“I’ve been looking at cell data. Nothing yet,” Alex stated, looking pissed. “He is probably using burners or swapping out SIM cards. Also, he could be using a rental vehicle.”

Ashley wrote down both items. “Traffic cams are still worth pursuing but going through the traffic cam data is something that will take up a lot of time and either manpower or computing power to examine.”

“I can get someone in my firm to set up a program to crawl over the data if I can have access to all the law enforcement systems involved,” Alex said.

Her boss was pouring a lot of company resources into the hunt for this monster. After Texas, Yael understood why.

Sloan spoke to a woman Yael didn’t recognize. “Get me a list of all the agencies involved and request the information or access credentials from each authority. As they all have an unsolved murder in their jurisdiction, I don’t see them objecting.”

Quiet settled over the room. They’d had all these questions before Texas and nothing had been resolved since. Frustration welled up inside Yael.

“Do we have an offender profile?” Sloan asked Frazer.

Frazer coolly returned her stare. “We’re working on it, but aside from young male, twenty to forty-five years old, who has a driver’s license and is competent with computers—”

Yael snorted.

Alex smiled grimly. “He’s way beyond competent.”

Frazer nodded. “I suspect he would have been considered gifted as a child. He was probably approached by one of the tech giants in high school. And he probably worked for a tech firm at some point.”

“He might still work for a tech company. It could be why he travels around the country.” Ashley Chen looked thoughtful.

Yael grimaced. Which might make him potentially even harder to trace because he might be able to disguise or erase his electronic footprint as he went.

“If he’s working for a firm then how likely is he to be permanently based near Houston?” Shane pointed out. “I mean, how many workers are sent on the road over the Gregorian New Year?”

Yael’s lips twitched as he qualified the type of New Year. Maybe she’d had a good influence on him after all.

Frazer sent him a look. “This is why the profile is taking time, although my team are working on it. We don’t have enough starting information. Is he still actively working in the industry and doing this in his spare time, versus being a full-time killer for entertainment purposes? We know little aside from the fact he enjoys ruthlessly torturing people to death and fleecing others while he does it.”

“Is he doing the crimes for the money or because he enjoys it?” Ashley noted the questions in her list.

“If he only wanted cash, he could kidnap the victims and demand a ransom,” Shane said.