Clara Hayes

Clara Hayes was a serial arsonist who attended Bradshaw College in Tempe, AZ.

Background
Clara Hayes is a chemistry student at the Bradshaw College in Tempe, Arizona. At the age of 16 the house her family had lived in burned down and Clara survived the inferno. In an interview her mother Ellen Hayes had called it a miracle and had told the press that her daughter was tested by God and came through blessed. At first the team believes the fires are set by a serial arsonist, but they soon figure that it wouldn't make sense as given the circumstances of the incidents the unsub couldn't actually watch the fires and hence couldn't derive pleasure from it. They also exclude the possibility of a professor being the Unsub after Elle points out that one needs self-confidence to lecture in front of a class which collides with the profile of the socially incompetent and solitary unknown subject.

Pathology
The team finds out that Clara suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder which leaves her with obsessional thoughts, impulses and images. In Clara's specific case she seeks patterns of three in her environment as she believe that God chose her to be tested and every time she perceives these patterns of three she has to test them.

Modus Operandi
Clara set fire to buildings using sprayed liquid fuels. She then escalated to murder when a student is caught in one of her fires.

Known Victims

 * Unnamed college male
 * Professor Wallace
 * Matthew Roland