Chapter 804: Good things don’t work, bad things work
Jack and Red smiled in unison, while the bald forensic doctor on the side looked at the two young FBI agents with dumbfounded eyes. The image of a perverted killer was painted in front of him.
Leaving the medical examiner's office, Jack took Red back to the office and picked up Emily to go to the scene of the third murder, the townhouse community.
Jack, the LAPD patrolman responsible for blocking the scene at the door, did not recognize it. This place is not under the jurisdiction of the Wilshire Division. It looks like a recently renovated community. Only the surrounding iron fences and high surveillance cameras can be seen. From the looks of it, the security seems to be quite serious.
As soon as Emily got out of the car, she began to try to put herself into the murderer's train of thought, "How do you think he knew which house to go to?"
"It's similar to burglary, right?" Jack looked up and looked at the surveillance camera. There was only one installed at the door, and it was located too high. He could duck through it as long as he lowered his head.
"Track, mark, pretend to be a delivery person... uh... or just push the door in." Jack was stunned before he finished speaking. Good guy, the lock on the seemingly solid iron fence door is broken. Just push it and it opens.
This is not so much a townhouse as a small townhouse. As we all know, except for the city center and business districts around Los Angeles, there are almost no multi-family houses with more than two floors. It's completely different from New York.
After viewing the crime scene, the two found nothing. They walked in the courtyard. When they saw someone at home, they knocked on the door and asked, but the answers they got were similar. They didn’t hear any movement, let alone Saw some suspicious people coming and going.
“What a small community, with just two rows and more than thirty households in total, there is only one common central courtyard, and all the front doors face the courtyard, but even so, when Patricia Bran No one heard or saw anything unusual when Nong was killed.”
Emily sighed.
"This is the same as what Rhett concluded before. The murderer acted in an orderly manner and was a veteran with certain criminal experience. He knew how to get in and out of here without attracting attention."
Jack pointed to the two surveillance cameras mounted high in the courtyard, "This is too obvious. It's almost telling others how to avoid it."
At this point, he suddenly thought of a question and asked casually He said, "Before you suspect that it may be the work of our insiders, have you investigated the ex-convicts living nearby?"
"Of course." Emily replied, "Garcia transferred out Throughout the Los Angeles area, there are people with criminal records related to torture, binding, etc. There are finally three suspects. When Rossi informed you, we had just eliminated the last person as a suspect."
"Do you have an alibi?" Jack said as he opened the passenger door for Emily in a very gentlemanly manner.
"Yes, the first two, and the last one just returned to prison the day before yesterday."
"Thank you." After Emily got in the car, she stretched out her hand gracefully, and Jack placed his hand on the back of her hand. "Take a bite", making her giggle, "Come on, you are about to win my heart."
Jack quickly gave a French military salute. It's okay to joke, but don't overdo it, and It's hard to start with someone who's too familiar with it, and it's easy to start a fire in the backyard. Now even Jie Jie's marksmanship has been trained quite well by him.
Back in the BAU office, Red was still the only one busy. The other three were still in SCIF and had not come out. However, although there was no way to contact them directly through mobile phones, Jack had other ways.
He came directly to Garcia's office. SCIF only isolated electronic signals, not completely cutting off the Internet. He could still contact the outside through highly confidential telephone lines.
The three Hotchners and Director Natalie stayed in SCIF just to keep the contents of their conversations confidential. They still needed someone outside to help provide data for screening. Garcia's office is as full of her personal characteristics as ever, with all kinds of colorful cute dolls and strange-shaped decorative ornaments forming a weird cyber-like combination under the illumination of the computer screen and chassis indicator lights.
Jack placed a cup of caramel cappuccino with a heart on the table, then pulled up a chair and sat next to Garcia. As expected, she He was wearing a pink Bluetooth headset and talking to Rosie.
“Yes, boss, there have been no reports of FBI agents’ IDs being lost or stolen recently, and I also compared the locations recorded on the cellphones of all male agents who came to Los Angeles from other places, including those who Agents working for business or private purposes
In the past week, only three field agents from the Los Angeles office have been around two of the crime scenes, and they are not completely overlapping. No agent has been around two or more crime scenes at the same time. "
Jack glanced at the action routes of the three agents over the past two days, and waved to Garcia to hand the earphones to him.
"Rosie, it's me, yes, I am. It shouldn't be them who just came back from the crime scene with Emily, eh, why?
Because when the third case occurred, these three detectives were all near Long Beach. Judging from the time, even if any of them helped to cover, the traffic conditions in Los Angeles at 8 pm would not be enough. It is very possible to arrive at the scene of the crime in time. "
Before Jack finished speaking, he could clearly hear Rossi on the other side of the phone heaving a sigh of relief, "It seems that it can be basically ruled out that our people did it, but we must also pay attention to other federal law enforcement agencies, Jiejie. Prepare a departmental briefing that is more politely worded. ”
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The reason why Rossi left Jack to assist in the case was, of course, mainly to use his super force to prevent accidents when catching the murderer.
There is definitely a big difference in combat effectiveness between an ordinary criminal who can use a gun and an FBI agent who has annual training and assessment requirements. Jack can avoid accidents to the greatest extent.
At the same time, Jack's excellent marksmanship and "decisive" character are also used to prevent the FBI from "accidentally" discovering some "details" that the FBI does not want to be known to the outside world when necessary. It can guarantee that the murderer will be killed on the spot.
Jack naturally understood Rosie’s thoughts immediately. At the same time, considering that the scene of the first two crimes was not too far from the jurisdiction of the Wilshire Branch, he naturally called a few old people after get off work. Get together with colleagues.
Seeing that Jack, who had promised to rush back to New York, stayed behind, the old rookie John was quite happy, but Tim and Angela looked a little weird.
As a police detective, and Tim as a superintendent, Angela is naturally better informed. Things like a serial killer appearing in the jurisdiction of the branch next door cannot be hidden from her ears.
Jack had nothing to hide from the old guys. He gave a general explanation of the current investigation and asked them to be more vigilant.
Angela is relatively better off, she is a police detective, but the old rookie John's daily job is still patrolling the streets every day, while Tim, as the superintendent in charge of patrol police, occasionally goes out on the streets.
Based on the usual piss-prone nature of this world, Jack estimated that if the murderer wandered into their territory, there would be a high probability that he would be attracted by John's "trouble magnet" physique, and others would be involved by the way.
Therefore, it is necessary to remind them in advance, lest they be accidentally deceived by the other party's "I am a federal agent". The law of immortality of the protagonist in this world has long been broken by a guy named Matt.
Because it was during the handling of the case, Jack just drank two glasses of lemonade with everyone and then left. After talking about the case, he took Jiejie back to his rebuilt small building to sleep.
Unexpectedly, before staying in the BAU office until noon the next day, the BAU team received a call. Another murder of the same type had just occurred, and the crime scene happened to be in Wilshire. within the jurisdiction.
Jack still drove the "Mammoth" and took Jiejie with him. Emily and Red drove the Saber class to the scene together. As expected, they met John, Tim, and Angie who had just arrived. pull.
(End of this chapter)