Remembering The Doctor ~Spencer Reid FF~

Chapter 2

  "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."  Emily Dickinson 

"Gina Bryant, flagged down a police car in St. Louis." Emily explains to me on the jet what I had missed during the briefing.She was wearing nothing but a dirty nightgown and she was barefoot."

"And she told them that she had been kidnapped when she was 8." JJ adds, showing me the picture of the girl once she was found.

"That girl's gotta be 19 or 20 years old." I say, taking the picture of Gina from JJ's hands.

"18." Hotch informs me.

"And they confirmed her identity." Morgan tells me. "She was a foster kid who disappeared 10 years ago." 

"She's been in captivity this whole time?" I ask, "Long-term hostage. That's rare. We got another Ariel Castro here?" I joke.

"Funny you should say that." Garcia says, coming onto the monitors on the jet, "Not funny ha ha, funny weird. She told the police that she was held captive with this girl, Sheila woods, 15 years old, who disappeared from Nashville 7 years ago." She shares with the team. "Also she said there was another girl, too, but all she knows about her is that her name is Violet and she was older."

"I'm assuming you've checked the missing children's database." Hotch asks her.

 "Affirmative. There's no Violet anywhere."

"Did Gina say anything about her captor?" I ask, still a little behind on the information on the case.

"Just that his name is Tom and he was an older white dude." Morgan tells me.

"And where were they being held?"

"This house." Rossi speaks up for the first time since we got onto the jet, handing me a picture of an old house. "Gina took the cops there."

"They found Sheila." Garcia says, "She is at the hospital, very ill with something yet to be determined. Violet nowhere to be found."

"It's probably safe to assume that she's with the unsub." Hotch says.

"Who owns the house?" I ask, looking up from the picture of the house. 

"Oh, that's where it gets even weirder." Penelope says. "This woman, Clara Riggins." She explains to the team and I, flashing a picture of an elderly lady onto the screen. "She's MIA, but her checking account is active, she pays her bills on time, and if my math is correct, she's 108 years old."

"I might be going out on a limb here, but I'm gonna bet she had nothing to do with the kidnapping." Rossi jokes.

"The real question's where is the unsub and this other girl Violet?" Emily asks.

"That's what we're gonna find out." Hotch says.

"So, both Gina and Sheila were grabbed when they were 8. And both just blocks away from their homes. And made a clean getaway each time. No witnesses." JJ says, as we begin to go over it one more time before we land.

"There's an excellent chance he stalked them." Emily brings up. "Clean getaways usually mean they know daily routines and are familiar with the area."

"So this guy's patient and has a plan." I say, "Which means he has patterns too."

"This guy's more than just a preferential pedophile." Morgan says, "His victims are children, but that's probably more about establishing control. Long-term captivity is what matters to him."

"We've seen profiles like this before." Hotch says, "There's always a sexual assault component to their M.O."

"Oh hello," Garcia mumbles seconds before our phones beep. "I just sent you the 4-1-1 on the statements from police reports. Turns out the neighbors haven't seen Clara Riggins in 20 years. Most of them didn't even know that she existed. But they all know who this Tom guy is. According to this one lady, Tom told her that he was Clara's grandson. But I triple-checked. Clara doesn't have any relatives anywhere."