"Guys we're off to New York! Grab your go bags and meet in the conference room now!" Hotch, holding his go bag, shouted to his whole BAU team who had been gathered in the bullpen. Within a minute, they were all piling into the conference room carrying their go bags.
"What's the case boss?"
"We got a unsub who's targeting foster families in New York. He's killing and torturing the foster father. Raping, torturing and then killing the foster mother, making her husband watch and then he's taking the foster kids and dropping them outside the CPS building. He's always wearing a mask and the kids can never identify him. He's killed 4 sets of foster parents so far and NYPD is requesting our help now. We're joining up with them and their CSI forensics team to try and solve this case. J.J I've asked Will to join us. We could use another detective and I've cleared it with his captain. He's already gone home to pack a go bag and he'll meet us on the jet for a full briefing. I've cleared it with NYPD so he can use his gun in New York and he can act as a detective. Garcia you'll be coming with us and helping CSI try and track his movements. We're taking Matt with us too."
"Why does our section chief need to come Hotch?"
"So many reasons but this case could be big and Matt wants to come. He'll be here in a sec."
Just then their section chief entered the conference room carrying a go bag.
"Sorry Hotch was in a meeting."
"That's okay Matt. You ready to go?"
"Yeah you wanna brief on the jet, save time?"
"Yeah it's less than an hour flight but we'll have time to brief everyone."
"Let's go. I've already called the pilots. They'll be ready to take off when we get to the jet."
Everyone hurried out of the BAU, waiting for Garcia to grab her go bag from her computer den and then they hurried out and headed to the airstrip. Waiting for them by the jet steps was J.J's husband Will, a MDPD detective, holding a go bag.
"Thanks for joining us Will. We could use your detective skills. We'll brief everyone on the jet."
"No problem Hotch, Thanks for letting Henry stay with Jess. I packed a bag and dropped it by her house. Luckily she was home."
"No problem Will. Jess is happy to take care of Henry for you guys til we get back. He'll be fine. He's slept over there so many times anyway. She'll get word to Henry that he's going home with Jack and her after school."
They all hurried on board the jet and settled in the seats and Hotch went to talk to the jet pilots to tell them they were ready to take off. As soon as the jet had taken off, they all gathered around the table and 4 seats.
"A week ago, Mr Max Johnson and his wife Tina were attacked in their home. Max was tortured and sodomised with an unknown object. He was then tied up and made to watch as the unsub raped his wife Tina. Evidence proves this as the husband was still alive and tied to a chair looking at the bed. After raping the wife, the unsub sodomised her with the same object he'd used on the husband. It seems he'll use something in the home. Then, with the wife bound and naked on the bed, he stabbed Max repeatedly until Max died. Then he stabbed Tina to death. As an after kill he slashed her throat. Then he took a shower, cleaned up the bathroom, leaving no fingerprints or any trace. He takes spare clothes with him and takes his bloody clothes away with him. He redressed, waited for the kids to come home from school, threatened them with a knife and made them get in his car and he drove them and dropped them outside the CPS building. He repeated this 2 days later on a Mr Tom Anderson and his wife Julie. 2 days later he repeated it on a Mr Ben Nichols and his wife Ann. Yesterday he repeated it on a Mr Joe Simpson and his wife Holly. All the victims were foster parents and he assaulted and killed the parents not long before the kids got home. Why both parents were at home at the time we don't know. There are reports that the mom was home and he got her to call the foster dad to come home citing a problem with one of their foster kids. The foster father's bosses confirm this. But it was the wife who called her husband. He did the same to each set of foster parents. And always dropped the kids outside the CPS building. The kids never saw his face and he didn't leave any fingerprints or DNA. He used a condom and seems to take that with him. He cleans the bathroom well and leaves no trace but he leaves a bloody mess in the bedroom. He seems to take clean clothes with him to clean himself up with and takes any bloody clothes he wears away. He's always wearing a balaclava mask whenever any kid sees him. NYPD have interviewed the kids many times but they all have the same story and no one can identify him. The buildings have no cameras or doormen but how he gains access to every apartment isn't known."