Everyone piled into the conference room and they went through everything everyone knew. Mac, Hotch and Flack taking the lead together on the briefing.
"This guy clearly knows what he's doing. He leaves no fingerprints or DNA." Morgan glanced at the file.
"We can assume he wear gloves and he cleans and wipes down everything with bleach in the bathroom. Luminol lit up everything so we can be sure he used bleach as it reacts to that so violently."
"And we're sure he attacked the husband first?"
"Yeah autopsy's show the same thing. There was evidence of blood and faecal matter from the husband inside the wife's anal cavity. But none of the wife's blood or faecal matter inside the husband so we can assume he used the object on the husband first. But he was more violent when sodomising the husband and penetrated him multiple times with the object. It was so violent that, as the husband was forced to sit tied watching the unsub rape his wife, he didn't have any control of his bowels and there's clear evidence on each husband that he was sodomised so violently, his bowels emptied as he was forced to watch the unsub assault and rape his wife."
"Ergh nasty!"
"Sorry Garcia."
"Do I have to look at these nasty pictures boss?" Everyone on the BAU team knew Garcia hated having to look at crime scene photos.
"Only for a minute Garcia. I promise."
"He also cut off the guys genitals after sodomising him. Evidence proves the injury occurred whilst the guy was still alive."
All the men cringed in horror.
"He cut his stuff off whilst the husband was still alive?"
"Yeah autopsy's prove it. He left the genitals lying on the ground but he seems to use the same knife."
"After attacking the husband, the unsub makes him watch as he goes for the wife, who's tied up and bound naked on the bed. He slashes her breasts, violently, he cuts off her nipples, whilst she's still alive, he violently rapes her, but uses a condom and takes that with him as we never find a condom in any of the crime scenes. Either that or he flushes it down the toilet but he uses bleach on even the toilet flush handle so we can't tell. He then sodomises the wife violently with the same object he used on the husband. It appears to be something in the house but he takes it with him when he leaves. He's as violent on the wife."
"Like the husband loses control and his bowels empty on the chair, the wife loses control and her bowels empty on the bed."
"He then uses the knife and penetrates the wife in the vagina, with the knife, causing multiple injuries and bleeding internally. Then, always using the same knife, with the wife severely injured and bleeding on the bed, but still alive and having to watch, he goes back to the husband, stabs him repeatedly in the abdomen, the arms, the legs, but always leaving the guy still alive."
"We've found dozens of stab wounds, all the same knife, on everywhere but the chest area. He keeps the guy alive, but bleeding out."
"Then, as evidence and autopsy's prove, he stands behind the husband and slits his throat, killing him. Then he goes back to the wife. He stabs her multiple times everywhere but the chest. He'll stab her repeatedly in her breasts but never going too deep, like he knows how far to go with the knife. He'll really stab her a lot in the lower abdomen around her uterus area, but he leaves her alive whilst he does. Finally, he stabs her repeatedly in the chest, killing her. Then, as after kill, and, due to no blood loss in her throat, so we know her heart wasn't beating when he did this, he slashes her throat, but she's already dead. Then he seems to use the bathroom and even take a shower to clean up. He'll take his time and he takes spare clothes to change into. He takes his bloody clothes and the object and the knife with him. He brings and takes bleach and cleaning supplies. He'll clean the bathroom so well with bleach and wipe down every inch of the bathroom, taps, handles, even the door and door handle, leaving nothing, no fingerprints or DNA, just traces of bleach. Then he'll pack up and wait for the foster kids to come home from school."
"We've talked to the kids and their stories are the same. They'll come home from school to find this guy in a balaclava mask waiting for them with a knife. He'll terrify them and scare them half to death. Using the knife, he'll hold it at each of their throats to threaten them and make them follow him to the car of the foster dad. He'll take the foster dad's car, drop off the kids outside the CPS building and drive to another location. He'll wipe down the whole car, leaving no fingerprints or DNA again, and disappear. No one ever sees him and, according to evidence and to the witness statements of the kids, it's one guy and it is a guy, not a woman, That much the kids can tell us but apart from height, which they say is roughly mine and Mac's height, they can't tell anymore. He has a rough deep voice but no discernable accent so we don't know where's he from or if he's from New York or anywhere else. The kids are terrified and can only tell us so much."
"Does he have his car nearby then?"
"We don't know if he does or if he walks. No one see's him. He abandon's the foster dad's car in a alleyway, but always a different location and no one ever sees him leave the car and walk away. We know he walks somewhere cos there's no evidence of a secondary vehicle that might have been parked or driven away."
"Do we know why he's targeting foster parents?"
"Nope we can't figure it out. That's why we called you guys in Agent Morgan."
"Call me Morgan. Easier."
"Do we know how he's gaining access?"
"Not yet Agent Cruz. Seems at the moment, the mom lets him in. We don't know if he pretends to be a social worker with CPS or anything."
"Call me Matt, everyone does."
"Sure Matt. We do know he makes the wife call the husband at work and gets him to come home, citing a problem with a foster kid they've got but that's all. The bosses at the places the husbands work at, all different places, say the same thing. The husband gets a call from his wife and has to leave immediately citing a problem with a foster kid they've got in their home. That's the last time anyone speaks to the husband and the last time he's seen alive. All the crime scene apartments are in buildings without door men and without cameras so he's never seen coming or going and no one sees the foster dad arrive home. All the foster dad's have blue collar jobs. One was an insurance salesman, another worked at a local coffee shop near to where they lived, another worked at a burger joint and another worked at a factory."
"Do we know how he's choosing his victims or how he knows their foster parents?"
"No not so far, J.J isn't it?"
"Yeah call me J.J everyone does."
"So you guys are married Will?"
"Yeah like you are. Can I call you Danny or would you prefer Messer?"
"Call me Danny. You got kids?"
"One a boy, Henry, he's 6. Hotch here has got a boy too. Jack, he's 10 but he's Henry's best mate."
"You got a kid too Hotch?"
"Yeah, Jack, he's great. He's with my sister in law. She takes care of him for me when I'm working."
"Where's his mom?"
"Dead. She was killed by a serial killer when Jack was almost 5. Been a single dad to Jack since then."
"I'm sorry to hear about your wife Hotch. So where's Henry Will if both you guys are here?"
"He's staying at Hotch's sister in law's house with Jack. He'll be fine. You got a kid Danny?"
"Yeah, a beautiful girl, Lucy, she's 6 and she's in first grade and at school at the minute."
"Er guys can we get back on the case please?"
"Sure, oh and guys you do know Hotch's younger brother Sean works at the Plaza Hotel as head bar man and thanks to Mac and Flack we're staying thereā¦"
"Really Hotch, your younger brother works there?"
"Yeah I'll call him later but for now can we get our heads back on this case? If we're lucky we got today that he won't kill. He might go after another set of foster parents tomorrow if he keeps to the pattern. He seems to kill every other day but we don't know why he suddenly started killing just last week. Garcia I'll need you to track any possible related cases in other states, find anything you can."
"Sure thing boss man. I take it I'm working with you Adam?"
"Yeah, heard a few great things about you. I'm working with Garcia am I Mac?"
"Yeah if that's okay with you Adam?"
"Sure thing. You'll love the computer lab."
"Er boss before we head out anywhere can we just use the bathrooms? We did leave in a hurry and the flight was pretty short. Spent all the time briefing."
"Sure Morgan, we'll all go by the bathrooms on the way out. Mac mind if I take the lead for a bit?"
"Sure we're not getting anywhere on our own. You go ahead Hotch. You got the lead here. Though aren't you the boss Matt?"
"Yeah but I let Hotch take the lead on every case I join the team on. He's the best leader and he takes the lead on the case and leads the team. I just have everyone's back and I can enjoy just being a field agent."
"Oh right."
"Mac you and I can go to the first crime scene, the Johnson's, Matt, you and Stella go to the Anderson crime scene. Morgan, you and Will go with Danny and Dr Hawkes to the Nichols crime scene, J.J you go with Lindsay and Flack to the latest crime scene, the Simpson crime scene. Spencer, Alex, you guys head to the morgue with Dr Hammerback."
"Call me Sid, everyone does Hotch."
"Sure you guys go with Sid."
"Call me Hawkes guys."
"Sure Hawkes. You and Danny take Morgan to the Nichols crime scene. Garcia you go and start getting set up with Adam in the computer lab and start doing your magic. We'll be in touch if we find anything . Okay guys? Let's get going. Find out anything you can and we'll meet back here later. But let's catch this guy."
