Chapter 804 Good things don’t work but 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. They spoke to each other and vividly painted the image of a perverted killer in front of him.

After 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 in charge of blocking the scene at the door, did not recognize him. This place was not under the jurisdiction of the Wilshire Division. It looked like a recently renovated community. Judging from the surrounding iron fences and high-altitude surveillance cameras, the security seemed It's 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.

"Follow it, mark it, pretend to be a delivery person... uh... or just push the door in." Jack was stunned before he finished speaking. Good guy, the seemingly solid iron fence door lock is broken, and it opens with just a push.

This is not so much a townhouse as it is actually a townhouse. As we all know, except for the city center and the business district, there are almost no multi-family houses with more than two floors around Los Angeles. It is completely different from New York. extreme.

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 anything, and they didn't see anyone suspicious. In and out.

"It's such a small community, just two rows, more than thirty households in total, with only a common central courtyard, and all the front doors face the courtyard, but even so, when Patricia Brannon was killed, No one heard or saw anything unusual.”

Emily sighed.

"This is the same as what Red 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, "Before you suspect that it may be the work of our internal staff, have you investigated the ex-convicts living nearby?"

"Of course." Emily replied, "Garcia called out people in the entire Los Angeles area whose modus operandi involved criminal records such as torture and binding. In the end, there were three suspects. Rossi informed you At that time, 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.

"The first two are, 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 took a bite on the back of her hand, making her giggle. "Come on, you are about to capture my heart."

Jack quickly gave a French military salute. It's OK to joke, but don't overdo it. Besides, it's hard to start with someone who's too familiar with it. 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, only Rhett was still 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 was wearing a pink Bluetooth headset and chatting with Rosie. dialogue.

"Yes, boss, there have been no reports of FBI agent IDs being lost or stolen recently, and I have also compared the locations recorded on the cellphones of all male agents who came to Los Angeles from other places, including those who were on official or private duty. members.

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 just came back from the crime scene with Emily, it shouldn’t be them, eh, why?

Because when the third case occurred, these three detectives were all near Long Beach. From a time point of view, even if any of them helped cover up, it was unlikely that they would arrive at the case in time given the traffic conditions in Los Angeles at 8 p.m. Send place. "

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 also need to pay attention to other federal law enforcement agencies, Jiejie, and prepare a more tactfully worded statement." Department notification.”

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The reason why Rossi left Jack to assist in the case was of course mainly because he hoped 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, it is also to ensure that when necessary, such as if some "details" that the FBI does not want to be known to the outside world are "accidentally" discovered during the investigation process, Jack's excellent marksmanship and "decisive" character can ensure that the murderer is killed on the spot.

Jack understood Rossi's thoughts instantly. 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 colleagues to have a gathering after get off work.

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 Angela is a police detective and Tim is the superintendent, she is naturally better informed. Things such as a serial killer in the jurisdiction of the branch next door cannot be hidden from her ears.

Jack had nothing to hide from the old guys. He roughly explained the current investigation situation 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 world's usual urinary nature, 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, the BAU team received a call before noon in the BAU office the next day. Another murder of the same type had just occurred, and the crime scene happened to be within Wilshire's jurisdiction.

Jack still drove the Mammoth with Jie Jie, and Emily and Red drove the Saber class to the scene together. As expected, they met John, Tim, and Angela, who had just arrived.