CSI: Miami

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Skeletons

Written by Elizabeth Devine & John Haynes
Directed by Karen Gaviola

Delko and Cooper are among the spectators at the beach for the girl’s volleyball games.  All the beautiful girls are there, and Delko is quite popular; it seems he knows many of the girls intimately, in fact.  The game is on and one of the girls makes a dive into the sand to save the ball; suddenly something’s wrong.  She scoops the sand away, revealing a human hand.  The volleyball pit is now a crime scene where Alexx determines the victim was strangled -- possibly with a belt.  Delko and Cooper find smeared blood and a belt buckle in a nearby trash can.  Horatio gets word that Jennifer Wilson dismissed her police protection.  She tells Horatio she doesn’t need the protection anymore, she just wants to be normal and free to date, especially the great guy named Lee she just met on the Internet.  Horatio has Lee checked out.  Delko questions Manuel Martinez, the head of Beach Maintenance and notices he’s missing his belt buckle.  Martinez tells him some guy gave him $1,000 to dump a dead body for him.  Alexx ID’s the victim as 36-year-old mailman Oscar Vega.  She’s shocked to find a door key lodged in Vega’s throat.

 Horatio tries the key on Vega’s home; it’s not a fit.  But he and Tripp discover two dead bodies in Vega’s house -- a man and a woman both splayed out on the floor.  Horatio knows it’s the work of Resden because of the way they were murdered and “displayed” for him to discover.   Horatio calls Jennifer and tells her to stay put, that Resden is back.  Cooper tells Horatio that the email messages Lee’s been sending Jennifer were coming from a Café on Flagler Street.   The owner of the café ID’s Lee as Walter Resden.  Jennifer is in utter disbelief when Horatio tells her; Resden pulls up to pick her up and Horatio confronts him.  He admits he’s Resden but maintains his innocence.  Calleigh, Wolfe and Alexx investigate the bodies from Vega’s house.  Alexx and Calleigh determine the two bodies were frozen, meaning they were murdered somewhere else and placed in Vega’s house.  Wolfe smells pine cleaner in the air; the place was wiped clean of all evidence.  Martinez can’t positively ID Resden.  Wolfe pulls out the Z Nose machine and waves it across Resden’s body to determine if he’s been around any pine cleaner.   Calleigh tests Resden’s trunk for blood but comes up negative.  Wolfe matches the pine cleaner found on Resden to the two victims found in Vega’s house.  The state’s attorney won’t let Horatio hold Resden on the pine cleaner alone, so once again Resden is free to go.  Horatio confronts Resden and tells him he’s totally aware of the fact that he’s been leaving clues.  Resden denies the allegations and Jennifer leaves with Resden, to Horatio’s grave concern.  Alexx discovers the two victims had frostbite, confirming they were murdered approximately three months earlier.  Calleigh matches the victims to Cincinnati missing persons Clint and Beverly Holtz.  Natalia and Delko are rattled when Natalia feels she might be pregnant. Calleigh and Ryan uncover the link between Resden’s murders; they were all foster kids living together at his childhood home.  The link helps determine Resden’s next victim, John Massry, one of Resdens’ former foster siblings.  Tripp uses the key found in the victim’s throat to open Massry’s front door.  Massry tells Horatio the horrible living conditions and abuse they all suffered living with the Yates.  Yates would beat the kids, especially Resden.  Massry couldn’t take it anymore; he snapped and tried to strangle Yates in order to protect Resden.   He didn’t succeed.  Horatio is certain that Resden planted the key in the victim so Massry could tell Horatio his story.  Delko tracks down the stolen freezer truck and gets Resden’s print from the seat belt.  Horatio tracks Resden to Yates’ house where he’s standing holding a gun to Yates’ head.  Horatio shoots the gun out of Resden’s hand and takes him in.  Jennifer is relieved and asks Horatio to forgive her for not trusting him.  Natalia and Delko are extremely relieved to learn she is not pregnant.