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Heh, it certainly wouldn't be Katie without the edible underwear. :lol:
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A/V Lab, 9am
Calleigh: *typing*
Speed: *walks over, sits* Security camera footage from the other night?
Calleigh: Yep.
Speed: And?
Calleigh: So far...it's grainy. Hileah isn't exactly the Boardwalk of Miami. Cameras were installed in the late 70s.
Speed: Can our computers clear the images up?
Calleigh: This is the best we can do and even then, it's guess work.
Speed: So we have Eric's card confirmed in the door but we can't clearly see the image on the security camera. The building may as well not have any.
Calleigh: I think they're using it more as a deterant.
Speed: Yeah great job, someone still died on their property.
Calleigh: Did Horatio get the trace back that was found on the girl's body?
Speed: It was spermicide from a condom.
Calleigh: *looks at Speed* Alexx didn't find signs of sexual assault.
Speed: Maybe he got interrupted before he could do anything.
Calleigh: We might have a witness then. I'll go ask around the neighborhood.
Speed: You don't want me to come with?
Calleigh: *smiles* On the contrary, I love when we pair up for a good ol' fashioned knock and talk but Horatio wants you in interview with Eric.
Speed: *blinks* I'm not interviewing Eric.
Calleigh: Horatio says you are. *stands, grabs folder*
Interview room
Delko: *scratches head*
Ryan: *walks in, shuts door*
Delko: What the hell is this about, Wolfe?
Ryan: *crosses arms* Holly Pierce.
Delko: *lifts brow* Who?
Ryan: The uh, 5-year old girl you beat and murdered.
Delko: *laughs* Did Heather put you up to this? That's pretty ridiculous, even for her.
Ryan: *stares at Eric*
Stetler walks up to door, places hands on hips
Delko: *smile fades*
Ryan: We're going to do this by the book so IAB's going to sit in on the investigation.
Delko: I don't even know this victim.
Ryan: Your community centre keycard was found in her pocket.
Delko: I have a locker at the community centre, I keep it in there while I use the facilities.
Ryan: Do you keep it locked?
Delko: All the time. But sometimes I go to the basketball courts after hours when I get off work and I just keep the card in my pocket so it might have fallen out that way but I don't recall.
Ryan: Do you recall where you were 2 days ago around 10?
Delko: At home.
Ryan: Can anyone verify that?
Delko: *throws hands up in the air* I live alone so I guess not.
Ryan: What kind of volunteer work do you do there?
Delko: *leans back in chair* I was helping the community renovate the building. I provided some paint and I donated some latex gloves.
Ryan: You ever bring around other types of latex?
Delko: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Ryan: Let me see your wallet.
Delko: *stares at Ryan*
Ryan: I'm not going to need a warrant, am I?
Delko: *reaches into back pocket, pulls out wallet, throws it onto table*
Ryan: *pulls out glove, twirls wallet around*
Delko: *looks over at doorway*
Stetler: *frowns*
Ryan: *lifts package* Condoms.
Delko: So? That just proves I'm like every other guy on the planet. Let's go through your wallet next.
Ryan: The side of this package is ripped. You're missing one in the pack.
Delko: Yeah I had a date the other night.
Ryan: I thought you said you were alone.
Delko: *sighs, rubs forehead*
Ryan: Come on, man. We can verify your alibi or you can sit in a holding cell. Your choice.
Delko: Did Horatio approve of this interview?
Ryan: As far as I know. H told Speed to come here but he called me up.
Delko: Then I want to talk to Speed.
Ryan: You're talking to me.
Delko: I don't want to talk to you.
Ryan: This isn't 'pick and choose your detective' day, Eric.
Delko: If H wanted him here, then
I want him here. Otherwise you can go back to the break room and finish up your coloring books because I'm done talking to you.
Ryan: *nods* Okay, holding cell it is.
Lab, hallway, 12pm
Calleigh: *walking, looking down at folder*
Ryan: *runs over* Hey, I heard you got somewhere with witnesses.
Calleigh: I heard you got somewhere with IAB. And now Eric's sitting in a holding cell.
Ryan: I was just doing my job. Making sure everything was done by the book.
Calleigh: *lifts head* You could have waited a few hours. But now the investigation has been slowed down to a grind because I have IAB crossing my Ts and dotting my Is for me. Horatio specifically told us to hold off on IAB until we had some concrete evidence pointing to Eric and right now, all we have is a keycard and some spermicide and that doesn't prove murder.
Ryan: He had access to the facility and there was a missing condom from the package in his wallet. He was also a little shady on his alibi so he'd already hiding that much from us. Maybe he's lying about knowing the victim too but he's refusing to talk to me which I also find suspicious.
Calleigh: *shakes head*
Ryan: What did you get from witnesses?
Calleigh: *sigh* Some of the neighbors noticed yelling coming from the victim's house. Now apparently it was a common occurence and sometimes Holly would run across the street with her siblings to the community centre and wait until the heat died down at home. One of the neighbors heard a back door slam around 9:30 and some crying but they didn't call the police.
Ryan: So you think maybe Holly ran across the street to the facility...using Eric's keycard? That doesn't make much sense if they had their own.
Cellphone rings
Calleigh: *grabs phone from pocket, opens it* Duquesne.
Ryan: *crosses arms*
Calleigh: We'll be right there. *closes phone* Alexx has some information.
Autopsy
Calleigh: *walks in*
Alexx: I didn't see it yesterday under all the bruising.
Calleigh: What is it?
Alexx: Double lividity. Sometimes in small children, lividity can look similar to bruising which is why I missed it the first time around. She was definitely moved a few hours after death.
Calleigh: Daycare attendant called in the body at 3pm when the daycare opened that afternoon and time of death was around 10pm the previous day...that's plenty of time to move the body. Our primary crime scene isn't the community centre.
Ryan: It's the little girl's home.
Calleigh: *nods* Domestic disturbance gone wrong?
Ryan: But how does Eric fit in?
Calleigh: Let's ask the siblings.
Interview room
Calleigh: *sits, smiles* Your mother tells me you're the oldest...Vinny?
Vinny: *nods* I'm starting college in the summer. Got a basketball scholarship.
Calleigh: And that's why you use the community centre, to practice.
Vinny: Yeah. And my sister was enrolled in daycare there so I could always pick her up when my parents got home.
Calleigh: Do you and your siblings spend a lot of time at the community centre?
Vinny: We're there almost every weekend.
Calleigh: I heard y'all sometimes go there after hours. *shrugs* Maybe because of the fighting at home.
Vinny: My dad's a drunk and my mom's a pill freak. They both get pretty enraged and combative with each other so sometimes we slip out of the house and go to the community centre. They have an open door policy.
Calleigh: If you have a keycard.
Vinny: I can never find mine so we usually just climb the fence. It's easy enough to get into the courts to play some B-ball or tennis for a few hours that way. My sisters don't need to see my parents fighting.
Calleigh: A couple of nights ago, y'all ran from the house after another domestic dispute between your parents. Except Holly was dead, wasn't she.
Vinny: *sigh*
Calleigh: The evidence tells us she was strangled and then she was moved.
Vinny: *stares at table*
Calleigh: Tell me what happened. Did Holly get in the way of your parents? Was she crying and one of you were trying to keep her quiet?
Vinny: ...Mom caught him.
Calleigh: And this is your father you're referring to?
Vinny: *nods*
Calleigh: She caught him strangling her?
Vinny: *shakes head* No. She caught him
with her.
Calleigh: ...
Vinny: I guess...he was trying to stop her from crying or something. He was drunk out of his mind. Him and Mom started fighting and it was a couple of hours before we could get to Holly. She was just lying there, dead. *rubs cheek* I didn't want my dad to go to jail, I didn't want the entire neighborhood to find out what happened.
Calleigh: So later on that night, you took her to the community centre.
Vinny: *nods* ...Some of the happiest times she'd had was at that daycare. Her favourite place to go was the sandbox. *scoffs* Usually took us forever to get her away from the damn thing. So I jumped the fence with her and put her in the sand. At least then she was in a place she loved and the community wouldn't find out the horrible things that happened in that house.
Calleigh: Tell me about the keycard you placed in her pocket. Where'd you get it?
Vinny: *sniffs* The basketball court backs onto the daycare playground. While I was burrying her, I noticed the card lying there on the other side of the fence. I thought if maybe I made it seem like someone else did it...*sigh* I grabbed it with my shirt and jumped back out and used it on the front entrance. Make it look like somebody got in with it. I watch those cop shows and everything.
Calleigh: You should have just called the police.
Vinny: I didn't want my siblings to be the laughing stock or even worse, embarrassment of the community.
Calleigh: But in placing that card there, you framed an off-duty police officer. And you also illegally disposed of a body and those are two serious crimes. The neighborhood is going to find that out and eventually, everything else will come out when we arrest your father for her murder.
Vinny: *looks down at table*
Holding cell
Door buzzes
Speed: *walks in*
Delko: *lifts head*
Speed: Hey.
Delko: ...Hey.
Speed: We found out who killed the girl. *sits* It was the father.
Delko: *nods*
Speed: ...But you're still hiding something. What was so secret about a couple nights ago that you couldn't tell Ryan where you were or what you were doing?
Delko: I'm not perfect, okay? I know cops have a certain standard to maintain but...
Speed: Your date wasn't a date, was she.
Delko: *leans foward, places hand on forehead*
Speed: *nods*
Delko: It was a stupid, stupid drunken mistake. I mean, sitting home alone with a phone book in front of you and...I don't know, I guess I thought it was better than driving to a club going through half the women there.
Speed: *squints* Yeah but you don't normally have to
pay for anonymous sex at clubs.
Delko: *shakes head* I think I need to re-evaluate what the hell I'm doing. Obviously something's missing in my life.
Speed: I thought you and Calleigh had a thing.
Delko: Apparently I'm, as she puts it, such a good friend.
Speed: Ouch.
Delko: Yeah.
Speed: Well...*hands over badge* maybe you want to re-evaluate things with less alcohol next time.
Delko: *scoffs*
Speed: *slaps Eric on the back* See you at work tomorrow. *stands*
Delko: Hey.
Speed: *turns around*
Delko: Why didn't you want to interrogate me?
Speed: I just...couldn't. Seemed wrong.
Delko: *nods*
Speed: *walks away*
Delko: *looks down at badge*
TBC.......................