"Okay, Garcia, tell us what you found on Sydney Masters. And, you are on speaker." It was early afternoon and the team, along with Emma, Mrs. Jenkins, Detective Wade, Sheriff Gardner, and Don Woods, was again assembled in the conference room. Emma had been brought up to date on the suspected unsub, and Deputy Malcolm had been dispatched to park down the road from the grain elevator to keep an eye on Sydney Masters' activities.
"Okay, here goes," Garcia replied. "But first let me tell you that I have been concentrating on her activities in the past six months. I figured any suspicious changes in her behavior would have occurred since her father died."
"Sounds reasonable," Blake agreed.
"First off, she appears to have taken to ordering a lot of clothes on line," Garcia began. "And I mean loads of expensive, frilly, lingerie. Let me tell you, if I could afford to buy some of this stuff – "
"Enough, Penelope," Rossi interrupted her. "We get the picture, rather vividly I'm afraid."
"Okay, well, she has also been contacting small business brokers and potential buyers for the business," Garcia continued. "She appears to be in rather a hurry to sell."
"For someone who only owns half of the business, that sounds a bit premature," Hotch commented.
"Particularly since her sister's fiancé has expressed an interest in running it," Sheriff Gardner observed.
"She also has been contacting real estate agents on the Florida Coast, looking for condos for sale," Garcia continued. "And her price point appears to be about $1.5 million."
"I doubt if half of the business is worth that much," Reid observed. "Even when the value of the land it sits on is factored in."
"How much life insurance was there?" JJ spoke up.
"Life insurance was in the amount of $5 million," was the reply. "And, the basic policy has been in existence since around the time of Charles' marriage. The amount was increased about the time Sydney was born."
"Well, half of that is $2.5 million before taxes," Blake commented. "That may be what she is planning on."
"But, again, why murder all these women – And why these women?" Sheriff Gardner questioned.
"It seems to me," Mrs. Jenkins spoke up quietly.
"Yes?" Rossi encouraged her.
"It just seems to me that if you wanted to hide a murder the best way to do it would be to hide it within group of similar murders," the former teacher commented.
"Are you saying that she hasn't yet gotten to her real victim?" Morgan questioned.
"But who - ?" Detective Wade let the question hang.
"Who has always been there her entire life?" Blake asked thoughtfully. "Who has always been allowed, even encouraged, to live a normal life, being what their biology has destined them to be?"
"Oh My Gosh!" Sheriff Gardner spit out. "She's going after her sister!"