“I want to go on record and say I don’t like any of this,” he admitted. He’d been silently listening, and it was making him twitchy for so many reasons.
Yeah, her too.
“EJ, we don’t have anyone who is incredibly old,” she admitted. “If Chrissy found DNA fromYEARSago, that gives this person an advanced age. Like our age,” she admitted, not going there with the‘there might be two killers’part yet. She didn’t want to taint her profiler’s opinion.
Not yet.
Elizabeth wanted to see what he came up with on his own first. When she glanced over at Gene, they shared a look, but thankfully, he didn’t go there. Never let it be said that she and Gene didn’t think alike.
It was clear they did.
Ethan was contemplating what she said.
“Who do we have that fits that?” he asked.
On the tablet, she opened her drive, and pulled up her suspect list.
‘Devon Slater
Larry Springer
Jeffrey Von Gunter
Trenton Balkin
Bill Farmington
Ernie Kotile
Hector Del Rio
Travis Del Rio
Alexi Redmond’
She went down the list, and used her tablet to pull up their driver’s licenses to confirm.
“Devon is mid-thirties, Larry Springer is late fifties, Trenton Balkin is sixty, Bill Farmington is fifty, Ernie Kotile is forty-three, Hector Del Rio is fifty, and his brother Travis is two years older. Alexi is not even forty yet. He’s mid-thirties, and the same is true for Jeffrey Von Gunter.”
Ethan looked at the names, and their ages.
“It won’t be on the younger end. Anyone in their forties is going to be cutting it too close. I say that because they would have needed time to ramp up to it.”
Yeah, and that gave her absolutely nothing because that was a lot of her list. Age didn’t eliminate many. It just removed Alexi and Devon.
She needed to figure out a way to eliminate more, or she was going to have to throw Gene’s theory at him.
“What else can you give me?” she asked.
He wished there was more, but he’d given her everything he could up to that point.
“As we start talking to more people, I’ll be able to extract pieces. Right now, we don’t have a lot. I’m running on a customary profile of someone who has a fascination with the dead, and a sexual attraction to them. This person had a trigger that made him want to pursue this, and he found he liked the control.”
She sighed.
Well, then, she needed to get interviewing to give her husband more insight so he could feed her information.
“I feel like we’re about to be fucked over,” Gene said. “Whenever I get that feeling, it generally happens,” he admitted. “Coming from a once Hunter.”
