hunting grounds. They would catch him eventually because he would make another mistake, but it would be a while.
Steven decided he would go see Detective Grady to see where they were on this. If he had read the man correctly, it would not surprise him to see Steven showing up to ask questions about the case.
Detective Grady was in the process of building a list of people he needed to talk to about the last two girls that had gone missing.
The story would pop any day now and he had to get through the best prospects before the rest of New York started speculating on what had happened to the nine little girls, and little girls like his own daughter started seeing the boogeyman under the bed every night.
He had pulled everyone in his own precinct – beat cops to senior detectives – from the other missing girl cases in their jurisdiction and had asked for help from other precincts where girls had gone missing.
Everyone now agreed that the cases were related. All the other theories about every one of the other girls had been explored, but as all the law enforcement agencies involved looked at each of the cases, a very distinct pattern began to emerge. It was the last three cases that had really sealed the deal for everyone.
As much as everyone dreaded to admit it, they had a serial kidnapper/killer loose in New York and he was targeting little girls. It just couldn’t get any more nightmarish.
They also agreed that these last two gave them the best opportunity to catch this guy, so everyone agreed to help. They would keep their own investigations alive running in parallel with that of the last two girls, but they all agreed to provide resources to help with the interviewing of everyone related to their disappearance.
He also had the profile developed by the FBI to help narrow down the list. The profile was relatively helpful in that it helped to eliminate some possibilities that were almost certainly not the type, but the profile also described roughly a third of all males in New York. They would have to be careful to not rely on too many generalities and to focus in on some of the things that their own profile had in common with the FBI’s.
There were three principal groups that had to be interviewed, the families of both girls, their school teachers and all other school personnel, and anyone who could be identified as having been with or somewhere near the two girls outside of school hours and away from home.
Grady had decided to take Mia Reynolds’ family including all extended family on both sides that knew or had met Emily Wu, and he had asked Mark Mullins to take Emily Wu’s family and extended family on both sides who knew or had met Mia Reynolds. The same scenario was being repeated with their schoolteachers, ballet or piano instructors, anything the two girls had in common, any time they spent together was being meticulously scoured for information.
Everybody had the police and FBI’s profiles and would filter their people through them.
All agencies had agreed to meet at the end of the week to compare notes and eliminate as many people as it made sense to. Grady had also been coordinating with all the other lead investigators from the other precincts and the NYPD public information division just in case something did break or some reporter started asking questions.
Some of the investigators from the other precincts had already begun to mention that there were reporters sniffing around, asking questions about the missing girls.
Grady would be talking to Mia’s family later today. Her mother, her father and her 12-year-old brother were coming down to the station along with any other family member that had seen or been around the girls together.
After spending 10 years or more in homicide, most detectives could sense when there was a window of opportunity, and every investigator on this case could sense this was it.
As he was organizing his notes and related materials, Bob Grady heard a slight
Steven decided he would go see Detective Grady to see where they were on this. If he had read the man correctly, it would not surprise him to see Steven showing up to ask questions about the case.
Detective Grady was in the process of building a list of people he needed to talk to about the last two girls that had gone missing.
The story would pop any day now and he had to get through the best prospects before the rest of New York started speculating on what had happened to the nine little girls, and little girls like his own daughter started seeing the boogeyman under the bed every night.
He had pulled everyone in his own precinct – beat cops to senior detectives – from the other missing girl cases in their jurisdiction and had asked for help from other precincts where girls had gone missing.
Everyone now agreed that the cases were related. All the other theories about every one of the other girls had been explored, but as all the law enforcement agencies involved looked at each of the cases, a very distinct pattern began to emerge. It was the last three cases that had really sealed the deal for everyone.
As much as everyone dreaded to admit it, they had a serial kidnapper/killer loose in New York and he was targeting little girls. It just couldn’t get any more nightmarish.
They also agreed that these last two gave them the best opportunity to catch this guy, so everyone agreed to help. They would keep their own investigations alive running in parallel with that of the last two girls, but they all agreed to provide resources to help with the interviewing of everyone related to their disappearance.
He also had the profile developed by the FBI to help narrow down the list. The profile was relatively helpful in that it helped to eliminate some possibilities that were almost certainly not the type, but the profile also described roughly a third of all males in New York. They would have to be careful to not rely on too many generalities and to focus in on some of the things that their own profile had in common with the FBI’s.
There were three principal groups that had to be interviewed, the families of both girls, their school teachers and all other school personnel, and anyone who could be identified as having been with or somewhere near the two girls outside of school hours and away from home.
Grady had decided to take Mia Reynolds’ family including all extended family on both sides that knew or had met Emily Wu, and he had asked Mark Mullins to take Emily Wu’s family and extended family on both sides who knew or had met Mia Reynolds. The same scenario was being repeated with their schoolteachers, ballet or piano instructors, anything the two girls had in common, any time they spent together was being meticulously scoured for information.
Everybody had the police and FBI’s profiles and would filter their people through them.
All agencies had agreed to meet at the end of the week to compare notes and eliminate as many people as it made sense to. Grady had also been coordinating with all the other lead investigators from the other precincts and the NYPD public information division just in case something did break or some reporter started asking questions.
Some of the investigators from the other precincts had already begun to mention that there were reporters sniffing around, asking questions about the missing girls.
Grady would be talking to Mia’s family later today. Her mother, her father and her 12-year-old brother were coming down to the station along with any other family member that had seen or been around the girls together.
After spending 10 years or more in homicide, most detectives could sense when there was a window of opportunity, and every investigator on this case could sense this was it.
As he was organizing his notes and related materials, Bob Grady heard a slight
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