Smart Girl(A Criminal Minds/Spencer Reid Fan-fiction) BOOK TWO

Chapter Ten: Boy Bands and Hidden Cameras

        "Hey, Marianne, where's Reid?" Morgan asked me as I walked into the round table room.

        "I don't know, actually. He was gone when I got up." I sat down.

        "This is Doris Archer, she's the third woman to go missing in Boise, Idaho this year, along with Paula Renmar and Samantha Rush. They went missing roughly two months apart. Well, hello." I looked up to see Spencer...with a new hair cut.

        "What did you join a boy band?" Hotch asked. We all laughed.

        'No."

        'I think it's cute." I said, ruffling it. 

        'Ok, so what are we looking at here? Late Twenties, early thirties?"

        "All single, although two are in a committed relationship. All living on their own." Rossi said. 

        "Looks like normal suburban houses. Gives the unsub privacy."

        'The differences are more striking then the similarities." Spencer said.

        "Such as different hair colors and body shapes. What do we know about his MO?" I asked.

        "That's why we were invited in. The abduction sights are pristine."

        "And there's no DNA besides the victims and there's no sign of struggle or forced entry." 

        "And the victims aren't reported missing until two or three days after they were abducted." Prentiss added.

        "Two or three days. Women like this don't just vanish without somebody noticing."

        "Yes, which is why I asked Garcia to dig into their lives."

        "And, when I took a look at their online activity, I could easily see how the unsub is doing it."

        "Social network?" I asked.

        'Yeah, Facebook, Twitter, you name an online life-sharing time suck, the victims were on it. And if you look at each of their last posts, they say kind of the same thing. Going on a business trip, going on vacation. But, when you look at the time and date stamp of these, cue the 'Twilight Zone' music, because they were all posted the morning after they went missing." 

        "The unsub posted them."

        "You know, social networks are an easy way for an unsub to target his victims. These women were especially open." Spencer said.

        "They posted everything,from what they ate for dinner, to where their planned dates were."I finished.

        "So this unsub friends the victims then uses this as a cover once he has them."

        "That means he can hack into their accounts so he's excellent with computers."

        "Definitely profiled as patient and organized. He's obsessive enough to remove all the forensic details, but also patient enough to wait two months before abduction." Spencer explained.

        "He can afford to be. He gets three days to do whatever he wants to these women." Spencer put his hand on my knee, and I placed mine over it. 

        "That means we need to assume that these women are already dead. The question is what does he do to them while he has them?"

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        Morgan, Prentiss and I headed to one of the last abduction sites. JJ gave as a lead from one of the victim's boyfriends. 

        "Ok, JJ I got it." Morgan said, looking at the pictures on the shelf."Actually yeah, it looks like he did try to hang something on the wall. There's even a little residue left over."

        "Morgan, Marianne." Prentiss called.

        "I'll have to call you back."

        "What is it?" I asked.

        "I got one up here too." She said from the top of the stairs. 

        'What would he try to hang on that part of the wall?" I ran up the stairs and looked around.

        "Well, from this point, there's a clear view of the second floor and down the stairs. Down there, you can see the entire entrance. This guy put up cameras." 

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        "We think this is what he's using to spy on his victims." Morgan unwrapped a small camera. "They're small, they're cheap, and they're easily hidden behind photos, books, or plants." Morgan and Prentiss continued telling Hotch about the cameras. I found Spencer looking at the shelf.

        "Hey." I said. we proceeded into the kitchen, looking around.

        'What does he do with the video? Do you think he keeps them?" 

        "If he's a voyeur, yes." 

        "But voyeurs are not normally violent. They get off on spying without the object knowing they're being spied upon." I explained. 

        "And by abducting his victims, he's removing the outlet of his sexual release. Marianne is right. So he must have some other agenda. Spencer took a picture of the victim and her boyfriend off of the wall. 

        "Facial similarity?" I asked.

        'Precisely. I'm gonna take this with us."

        'Why?"

        'At first i thought there was no facial similarity between the victims, but now I'm not so sure that's true." He explained."I want to compare Doris's picture with the other victims."  

        "Ok, Marianne, go with him." I nodded, following him out the door. 

        "It's un-nerving." I said.

        "What is?"

        'Knowing that anyone could be watching you...and you wouldn't even know it."