Spencer, Derek and the two Hotchners sat at the tables in the Madison police department going over notes on the different aspects of the case, trying to build a solid profile. One of there biggest clues to finding him was the fact that he chose parks to both abduct and dispose of his victims. However, that quickly lead nowhere as Madison had over 30 parks of varying sizes. That put the team in the position of, as Penelope put it, "Finding a psychotic needle in a big freakin' hay stack." So there best tool was the profile.
Having finally identified the third victim as Tori Simmons, Dave and Emily were now out talking to the family. They weren't sure how much more information they would get, but it was worth the shot. If the unsub stuck to his timeline, he would be dumping Trisha Fitzpatrick's body tomorrow night and picking up a new victim the next day.
While they were trying to put the finishing touches on the profile, JJ was off contacting media personnel. Once the profile was ready, it would need to be presented not only to the police, but to the public as well. If they couldn't catch the unsub in time, every woman in the area who fit the his type would be at risk. They would need to dry up his victim pool to ensure safety.
Amy was staring at the evidence boards. Something was bugging her, but she couldn't figure out what it was.
"What's wrong?" Aaron asked, noticing her confused look.
"I don't know," she replied. She went over to the boards, as if looking closer at them would make it jump out at her. "Something about the whole park thing is bothering me."
"What do you mean?" Derek asked. "We've pretty much decided that the parks are his comfort zone. Easy access to victims and enough cover to dump a body. The only thing we haven't figured out is how he picks them."
"It's not the fact that he uses parks that's bothering me. It's something else. I'm just not sure what," she said, grabbing a marker and going to the empty dry erase board.
Curious about what she was thinking, the others looked on. Spencer stood up behind her as she drew a table with rows for each of the victims. Then she separated two columns for the parks where each victim was abducted and then disposed. She had to skip where Tori Simmons was taken from, as they didn't know that yet. But she was hoping she would get something from this.
"Do you see anything?" Amy asked, as she wrote down the information for the last victim.
"Yea, I do," Spencer replied.
Derek and Aaron exchanged a look, not seeing what was so significant.
"Mind clueing us in on what it is you see?" Derek asked.
"The places he picks to dispose of his victims are in the parks that the previous victim was abducted from," Spencer explained.
"Of course," Amy said, finally seeing it too. She knew there was a reason the park thing was bugging her, the same name of the parks kept popping up. "Abby turner was abducted at Acewood park, Lisa Hart was found in Acewood park and taken from Burrows park," she added, moving down the list and pointing to the different sections of the board. "Tori Simmons was found in Burrows park, Beth Duggar in midland park. Marie Edwards was found in Garner park, the same place Beth Duggar went missing."
"I'm betting that if we don't find her in time," Spencer said, "Trisha Fitspatrick will show up in Sunset park, where Marie Edwards was abducted."
Aaron got his cell phone out and dialed a number, putting the phone on speaker. "Assuming you are right, that would mean Tori was taken from Midland park."
Instead of someone answering the phone on the other end, Rossi walked in holding it up, "You rang."
"Rossi, were you guys able to figure out where Tori Simmons went missing?" Spencer asked.
"Tori's family said that as a writer she often went to midland park to write," Rossi said, taking a seat at the table. "But they would often go days with out hearing from her, so they didn't even know she was missing at first."
"That's pretty much the only useful information we got," Emily said.
"That's actually very useful," Amy said, adding Midland park in the section for Tori Simmons abduction.
"Why's that?" Emily asked. She was looking at the board and trying to figure out what Amy was working on.
"Because Spencer and Amy have figured out how he is choosing where to dispose of the bodies," Derek said.
"He's dumping them in the same park where he abducted his previous victim. Thanks to you guys, we know the pattern fits," Amy said, explaining the table on the board. "We still don't know how he picks the park to abduct his victims though."
"Still, this is a start," Rossi said. "How did you manage to figure it out?"
"There was something about the parks that was bothering me," she explained. "I couldn't figure it out so I separated that information from the rest of it."
"Spencer pointed to the board," and this is what popped out."
"Spencer is actually the one who noticed it," Amy said, giving the credit to him."
"Which he wouldn't have been able to do had you not felt the parks needed another look," Aaron said.
"So now that we know that, what do we do with it?" Emily asked.
"Call Garcia," Derek said, placing his phone down on the table. It was on speaker and ringing.
"You have reached Quantico's own CyberVixen," Penelope's voice answered. "Who wants to play?"
"Hey baby girl," Derek responded. "Can you get us a map of Midland park?"
"Is that even a question handsome?" Penelope retorted. "Check your screen."
Naturally Penelope had already found and loaded a map of the park onto their computer screen. Even with it narrowed to one park, it was still a lot of ground to cover.
"What's the map for?" Penelope asked.
"We have figured out that this is where he is going to dump the next body," Spencer responded.
"Oh yeah. glad I could help with that," Penelope said in a creeped out tone.
"Garcia can you highlight certain areas of the map for us?" Aaron asked.
"Of course sir, just give me some parameters to work with," she said.
"Start with areas that have a lot of cover," Aaron said.
"Densely wooded or with some type of fencing blocking the view," Rossi added.
"Okay, that's a start," she said, getting to work. "Give me more."
"Narrow it to places close to drive up access," Spencer said. "Back roads and pull offs. This guy is going to do everything he can to not be seen."
Garcia added those into the grid. "We have 3 separate wooded areas that fit."
"That's still a lot of area," Emily said. "If we are going to be reduced to waiting for him to dump Trisha we need to scout the areas in advance."
"Agreed," Aaron said. "Thanks Garcia.
"My pleasure entirely," she said before hanging up.
The door opened and JJ walked in. "Hey guys, I have everyone gathered for the profile."
"Alright," Aaron said. "We'll deliver the profile first. Let them know what to look for before it comes down to finding Trisha. Then we'll break into team and scout put Midland park."
"Scout Midland park?" JJ asked.
"We'll explain during the profile," Aaron said as the team walked out to the conference room.