It was evident to JJ and the rest of the BAU that both Rachel and Rebecca had serious self-esteem issues after they had talked to them separately. This was how Hannah was able to control them. She was also able to control Reid to a certain degree because she understood human nature more than he did. She knew their weaknesses and used it to her full advantage. But she was never able to totally control Louise.
Louise had told them that Hannah had influenced Reid to have more than one wife as a social experiment to see what would happen. Of the four wives he had, Rachel was the one that he really loved the most. She had been mistreated by people, laughed at, made fun of, like he was. Reid never told Hannah this but wrote it in his book which Louise found shortly before leaving the farm. He led Hannah to believe that she was his favorite just to keep peace within the family unit. She told the FBI agent this but didn't tell him about the journal. The FBI agent believed Louise learned this through conversations with Reid.
The women were basically free to leave. Officials in the three states and Washington D.C. decided not to file any charges against the women.
After Louise had thrown the spiral notebook into the ocean, she had watched it disappear underneath the waves. A short time later a shark nearby thinking that it was food tore it to pieces. The next day the spiral notebook washed ashore in Ponce Inlet in tiny pieces. Hundreds of pieces of wet papers were scattered, littering the beach. Part of the front binder was still intact but looks like something had bitten into it.
A man who walked the beach everyday and who helped cleaned up the beach was disgusted by what he saw. Litterbugs, he thought to himself. He picked up the tiny pieces of papers. He couldn't read what had been written on them. He spent the whole day with two other people cleaning up the mess. This was reported in the local newspaper.
Hotchner was closing out the case. One thing that bothered him was not being able to find a journal of Reid documenting his experiment. He knew it existed. For a long time he thought Hannah had it in her possession but after her death, it could not be found.
Rachel and Rebecca had no knowledge of it. He believed that possibly Louise had possession of it but then destroyed it at some point. Mostly likely to protect herself or the others from prosecution. Hotchner believed Louise knew a lot more than she was telling.
Louise said she didn't have the document and believed Hannah had it. She didn't tell the authorities that she had tossed the document while on a casino cruise over a year ago. She had read the newspaper article and saw the picture of the litter on Ponce Inlet. She knew that the document was in tiny pieces in a landfill somewhere. Since the writing on the paper had been destroyed by being in the water for 24 hours, Louise knew that no one could read what was on those tiny pieces of paper.
After Spencer died, his father William Reid came forward and tried to get visitation. Hannah would have none of it. After Hannah died, he was granted custody of the two boys. The other 2 went to live with a distant cousin. Of the four children, only two of them were geniuses, the older two boys. William Reid had no idea what to do with his son but this time he was determined not to make the same mistakes with his grandsons that he did 30 years ago. Both of Louise's children were geniuses and none of Rachel or Rebecca's children were geniuses, although they were of high intelligence.
End of Story.