"We need to revise our profile," Reid announced later that morning as the BAU team again began gathering around the table in the conference room.
"First, let's let everyone sit down so we can hear what they found out," Hotch interrupted. "After that we can determine what part of the profile stays and what needs to be revised."
"Jasmine Williams' murder fits the unsub's very specific MO, complete with the puncture wound pattern around the waist area," Morgan announced. "She was a nice girl from a good, stable family with two older brothers – One is finishing up vet school at the state university and the other is an investment banker in Omaha, Nebraska. When she didn't show up for this morning's milking, her mother went looking for her and discovered she was gone."
"She was working for her father at his dairy farm because she couldn't figure out what she wanted to do with her life," JJ continued. "Other than that - She didn't have anyone who disliked her or who had threatened her, and she didn't have a permanent boyfriend."
"She was in fact looking for a job," Morgan added. "However, according to her mother, the fact that she wasn't sure what she wanted to do was hampering her search. Garcia has been combing through her e-mails and everything else on her computer, but she hasn't been able to find anything."
"That could have been how the unsub lured her out in the middle of the night," Reid suggested. "Offering her a job interview or something of that nature."
"Don't you think she would have been suspicious of something like that?" Blake questioned. "She appears to have been a relatively intelligent young lady. Wouldn't she have questioned the time and place of the meeting?"
"Not if it was someone she knew and trusted who had a good reason for the unconventional meeting time," Rossi said thoughtfully. "We need to check on all her friends and acquaintances."
"This is a small area, but not that small," JJ pointed out. "Maybe we should wait and see what Garcia finds first and, if there is nothing there, then get her started on that."
"What did you find at the undertaker's?" Hotch directed the question to Rossi and Blake.
"It is a small, family run operation that prides itself on its discretion," Rossi reported.
"If the information on the wound pattern was leaked, it definitely wasn't there," Blake contributed. "The father didn't even tell his son about the first victim's wounds."
"Well, we have discovered something," Reid was practically dancing in his seat. "From the direction of the initial wounds to the heart on each victim, it appears that this unsub began as a child and has been continuing his career as a murderer as he grew up."
"A child?" Blake was surprised. "Isn't that terribly unusual?"
"Unusual, but not unheard of," Hotch told her.
"We have encountered child murderers before," JJ said thoughtfully. "And, some of them appeared to be perfectly normal."
"Okay, how old would he have been when he committed his first murder?" Rossi asked.
"Using the wound height on the first victim to gauge his height, and cross-referencing to charts of average heights of children in the U.S., I would estimate between 8 and 10," Reid replied.
"That means that today he would be approximately between 18 and 20 years of age," Morgan quickly figured out.
"Add in a year either way as a standard variance, and we are looking at an unsub between the ages of 17 and 21," Reid pointed out.
"Still definitely a local, though," Blake said thoughtfully.