I'm back-blame school/work/soccer
New case for this one!
Guys I wasn't kidding when I asked for case suggestions at the end of Back to Atlanta, if you have any ideas, please tell me!
"Hey guys" as Emily walked into the BAU after her visit with her father. The team was about to head to the conference
"We got a new case" said Morgan.
"Already? Where are we headed?" asked Emily as they all sat down at the round table.
"Point Reyes National Seashore. Mass grave of 12 female bodies, all in their 20's or 30's, preliminary M.E reports suggest that they had all gone through prolonged sexual abuse. The grave was shallow and decomposition of the bodies suggests that they have been dead for about a week." Said Garcia.
"So what are we thinking? Gang bangers?" asked Morgan.
"How were they killed?" asked Hotch.
"Strangled, all 12 of them." Said Garcia
"Did the killer use a belt or other weapon?" asked Rossi.
"Nope, finger marks suggest that they creep used his bare hands for every murder." Said Garcia.
"Literally squeezing the life out of these girls, its personal, a betrayal of some sort.
"Could be a human trafficking ring, abduct them when they're young, kill them when they get too tired or old for clients tastes." Said Emily.
"Or too rebellious to do what they were kidnapped to do" said Rossi.
"What were the victims' nationalities?" asked JJ.
"Mainly from the Ukraine and Nigeria, some were Russian as well. No missing persons filed that match their descriptions and none were in the system so we have no I.D's." said Garcia.
"The average age of a human trafficking victim is 14, with more than 27 million victims around the world, victims are lured under false pretenses of a better life or some cases have shown that desperate families have sold their children into the trade for money so that they can pay for food." Said Reid.
"Abducted at around 14, killed at around 20 or 30 after suffering years of slavery, beatings and torture. The perps are probably looking for new victims as we speak, or have already found them." Said Rossi.
"Then let's stop it before they go too far, wheels up in thirty" said Hotch. The team got up and left the room one by one.
The team was on the jet without about an hour left of their flight when JJ spoke up.
"So how are these victims targeted? She asked.
"Victims are usually targeted because they have a low self-esteem. Girls and boys are approached in popular teen hangouts such as malls or coffee shops. More recently Unsubs use social media websites such as Facebook to target these girls." Said Reid.
"So these Unsubs raise the self-esteem and earn the trust of these girls/boys by what, dating them?" asked Morgan.
"That's exactly right, and as soon as the victim falls in love with the Unsub he or she asks the victims to do him or her a favor. They call it a 'onetime thing' but after that one time the victim is trapped." Said Rossi.
"And it seems that this group of Unsubs, you need more than one unsub to control 12 girls at once, decided to kill the girls once they start to gain or want independence. The girls are killed out of fear that they might escape and turn the Unsubs into the police." Said Emily.
"Right on Raven, autopsy reports confirm that three of the girls were killed a few days before the others were killed in the same way within minutes of each other." Said Garcia, who had popped up on the screen as Emily talked.
"So the first three girls were killed because they rebelled, and then the other nine were killed out of fear. Maybe our Unsubs want a clean state, a fresh start with a new set of victims. This is definitely a team of Unsubs targeting girls, and it's looking more and more like a human trafficking ring." Said Hotch.
"So how do we stop it? How do we prevent more girls from becoming victims?" asked JJ.
"If the girls were local I'd suggest we go to the schools, but since they're coming from Europe and Africa, then we just have to keep an eye on the docks and search every ship, cruise and cargo, for illegal passengers. Let's hope we find them before they go underground again." Said Hotch.
"Is that the only way we can catch them?" asked Garcia.
"The other way is if one of the girls escapes and comes forward with information on where she was being held against her will." Said Rossi.
"Garcia, we're gonna need a list of all ships coming in to dock near where the last bodies were found. Don't eliminate anything no matter how small. Just because they need twelve girls doesn't mean that they have to bring all of them at once." Said Morgan, Garcia nodded.
"You'll have it faster than you can say Quidditch." Said Garcia before ending her side of the video call. Everyone on the team but Morgan chuckled slightly.
"Is that another Harry Potter reference or something?" asked Morgan.
"Yeah, it's from the first book." Said Emily.
"Obviously" said JJ really slowly in a deep voice, the rest of the team laughed again.
"Are you guys just gonna keep throwing those references at him until he reads the books?" asked Rossi.
"Yes" said Reid.
"Yes sir." Corrected Rossi.
"There's no need to call me sir, professor." Said Reid.
"Will you guys stop it?" asked Morgan. The team nodded, still laughing.
A little while later, Morgan, JJ, Hotch and Reid were playing poker, Emily and Rossi were both reading. After Reid won for the ninth time in a row, Hotch said.
"Well after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating-"
"Hotch!" called out Prentiss, in an imitation of McGonagall's voice that all but Morgan caught.
"I mean, after that open and revolting foul-"
"Hotch I'm warning you!" continued Emily, playing along. Reid and JJ were trying hard not to laugh so that they could finish the joke.
"All right, all right. Reid nearly drains my bank account, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure. So winnings to Reid who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play." Finished off Hotch, after a few moments of Morgan staring at his coworkers in confusion before all of them burst into laughter, finally Morgan understood.
"Good God are you people ever going to stop with the references?" asked Morgan.
"NEVER" cried the whole team, Morgan just shook his head.
"How long until we land?" asked Morgan.
OK I had way too much fun with that, I'm sorry if it annoyed some of you! Anyway, I'm getting all of my information about human trafficking from TV Shows such as The Nine Lives of Chloe King, and, Graceland. We also recently covered the topic in my Criminal Justice class, but that was just why/how these victims are targeted so that part of the what I wrote is true, also the stuff about where they come from, that I got off the internet. And also the statistics Reid mentioned are quite accurate, at least that's what they were a few years ago.
I'm sorry this chapter was shorter than usual, but at least there's a chapter!, oh and I have another recommendation for you. The Good The Bad and The Girl Stuck In The Middle by Laurenreynoldsisnotdead. It's kind of a different spin on what happened in the warehouse in season 6, what if Morgan rounded the corner and didn't find Emily bleeding to death? Basically Doyle brought her with him to search for his son.
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-daughterofathena2
