When the BAU agents visit their first crime scene, William LaMontagne steps towards the blood stains and stands directly above one of the round stains. In the next shot he is about 1 foot away from the stain.
One of the French Quarter murder victims is killed in an alley after leaving a bar and separating from his friends. He is wearing a blue polo styled shirt that is not tucked into his jeans. As he falls after his throat is slit, he lands on his side and his shirt rides up so that about six inches of his skin is showing around his waistline. When he is found by the FBI, his shirt is neatly and evenly covering over his belt-line, and none of his skin is showing.
Reid says that Jack the Ripper studied medicine. It is a common urban legend that Jack the Ripper might have been a doctor or studied medicine, but those familiar with the case, both in 1888 and now, don't believe that he had any medical knowledge at all. Dr. Thomas Bond, considered to be the first criminal profiler and a police surgeon for Scotland Yard during the Ripper case said, "In each case the mutilation was inflicted by a person who had no scientific nor anatomical knowledge. In my opinion he does not even possess the technical knowledge of a butcher or horse slaughterer or any person accustomed to cut up dead animals." The official FBI profile agrees.
In the opening sequence, La Montagne's son begs him to evacuate as Hurricane Katrina rages outside, and mentions that people are drowning in their houses. He says "the buses are leaving now" and mentions that they're opening the Superdome. In fact, the Superdome opened and the last evacuation buses left many hours before the storm began; contemporary news reports showed people waiting in the hot sun for many hours to get in. On the other hand, very few people drowned in their houses in New Orleans on the night the storm came ashore. The vast majority of NOLA victims died the day after the wind and rain ceased, as the overwhelmed levees broke. In any case, anyone who has survived a hurricane knows that it would be highly irresponsible for La Montagne's son to urge his father to attempt evacuation in the middle of the storm. His best hope of survival at that point would have been taking shelter in an interior room.
Supposedly the unsub is taking a kidney from each victim to emulate Jack the Ripper, however that was in no way the Ripper's signature.
A majority of victims were missing part or all of their uterus, either 2 or 3 had kidneys removed but not always taken away, one victim was almost completely eviscerated and one victim was just missing her heart.
At 01:22- The tree that came through the window was lush with foliage. But at 07:37- The same tree is a pile of bare sticks.
The first scene occurs during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The second scene, when the team visits the death site, is 2 years later in 2007. It's very reasonable to expect a tree that has been uprooted and dead for 2 years to be bare.
The first scene occurs during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The second scene, when the team visits the death site, is 2 years later in 2007. It's very reasonable to expect a tree that has been uprooted and dead for 2 years to be bare.
On the jet, where Prentiss and Morgan are waiting for Reid, the location used was the same used as the airstrip near Quantico (as in S1,Ep1) not New Orleans. The scene is at 15:38.