Once Upon a Time
Five Days ago
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit lead by Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner had been called out to the suburbs of New Haven Connecticut. An Unsub had kidnapped and killed four women over the course of a month, leaving very few clues to his identity.
"Let's go over the case files one more time there is very little evidence we can't afford to miss anything," requested Hotch from his seat next to Emily Prentiss.
Derek Morgan began first from his seat opposite Hotch. "Okay the first victim was Angela Banks age 35, on April 21 she was kidnapped from her local video store when she went to return a movie around 11pm. Her car was found in the video store parking lot abandoned. She was found in an empty warehouse on the edge of town; there she was found dressed as a princess in a pink medieval looking dress on a bed with ornate expensive sheets. These were not the clothes she was abducted in needless to say. She was found by the new owner of the warehouse.
"The police found an old fashion spinning wheel in the room and a copy of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, on the floor. Angela Banks has been missing for only a day before she was found. COD was poison; apparently she was injected with it. The corner found several bruises and a broken wrist and several broken ribs from being beaten and tortured before she was poisoned."
"The second victim was Victoria Williams age 32. She was abducted on April 27th from a gas station near her house around 12:30 in the morning; her car was found abandoned there as well. She was found on the 29th drowned in the bathtub in a hotel room also on the edge of town. The maid found her when she went to clean the room that morning. According to the officers at the scene she was dressed as a mermaid fin and all, she was a redhead and the Unsub dressed her to look exactly like Disney's Little Mermaid, copy of the fairy tale left at the scene also the Disney version.
"It is unclear what importance that has as the first book was a generic version. She was held for two days before she was killed, she had bruises, a broken nose, a broken wrist and several broken ribs all inflicted prior to her death." The BAU's resident genius Spencer Reid ran down the facts on victim number two as he sat next to Morgan by the window.
"The third victim Marlee Neelson, 29, was discovered with her head cut off in a recently finished office building. She was discovered by the contractor who was doing a final check of the building. She was blond and found dressed as Alice in Wonderland, which was the book left at the scene. She had bruises, a broken wrist, broken ribs, and both shoulders were dislocated. The corner also found sedatives in her system—which were not present in the previous two victims and it looks as though she hadn't eaten in three days that was exactly how long the Unsub kept her. She was abducted on May 4th from her local shopping center when she went to pick up Chinese take out around 11:30. She was found dead three days later. "David Rossi chimed in with details on the third victim; he sat across the aisle from Hotch.
"And the last victim was Janice Milborn, age 38, she was abducted on May 9th when she left her 24 hour gym around 10:30. She was held for four days before she was found burned alive in the kitchen of a house that was being renovated. Firemen where called when neighbors noticed the fire but Janice was dead before they could put the fire out. She was found with melted glass on her feet the police think the glass may have come from some kind of makeshift glass shoes.
"A copy of Cinderella--the Brothers Grimm version was found as the scene. The coroner believes that she had several broken bones including a broken wrist, several broken ribs and it appears her toes where cut off prior to her death. Cleaning products where used as accelerants, the victim was covered in them." Emily Prentiss said completing the tale of these horrific murders.
"He pays for everything in cash and the only description the New Haven police have is a tall slightly overweight man with messy brown hair. There were no surveillance cameras at any of the locations except for the gym and gas station but the abduction was not within the cameras coverage area. On top of that there is not one single witness from any of the abductions " Hotch said unhappily, they had almost nothing to help find this serial killer and that frustrated him greatly.
"How do you abduct someone from a public location and manage to get away unseen?" Morgan asked.
"Hopefully there is someone out there who saw something and they just don't know it." Rossi offered optimistically.
"Lets hope you're right so far the police have found nothing and the public hasn't been able to provide any information." Hotch added.
"The media has started calling him the Fairy Tale Killer." Jennifer Jareau sighed from her seat across from Rossi.
"Not very creative" commented Reid.
"I think we would all be happy if they didn't give him a name at all, the last thing we need is for this guy to feel more empowered than he already is." Morgan answered back.
"As long as they are warning women to be careful I don't think it matters at this point."
"Dave's right" said Hotch. "When we land Prentiss and I will check out the first two crime scenes; Dave, Morgan you take the other two; Reid head to the station with JJ work on victimology and see if Garcia has anything that can help us. I don't need to tell you that we need to find something and we need to find it soon or this guy is going to strike again."
Though he would never say it out loud Hotch couldn't help but think that they were going to need a miracle if they were going to catch this Unsub at all.
A/N I promise the story will get back to Emily very soon. Thank you for the reviews I REALLY appreciate them and I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
