Chapter 1155 Undercover Fishing Operation
"Why didn't you ask the Lieutenant Colonel about his wife's old facial injuries? Was it due to concerns about domestic violence?"
Watching two police officers accompany Lieutenant Colonel Barnes to pick up their daughter, Jiejie asked softly beside Jack.
"If you were worried about this, I would ask directly. He is a soldier. Controlling his emotions just to complete the mission is indeed his strength, but this does not mean that he is good at lying."
At least for now, Jack couldn't see any signs that the lieutenant colonel was lying. The reason why he didn't ask was just that it wasn't the time yet.
The investigation has just begun. After protecting the lieutenant colonel and his daughter, there is no need to worry about subsequent harm. Therefore, this case can be taken slowly. There is no need to alert the snake now.
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"It went so smoothly, it's unbelievable." As soon as he saw the two people coming back, Aubrey came up to them with excitement.
Jack felt baffled by his excitement, "What happened? The local police finally found the murder weapon in a trash can in a nearby neighborhood?"
"Uh" Aubrey's tone paused slightly, "That's not true, but Alice found the administrator of the terrorist website.
Dorian Hobart was expelled from the military in 2015. According to intelligence sent by the NSA, he has been working for those radical organizations. "
"Do you know where he is?" Jack asked.
Aubrey's expression collapsed, and he suddenly became angry, "The website is registered in Algiers, and there is a mirror server in Silver Spring, Maryland, but Alice failed to trace the administrator's IP address.
The NSA does not know his whereabouts, and we are contacting other intelligence agencies in the hope of finding out. "
"In addition to its promotional function, that website should also have a recruiting function, right?" Jack pulled out a chair and sat down next to Alice.
"There is an anonymous message board that can be used to contact the administrator." Alice opened a very simple dialog box.
As smart as she had guessed what Jack was going to do, fish.
“A sponsor who sympathizes with extremism, or someone who wants to join in a cause?”
Aubrey immediately started gearing up, "How about a retired sniper who once served in the SEALs? I was fired from the army because of a dispute with my commander, so I became a 'war hyena' (mercenary)."
"'War Hyena'? You?" Clay sneered mercilessly at the most well-dressed person among the crowd.
Hannah's expression was also slightly contemptuous, "The only one here whose shooting skills are not as good as yours is Alice. Are you really going to pretend to be an elite sniper?"
In fact, strictly speaking, Aubrey's marksmanship is not that bad, but in actual performance, the upper and lower limits are a bit high.
Most of the time, his shooting training results were at the basic level of an ordinary FBI field agent, but occasionally he could make a shot that even Clay was amazed by.
Therefore, Aubrey calls himself a performance player, but everyone is more willing to attribute this situation to luck.
However, since he was willing to take the initiative to serve as bait, the others were not willing to spoil his fun, and quickly made up a false identity.
"Tom Clancy, electrical expert, good at making explosives, retired Ranger, how about it?" Jubal smiled and put the information in front of Aubrey.
"Okay." Aubrey curled his lips and accepted this character setting with some reluctance.
Alice quickly drafted a declaration of willingness to bring her own dry food to become a front-line soldier of the extremist organization, and submitted it through the website message board.
"OK, the next step is to wait for the news."
Jack found himself a comfortable seat again and adjusted the laptop in front of him. They currently had more than just this clue.
The warhead fragments have been sent to the CSI laboratory in New York, and the results should be available soon.
Jubal and others were sorting through Valerie Barnes's doctor-patient files, hoping to find something in them. What Jack wanted to investigate was the old injury on her face.
The same sentence still applies. If a married woman dies at home, excluding the possibility of burglary and sexual assault, the first suspect will always be her husband or lover.
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The next morning, as soon as Jack stepped into the police station, he saw Aubrey waiting there.
Seeing that he had changed into a high-end suit and dressed like a street vagabond, you could guess that someone had taken the bait.
"Alice received a reply from Dorian Hobart and arranged to meet in a small park near Croft Hill two hours later."
Croft Hill is located in the western suburbs of Richmond. There is an English-style manor full of southern American atmosphere, which is considered a scenic spot.
"So this guy is really here?" Jack was surprised.
The Ridge Lake area where the Barnes family lived was a suburb of Richmond, and the victim, Dr. Valerie Barnes, drove to work in downtown Richmond every day. This was too much of a coincidence.
Richmond is a very repetitive city name. It was originally derived from the city in North Yorkshire, England. As the colonists took root in North America, there were at least twenty or thirty cities with the same name in the United States.
The same situation also occurs in Australia and Canada, but the most famous one in America is definitely the capital city of Virginia where Jack is currently located.
This was once the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. There are monuments and statues everywhere to commemorate the "rebels" of the South, such as Robert Lee, the Confederate general, and Jefferson Davis, the president elected by the Southern states.
Aubrey, wearing a tight T-shirt and ripped jeans, did not look out of place sitting on a park bench. He had been eating and drinking with Jack and training with Clay during this period, which made him a lot more muscular.
Jack carefully helped him stick a beard, and with the fake tattoos printed on his body by the girls with tattoo stickers, it looked quite real at first glance.
"Try not to cause too much noise." Jubal held a newspaper and sat at a stone table in the park more than ten meters away from Aubrey, his eyes sweeping over the crowd around him.
The weather in the morning was good, cloudy in summer, the sun was not very strong and the temperature was suitable. Citizens came to the park for walks, sports and parent-child activities, and it was quite lively.
Clay and a local K9 officer pretended to be a couple, playing with the police dog with a frisbee on the lawn. Jack, dressed in fluorescent green sportswear and looking like a sissy, taught two beautiful girls, Jiejie and Hannah, how to do yoga on the yoga mat.
The two girls' pretty faces and graceful figures attracted the attention of many male parents with children. Some of the lecherous eyes kept circling around the girls, making Jack feel that this undercover operation was a bit of a loss.