As the jet accelerated upward, the six agents on board listened to the senior most agent describe their most recent case.
"He picks them out by their children." Grimly states Gideon. "He doesn't want anything to do with the kids. Thank God. But that is the only connection that local PD have been able to pick up on."
"The fact that all the women have kids isn't anything all that unique." Interrupts Emily.
"No, it isn't anything all that unique. But after questioning principals at each of the children's nursery schools Det. Lewis of Denver PD explained to me that the children were often not picked up on time, didn't always have snacks and never had their mothers come in for parent teacher conferences. The UnSub knows that these kids don't have the best home lives. I think he blames the mothers for that, which is why he is targeting them."
"So we can almost safely say that he grew up with a single mother who either worked to much or didn't care enough to give him all the lovin he needed." Morgan said shaking his head.
"That's all we have?" asked JJ with a look of concern on her face. "That's the only thing tying these people together? Cause if that's it then we don't know who or when he's going to kill next do we?"
"No. No we don't."
"Well what else do we know. Why does he kill, how does he kill? Maybe if we know that we can decipher why he picks who he does for reasons other than those we already know." Reid says hopefully.
"Okay, the autopsy report says that all women died from hemorrhaging due to the slits across their wrists. Other than that, there were no other discernable injuries." Hotchner states while flipping through papers. " They were taken and held for 3 days before being found. All of the bodies were dumped along fairly well traveled roadways and most were found by early morning commuters telling us that he dumps the bodies at night."
"So he holds them for three days and does what with them?" asks JJ.
"That's just one thing we need to find out." Hotch said as he looked out the window. "When we arrived I want Reid and Prentiss to talk to local PD and see if they've picked up any new information. JJ, since the media seems to be controlling themselves well enough I want you to go with Morgan to the nursery schools and snoop around. This guy has to have some kind of connection with the schools."
"I'll call Garcia once we land and have her pull up any and all records to see if the schools share some kind of service." Piped in Morgan.
"Good. Gideon and I are going to go and look at the homes of the victims. I want everyone back at the hotel by 8. You're all already tired and the last thing we need is for anyone to miss something because they're trying to keep their eyes open."