Case 4: It's beginning to look a lot like murder

[dragons36]

Kiora also put on a pair of gloves. "Hey Casey. What were you doing when you got the call?"

[Fabian]

Warrick came up to Luke. He seemt a bit a shaky.
"First of all, calm down a bit. Just start taking pictures, looking for anything unusual. Just like you are used to."

Luke checked the pockets of the second DB. He found an ID. "Will Danes, New York Times. Oh, this is the guy who writes that nice column in the newspaper."

[Lee]

"Ok, ok luke I will calm down, It's just the shock of a second DB, because one was enough! But that man scared me, go my nerves all racked up!" "Luke, Can I have a quick brake please? Has corerner pronounced?"

[dragons36]

Kiora started looking for evidence on the floor. She came to a corner of the scene and saw that the floor was different than at the entrance. "Casey, this floor looks suspicious. What do you think?"

[KC]

Casey walked over to Kiora and squatted down to look at the floor. "Oh, it was nothing. I just got a call from my brother about something important." She gazed quickly over the floor. "What do you see?"

[dragons36]

She points to a spot on the floor. "You don't see it? The material used on this part of the floor is different from the material used at the entrance. I think that something is being covered up right here."

[Doreen]

"No, the coroner hasn't said anything yet. He must be busy. After all, it is almost Christmas and like it or not, Christmas shopping still has to be done."

Doreen looked at the bullet in Cali's hand and slipped on a pair of latex gloves. "Let's bag it and see if ballistics can identify which gun it was shot from."

[Lee]

Warrick walked up to Cali and said, "well, if something is being covered up for sure im not going down there!" Warrick went into starbucks and got a coffee.

Warrick sat down and drank his coffee, warrick sudenly started shaking, and callapsed....

[dragons36]

Kiora watched Warrick walk into the Starbucks, and went back to work. She looked at the floor and noticed a switch near by. "Casey, do you see the button on the wall?"

[Fabian]

*csifanlee, I appreciate all of your input, but try not to focus on the action. Please try to focus on the case and the science more than on what happens to your character, unless what happens to him relates to the case somehow*.

Luke took a look at all the cast-off. It seemt like something was missing. There was a big void at the on the wall. Maybe someone was standing there. Could it have been Santa?

[bluebean]

(OOC: I'm so sorry! I've been a little busy lately w/ work and homework. But, now I'm on Christmas break, so I should be on more often. I hope this is okay. )

Sheldon looked down at the dead Santa and sighed. His holiday was just getting better and better. He knelt down next to the body and looked it over, trying to ignore the hustle and bustle around him. He wasn't a fan of coming into the field to examine the bodies, he preferred when they were brought to the morgue.

He looked at the bullet wound and searched for any other wounds in the victim. He lifted the Santa's sleeves and looked at his hands, there was definitely skin under his nails.

He took out a thermometer and took the liver temp.

"Time of death wasn't too long ago, maybe an hour, possibly more. C.O.D appears to be a bullet wound to the chest, but I can't be certain until I can perform and autopsy. There are some cuts in his suit that go through to his skin, but I can't know the extent of the wounds until the autopsy." He said. He stood up. "I need him in the morgue as soon as you can get him there."

Sheldon slipped off his gloves and put them in his kit, then made his way through the mall to the other D.B. He waved at Casey and Kiora as he knelt down next to the body, slipping on a new pair of gloves. He looked at the body and let out another sigh.

"Happy holidays," he muttered. "This guys tricky, but it looks like he was strangled." He took the liver temp. "Probably died about two hours ago. I need to get him to the morgue, but this stupid weather isn't helping the traffic."

He smiled at Kiora and Casey as he stood up and spoke to an ambulance driver about getting the body to the morgue. He left the scene and went in search of Luke.

"I've got to get back to the morgue and perform some autopsies," he said, when he found him.

[Doreen]

"Thanks, Sheldon," said Doreen. She got up and turned to face Cali.

"Well, Sheldon's done his thing. Hey, what's this?"

She used a tweezer to pick out something from the dead Santa's clothes. It was a strand of long, blonde hair.

"Hair fibre. Could belong to the killer. I'll bag it."

Once she did, she and Cali continued processing the scene.

[Calypso]

Cali nodded as Doreen showed her the hair strand. Something was bothering her about what Sheldon had said. If there were no knife wounds, whose blood was on the knife she had found?

Could have been the shooter’s or a witness’, she thought. I wish we knew who this guy was.

She said aloud, “So far we have a bullet, one hair sample, and one bloody knife, where else haven’t we looked?”

As she spoke her eyes travelled around the room, then she thought for a moment. Her gaze shifted upward to focus on the ceiling. “Doreen, if you’ve got a minute let’s turn out the lights and use the crimelights. There might be something on the walls and the ceiling.”

[KC]

Casey nodded and smiled back at Sheldon. "Thanks," she said.

She looked back at where Kiora was pointing at. "Yeah, that I see..." She took out her flashlight and shone it on the button. "Maybe it opens to a back-door or something."

[Lee]

Warrick walked into the second crime scene and started processing it.

He found a blood drop and swabbed it. "Maybe the vics? or killers?" Warrick said to himself.