Chapter 773 The Third Victim
“Judging from the extent of the body spots and rigor mortis, the time of death was close to 10 hours. He should have been killed yesterday shortly after he was kidnapped and left home.
The heavy makeup on the face of the deceased is consistent with what you saw yesterday According to the description of the scene, the stab wound on the left leg was consistent with the mark on the restaurant. The stab wound on the chest was the cause of death. I have suffered many times during my lifetime. I am sorry and I can’t go on.” Si couldn't help it anymore, so he ran to the side and vomited, crying at the same time.
Aubrey was glared at by Jubal, and Sansan stopped trying to come forward to comfort him, and stood beside him honestly.
Jack began to assign tasks to everyone one by one, "Ask the surrounding merchants. The time was between two and three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Ask if anyone has seen or noticed the whereabouts of Ronnie and Lei Lin. Lei Lin's walking posture is very special. , this is a very conspicuous feature.
There are surveillance cameras at the entrance of the mall, the entrance of the bank next to it, and the entrance of the dance studio over there, and these surveillance videos are collected.”
After that, he called Hannah and asked her to drive the car over. The place was large enough and connected to the main road, so the base vehicle could fulfill its original purpose.
An hour later, when the FBI's ERT team arrived at the scene, the black-painted command vehicle with the FBI badge had already put down the stationary hoes used to fix the body and deployed the sideslip compartment.
Everyone got on the bus one after another and walked into the fairly spacious conference room. Alice was holding a cup of hot tea in her hand, her eyes still a little red and swollen. Jiejie stood behind her, putting her hands on her shoulders. to soothe her emotions.
Hannah, who sat in front of the computer instead of Alice, handed everyone a tablet, "I found the video of Ronnie and Lei Lin abandoning the car."
"Sorry." Alice stood up subconsciously, and just now Realizing that Hannah had done the work that should have been hers.
"It's nothing, everyone has their first time, and your performance is already very good." Hannah remembered that when she was still an LAPD, she was blocked by several armed gangsters in an apartment building. She was in a blind spot, and she couldn't calm down at that time.
But Alice still insisted on returning to the computer and continued working. Hannah gave up her seat and walked over to Jack with a smile and punched him lightly. She didn't know whether to praise or blame him for his sudden intensity. It's a bit high.
Jack watched the video intently, sliding his fingers back and forth on the tablet to adjust the progress bar. The video captured the Chevrolet Malibu entering the parking lot at 2:02 pm yesterday. At that time, he was wanted. The key criminal team is still on its way to Greensburg.
Ronnie got out of the car and walked leisurely towards the camera with his hands in his pockets. The camera just clearly captured his front face. Lei Lin limped behind him, more like a follower than his girlfriend. .
"Were there any other cameras that caught them leaving? There should be surveillance at the three exits of the parking lot, right?" Jack asked.
Hannah shook her head and said, "I didn't find it. Either they consciously avoided the surveillance position, or they entered the mall and left through other exits.
They found a good place, there are people here People were coming and going, and it was easy to blend into the crowd."
Jack frowned, "Remember Ronnie's arrogance when he left Hargrove's house? He was not afraid of being discovered by us. It’s a game for him, whether we catch him first or he finds more innocent people first.”
The rest of the people looked at each other, Clay scratched his head and looked a little frustrated, "But we have asked around, and no one remembers seeing them."
"Maybe I have some discoveries here." Sitting in front of the computer Alice suddenly said, with a slight nasal sound in her voice, "This Subaru is a bit suspicious."
Everyone gathered in front of the computer screen to listen to her explanation, "This is the camera at the entrance of the bank. Notice Is this a Subaru XV?
We can see in the previous video that when Ronnie and Rae Lin got out of the car and walked towards here, this car just passed by them and could barely be seen clearly. The driver is a young woman."
As she spoke, she switched the video to a surveillance screen from another angle, "This is the camera at the entrance of the bank. After two minutes, the car turned into three. Personal.”
Everyone frowned and looked at it carefully. The picture was not very clear. In addition, although the speed of the vehicle was not fast, it was much faster than a normal person walking. They could barely judge based on their preconceived impressions that the person sitting in the co-pilot was Ronnie and Lei Lin. In the back seat. "Didn't the camera at the door of the dance studio capture how they got into the car?" Jubal asked quickly.
"It's just a decoration, it's not used at all." Clay, who was in charge of that position, replied in a sullen voice.
“Can you find the license plate?” Jack’s eyelids twitched, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart. The owner of this Subaru XV is likely to be the next victim, considering this was yesterday afternoon What happened is probably more serious than bad.
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Mount Pleasant, a little-known town in central Pennsylvania, is located less than 50 kilometers east of Greensburg. When everyone arrived here, the sky was already covered with dark clouds and it was pouring rain.
“Are you sure you don’t need to call SWAT?” Jubal pulled the bolt of the Maxim Defender assault rifle and carefully checked the chamber. The heavy rain falling on the roof of the car crackled, making his voice dull. Somewhat vague.
"Nearly a day has passed." Jack opened the car door, and strong wind mixed with rain swept into the car, drowning the rest of his words.
After getting off the car, he pressed the wireless headset and the voice became clear again, "Aubrey and Jubal surrounded the house from behind, and the others followed me to the front door."
There was still a building in front of him. Wooden structure houses are common in old America, but because there is heavy snow here in winter, compared to the warmer Los Angeles, the houses here have an extra spire and a small attic.
The North American continent, especially the eastern region, lacks east-west transverse mountains. Although the latitude of Pennsylvania is not too high, in winter, the cold air from the north can drive straight in unbridled, even reaching as far as Florida adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.
The so-called four distinct seasons, in other words, means that it is extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. It is common for the lowest temperature to reach more than ten degrees below zero in winter, and there are often heavy snowfalls.
In the summer, it will become very hot and humid here again. Even the downpour like this now can't take away the heat and boredom in people's hearts.
While Alice obtained the license plate through image processing, Clay and Jubal came to the dance studio again to inquire about the situation, and the identity of the owner of the Subaru XV was determined with two verifications.
The owner of the car is named Jackie Vogel, who is the owner of the house in front of him. He is 24 years old and a dance teacher at a local middle school. He also teaches dance in that dance studio.
When Ronnie and Raylene appeared in the parking lot yesterday, Jackie Vogel happened to leave the dance studio and go home. After confirming the situation, everyone rushed to Mount Pleasant without stopping.
Jack leaned against the door and nodded slightly to Clay, who immediately reached out and knocked hard on the door, loudly identifying himself, "Ms. Vogel, we are the FBI, please open the door!"
< br>The only response to them was the deathly silence in the house and the sound of rainwater collecting on the roof and falling along the eaves. Jack had actually smelled the smell of blood coming from the house. He reached out and tried to turn the door handle, and the door opened with a sound. open.
Clay impatiently raised his foot to enter the door, but Jack stopped him. He lowered his head and motioned for him to look at his feet. He saw a long blood trail behind the door extending all the way into the living room and leading to the inner room.
Jack walked into the house avoiding the bloodstains on the ground, pointing to the left and right. Behind him, Jie Jie and Hannah knowingly separated to check the rooms on both sides, while Clay followed him silently.
The two of them followed the blood trail into the bedroom. The increasingly strong smell of blood told it all. A female body covered in bruises lay face down on the bed. Blood was splattered everywhere on the sheets and even on the wall.
Jack put the gun behind his back, slowly squatted down in front of the bed, and looked into a pair of blue eyes that should have been very moving.
Even the heavy make-up that has been applied randomly cannot hide the girl's sweet appearance. Coupled with the bloody scene in front of her, it makes people feel an uncontrollable anger.
“Shit!” Clay clenched his fists and walked out of the bedroom quickly, and then there was a thud from outside, the muffled sound of a fist hitting the wall.
Jiejie, Hannah, Jubal and Aubrey walked into the room with gentle steps one after another, silently watching everything in front of them, as if they were mourning in silence, and as if they were promising something in their hearts.
(End of this chapter)