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 matches 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.
"Nearly a day has passed." Jack opened the car door, and strong wind mixed with rain swept into the car, drowning 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 surrounded me from the back of the house, and the others followed me to the front door."
In front of you is still a wooden structure house that is common in old America, but because it snows heavily here in winter, compared to the warmer Los Angeles, the house here has an extra 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, in winter, the cold air from the north can drive straight in unbridled, even reaching as far as Florida adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.
The so-called four distinct seasons, in other words, are extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. In winter, it is common for the lowest temperature to reach more than ten degrees below zero, and there are often heavy snowfalls.
In the summer, it will become very hot and humid here again. Even the heavy downpour now can't take away the heat and boredom in people's hearts.
While Alice obtained the license plate through image processing, Clay and Jubal came to the dance studio again to inquire about the situation, and the identity of the owner of the Subaru XV was determined after two verifications.
The owner of the car is named Jackie Vogel, who is the owner of the house in front of him. He is 24 years old and a dance teacher at a local middle school. He also teaches dance in that dance studio.
When Ronnie and Raylene appeared in the parking lot yesterday, Jackie Vogel happened to leave the dance studio and go home. After confirming the situation, everyone rushed to Mount Pleasant without stopping.
Jack leaned against the door and nodded slightly to Clay, who immediately reached out and knocked hard on the door, loudly identifying himself, "Ms. Vogel, we are the FBI, please open the door!"
The only response to them was the deathly silence in the house and the sound of rainwater collecting on the roof and falling along the eaves. Jack had actually smelled the smell of blood coming from the house. He reached out and tried to turn the door handle, and the door opened in response.
Clay eagerly raised his foot to enter the door, but Jack stopped him. He lowered his head and motioned for him to look at his feet. He saw a long blood trail behind the door extending all the way into the living room and leading to the inner room.
Jack avoided the blood stains on the ground and walked into the house, pointing to the left and right. Behind him, Jie Jie and Hannah knowingly separated to check the rooms on both sides, while Clay followed him silently.
The two of them followed the blood trail into the bedroom. The increasingly strong smell of blood told it all. A female body covered in bruises lay face down on the bed. Blood was splattered everywhere on the sheets and even on the wall.
Jack put the gun behind his back, slowly squatted down in front of the bed, and looked into a pair of blue eyes that should have been very moving.
Even the heavy makeup that was applied randomly could not hide the girl's sweet appearance. Coupled with the bloody scene in front of her, it made people feel an uncontrollable anger.
"Shit!" Clay clenched his fists and walked out of the bedroom quickly. Then there was a thud from outside, the sound of a fist hitting the wall.
Jie Jie, Hannah, Jubal and Aubrey walked into the room with gentle steps one after another, silently watching everything in front of them, as if they were mourning silently, and as if they were promising something in their hearts.