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Bones Catching the Gravedigger Episode Bones catching the gravedigger episode Continue Serial killer state prosecutor (former) William Burton (1998, annulled) Heather Tuffett aka Gravedigger was a serial killer who buried people alive and held them for ransom. Background information (edited by the source of editing) Not much is revealed about Taffet's life before becoming a gravedigger, but it was revealed in The Hero in the Hold that she, in 1998, was married to a man named William Burton exactly one month before the annulment of her marriage. She used this short marriage to create an untraceable fake identity that she used to rent a vault where she kept her kidnap equipment. In his first appearance in Aliens in a Spaceship, the Gravedigger (who at the time was considered a man) committed six kidnappings. The victims of four of them were released when the ransom was paid, the family of one victim, Terrence Gilroy, had not paid and the body was never found (although the gravedigger strangled him almost to death before burying him), and the sixth case, Ryan and Matthew Kent, failed for her and the boys' family; The gravedigger intended to kidnap one of them, but eventually kidnapped both. When they were inside a container that held enough oxygen for 24 hours, they used it twice as fast and they died; despite the fact that one of them killed himself to give the other more time. Kidnapping and ransom expert Thomas Vega believes that the FBI's policy of not paying ransoms is outdated and dangerous and, in cooperation with a journalist, writes The Gravedigger's Disclosure. The seventh kidnapping has a team racing to find the victims, Brennan and Hodgins, before time runs out. Modus Operandi 'edited source' Taffet kidnapped her victims in garages from places where security cameras couldn't see them, stunning them with a modified stun gun, and working on any witnesses (for example, in cases the Kent brothers are buried, and with Brennan and Hodgins being buried. She then makes one phone call to a friend or family member of the victim demanding a multi-million dollar ransom (the amount depends on how much the victim's family can afford) using a digitally modified voice. As a forensic examination, she used containers that could not be traced to her, such as the victims' own cars, coffins, rusty refrigerators or beer vats, and used untraceable foreign bank accounts to collect ransom money. Throughout the Bones series (edited by source editing), Dr. Brennan and Jack Hodgins were trapped in a buried Gravedigger's car. Season 2: Aliens in Spaceship 'Edit Source' All Surviving Victims those whose families or relatives paid the ransom until the Gravedigger kidnapped Temperance Brennan and Jack Hodgins. Brennan delved too deep into the and Hodgins was also kidnapped because he ran out to tell her something important and interrupted the kidnapping. The gravedigger buried them both in the car and demanded a ransom of $8 million. This was unusually higher than previous requests and is likely different because Hodgins is the sole heir to Cantilever Group, the third largest private company in the United States. The group was unwilling to pay the ransom without proof of life, but thanks to Brennan and Hodgins being able to use the car battery to temporarily jump-start Brennan's phone and send coded text to Seeley Booth, they were able to provide the team with a vital key to figure out where they were held before the air ran out. Season Four: Hero in Hold edited the source of the Gravedigger's Personality, as it turned out, Heather Taffett. She is a United States attorney who took over the Gravedigger case after the last lawyer assigned to him, Kim Kurland, was killed in a car accident. Taffett is believed to have killed Kurland by somehow sabotaging her car; Taffet does this to gain full access to the Gravedigger case, to steer the case away from her, and to eliminate the people she sees as threats. She kills Thomas Wega as he starts digging further into the case and kidnaps Booth to force Brennan and Hodgins to return key evidence so she can destroy him. She was identified as gravedigger when Brennan suggested that the fracture on one of the Gravedigger's victims was caused by a defensive wound that would have given the attacker a broken rib. When Taffett handed over some documents to the group, Temperance notices that Taffett could not raise her hand professionally and after a thorough blow in the right area reveals to everyone the true identity of the Gravedigger. She is silent about the team's attempts to interrogate her for information about Booth's whereabouts until Jared Booth uses his military contacts to go through von Tuffet, this technically illegal search allowing them to find the equipment she uses as a Gravedigger, and the abandoned ship where she left Booth. Season five: The Boy With the Answer (editing source) she presents herself in court after being charged, and the evidence found in the storage locker is prohibited as illegally obtained. She hints to Bones about not finding a number yet (meaning phone number), which ends up being that number she called when she was in prison. The room initially led to the pizzeria until Angela found out they were the coordinates where one of her victims, 10-year-old Terrence Gilroy, was buried. Although Tuffett intended that the boy's discovery was a mockery of the team, Bones and Booth used evidence in the murder to convict her, a forensic examination of the body confirming that he was killed by someone with a physical and a DNA sample taken from the boy's mouth confirming that he had bitten Taffet when she tried to kill him. Season Six: Bullet in the Brain (Editor) When Taffett appealed her sentence, she was on her way from prison to the Federal Courthouse to take part in her appeal when she was shot one in the head with a rifle. The force of the .338 Lapua Magnum completely destroyed her head and skull, spraying blood and brain matter all over the place, some of which landed on Lance Sweets, which Tuffett had teased and taunted just seconds before her death. A subsequent investigation revealed that she was murdered by Jacob Brodsky, Booth's former mentor, who approached James Kent, the father of old victims Taffett Ryan and Matthew Kent, and offered to kill her for $2 million (this was the amount Taffett demanded as a ransom for the two boys; presumably it was an act of revenge on Kent's side as he tried to avenge the deaths of his two sons). Notable Victims (editing source) September 1999: Terrence Gilroy (strangled; his family did not pay ransom) Uncertain dates from 2000 to 2005: Four unnamed victims (all were abducted and rescued, when their families paid the ransom) October 31, 2001: Kent Brothers (both kidnapped and died) November 14-15, 2006: Temperance Brennan and Jack Hodgins (kidnapped; rescued) Sometime in 2008: Kim Kurland (possible victim of a sabotaged car) February 4-5 , 2009: Seeley Booth (kidnapped; was rescued) February 5, 2009: Thomas Vega (intentionally killed; subdued taser, then tasered in the heart) Notes edited source Taffet is often seen as Anti-Brennan in what she was just as brilliant but completely lacking in human emotion. She considered herself above all others, and it seemed that accepting life meant nothing to her as long as the ends met. BonesSeason 2Season 2 DVD cover artCountry OriginUnited StatesNo. episodes21ReleaseOriginal networkFoxOriginal release30 August 2006 (2006-08-30) - May 16, 2007 (2007-05-16)Season timeline← PreviousSeason 1Next →Season 3List episodes of Bones Second Season of the American television series Bones premiered on August 30, 2006, and ended on May 16, 2007, on Fox. The show aired on Wednesdays at 20:00 ET throughout the season and consisted of 21 episodes. The season averaged 9.4 million viewers. Actors and characters See also: List of characters Bones Main Cast Tamara Taylor joined the cast this season following the departure of Jonathan Adams. Taylor first appeared in the first six episodes of the season as a guest star and was promoted to series regular and appeared in the opening credits starting with episode 7. Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Bone Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist David Boreanaz - FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, Official relationship with Jefferson Michael Conlin as Angela Montenegro, forensic artist Eric Millegan, as Dr. Zack Eddy, a laboratory technician for Dr. Brennan, and now a professional forensic anthropologist, T.J. Tien, as Dr. Jack Hodgins, entomologist Tamara Taylor, as Dr. Camille Saroyan, a forensic pathologist and the new head of the forensics department, prosecutor Stephen Fry, as Dr. Gordon Wyatt, a psychiatrist, as Max Keenan, Brennan's fugitive father Jessica Capshaw as Rebecca Stinson, Booth's ex-girlfriend and Parker's mother Heath Freeman as Howard Epps, serial killer Ty Panitz as Parker Booth, Brennan's brother Billy Gibbons as Angela's father David Greenman as Marcus Geyer, forensic expert Danny Woodburn as Alex Radziwill, and the State Department as episode 19, but was postponed due to the Virginia Tech massacre as the plot of the episode featured finding human remains on a college campus. The episode later aired in April 2008 as part of the third season, with new footage. Episode Aliens in a spaceship presents the plot of the gravedigger, an unresolved case. The gravedigger will later return in season four when the team learns its identity. Serial killer Howard Epps returns for two episodes in which the team must discover more of their victims.
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