They were rushed back to the office because of a massacre in Nevada the day before.

"This case happened in Nevada, where four members of Davy Jones' family were murdered at their home. A year ago, in California, five members of Charlie Thomas' family were also murdered at their home. The same suspects put the mirror on after the victim's death. Fragments were inserted into the victim's eye socket and the hostess was sexually assaulted."

Amanda briefly introduced this case. The knights of the round table looked at the case file of the new case in silence. Hodge made a decision: "I'll see you on the plane in half an hour."

On the plane, Hodge spoke first: "A year ago, we failed to solve the case that happened in California. Now a similar case has happened. I hope this time we can find the key and bring the suspect to justice." .Garcia, can you find the link between the two?"

"They live in a different state, which is impossible according to my vast database."

"Looking at any senseless cross-fertilization of these family members, even if they don't know each other, they may have traveled to different places and met the suspect separately."

"Okay, I have entered the digital abyss search while talking." Garcia began to search further with her nimble fingers flying.

"This time, no fingerprints were collected. We already know that the suspect was wearing rubber gloves and size 12 shoes. Semen was collected this time, and it was determined to be the same suspect, but no match was found in the database. Rossi flipped through the case file and said.

"It's not common to commit crimes across states, and the intermission period is one year. The suspect's cooling-off period is not short." Morgan said, the last time they were in California, they finally reached a dead end in the investigation, and they had to Can temporarily give up that case, there are countless cases waiting for them all over the country. Bau didn't solve the case every time, which made them feel very frustrated, but there was nothing they could do.

"Morgan, you and Emily go to the scene of the murder, David, you and Rhett go to see the forensic doctor." Hodge assigned the task, he and Amanda went to the local police station, and the police station where the last case happened also sent The detective in charge at the time came to help.

Morgan and Emily arrived at the victim's home, a detached house with a yard. "It's very similar to the victim's home in the last case," Morgan said after standing outside the house for a week and looking around.

Emily noticed the dog house outside the door, "I remember that the last victim had a cat in his home, and this family had a dog, but I didn't find any records about the dog in the case file."

Morgan immediately dialed Garcia's phone, "babygirl, I need you to check Davy Jones' dog and Thomas' cat."

"Oh ang, the magician has waved her wand and found it. The Jones family's dog was stabbed two days before the case happened. After being taken to the hospital, he had no choice but to be euthanized. The Thomas family's cat , same situation. Poor little ones—"

"Are they collared?" Emily asked.

"Do not."

"Thank you, Garcia."

Morgan hung up the phone and entered the house with Emily.Morgan began to simulate the scene at the time, "The suspect came in in the dark, first went to the master bedroom, and quickly cut the host's throat. When the hostess was about to get up, he shot her in the abdomen with a gun, but did not kill her immediately. Instead, it made her unable to move, let her watch her husband die, and then turned around and came to the corridor."

Morgan and Emily followed the bloodstains of the hallway to the children's bedroom. Morgan went on to say: "The children were asleep when they were shot. We think the suspect used a silencer. The suspect then dragged the children's bodies to the master bedroom."

Emily checked the mirror in the bathroom, and it was shattered like the previous case. "We speculated that the reason why the suspect inserted the lens into the victim's eyes was to make their eyes look lifelike. The suspect wanted them to be Audience, watch him touch the hostess and rape her, so as to satisfy his perverted psychology."

After studying the crime scene, Morgan and Emily were about to drive back to the police station when Morgan suddenly said, "Emily, do you remember? This time the suspect used a glass knife to open the lock, but look." Unable to see the glass door, he and Emily looked at each other and said: "The suspect knows what the house looks like, and the victim's cats and dogs were removed beforehand. The suspect has probably been observing the victim's family for a long time. .”

Here, Morgan and Emily had a breakthrough; there, Rossi and Reid met the forensic doctor and got a detailed report, just like the previous case-the male owner was cut throat, the children were shot, and the female lead was shot. The owner was first shot in the stomach and bled to death after being sexually assaulted.

"Are there still no fingerprints this time?"

After getting a positive answer from the forensic doctor, Rossi frowned.

"But we found bite marks on the victim, you should take a look."

That was a new clue they hadn't found in the previous case.

When all members of bau's team gathered in the police station, they each talked about their new discoveries.

Morgan put the phone on the desk and turned on the speakerphone: "Hey, baby, I turned on the speakerphone. Can you list a list of the various services performed by the two companies in the month before the two cases, allowing A list of strangers coming into their house, a repairman or a delivery person, anyone who might come into the house, and see if there's anything in common?"

"ok."

They could all hear the crackling sound of Garcia's keyboard being struck by her, but the results of the search disappointed everyone again, there was nothing in common.

In addition, Garcia was unable to find the intersection of the two victims in her vast database, and the dental records could not find any useful information.

How did the suspect choose the victim?This is the crux of the case.

"This is a more difficult class of suspects to catch."

"How to say?" Amanda used to be in the white-collar crime department, but she never encountered serial murder cases, not to mention that she is not a systematic profiler, so she doesn't know much about it.

"According to our profile, the suspect and the victim have no personal grievances. In addition, he committed crimes across states within a year. If his criminal characteristics were not exactly the same, and he killed a family, it is very likely that he would not be linked. "Morgan explained, and at the same time hoped to re-organize the case, there must be something they didn't notice, and that might become the key to solving the case.

"In this case, how do we catch him?"

"We have to establish a profile, release it to the public and appeal for help. If the suspect has been watching the victim's family for a long time and stabbed the victim's cat and dog, someone must recognize him." Hodge said.

At this time, Amanda, the liaison officer, was needed to contact the media and released Bau's profile: "The suspect is white, male aged 25-35, he is very strong, he probably likes to exercise, he may have some facial injuries disabled." This is speculated based on the suspect smashing all the mirrors in the victim's house and the bite marks he left on the victim in the second case.

It also pointed out that the suspect had been active in the community where the victim lived. If any citizen has more detailed information, please call the anonymous reporting hotline immediately.

"Hopefully we'll get useful leads."

After that, everyone was busy answering the clues provided by enthusiastic citizens, but most of the hotline calls were not sincerely trying to help, and most of them were watching the excitement.

Amanda was ready to stay up all night, and Rhett hurried over: "I seem to know how the suspect knew the details of the victim's home."

home videotape.

"A home video tape was recorded in the last victim's belongings. I remember it clearly. It is the same company that was printed on the box of this video tape."

"Are you sure, Rhett?" Morgan called Garcia without waiting for Rhett's answer. It seemed that he had confidence in Rhett's memory. "Sweetheart, I need you."

"No problem, handsome chocolate guy, you are always here, ahh~"

"I'm on speakerphone."

"Oh, cough, please tell me." After hearing Morgan's description, Garcia was extremely annoyed, "How could I have missed this point, don't talk to me, I'm going to move my fingers."

Previously, Garcia's investigations were focused on the intersection of the activities of the two victims themselves.In addition, they all believed that the suspect was eyeing the victim in reality, but they didn't expect that the suspect actually watched the victim's family through home video tapes, and then chose them.This is indeed a blind spot of thinking.

With a new breakthrough, Garcia quickly found a candidate who fit the profile from her vast database: "Mark Brewster, the manager of the technical service department of the video tape conversion company, responsible for the maintenance of video tape conversion equipment."

"Can he see all the tapes of both families?"

"That's right, he can see all the family's videos. Needless to say, I have his photo, address including business address and home address, as long as I can find it, I will send it to you when I speak. "

"Set off."

Amanda put on her bulletproof vest, and she, Rhett, and Morgan followed the police car to the company where the suspect was.

"A suspect like him who thinks he is God will not surrender. The final result is usually arrested and shot by the police." When Reid talked about his profession, he was full of confidence, mixed with shyness. That confident quality made him look very attractive, at least to Amanda.

However, the genius baby was really right-they happened to meet the suspect outside the company, the suspect with the gun.

"Amanda, be careful!" Reid rushed forward and hugged Amanda, whose back was facing the suspect, and turned his back to the suspect.Amanda grabbed Rhett's waist in a flash, knocking him to the ground.

Two gunshots sounded one after the other.

The suspect fell to the ground.

Amanda also fell to the ground.

"Amanda!"

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