Jennie and the FBI Agent.

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

LISA

I finish off my croissant while staring at the gory crime scene photos. Blood is smeared across the walls with a paintbrush, just like the other four cases we've linked together. It's one of the few things that remains consistent. The unsub always paints a wall red with the victim's blood. "How can you eat while seeing that?" Somi  asks wrinkling her nose and sitting down. Ignoring her question, I ask, "What did they find out about Ben Harris?"

"The M.E. estimated he was tortured for at least three days. He has parts of him cut off, just like the others. Including the penis," she sighs. That has me cringing, just like any person would also the reason It's a little more disturbing for me is that I also have one, Yes a Penis that I was born with .  "His fingers were all cut off," she goes on, pointing at one picture that was ten severed fingers lying on the ground. "His chest was slowly pulled off piece by piece. The unsub stopped the bleeding each time by using a barbaric method of cauterization. He wanted the victim alive for three days specifically. His penis seems to be the last thing to have gone, chains were hanging from his basement rafters. We think the unsub surely leaving the victim strung up in their own home. So far, all the men have had homes too far away for any neighbors to overhear or see anything." His strikes are controlled, well planned out, and meticulous in detail, even if we don't understand them. "The unsub should be a female, considering the groin mutilation in all the kills," Bobby says, shuddering as he walks up on our conversation. "Only a woman could handle cutting off that." "Women serial killers statistically don't torture. They're actually far more harder to track down because of that," Somi says dismissively. "Well, he has to be impotent. Most serial killers are," Alan chimes in, joining us. There's a reason he and Bobby are not profilers.

"I think he's more of a sexual sadist," Somi explains. "Impotence likely plays a part, but just calling them impotent isn't a profile."

"Sexual sadists are often impotent, they seek out their sexual release through the torture. No signs of rape were found, but it's likely the unsub hasn't grown the confidence to rape the men yet."

"So a gay sexual sadist?" Bobby says, still lost.

"Yes," Somi says.

"All of the male victims were straight, asper witnesses. If they were

gay, that theory would make more sense," I add. "All five men were from the same town, yet no one can think of anyone who might want to kill them. But, I know we're missing something."

"Footprints are a size twelve man's shoe made in the dirt on the way to the house. Expert says that the unsub weighs between two-ten and two-fifteen," Somi announces.

"He's physically fit to be able to overpower these men.  The unsub is overpowering them with sheer brute force. Originally he was only killing alphas, which led to the profile being an alpha serial. But Ben, although physically fit and strong, was very submissive in his line of work." "Sexual sadism is far more likely, since the last kill. There may be a sexually frustrated trigger, which should narrow down our search. What else do we know about the victims?"

"These guys were tops of their classes in college, but they were all different ages—from twenty-three to twenty-eight. Victimology only links them through the town and  their isolated homes. They haven't kept in contact, even though they were friendly when they still lived in town.

One kill in Boston One in Denver One in Long Island One in Maine. And now one kill in our own backyard in Virginia. This guy is allover the map, shitting all over a normal hunting ground pattern. It would seem random if we hadn't made the connection to the same home

town. But not the same school. Three of them went to a private school two towns over. So obviously this isn't an old grudge dated back to school ages, especially given the age gap in the victims that would put them in different grades too.