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sympathetically. I would imagine rape to be a rather noisy sort of crime. Apt to draw attention if the<br />
woman puts up a struggle. Where did the assaults actually take place?”<br />
“The first in an edge of the woods, the second in a public woman’s washroom, the one used by<br />
the train passengers,” Trevor said. “For the third, the baker, he presumably followed the woman back<br />
to her place of business for she was attacked in her own kitchen.”<br />
“Did he use a weapon to subdue the women?” Rayley asked.<br />
Trevor hesitated. “He had a scarf.”<br />
“A scarf?”<br />
“Indeed.”<br />
Rayley frowned. “To choke or to gag them?”<br />
“Neither. He used it as a blindfold.”<br />
This last statement brought silence to the table. Trevor noted that Geraldine had not yet spoken<br />
at all. Although loquacious by nature, she often held back at the beginning of the Tuesday Night<br />
Murder Games only to spring forth at the end with a barrage of comments which were either<br />
profoundly insightful or astoundingly bizarre. To date, the ratio was about 20/80. But tonight she<br />
merely continued to sit thoughtfully, her evening cup of chamomile resting on the broad ledge of her<br />
bosom, her eyes fixed on the table before her.<br />
“Shall we summarize?” Trevor asked. Past experience had taught him that when the<br />
conversation lagged, a revisiting of the particular points was a good way to get it going again. “We<br />
have a man who most likely arrives in a town by way of a midday train. He disembarks and finds a<br />
bevy of women working in the area around the depot. After the train is gone and the crowd has<br />
scattered, he follows his selected victim and to a private place and assaults her, then catches a later<br />
train to leave the town. What would a forensic psychologist conclude about such a man? If we were<br />
to apply the basics of criminal profiling, what would they suggest?”<br />
“He’s organized,” Rayley said promptly. “At least enough to use the train schedule to his<br />
advantage and to select his victims along certain criteria.”<br />
“And in the same vein, he possesses at least some self-control,” Emma said. “He isn’t raping<br />
in a manic frenzy. He plans his crimes.”<br />
“Looks normal or at least fits in well enough to avoid attracting attention on a train,” Davy
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