CSI: Miami Episode 8.22 Mommie Dearest

It is a perfect 20th anniversary party at the home of Laura and Chuck, the seemingly perfect couple and their two teenage children Cody, and Alyssa. After the party has come to an end, Laura's temperament changes to intense anger at the broken light above their garage. Moments later she is brutally murdered in their driveway, and her family members are the suspects. With the help of a mini cam used to video tape the party, the CSI team is able to view the family's Thanksgiving dinner that they recorded over for the party. We see in the video Laura forcing Alyssa's head into the dog bowl as punishment for her "eating like an animal" at the table and discover that she is physically and mental abusing her children. Once the kids open up to the team about the abuse, we discover that Cory is terrified as he is going to be alone with his parents, in particular his mother, next year when Alyssa goes to College. In addition we discover that they had a younger brother Bradley, that Laura "accidentally" killed by making him drink lighter fluid as punishment for burning the rug, (which incidentally Alyssa did and never told her mother). At first Chuck confesses to killing Laura, in a desperate attempt to finally protect his children, and then Alyssa confesses. However we learn it is Cory who killed her with Alyssa's boyfriend's baseball bat, out of fear of living alone with her when Alyssa goes away to school. The team greatly sympathizes with this abused family, and we don't know what will be next for them or Cory for having murdered his abusive mother; that is for the Jury to decide. Meanwhile Delko continues his FBI investigation of who is stealing evidence at CSI headquarters, Walter Simmons being the current suspect.