It was a Thursday afternoon and the BAU team were on their way to Denver, Colorado to help solve the case of 2 murders and another 2 missing persons. The murder victims were a man and a woman who had both been found strangled and naked. Both were wearing nothing but a large adult diaper and a pacifier that had been glued into their mouths. According to the coroner reports both victims had spent weeks eating nothing but liquid food. Both victims had also apparently been forced to use the diaper they were wearing a lot before their deaths. Both victims had evidence that their hands and wrists had been tied together for long periods of time.
The team guessed that the unsub was acting out some sick role playing fantasy turning his victims into babies and treating them like so for weeks on end. They had no idea what had set the unsub off to then kill them but they all knew the search was on for the 2 new missing persons.
As they sat on the jet discussing the case, as usual, Garcia was linked in via the laptop on the table.
"Both murder victims looked like they were not that old but had high powered jobs that would put them at the top of their professions. Lisa Taylor was 38 and was a high powered attorney who owned and ran her own huge successful law firm. Tom Andrews was 40 and he worked in the hotel industry. He apparently owned his own chain of highly successful hotels."
"Garcia, what can you tell us about the 2 missing victims?"
"The missing people are Tina Jones, 38, and Ben Lendal, 39. Tina owned and ran her own highly successful chain of hair salons. She was apparently on her way home when she went missing 4 days ago. She was reported missing by her assistant the next morning when she didn't turn up for work and couldn't be reached on her phones and Ben owned and ran his own plumbing supply business which employed quite a few people. He went missing sometime during the night 4 days ago. When he didn't turn up to the office to hand out the day's assignments to his employees, they all knew something was wrong and he was then reported missing."
"Were either of the murder victims or the missing people in any kind of relationship with anyone at the times of their disappearance?"
"Nope. Apparently all 4 were single and they all worked hard to make their businesses successful."
"So we have 4 apparently unconnected people who were all highly successful business owners and were all single. Lisa and Tom went missing 2 months ago. Tina and Ben were taken 4 days ago."
"Which means we need to find them fast before the unsub can do too much damage to them or before he ends up killing them. Reid and Blake, go to the coroner and see what you can learn, Morgan and J.J go to the body dump site. Rossi and I will head to the field office to set up and get started on victimology."
"You know this sounds a little like that case where the woman treated her victims like dolls and held them paralysed for months before they died of a stroke…"
Once the jet landed, they all piled into the SUV's and, whilst J.J and Morgan drove to the site where the bodies were dumped, Rossi and Hotch headed to the local FBI field office and Reid and Blake went to the coroner's office.
"Both victims were in surprisingly good physical condition. Both had ligature marks on their wrists. Neither victim had any serious signs of sexual assault though I did find evidence that something had penetrated the anus quite a few times during their capture…."
"How big was the object do you reckon doctor?"
"No bigger than something like a tube. If I had to guess I'd say that both victims were penetrated with something to do with giving an enema. Both of their bowels were completely empty. Also, probably due to the diaper wearing, both victims had a sort of diaper rash on their buttocks, though they must of both have either been able to bathe or someone had cleaned them at some points as neither had any signs of anything like urine burns on the parts of their bodies covered by the diaper."
"When do you think they were killed?'
"I'd say sometime yesterday morning. They were both strangled with the same belt as they both had exactly the same ligature marks on their necks."
"In your report you stated that both had only eaten liquid food for weeks. How could you tell that if there was nothing in their system?"
"Both victims had severe tooth decay. Neither one had used their teeth to chew food for weeks on end, though they did have clear evidence of what we normally see in babies and young toddlers who suck endlessly for hours on a pacifier. Also I don't know if its relevant but both victims appeared to have spent long hours wearing only the diaper as they both had a thin layer of thin hairs growing all over their exposed bodies, which is the body's natural response to help keep it warm if the skin is left exposed for extended periods of time."
"Anything else?"
"Actually yes. I know I said both were in surprisingly good physical condition but both had muscle wastage in their legs and feet, indicating that neither had been walking unsupported, if at all, for weeks at a time. I think they spent most of their time captive on their backs or sitting up."
"Thank you doctor. If we need to know anything more we'll come back."
"I'm happy to help in any way I can. I just hope that the other 2 people are taken to the hospital and not brought here to me…."
"That's what we're aiming for.."
Back at the station, Reid and Blake met up with all the others, including Morgan and J.J who had been visiting the body dump site.
Reid and Blake reported what the coroner had told them.
"The site where he dumped their bodies is pretty open and not too far from a nearby road. I reckon he waited until night before dumping them there. The park is pretty much deserted at night so there was no one around to see him dump the bodies. He or his accomplice must have had a car to transport 2 human bodies. Unfortunately there were no cameras around so no one was able to get an idea of the unsub's car or the unsub is.
"We know both the murder victims and the missing victims have one thing in common. They were all highly successful people who ran their own company and all 4 of them were single and around the same age. Why would someone take someone like this only to force them back to being a baby? And then why would the same person, having kept their victims alive and in an infant like state suddenly kill them and dump their bodies?"
"He has to get these adult baby supplies from somewhere."
Hotch got Garcia on his phone, putting it on speaker.
"Garcia, I need you to get me a list of people who have bought supplies of adult diapers and other adult baby parafinella in the last few months. There can't be too many places that sell this type of thing…"
"At the speed of lighting sir. Will hit you back in a jiffy!"
A few minutes later Garcia, having worked her magic, rang back.
"Sir, I have found a list but its surprisingly huge. Who knew that so many people were into this kind of thing?"
"A lot of those are probably like the butcher Lee Mullins who don't want them but need them due to incontinence issues. Garcia is there any way of narrowing that list down to eliminate people who need them instead of want them?"
"Sadly no as people don't have to specify a reason for buying any of this stuff."
"Garcia can you get me a list of names of people who fit the victimology and who are single and highly successful business owners who are like Hotch and are workaholics ?That way we can potentially warn any locals who fit the victimology to be on alert."
"Hit you back in a flash."
Garcia called back a couple of minutes later with a long list of names of potential victims.
The team then spent the next couple of hours or so going through all different possibilities, but all still coming up empty.
At 7pm, Hotch decided that they were getting nowhere fast and ordered everyone back to the hotel to sleep and they would pick up again the next morning.
What the team didn't know is that the unsub, having seen on the TV that the local police were baffled and had brought in the highly successful BAU team to help catch the person doing this to their victims. As he watched the T.V, he saw video footage of each team member. That Hotch and maybe that Morgan looked like they were big tough guys who ordered everyone around. They needed to be brought down a peg or two. He decided right then and there that these 2 big FBI agents would be his next targets…..
