Caged~ Criminal Minds

52 Pickup

Jordan: "Vanessa Holden, age 25. Last Friday night, she was clubing with her sister. A stranger, white male, roughly her age, picked her up. They left the club at 1:00 a.m., went back to her place. He forced her on her hands and knees. And then he cut her open just below the stomach."

Morgan: "Woah."

Rossi: "Yeah. Pretty rough."

Reid: "The gutting causes the intestines to spill out. You can survive for a few hours, actually even days."

Jordan: "Postmortem indicates that he slit her throat at 5:00 a.m."

Rossi: "So he disemboweled her but didn't kill her for 4 hours."

Emily: "He could be a sexual sadist."

Jordan: "Yeah, I thought so, too, but I found two priors from a year ago-prostitutes, actually, in motel rooms." she says handing them files 

Morgan: "Ok. So keep running with it. Why do you think this is the same unsub?"

Jordan: "In Vanessa Holden's apartment, the following were discovered-bleach, ammonia, trash bags-all in a triangular pattern. One year ago, motel rooms- bleach, ammonia, trash bags-also in a triangular pattern."

Emily: "He's cleaning up."

Morgan: "Might be trying to hide his tracks."

Reid: "Could be a sign of remorse."

Rossi: "Apologizing for the murder by minimizing the mess."

Jordan: "But there's one other commonality between both sets of murders. Bleach and ammonia were found under the victim's fingernails."

Watson: "He's making them clean up their own murder."

Hotch: "It's the same unsub."

Watson: "Author Harlan Ellison wrote, the minute people fall in love, they become liars."

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On The Plane

Emily: "So if the unsub changed the victimology, does that make him organized or disorganized?"

Morgan: "Well, the prostitutes point one way, the club goes another."

Reid: "The triangular arrangement of the cleaning supplies is interesting."

Hotch: "Obsessive-compulsive?"

Watson: "Might have been institutionalized."

Rossi: "We're missing the forest for the trees here. This guy started with prostitutes-a high-risk victimology. Took a year off, came back, killed a socialite."

Morgan: "No forced entry, no coercion of any kind."

Rossi: "Exactly. So how does our unsub go from loser of the year to Don Juan?"

Reid: "Actually, as Byron interpreted him, Don Juan was an ironic reversal of sex roles. And when-th-that's about it." he stops himself when seeing the look on both Hotch and Morgan's faces

Hotch: "Something must have happened between the last prostitute and Vanessa Holden making him change his victimology."

Jordan: "Could the unsub have known Vanessa?"

Morgan: "It's unlikely. Sexual sadists attack anonymously."

Watson: "They have to sever a personal connection and see their victims as objects to perpetrate this level of torture."

Emily: "We have to build two profiles, then-one for the unsub who killed prostitutes, one for the unsub who goes to clubs."

Rossi: "We've never done that before."