"I-15 Murders" is the
eleventh episode of the American crime
drama CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation which is set in Las
Vegas
, Nevada
. It
originally aired as Episode 11 of
Season 1 on
January 12, 2001.
Plot
Margaret Shorey is kidnapped from a
grocery store, and
Grissom and
Brass
arrive to investigate. Grissom notices a smear of mustard on the
bottom of the shopping cart and realizes that Margaret must have
dropped a bottle of mustard and gone to the restroom to clean up.
He notices a freshly cleaned toilet stall door, and using a
black light reads the message, "I've
killed five women. Catch me if you can." A
graphologist analyzes the
handwriting and learns that the writer was a
poorly educated, left-handed female.
Catherine discovers four other
crime scenes at grocery stores in three different states; at each
scene, a bathroom stall door bore a message declaring that the
killer had murdered one to four women. Grissom realizes that these
stores are all on
Interstate 15.
Grissom,
Catherine, and Brass are called to Moapa
, where they find the body of Joan Sims, who was
last seen at one of the grocery store crime scenes. Autopsy shows that she died of
strangulation and that she was
refrigerated until very recently. Grissom
realizes that the women are being kept in a refrigerated truck that
is traveling I-15. They search for refrigerated trucks that
delivered to the store where Margaret was kidnapped, and they
narrow the field to one truck.
Brass arrives at the truck stop with police backup and takes the
driver and his girlfriend into custody. Grissom and Catherine then
inspect the trailer. Inside, they find the refrigerated bodies of
three women; none of them is Margaret. They interrogate the trucker
and his girlfriend, and realize that the girl lured out the victims
and wrote the notes on the stall doors. Grissom and Catherine tear
apart the truck cab and find Margaret in a locked compartment
underneath the bed.
Nick is called to a casino and is
surprised to find
Kristy Hopkins
there. She accuses a security guard of spitting on her, and Nick
takes her shirt as evidence.
Greg finds
amylase on the shirt in a quantity that
indicates that someone intentionally spit on her. Nick convinces
the guard to write a formal statement against Kristy and seal it in
an envelope; he uses the
DNA from the
saliva to prove that the guard did spit on Kristy.
Kristy thanks Nick enthusiastically and declares that she owes
him.
Sara arrives at a house where Jeff Berlin
lies dead in the living room. His brother Kenny says that he
arrived at the house just after it had been burglarized and found
Jeff dead in the living room. Sara notices the cash and the
electronics still in the house and realizes that something is not
right.
Sara finds glass in the cuff of Kenny’s pants and matches it to
glass from a broken window at the house. She and
Warrick also discover that the window was
broken from the inside, discrediting Kenny’s claim that the house
was broken into. They become increasingly suspicious of Kenny but
cannot find a motive for his killing his brother; they check his
computer for clues. However, it does not boot up, and when they
inspect the computer, they find a gun hidden in it. A shard of
glass in the gun matches the broken window, and soon Sara and
Warrick learn that Kenny killed his brother in order to control a
trust fund Jeff was managing.
Grissom asks Warrick why he missed his court date and confronts him
with the surveillance footage from the casino that Sara gave him.
Later, Warrick tells Sara that he went to the casino to collect a
debt in order to pay a friend’s bail, and says that the next time
she has questions, she should ask him instead of going behind his
back.
Continuity
Kristy Hopkins first appeared in
"
The Pilot" and would
return, for a final time, in "
Boom".
Tony Amendola appears as a
hand-writing expert and would later return as a landlord in
"
Viva Las Vegas" and as
Professor Rambar in "
Secrets and
Flies" and "
Pirates of
the Third Reich".
This episode was really the second episode filmed, but later moved
to the eleventh aired. This is why several characters comment on
things relating to the first episode.
See also
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