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008. the fox

Jessica, Spencer, Penelope, and JJ are by the elevators with the Hotchners, Hotch holding Jack.

"He's so gorgeous." JJ gushes.

"Thank you." Haley says, smiling.

"If you find baldness and wrinkles attractive." Spencer comments. Penelope gently slaps his chest.

"Look at his little witty bitty nose." Penelope coos as Derek walks up.

"Don't you want one of these?" Penelope asks Derek.

"Mm. I'll stick to practicing." Derek says, smiling.

"Congratulations." Elle says, walking over.

"Thanks." Hotch says.

"Thank you." Haley smiles.

"She's amazing. I'm a little terrified." Hotch says.

"Well, uh, we should get going." Haley says.

"Okay." Hotch puts Jack in his stroller.

"Pleasure seeing you, Mrs. Hotchner." Spencer says, the others bidding goodbye as she leaves.

"Crawford family. Murdered three days ago." Gideon says as they're all in the round table room.

"Saw it on the news." Derek says.

"They were found in the basement of their house." Gideon says.

"Bags packed for a vacation they never took." JJ says.

"Report said it was a suicide. Father stabbed the mom, then shot himself." Derek says.

"That's the conclusion Maryland State Police came to. The gun was found next to the father, had gunpowder residue on his right hand." JJ says.

"And now you must have some compelling reason to think that Chris Crawford didn't off his family?" Derek asks.

"Yeah. Another murdered family." JJ says, holding up a picture. "The Millers -- found a month ago. The mother, Reese Miller, her two children, and her new husband. Again, they were found in the basement, and like the Crawfords, their suitcases were packed for a vacation."

"Both cases, the bodies were discovered five days after their vacations were supposed to have started." Gideon says.

"Yet the coroner determined that they had been dead only 24 hours." JJ says.

"So for four days, both families remained in the house." Spencer says.

"Location of the bodies, both cases, the basement." Gideon says. "That indicates a level of organization."

"With a quick, but disorganized application of overpowering force." Jessica adds.

"If these aren't murder/suicides, someone's doing a damn good job of making them look like it." Spencer says.

"Possibly this man -- Eric Miller." JJ says, showing them a mugshot. "Biological father of the Miller children. Arlington P.D. issued a bolo for Miller after the bodies were discovered."

"Ex-wife Reese Miller had a restraining order against him for domestic violence." Gideon says.

"When she get remarried?" Derek asks.

"The week before they were killed." JJ informs.

"Violent husbands believe their wives and children are property. Reese Miller getting remarried possibly made him snap." Derek says.

"Well, the Virginia cops finally located Eric Miller last night, responding to a drunken disturbance at a motel where Miller had been hiding out." JJ says. "When they found him, they discovered blood on his black leather jacket. Belonged to his children."