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Dead Air Redo
When they arrived at the station, the local police had already cordoned off the scene, and were waiting for them.
Tony snagged Tim to do the sound booth while the door for prints. Gibbs was with Ziva and Ducky, taking the main room.
Putting his pack down and getting his supplies, Tony listened as Tim went through the last fifteen minutes of the show until the shooting. Then the shooting itself.
The door he was working on opened outwards, so he was not only doing the doorknob, but the side edge of the door itself. As many would have grabbed it to finish opening the door from the outside. Getting some lovely prints to pull for Abby to run.
He had already printed the cops on the scene to rule them temporarily out. So anyone else was going to be fair game.
Gibbs had Ziva working on prints where they were, while he took photos and talked to Ducky.
And Tim was pulling and listening to everything he could to see what needed to be brought in as a tie-in to the case.
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While the prints ran, the mail the victim’s wife brought in was being gone through by the team. While the victim’s voice recordings of everyone he recorded on his show or phone was off to be analyzed and then transcribed. Getting them a voiceprint for a caller in a gated community just outside Alexandria, called Royal Woods. And a non-posted letter that had been personally delivered by postal carrier, Matt Lane.
Of which he supposedly had an alibi for the time of the shooting. However, he had personally signed and delivered the threatening letter, so, was taken in for a twenty-four hold and intense questioning by Gibbs. As well as was suspended from work for what he had done. And a pull of his credentials for anything to do with the government.
Including access to property and personnel.
Getting a pissed of Lane.
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As this was going on, Zac Nelson’s name came up on the fingerprints. And he had a licensed rifle of the same make and model they thought was the murder weapon in the shootings. So, a warrant was issued for his arrest as well as a search warrant for his house.
And another warrant for those members of the Royal Woods Community who were members of the Military at Home group. As each member of the community had a deeper background check to find out who were members.
Netting them Haskell and the bomb.
Nelson was found guilty of first-degree murder of all three in the radio station and sentenced to death row.
As was Haskell for terrorism.
And Lane.
While the rest of the group was sentenced to life without parole as accessories.