CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
Martin Sidley's romantic fireside chat with a young woman is interrupted when she notices a horrifying sight--a dead body in his chimney. Sara and Nick arrive at the scene and partially excavate the chimney to retrieve the body, and David Phillips confirms the victim was male and was burned at least a few days ago, before being placed in the chimney. David is able to recover a plastic ID card from his pocket. Catherine and Warrick become interested in the case when they learn that Sidley's house has become a crime scene--Sidley was a prime suspect in the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl named Caroline Fitzgibbons a year ago, but Catherine wasn't able to get enough evidence together to get a warrant to search his house. Now that it's a crime scene, Catherine and Warrick venture inside to examine the house. Catherine finds evidence that the hardwood living room floor has been bleached, and when Warrick picks a sliver of wood out of the cracks in the floor, he finds a blood drop.
Back at the lab, Nick is able to clear up the ID card enough to tell it's a gym card and reveal the ID photo. Catherine questions Martin about Caroline, and he tells her that he knew the girl professionally--she was a promising photographer. When Catherine asks about the bleach and the blood, Martin's lawyer cuts her off and tells her the search was illegal. She is forced to drop the line of questioning, and signals Nick to bring the ID card in. To his horror, Martin recognizes the picture right away--it's his son, Tad, a student at UNLV. In the morgue, Dr. Robbins suspects the victim was killed by blunt force trauma to the head before he was burned. In the fingerprint lab, Mandy Webster tells Sara AFIS has come up with a match for the partial prints she pulled off the chimney's metal housing: Jonathan Wax, but he proves to be a dead end--he was simply the chimney sweep and didn't know Tad Sidley.
Ecklie tells Catherine that Sidley's lawyer has filed a motion restricting the CSIs searches of the house. Catherine and Warrick turn to Tad Sidley. They pay a visit to his dorm room where his roommate tells them Tad often takes off for weeks at a time and therefore he didn't think to report him missing. Catherine notices a piece of paper with the name and number of Don Fitzgibbons, Caroline's father, on it, and has the man come in for questioning and to bring Caroline's brushes for DNA comparison. Fitzgibbon admits he went to Tad, desperate for any information he could find on his daughter, but Tad refused to let him come to his father's house to look for Caroline. Desperate, Fitzgibbons gave Tad his number, but he tells Catherine he never heard from him. While Hodges labors on a piece of fabric Sara pulled off the roof, Wendy Simms in the DNA lab confirms that the blood from Sidley's floor is a match to Caroline.
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Martin Sidley's romantic fireside chat with a young woman is interrupted when she notices a horrifying sight--a dead body in his chimney. Sara and Nick arrive at the scene and partially excavate the chimney to retrieve the body, and David Phillips confirms the victim was male and was burned at least a few days ago, before being placed in the chimney. David is able to recover a plastic ID card from his pocket. Catherine and Warrick become interested in the case when they learn that Sidley's house has become a crime scene--Sidley was a prime suspect in the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl named Caroline Fitzgibbons a year ago, but Catherine wasn't able to get enough evidence together to get a warrant to search his house. Now that it's a crime scene, Catherine and Warrick venture inside to examine the house. Catherine finds evidence that the hardwood living room floor has been bleached, and when Warrick picks a sliver of wood out of the cracks in the floor, he finds a blood drop.
Back at the lab, Nick is able to clear up the ID card enough to tell it's a gym card and reveal the ID photo. Catherine questions Martin about Caroline, and he tells her that he knew the girl professionally--she was a promising photographer. When Catherine asks about the bleach and the blood, Martin's lawyer cuts her off and tells her the search was illegal. She is forced to drop the line of questioning, and signals Nick to bring the ID card in. To his horror, Martin recognizes the picture right away--it's his son, Tad, a student at UNLV. In the morgue, Dr. Robbins suspects the victim was killed by blunt force trauma to the head before he was burned. In the fingerprint lab, Mandy Webster tells Sara AFIS has come up with a match for the partial prints she pulled off the chimney's metal housing: Jonathan Wax, but he proves to be a dead end--he was simply the chimney sweep and didn't know Tad Sidley.
Ecklie tells Catherine that Sidley's lawyer has filed a motion restricting the CSIs searches of the house. Catherine and Warrick turn to Tad Sidley. They pay a visit to his dorm room where his roommate tells them Tad often takes off for weeks at a time and therefore he didn't think to report him missing. Catherine notices a piece of paper with the name and number of Don Fitzgibbons, Caroline's father, on it, and has the man come in for questioning and to bring Caroline's brushes for DNA comparison. Fitzgibbon admits he went to Tad, desperate for any information he could find on his daughter, but Tad refused to let him come to his father's house to look for Caroline. Desperate, Fitzgibbons gave Tad his number, but he tells Catherine he never heard from him. While Hodges labors on a piece of fabric Sara pulled off the roof, Wendy Simms in the DNA lab confirms that the blood from Sidley's floor is a match to Caroline.
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