CSI: Crime Scene Investigation--'Nesting Dolls'

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Synopsis:

After a construction team at the site of a new housing development uncovers the body of a woman encased in tar, the swing shift is summoned. Their problems double when another woman's body is uncovered beneath that of the first victim. Back at the lab, Grissom helps Catherine remove the bodies from the tar by freezing it with liquid nitrogen. There's not much left of the bodies, but the CSIs begin working with what they have. When Sara comes into the office for her shift, Catherine drafts her to help out on the case.

Sara makes a mold of the top victim's face from the impression it made in the tar while David Phillips removes a metal wire from the top victim's skull--a wire inserted to heal a broken jaw. Hodges tells the CSIs that based on the soil samples he's determined that the bodies were buried at different times--the bottom one has been in the ground for at least five years, while the top one has been there for two. Sara goes over the records of domestic violence reports from a few years ago and finds a match to the mold she's made: Svetlana Melton.

Andrew Melton, Svetlana's former husband, is now remarried to a young Asian woman named June. Both June and Svetlana were mail-order brides--women who came over from a foreign country to marry an American man. Melton says he came home one night and was arrested for hitting Svetlana--a crime he insists he was innocent of. But when Svetlana disappeared soon after the incident, Melton didn't bother to file a missing persons report. Sara is disgusted and makes reference to Melton's new wife, leading Melton to storm out.

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