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"I am intrigued by the way secrets move through a family and how events and perceptions from decades earlier continue to influence the way relatives view each other. Homes shape family histories as well." ~ J. Courtney Sullivan

"There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family." ~ Jeffrey Tambor

Chapter 51

After looking at me for a short time, Tom clears his throat again and begins to point towards the various pictures taped to the wall.

"Your team put the photos in order of when these women died, and as you can see, Lauren is the first photo on the board here."

Tom points towards my "twin" as he continues on "and from what I was able to find out with Ms. Garcia's help, it looks like it was an unfortunate set of circumstances which led to Lucas seeing Lauren again. I'm fairly certain that Lucas wasn't intentionally looking for Lauren, since I believe he thought Lauren died…just like the rest of us did. But I believe at some point…he saw her in passing, and once that occurred, something inside of him was triggered…and his jealousy from years earlier came back again. I think that's when all of this started." He finished by moving his hand down the remainder of the photos on the wall.

"How's that possible? How…or where…would he just randomly see her?" I ask.

"I believe he saw her at the hospital where he was completing his final set of rotations." Tom nods towards Garcia "I think she can provide you with a little more context on that part."

"I did a search of Lauren and her family and found out that her parents were involved in a serious car accident…right before Lauren's death. The records show her father died at the scene and her mother was transported to the hospital. Lauren wasn't in the car but was contacted by the hospital about the accident. The hospital her mother was taken to was the same one that Lucas was completing his rotations."

"Was Lucas the attending physician for Lauren's mother?" Rossi questioned.

"No, sir. But it appears as though he was on staff when she was brought in, so it would stand to reason that he could have seen her at the hospital. The attending physician was able to stabilize her mother and she appeared to be improving, but over the next few days, her health declined rapidly and she died a few days later. Her death was ruled as complications related to the accident, though the primary physician in charge of her care added an addendum to the notes stating he believed something else caused her death. It doesn't appear as though any other investigation into her death was ever completed though." Garcia concluded.

"Knowing that Lucas claimed to have killed Lauren, and that he was on rotation the night that her mother died under somewhat conflicting accounts, I now suspect that Lucas may have murdered Lauren's mother. I believe that Lucas saw Lauren at the hospital visiting her mother and his previously unresolved issues contributed to that first murder…Lauren's mother. Given he had easy, and unrestricted access to her room, he could have altered her medications or interfered in some other way with her treatment and made it appear as though she died due to complications from her injuries." Tom explained.

Tom glanced around the room…ensuring everyone understood what he was explaining before continuing. "He, along with everyone else, had thought Lauren died years earlier. Seeing her alive and well, living so close to Emily, when he was just beginning to start a life with her…and knowing how close the two had been previously, must have not only triggered that previous jealously, but clearly enraged him. He didn't want to risk Lauren and Emily seeing each other again and ruining the relationship they had just started. I believe that is why he killed Lauren…and once he crossed that line of killing Lauren's mother and Lauren…something inside of him snapped and anyone that got too close to Emily or that he viewed as a threat to his relationship with her, or even his imagined relationship her after their relationship ended…he eliminated." Tom finished.

"Lauren's death was ruled a suicide. According to the records I was able to obtain…she overdosed on a combination of alcohol and a cocktail of prescription medications. Given what we know about Lucas's medical background, this would be something that he could easily hidden; a murder that could easily be viewed by others as a suicide, especially given the recent death of her parents. No investigation was ever conducted, given the alcohol and medications found in her system." Garcia explained.

"But I don't see Lauren's parents on the board? Why aren't they up there too?" I ask…confused about them not being listed on the murder board if Lucas was suspected of killing them…or at least Lauren's mother.

Tom looks at me and sadly shakes his head. "We only put up the photos that he provided to all of you. We think he probably killed others that he didn't actually take credit for…or want credit for."

"What do you mean? Wouldn't someone like that want credit for everyone he killed?" Morgan interjects…obviously as confused as I am at this point.

"Not everyone. I think two of his victims were actually his parents…though like Lauren' mother…I'll probably never be able to prove it." Tom answers…looking to Garcia again.

"What is he talking about?" Morgan looks to Garcia.

"Lucas's parents died under suspicious circumstances…while Lucas was still institutionalized. Because of the terms of his hospitalization…once they died, he was automatically released. They set up the hospitalization to be for an indeterminate amount of time. The terms of his release were set up so that he would be released upon their deaths and when doctors felt he met certain criterion…but not before both had occurred. He had been informed of these conditions and had met all of the criterion except the deaths of his parents prior to his release from the hospital. It appears that was the only condition preventing his release for several months…prior to their deaths." Garcia explains…while viewing the medical chart on her computer screen.

"My guess is that once Lucas discovered this condition for his release, he knew he had to eliminate his parents to gain his freedom. He also learned that he would inherit their sizeable estate as well, and found a way to contact someone on the outside to get rid of his parents. Once that happened, he was released and he found a way to repay whoever murdered his parents for him. He probably killed someone else for them as payback…and those individuals would likely not be on this board either." Tom explains. "All of the women here though…"he waves his hand over the photos on the wall "can be traced to Emily or her family."

"Good lord." Morgan mutters under his breath.

"Okay…so you're saying that he killed at least three other people…including Lauren's mother and his own parents…that aren't even listed on the board here?"

"Yeah…At least." Tom replies with a sigh.

Shaking my head in disbelief…I try to refocus on the photos that Lucas left for us for the time being.

"Can you explain what the letters and numbers are next to the pictures…and you said the pictures are in the order they died, right?" I ask.

"From what Ms. Garcia and I were able to determine, this was the order they died in, from the records we were able to find. As for the letters…that was my addition. I noted the pictures with the different people in Emily's family that were connected to each person. Lauren's picture has EM, which is the abbreviation I used for Emily. I would've just used EP, but there were too many people in her family with EP as initials for that too work." Tom motions towards the various information next to each photo in an effort to help explain the system for how the photos were being identified using the initials and dates…but I interject before he can continue.

"How many people are you talking about here? Couldn't you just write the names of the family members instead of using initials? Wouldn't that be easier?"

"I wanted to make it easier for Ms. Garcia. Emily used initials for her contacts on her phone, photos, and other communications, and instead of trying to decipher each one individually, I wanted to make it a more simplistic process for now. I'll provide for a translation of the initials later. For now though, this method allows for all of us" Tom waves around to Emily's family "to connect the photos to various family members for all of you."

"Okay…so you're saying that there are a lot of family members that you haven't mentioned yet then?" I ask…afraid of more skeletons falling out of that weird twisted clown car I envisioned earlier.

"Some. Elizabeth and Alex mentioned some of them briefly…though not by name. Others they haven't mentioned specifically yet. I'll go into that in a little bit. The important thing to note though is that some of the pictures have multiple sets of initials next to them, and that's because I believe Lucas had contact with several of Emily's family members, in connection with those particular women. Those initials were all of the family members connected to those women. The dates were when those connections were made with the various people in the family…and the locations were where the connections occurred. As you can see, they all basically occurred between when Lauren died and when Emily had Lucas arrested a few years ago. The only time that Lucas wasn't stalking or killing women was while he was in prison the last few years. He was even killing some of the women while Emily was undercover in Europe with Ian." Tom explains.

"Okay…so who do all of these initials belong to? I assume some of them are probably people here…but there are too many initials up on that board for that to be everyone…and you said that there were other family members involved. Are you just talking about Emily's brothers and sister…or her aunt and uncle? Or are there other family members that you all haven't mentioned yet?" I ask…looking between Tom and the rest of Emily's family…nervous about their response.

"I'll right the initials on the board and who those initials belong to so you know who's involved in this…so everyone does." Tom replies as he walks over to the whiteboard and slowly starts to write the initials on the board that were listed next to the photos.

I watch as he lists the family members that were in the room next to the first few sets of initials…and then new names start showing up that I hadn't heard of before. I recognize a few names…a couple from a few nights ago…when Emily was having a nightmare. I remember her very clearly her yelling the names Kasey and Logan out. I had wondered at the time who they were…thinking maybe they had helped her during her time undercover with Ian…but now seeing Tom list them as family members…I'm not so sure.

I start to ask who all of the people are when Tom starts to go down the list…reading the names and explaining who everyone is on the list. He starts with everyone in the room…then moving on to Mattie…which everyone on the team had been calling Declan. He explained that his name had been legally changed to Matthew Thatcher…his last name…when they moved to the States…and that he and Emily had legally adopted Mattie when they first came back from Europe.

Definitely didn't expect to hear that. Though I can't say I'm really surprised. Tom said they wanted to provide Mattie with some semblance of a real family and a safe environment away from Ian. I guess I can't really blame either one of them for that. Though I wish she would've told me that when everything was happening a few weeks ago…despite how hectic everything was and her reluctance to have any really personal conversations with me at the time. In retrospect though, I should've seen that coming…given how close Emily was to Mattie and how protective she was of him…even risking her life to save him. Looking back on it now…Mattie seemed just as close to Emily.

Then he points out the names of her brothers and sister…Ethan…Jesse…and Olivia…as well as her Aunt Elena and Uncle Augustus…or Auggie as he prefers to be called. He also goes over her aunt and uncle's children's names…Evan…Wyatt…and Sierra. He then reviews some of their significant others that were connected to some of the photos before reaching the final two names…Kasey and Logan.

I feel Summer squeeze my hand and whisper to me to remember my promise from earlier. As I do, I glance at her and see the tension in her face before looking quickly to Chance…seeing the same fear in his eyes as well. I look up to see somewhat worried expressions on the rest of the faces of Emily's family before looking back over at Tom once more.

Finally, my curiosity gets the better of me and I ask…"Okay…so who are Kasey and Logan?"