Chapter 93 Old Zoo

"These two have just been moved to the dissecting table. It will take some time. Let me give you some preliminary information about the first two."

Breonna immediately got into the mood and spoke much faster.

"The male corpse matches the information you provided. It has been buried underground for at least 5 years. It is almost completely skeletal. The palms and soles of the feet are missing. The biological samples have been sent to the laboratory for DNA comparison."

Huggins on the side raised a finger to indicate that he had something to say: "I checked the insect remains on the male corpse and compared the soil composition with the characteristics of the Diptera larvae inside."

"Well, speaking in English, we just need to know the conclusion." Rossi was familiar with their style and knew that there would be an endless tirade, so he interrupted quickly.

Huggins rolled his eyes and said reluctantly: "Your guess is correct. This body was buried twice for no more than three days. The specific time needs to be further confirmed."

Rossi nodded and pointed at the two corpses that were completely skeletal. "These two are known victims. We have plenty of time to wait for the DNA test results to be compared. The most important thing now is that these two are later in time." The female body needs to be identified as soon as possible and clues that can reveal the murderer need to be found."

Breonna brought everyone to the body found at the first location. Jack endured the strong body odor and looked at it. The body had been initially cleaned, and the pieces of clothing were collected together and placed on a plate. middle.

"I only did a preliminary examination and I can't provide much information. The body is no more than 30 years old and suffered great pain during its lifetime."

Breonna said, pointing to the face of the corpse.

"There are petechiae around the face, which is consistent with the characteristics of death by suffocation, but there are no strangulation marks. The laryngeal cartilage is intact and there are no signs of fracture. There are signs of internal bleeding on the entire face, indicating that the deceased cried for several hours before death."

Jack's forensic skills were only rudimentary, but he could still distinguish certain distinctive features.

"Was he buried alive? I noticed that the nails on the corpse were particularly badly damaged."

Breonna shook her head, "It doesn't have to be buried alive. The relative sealing of the container is enough to cause suffocation. I found shards of paint in her fingernails."

Everyone suddenly felt a creepy feeling. A young woman appeared in front of them, wailing in pain, struggling for her life, and finally died of suffocation helplessly. At the same time, the murderer was listening attentively, enjoying this joyfully. Scenes.

"The murderer is a copycat, and he should also be an admirer of Rosalind. They are both keen to enjoy the victim's painful struggle before death, and obtain psychological pleasure through torturing the victim. The specific methods are different, but the purpose is the same."

Jack didn't know how to do psychological profiling yet, but the role was relatively simple, and he quickly made some simple descriptions.

John's face is the ugliest, and he is a very empathetic character.

"Ah, by the way, there is a discovery here that might interest you."

Breonna took out a UV lamp and shined it on the skin on the corpse's chest.

John leaned his head closer and struggled to distinguish the blurry tattoos on it.

"DOD8918? What do you mean?"

"Day of Death, time of death, August 9, 2018, which is six months ago tomorrow."

Rossi said gloomily.

"Dr. Breonna, could you check the fresher body excavated at the second site?"

Jack's heart moved and he made a suggestion.

Breonna nodded, walked quickly to the corpse, cut open the clothes with scissors and checked the skin of the corpse. The giant corpse had passed its viewing period, but it could still be vaguely distinguished from its appearance. The deceased was also a relatively young man before his death. of women.

"In the abdomen, DOD11918."

Everyone looked at each other, with an ominous premonition rising in their hearts.

"The time on the first corpse and the second corpse are three months apart, that is to say, according to this rule"

John spoke what was on everyone's mind.

"Tomorrow there will be another victim, and then Rosalind will tell us where the third burial is, and that's her plan."

Rossi's expression turned extremely ugly.

"Is she trying to make a deal? Now she has a hostage." John asked.

Jack shook his head: "She won't say it. What she is doing is waiting quietly, enjoying everything, appreciating our anxiety and helplessness, and using this emotion as nourishment to nourish the devil in her heart."

John looked at Rosie blankly, and when he saw him nodding, his face suddenly turned gray.

Only Rosie looked calm and continued to ask Breonna: "Dr. Breonna, are you able to find the crime scene? For example, through trace trace comparison or something like that."

Breonna shook her head and said, "We need time. The identities of the two deceased people cannot be confirmed now. I can't even extract fingerprints. It will take at least two hours to do a water dialysis on the finger skin, and the waiting time for DNA testing will be even longer."

"Uh" Jack touched his nose in embarrassment, but now was a race against time, not a time to hide.

He pointed to the chest of the corpse in front of him, "The deceased should have had breast augmentation surgery before his death. If the implant is removed, the code on it may help to find out the identity of the deceased as soon as possible."

Although the atmosphere at the scene was very solemn, Jack still felt that everyone was looking at him a little strangely.

"Aha, I found you." Huggins, who was using the microscope, shouted excitedly, attracting everyone's attention.

"What did you find?" John asked impatiently.

"A fungus, spores of which I had previously found in the clothes and fingernails of the first deceased, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus endemic to the forests of South Asia, were now in the clothes of the second deceased. This fungus was discovered.”

"What does this mean? Both deceased persons have been to the tropical forests of South Asia?"

John was a little confused.

"There should be a tropical botanical garden or a zoo with Asian elephants in Los Angeles, right?" Huggins raised his head and asked.

"Are you saying that the murderer tattooed the victim in a botanical garden or zoo where there are many people coming and going, and then locked him in an iron barrel to watch the victim's desperate scream before death?"

Just when John denied this possibility, Jack felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, and an idea suddenly flashed in his mind.

"It's not a botanical garden, it's a zoo, a closed zoo."

"There is an old zoo in Los Angeles. It was closed in the 1960s and has been abandoned and isolated from the world."

He remembered that there was such a section in the original plot, where John found and rescued the third victim, and was beaten so that the murderer ran away. This was how Lucy was kidnapped later. plot.

Sure enough, John slapped his forehead and said, "You also know that old zoo. I went there when I was traveling around when I first arrived in LA, and this place is very close to Griffith Park."