Chapter 271 Another corpse
When the BAU arrived, Tim was directing the patrolmen to pull up the blockade. When he saw Jack get out of the car, he put his hands on his waist, buckled the belt with his thumbs, and tilted his head. He raised his head and commented on him.
“Shouldn’t you FBI guys all wear white shirts, ties, and black suits? You are the most un-FBI agent I have ever seen.”
Jack stepped aside, Rhett, who showed his back, smiled and said nothing, retorting with facts.
To be honest, except for Hotchner, everyone else in their group dressed as they pleased.
When Jack goes out in the field, he likes to wear dark, stain-resistant long-sleeved or short-sleeved T-shirts with jeans, a suit jacket to cover the spare gun under his armpits, and he never wears a formal suit or tie unless necessary.
"Where's John?" Jack looked around and didn't see the old rookie.
"Inside, they found several bloody footprints and are tracking them. Take this with you."
Tim handed him a walkie-talkie and pointed to the dilapidated area behind the blockade. This community is located on the edge of the town and has been abandoned for a long time. The several row houses built against the hills are in dilapidated condition and the walls are covered with graffiti.
Unlike the general FBI, which has its nostrils turned upward, the members of the BAU team usually try their best to maintain the relationship with the local police. These psychologists are all good people, and they are well versed in the principle of failing to succeed and failing to succeed.
What's more, Tim and the others are all Jack's old friends. When they briefly introduced the two parties, even Hotchner showed a rare smile.
Seeing Tim, who also likes to keep a straight face and pretend to be cool, and his hypocritical greetings, Jack and Hannah couldn't help but smile knowingly.
As he walked into the scene, Hotchner turned to look at Red and asked, "How far is it from the abandoned body last night? Five miles?"
"In the south 6.2 Miles,” Red corrected.
"Why? They go to such great lengths, knowing clearly that the police are looking for the whereabouts of the girls, yet they still take the risk and drive the bodies so far away?"
Hannah questioned.
“There must be a reason why they had to do this, and that’s why we came to the scene.”
Rossi, who was walking at the front, said while putting on his gloves.
Walking into the townhouse where Tim and others found clues, they found it was also filled with all kinds of strange graffiti symbols, wine bottles, needles and cigarette butts everywhere, accompanied by an unpleasant smell of urine.
In the innermost room, there was a worn-out mattress, stained with blood and traces of various unknown liquids. Some torn clothes were scattered nearby.
Emily and Hannah hurried forward, avoiding some obvious footprints on the ground, and came to the mattress to carefully examine the pieces of clothing.
Jiejie opened a statement on her mobile phone to help them check. This was Katie's mother, Mrs. Irwin's description of the clothes Katie was wearing when she went out that day.
"That's right, it's right here. These clothes all match. Katie was taken here." Jiejie Facial Lotion couldn't bear it and didn't say any more.
"This may be the murder weapon that killed Katie, and it matches the mark on her neck." Rhett took a belt from Jack and carefully inspected the metal buckle.
“There are cigarette butts all over the floor, these beer cans, and DNA evidence everywhere. Isn’t this too unprofessional for a killer?”
Jack tried to walk to the mattress, but found that there was nowhere to go. He had no choice but to kick away a few empty cans before walking to the end.
He carefully pulled the mattress apart, and as expected, found a pink mobile phone in the gap between the mattress and the wall. "Katie's cell phone was out of battery. That was the reason why the call was cut off. The murderer didn't even notice that the girls secretly dialed the phone."
Everyone looked at each other in shock. Everything was completely different from what I had expected.
Because of Keith Vaughn’s witness protection status, everyone inferred that the most likely possibility was that professionals kidnapped two girls, tortured and killed one of them, warned Keith Vaughn, and then took him with him. Take away his daughter and use it as a threat to get him to refuse to testify in court.
And everything in front of me doesn't look like that at all.
Hotchner's cell phone rang. It was Garcia. The two briefly chatted and ended the call.
"Garcia said that she checked all the databases and found that no Irish people matching the profile have come to the local area from Boston recently."
"So, is there a possibility, Katie and Lindsay may have left the cinema voluntarily, but they didn't expect to encounter this."
Emily put the torn clothes into evidence with an ugly expression. After hearing this, he looked up at Hotchner.
"You mean, all this has nothing to do with the Irish or the gangs?"
Everyone fell silent for a moment. If this is really the case, it is an ordinary random violent crime of teenagers.
What can take the two girls away from the cinema is most likely the peers they know. A little alcohol stimulation can make everything that follows completely out of control.
"If this is the case, then destroying the features of the corpse and abandoning the corpse by driving several miles away can be explained."
Red's face looked equally ugly as he spoke, because this This time their purpose was not to solve the case, but to save people. According to the current development of the case, solving the case is only a matter of time, but what they lack most is also time.
The longer time passes, the more desperate the murderer will become. Teenagers are the age most likely to go to extremes, which means that the chance of survival of the other girl Lindsay becomes very slim.
"Jack, your guys have tracked these bloody footprints at the back door. Have you found any results?" Rosie, who was standing at the back door, looked at the police walkie-talkie in Jack's hand.
Coincidentally, when Jack was about to press the call button, John's excited voice came from the intercom, "Hey guys, I found a body in the southwest corner of this house. "
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and Jack quickly called to the other party, "John, this is Jack, is the body you found the missing girl?"
"Ah, Jack? "Is it you?" John was a little surprised, "Uh, no, a boy of sixteen or seventeen, it looks like he was stabbed to death."
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After calling out to the two LAPD officers at the door, Jack handed them the evidence bag collected by them, and then looked for John's location.
The body John found was hidden in another corner of this abandoned row house, in a dark attic.
The boy was lying on his back with a mobile phone in his hand. There was an intermittent trail of blood on the floor behind him. This should be the reason why John was able to find his body quickly.
"Three stab wounds on the chest, which should have damaged the internal organs and important blood vessels." Jack squatted next to the corpse and looked at the pair of eyes that were still staring at death.
"The cornea is turbid and appears like a white cloud. The time of death was more than 15 hours, probably shortly after Katie's death."
(End of Chapter)