Chapter 6- Victim #4
Standing within the tapped off area outside one of the few churches in Forks SSA Aaron Hotchner looked down at the body of their newest victim. The victim was a young female with long dark hair held back in a ponytail. The girl also wore a pair of pearl white glasses; according to Chief Tyler the victim's name was Angela Manson. She was murdered the same way as all the other victims. Prentiss stood next to Hotch looking at the victim; noticing something that was never on the other victims; Prentiss reached out with a gloved hand and lifted the collar of the victim's jacket. There just above the chest pocket was a sticker with the victim's first name on it. Looking at Hotch to show him what she had found, Prentiss asked, "What could she have been doing that would require her to wear a sticker with her name on it?" With no expression on his face Hotch replied, "No idea. I guess we'll find out when we have Garcia search the victim's records, and such." Nodding Prentiss straightened up. At that moment Reid walked down the front steps of the church and ducked under the tape. Glancing at the body as he straightened up, Reid then turned to Prentiss and Hotch and said, "I just talked to the church secretary. She said that our vic is the reverend's daughter." Eyebrows raised Hotch asked, "Did she say anything as to why she was at the church, other than her father's position?" Giving a slight nod Reid answered, "She said that she would come in and help set up for certain ceremonies that they have at the church." Taking in the information Hotch nodded and then asked, "Was there a ceremony scheduled at the church that needed setting up today?" Checking his notes with a quick glance Reid nodded and replied, "A wedding scheduled for this evening, the Swanson-Collens party." From behind then they heard JJ say, "Well one thing is for sure, the Unsub is a Twilight fanatic." Rossi having joined them asked, "Based on the victims' first names being the same as characters from the books?" With a slight nod JJ replied, "That and because each victim had the same lifestyles as the characters. And now the wedding party scheduled at the church, the Swanson-Collens party that is really close to Swan and Cullens." Eyebrows raised again Prentiss said, "Wow this unsub is a Twilight fanatic. To have all that detail within the crimes, personally that is a little scary." JJ looked at her and nodded in agreement. Taking what Prentiss said into consideration Hotch said, "That may be the case but we need to figure out who this guy is…"Turning to Reid Hotch said, "Reid, call Garcia. Have her find information on the newest victim; see if there is a connection between her and the other three victims as well. Also have her look for websites about the books created by Twilight fans, and the person who runs it. If the unsub is a Twilight fan, he may have a website devoted to the books." Pulling his cell phone from his pocket Reid replied, "On it." A second later he had dialed the hospital room number and had the phone to his ear. After a couple of rings Reid heard,
"This is Garcia. What do you have for me?"
"Hey Garcia, we've got a fourth victim, her name is Angela Manson. We need you to find a connection between her and the other three victims. Also we think that the unsub is a Twilight fanatic so we need you to search for Twilight websites created by fans and find out who created the sites. It may bring us closer to finding the unsub."
"Ok will do. I will be in touch when I have found any OWWW!..."
Before Reid could ask if Garcia was of Morgan came on the line and said,
"Hey Reid I read what you want her to do as she wrote it down. One of us will contact you guys when she finds something."
"Sure, that's fine…Is Garcia ok? She sounded like she was in extreme pain."
"She's ok Reid. The epidural helps her deal with the pain. We'll talk later. Bye Reid."
"Yeah later Morgan"
Having done his task Reid ended the call and placed his phone back inside his pocket. Having received all the information they needed about the victim, and the crime scene, the team loaded up into the Tahoes and returned to the station. Immediately upon entering their small conference room, JJ attached the picture of Angela Manson onto the message board next to the other victims' pictures. At the same time everyone else made their way into the room and settled into seats around the small table. Right after sitting Prentiss opened her computer and began to add everything they knew about Angela Manson's crime to their victimology. After thirty minutes of silence with the only sound being heard was Prentiss hitting the computer keys, they suddenly heard Reid's phone ring from within his pocket. Extracting the phone Reid immediately answered,
"Reid"
"Reid its Morgan, Garcia has the information that you guys asked for."
Hearing this Reid said,
"Hold on a minute Morgan and I'll put you on speaker phone so everyone can hear."
"Ok go ahead."
"Alright so Garcia found out that Angela Manson graduated the same year as the other three victims. She was also one the newspaper staff with Eric Porter as a photographer."
Just as JJ opened her mouth to make a comment Morgan continued,
"Now, Garcia said that the fact that Angela Manson was a photographer for the school paper was just like the character Angela in the Twilight series."
Reid, looking to JJ saw her close her slightly opened mouth at hearing Garcia's analysis, said,
"I think JJ understands what Garcia is talking about with the similarities between Angela Manson and the Twilight character."
"Garcia thought that JJ would notice the similarities."
Glancing at Hotch Reid understood what information he wanted to hear about just by reading Hotch's facial expression. With that Reid asked,
"Morgan, has Garcia gotten anything on the Twilight fan sites? A possible unsub, or a next victim?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line before Morgan said,
"She hasn't found anything yet, but she is still looking. It may take a while though, she's progressing quickly. It won't be long now. But she said she's not giving up."
Before Reid could reply Hotch said,
"That's fine Morgan. Tell Garcia to work on it when she gets a chance, and to let us know when she does find something. Anything she finds can help us with this case."
"Will do Hotch. Keep me informed with anything you guys find, and I will inform you when she finds anything."
"Agreed"
Agreement made Reid took the phone off speaker, and ended the call. Wasting no time Hotch said, "Ok let's add what we just learned about Angela Manson to the victimology." Turning to Prentiss Hotch asked, "Do you think you could search the names of the recently graduated students from Forks High School and see if you can identify any more people that have similar names to characters in the books? Maybe get in touch with the high school for help?" Giving a slight nod Prentiss replied, "I can try. It won't be anything like what Garcia can do." Nodding at this Hotch said, "If we can do a little bit of the digging ourselves, then it will be less work that Garcia has to do later." As Prentiss nodded JJ walked over and said, "I'll help go through the name of the graduated students. Two eyes are better than one." That said Prentiss and JJ went straight to work, as did everyone else. But as they worked they kept thinking of Morgan and Garcia and how they were progressing…
