Chapter 773 The Third Victim
"Judging from the degree of morbidity and rigor mortis, the time of death is close to 10 hours. He should have been killed not long after being abducted and left home yesterday.
The heavy makeup on the deceased's face is consistent with your description at the scene yesterday. The knife wound on the left leg is consistent with the traces in the restaurant. The knife wound on the chest is the cause of death. He suffered many times before his death. Sorry, I can't say more."
Before the body was examined, Alice couldn't help it and ran to the side to vomit, crying while vomiting.
Aubrey was glared at by Jubal, and he stopped his action of wanting to comfort him and stood beside him honestly.
Jack began to assign tasks to everyone one by one, "Ask the surrounding merchants, the time was between 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, ask if anyone saw or noticed the whereabouts of Ronnie and Leilin. Leilin's walking posture is very special, which is a very conspicuous feature.
There are surveillance cameras at the entrance of the mall, the entrance of the parking lot, the bank next to it, and the entrance of the dance studio over there. Collect all these surveillance videos."
After that, he called Hannah and asked her to drive the car over. The place is large enough and connected to the main road. The base car can play its original purpose.
An hour later, when the FBI ERT team arrived at the scene, the command car with a black paint and FBI badge had lowered the hoe used to fix the body and opened the side sliding compartment.
Everyone got on the car one after another and walked into the spacious conference room. Alice held a cup of hot tea in her hand, and her eyes were still a little red and swollen. Jiejie stood behind her, with her hands on her shoulders to soothe her emotions.
Hannah, who was sitting in front of the computer instead of Alice, handed everyone a tablet, "I found the video of Ronnie and Raylin abandoning the car."
"Sorry." Alice subconsciously stood up, only to realize that Hannah had done what should have been her job.
"It's nothing. Everyone has a first time. Your performance is already very good." Hannah remembered that when she was still an LAPD, she was blocked in a dead corner by several armed robbers in an apartment building. At that time, she was not very calm.
However, Alice still insisted on returning to the computer to continue working. After Hannah gave up her seat, she walked to Jack and smiled and punched him lightly. It was not known whether it was a compliment or a blame for his high intensity at the beginning.
Jack watched the video attentively, sliding his fingers back and forth on the tablet to adjust the progress bar. The video captured the time when the Chevrolet Malibu entered the parking lot at 2:02 yesterday afternoon. At that time, the wanted criminal team was still on the way to Greensburg.
Ronnie got out of the car and walked towards the camera leisurely with his hands in his pockets. The camera just happened to capture his face clearly. Leilin limped behind him, more like a follower than his girlfriend.
"Did any other camera capture the scene when they left? There should be surveillance cameras at the three exits of the parking lot, right?" Jack asked.
Hannah shook her head and said, "No, they either consciously avoided the surveillance location or entered the mall and left through other exits.
They found a good place, where people come and go, and it's easy to blend into the crowd."
Jack frowned, "Remember Ronnie's arrogant performance when he left Hargrove's house? He was not afraid of being discovered by us. This was a game for him. The competition was whether we caught him first or he found more innocent people first."
The rest of the people looked at each other, and Clay scratched his head and looked a little discouraged, "But we asked around, and no one really remembered seeing them."
"Maybe I have some findings here." Alice, who was sitting in front of the computer, suddenly said with a little nasal sound in her voice, "This Subaru is a bit suspicious . "
Everyone gathered in front of the computer screen and listened to her explanation, "This is the camera at the door of the bank. Did you notice this Subaru XV?
In the previous video, we can see that when Ronnie and Leilin got out of the car and walked over here, this car just passed by them, and we can barely see that the driver is a young woman. "
She switched the video to another angle of the surveillance screen, "This is the camera at the door of the bank. The time is two minutes later, and there are three people in the car. "
Everyone frowned and looked carefully. The picture clarity was not very high. In addition, although the speed of the vehicle was not fast, it was much faster than the walking speed of a normal person. It was barely possible to judge that Ronnie was sitting in the passenger seat and Leilin was sitting in the back seat based on the preconceived impression.
"Didn't the camera at the door of the dance studio capture how they got in the car?" Jubal asked hurriedly.
"That's just a decoration. It was never used at all." Clay, who was in charge of that position, replied sullenly.
"Can you find the license plate?" Jack's eyelids twitched, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart. The owner of this Subaru XV might be the next victim. Considering that this happened yesterday afternoon, he was afraid that he was in danger.
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Mount Pleasant, a little-known town in central Pennsylvania, is less than 50 kilometers east of Greensburg. When everyone arrived here, the sky was already covered with dark clouds and heavy rain was pouring.
"Are you sure you don't need to call SWAT?" Jubal pulled the bolt of the Maxim Defender assault rifle and carefully checked the barrel. The heavy rain fell on the roof of the car, making his voice a little unclear.
"Almost a day has passed." Jack opened the car door, and the strong wind mixed with rain swept into the car, drowning out the rest of his words.
After getting out of the car, he pressed the wireless headset, and the voice became clear again, "Aubrey and Jubal will outflank from the back of the house, and the others will follow me to the front door."
In front of him was still a common wooden house in the United States, but because it snows heavily in winter, compared with the warm Los Angeles, the house here has a spire and a small attic.
The North American continent, especially the eastern region, lacks east-west transverse mountains. Although the latitude of Pennsylvania is not too high, once winter comes, the cold air from the north can drive straight in unscrupulously, and can even reach Florida adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.
The so-called four seasons are distinct, in other words, it is hot in summer and cold in winter. It is common for the lowest temperature in winter to reach more than ten degrees below zero, and blizzards often occur.
In summer, it will become very humid and hot here. Even the heavy rain at the moment cannot take away the stagnation of heat and boredom in people's hearts.
While Alice was getting the license plate through image processing, Clay and Jubal went to the dance studio again to inquire about the situation. After the two sides confirmed the identity of the Subaru XV owner.
The owner's name is Jackie Vogel, who is the owner of the house in front of him. She is 24 years old and a dance teacher at a local middle school. She also teaches dance in the dance studio.
When Ronnie and Raylin appeared in the parking lot yesterday, Jackie Vogel had just left the dance studio and went home. After confirming the situation, everyone rushed to Mount Pleasant without stopping.
Jack leaned against the door and nodded slightly to Clay. The latter immediately reached out and knocked on the door hard, loudly stating his identity, "Ms. Vogel, we are the FBI, please open the door!"
The only response to them was the dead silence in the house and the sound of rain gathering on the roof and falling along the eaves. Jack had actually smelled the blood coming from the house. He reached out and tried to turn the door handle, and the door opened.
Clay couldn't wait to step into the door, but Jack stopped him. He lowered his head and asked him to look at his feet. He saw a long bloodstain behind the door extending into the living room and leading to the inner room.
Jack avoided the bloodstains on the ground and walked into the house, pointing left and right. Jiejie and Hannah behind him understood and went to check the rooms on both sides. Clay followed him silently.
The two followed the bloodstains into the bedroom. The increasingly strong smell of blood explained everything. A female corpse with bruises all over her body fell face down on the bed. The sheets and even the walls were covered with blood.
Jack put the gun on his back and slowly squatted in front of the bed, facing a pair of blue eyes that should have been very moving.
Even the heavy makeup that was painted on could not cover the girl's sweet appearance. With the bloody scene in front of him, people felt an uncontrollable anger.
"Shit!" Clay clenched his fists and walked out of the bedroom quickly. Then there was a thump outside, which was the muffled sound of a fist hitting the wall.
Jiejie, Hannah, Jubal and Aubrey walked into the room one after another, silently watching everything in front of them, as if they were mourning, or as if they were making a promise in their hearts.