Shortly after the plane had taken off, Garcia called in to relay the information she had received from the Alabama State Police.

As a picture of a woman in her late 20's appeared on the screen, Garcia began. "This is Missy Lewis. Approximately, six weeks ago she left home at 6:00 in the evening to make a quick trip to the nearest convenience store. When she hadn't returned by 9:00 her husband went searching for her. He found her car parked at the store, at the far end of the parking lot. Her purse, car keys, and cell phone were still in it. When he couldn't find her, he called the State Police. The call came in around 10:00 p.m."

"It took him three hours to realize she was missing?" Blake interrupted.

"Apparently, this is a small community where everyone knows everyone else," Garcia responded. "He just thought she had run into a friend and got sidetracked. I am sending a copy of the police report to your tablets."

"Her body was found four days later. Coroner estimates she had been dead about 12 hours. As you can see from the pictures, which I am sending you and which I refuse to look at, she had been starved and tortured, and all sorts of bad things. Discuss it among yourselves!"

A second picture appeared on the computer screen. This time it was a woman who appeared to be in her mid-forties. Where Missy had long brunette hair, this woman had short, light colored hair.

"This is Mary Sue Jameson," Garcia told them. "She apparently ran into town, Gadsen that is, to make a quick trip to the library. The note she left on the kitchen table said she'd be back in time to fix dinner. She never arrived at the library, although her car was found in the city parking lot about a block away. Again, purse, keys, and cell phone were all accounted for."

"This was ?" Morgan inquired.

Garcia checked her papers. "Approximately four weeks ago," she replied. "Again, I am sending a copy of all paperwork to you."

"The body was found?" Rossi asked.

Again, four days later. This time, she had only been dead about 8 hours. And, again, I don't want to talk about what was done to her."

"I assume there is more?" Morgan hated to ask.

"Unfortunately, these weirdoes never stop," Garcia told him as she put up another picture. This time it was an African American woman in her mid-fifties. "Loubelle Jackson," Garcia introduced her. "She was on her way to pick her daughter up from work. She left her house at her regular time, but never arrived at her daughter's workplace. Her car was found parked next to the road about three miles from her daughter's place of employment. Purse, keys, and cell phone were all there. Her body was found, again, four days later. She had been dead about 10 hours. And, again, the mutilation was extensive."

"All of them were taken during short road trips. Were they traveling along the same roads?" JJ inquired.

"No, all of them were driving on different roads, headed in different directions," Garcia told them. "However, all of the abductions were within five miles of I-59."

"Now, this morning, another woman has disappeared while taking a car trip." A picture came on the screen showing a smiling young woman in her early 20's with long, light brown hair. "This is Sue Ann Harris. She left the house as usual this morning, on her way to classes at the local community college. She never arrived. Police have been unable to locate any witnesses who saw her on her way to the school. Her car was found parked at an isolated strip mall not far from the school. Her textbooks were on the front seat along with her purse, and cell phone. Her keys were still in the ignition."

"All four were low risk victims who were abducted while driving," Blake started the review. "Is there any indication that their cars were part of whatever ruse the unsub is using?

"As far as I can tell from the reports, there is no damage to any of the vehicles," Garcia reported. "They are probably still in the impound lot so you can check them yourselves."

"Toxicology screenings are negative, and cause of death is asphyxiation," Rossi observed, reading his tablet. "It appears that at some point he killed them outright after having first mutilated them."

"This guy seems to be pretty controlled," Reid observed. "The women were abducted two weeks apart, held for four days, and then killed and dumped. Sounds like a pretty repressed personality."

"He is definitely organized," Hotch commented. "That will make him more difficult to catch. We'll have to hope he makes a mistake."

"Garcia, is this right?" JJ asked, still looking at her tablet. "It says here that none of the women had been given any food or water but they all had laxatives and diuretics in their system."

"It also says there was no sexual assault," Morgan added.

"That's exactly right," Garcia replied. "Apparently, sex isn't his thing and neither is theft."

"The physical abuse seems to start soon after he gets them," Hotch commented. "We're going to have to move fast if we hope to get his latest victim back alive."