"Thanks for coming." When they arrived at the local police station the BAU team was immediately greeted by a middle-aged Hispanic man dressed in dark trousers and a rumpled white dress shirt.
"Sorry about the heat," he continued. "I'm Detective Hernandez and I'm in charge of this case." He held out his hand to shake.
"SSA Aaron Hotchner," Hotch replied, shaking hands. "I believe we spoke on the phone. And, this is my team, Agents Rossi, Morgan, Blake, and Jareau. And, Dr. Reid."
"You travel with a doctor?" the detective questioned.
"I'm not that kind of a doctor," Reid quickly explained. "PhD's – three of them actually. Plus several undergraduate degrees."
"And I thought Sergeant Davis was doing good by attending law school at night," Detective Hernandez shook his head.
"You have a place for us to set up?" JJ questioned.
"Of course," Detective Barnes replied. "If you will come with me? We set up a conference room with a couple of evidence boards and copies of all the information we have on this case."
"You'll stay with us and help us review the information?" Hotch asked the detectives as they walked down the hallway. "We didn't get much of a chance to go over it on the plane and I'd like to hear your opinions."
"My opinion?" Detective Hernandez repeated. "My opinion is that we have a sick %$^&* out there and we can use all the help we can get to catch the bastard."
"Three unidentified dead women, all found approximately six week apart, floating in different bayous throughout the city," Detective Barnes said as they walked into the conference room. "And, we can't even begin to guess where each of them went into the water."
"You have a map of the city which includes all the bayous?" Reid asked as he put his messenger bag on the conference table and then headed to the evidence boards.
"Right there," Detective Barnes pointed at one of the boards. "And, I've already marked where each of the bodies was found."
"That should give me enough information to begin working on a geographic profile." Reid began intently studying the map.
"And, these files contain what little we could determine about each of the woman," Detective Hernandez pointed at a stack on the conference room table. "Hopefully you can find more in there than we did."
"I assume the bodies are still at the morgue?" Hotch asked.
"Yeah. If you want to see them I can call over and let them know you are coming," Detective Hernandez volunteered. "I would offer to have one of my guys drive you over, but I strongly suspect your vehicles have better A/C than ours."
"Not a problem," Hotch assured him. "Morgan, why don't you and Blake take a drive? See what the coroner can tell you."
"Rossi, you and I will go to where the last body was recovered," he continued. "There may be something there. And, JJ and Reid, you can start reviewing the files. Maybe you can find something in them that will help us catch this guy."
