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"I ran the name Pamela Wright, her DMV photo is from ten years ago, but there's no doubt that she is your sixth victim. I thought about what you said about how the sixth victim could have been personal for the UNSUB, so I looked into her husband, and that's when things began to get interesting. At first glance, Edgar Wright seems like your average joe," Garcia's voice emanated from the speaker in the middle of the conference table.

"They always do," Rossi said.

JJ, Reid, Rossi, Hotch and Prentiss sat around the large table listening intently. Morgan and Roberts were interviewing Sheila Grant, and Roust had mumbled something about having to make a call, hurrying out of the station. He hadn't come back in after his confrontation with Derek.

"No, I'm serious," Garcia continued, "No arrest record, a hella nice house, and credit history I'm not ashamed to admit I wish I had. He works for a huge biotech company based in Seattle. Think lots of money and little work."

"But?" Hotch prompted her.

"Sir, you always seem to know when there's a but, don't you?. Upon closer inspection, things are not looking kosher. In the past three years the police have been called to their house five times, although no one was ever arrested. And when I say their house, I mean his house. Everything is in his name: house, car, bank accounts, everything."

"What about Pamela?"

"There isn't much on her. She doesn't have a credit card or cell phone, so there's nothing to track her on. She had her last job at 22, and then she seems to drop off the radar."

"This is classic domestic abuse," Emily said.

"Wright has been keeping his wife isolated ever since their marriage. He's also keeping her submissive economically, which would make it hard for her to leave him if. Without connections outside of the house or money, it's almost impossible to get away from this sort of relationship," Reid spoke quickly.

"But she did," Rossi said, "what changed six weeks ago?"

"Elizabeth mentioned that her mom found out what he was doing to her. She didn't go into details, but that must have been what caused Pamela to run," Emily said.

"So if Wright is our UNSUB, this must have been the trigger," JJ added.

"When did Pamela leave him?" Hotch looked at Emily.

She shook her head, "Elizabeth couldn't remember."

"Garcia?"

"Give me a second," they could hear her tapping on the keyboard, "I will find something... Elizabeth stopped showing up to school on January 20th, so a little over two months ago."

"Elizabeth said that her dad found them after they'd been on the street about a week. That's when Elle helped them," Emily said, "that must have been the trigger. He gets beat up by a woman and fails to get his wife and children back."

"So even if Wright doesn't know Elle is with the police, she's the one who kept him from getting what he wanted," Hotch's voice was stiff.

XXX

"You could be charged with child endangerment." Derek slammed his hands on the table in the conference room and leaned over Sheila Grant.

She didn't look put together as she had the first time they had met. Her hair was limp and her lips dry. She looked scared.

"Look, I just did what Elle asked me to do." She looked to her right, away from Derek and Yanik.

"And what was that?"

Sheila sighed, "Elle came to me a little over six weeks ago. I recognized her, as you probably already know, we had some overlapping cases when I was a public defender. I was surprised when she asked me to take a pro bono case."

"You don't strike me as the pro bono type."

"I'm not. It was a custody case, and I wasn't going to take it. But then she brought me to the hotel to meet Pamela and her daughters," Sheila swallowed, "when a husband is as powerful as he is... let's just say the courts aren't a perfect system. It's not only money that changes hands; businesses can have a huge impact in judicial elections."

"So what were you doing?"

"I had to build an air-tight case. There needed to be evidence, and lots of it, too much to be swept under the rug. I had investigators looking into the prior police calls, but the most important was going to be Elizabeth, and she wouldn't talk."

Derek finally sat down in a chair across the table from Ms. Grant. Yanik was in the chair next to him, he was watching Sheila closely, but hadn't said a word since the interview started.

"What do you know about Elle's disappearance?"

"She came to my office the night she disappeared. She was scared. Told me that if she wasn't back in three days, to call Yanik Roberts." Sheila made eye contact with Yanik, "she said something had happened to Pamela and she had to find out exactly what was going on before she could tell anyone."

"If she knew Wright was the UNSUB, why didn't she tell someone instead of going off by herself?" Derek pressed.

Sheila began to pick at her nicely manicured nails. Her eyes shot rapidly between Derek and Yanik. "Is anyone else here?" She gestured toward the one way mirror.

"No," Yanik spoke for the first time.

She bit her lip and lowered her voice, "Elle didn't know who to trust. She thought there might be someone helping Wright on the inside."

Morgan glanced at Yanik and then back to Sheila, "If you're making this up..." he warned.

"Why did it take six weeks and seven bodies for you guys to get anywhere?"

Derek took a deep breath, "did she give you any clue as to who she thought might be helping him?"

Sheila shook her head, "all I know is the only person she trusted was you," she looked to Yanik.

Derek and Yanik packed up their stuff. As they were heading out the door, Yanik turned and spoke to Sheila, "do you know why Elle had parenting books?"

"She was trying to help Pamela. She hadn't been a real mother to those girls in a long time."