Chapter 271 Another corpse
When everyone from the BAU arrived, Tim was directing the patrolmen to pull up the blockade. When he saw Jack get out of the car, he put his hands on his waist, buckled the belt with his thumbs, and tilted his head to comment on him.
"Shouldn't you FBI guys all wear white shirts, ties, and black suits? You are the most un-FBI-like agent I have ever seen."
Jack stepped aside, revealing Red behind him, smiled and said nothing, and retorted with facts.
To be fair, except for Hotchner, everyone else in their group dressed pretty casually.
When Jack goes out in the field, he likes to wear dark, stain-resistant long-sleeved or short-sleeved T-shirts with jeans, a suit jacket to cover the spare gun under his armpits, and he never wears a formal suit or tie unless necessary.
"Where's John?" Jack looked around and didn't see the old rookie.
"Inside, they found several bloody footprints and are tracking them. Take this with you."
Tim handed him a walkie-talkie, and then pointed to the dilapidated community behind the blockade. It was located on the edge of the town and had been abandoned for a long time. Several row houses built against the hills were dilapidated and the walls were covered with graffiti.
Unlike the general FBI, whose nostrils are turned upward, the members of the BAU team usually try their best to maintain the relationship with the local police. These psychologists are all good people, and they are well versed in the principle of failing to succeed before failing.
What's more, Tim and the others are all Jack's old friends. During a brief introduction to both parties, even Hotchner rarely showed a smile.
Jack and Hannah couldn't help but smile knowingly when they saw Tim, who also liked to keep a straight face and pretend to be cool, exchanging false greetings with him.
As he walked into the scene, Hotchner turned to look at Red and asked, "How far is this from the abandoned body last night? Five miles?"
"6.2 miles south," Red corrected.
"Why? They go to such great lengths, knowing that the police are looking for the whereabouts of the girls, yet they still take risks and drive the bodies so far away?"
Hannah questioned.
"There must be a reason why they had to do this, and that's why we're here."
Rossi, who was walking at the front, said while putting on his gloves.
Walking into the townhouse where Tim and others found clues, they found that it was also filled with all kinds of strange graffiti symbols, wine bottles, needles and cigarette butts everywhere, accompanied by an unpleasant smell of urine.
There was a worn-out mattress in the innermost room, stained with blood and traces of various unknown liquids. Some torn clothes were scattered nearby.
Emily and Hannah hurried forward, avoiding some obvious footprints on the ground, and came to the mattress to carefully examine the pieces of clothing.
Jiejie opened a statement on her mobile phone to help them check. This was Katie's mother, Mrs. Irwin's description of the clothes Katie wore when she went out that day.
"That's right, it's right here. These clothes all match. Katie was raped here." Jiejie Face Lotion couldn't bear it and didn't say any more.
"This may be the murder weapon that killed Katie. It matches the mark on her neck." Rhett took a belt from Jack and carefully inspected the metal buckle.
"There are cigarette butts and these beer cans all over the floor, and DNA evidence everywhere. Isn't this too unprofessional for a killer?"
Jack tried to walk to the mattress, but found that there was nowhere to go. He had no choice but to kick away a few empty cans before walking to the end.
He carefully pulled the mattress open, and as expected, found a pink mobile phone in the gap between the mattress and the wall.
"Katie's cell phone was out of battery. That was the reason why the call was disconnected. The murderer didn't even notice that the girls secretly dialed the phone."
Everyone looked at each other, and everything in front of them was completely different from what they had expected.
Because of Keith Vaughn’s witness protection status, everyone inferred that the most likely possibility was that professionals kidnapped two girls, tortured and killed one of them, warned Keith Vaughn, and then took his daughter away and used He was threatened to refuse to testify.
And everything in front of me doesn't look like that at all.
Hotchner's cell phone rang, it was Garcia, and the two briefly chatted and ended the call.
"Garcia said she checked all the databases and there were no recent Irish arrivals from Boston who fit the profile."
"So, is there a possibility that Katie and Lindsay may have left the cinema voluntarily with others, but they did not expect to encounter this."
With an ugly expression on her face, Emily put the torn clothes into the evidence bag. After hearing this, she looked up at Hotchner.
"You mean this has nothing to do with the Irish or the gangs?"
Everyone fell silent for a moment. If this was really the case, it was an ordinary random violent crime committed by teenagers.
What can take the two girls away from the cinema is most likely the peers they know. A little alcohol stimulation can make everything that follows completely out of control.
"If that's the case, then destroying the body's features and driving several miles away to dump the body would make sense."
Rhett's face looked equally grim as he spoke, because this time their purpose was not to solve the case, but to save people. According to the current development of the case, it was only a matter of time before the case was solved, but what they lacked most was also time.
The longer time passes, the more desperate the murderer will become. Teenagers are the age most likely to go to extremes, which means that the chance of survival of the other girl Lindsay becomes very slim.
"Jack, your guys have tracked these bloody footprints at the back door. Have you found any results?" Rosie, who was standing at the back door, looked at the police walkie-talkie in Jack's hand.
Coincidentally, when Jack was about to press the call button, John's excited voice came from the intercom, "Hey guys, I found a body in this house on the southwest corner."
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and Jack quickly called to the other party, "John, this is Jack, is the body you found the missing girl?"
"Ah? Jack, why is it you?" John was a little surprised, "Uh, no, a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old. It looks like he was stabbed to death."
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After calling out to the two LAPD officers at the door, Jack handed them the evidence bag collected by several people and then looked for John's location.
The body John found was hidden in another corner of the abandoned townhouse, in a dark attic.
The boy was lying on his back with a mobile phone in his hand. There was an intermittent trail of blood on the floor behind him. This should be the reason why John was able to find his body quickly.
"There were three stab wounds on the chest, which should have damaged the internal organs and important blood vessels." Jack squatted next to the corpse and looked at the pair of eyes that were still staring at death.
"The corneas were turbid and appeared white cloud-like. The time of death was more than 15 hours, which was estimated to be shortly after Katie's death."