“Dr Isles…Dr Isles…I asked if you
were alright?” The concern in Reid’s voice was touching,

“Yes I’m sorry, what did you say?”

“I asked whether we had a similar time
of death or not? Within an hour or two?” Reid asked

“I’m sorry why?” confused Maura
failed to see the relevance

“Well it may be part of a pattern, time of death if similar
may be related to this unsub directly.
It may be symbolic for him.” Reid looked at the files in front of her
and nodded.

Flustered, Maura reviewed her files, “Oh, certainly, let’s
see the first victim, discovered at 7 am TOD determined to be approximately
three to four hours earlier. The second victim was discovered at 8:30am with TOD
set at approximately 4am.  Hmmm.”  Maura saw where this was going and it
certainly appeared that all of women were being killed at approximately the
same hour of the day.

Reid walked over to the smart board and started charting.

“Detective Rizzoli, were these women reported missing at
all?”

“No, victims one and two lived alone and had left work late
so no one was expecting them.  Our third
victim also lived alone and had left the hospital a little after midnight.  According to our fourth victim’s sister, she
thought her sister might have had a date but she wasn’t sure, but she wasn’t
expected home that night.”

“And the fifth victim, detective?” Rossi sensed that Jane
was going somewhere with her explanation, “Well the fifth was apparently on a
date with a detective from our gang unit, Detective Max Rodriguez, Frost
interviewed him and he says he dropped her off at her apartment around 1:30am.”

“Where was he after that?” Emily’s question prompted Jane to
look at her as she encouraged Frost to answer.

“According to both Detective Rodriguez and his partner, he
was on the job after that, we’ve had some trouble lately with some of these
Latino gangs so they make a point of showing up where they hang out a couple of
times a week.” Frost sounded proud of the other detectives but Emily shot him
down.

“Can we confirm that?  I don’t want to belabor the point, but we
have five victims and the clock is ticking.
Do we know for sure he was where he says?” Getting up she moved toward
the board tapping the pictures one by one.
“We don’t want to add a sixth just because we took someone’s word for
it.”