Chapter 773 The 3rd 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 matches the description you gave at the scene yesterday. The stab wound on the left leg is consistent with the mark in the restaurant. The stab wound on the chest is the cause of death. I have suffered many times during my lifetime. I'm sorry. I can't go on. "

Before she could finish examining the body, Alice couldn't bear it anymore and 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. , which is a very conspicuous feature.

There are surveillance cameras at the entrance of the shopping mall, the entrance of the parking lot, the bank next to it, and the entrance of the dance studio over there, and these surveillance videos are collected. "

After saying 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 command vehicle, painted in black with an FBI badge, had already put down the stationary hoes used to fix the vehicle body and deployed the sideslip compartment.

Everyone got on the car 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 comfort her. .

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, only then realizing that Hannah had done her own work.

"It's nothing, everyone has their first time, and your performance is already very good." Hannah remembered that when she was an LAPD, she was cornered by several armed gangsters in an apartment building. She couldn't calm down much.

However, Alice still insisted on returning to the computer and continued working. After Hannah gave up her seat, she walked over to Jack with a smile and gave him a light punch. She didn't know whether to praise or blame him for being a little too intense when he started.

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, the wanted criminal team was still arriving. On the 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, "Nothing was found. Either he consciously avoided the surveillance position, or he entered the mall and left through other exits.

They found a good place, where people were coming and going, and it was easy to blend in with the crowd. "

Jack frowned, "Remember Ronnie's arrogance when he left Hargrove's house? He wasn't afraid of being discovered by us. This was just a game to him. It was up to us to catch him first. It’s better for him to find more innocent people first.”

The rest of the people looked at each other in confusion. Clay scratched his head and looked a little frustrated, "But we have asked everyone around, and no one remembers seeing them."

"Maybe I have discovered something here." Alice, who was sitting in front of the computer, said suddenly, with a slight nasal sound in her voice, "There is something fishy about this Subaru."

Everyone gathered in front of the computer screen and listened to her explanation, "This is the camera at the entrance of the bank. Have you noticed this Subaru XV?

We can see in the previous video that when Ronnie and Lei Lin got out of the car and walked towards here, the car just passed by them, and it was barely possible to see that the driver was 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. The time was two minutes later. There were three people in the car."

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.

"That'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 that this happened yesterday afternoon, I'm afraid... The situation is already dire.

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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 pattered on the roof of the car, making his voice a little unclear.

"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 out of the car, he pressed the wireless headset and the voice became clear again, "Aubrey and Jubal surrounded me from the back of the house, and the others followed me to the front door."

In front of you is still a wooden structure house that is common in old America, but because it snows heavily here in winter, compared to the warmer Los Angeles, the house here has 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, are extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. In winter, it is common for the lowest temperature to reach more than ten degrees below zero, and there are often heavy snowfalls.

In the summer, it will become very hot and humid here again. Even the heavy downpour now can't take away the stagnation of 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 after 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!"

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 in response.

Clay eagerly 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 avoided the blood stains on the ground and walked into the house, 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 makeup that was applied randomly could not hide the girl's sweet appearance. Coupled with the bloody scene in front of her, it made people feel an uncontrollable anger.

"Shit!" Clay clenched his fists and walked out of the bedroom quickly. Then there was a thud from outside, the 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 silently, and as if they were promising something in their hearts.