Chapter 393 Beep beep beep, the Geiger counter beeped
“Maybe I can help you find a suitable house in my neighborhood.”
Jack thought for a while, this is probably The only way he can help is that maybe in a few years, he will offer to lend money to Emily, but it will definitely not be now.
Emily shook her head, "No rush, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself, let's wait another two years."
This topic could not be continued, and the two of them turned their attention again Put it back in front of you.
"It seems that at least this guy had a happy childhood." Emily dug out a lot of toys from the box at the door, such as plastic soldiers, deflated basketballs, baseball gloves and so on.
"Wide hobbies and good health." She said and dug out a lot of children's paintings under the box.
"It looks like a work from the schema period."
The schema period is a period of development of personal painting activities, and can also be called the "casting period" or the "golden period" , there is the unique innocence and intuitiveness of children's paintings, but at the same time they are full of emotion and imagination.
Jack recalled the knowledge he passively received from Red's encyclopedia, "The schema stage is usually between 5 and 8 years old, right? Is there any time on it?"
"It says 1985 on the back, so this guy is about 40 years old." Emily raised a finger at Jack.
"One to zero."
"No, one to one." Jack pulled out a baby photo, which showed an obviously white baby.
“The child in your picture also painted himself with yellow hair, which means the suspect is Caucasian.”
Emily curled her lips. This was an oversight on her part, but Soon she made a new discovery.
"Let's look at the changes in these paintings over time." Emily spread out several paintings side by side for easy comparison.
The crayon painting depicts the happy life of a family of four.
"The bright sun, the warm father's love and mother's love, the idyllic and beautiful home."
But as Emily's fingers moved between several pieces of drawing paper, first her mother disappeared. , then the sister disappeared, and finally the dog disappeared, the sun no longer appeared in the sky, and the idyllic and beautiful house turned into a dilapidated wooden house in the wind and sand of the Gobi Desert.
“This is the turning point in his life.” Emily sighed.
"Perhaps due to divorce or death due to illness, I lost two relatives in just a few years. The father and son depended on each other and went to a remote town."
Jack began to profile his childhood character. , "The father may have been too busy making a living and neglected to care about the child. The child began to become taciturn and began to close his heart. What was the trigger that led to his surname becoming increasingly extreme?"
He began to recall. The pornographic magazines in the box that had been taken away by the FBI before took out his mobile phone and called Rossi. He should still be with Hotchner at the moment.
Jack first stated his and Emily's judgment, and then asked Rosie to turn out those magazines.
“I remember there were several very early copies of "BOUDOIR", "PENTHOUSE", "HUSTLER", "TRANSFORMATION" and "PLAYBOY" in the box. The earliest ones were a few years ago. ”
"They are "PLAYBOY" and "PENTHOUSE" from 1982. They are well preserved and can be called collections." Rossi's voice sounded quite impressed.
Jack scratched his head, a little confused, "The time doesn't match up. We judge that the suspect is currently around 40 years old. Is this guy still a collector? But according to his taste, he shouldn't be able to see it. That's all."
"Maybe it was passed down, from his father, for example." Hotchner said from the side.
Rosie smiled knowingly, as if Hotchner had brought back memories of his early years, "I can still remember my father's poorly hidden secret treasures, which he always thought he had hidden. Very good.”
Jack also thought of his childhood, and it seemed that many boys would have similar memories.
"Obviously, what is different from ordinary people is that this guy quickly developed to a higher stage. Without parental discipline and guidance, he began to seek more. Later, those easily obtained abuse videos triggered a certain desire."< br>
Seemingly touched by Jack's words, the two old men on the other side of the phone started chatting.
“I remember when I was interrogating Ted Bundy, he gave a theory about erotic literature, and he said, ‘If you don’t want people to follow in my footsteps, don’t burn Catcher in the Rye. "."
".Burn "HUSTLER", I have also read your book," Hotchner continued the second half of Rossi's sentence.
Jack could almost imagine Rosie's expression as if her ass had been slapped just right. Ted Bundy was once a legend among serial killers. There is a special word for him, an elite pleasure-loving murderer.
The number of victims he murdered is still unknown. The estimated number ranges from 26 to more than a hundred people. He committed the crime only for five years, during which he successfully escaped from prison twice.
The most incredible thing is that a victim who luckily escaped from Ted Bundy actually agreed to his proposal in court after he was sentenced to death for the third time, and later During that time, he gave birth to a daughter.
Even during the nearly ten years in prison before Ted Bundy was officially executed, countless crazy women wrote to him, claiming that they were willing to die for him.
Jack remembered that Rosie once wrote that while hunting down another famous serial killer, the Green River Killer, Ted Bundy, who was on death row, offered to help solve the case.
And Rossi also admitted in the book that although the "Green River Killer" was only captured after Ted Bundy was executed, he was indeed inspired by him.
It’s just ironic that Gary Ridgeway, the “Green River Killer” who theoretically may have killed more people than Ted Bundy, was spared the death penalty by the great federal judicial system.
Jack hung up the phone. The score was now two to one, with Emily in the lead. The two continued to rummage through the clutter in the warehouse.
"Bingo, three to one, you lost, look what these are?" Emily turned out a lot of textbooks.
"Engineering, Mathematics, CAD User's Guide."
She concluded with certainty, "He went to a vocational school and was a repairman or interior decorator."
"Maybe I still have a chance." Jack got into the innermost part without being too dirty and dug out a Large cardboard box.
"I think this can be counted as two points." He pulled out a lot of clothes from the box, "Look at these."
"What the hell?" Emily stared wide-eyed. Eyes rolled back in surprise.
"The sizes are different, and they have all been resized. Do you think they are the victim's clothes?" Jack didn't understand women's clothing, so he could only ask for advice humbly.
"It's hard to say, but I'm more inclined to be a transvestite." Emily pursed her lips, holding a skirt and putting it in the sun for closer inspection.
“There are (jing) spots, but there are too many of them, as if I had used my hands repeatedly to ‘yin’.”
She took off her gloves, turned on the camera of her phone, and wanted to Taking a photo, but suddenly stopped.
"Jack, the camera function of my mobile phone seems to be broken."
Jack walked up to her and took a look, and found that there was something not obvious and strange in the picture captured by her mobile phone camera. White noise.
His heart moved, and he quickly took off his gloves, took out his mobile phone and turned on the camera function, and found that similar white noise spots also appeared on the screen.
"I remember that we have a Geiger counter in the equipment box, right?" Emily was shocked at Jack's words.
The two ran out of the warehouse at the same time. Jack took out a Geiger counter from the equipment box in the trunk of the car, opened it, and shook it in the direction of the garage. Sure enough, it made an unpleasant beeping sound.
"Jack." Emily's voice began to tremble.
"Well, it's not a big problem. It's only 80 microsieverts. Although it exceeds the background radiation in the normal environment by hundreds of times, the short time we stayed is not enough to cause too big a problem."
Jack comforted, patted Amy on the shoulder and gave her a free healing spell.
But the next thing is troublesome. Before the specific radioactive source is found, their work will come to a temporary halt and they need to wait for the CDC and other relevant departments to arrive and deal with it.
Taking advantage of the opportunity before the chemical defense department arrived, Jack called Hotchner, informed them of the situation, and asked them to quickly check the radiation situation there.
Thank God, there is nothing wrong with the pile of documents and video tapes, so the radiation source must still be in the warehouse.
Regarding the relationship between the white noise points captured by mobile phones and the actual amount of radiation, professionals are asked not to slap you in the face, just treat it as artistic processing.
In addition, in terms of time setting, it is impossible for Rossi to have participated in the "Green River Killer" case, and it is even less possible for the "Ted Bundy" case. It is not a world anyway, so just ignore it and just treat it as these murderers. Appeared ten or twenty years later than the actual history.
(End of this chapter)