"Dr. Snow," Hotch addressed the man as he, Reid, and Blake walked into the interview room. "As you probably recall, I am Agent Hotchner of the FBI. And, these are two of my agents, Doctors Reid and Blake."
"Now, we understand that you have been read your rights and that you have acknowledged that you understand them," he continued.
"I don't understand what is going on here!" the researcher interrupted. "It is my wife who was murdered – Why am I here? Am I a suspect now?"
"Actually, you are," Blake told him blandly as she took a seat at the table. "Due to several discoveries we have made, you are now the primary suspect in your wife's abduction and murder."
"Now, we are going to talk and you are going to listen," Hotch told him. "And, when we are done, you are most likely going straight to jail where you will be staying for a very long time."
"Here is what we think happened," Reid told the researcher as he joined Blake at the table. "Feel free to interrupt me if I have anything wrong."
"I think that after having been married for 20 years to the same woman, you were starting to get antsy," Reid began. "And, when your long-time lab tech retired you saw your opportunity."
"After interviewing several candidates, you then made a call to a friend of yours at Toledo University," he continued.
"Don't interrupt, he already verified that," Blake told the researcher as he opened his mouth to speak. "He also told us that he sent you a likely candidate, a very attractive young woman who met the 'specifications' you gave him. And, as a result, you hired Cynthia Newton. The only impediment to the two of you becoming better acquainted was that you still had a wife and she had made it clear that she had scruples."
"When the sheriff's department discovered a woman's body which had coincidently been disposed of near the area where a UFO sighting had been reported, you saw your opportunity," Reid went on with the story.
"You waited until another sighting had been reported, and then intercepted your wife as she finished her shopping trip to the mall. You convinced her to leave her car in the parking lot there and drove her over to where the sighting had occurred. You then killed her and concealed her body near the area. Then, in order to give the impression that the area had been visited several times over a period of years by aliens, you planted a skeleton, which you had removed from the basement of your lab building, in the general vicinity of where the first reported UFO sighting had occurred. You were planning on all three murders being blamed on 'Little Green Men'."
"However, you had no idea of how Lillian Williams had been tortured or murdered. So, it quickly became apparent that there was a second murderer involved," Blake pointed out.
"Your other mistake was cleaning up in your lab afterwards," she continued. "The crime scene team discovered blood in the drain there and they also discovered what appears to be human blood on one of the knives you use in the field. I strongly suspect that DNA testing will prove that both blood deposits are your wife's."
"Did we miss anything?" Hotch asked.
"I should have left some strange looking footprints," the scientist mumbled. "Then everyone would have believed it!"
"Now, I want my phone call," he demanded lifting his head up and staring at Hotch. "And I'm calling my lawyer!"