Chapter 772 The Second Victim

Jubal booked a few rooms in a small hotel near the local police station, but everyone was busy until the early morning before they went to rest under Jack's order. Jack and Clay spent the night on the capsule-style bed in the car.

It is really troublesome to find someone in the United States, especially when this person has no legitimate job and no fixed place to live, which is not much different from an invisible person.

A guy like Ronnie doesn't even have a bank account, and even the IRS database that records the billing addresses of all taxpayers has lost its function.

Although the information shows that Ronnie should have a mother, the information is also outdated. A series of arrest records show that she has been selling silver in various states in the northeast and southeast for more than ten years.

The next morning, everyone gathered in the base car. The facial recognition program ran all night and finally found the identity of the woman who followed Ronnie to commit the crime.

Alice read to the screen, "Raelin Parker, 19 years old, from Clarksburg, West Virginia, has no bank account or credit card, no job or fixed address, and suffered a serious car accident when she was 13 years old. She is the only one left in the family."

"So her brain trauma was left at that time?" Jack sighed as if he had a toothache. One with a sick brain and one with a brain injury, this case is difficult to handle, "Let me guess, she must not have a social account, right?"

Alice shrugged, and the expression on her face said it all.

"Let the facial recognition program continue to run. The fact that they don't have social accounts doesn't mean they won't appear on other people's social accounts. We can always find someone who knows them."

Jack was a little speechless. He encountered such a difficult case in his first case. Waiting is not a solution. If he can't find the other party's current whereabouts, he will start to investigate from the past. As long as they are human, their behavior is logical after all.

In his previous life, Jack had a deep impression of a gangster nicknamed "Headshot Brother". At that time, the surveillance systems in various places in Jiangsu Province where he lived were actually very complete, but the guy still escaped back to Sichuan Province after successfully committing a crime in the provincial capital.

At that time, the guy's photos were all over the major media, but the police could not find his whereabouts. In the end, they found his girlfriend and lured him out.

Ronnie's photos had been sent to the state police and various local police stations before, and Jiejie sent them Lei Lin's photos. The others each had a computer and continued to dig into the past of the two until Jiejie and Jubal's phones rang at the same time.

"The missing Chevrolet Malibu was found in the parking lot of a shopping mall in the city center." Jiejie's words cheered everyone up.

"Hannah stays behind, and Alice will go to the scene with us." Jack's strange arrangement made everyone look sideways.

Jack did not explain the reason further. Alice lacked a sense of substitution for the current case, so he could only let her go to the scene to experience it personally.

Even an old agent like Jubal would have a knot in his heart because of a case, not to mention a woman who always has more emotional thinking than rational thinking, so Alice's previous reaction was very abnormal.

Try to stay objective and detach from your emotions to avoid too many subjective factors in the process of solving the case, and at the same time prevent yourself from being affected by too much emotional investment.

But objectivity does not mean numbness. After sitting in the office for a long time, facing one case after another every day, looking up information and providing background investigation reports in a formal manner, what is the difference between this and those white-collar office animals.

Jack needs a technical support staff who can be sufficiently invested, or in professional terms, has subjective initiative, rather than a numb office animal or NPC.

It sounds contradictory to have a certain amount of emotional investment when handling a case, and to be able to detach from emotions in time after solving the case, but this is the fact.

Garcia's hacking skills are not top-notch, but she always has some wonderful ideas to solve various troubles for the BAU team.

Jack didn't expect Alice to be the second Garcia. After all, everyone has an independent personality. But if she still responds to his needs like a background board, then there is no need for the team to keep a special logistics position. If there are any investigation needs that need to be handled, Hannah can just send them back to the operations center of the Federal Building.

Of course, this problem is not Alice herself, but the environment she was in before. So the solution to this problem is naturally to change the environment.

The so-called shopping mall parking lot is more like a small business district, surrounded by a small commercial street, full of large and small shops, supermarkets and shopping malls.

The downtown area of ​​Greensburg is not large, and there may be only one commercial street, so it is particularly lively, and the parking lot is full of large and small vehicles.

Because the police pulled up the cordon, it attracted a lot of idle people to watch, and even the reporters from the local TV station were dispatched, standing on tiptoe in the crowd, holding up the camera and flashing the flash.

Jack winked at Jiejie, and she nodded knowingly and went to negotiate with the media reporters.

A local police chief appeared in front of everyone with his big belly and his hands on his belt. "Someone found blood seeping from the trunk of the car and called the police. My officers found that the license plate number was consistent with the FBI report, so they directly protected the scene."

"No one opened the trunk?" Jubal asked.

The middle-aged sheriff shook his head and said, "No keys were found in the car. If you need it, I can provide a crowbar or find a locksmith."

"No need." Jack waved his hand, took out a set of lock picking tools from the tool box in his backpack, walked to the back of the Chevrolet Malibu, looked back at Alice, and saw that she looked nervous and dazed, so he could only greet her helplessly.

"Alice?"

Alice was a little at a loss for a moment, until Aubrey beside her coughed lightly, took out his pistol, stood beside Jack and pointed at the trunk, then she reacted, followed suit and took out her pistol, stood on the other side of Jack and also made a protective posture.

This is a standard search action, especially when searching the trunk of a vehicle that can accommodate at least one person, you must never let your guard down.

Jubal and Clay, who were standing behind them, looked at each other and understood in their hearts. They probably guessed someone's thoughts. Sometimes sitting in the office and reading a thousand case files is not as good as experiencing it once in person.

In fact, when they saw the pool of blood dripping on the ground at the rear of the car, which had solidified and turned black, everyone had already had a bad guess in their hearts, not to mention that it was midsummer now, and the faint smell of corpses in the air said it all.

Whether it was the battle-hardened Clay or Jubal, who had many years of field experience, they were familiar with this smell. Even Aubrey, who had just left his trainee status, was the same. Jack deliberately left him at the scene in Central Park.

Even so, when Jack took less than a minute to open the trunk of the car and Madison Hargrove's disheveled body appeared in front of them, everyone still couldn't help but feel depressed.

"Damn it." Aubrey put away his pistol and turned his head away with some reluctance.

"Oh my God!" Alice covered her mouth and tears burst out instantly. No one came forward to comfort her. Witnessing the corpse is a necessary stage for every field agent.