Chapter 518 Tomb in the Forest
"Is this the nightlife of New Yorkers? These East Coast people are so pitiful." Hannah held a cup of hot coffee and covered her mouth with a small yawn. .
Yesterday was the first weekend after she reported to the office in New York. She dragged Jack to experience the nightclub culture in New York. After the nightclub closed at four o'clock, she found a bar to sit for a while. I didn't go home until dawn.
Compared to the Buddhist or healthy life attitude of most Los Angeles people, the nightlife of New Yorkers can be described as crazy and boring. Jack doesn’t know what fun it is to shake his head and twerk in a deafening nightclub. Even Hannah also said she would not try it a second time after the novelty wore off.
Jack sat behind the long dining table and frowned as he looked at the New York City Department of Health website. There was a long list on it, indicating a large number of types of aquatic products that were not recommended for consumption or long-term consumption. .
Such as blue crab, sturgeon, river herring, oil herring and striped bass, etc., including almost all freshwater and offshore fish produced in the East River and Hudson River, and even offshore seafood produced near Long Island are labeled not recommended for long-term edible.
Polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metal pollution, mainly mercury, have basically destroyed all the local aquatic products. Jack rubbed his brows with a headache, which meant that the range of ingredients he could choose from on the menu was reduced. Big cut.
Although he is not short of money in his pocket now, when he thinks that even to make crucian carp soup, he has to spend a lot of money to prepare the fresh fish shipped by air, he is not in a good mood.
Sighing, Jack closed the notebook. He could only endure it for the time being. He hoped that like Rosie said, he really only stayed in this hellish place for a year or two. Now he could only do more research. How to cook deep-sea seafood such as king crab
“Go to Long Island today?” Jack suggested. Long Island is close to Brooklyn and Queens. It is a suburb of New York City and is also a well-known resort and wealthy people. District. In "Growing Pains" he watched as a child, the Seaver family lived here.
Before Hannah could speak, their cell phones rang almost at the same time. Jack looked at the number on his cell phone, and then looked at Hannah's. The person calling him was Dana Moge, and the person calling Hannah was Jubal. ·Valentin, no need to guess, this is coming to life.
"Chief Moge, what are your orders?"
"I sent you an address in Long Island, come here now, Sands Point, located in North Hemp, Nassau County, Long Island A village in the town of Stead, the police found a large area of burials here, and they suspected that a serial killer was responsible. It is up to you to decide whether to invite the BAU to help."
"Understood, Madam." Jack picked up. There were car keys on the table, and he and Hannah went out together. It really came as no surprise. As soon as Long Island was mentioned, the case came up.
Sand Point is located in the northern bay of Long Island. It is best known as a lush bay nature reserve park, covering an area of about 216 acres, with two ancient castles and a nice beach.
The environment here is quiet and the climate is humid. It is a retreat for the rich and famous in New York. Except for the cold and wet winter, many well-known writers and musicians like to use this place as their first choice for summer escape.
After passing through the congested urban section and onto the Long Island Expressway, Jack finally let out a long breath. Hannah sat in the passenger seat, her cell phone ringing non-stop. The operations center was already busy. Zhu Barr Valentine is sending over what he has learned so far.
Early this morning, a middle-class black family living near Sand Point suddenly encountered an uninvited guest. A young white girl covered in injuries suddenly broke into the family's backyard and shouted for help.
The man of the family immediately notified 911, and the ambulance that arrived took her to the hospital. The girl was stabbed more than thirty times and suffered severe blood loss. She is still being rescued.
The Nassau County Sheriff then dispatched a K9 agent to follow the blood trail and found an dug grave in a small forest clearing in the nature conservation park.
The grave was not deep, just a casually dug earth pit. Perhaps this was the reason why the girl was able to escape. But what really shocked the two search police officers was that in this small forest clearing, They saw nearly 20 small dirt bags.
Following the forest path, Jack arrived at the forest clearing according to the GPS coordinates. Many people had gathered here, including the Nassau County Sheriff's Office and the FBI's ERT (Emergency Response Team) The team and CSI researchers have arrived at the scene. Although CSI is nominally affiliated with the New York City Police Department, their scope of work has exceeded the NYPD and expanded to New York State. This is also the latest attempt at joint operations by the FBI New York Office under the leadership of Dana Mauger.
The FBI also has its own forensic laboratory, which is quite powerful, but not every state is equipped with such a high-level laboratory that requires a lot of money to maintain.
Therefore, the FBI's forensic laboratory in New York often has to process evidence from other regions. If it is too busy or is not specialized in areas, it must be transferred to the forensic center at the headquarters in Quantico for processing.
So when Jack saw Mike Taylor here again, he wasn't too surprised. He briefly introduced him and Hannah, and the two parties started communicating about the current situation.
"We have retrieved several corpses. Preliminary judgment is that they are all young white women. The degree of decomposition is not too serious. They have been transported back to the laboratory first. Our forensic doctors are probably very busy."
Mike Taylor still looked like he had not woken up, and the bags under his eyes became more and more serious.
Jack counted the simple graves on the ground, "Nineteen in total?"
Mike Taylor nodded, "Yes, eighteen corpses, one survivor, we are checking carefully In each grave, I hope to find some clues, but the hope is not high. The murderer looks very cautious and professional.”
"Hannah, what do you think?" Jack knew that Hannah had led many cases when she was in the Los Angeles office, but his impression of her work basically still stayed in the period when she was a partner in the LAPD, so he wanted to test her.
Hannah took a few steps forward and looked around. After entering work mode, she seemed to be a different person. Her independent and confident temperament made it difficult for Jack to stick to her before going out. Huhu's little sweet girl is connected.
"He is very smart. The murderer is very planned and organized, and is very familiar with the surrounding situation. This woodland is very remote. After we got off the Long Island Expressway, we took more than ten turns to find it, so he chose Burying the body here was obviously well thought out.
But he doesn’t seem to be a very patient and overconfident person.”
“What should I say?” Jack raised his eyebrows.
"This is the first time he was negligent. After murdering 18 people, he didn't even bother to check whether the victims were dead this time. Therefore, his character does not have obsessive-compulsive disorder characteristics. It is different from the common psychopathy. It's like completing a kind of work."
"Good analysis." Dana Moger walked over from a distance and gave Hannah an approving look.
“I just finished a brief on-site interview, and this case has been handed over to you two. This is a rare paradise near New York. Such a vicious case has never happened. I hope you can Solve it as soon as possible"
(End of this chapter)