Chapter 1161 There is Only One Truth

The process of finding Barnes and his daughter was not complicated. As Jack expected, the Navy lieutenant colonel had not made preparations for escape in advance.

When the wanted criminals team's helicopter arrived at the scene, Ryan Barnes was holding a MK22 pistol and confronting the highway patrol who had set up a checkpoint on the interstate.

Fortunately, the FBI gave advance warning and strictly ordered the state police and highway patrol not to take extreme measures, otherwise it would be hard to say to what extent things would have developed.

"Leave it to me." Clay handed his weapon to Jubal, raised his hands high and walked towards the car where the father and daughter were. "It's all over, Commander, put down your weapons, don't make the situation worse."

"Back off! Back off!" Jack, who was following behind Clay, held up his police badge and ID and waved at the policemen who were on high alert and using the police car blocking the middle of the road as cover.

Jiejie ran quickly to a sheriff wearing a white cowboy hat and loudly identified herself, indicating that the case would be handed over to the FBI for handling.

The atmosphere at the scene was too tense. If a gun went off accidentally, it would be a tragedy that no one wanted to see.

"Are you implying that these injuries were caused by self-harm?" Jane, who was listening in, gasped. This case really opened her eyes.

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"Think about your daughter, she still needs you." Seeing that the lieutenant colonel looked dazed, Clay took two steps forward again.

Jubal took the file from Aubrey and placed it on the table. The photos on it were shocking. "Multiple broken arms, scalp lacerations, and at least two concussions."

These tiny particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, can stay on human skin and clothing for a long time and cannot be completely removed by normal cleaning methods.

As a sulfuric acid solution containing one percent of diphenylamine was dripped into the test tube, Jack showed the blue solution to everyone after shaking it slightly.

"Dad!" Rachel, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had already burst into tears. She quickly jumped off the passenger seat, walked around the front of the car, and threw herself into her father's arms, grabbing his clothes tightly.

As if he was brought back to his senses by his daughter's crying, the lieutenant colonel gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind, pried open his daughter's little hands that were tightly grasping his clothes, kissed her on the forehead, took two steps back, knelt on his knees, and threw away his pistol.

Jack took two steps forward, keeping the gun pointed downward.

"Put down your gun, Lieutenant Colonel. Believe me, this is the best choice you can make."

The gunshot residue does not just stay on the back of the shooter's hands and arms, but will also cover the entire upper body due to the effect of recoil.

Although Jack sympathized with the lieutenant colonel's situation, given his current mental state, he did not dare to be careless.

"So I asked Jiejie to help her change her clothes." Jack said, pointing to the little girl's T-shirt in the evidence bag.

"This can't prove anything in court." Although he was 80% convinced in his heart, Clay still questioned with a slight stutter. It was not that he did not believe Jack's judgment, but his statement was really too hard to accept.

In the conference room, except for Aubrey who had been mentally prepared, everyone else showed disbelief after hearing Jack's inference and raised questions.

Clay had just taken out the handcuffs to handcuff Ryan Barnes when he was surprised to see Jack take out a cotton swab from his pocket, tear open the package, quickly wipe the back of Rachel's right hand and arm several times, and then put it into the evidence bag.

"How is this possible? She is only ten years old!" "Are you sure you didn't make any mistakes?"

"There is only one truth!" Jack plagiarized the words of a certain elementary school student. He handed the evidence bag to Jubal and took Ryan Barnes to the police car with Clay. ——"I don't believe it!"

After all, people are selfish. If tragedy is destined to happen, it is better for it to happen to others than to yourself or those around you.

"Dad, Dad, I'm scared!"

When a gun is fired, the bullet is ejected from the barrel, and the airflow escaping from the muzzle will splash uncompletely burned gunpowder particles and metal powder produced by the friction between the bullet and the rifling around.

This just proves what I said." Jack pointed his finger at the date column.

“On the contrary, if you notice the time of each injury in the hospital report, it occurred when the lieutenant colonel was deployed overseas and could not return home on time.

"No, Agent Tawalla! I beg you!" Seeing this scene, Ryan Barnes, who seemed to have given up, struggled desperately, and even Clay almost couldn't control him.

"Choice?" Ryan Barnes smiled sadly, "I never had the chance to choose. Even now, I don't understand why things turned out like this."

Instead of wasting words, it is better to prove it with facts.

He glanced at his daughter Rachel with complicated eyes and said, "I killed my wife."

Moreover, depending on the type of gun, the shape of the smoke produced is also different. For example, a revolver will produce an umbrella-shaped smoke, while an automatic pistol will spray smoke in a downward semicircle.

"Keep an eye on her." Jack handed the bewildered Rachel to Jiejie and gave her a look.

"But Lieutenant Colonel Barnes admitted that he was the murderer, and Rachel's medical records obtained by Aubrey also confirmed that she was indeed abused."

"Gun smoke reaction" is a way to identify shooting residues. Those who have seen "Death on the Nile" must still remember the "impression test" mentioned by the great detective Poirot.

"Do you remember what that sociopathic serial killer George Burton said?" Jack looked at Aubrey.

"Well, it's time to confess everything."

"Rachel's father was a Navy SEAL, and the defense could argue that the gunshot residue was transferred to her through her father."

"Don't come any closer, soldier. I have a gun." The car door opened, and Ryan Barnes got out of the car in a daze, holding his pistol tightly in his hand.

Amid the girl's heart-wrenching cries, his voice also took on a sobbing tone, "I'm sorry, Rachel. I'm so sorry, sweetheart. This is all my fault."

A little girl who just turned ten deliberately shot and killed her mother who was always with her. What was her motive? If this goes to court, neither the judge nor the jury will buy it.

"He said that people like him would often do anything to achieve a small goal, just to satisfy themselves."

Aubrey rubbed his arm after saying this, and thinking about the murderer's age, he felt quite chilled.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the conference room, and Hannah walked in with an excited smile on her face. "Jack, we found it. It's right where you guessed."

Then she looked suspiciously at the people with different expressions, "Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?"