Two teenage sisters are wandering in a shopping, when one of them notice that a piece of the hair of her sister Eva Byron was cut. She goes to LVPD and soon CSI learn eleven similar cases. Russell receives a phone call from Eva and when he arrives at her apartment with Brass, they find her dead, without her eyes, wearing sunglasses, a vintage dress and a messy lipstick. They find also a tress in her throat. After analyzing the braid of hair, Hodges concludes that there are twenty-six strands of hair from twenty-six women, including the eleven that reported the previous attack. The women are summoned at station, but one does not show-up, Joyce Debernardi. They find her dead at home, with blind eyes and similar modus operandi. When the CSI discover that one braid of hair belongs to woman with cancer, Morgan and Sara visit Dr. Bill Ryan at the hospital. He reluctantly discloses the file of his patient Lucinda Kemp, and now the LVPD and the CSI have a lead to be followed.
"Tressed to Kill" is a great episode of "CSI", se first without Catherine Willows. The plot of a maniac that cuts a piece of the hair of his future victims. The plot gives false leads, but in the end, the team of the investigators succeeds to find the psychopath. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Tressed to Kill"