CSI: Crime Scene Investigation -- 'Spellbound'

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Synopsis:

Sedona Wylie, the owner of Sixth Sense Occult, is giving a reading to Anna Leah and Lori, two girls in their 20s who are mostly concerned with their romantic lives. The reading turns terrifying when Sedona gets visions of death--the name Ray, the letter B, the rodeo, and a one-armed cactus. Disturbed, the girls flee, nearly getting hit by a man in a red car on their way out. Neither of them ends up dead--it was her own death Sedona foresaw. Anna Leah and Lori returned to get Lori's sunglasses when they found Sedona dead from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Grissom and a very curious Greg examine the store, which looks like it's been robbed. David Phillips is puzzled by Sedona's liver temp, which at 98 degrees is elevated for what it should be, making it difficult to pinpoint time of death. Greg notices several blood drops away from the major blood pool, and Grissom finds a tape recorder Sedona used to record her readings. He plays it back, and Greg makes some eerie connections--there's a neon one-armed cactus sign across the street, and lettering on labels on glass fragments can be put together to spell "Rhod" "aeo."

In the morgue, Dr. Robbins tells Grissom that Sedona bled out from the gunshot wound, and also reveals that he found a white powder around her nose and in her lungs. Grissom can't match the bullet, from a Smith & Wesson .44, to a weapon in IVIS, and he pulls Warrick, who switched with Greg earlier, on to the case to help him. The CSIs match several prints on the door and cash register to one Reese Bingham, who works for a local vegetarian restaurant near Sedona's shop. Reese is brought in, but he swears he only delivered food to Sedona. She used to tell him to go into the cash register to get the money for the take out. He swears he didn't kill her, and claims to have an alibi--he was at a strip club, watching a stripper named "Star." When Warrick and Greg visit the club, "Star" aka Tammy, backs up Reese's story, and tells them he's harmless.

A fellow detective thinks has a lead for Brass: Patrick "Packey" Jameson has been pursuing a former police officer named Gordon Wallace for the murder of his wife, Claire. Just a week ago, Packey consulted Sedona and she told him Claire's body was in Summerlin, news that seemed to rattle Gordon. Brass asks Grissom to go over the Wallace file as a favor to him. Grissom discusses the case with Catherine, who recalls it--Claire's sister reported her missing in 1991, but her husband Gordon claimed she'd run off with another man. The Wallaces' fights were legendary, but Claire's body was never found. Mandy Webster has to run a manual comparison of the prints in the shop against Gordon's, while Henry Andrews tells Greg that the white power on the victim's nose wasn't cocaine but atrophine--a derivative of the plant Belladonna. When Wendy Simms tells Greg the blood drops in the shop were from a male, Greg realizes someone must have come into the shop and broken the belladonna jar, cutting himself and sending the powder into the air. Detective Vega has discovered Damon Mitchell, who was brought into the hospital, completely disoriented. Damon tested positive for atrophine.

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Excellent review as always. :D

I do have a thought about this part though:

"Ray" and "B" don't seem to relate, given that her killer is named Gordon Wallace.

Didn't Greg find some Ray Ban sunglasses at the scene? I seem to remember him saying something to the effect of "Ray Bans...'Ray B''.
 
Thank you! :D

And I missed the Ray Ban sunglasses, but that totally fits.
 
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