembered everything, she started helping Rhia, collecting a few hairs here and there, collecting traces... She made sure not to touch the bodies, since Rhia still waited for Dr. Consare and it probably wasn't okay to touch the bodies until Dr. Consare had pronounced their deaths. When Brian showed them the phone, she immediately replied. "Shall I take it to the lab, along with the evidence we've gathered so far? Then I'll make sure it's at least partly processed when you're done here" Sam said.
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 6, 2007 17:08:13 GMT 1
Brian looked relieved as he said "Oh, thank you Sam! That would be a big help."
Turning to Rhia, he said, "Have you found any bullet casings? I think identifying the guns used would be a big help. And how's the little girl doing? I've heard the story 240 times, but I still can't imagine what it must be like for her."
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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 6, 2007 17:35:05 GMT 1
Lilly sat down with milly. "Do you like the circus?" lilly asked the little girl. milly nodded. "what do you like the most" lilly asked. "mommy and daddy" milly said. "you like clowns? then you'll like my new collegue, brian. i don't know him really good yet, but he seems like a real clown" lilly told milly. milly smiled. "so, do you remember something of the last show?" lilly asked, getting serious. milly shaked her head. she started to cry. Lilly hugged the little girl. "it's okay" she told her. "you'll remember it when you're ready. just tell me what you remember from the show, and the rest will come up." Milly nodded and started to tell. "i was watching the show. mommy threw water in the face of daddy. i laughed. how many times i watched the show, i always had to laugh. but then there came men running in. then i couldn't see anything from the show, and the funniest part was about to come! when the people where all away, mommy was lying down. daddy was lying next to her. i tried to wake them up. why won't they wake up?" Milly began to cry again. lilly took her in her arms. "we'll figure something out, i promise!" she told the little crying girl in her arms.
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Post by scorpii on Mar 6, 2007 18:11:36 GMT 1
Sam nodded. "No prob." she gathered all the evidence Rhia and herself had collected and she took the cell phone with the footage. "Okay, then I'll see you all at the lab later!" she greeted them, before walking out of the circus, to her car. She dumped all the evidence in it and got behind the wheel.
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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 6, 2007 18:40:25 GMT 1
lilly got outside with milly. "let's go to the lab, okay?" she said. "there we can figure some things out." milly nodded. lilly put her in the back seat of her car and went to the lab. she felt sorry for the girl.
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Post by mystic on Mar 6, 2007 19:41:57 GMT 1
"Yeah, I have. Four in the whole.. I can't tell you yet if they're from the same weapon and I'm positive they could be from an AK-47. Although I can't say for sure...", Rhia replied holding up a bag with the casings.
"Take a look - you know more than me!", she encouraged Brian and smiled.
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Post by scorpii on Mar 6, 2007 22:17:05 GMT 1
Sam entered the lab, her arms filled with the evidence. First, she brought all the fingerprints to the Fingerprint lab, and then she brought the found hair to DNA. If there was no DNA on it, DNA would send it to Trace anyway. Finally, she took the traces and the video to the A/V lab, where no one was present. She wasn't really a professional when it came to analyzing traces and videos, but it couldn't be that hard, now could it? She entered the impression in the database and let it run, while she downloaded the video to the computer and watched it, over and over again. The image quality was horrible. Not that her own cell phone would make any better videos, but that didn't stop her from hating the image quality. No wonder, the phone had a 1.3 megapixel camera. When the two gunmen entered the screen, Sam paused the video, hoping to be able to recognize the guns.
Why had she been stuck in the QD lab for so long? This she liked much better, being able to get the whole thing about the crime, not just the suicide notes and kidnapping letters that she had to investigate every once in a while. But she still had her passion for written things, handwritings, paper... Sam pushed all these thoughts aside and focused on the video.
Finally, she found an option to optimize the quality. First, the whole image became a blur before it got better. No, she still couldn't recognize the guns, but Brian probably could now. She saved the image and let the video go on.
One of the men seemed to look at a person sitting close to the boy who'd made the video. Sam noted this, hoping that the seats in the circus would be assigned. She paused the video. The man's face was quite clear, but not clear enough for face recognizing software. Trying the quality improvement option again didn't work, and neither did the sharpening option. Wait. This also worked with her personal pictures that were not as clear as she'd hoped them to be. She altered the shadow and the contrast. Okay, so the photo didn't seem as normal anymore, but now the face recognizing software was at least able to run it through the database.
Sam moved back to the impression-database-computer, hoping there would be any results. None. She got on her feet and walked out of the A/V-lab. She almost walked into Jenny, one of the lab assistants. "Jenny" Sam said "You keep an eye on both these databases in this lab. Page me if there's any result" Jenny nodded.
Sam walked over to her QD lab, again noticing the mess Charlie had left. She smiled, and started tidying it.
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Post by briguy4588 on Mar 7, 2007 6:02:09 GMT 1
Brian glanced at the casings. "Well, it's 7.62x19, the same type that the AK-47 would fire. You know, I've got to follow up on the victim's personal information to see if I can get a possible motive for their deaths. In my office, I have a large book called 'Guide to Today's Firearms.' If you grab that, I'm sure you can ID the weapons used in the lab. Also, it would be really handy if you could extract some bullets."
Brian gave a small smile to Milly as she was leaving to go to lab. She gave him a funny look, and he wondered why, after such a traumatic event, she would be able to give him the faintest of smiles.
Brian got into his car and drove off towards the victim's houses, calling for a search warrant on the way.
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Post by freewilly1991 on Mar 7, 2007 16:41:11 GMT 1
lilly and milly arrived at the lab. they walked inside. "okay milly," lilly said. "you're gonna meet rhia, my supervisor. can you do that?" Milly nodded. they walked to rhia's office, but rhia wasn't there. "i guess she's not back yet," lilly said. "what do you want to do while we wait? do you want to look around the lab?" lilly hoped that the little girl would agree, because that would mean she herself could look around too. milly nodded. she grabbed lilly's hand and they started walking.
they walked past a lab, and lilly saw someone she recognized. 'i think this is sam,' she thought. they walked inside. "you're sam, right?" she asked. "is rhia still on the scene? i'd like her to meet milly."
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Post by scorpii on Mar 7, 2007 17:15:22 GMT 1
Sam was just done tidying her lab when Lilly walked by. When Lilly asked her a question, she nodded. "Yes indeed, I'm Sam" then she looked at Lilly for a moment. "Oh shoot, I totally have forgotten to introduce myself this morning, have I? I'm sorry. I'm Samantha Noir, I usually work QD but if Rhia needs me in the field I'm there for her. You can call me Sam. Indeed, Rhia's still on the scene" Sam looked at Milly and kneeled. "Hi Milly" she said. "I'm Sammie. You wanna see something cool? There's a machine in this lab that can do magic with paper. You know what? If you can find this machine, I'll get you a treat" Sam smiled at Milly, who walked over to a machine and asked "Is it this one?". "No, but your close" Then Sam looked at Lilly. "She's the daughter of both clowns, right? Poor girl..."
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Post by mystic on Mar 8, 2007 11:04:57 GMT 1
After Brian had left and the people were gone, too, Rhia stayed for another 30 minutes, going around the manege, trying to find anything they could've overlooked. Finally, she packed up her things to leave for the lab.
"Hey, Bob! Can you stay here until Dr. Consare arrives?", she shouted to one of the officers. He nodded and gave her a wave. "Thanks.", she said, when she went outside.
Her mind was swirling and she felt weary. She had so much work to do, barely without any help - although Sam was doing what she could and Brian was a great deal of help do... but... Rhia shook off all disturbing thoughts. She had to stay concentrated to be able to solve that crime. And she owed that to the little girl...
When Rhia arrived at the lab, she gathered the rest of evidence and went inside, straight into Sam's bureau.
"Hey Sam. Could Arthur do anything with the video? Do we have a better look of the guns or faces?", she said on entering. Then she noticed the little girl and Lilly.
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