Chapter Six

Rebecca starred at the image on the iPad Garcia had given her before she stepped onto the jet that would take her back to Magnolia Ridge.

Terri Andrews had been abducted when she was fourteen. The horror that had been her life for those two years had left her unable to communicate with anyone. Desperate, her parents had brought her Magnolia Ridge in hopes that the specialized care Rebecca and her staff gave might help their daughter recover.

It had taken Rebecca nearly three years to get Terri to open up and she'd had so much hope for the young girl, then the news her parents had been killed by a drunk driver reopened Terri's wounds and she retreated into her world of silence once again.

Now the bloodied image on the small screen sent a wave of chills and anger through her.

"Who found her?" Rebecca looked up at Aaron. She hadn't been able to face David since she'd learned of the case.

"Mark." Aaron's voice was solemn.

Rebecca glanced out the window and watched the clouds drift by. Of all people Mark. This wasn't going to be good.

"Why is the BAU involved?" Morgan began, "No offense Dr. Monroe, but this hardly seems like a BAU case."

"It's..."David began but Rebecca held up a hand to stop him.

"It's the M.O." She looked at the screen again, trying to separate the doctor she was, from the profiler she'd been.

"M.O.?" It was Jennifer, returning from the small kitchenette, with cup of tea, to join the group.

Rebecca turned to look at the team. She'd seen enough of their records to know they were the most successful BAU unit the FBI had, when other units in the Behavioral Analysis Unit's couldn't solve a case, this was the team to call.

Be successful now, she prayed.

She took a deep breath, "The position of...of her body, for one." Rebecca began. "She's on her back, head completely turned to one side. From the looks of these photo's and the numerous stab wounds, the killer used a knife...it will be a large hunting knife."

Rebecca tried desperately to remove the images of the withdrawn teen, who'd cried in her arms the night the sheriff's department told her about her parents from the one's she saw on the small screen.

She was surprised at the monotonous tone of her voice as she continued. "Coroner's report will show two broken ribs, evidence of a struggle and the killer did massive damage to...to her..."

David reached across the small table and placed his hand over hers. Rebecca looked up. His eyes held sympathy only she understood. She looked at the iPad again and gently slid her hand from his. "This unsub does massive damage to his victim's eyes."

"Like Earl Buford? He's an eunucleator?" Reid asked, looking up from his own iPad.

Rebecca shook her head, "I'm not familiar with that case."

"Earl Buford was a taxidermist who took his victims eyes and used them for the eyes of the animals that were brought into his shop." Reid answered.

"I don't think what's happening at Magnolia Ridge has anything to do with Earl Buford," Aaron offered.

Morgan shook his head, "I'll give you that it looks personal, but serial?"

Rebecca glanced at David. He answered Morgan, but kept his focus on her.

"If this is what we think it is, it's going to turn serial soon." His voice was calm, but his eyes held a message only Rebecca understood.

I'm sorry. The look in his eyes told her just how deep his sympathy went.

"Why?' Morgan asked.

"The evidence is going to show that she was attacked from behind, hit hard in the head – probably with the handle of the knife. There will be 22 stab wounds to the body." Rebecca half listened as David explained what the team was walking into.

"Sometime in the next 10 hours, there will be another body, "Aaron picked up where David left off. "This body will also be female, face down, legs spread open. The same blitz attack, the same 22 stab wounds and the same damage to the eyes."

"What make you so sure?" JJ asked taking a new interest in the photo's on her iPad.

"Because this isn't the first time he's hunted at Magnolia Ridge." Rebecca whispered.