19 Down

"19 Down" is the first part of a two-part episode of the ninth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The story is continued in "One to Go". Two men sit in a room watching a television when one of the men turns on the other and kills him, stuffs him in a trash bag, and leaves his body in a river to decompose over time. At the labs, Grissom passes out cases and drops startling news on his team: he's decided to leave CSI. Before he does, he take... more

"19 Down" is the first part of a two-part episode of the ninth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The story is continued in "One to Go". Two men sit in a room watching a television when one of the men turns on the other and kills him, stuffs him in a trash bag, and leaves his body in a river to decompose over time. At the labs, Grissom passes out cases and drops startling news on his team: he's decided to leave CSI. Before he does, he takes on one last case, which brings him to the trash bag in the river. The remains are "soup," anywhere from weeks to years old. Nick is able to recover a Star of David pendant and some blonde and brown hairs from them, while Dr. Robbins concludes from the skull that the victim is a 5'9" Caucasian male aged 25 or older and that he was strangled. Grissom puts the details in the database along with the pendant and comes up with a hit: Joel Steiner, believed to be a victim of the Dick and Jane Killer, a serial killer who targeted couples back in the... less