The FBI collapsed the Ingram investigation, boxing everything up as if it had never happened. The failure was too huge, their failure upon failure upon failure magnified in the OIG’s confidential report. Director Harper had a choice: admit a serial killer had operated with impunity for almost two decades, the FBI unaware of him or his victims—and then admit that, after being arrested through sheer chance, the killer had manipulated the BAU, playing mind games until the FBI couldn’t tell up from down and hadn’t seen through his ploy to gain his freedom. That he’d escaped, unwittingly aided by
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