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JJ: "Uh, everyone's here

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JJ: "Uh, everyone's here. Sorry I'm late" she says walking into the meeting room where everyone is waiting for her "Last night in Fredericksburg, a 20-year-old woman, Molly McCarthy, was abducted. She's the third to go missing in the last 6 weeks. All disappeared from public places. No one's seen them since."
Rossi: "Until now."
JJ: "A couple days ago, body parts with cigarette burns were recovered from a national park which was once the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville."
Hotch: "Were they able to make an I.D.?"
JJ: "It was the first victim, taken 6 weeks ago. Decomp indicated that she had been dead just over a week."
Hotch: "So he likes spending time with them."
Emily: "How'd she end up like that?"
JJ: "M.E. found microscopic tool marks on the bone."
Reid: "I remember reading about a case like this in Spotsylvania County. Similar markings on the bone."
JJ: "It was the winter of 1980, also Fredericksburg. 5 women, 16 to 24. Buried in pieces. Same markings. Same civil war battlefield."
Watson: "Killed the same time of year and left at the same dump site?"
Morgan: "It's like an anniversary."
JJ: "That case is still open."
Reid: "Back then the victims were drug addicts and runaways."
Hotch: "If he spends that much time with them, there's a chance these 2 women could still be alive."
Emily: "Wait. We think this could be the same killer? That's a hell of a cooling-off period."
Morgan: "BTK resurfaced after a 25-year hiatus."
Reid: "True, but he didn't kill anyone. He only taunted the police."
Rossi: "Marks on the bone and where he dumps them-that's a very specific signature. Hard to copycat details that were never made public."
Hotch: "Garcia, check the M.O. against girls missing in other states. It could explain the long absence."
Garcia: "I'm on it."
Rossi: "If this is the same unsub, what's he been doing for the past 27 years?"

Hotch: "The american poet Anne Sexton once wrote, "It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was."

Police Station

Man: "Am I in the right place?"
Rossi: "David Rossi."
John: "John Caulfield."
Rossi: "Agents Naomi Watson, Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss." he says as they each greet him with a smile 
Morgan: "Just going over your old case, sir."
John: "Sharon Chroniger. She was 16 years old. We found her body in pieces. I promised her parents that I would find out who did this. Then her father passed away." he says looking at one of the old files
Rossi: "Tell us what Fredericksburg was like in 1980." he says pulling out a chair for him 
John: "It was a farming community. Rural. Everybody knew everybody. You could leave your doors open at night."
Emily: "Townhomes and housing communities are everywhere now. It could explain the change in victim type."
Morgan: "Runaways and prostitutes to college students. He's taking what's available."
John: "It's not normal for a killer to stop for 27 years, is it?"
Watson: "No. But he could have been in prison, injured, he might have moved away."
Rossi: "He must have found other ways to satisfy his needs."

The next day they get a call about another body having been discovered and JJ, Hotch, and Reid go to inspect it

Emily: "I've got a list of violations in this county that precede the 1980 murders. A DUI, petty thefts, rape, assault. A few of these are repeat offenders."
Morgan: "Garcia's got something."
Garcia: "Don't worry, it's not contagious. So, I have dug across the whole country looking for this guy's M.O. I found a sum total of zilch. So, I went closer to home. I found a complaint filed by a Karen Foley in the next county over. The story's...awful. I sent a copy to all your hand-helds. Pg version is that she was kidnapped in 1979, but then...she escaped."
John: "I never heard that story."
Watson: "It wasn't your jurisdiction. What if she was his first?"
Morgan: "Like his dress rehearsal. Figured out who and where to hunt and learned what worked, what didn't."
Rossi: "Maybe careful planning has always been a part of his process."
Emily: "Where is she now?"
Morgan: "Baby girl, work your magic and find us an address."
Garcia: "I'm on it."

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