“Weighted gloves! Morgan you use those don’t you?  They’re used to increase speed but what if
they are being used as gloves, would that explain the confusing nature of the
contusions?” Reid’s boyish smile earned him one in return.

“Yes Dr. Reid, a weighted glove could cause that damage.  I cannot say for certain that it did.  I was simply offering a hypothesis based on
the evidence I had up to the fourth victim.”

“Excuse me Doc,” Korsak looked over at Jane waiting for her
to say something, anything but she was just sitting there glaring at Maura. “Good grief Jane, really?”

“Why up to the fourth victim? Wasn’t she beaten and
strangled as well?”  He knew she had been
working on the autopsy all morning.

“Yes Detective, she was, but our fifth victim appears to
have also been sexually assaulted, prior to her death.”

“But why?

“Why not?

“Something must have precipitated?

“Its very unusual?”

Maura was taken aback by the at the amount of discussion
that one statement had, she was thinking in terms of evidence they were
thinking profile

“The offender left no DNA and the only trace evidence I
found were some fibers that I was examining before this meeting.”  Maura queued up the pictures of all five
victims.  There were two pictures, one
headshot and one post mortem displaying the injuries.  “The nature of the injuries was almost
identical, almost methodical.  The first
and second blows tend to do the most initial damage to the victim.  The subsequent repeated blows…”

Hotch was impressed, this was some of the best information
they’d ever gotten to begin to formulate a profile.  And figure out why the sudden sexual assault.

“Thoughts?” Hotch posed the question primarily to the
members of his team but wanted input from everyone, and thus far, he looked
over, Detective Rizzoli had said nothing.

“White Male, athletic, or used to be…”

“Same age range as victims, approx 25-35 years of age” with
the pause in ideas,

“Alright people we have five victims from diverse
backgrounds, Garcia, we need everything Boston PD has on them and what you can
dig up, we need to see how they tie together, also…” Hotch was surprised by the
sudden interruption.

“Look at them,”

Jane’s voice was cold, the raspiness of her voice more
noticeable because of her agitation. “I’m sorry detective look at who?” Rossi
said quietly, he had noticed the detective’s increasing agitation and had
worried she would cause a scene.