The Skin Collector (Lincoln Rhyme 11)

- Thigh-length dark coat

- Dark backpack

- Wore booties

- No friction ridges

- Professional tattoo artist or has been - May be using a 'splitter' for the tattoos - Uses bloodline to outline the tattoos - Not from area; more rural probably - Using book to learn techniques and outthink Rhyme and police?

- Obsessed with skin

- Will possibly be targeting the police - Organized offender; will be planning attacks ahead of time - Probably returned to the scene

COD: Poisoning with cicutoxin, introduced into system by tattooing - From water hemlock plant

- No known source

- Concentrated, eight times normal

Sedated with propofol - How obtained? Access to medical supplies?

Tattooed with 'the second' Old English typeface, surrounded by scallops - Part of message?

- Task force at police HQ checking this out - Scallops are cicatrization - scarring - and probably significant

Portable tattoo machine used as weapon - Probably American Eagle

Cotton fiber - Off white

- Probably from Unsub's shirt, torn in struggle

Page from book - Probably torn from Unsub's pocket in struggle - Probably mass produced hardcover 1996-2000

- Book is Serial Cities. He was interested in Chapter 7, about Bone Collector.

- Psychological connection with Bone Collector? Revenge?

- Using book to learn techniques and outthink Rhyme and police?

- Obsessed with skin

- Will possibly be targeting the police

Possibly used adhesive rollers to remove trace from clothing prior to attack.

Handcuffs - Generic, cannot be sourced

Flashlight - Generic, cannot be sourced

Duct tape - Generic, cannot be sourced

Trace evidence

Nitric oxide, ozone, iron manganese, nickel, silver beryllium, chlorinated hydrocarbon, acetylene - Possibly oxy-fuel welding supplies

Tetrodotoxin - Fugu fish poison

- Zombie drug - Minute amounts