CSI: NY

WOMAN Proceed to 1818 Myrtle Avenue.

Possible homicide.

Detective.

Followed a blood trail to some cans down the street.

Found her other shoe and a wallet.

Lana Gregory.

1818 Myrtle Street.

She was almost home.

WOMAN All units, be advised,

a member of the service is reporting a 10-24.

Female victim of a homicide, in front of 1818 Myrtle.

Units responding, come in to Central.

Jo, Mac.

I received an odd photo on my phone tonight.

What?

Describe it.

Yeah.

It's the same one.

I think I know why the photo was sent to us.

The victim is one of our lab techs.

She was posed to match the original crime scene.

There's one shoe on the bottom step;

one missing; the way her hair's draped; coat open.

Killer paid attention to detail.

Could it have something to do with the lab,

or did she have a connection to the original victim, Lana Gregory?

I don't know. Hopefully,

we'll get some answers once Adam tracks down the phone

that sent this photo.

I got unis canvassing the area for witnesses.

And I found these in a Dumpster down the street.

Just like the original crime scene.

So far everything seems to mirror the 1957 murder.

Female vic in her 20s.

1818 Myrtle's the exact same location.

Same time of night.

It even snowed today.

And the three stab wounds to the abdomen.

So, are we looking at some kind of bizarre copycat killer

55 years later?

I don't think so.

Copycats like to benefit from the notoriety of the original killer.

And in this case, it was the victim,

Lana Gregory, who had all the press back then.

You know how long this place has been vacant?

About nine months.

We're running down the property manager now.

Jessica Drake. Her crime lab I.D.

I didn't recognize her until I saw her eyes.

One blue, one brown.

Is there any reason why somebody

would want you two to be the first to know that she was dead?

We had very little contact with her.

She was a grade-one lab tech... thank you...

worked on the night shift mostly,

did entry-level grunt work, like washing test tubes

and ordering supplies, things like that.

Still, it's a pretty ballsy move

to send that photo to your private phones.

Well, they got what they wanted... our attention.

There's a big difference

between the original crime and this one.

The first went unsolved;

this time...

we're gonna find the killer.

Detective Taylor, do you have any leads?

Detective, do we have a copycat killer on the loose?

Base of a wineglass?

Hey, Doc, what do we got, buddy?

Junior lab tech Jessica Drake.

Time of death: approximately two hours ago.

Cause of death: exsanguination.

You all right, babe?

Yeah.

I met her parents once. They came by the lab.

I remember the delight in their eyes. They were so proud of her.

Mm.

All right, cuts and lacerations

on her face suggest a struggle, but there's no blood spatter

- or blood drops around the body, huh? - No drag marks,

so it looks like it wasn't a body dump, which confirms

that the attack took place right here.

Yeah, and there's no blood with directionality

heading away from the scene, which tells us

that our killer wasn't bleeding.

Looks like here's only two sets of footprints around the body,

and neither one of them

- is a match to Jessica's shoes. - These footprints

up here on this landing are just mine and Mac's.

- We didn't let anybody else up here. - So contrary

to what we see on our victim's body, there's no evidence of a struggle...

- or even that our killer was here? - No.

So it must have started snowing after she was murdered.

Concealed the blood spatter and compromised the evidence.

- Mother Nature as an accomplice. - Yeah, we don't got diddly.

Maybe...

The snow is powdery.

That's good.

And it was cold all day, right?

In Montana, when you're shoveling

your driveway, the easiest layer to remove

is always the fresh, powdery snow.

Underneath, there's a hard layer of ice,

the slush that froze when the temperature dropped.

So you could sometimes make out your tire tracks.

- So you're thinking...? - I'm thinking

the evidence is concealed under this snow.

This is our murder weapon.

A broken champagne flute.

Good eye!

It's the same basic shape

and length as the paper spike used to kill Lana Gregory in 1957.

And speaking of "good eye,"

Jessica has the most stunning case of heterochromia iridum.

Rare combination of one blue iris, one brown.

And what I find particularly eerie

is the rather unique similarity between

the two victims. Lana Gregory's

autopsy report indicates sectoral heterochromia

in her right eye.

"One section of the iris with flecks of brown color."

Her eyes were green.

It would sometimes

give the appearance of having two different-colored eyes. See?

Both victims with a rare condition of different shades of eye color.

What an oddly impossible coincidence.

Which makes it no longer a coincidence.

Well, our killer must have known.

Maybe the reason Jessica was his chosen victim.

Well, the other detail that's consistent...

like Lana, Jessica was stabbed

three times in the external oblique area of her torso,

causing significant lacerations to the kidney and liver. She bled out.

So, Sid, if you're gonna duplicate a murder,

right down to the eye color,

why would you change out the murder weapon?

I mean, you can get a paper spike at any stationery store.

Mmm... it's an adequate equivalent

of the original murder weapon, yet provides a little mystique

to the profile of the current killer. He wants to be noticed.

His priority was the body

looking like an exact replica of the previous crime.

He? His? It's definitely a male?

Ah.

Subdermal bruising suggests that our suspect may be male.

Jessica's wrists were grabbed and held very tightly.

Well, I think a very strong woman could accomplish that.

I don't doubt it.

- However... - Are those letters?

Greek letters, to be exact.

Phi Gamma Alpha.

I've concluded that it's a fraternity ring.

The Greek symbols are raised on the width of the band.

Leads me to believe it's a man.

Jessica was awesome.

I can't believe anyone would kill her.

She was...different.

Different how?

Sort of quiet.

Only about the work.

- Hard to get her to smile. She was... - So much fun to be around.

Only person I know who could make washing test tubes

and cleaning the lab not boring.

- Did she have a boyfriend? - No.

N- Not really.

You're gonna have to elaborate on that one.

Harlan really liked her.

Harlan who?

Harlan Porter.

- Does he work in the lab? - Yeah.

Ballistics.

I don't think the attraction was mutual.

She was nice to him, but... he gave her that nickname:

Lana.

Yeah, like... Lana Gregory.

Why?

Harlan knew everything about that case.

Part of his graduate thesis or something.