"Garcia!" JJ was talking on her phone as Hotch drove, closely following Sheriff Larkin down the road. "Have you managed to locate Roger Steadman?"

"Good thing you called," the tech replied. "I believe I have managed to narrow this search down to the man you are looking for."

"Where is he Penelope?" Hotch called out.

"I'm not really sure," was the reply. "But, I do have a Michigan driver's license, complete with picture, and some background information."

"Before you begin, can you patch this call through to Morgan and everyone in his SUV?" Hotch asked. "If he can put you on speaker, you can brief everyone at the same time."

"Not a problem!" the tech replied as they heard several beeping sounds.

"Hotch, Garcia?" they heard Rossi's voice over the speaker.

"Okay, everyone is present and accounted for!" Garcia exclaimed. "That's my cue!"

"Roger Steadman was born in Hillside, not too far from where you are now," she began. "And, as far as I can tell, he had a totally normal life up until the age of 10 when his father was killed in a car accident. About six months later his mother remarried to – get this - her former brother-in-law. Shades of Hamlet! And, from what I can find out, that was when the problems began. There are records of multiple reports being filed with Child Protective Services, as well as of the police being called to their residence multiple times for abuse – both of the mother and of the child. Also, there are reports on file from the teachers at his school."

"The new husband was abusing both Roger and his mother?" Hotch questioned.

"Yes and No," Garcia replied. "Apparently, the damage was being done to Roger by both the new husband and his mother. When confronted with the evidence, his mother confessed that her husband was giving her a choice. Either she 'punish' Roger herself, or he would do it for her. She figured Roger stood a better chance of surviving if she did it."

"How long did this go on, Garcia?" JJ asked.

"Far too long, in my opinion," the tech replied. "However, from what I can tell from the official records, approximately three years. At that time, Roger was removed from his mother's custody and placed with an aunt and uncle from his mother's side of the family."

"Anything after that?" Hotch asked.

"No - Nothing," Garcia replied. "After that, everything appears to be squeaky clean. According to court reports, his mother visited him regularly and, according to her, the stepfather was no longer in the picture. He was, obviously, in prison at this point and she told the authorities that she wasn't visiting him there. However, during his sophomore year in high school, when he was offered the opportunity to move back in with his mother, Roger declined – Which makes me wonder."

"Maybe he knew something the authorities didn't," Rossi commented dryly.

"Or sensed it," Blake added.

"After finishing high school," Garcia continued. "Young Roger began attending college at Middle States University. However, it appears that about half way through his second year there his stepfather reappeared. According to the police reports, there were several confrontations and Roger ended up getting a restraining order against the man. Shortly after that, Roger dropped out of college and went to work with his uncle as a roofer."

"Again, all was apparently fine until about 18 months ago when disaster struck," the team could hear Garcia keyboarding. "Both his aunt and his uncle were killed in a hit-and-run automobile accident. Nothing has been proven, but statements from witnesses include a description that matches his stepfather."

"We have our stressor," Rossi observed. "The two people who protected him for all those years were both gone, very likely at the hands of the same person who persecuted him."

"So he started going after surrogates of the one person who should have stood up for him to start with," Blake commented. "His mother."

"It was about six months after that that Roger went off the grid," Garcia explained. "My guess is that he is working as a day laborer and being paid in cash. Then, about three months ago, his mother disappeared. Again, a witness's description of the vehicle involved matched that of one owned by her second husband. No body has been found, but she is assumed to be dead."

"And that is our more recent stressor," Reid surmised.

"Have you been able to find out where he is now?" Hotch demanded.

"I can't find a current address," the tech confessed. "As I said, he has been off the grid for the past year. However, taking a page out of the Sam Berkowitz playbook, I started checking traffic citations in and around Washtenaw County. I figured his car was the one constant in his current existence."

"You found something, Garcia?" Hotch questioned impatiently.

"I most definitely did, My Liege Lord," Garcia replied. "Five days ago a parking ticket was issued to a car owned by one Mr. Roger Steadman. Location of the illegal parking space along with name of the issuing officer and a description of the vehicle is being sent to your phones now, along with Mr. Steadman's most recent driver's license picture."

"Security cameras in the area?" JJ questioned.

"None that I can find," Garcia replied. "However, it appears that that street is mostly small businesses with inexpensive apartments on the second floors. Maybe someone in one of those saw something."

"We need to get a BOLO out on the vehicle," Hotch declared.

"Already handled!" Garcia told him.

"Garcia, could you send me a picture of Dr. Snow also?" JJ asked.

"Sending as we speak!" was the response.

"Thank you, Garcia," Hotch acknowledged as the tech signed off.

"What did you find out about Dr. Snow?" Hotch was still on speaker to the other vehicle.

"Not much, we were just getting started when we got your call," Rossi told him. "However, we did find out that he isn't in lab at the moment. He is supposedly out making arrangements for his wife's burial."

"What about the lab itself?" JJ asked.

"The crime lab needs to get out there and check the sink in his assigned lab," Morgan told her. "Apparently he washed up there on the night his wife was murdered. If he had any blood on him, it could still be there in the drain."

"And, Blake and I think we found the source of the skeleton!" Reid exclaimed. "We discovered that there appears to be one missing from a storage area in the basement."

"We collected some labels that appear to have been removed from it," Blake contributed. "Hopefully, there will be some fingerprints or other trace evidence on them."

"That's a start," Hotch observed. "Now, when we get to the location of the latest abduction, JJ and I will handle interviewing the witness. We have pictures of both Roger Steadman and Dr. Snow on our cell phones, as well as information on Steadman's vehicle. Hopefully, we can verify whether one of them is the unsub. Blake and Reid, see what you can find in and around the victim's car. Maybe we'll get lucky and this guy left something behind. Morgan, you and Rossi take a quick look around and then head over to the area where Steadman's vehicle was ticketed. Maybe someone there saw something. Any questions?"

"None!" the response echoed through both vehicles.