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�Special Agent Dana Scully,� Mulder said, emphasizing �Dana�, �is at the lab picking up the results from the autopsy on Lesedi Turner. And Commander Harmon Rabb,� he continued, correcting the pronunciation of Harm�s name, �had to get back to the base to follow up on a potential lead concerning the theory that the UNSUB is with the military in some capacity.�
�What lead is that?� Janz asked.
Mulder turned his chair slightly so that he was facing me more directly and I let out an inaudible sigh. �Any person, military or not, who enters and exits the base has to sign a log. Commander Rabb is collecting the logs for the dates of the attacks to see if there are any names that pop up every time,� I said. My explanation was received by thoughtful nods.
�Have any of the victims remembered anything?� Janz asked.
�Not that they�re admitting,� SAC Cole replied. �But it is entirely possible that the trauma is just too fresh for the memories to come out, let alone for the victims to talk about.�
That was one of the things that I hated about my job. People no longer had names. They were victims, defendants, witnesses, attorneys, and collateral damage. Once you found yourself involved in a case, especially one as emotional as a rape case�or, worse, a serial rape case�everyone lost their identities and were slid into neat little categories that kept human emotion from creeping through the tense fa�ades that we were all forced to develop and maintain.
�What about a connection between the victims?� Maguire asked. �Have we been able to pin anything down there?�
Elise Trainer shook her head sadly. �Greisemer is a teacher at some private school; Cowell is a lawyer with a small firm that handles small civil disputes; Chan-Knowles is a student at Michigan State who came down for her boyfriend�s sister�s wedding, and Tuner was a pastry chef at one of those places that would cost me two car payments for an appetiser. They don�t run in the same circles, haven�t been to any of the same restaurants or stores recently, and, as far as they can remember, they�ve never seen each other before in their lives. Greisemer is married, Cowell is single, Chan-Knowles has a boyfriend that she has been with for almost five years, and Tuner was single but had a teenaged daughter from a past marriage. None of them are the same age�they range from twenty to forty-eight. Their races are different, and religion is not a commonality, either, since Greisemer is Catholic, Cowell is agnostic, Chan-Knowles is Buddhist, and Turner was atheist according to her daughter, Serena. None of them look anything alike, which is odd because that is usually a common marker for sickos like this. They're all very different women, but no so different as to make that the common denominator.�
�Is it possible he�s choosing these women at random?� Maguire suggested.