Chapter 776 Heading South
Leaving Ronnie’s mother’s home, Clay’s expression was still very awkward, “What kind of mother would let her young children witness her selling money to pick up customers?”
Jack didn't answer. He had never seen such a bad thing in his two lifetimes. The only person who could give a correct answer was probably Lord Wei in the work of a certain martial arts master.
His focus was on the other side, "Remember what we saw at the first victim's home? What did we see in Madison Hargrove's bedroom?"
Clay's eyes lit up, "You are referring to the marks you found on the pillow, right? The victim was forced to put on heavy makeup, as was the second victim, just like what we just saw That woman. Just like Ronnie’s mother with the heavy makeup on her face just now, it’s a psychological trauma.”
Jack nodded, then shook his head, "Not only that, but remember the pair of dancing shoes under the dressing cabinet in the bedroom? I bet Madison must often practice dancing in a dance studio.
Also. The second victim, Jackie Vogel, was kidnapped directly by Ronnie at the dance studio next to the mall, and she was a dance teacher."
"You mean, this. Is this how Ronnie searches for victims, searching for dance studios everywhere and quietly following girls home who have similar appearance to his mother when she was young?" Clay suddenly realized.
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Early the next morning, everyone gathered in the conference room of the command vehicle and showed the autopsy report in their hands, "Madison Hargrove's The autopsy showed signs of healed fractures in the metatarsal bone of her right foot, a common injury among dancers.”
"Jack's judgment was correct. I contacted the victim of the previous attempted rape case. She also studied ballet at a dance studio near her home." Jubal looked a little sad.
After hearing what Jack and Clay recounted, everyone had such unspeakable expressions, and their outlook was greatly impacted.
Jie Jie analyzed, “Ronnie was not just venting his anger, forcing his victims to put on makeup, rape, torture, and so on. They were all ways in which he tried to regain some control and regain control of his childhood. The unfortunate experiences he was forced to experience, those victims were all reflections of his mother in his mind."
"Then why didn't he just kill his mother?" Aubrey said without a word. He asked with some confusion while eating the sandwich that Jack made last night.
“For Ronnie, this is just an impulse. We know this, but it does not mean that he knows it. He just thinks that doing so can let him vent it. His mother clearly told him , like telling me and Clay, that kind of thing feeds both of them
We know that he has been witnessing such embarrassing things in his childhood. This feeling is complicated. He is not simply imitating what those pleasure seekers did to his mother and repeating that scene.
But he is trying to correct, according to his own wishes, the scene that has been repeated in front of him, so he needs a bystander, just like him at the beginning, a bystander who will not judge anyone. Something is just an audience member expressing approval, and that person is Lei Lin. ”
Jack’s words made everyone fall into deep thought. There were no obscure psychological terms in these words, but the information contained in them was a bit hard to accept. In view of what Ronnie had done, it was impossible to talk about it. There was no sympathy for him, but an indescribable feeling of powerlessness arose in everyone's hearts.
The conference room fell into silence for a while, and everyone was trying to collect their emotions. After a long time, Clay sighed and asked, "So, will analyzing all this help us catch that pervert? ”
“Of course. "Jack motioned to Alice to bring up the electronic map of several surrounding states and mark Ronnie's previous whereabouts on it.
"He started in West Virginia, first went to Ohio, then returned to Harrisville, West Virginia, where he met Raylene, and then came to Pennsylvania.
I said before, Luo Ni has been trying to regain control of his weak, pitiful and helpless childhood, so there must be some pattern in his whereabouts. What we have to do is to find this pattern and predict his next target." Bree frowned. He vaguely understood what Jack meant, "Crony's mother is a migrant sex worker, which is almost difficult to trace."
See you at BAU Jiejie, who had learned more about Rhett's map drawing and analysis, already knew what Jack was going to do. "Retrieve Ronnie's mother's criminal record. The time was set before Ronnie became an adult and left his mother to live independently. They moved between states. They were all forced, and the only reason was that her mother was arrested for selling silver."
As Alice operated, locations were marked on the map, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia. New Jersey, North Carolina, and almost every state in the eastern and southeastern central United States are staggering.
Jack's conjecture was absolutely correct. Ronnie committed the crime in the place where his mother was arrested. All the places with repeated marks pointed to the same city or town.
Obviously, having to move because of his mother's arrest was also a disservice to him, who had been living on the move.
"Notify the local police departments at these remaining locations, issue a warning that local dance studios may be targeted, and inform the local authorities of the license plate and characteristics of the Subaru in which Jackie Vogel was driven away. State police, tell them to pay attention to the highway, especially the gas stations along the way.”
With Jubal’s order, everyone picked up the phone and took action.
In the afternoon, police from various places received replies one after another. The local police stations that received the notification had dispatched police officers to inspect the surrounding dance studios.
Just in case, the Ravenswood Police Department also sent two groups of plainclothes officers to track and monitor Ronnie's mother. Although it was unlikely that Ronnie would go back to find her, as the source of everything, Jubal believed that it was necessary to keep track of Her whereabouts.
State police in three neighboring states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, have deployed additional patrols on the main highways leading to each other to search for suspicious vehicles, but so far nothing has been found.
"What should we do next? Just wait like this?" Clay seemed a little angry. As a special forces soldier who is used to executing orders, he is not impatient, but after becoming a policeman, It was very uncomfortable for him to sit back and watch one victim after another appear.
"Of course not." Jack stretched out his hand and drew along Interstate 77 on the map.
“The Newark (New Jersey) office has sent a team of agents to Harrisburg, so our three remaining locations are all along Route 77, from Marietta, Ohio Head south to Mineral Wells, North Carolina
My idea was to go directly to Marietta and then split up into two groups, with one group and the command vehicle staying there while the rest headed south on Highway 77 toward Mineral Springs. "
Jubal heard this and drew a circle around the mineral spring town at the end with the pencil in his hand. After thinking for a moment, he nodded in agreement, "Just do what Jack said, Alice and I will go to Marie. Tower stayed behind while the others drove south on Highway 77.
Twenty-four hours have passed since yesterday, and Ronnie has not committed another crime, which means that he and Lei Lin may have temporarily left several nearby states, maybe they are on Highway 77 at this moment , we need to take the initiative. ”
(End of this chapter)