chapter 4 enjoy! Kinda as long as the previous.

Chapter 4: Gathering Our Bearings II

"Well that's interesting" she murmured. Reid glanced at her to make an attempt at deciphering her thoughts. She pointed to a particular area of the map that Reid color coded. Reid noted that the apartment of the first victim was about 100 miles away from the second victim's apartment. He also noticed that the recent victim's place being farther out from the two, in a completely different direction and twice the miles from the first two areas. The dots were all close but yet far away.

"There's a large gap distance between the first two victims and our recent one" Morgan noted joining the two at the board. "Where could the unsub's comfort zone with this data?"

"I don't really know..."Reid paused for a moment to think."The first two victim's apartments are in sort of parallel directions". He picked up one of his markers. "At least I think this is true, considering the direction the recent victim's apartment is in"

"Hello my lovelies!" A familiar voice said behind the trio. They turned around to see the face of their tech analyst smiling brightly at them. JJ moved away from the screen and picked one of the folders.

"I'll be with the detective going over any press information that may need to be released" she said promptly. She scurried out the room in the direction of the detective's office.

"Hey baby girl, got anything for us?" Morgan said with a smile heading over to one of the laptops, with Reid and Prentiss following suit.

"I was able to; even though you guys didn't ask me yet, locate more background information on the ladies true identities. But no luck on any infant being dropped off anonymously at Chestshire hospital recently" she said straightening her glasses, her tone becoming more business-like.

Morgan sighed, "Probably too early to tell. What do the files say?"

"Apparently the records, which were sealed until a few seconds ago, are... in Spanish" she releases a huff of frustration. "Of which I am not as fluent in as my last name probably suggests I am. But have no fear; I'll have them translated fully in about an hour. I can recognize a few words though...all of the documents seemed to share a few phrases in common" she trailed off tapping at her keyboard to pull up the documents.

"Such as?" Prentiss queried.

"Money, thieves... robberies?" she said slowly. The trio gave each other surprised looks. "Oh, I recognize another word on their mug shots...it says Wanted By Policein big, scary red letters"

"So they were on the run then?" Reid said stuffing his hands in his pockets. "I wonder if they knew one another and planned these separate escapes..." Prentiss and Morgan briefly looked in his direction before focusing back on Garcia.

"If they were even separate. We have to check and see when the second victim's identity appeared here in connection to the previous ones. Then the months span their murders took place." Prentiss mused.

"Can you send the mug shots to us?" Morgan asked.

"Already done my darling" The agents felt their PDA's vibrating in their pockets a second later. Reid fished his out and went over to next nearest computer. He pulled a connection cable out of his satchel, fusing one of the ends to his PDA, while the other went into the computer. After a few minutes the mug shots of the victims showed up on the screen. The word, Querido Por La Policia or Wanted by Police, as Garcia said, was stamped across each of the photos in red. Reid looked at each of the victim's body language in the photos but decided to profile them once Morgan, Prentiss and he were done asking Garcia questions.

"Can you also check to see when the victim's fake identities first became known here in Manhattan? Send the first victim's information to Hotch and Gideon," Morgan asked. "Thanks baby girl" he gave her a warm smile.

"It is done" she replied writing down her new tasks. "I'll hollah back at you guys when the docs and such are done. Adios!" The glasses clad tech winked before she blinked off the screen.

"I was thinking maybe..."Reid started. Then paused after a few minutes.

"That the victims planned their escape, but the unsub had other plans for them?" Prentiss asked. Reid nodded.

"The unsub probably made a promise to them that they would be safe while they are here" Morgan murmured. "This explains why the apartments are somewhat close but far away from each other. To keep contact, but not too much contact they somehow get caught…"

"The unsub must be somewhere here…" Reid said, moving back to his map. He traced a circle with his hand in the gap between the victim's apartments. There was a longer pause previously as the group mentally collected information, putting things together drawing somewhat complete conclusions to get started on things.

"This unsub was probably charming, attractive and easily trusted…" Prentiss said crossing her arms.

"Also, not to forget two personality types; one profile type being calculating and obviously cold. This is evident in the way he earned the victim's trust probably months or a year prior. Afterwards killing the mothers in cold blood…." Reid said.

"Then his other side which is unorganized, evident in leaving the bodies where they were after killing them. Then taking the newborn infant for a few weeks or days, only to bring them anonymously to this hospital" Morgan noted, nodding to the hospital Reid circled on the map.

"Something else has been bothering me…" Reid started. "Why Manhattan of all places to escape to? Wouldn't it have been difficult travel here with three pregnant women undetected like that?"

Morgan shrugged. "Well first off Manhattan is pretty easy to blend into. Settling anywhere closer to the border they would have been found and caught by the Mexican police. Since the victims have never left their homes before the unsub was able to keep an eye on them in areas of where poverty exists to stay further under the radar…"

A look of realization crossed Prentiss's features.

"I wonder if the unsub was the father of the infants he took?" Prentiss question.

"Or maybe he though he was? But dropping the first two infants off suggests rejection of paternity" Reid interjected.

The trio mulled over the thought.

"Too soon to tell" Morgan said. "Not something to rule out completely though. We'll need to profile our recent victim Marilyn's apartment first for more details of someone else living there besides Marilyn…."

"Is it also possible that the three victims are related?" Reid asked out loud. A look of realization crossed Morgan and Prentiss' faces. He took satisfaction in adding the apparently valuable insight.

"Very possible…could be why they resemble each other…and the police couldn't find any family members for them here in Manhattan. But only a lab analysis can determine similar DNA " Prentiss said slowly. She turned to Morgan. "Can we get Garcia to see if the lab techs here can compare DNA between the victims?" Morgan nodding started to go over to the laptops at the table to call Garcia back up.

"Let's just call her on the way to the apartment. I feel like we're using up too much time. Another victim might appear" Prentiss said gathering her necessary bearings at the table. Morgan and Reid looked at each other before doing the same and heading out the door.

"Officers, care to join us?" Morgan asked pulling out his phone to call Garcia. They complied with the request and led the group outside to their vehicles to the recent crime scene.

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