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JJ: "Uh, everyone's here. Sorry I'm late" she says walking into the meeting room where everyone is waiting for her "Last night in Fredericksburg, a 20-year-old woman, Molly McCarthy, was abducted. She's the third to go missing in the last 6 weeks. All disappeared from public places. No one's seen them since." Rossi: "Until now." JJ: "A couple days ago, body parts with cigarette burns were recovered from a national park which was once the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville." Hotch: "Were they able to make an I.D.?" JJ: "It was the first victim, taken 6 weeks ago. Decomp indicated that she had been dead just over a week." Hotch: "So he likes spending time with them." Emily: "How'd she end up like that?" JJ: "M.E. found microscopic tool marks on the bone." Reid: "I remember reading about a case like this in Spotsylvania County. Similar markings on the bone." JJ: "It was the winter of 1980, also Fredericksburg. 5 women, 16 to 24. Buried in pieces. Same markings. Same civil war battlefield." Watson: "Killed the same time of year and left at the same dump site?" Morgan: "It's like an anniversary." JJ: "That case is still open." Reid: "Back then the victims were drug addicts and runaways." Hotch: "If he spends that much time with them, there's a chance these 2 women could still be alive." Emily: "Wait. We think this could be the same killer? That's a hell of a cooling-off period." Morgan: "BTK resurfaced after a 25-year hiatus." Reid: "True, but he didn't kill anyone. He only taunted the police." Rossi: "Marks on the bone and where he dumps them-that's a very specific signature. Hard to copycat details that were never made public." Hotch: "Garcia, check the M.O. against girls missing in other states. It could explain the long absence." Garcia: "I'm on it." Rossi: "If this is the same unsub, what's he been doing for the past 27 years?"
Hotch: "The american poet Anne Sexton once wrote, "It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was."
Police Station
Man: "Am I in the right place?" Rossi: "David Rossi." John: "John Caulfield." Rossi: "Agents Naomi Watson, Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss." he says as they each greet him with a smile Morgan: "Just going over your old case, sir." John: "Sharon Chroniger. She was 16 years old. We found her body in pieces. I promised her parents that I would find out who did this. Then her father passed away." he says looking at one of the old files Rossi: "Tell us what Fredericksburg was like in 1980." he says pulling out a chair for him John: "It was a farming community. Rural. Everybody knew everybody. You could leave your doors open at night." Emily: "Townhomes and housing communities are everywhere now. It could explain the change in victim type." Morgan: "Runaways and prostitutes to college students. He's taking what's available." John: "It's not normal for a killer to stop for 27 years, is it?" Watson: "No. But he could have been in prison, injured, he might have moved away." Rossi: "He must have found other ways to satisfy his needs."
The next day they get a call about another body having been discovered and JJ, Hotch, and Reid go to inspect it
Emily: "I've got a list of violations in this county that precede the 1980 murders. A DUI, petty thefts, rape, assault. A few of these are repeat offenders." Morgan: "Garcia's got something." Garcia: "Don't worry, it's not contagious. So, I have dug across the whole country looking for this guy's M.O. I found a sum total of zilch. So, I went closer to home. I found a complaint filed by a Karen Foley in the next county over. The story's...awful. I sent a copy to all your hand-helds. Pg version is that she was kidnapped in 1979, but then...she escaped." John: "I never heard that story." Watson: "It wasn't your jurisdiction. What if she was his first?" Morgan: "Like his dress rehearsal. Figured out who and where to hunt and learned what worked, what didn't." Rossi: "Maybe careful planning has always been a part of his process." Emily: "Where is she now?" Morgan: "Baby girl, work your magic and find us an address." Garcia: "I'm on it."