Crime Scene - CSI Reilly Steel Prequel by Hill Casey

Author:Hill, Casey [Hill, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

When Rob and Reilly returned to the house, it was deserted. Rob retrieved the house key from a nearby lockbox, and using the code the police chief had given him, broke the seal on the front door. Ushering Reilly into the house he closed and locked the door behind him. Then pulling several latex gloves from his jacket pocket, he offered her a pair. Snapping them on, they moved on into the dining room.

Reilly had brought a proper camera this time, and used it now to snap several photos of the dining area, table, bottles and cans, and once again the vodka bottle Jake had watered down.

She also took some wide-angle shots of the room, as well as close-ups of stains on the chairs and carpet from spilled beverages. Investigating the spills and sniffing them, she concluded that most of the stains came from beer. Spills from hard alcohol seemed to be confined to the table. The room was beginning to smell unpleasantly stale, and that sickly cologne was now making her stomach roil.

Moving into the kitchen, they took stock of the kitchen supplies, primarily refrigerator and cupboard contents. Other than a few bags of chips and some dip, which it appeared the partygoers had brought themselves, no food seemed to have been consumed. Cabinets containing alcohol had clearly been raided, and two empty cardboard cases from a domestic canned beer, one in the fridge and one crushed in the garbage, bore testament to the prolific alcohol consumption of the attendees. Reilly was once again glad she and Faye had missed all the “action.”

“I want to take a closer look at that upstairs balcony,” Rob said when they’d finished with the kitchen, “then work our way down the stairs and out to the patio. Follow Jake’s footsteps, see what he saw.”

Reilly followed him upstairs and into the master suite. Again, it bore all the hallmarks of a scuffle. A reading lamp had toppled from a small table, the chair beside it was overturned and the draperies hung askew, as though they’d been pulled, perhaps to prevent a fall.

He and Reilly began to move around the room, looking for anything pertinent or relevant, although they weren’t sure what they should be looking for. Other than a few objects overturned, the room seemed normal. Reilly snapped pictures of the room as a whole and took close-up shots of all the disturbed and overturned items.

“I want to look for trace from the Man in Black’s shoes,” she said, referring to Jake’s description of the unsub. “I take it you brought some evidence bags?”

Rob smiled. “Remember that officially we’re only here to observe,” he chided her. Then, dropping his gaze, he indicated his right jacket pocket from which he pulled out a small stack of about half a dozen evidence bags.

She grinned at him, but only said, in what she hoped sounded like a disappointed tone, “Of course. I’ll just look.” Getting on her knees near the sliding door, she began to search the carpet.

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