Chapter 6
About forty minutes later, Booth and Brennan walked through the Jeffersonian Lab doors. Immediately, they swiped in and walked up to the rest of team on the platform.
"Finally." Hodgins gave both of them looks. Booth ignored the comment and said,
"Good thing, I stopped by her place. She had fallen asleep at her laptop."
"What's your excuse?" Angela asked. Her eyes carefully watched her best friend and the G-man's expressions.
"Not that it's any of your business but I had a late night with a beautiful woman." Booth answered without giving anything away. Angela wanted to press him some more but Brennan didn't let her.
"All right, where are we?" The good doctor asked.
"I was able to discover what tool was used on our unidentified woman but as Agent Booth pointed out yesterday we still need a suspect." Zach said.
"I've been working on the faces of the other unidentified women. I only have one left." Angela informed them.
"The soil samples match the specific areas where the bodies were found. There was no cross contamination of other soil." Jack said.
"Well let's just focus on the case we have at the moment. The body was found in a partially decomposed state. Obvious, cigarette burns and ligature marks were found on the body, which was also missing its teeth. The body was buried somewhat haphazardly near a building due for demolition." At this, Brennan stopped.
"Why would the murderer want the body found?" She wondered.
"This person has been toying with the police and the FBI for the past fifteen years. He's good and he knows it." Booth said. Brennan cocked her head to one side and quickly grabbed the files sitting on the table. She scanned through them and came to a realization.
"All seven bodies had signs of obvious torture. They also were buried near buildings that were scheduled to be demolished. Either the women have something in connection or the buildings do." Brennan said.
"Yes. What do they have in common?" Booth asked.
"According to the files, all the women were aged between thirty and forty years old." Angela said.
"All the bodies had arms that were broken by twisting along with the torture signs." Zach offered.
"That already tells us two things about our mystery suspect." Brennan said.
"He likes older women and torture. How does that help?" Booth asked.
"I have a feeling that possibly our suspect may have had been abused by an older woman, possibly his mother or maybe his mother was the one being abused." Temperance told them.
"I think the next course of action is to analyze the buildings. Angela, I need you to enter the buildings see of their locations create some sort of pattern or if they are all within a certain radius." The good doctor ordered.
"Like we did the underground tunnels?" Angela asked.
"Yes. Zach, by now the six other bodies were cremated. I need you to find any X-rays or pictures of the skeleton and see if you can match the weapon impressions on them. It may be the only way to link the murderer to the bodies." Brennan said.
"I'll look into the demolition crew and see if there is anyone with a record. That will hopefully shrink our field of suspects." Booth said.
"What am I supposed to do?" Hodgins asked.
"Work with Angela. Maybe the soil can lead us somewhere or maybe your knowledge of architecture. In the meantime, I'll go with Booth." Brennan said.
To Be Continued…