Profiler

The VCTF tracks Jack to his---and Sam's---home town from the prison where Sam had killed Jill. But they're not really tracking Jack---he's luring them.

A rapist-killer abducts young women engaged to successful men. Most are found with a single slug in the base of their skulls---and with inner-ear damage.

The VCTF probes three murders in which the victims had been castrated. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to Jack's prosecutor.

Ten women are found dead in Alabama. The killer? "He's a hunter," Sam surmises, but she can't nail her profile and that bugs her.

In Newark, N.J., a killer cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common.

The VCTF is summoned to Allentown, Pa., where the FBI's man on the scene is spinning his wheels on a serial-murder case in which the killer burns his victims' faces.

Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime.

It's Christmas in rural Georgia, where an ax-murderer finishes the jobs by taking swatches of the victims' clothing. In Atlanta, Sam trims the tree with her new beau.

A prosecutor wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise.

The day before convicted killer Martin Fizer is scheduled to be executed a murder is committed in the same fashion---and with the same gun---as Fizer's had been.

In Los Angeles, three men have been murdered---by hand---and their bodies dumped near the sites of 1940s and '50s Hollywood landmarks. And at VCTF headquarters, George finds something disturbing on Donald Lucas's computer.

A serial killer targets victims in the South who are all roughly the same age and have the same blood disorder; Sam learns her father's secret.

In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools).

Having hacked onto the Internet from prison, Lucas has contacted someone in a small northern-California town. "You think he has a disciple?" Bailey asks Sam.

A 32-year-old woman is abducted---or is she?---from her children's soccer field by a 16-year-old boy. Meanwhile, Bailey is increasingly tense as his wife's remarriage approaches.

An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds.

Sam and Bailey (who's shopping for a present for his ex-wife) are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup.

The bodies of rich people are washing ashore in Palm Beach, Fla., with a finger missing. The only other thing they have in common: the same investment firm.

Sam calls in Jarod of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings.

Sam is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico.