

It is surmised that Taffet killed Kurland by somehow sabotaging her car Taffet does this to gain complete access to the Gravedigger case, to steer the case away from her, and eliminate people who she sees as threats. She kills Thomas Vega when he begins to dig further into the case and abducts Booth to force Brennan and Hodgins to return a key piece of evidence so that she can destroy it. She is a United States attorney who took over the Gravedigger case after the last attorney assigned to it, Kim Kurland, was killed in a car crash. The identity of the Grave Digger is revealed to be Heather Taffet. Season Four: episode 14-> The Hero in the Hold The Group would not pay the ransom without proof of life, but thanks to Brennan and Hodgins managing to use the car battery to temporarily 'jump-start' Brennan's phone and send a coded text to Seeley Booth, they were able to provide the team with a vital clue to work out where they were being held before air ran out. This was significantly higher than previous demands because Hodgins is the sole heir of the Cantilever Group, the third biggest privately owned company in the United States. The Grave Digger buried both of them in a car and requested an $8 million ransom. Brennan had delved too deep into the case and Hodgins was also abducted because he ran out to tell her something important and interrupted the kidnapping.

Brennan and Jack Hodgins trapped in a buried car by The Gravedigger.Īll the surviving victims were the ones whose families or relatives paid the ransom, until The Grave Digger abducted Temperance Brennan and Jack Hodgins.
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Throughout series Season Two: Aliens in a Spaceship ĭr. The seventh abduction has the team racing to find the victims, Brennan and Hodgins, before time runs out. A Kidnapping and Ransom expert, Thomas Vega, felt the FBI's policy not to pay ransoms was antiquated and dangerous and, in collaboration with a journalist, wrote Uncovering the Gravedigger. When they were inside the container, which held enough oxygen for 24 hours, they used it twice as fast and they died despite one of them killing himself in order to give the other more time. A sixth case, Ryan and Matthew Kent, failed for both her and the brothers' family the Gravedigger had intended to kidnap one of them, but ended up abducting both. Four victims were released when the ransom was paid, but the family of one victim, Terrance Gilroy, didn't pay and the body was never found (although the Gravedigger was later found to have strangled him unconscious before burying him). In her first appearance in Aliens in a Spaceship, the Gravedigger (who at the time was believed to be a man) has performed six abductions.

She used that brief marriage to create an untraceable fake identity she used to rent a storage facility where she stored her kidnapping equipment. Nothing is revealed about Taffet's life prior to becoming the Gravedigger, but it was revealed in The Hero in the Hold that she, in 1998, was married to a man named William Burton for exactly one month before having the marriage annulled. 2.4 Season Six: episode 11->The Bullet in the Brain.2.3 Season Five: The Boy with the Answer.2.2 Season Four: episode 14-> The Hero in the Hold.
