Snakes+CSI+RAL

In the episode the boy dropping off the newspapers and when he goes to open the holder there is a decapitated head in there with blood on the tops of the papers. They then discover when the head is taken to the crime lab that there is a snake lodged in the womans throat that was not a pecies from around there. They were able to identify her by the fake teeth she had gotten that had her social security number engraved in them. She was a hispanic woman who was around the age of 30 and was acting as an unofficial reporter on a persay gang music singing group and using a fake name Carla when she was around the group members. They realize that the songs they are singing about in the bar aare about homicides or murders that have been comitted and that is howw they get their lead. They find her jacket in the back of a store with tire tracks running over the back of it. This leads them to find the tire treads by which the bartender was the owner of the truck and he had run over her. He even had her hair as a belt around his waist. The other murder was with a man who was driving a van and there was a wheelchair in the back and he had been shot twice and the first shot had not killed him. The man was a tele marketer and was being bothered and pestered a lot by this man. The older man who was not handicapped was the killer and he admitted it without fault and he set the man up essentially and full intention of killing him.

The DNA in this episode was used to get the palm prints off the newspaper. It was also used to clear the man they thought had killed the man in the van because his blood was on the dead mans suit.