Chasing Reality

1

I quietly sneak in after the professor start speaking, trying to draw little to no attention to myself. I recognized her from a couple years back. I was never really fond of her though, she was never afraid to speak her mind.

I take a seat at the end of the send row. There is multiple guest speakers standing behind podiums in the front of the lecture hall. They were all dressed well and seems to be groomed very nice. I recognized all of them from the recent studies I had been doing

"It is very rare that an undergraduate criminology class gets guest speakers at this caliber." The professor says.

I pull out my notebook and flip to the end where my last few free pages were. I surly would fill them up by the end of this lecture.

She introduces all those on stage but I was well aware of who they were. I had purchased and read all of agent Rossi's books multiple times.

"Hello, thank you for attending class today." Agent Rossi starts. "Sadly we are missing a member of our team but she had to stay behind today."

I find myself looking through all of their faces, unaware of who is missing. Something I will have to research later.

Rossi goes on to explain what he does with the FBI and specifically the BAU. I'm very fascinated with that field, I have found myself drawn to it since I was a little kid.

He passes the mic off to agent Morgan. I hear a couple of the girls whispering how attractive he is and I can't help but disapprove that they aren't more interested in the important things coming out of his mouth.

Sure he is attractive but the things he studies and how good he is at his job is much more attractive. "Does anyone here know exactly what a serial killer is?" He asks.

Everyone looks at him with blank stares and he scans the crowd. Really? I know it's still early in this term but I knew this when I was in high school.

"Someone who's committed more than three murders. Ive been told it's more qualitative than quantitative for the behavioral analysis unit ." I finally speak up.

I've always been a very attentive and ready student.

"Very good. That's exactly right. Today we are going to talk about how some serial killers are made. If you know that, then there is a good chance you can catch them." Morgan says.

Agent Jareau tells us about two women, different socioeconomic backgrounds and family situation.

"These girls had almost nothing in common, besides the fact they both crossed paths with one of the most prolific serial killers the BAU has ever seen." She says.

"One thing that's very important to understand is that no two killers are the same." Dr. Reid starts talking.

I find myself trying to keep up with what he is saying. I'm very intrigued by his words because he just spits out a bunch of facts. I'm a very fact based person.

He continues to tell us that how growing up as a child can really affect who you grow up to be. The serial killer they are talking about today was very badly abused, physically and mentally.

Though I already know most of what they are saying I find myself completely engrossed in their words.

They start showing pictures of the bodies and crime scenes from this particular killers. Most kids are fine with the graphic content because this is a criminology class and they are going to see stuff like this all the time if they find a job corresponding with their studies.

"These victims were kidnapped, restrained and held for days with no food or water. They were killed by mutilation of their reproductive organs. There are over 40 known victims but we believe we may uncover over 100 bodies." Agent Hotchner says.