About 30 minutes later they all walk into the round table room to see Rossi already standing there, he said, "sorry I had to call you but this case was given to us by Erin and she wanted us on this one ASAP". Hotch said, "what kind of case is it"?, Dave said, "we have an unsub that is kidnapping children and keeping them for 6 days and then authorities are finding their bodies in the desert".
Reid said, "how many kids have been taken"?, Rossi said, "3 over the past 3 weeks", Emily says, "looking at the crime pictures they look like they were all well taken care of, no signs of abuse". Hotch said, "alright team, wheels up in 30", he then turns and walks toward Emily and says, "it looks like this one is going to be a bad one".
Emily sighed as she looked down at the pictures and said, "all of the kids seem to be well dressed and very clean", Reid said, "maybe the unsub has suffered a breakdown because of the loss of a child". Hotch looked at Penelope and said, "I need you to do background checks on the famalies of the victims and see if they have anything in common.
Penelope nodded her head and said, "do you want me to start now or when we get on the jet"?, he said, "just wait till we get on the jet, we are gonna have a 3 to 4 hour flight to Nevada so that should be enough time to get started on a back ground check". Derek leaned and kissed her lips and then said, "I love you baby girl", she winked at him and said, "I love you to hotstuff", they intertwined their fingers as they headed towards the elevators.
About 45 minutes later they were on the plane talking about the case when Penelope said, "sir there has just been another child reported missing in the same town". Hotch said, "Penelope what was the sex of all of the children that were taken"?, her fingers flew across the keyboard and said, "they were all girls bossman".
Reid said, "the unsub is staying to a very precise pattern, so far he or she is only taking girls, maybe their stressor was the loss of a daughter and they are trying to deal by taking children around the same age as theirs". Hotch said, "alright when we land Reid, you and JJ head to the dump site of the last victim and Derek, you and Rossi head to the morgue and talk with the ME and see what you can find and Emily and I will go to the home of the latest victim and see what we can find out".
Penelope continued working on the background checks on the famalies and she couldn't find anything that the famalies in common and then suddenly her computer pinged and she said, "sir the only thing the famalies have in common is that they attend the same church, other than that nothing in there lives are even the slightest simaliar".
He sighed and said, "do we know where the children were taken from Garcia"?, she looked at him and said, "yes sir, they were all taken while walking from the bus stop". Hotch said, "Garcia check and see how many other girls there are at the church that are the same age as the victims and I also want to see if you can pull up survelience tapes of when and where the children were taken".
Penelope smiled and said, "on it bossman", Penelope worked feverishly to pull up the information and the videos of when the children were taken, when she was finished she said, "sir there is 2 more girls that age and I am sending the survelience videos to your phones". Everybody watched as they saw a young woman approximately 25-30 years of age getting out of her car and taking each of the children.
Reid froze the picture on the back of the truck and said, "Garcia can you enlarge the liscense plate on the back of the truck and see if you can locate it"?, she smiled and said, "I'm on it Reid". Emily said, "well she has had the latest victim for a couple of hours, now we just have to wait and hope that Penelope can locate the truck".
Penelope ran the liscense and said, "the last time the truck was spotted it was on Logan Street, that is right out in front of the place where the last girl was taken". Rossi said, "about how long ago was that"?, she looked at the time stamp on the video and said, "about 4 hours ago", as the team watched the video of her taking the last little girl Reid says, "the little girl knows her, do you see how she isn't fighting, she knows her abductor".
Derek looked at Reid and said, "I believe your right Pretty Boy", he looked at Penelope and said, "is there anyway that you can see if the owner of this truck lives anywhere in the vicinity or possibly get a name or address on her"?, Penelope grinned and said, "I will see what I can do for you handsome",
he winked at her as she started working on her computer again.
Rossi walks to the end of the jet and pulls out his cell and a few minutes later Emily looks back and sees the huge smile on his face and says, "he must be talking to Strauss". Hotch kissed her lips gently and said, "it is nice to see him happy again after all of this time", she grinned and said, "that it is Aaron, that it is".
Penelope looked up and said, "the last known address was 243 Birch Street but the police were already there and the house is empty", Reid said, "maybe she has a place somewhere else or somewhere that she feels safe in". Penelopes fingers were working their magic and it didn't take long before she said, "I have found something".