Paget Brewster credited as playing...
Emily Prentiss
- Emily Prentiss: This focus on reproductive organs could also indicate a deep-seated sense of self-loathing. He might have hated the fact that he was born.
- Jennifer Jareau: Or he had some sort of traumatic life-changing event associated with birth.
- Derek Morgan: And he could have hated his own mother. The strained mother/child relationship is a hallmark for many killers.
- Diane: That doesn't make any sense. "I hate myself or I hate my mother, so I kill women by ripping out their wombs"?
- David Rossi: It only needs to make sense to him. One man's logic is another man's crazy.
- Emily Prentiss: Fifty-three stab wounds. That's a lot of work. Does anyone want to tell me what they think that means?
- Lance: Hatred?
- Sloan: Frustration.
- Bianca: He's angry.
- Emily Prentiss: You're all correct. It's called overkill. Typically, it means the murder was personal somehow.
- Aaron Hotchner: That or the unsub is psychotic and/or prone to violent outbursts.
- Derek Morgan: The overkill may also show his inexperience. This was probably his first kill, and he was feeling his way through it, working out his M.O.
- Emily Prentiss: But there's a lot about Rachel that tells us about the unsub. She was young, so most likely he was, too.
- Lance: What makes you think that?
- Jennifer Jareau: She lived in a shelter, and had a part-time job, so she was a street kid, but not necessarily the reckless type. She wouldn't just go off with anyone.
- Jennifer Jareau: Okay, this is Rachel Moore, a 17-year-old runaway from Spokane, Washington.
- David Rossi: Now, she grew up poor and in a broken home. Her mom left her dad because he liked to drink and beat on her.
- Jennifer Jareau: And this is Tina Dyson, a 19-year-old college student from Seattle.
- David Rossi: Now, she was a trust fund kid, and she got straight As and came from a loving family. Now, these two girls couldn't be more different, but the one thing that they had in common is they both crossed paths with the most prolific serial killer the BAU has ever seen.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: One thing you should understand is that no two killers are the same. They each occupy their own point on the behavioral spectrum. Uh, genetics, brain chemistry, psychology, and environment are all factors.
- Aaron Hotchner: But we believe that this particular killer grew up in an environment so adverse that he never had a chance.
- Emily Prentiss: He endured years of cruel and abject physical abuse.
- Aaron Hotchner: As well as horribly profound psychological abuse.
- Derek Morgan: And when he wasn't being ignored, he was being humiliated.
- David Rossi: Now, let me be clear. Most abused kids do not turn into killers. Not even all psychopaths become killers, but this particular unknown subject, or unsub, suffered extreme abuse, and it has everything to do with why he does what he does.
- Derek Morgan: Now, these are some of his victims. He kidnapped them, he restrained them, and he starved them for days.
- Emily Prentiss: Then he killed them by mutilating their reproductive organs. Right now, we know there are at least forty of them.
- Aaron Hotchner: But we believe that he may eventually claim over a hundred victims.
- David Rossi: Now, we chose this case for today because we've been discovering bodies up and down the West Coast since 1992. For lack of a better word, it's a classic. This unsub's entire childhood was a crucible, and in it, a psychotic killer was forged.