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Chapter One: Familiar

"Looks like we got a request coming in here, hello, who –"

"Please, help me." The girl's voice was frail and dripping fear. It quivered with each syllable and remained soft, as a strained whisper.

"Who is this?"

"My name is Laurie - Laurie Bridges. I was kidnapped. Please, you have to help me."

"Laurie, where are you?"

"I don't know – I don't know where I am. No windows. No light. Nothing – I'm nothing – please, help – He - he just killed somebody, please."

"Who's 'he'?"

"He – he hurts me, punishes me. He does things to me – made me –" Laurie cut herself off, caught up in her own words and emotions. "He makes me –" She paused again, a gunshot sounding in the distance. The girl let out a gasp and continued. "They're dead – they're dead. He's coming. Please, help me."

JJ clicked a button to stop the recording, returned the screen to the previous photograph of a young girl, and turned to face her fellow team members.

"The call was made Friday afternoon around 6:32 p.m." She began.

"And Laurie Bridges went missing in August of 2009?" Emily questioned.

"Correct." JJ confirmed. "Just about one year ago."

"A year," Reid observed, "definitely breaks the typical mold. 90% of all those abducted don't survive past the first 36 hours."

"When she first disappeared," JJ continued, "the local police said she was a runaway. She did have a record of petty theft and truancy. She was suspended for two weeks before she was transferred to a private school in a different part of town."

"In Dinsdale, Virginia," Morgan shook his head in disbelief. "She disappeared less than half a state away from here."

"Laurie Bridges," Reid sighed, "why does that name sound so familiar?"

"Probably because you've heard it before," JJ revealed. "A few months after Laurie changed schools, it appeared she began to turn her life around. She didn't cut class, she started going to a local church even. She had just started really getting involved with the church when she disappeared. The members weren't too happy when the police wouldn't even investigate the disappearance because of her past record. A lot of the locals didn't believe she had changed."

"What about her parents in all of this?" Morgan questioned.

"Laurie's parents died in a car crash when she was just an infant." JJ pulled a new photograph on the screen illustrating the obituary of two married adults. "She's lived in several different cities, in various orphanages and foster homes since then. Her foster parents were the ones that made the switch to the private school." Again, JJ altered the screen to portray a new set of parents. "They too weren't convinced of Laurie's new ways and accepted the theory of her running away. This is probably where you've heard the name before. The missing person's report wasn't even filed by them until the youth pastor at Laurie's church paid them a visit and claimed that he would do it himself. The church contacted all sorts of media in response to this. They insisted that something must be done and they also not only challenged the police, but also the foster parents. The church members claimed that the foster parents merely switched the schools in hopes that their name would no longer be embarrassed in the community. The whole thing made some pretty big headlines, but no one came forward with any evidence or information –"

"Until now." Hotch declared.

"I'd say a direct plea of help from the victim is some pretty serious evidence." Emily noted.

"The call was made from a cell phone with a number owned by seventeen year old Shawn Summers. He was last seen with his girlfriend, Abby Decker heading out of Dinsdale. These two are also missing. Apparently there was an altercation between Shawn Summers and his father, Hank Summers about the girlfriend and ended with Shawn stealing his father's truck. Not long after that, Shawn and Abby were seen together robbing a gas station on their way out of town. This is the surveillance video of them. Less than an hour later, Laurie Bridges made her phone call."

"So we know she's being held somewhere close to home." Hotch observed.

"Has there been any more activity on that phone?" Emily wondered.

"Not since that call."

"How about any reports of gunshots during the time of the phone call?" Rossi suggested.

"None," JJ replied.

"The call has created quite a stir already." JJ explained. "The local police's official response to the press is that due to the closeness in proximity to the one year anniversary of Laurie's alleged disappearance, the call was either some sort of cruel joke or staged performance to get them involved."

"Which is quite possible," Hotch stated, "but it shouldn't simply be ignored."

"With all the attention this case is getting from the media, the Bureau wants this resolved as quickly as possible." JJ advised.

"So, why now? Why a radio station? Why wouldn't she call 911?" Morgan brought up.

"Maybe this was the first time she could gain access to a telephone." JJ suggested.

"She could have just panicked," Prentiss added, "dialed a set of indiscriminate numbers –"

"– or a number that she routinely had dialed and simply called it out of habit, not even thinking about what she was doing. The man on the radio almost sounds as if he knows her." Reid offered.

"Where was she last seen?" Rossi questioned.

"Laurie Bridges was last seen walking home from school. According to the missing person report, her foster mother was supposed to pick her up from soccer practice, but got a flat tire." JJ said, pulling a picture of the school onto the screen.

"Alright," Hotch spoke up, "let's get moving. Who knows what people are doing in response to this."