Chapter 94 Faceless Man
The dull atmosphere at the scene seemed to be swept away. Rossi smiled and said to the two of them: "Then go quickly, remember to bring more people, even if it is an abandoned old zoo, The place is not small.”
Jack nodded and went back to the police station with John to pick up some equipment. It was almost 8 o’clock in the evening. Although the police station did not have SWAT’s high-tech head-mounted night vision devices, But an extra bright flashlight is enough.
Tim and others were still busy outside. They found some clues and were preparing to arrest the leader of the underground black market in the prison overnight. The two of them could only call Lucy, plus some police officers who were arrested by Gray Police. Si called back the police officers who were working overtime.
A group of 12 people drove 6 police cars to the abandoned old zoo. A police helicopter would provide them with air support later.
The old zoo has been abandoned for more than half a century. The barbed wire fence is dilapidated and the two gates are crumbling.
Worried about making too much noise and disturbing possible suspects inside, the police officers entered the zoo directly through the gap in the barbed wire fence.
It was dark all around, and the abandoned zoo was silent. Only the owls in the distant woods made a few faint calls, making the atmosphere eerie and terrifying.
"The place is too big, how can I find it?" John asked in a low voice.
Jack thought for a while and tried to use his extraordinary perception to explore the surroundings, but found nothing.
"Go in and take a look. If the suspect committed the murder here, it must have been at least half a year ago, and there will definitely be some traces left."
He paused, looked at the dilapidated facilities around him, and had some idea. idea.
"There should be no electricity here, right?"
John looked back and said, "The transformer outside has been scrapped long ago, and not even homeless people will come here."
"So the suspect either uses a car generator to provide power, or installs a small generator here. Both methods will make a lot of noise. He can find a way to block the light, but he can't block the sound, right?"
The police officers suddenly realized, and they spread out to explore deeper, looking for the building making the noise.
Soon the police discovered the anomaly. Lucy reported in a low voice on the intercom, "To the northwest, there is a reptile exhibition hall. I heard the sound of the generator running and could vaguely see it. There are lights inside.”
The rest of the people gathered around, and half of the police officers surrounded the exhibition hall to prevent anyone from escaping through the back door or broken windows. The rest were about to break in from the front door. John took a posture and was about to go. He raised his foot and kicked the door, but Jack grabbed him.
He gently turned the rusty door handle, and the old wooden door creaked and slowly opened. John tilted his head in embarrassment. He was affected by the atmosphere here and was a little too nervous.
Jack held a gun in both hands and walked at the front, trying not to make a sound. The exhibition hall was divided into several large rooms, and various small rusty iron cages were placed along the walls.
Where the rooms are connected, the partition door has long since rotted. Someone had roughly cleaned up the place, moved the rotten door panels to one side, and nailed a few soft plastic door curtains to the porch to block the wind.
Jack carefully opened the door curtain, feeling a little certain in his heart that their guess should be correct. Although these transparent door curtains were stained and stained, and seemed to have been hanging for a few days, they were not covered with spider webs. It means there are people coming in and out here all the time.
The window glass on the wall is covered with advertising paper and old newspapers. The glass is intact. The homeless will not do such meaningless things. It seems that they have probably found the right place. After walking three or four rooms further in, the originally faint rancid smell gradually became stronger. Dim lights came out from the last room. Jack waved his hand gently, and Lucy tiptoed around him with tacit understanding. Next to the door frame, he carefully pulled up the plastic curtain for him.
Jack standing at the door was facing a pile of iron cages, but he could vaguely see an iron frame bed in the middle of the room, with a naked woman lying on it, looking like He seemed to be delirious and kept making low moans.
A man was squatting beside the bed with his back to the door, muttering vaguely in his mouth, lowering his head and messing with the woman for no apparent reason.
The Glock in Jack's hand was aimed at the opponent, and he moved forward carefully with his feet. When he felt that the distance was almost there, he shouted: "LAPD, raise your hands."
The man turned back sharply , under the dim light, this is a face without facial features.
“Bang!”
Although the atmosphere in the abandoned zoo at night was eerie, Jack was not too nervous because he was not alone. As a result, the faceless man turned around and almost frightened him to the point of peeing. , subconsciously pulled the trigger.
The faceless man's brain exploded and he fell to the ground without any suspense. Only then did Jack see clearly that this bastard had put a sack on his face and only made two holes for his eyes.
Jack stepped forward and kicked it gently. The man's right hand spread out, and a bloody tattoo gun fell to the ground. The woman lying on the bed had blood dripping from her abdomen and several DOD tattoos on it. The letters and numbers haven’t had time to be engraved.
Lucy quickly stepped forward to check the woman's condition.
"Is she okay?" Jack asked.
"She's still alive. I don't know what this child of the beach injected into her. It might be a sedative or a drug." Lucy rolled the woman's eyelids and shined a flashlight to check the pupil reaction.
"7-A-26, an ambulance is needed. The situation is urgent. Sound the siren to clear the way. Notify the shift commander Gray and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Rossi. A victim has been found. He is still alive. The suspect has been shot. "
After speaking, Jack glanced around and discovered the source of the stench. There was a large oil drum next to the wall. It was full of bloody scratches, which reminded him of the severely damaged bodies of the two previous corpses. Fingernails.
"This should be the oil drum used by the murderer to suffocate the victim."
The patrol policemen who followed John in, all shuddered when they saw the inside of the oil drum that smelled of corpses. What a cruel scene.
Someone stepped forward and kicked the murderer's body unceremoniously, turning it over, trying to find identification. The remaining few people continued to search inside and outside the house, and the police helicopter in the sky had also He arrived and turned on the searchlight to provide lighting. After all, no one could be sure whether there was only one murderer.
Not long after, the ambulance arrived and took the semi-conscious female victim to the hospital. Lucy got into the car and followed her. Jack and John waited until the LAPD forensic team arrived to take over the scene, and then returned to the police station. , although it is already midnight, there are still many things to sort out.
As a result, when the two arrived, everyone in the briefing conference room was present. Rossi was in front of a large whiteboard, filled with various photos and drawing mind maps.
Seeing the two people entering, Rossi motioned for them to take a seat and continue the case analysis that had just begun.
(End of this chapter)