Chapter 1051 Corpses and Somalis (Double last day to ask for monthly tickets)
Everyone passed through the bottom of the railway bridge and came to the other side, and couldn't help but frown when facing the messy footprints on the ground.
Jubal squatted on the ground, silently identifying the number of footprints, but Hannah looked directly for the key point, "It's them. There is a small footprint here, which should be left by the 7-year-old boy named Nicholas." "
"They came down the hillside over there and went west." Detective Bolino drew a line with his hand and pointed in the direction where the footprints disappeared.
"Wait a minute." Old Muto suddenly lowered his face and stopped everyone who was about to step forward, and shouted twice behind him in a dialect that even Jack couldn't understand.
The three militiamen immediately held up the Bayi bars with solemn expressions, and bent forward to search in a formation of one in front and two in back.
"What happened?" Aubrey was a little confused.
Clay pointed to the big bird that was flying up and down by the woods in the distance, "There are other animals competing with the vultures for food, probably hyenas or cheetahs."
Everyone present was smart. They quickly thought of what Clay meant by food, and their expressions suddenly became ugly.
Sure enough, ten minutes later, everyone saw a mutilated body under a big tree far away from the main road.
Old Muto's militia boys had just shot away two cheetahs, one large and one small. Before they arrived, the mother and son (female) were driving away the annoying vultures while seizing the time to enjoy fresh meat.
The internal organs of the corpse have been basically hollowed out, and there are numerous white bones on the two arms and thighs, not to mention the face. All the easy-to-eat features have been eaten away, and only the eye sockets are visible. There were two bloody holes left, and the eyelids and eyeballs had been pecked clean.
"Jacob Bruce." Jack endured nausea and pulled out a passport from the deceased's trouser pocket, then found a branch to pull out his right hand that was pressed under him, and took a picture of the fingerprints with his mobile phone .
Due to being pinned down, the lower part of the deceased’s right arm was preserved, while his left arm appeared incomplete five or six meters away.
Although there is no Internet at the moment, the fingerprints can be sent back after returning to further confirm the identity of the deceased.
"He seems to be one of the leaders?" Jubal turned over the incomplete list in their hands.
Clay's performance was second only to Jack's. He collected the red rags around the body and then pieced together half of a red T-shirt. The remaining half was still on the body. .
On the front of the T-shirt is a picture of a dove of peace holding an olive branch, surrounded by a ring with words such as Brunswick Mission Church written on the ring.
"Something is wrong. My boys walked west along the path for two kilometers. The footprints there were more orderly, at least lined up in a line. But why did this body appear here alone. "
Old Muto didn't understand criminal investigation, but he was keenly aware that there was something wrong with a corpse appearing alone here.
At this time, Jack also finished a rough inspection of the body, "Sorry, the damage is too serious, I can't tell the specific cause of death, unless Dr. Temperley Breonna and her team are called in to directly remove the bones for analysis.
< br>But I can barely tell from the bruises on some remaining skin tissue and the edema under the scalp that he was severely beaten before his death, and the right arm beneath him showed defensive injuries."
"He was beaten to death. ? Can I think that the murderer targeted him deliberately and had a certain purpose?" Jubal held his chin in thought.
“It can be considered that it is unlikely to force other kidnapped people to submit by standing up in public. There are only footprints of up to four people around, and they are at least one kilometer away from the path that others passed.
< br>It can be thought that someone deliberately brought him here and then tortured and killed Jacob Bruce without others seeing it. "Aubrey who said this stood farthest away and looked up from time to time and was still there. Vultures hovering in the sky with strange calls.
"What's the purpose? Just to simply destroy the corpse and eliminate traces? Oh, by the way, if the corpse is disposed of in this way in a place like this, if we arrive a day later, we will only find some broken bones, right?"< br>
Hannah's question received no response from others, because everyone's attention was attracted by Detective Bolino and Old Muto who were having an argument.
"This is an obvious frame-up. I don't believe you can't see it." Old Muto said angrily.
Detective Bolino was as humble as if he was coaxing an old child, "But everyone knows that this is their territory, I think I should ask them, maybe 'The Lion King' or his What did people see?”
"Who is 'The Lion King'?" Jack asked, also in Swahili.
Both of them were a little surprised that Jack could speak Swahili, and they looked at each other and decisively ended the little dispute.
Old Muto had a pretty good impression of Jack. After a slight hesitation, he chose to tell the truth frankly, “There is a rebel force from Somalia resting nearby, but they are very small. I don’t think they Capable of kidnapping 23 Americans. "
"Can you take us to see what Detective Bolino said? "
At this point, Jubal paused and glanced at Detective Bolino and the militiamen who were searching around. "If they really kidnap those tourists, I will be responsible for the negotiations and understand their demands. Force will not help. Solve the problem.”
"No." Old Muto shook his head, "Just let that young boy come with me. Simba and his people are a little sensitive."
Jack didn't understand why he didn't want to be with him at first. It would make people feel sensitive until he followed old Muto up the ridge and saw a flag with a red star on a blue background flying on a hill not far away.
He knows almost nothing about the country of Somalia. He only knows that Somalia and Ethiopia, who were so stupid for the Ogaden region, were both former Soviet brothers.
In addition, there is only the inexplicable battle that took place in Mogadishu in 1993. That year, the Black Hawk fell and the SEALs, Deltas and Rangers were defeated.
There is a ruined wall on the hill, which looks like the product of a small military facility that has been in disrepair for a long time. Except for the main structure of a bunker-like building, which is still intact, the remaining parts can barely be used to block. wind.
"The Somali flag in my memory should be blue with white stars." Jack asked tentatively.
Old Muto replied casually, "Because Siad Barre is just an idiot poisoner, and he never really lit a spark."
What these words contain The amount of information was a bit large, and it also gave Jack a rough idea of why old Muto took himself, an American who was "suspected of being a red element," to the meeting alone.
Somalia, a small country located in the Horn of Africa and guarding the throat of the Gulf of Aden, was once a small overlord in East Africa. It had every advantage between the United States and the Soviet Union, and even fought with Ethiopia over the Ogaden region, which is rich in oil and gas resources.
Siad Barre, as Muto said, was a political strongman who ruled Somalia for 22 years. Before he was overthrown in 1991, Somalia had always been a so-called socialist country.
Needless to say, what kind of virtue is Somalia today? Although the people on this land are called Somalis, warlords belonging to various tribes have been fighting for years, turning this former East African overlord into a pirate paradise.
(End of this chapter)