Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, November 17, 2020, season 3 episode 2, “Unreasonable Doubt” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 3 episode 2 as per the CBS synopsis, “The team races to stop an active serial killer after three women are found weighted down at the bottom of a lake, and Jubal looks into an old closed case after there are multiple similarities to the recent victims.”
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A couple of kids came across a dead body. They were messing around with small smoke bombs. They were throwing them in the water and one of the bombs must have been too close to the remains because it brought it up to the surface. The remains were that of Beatriz Santos. She was identified by the tattoo she had and what was clear about the body is that it had to be murder. She was bound with wire. Her body was weighted to stay underwater and if it hadn’t been for those kids then who knows how long her body would stay hidden. The State Troopers were called. They alerted the FBI because they believe it might turn into something bigger and they had been right. More bodies were found underwater.
All the victims were women. They were also all married and their husband reported them as missing. The FBI believes that the women were kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Their wedding rings were also all stolen. The bodies weren’t found with them and so the Unsub must have them. The Unsub was also sticking to one area in Westchester. He was hunting in that area and he was disposing of the bodies in that area. The Unsub in this case reminded Jubal of another case. Jubal arrested a man named Cory McMay for rape and murder. This was during the time when he had been drinking and his marriage had been collapsing. Jubal wasn’t at all like his usual self with this case.
Jubal, therefore, believes he might have made a mistake. The McMay case had been in Westchester and the victim at the time had been found the same brand of barbed wire that the current victims were tied with. Jubal reached out to an old contact. He wanted to know if he did everything by the book and she assured him that he had. They never found evidence to back up McMay’s alibi. They also other evidence to consider and so Jubal walked away from a visit from an old friend believing that his old case couldn’t be connected to this new one. Jubal didn’t tell anyone else about his fears. He kept to himself for a while because he wanted to let the investigation follows its natural steps. And those steps led to a parolee with a grudge against Beatriz.
The parolee called Beatriz a Stacy. “Stacy” was a term used by Incels who blamed women for the reason why they were celibate and they have message boards. Their guys were posting to message boards. He thought Beatriz was this horrible person because she didn’t accept a drink from him. Nevermind that she was married. He thinks if he had been richer or handsome that she would have taken the drink and would also have been nicer to him. The parolee posted about Beatriz to the message boards. The other victims were also on the boards. There had been other men who each had their own ignorant opinion of why the women were horrible and so it’s clear that someone, some incel, was following through on their threats.
The women had all been taken by night. They worked late and they disappeared with no witnesses. It was hearing this that forced Jubal to speak up. Jubal told Maggie and OA about McMay because McMay’s victim had been kidnapped at night. This along with other smaller details made Jubal believe that his friend had been wrong and they might have arrested the wrong man. He needed to be sure. He asked Maggie and OA to look into it. They did. They checked McMay’s alibi. His sister had claimed that he had been with her during the murder and she only revealed tonight that it had been a lie. She hadn’t been with her brother. She had no idea where he was during the murder and she lied because she was trying to protect him. Only she didn’t risk going to jail for him. Lying to the FBI was a federal offense and the sister wasn’t going to risk prison by maintaining the lie.
The FBI was also alerted when a new body was dumped. The Unsub couldn’t take his latest victim to the lake anymore and so he dumped her in a stream. He seems to be obsessed with water. He also was driving the bodies up to the dumpsite. The FBI found his car in surveillance videos. They couldn’t read the license plate. The Unsub was taking steps to obscure it with mud whenever he went out and so the FBI could only read the first three numbers. They ran the make and model of the car with the partial license plate numbers and it led back to Peter DeLeon. DeLeon reported his car stolen four months ago. He works at the hospital in the same unit where he was once a patient and he couldn’t be their Unsub because he injured his back in construction years ago. Maggie and OA still looked into him, but his neighbors think he’s a great guy and DeLeon wasn’t lying about his story.
The Unsub must have stolen the car as a countermeasure before this latest killing spree began. Jubal still had doubts about his past case and so he chose to visit McMay in prison. Jubal wanted a chance to question the other man again. He told McMay that he had doubts about his conviction and he told him that he could only help if McMay starts telling the truth. Jubal asked McMay how his DNA came to be on the victim. McMay still didn’t have answers for that because he swears he had no sexual contact with the victim and he doesn’t know how his DNA ended up on her. He thinks he was framed. He tried to convince Jubal he was feared and Jubal didn’t believe him. He thinks McMay was in on it with their current killer.
Jubal didn’t believe he was wrong until DNA on their latest victim came back as a match for McMay. McMay has been in prison for years and so it couldn’t be him. The FBI also learned that their Unsub was using WiFi from a coffee café. There were no cameras at the café. Only there was a bank across the street and the cameras from that bank showed Peter DeLeon going into that café every time someone from there accessed the incel boards. It turns out their killer was DeLeon. DeLeon also has McMay’s DNA because he received bone marrow from McMay when he was little and he had leukemia. DeLeon is literally the only other person who has McMay’s DNA. He let McMay go to prison for his crime because he hadn’t been done killing.
DeLeon grew up in an abusive household. His father hated him and his mother and he let him know it each and every day. DeLeon chose to blame his mother for not protecting him. He now hates all women and so the incel community was the perfect place for him. They gave him targets. He went after these women and he kept their wedding rings. It was the rings that proved to be his undoing. The FBI found them at DeLeon’s home and there was even the ring of McMay’s supposed victim. And so DeLeon came clean.
DeLeon confessed to his crimes and now McMay, who was wrongfully imprisoned, gets to walk.
Jubal broke the news to McMay. McMay was so grateful that he thanked the man that had wrongfully arrested him and so Jubal told the other man that he didn’t deserve his thanks. Jubal did a lot of things when he was drunk. He cheated on his wife with his partner and he forced his partner to cover up his mistakes on the job. Jubal also blacked out one night. He came to the next morning in his driveway and there had been blood found on his car. There were not hit and run reports from that night. Jubal came to believe he hit an animal. He wanted to believe he hit an animal and that’s what convinced him to get clean.
THE END!
