Ch. 4- Discoveries

Standing next to the Tahoe in the Sporting Goods Store parking lot Reid and Rossi had just wrapped up their examination of the crime scene. While they were at the crime scene they had tracked down the store manager and had questioned him on what kind of person Mike Edenson was, and what had occurred in the store on the day of the murder. Having reached the crimes scene, Reid had noticed that there were security cameras, and when he mentioned this to the manager he discovered that the camera out back was actually in use. With that in mind Reid made a mental note to call Garcia and see if she could recover the footage from the day of the murder and see if she could find a suspect, or maybe even the unsub. Climbing into the passenger seat with cell phone in hand Reid had just finished talking with Prentiss, and had been informed of what was going on with Garcia. With the intention of calling Garcia and having her locate the security camera footage of the side door exit where Edenson was discovered still on his mind, Reid immediately checked his inbox of unanswered text messages. Very quickly he found the message that he was looking for. Looking over the number for a few seconds Reid already had it memorized, and immediately started to dial it. Cell phone to his ear Reid listened as the phone rand. After three rings Reid heard,

"This is Morgan"

Without skipping a beat Reid said,

"Morgan its Reid, is Garcia still able to find something for the Edenson case?"

"Yeah her computer is all set up and ready to go. Hold on a sec while I give her the phone."

From the silence Reid heard a jingling sound as the phone was passed and then,

"Hey Reid whatcha need?"

"Garcia we discovered security cameras at the crime scene. We need you to find the footage of the crime scene from the day of the murder and see if you can see anyone else with our victim that can be identified so we can question them. Can you do that for me please?"

"Anything for you Reid, I will get right on it and call you when I have found something."

"Great thanks Garcia. Just take it easy."

"Ok, bye."

Rossi, noticing Reid lower his phone, asked, "How was she doing?" Reid looked over at him as he replied, "She sounded her same quirky self, but she is only in the first stages of labor. When she gets farther along we will probably be able to hear a difference." Seeing Rossi give a slight nod in response Reid continued, "She also said that she would look for the security camera footage, and let us know when she found something." Again Rossi gave a slight nod in response. For the rest of the drive back to the station there was silence in the cab. Twenty minutes later Reid and Rossi were walking into the cramped conference room where Prentiss, Hotch, and JJ were already sitting around the small table working on their own files of paper work. Walking into the room Hotchner turned and looked at them. When they had seated themselves at the table Hotchner looked between them and asked, "Did you find anything at the sporting goods store?" Reid and Rossi glanced at one another before Rossi answered, "We questioned the store manager about Edenson, the manager said that he was a hard worker and was friendly to everyone. He didn't seem to understand who could have wanted to kill Edenson." Hearing this Hotch gave a slight nod. At that time Reid said, "When we were examining the crime scene we saw that there were security cameras on the side of the building where the crime occurred. We asked the manager about them and discovered that they were still being used. With that I called Garcia and she is now searching for the security footage from that day. She said that she would call when she found something." Just as Reid finished saying this his phone started to ring. Looking at the caller ID he recognized the number for the hospital room that Morgan had sent everyone. Knowing immediately who it was Reid looked to everyone in the room and said, "Hey guys it's Garcia, I'll put it on speaker phone." After placing the phone on speaker Reid answered the call by saying,

"Hey Garcia your on speaker phone, everyone is here."

From the speaker in a tired voice Garcia replied,

"Hey I managed to locate the security camera footage from the crime scene at the sporting goods store. I sent the footage to Emily's computer. Now I viewed the footage with Morgan and I did get a picture of a man who was talking with the victim. I am running the face through afic as we speak."

Immediately upon hearing when Garcia had sent the footage, Prentiss opened her laptop on the table and quickly entered inbox. Sure enough there was a newly sent message from Garcia. Not wasting any time Prentiss streamed the footage on her laptop screen. Being that there was nowhere to stream the footage for everyone to see, Reid, Rossi, Hotch, and JJ gathered around Prentiss and her laptop. On the screen they could clearly see their victim Mike Edenson close to the exit door talking to a man wearing a grey sweat shirt with a hood over his head. A minute later the guy with the sweat shirt was walking out of view of the camera. With his companion appearing to be gone, they saw Edenson standing outside the door alone. A few minutes later Edenson turned to go back into the store; suddenly the hooded man came out of the shadows near the door, attacking Edenson and stabbing him multiple times in the chest. When Edenson was finally sprawled upon the ground dead, they all saw the suspect kneel next to the body, grab Edenson's right arm, bite into it at the wrist, and appeared to be drinking Edenson's blood. The next moment the footage ended. Breaking the silence that had hung in the air after the footage ended, Prentiss slowly said, "oookayyy… let me be the first to say that that was something that I have never seen an unsub do… Did you guys see what he did when he bit Edenson's wrist? He mimicked the motion of sucking Edenson's blood."Turning around to face everyone in search of a response Prentiss saw Reid with a thinking expression that relaxed as he said, "I don't think he was mimicking it. I believe he was really sucking Edenson's blood." A little confused by the response Prentiss asked, "So…what, are we looking for a person who believes that they are a vampire?" Without missing a beat Reid Replied, "Vampirism, it's where the person drinks the blood of humans just like vampires." At that moment JJ added, "In the footage the unsub rocked back and forth like Edward does in the movie when he was sucking the bad blood out of Bella. He's acting like he wants to stop but the blood is too irresistible." Met by questionable expressions from everyone except Prentiss, who gave her an understanding expression, JJ blushed slightly with a bit of embarrassment as she mumbled, "It seems Prentiss is the only one who understands what I'm talking about. Garcia most likely would too if she were here. I guess we were the only ones to see the movie or read the books." Once again silence followed. Out of the silence they could hear a phone ring somewhere in the station. Not long after the ring Chief Tyler stuck his head in and said, "Just got a call- another murder done the same way as the other three." Immediately upon that being said everyone rose to their feet and quickly exited the room. Walking in step with Chief Tyler, Hotchner asked, "Is the crime scene nearby?" "It's not far but I have an address that you can program into the GPS," replied Chief Tyler. Nodding and still walking at the same pace, Hotchner turned to JJ and said, "Call Morgan and Garcia, tell them what's happened and that we will call with an update and if we find anything." With a curt nod JJ added, "Basically the same as always." As JJ grabbed her phone Hotchner returned the quick nod. As all of this was going on they all made it to the Tahoe's and everyone split up into the teams they were in previously minus Morgan and Garcia…