“Reid, did you find anything?” The young man was looking
over at Maura as Frost comforted her.

“Sorry Hotch, I went through Rodriguez’ bedroom there.  It didn’t look like too much had changed
since he was a boy.  The same pictures
that were downstairs in the living room were in his room.  None of them ever showed his mother smiling
and in all of them she was wearing long sleeves, even when father and son were
in short sleeves.”

“Typical of domestic violence, wearing long sleeves to hide
bruising.  The abuse must have been
constant.” Rossi said.

“Apparently it was” Korsak’s voice was strained.  “I just finished talking with his partner,
Rodriguez told him about some of it apparently.
Bragged about how his father knew how to keep a woman in line. He
mentioned daily punishments for bad behavior.”

“Jesus” Rossi said.

“Tell me we have something.”
Emily’s clipped voice carried through the room. She and Morgan walked in
and came right over to Maura and Frost.

Letting go of Frost, Maura extended a hand.  Emily took it and squeezed reassuringly.  She knew she wasn’t fooling anybody but she
couldn’t break down, not yet.  “We’ll
find them I promise,” she whispered to her.
She couldn’t say they would be alive, didn’t want to think about that,
but she knew they would find them.  She
refused to rest until she found them.

“Garcia, you said you and Maura may have found something.”

“Yes sir,” we were able to track down a small home that
Detective Rodriguez owns about 10 miles outside of Boston and another house
there in Boston that is or was owned by his mother.  The property apparently passed to her son
after her death but hadn’t been updated since it was in probate, I found it still
pending in the court records which is why it didn’t turn up earlier.  Dr Isles suggested going through the court
records as well as arrest records for Rodriguez.  Neither home appears to be occupied sir.”

Two locations, that meant the team would be split up with
supporting law enforcement on call.

“They’re at his mother’s.” the voice was tired, but
sure.  Surprised they all looked at him.

“Why Derek, why do you think they’re there?” Rossi realized
that Morgan was on the outs with the team right now and while he had his
differences with the younger man, he really was a hell of a profiler.