Chapter 1053: Tracking and pulling bananas by Odebiao

Detective Bolino's original inquiry mission to find Toomer Makani turned into an arrest.

Although communication is poor and most criminal investigation methods are unavailable when handling cases in Africa, it is not without its benefits.

As long as the local police cooperate enough, the evidence will not be so important, and no lawyer will jump out to shut up the client.

According to the receipts provided by Pastor Toomer Makani, the total amount of supplies worth US$300,000 actually reached the local church, but less than US$30,000.

Then where the rest went becomes a question. Is it possible that it was swallowed up by this pastor, and then he sent people to kidnap the entire missionary group, taking the opportunity to kill Jacob Bruce who might have known about it.

Such suspicion, even without definite evidence, was enough for Detective Bolino to take action.

Only after Jubal contacted the detective, he said that his men had not found Toomer Makani in the town. It was said that the pastor had many followers and camps in the local area, and he would personally search for him overnight. Traces of the other party.

The FBI has no good solution to this problem. It can only hope that Detective Bolino and the local police can do something better.

There is nothing we can do about it. If you want to play long-arm jurisdiction, you have to score points. Tanzania is not the little brother of the United States. Even if it is a poor African country, it cannot be as careless as South Korea.

Moreover, the relationship between the United States and Tanzania in recent years can only be said to be average. The other party's cooperation is entirely due to the fact that the missing persons are tourists. If they were changed to Tanzania nationality, they might take it more seriously.

Especially in the past few years, Britain and Japan jointly defrauded the Bagamoyo Port project that the University of Tokyo was originally involved in building. This led to discord between the University of Tokyo and Laotan, which had always been on good terms. It was not until the new president came to power that they started to repair it again.

At that time, there were rumors that the real culprit behind the scenes was actually the United States, and that Britain and Japan were just white gloves.

The investigation in New York is also not going well. Of the remaining 22 people who were kidnapped, only 10 women have so far contacted their relatives and friends.

Except for little Nicholas who was with his mother, the other 11 men, including another leader Elijah, were unable to contact their family members or friends. These people did not even have social accounts.

This is very paradoxical. It is not too difficult to hide your identity in the United States. There is no such thing as a household registration. As long as you don’t take a driver’s license or open a bank account, most happy homeless people basically don’t have a file. .

But all 11 men were in the same situation, which inevitably gave rise to some bad associations.

This also brought Garcia and Alice's investigation to a deadlock. Jubal asked them to ignore other people for the time being and focus on Elijah Ward. This guy looked more powerful than Pastor Toomer Makani. To be suspicious.

Rosie and Jiejie are talking to the families of the missing women one by one, trying to find some common ground.

Early the next morning, as soon as everyone had breakfast, old Muto drove his old Jiefang truck to Arusha, which was covered in dust.

"We lost the footprints on the side of a road more than 20 kilometers away from the missing location, and suspected that there was a car picking up there."

Clay immediately packed up his things and said, "Take us to the scene and have a look. Maybe we can find something nearby."

Aubrey was not optimistic about this. "If they had a car, they would be far away by now."

At this time, Jubal's phone also rang. It was Detective Bolino. He had traced the location of a camp and suspected that Pastor Toomer Makani was hiding there.

Jubal took out the map and confirmed that the two locations were more than a hundred kilometers away from Arusha, and frowned.

"Hannah and I will go to the scene with old Muto and you three go find Detective Bolino." Jack suggested.

Without further ado, everyone set off immediately. This time Jack also experienced the pain of following the old Jiefang and eating ashes.

Fortunately, most of the time this time we were traveling along the main roads with hardened pavement, but we had to be careful to avoid the uninvited guests who took the opportunity to hitchhike.

In the west of Tanzania, about 700 to 800 kilometers away from Arusha where Jack and the others are located, there is a small mountain country called Burundi.

Apart from the Hutu and Tutsi genocide that shocked the world between neighboring Rwanda, many people’s impression of this country is probably Odebiao who pulls bananas.

What Jack met at this moment was exactly this group of Tanzanian version of Odebiao, a group of young black men in their early twenties, some of whom may even be only 17 or 18 years old, riding a large bar, carrying three to four hundred kilograms of green bananas. Speeding on the highway.

These bold Odebiao people will grab the carriages of passing trucks to use their strength, and soon you will pull the truck, and I will pull you, forming a long queue.

After discovering a bunch of tails following behind him, Old Muto deliberately slowed down the car and pressed his horn to remind him whenever there was a small bump on the road.

Because the little tails pulling the trunk have no forward vision, and they may fall over if they are not careful. Injury is a small matter, and it is not a big problem if the car breaks down. But if the bananas on the car are smashed, it means I worked for days in vain.

It can be seen that old Muto often runs this road. The few militia boys in the car greet the little tailmen who join in the middle from time to time.

Of course, these Audebiao people don't dare to rub against any car. At least Jack's Hummer doesn't have a tail behind it, but he must not slow down and try to keep a distance from Lao Jiefang to prevent him from braking in the event of an accident. Failure to do so in time can lead to tragedy.

Jack whistled all the way to accompany the Odebiaos. When they were about to reach their destination, the banana boys reluctantly resumed pedaling hard and waved goodbye to Old Muto amidst laughter and curses.

"My boys have been searching around here for most of the night, and they haven't found any more bodies. That's good news, isn't it?"

Old Muto spread out a map and drew a circle around their current location. This was a north-south highway. The first half basically ran parallel to the previous railway, but then turned to the northwest.

There is no need to count on road monitoring, and the conventional operation of retrieving the driving recorder videos of vehicles along the way is obviously not feasible in such a place.

"At least we need to know their direction of travel in order to guess their destination. The same problem remains. If they have a corresponding vehicle, nearly two days will be enough for them to travel a long way."

Jack was a little worried that the kidnappers would leave Tanzania with the hostages. In that case, finding them would be almost as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack, although the current situation was not much better.

Seeing an old man and a young man worrying there, Hannah couldn't help but raise her eyebrows after listening to the whistle.

"There are 22 American tourists wearing uniform red T-shirts, and more than a dozen armed men escorting them. In addition, it should have been around noon or afternoon when they arrived here. Such a team should be very conspicuous, right?"

"It is indeed obvious when traveling in the wild, but the witnesses are most likely to be only nearby wild animals. If they get near the highway, just one bus can carry them all away."

Jack suddenly got stuck when he said this. He understood what Hannah wanted to express.