The Perfect Crime (Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller Book 25) by Elle Gray

Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Gray
Published: 2024-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

8th District Police Station Conference Room, French Quarter; New Orleans, LA

“Okay, walk me through this again,” Farr says.

Standing in front of the map we’d tacked to the wall, I point to each of the red push pins we’d put in to indicate the location each pair of red bow bound shoes was found. Seeing all twenty-three pins on the board is heavy. It somehow makes the fact that we’ve got twenty-three missing, very-likely-dead women on our hands all the more concrete. It puts abstract into focus and reminds me that there are twenty-three women crying out for justice. As if I need the reminder.

“All right, geographic profiling is the idea that a serial killer has a zone of comfort. And they very likely will not kill within that zone of comfort,” I start.

“Why is that?” Farr asks.

“Because within that zone of comfort, more times than not, will be their residence, and they don’t want to taint that area,” I say. “And the last thing they want to do is have the police combing the streets near where they live. So, they will kill outside of that zone. This leaves a very clearly defined void in the kill map.”

Farr steps over to the map, and I watch as she takes it in. Her eyes move from one pin to the next, the weight of the case perhaps settling down over her once more. It’s not hard to see the weight of the burden she’s been carrying for years now and the toll it’s taken on her. I’ll give her credit though. She’s been true to her word about moving on from Barber now that it seems definitive that he had nothing to do with it; she seems to be pouring all her energy and focus into finding the person actually responsible for these girls going missing.

She circles an area on the map with her finger. “So, if we go by your geographical profile idea, our guy lives within this area?”

“More likely than not, yes,” Paige says.

“It still leaves a lot of area to cover,” she remarks.

“It does,” I agree. “But it helps us begin to narrow things down some.”

“How definitive is this?” Farr asks.

I shrug. “I don’t think anything is truly definitive. There are always outliers, and there will always be a lot of wiggle room one way or another with most anything,” I admit. “Most killers aren’t even consciously aware they’re doing it, but among those the Bureau has analyzed over the years, it’s turned out to be pretty accurate. Geographic profiling is right far more than it’s wrong, but like everything else, it’s just one tool in our box.”

Farr studies the map for a moment longer, then turns back to me. “Okay, show me how this thing works. You’ve piqued my curiosity.”

“Okay, Nina. How are we doing on those lists?” I ask.

“Whew!” she says. “Louisiana incarcerates a lot of people every year.”

“That we do.”

Nina has her head down and is still pecking furiously at her keyboard as she works to come up with the information I asked for.

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