Riley Cross walked into her apartment and locked her door as she gathered the mail. She spotted a handwritten note with no return address. She eyed the note with caution as she carefully turned the TV to the news; she set down the rest of the mail on the kitchen aisle.
Slowly she opened the note and saw pictures of herself doing random things, working at the lab, eating lunch with a coworker and even out running. She quickly checked the door again and then all the windows. Her OCD kicking in with a panic, she knew that the police couldn't do anything until the prep acted but that didn't mean she wouldn't try to protect herself from whatever danger she was in and hoped that this all would be a bad dream she'd wake up from.
"Guys we have a case" JJ said coming into the boardroom where the team waited.
"Where at?" Hotch asked.
"The town of Waco, Tx" JJ said handing a file to each member of the team before continuing. "Nine days ago, a women was found in her car which was abandoned outside of town, with multiple stab wounds. She was identified as 34, Mayghan Williams" pausing for a moment, "she was a local high end divorce lawyer who went missing two days before she turned up and then five days ago another popular community member, Krista Connell, 29 and a former news anchor, appeared in her car with the same MO" JJ finished pulling up the photos of both crime scenes.
"What does this have to do with us?" Rossi asks.
"Well the local police fear that a third women may have become the victim, Karen Supock age 24 and local drug addict, according to her rap sheet" JJ said.
"Though that isn't the worst part" JJ said flipping the slides.
"Then what is?" Reid asks.
"Before each victim was kidnapped, the killer sent them a series of photos and letter weeks prior to their abduction."
Morgan picked up his case file, "So your saying these women were more than just taken for a few days, and killed? They were stocked and terrorized for days before."
JJ nods, "Yes".
"Well it seems victimology seems to be the same, ages between 24-34, blondish hair and blue eyes. Plus they all appear to have jobs that dealt with some type of police work" Reid states looking around the room.
"Now we have to figure out why they were killed. Wheels up in 20 minutes" Hotch says leaving the room.
The first time Riley had ever walked into a police station and saw everyone bustling around. "Excuse me," she asked a passing police officer.
"Yes ma'am?" he asked stopping to help the young women.
"I'm here to talk to Detective Grove" Riley said.
"He's not available right now. Could you come back again later?" the young officer asked.
"No, I need to talk to him straight away" Riley says crossing her arms.
"I'm sorry ma'am but he's busy" the officer says annoyed.
"Well great, so when I turn up dead, I can just blame the Waco Police Department" Riley says and storms outside of the station.
The team arrived and broke up into their respective groups. Rossi and Morgan went to look at the dumpsites, while JJ, Hotch and Reid went to the police station. Emily was on vacation time so she wasn't with the team.
"We need to set up a press conference as soon as possible, in order to inform the women of the community of the danger they are in and help them either step forward or prevent them from coming victims themselves" JJ said to Detective Grove.
"Wouldn't that just cause mass panic?" the detective asked.
"It won't as long as we tell the public that this applies to anyone whom feels as if they are being stalked or receiving strange letter or pictures of themselves in the mail" Hotchner says.
That night, Riley continued walking around the house and looked at the second note that she had recieved. Looking towards the TV the next segment that came up was the FBI leading a press conference.
"We encouraged that anyone that received any photos or notes from an unknown source come to the Waco Police Station tomorrow morning as soon as possible" an Agent Jareau stated as the conference came to an end.
Riley makes plans to visit the police station yet again. She gathers the notes, writing down the Agents name and then heads to her room waiting to see if anything happens tonight, like it did the last night.
The first time Spencer saw her, was when she walked into the police station bull pin nearly two days after they had gotten to Texas. She had light wavy hair with a golden brown hair that went to the small of her lower back, and big blue eyes. He saw dark circles, just barely noticeable under her eyes as if she hadn't slept well in days. She was about average height. She held a large vanilla envelope with what appeared to be dark lettering on it.
"Cross, what are you doing here?" Grove asked the mysterious women.
"I saw the newscast last night and thought it would be best if I just came in about some information on your case" Riley stated looking around the busy room.
"What could it be, that our favorite Forensic Anthropologist pays us a visit?" Groves says trying to flirt and getting nowhere.
"One, this is the second time I've come here directly and two, I'm not here for you or a date. I'm here about this," she says handing the detective the envelope.
Detective Groves looks at the contents of the envelope, "Agents I believe I know who your next target is" he states looking over towards Reid and the group.
"Who?" Morgan asks.
"Me" Riley Cross says stepping out from behind the detective.
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