REVISED!!! I made some changes added in some much detail, and hopefully will be cutting down on the rampant confusion of this whole little tale. Thanks to those who helped and commented!!!
-- SUNRISE –
"Monster is a creature with no light, and no balance. This creature is pure evil. Balance is what gives one the capacity for mercy." Unknown.
The members of BAU sat around their desks talking about the up coming Halloween activities. Some would go to costume parties; others would go trick or treating with their kids, and few of the agents had no plans. Morgan was trying to talk Reid into going to a party with him, the young genius declined several times. Reid liked All Hallows Eve and had even put little creepy nick knacks on his desk as decoration. Morgan knew in time he would wear the kid down, soon he'd help the kid wrangle in a little Halloween honey. Soon Hotch came through with a new case, and the B.A.U team was off on another mission.
The jet was flying high, heading north to the state of the latest crime.
"What do we know?" Hotchner asked as he stood in front of everyone.
The team sat around the small jet; pictures from multiple dump sites flashed across the screen. The bodies were pale and bruised, some more then others. Bodies with the same traits in death had been found across multiple states, so this made the case federal. The BAU team members; Hotch, J.J., Elle, Morgan, and Reid looked over the numerous case files. Agent Gideon was on a vacation; no doubt in his cabin off in the woods. Bodies had been found impaled, decapitated, and buried in shallow graves.
Hotchner stood at the lead, "They calling this one, um well they don't know what to call this, due to the obvious. Bodies are found with these main similarities."
"No abductions and the victims had no signs of sexual trauma." Elle added.
Morgan looked at the pictures. "There are defensive wounds, so the victims were able to fight back. "The unsub just clearly over powered them." Morgan finished.
Reid was looking over the files; his mind recorded all the items found at the dump site. It was like reading a work of fiction. Bodies buried face down, staked, decapitated, and stuffed with an assortment of silver, and garlic. There was no blood to test for drugs or alcohol since it too had been cleared away. Friends and witnesses who saw the victims' last verified high quantities of substance intake at clubs and/or parties by the victim. The torture sites were found later; usually stumbled onto by workers, or others. By that time, all the evidence had been compromised by the elements and the vermin. There was on definite similarity all the victims were dressed in a gothic or pseudo-vampire type way.
Reid piped up. "Do we know what happened to the heads?"
He was thinking perhaps they were taken as a trophy.
"The heads were burned on site; it was discovered later what was being done to the heads. The killer attacks his victims in the day time; usually in the early morning." Hotch supplied. "Last body was found just outside the Hartford area." Hotch said.
Reid looked wide eyed. "A day time killer?"
Morgan leaned forward. "This is a lot of brutality; it takes time, and concentration. How can no one have heard or seen anything?"
"We'll soon find out, or we won't." Hotch said. "J.J., Elle, and I will go meet with the area P.D., and Morgan, and Reid will take a look at the recent dump site." He said.