Chapter 776 All the way south
After leaving Ronnie's mother's home, Clay's expression on his face was still very awkward, "What kind of mother would let her young children witness her selling money to customers?"
Jack didn't answer. He had never seen such a bad thing in his two lifetimes. The only person who could give a correct answer was probably Lord Wei from the work of a certain martial arts master.
His focus was on the other side, "Remember what we saw at the first victim's home? What did we see in Madison Hargrove's bedroom?"
Clay's eyes lit up, "You're referring to the marks you found on the pillow, right? The victim was forced to put on heavy makeup, as was the second victim, just like the woman we just saw. Just like Ronnie’s mother wearing makeup, it’s a psychological trauma.”
Jack nodded, then shook his head, "Not only that, but remember that pair of dancing shoes under the dressing cabinet in the bedroom? I bet Madison must often practice dancing in a certain dance studio.
There was also a second victim, Jackie Vogel, whom Ronnie abducted directly from the dance studio next to the mall, and she was a dance teacher. "
"You mean, this is how Ronnie looks for victims, searching for dance studios everywhere and quietly following girls home who have similar appearance to his mother when she was young?" Clay suddenly understood.
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Early the next morning, everyone gathered in the conference room of the command vehicle. Jiejie showed the autopsy report in her hand, "Madison Hargrove's autopsy results showed that her right foot metatarsal showed signs of healed fractures. , this is a common injury among dancers.”
"Jack's judgment was correct. I contacted the victim of the previous attempted rape case. She also studied ballet at a dance studio near her home." Jubal looked a little sad.
After hearing what Jack and Clay relayed, everyone had such unspeakable expressions, and their outlook was greatly impacted.
Jiejie analyzed, "Ronnie was not just venting his anger, forcing his victims to put on makeup, rape, torture, and so on. They were all ways in which he tried to regain some control and re-direct the unfortunate experiences he was forced to experience in his childhood. "Those victims are all reflections of his mother in his mind."
"Then why didn't he just kill his mother?" Aubrey asked with some confusion as he ate every bite of the sandwich Jack made last night.
"For Ronnie, this is just an impulse. We know this, but it doesn't mean that he knows it. He just feels that doing this can let him vent it. His mother clearly told him, just like she told me and Like Clay, that kind of thing supports both mother and son.
We know that he has been witnessing such embarrassing things in his childhood. This feeling is complicated. He is not simply imitating what those pleasure seekers did to his mother and repeating that scene.
Instead, he is trying to correct, according to his own wishes, the scene that has been repeated in front of him, so he needs a bystander, just like him at the beginning, a bystander who will not judge anything, but only expresses his approval. Audience, that person is Lei Lin. "
Jack's words made everyone fall into deep thought. There were no obscure psychological terms in these words, but the information contained in them was a bit hard to accept. In view of what Ronnie had done, there was no sympathy for him. But an indescribable feeling of powerlessness arose in everyone's hearts.
There was silence in the conference room for a while, and everyone was trying to collect their emotions. After a long time, Clay sighed and asked, "So, will analyzing all this help us catch that pervert?"
"Of course." Jack motioned to Alice to bring up the electronic map of several surrounding states and mark Ronnie's previous whereabouts on it.
“He started in West Virginia, went to Ohio, then came back to Harrisville, West Virginia, where he met Raelynn, and then to Pennsylvania.
As I said before, Ronnie has been trying hard to regain control of his weak, pitiful and helpless childhood, so there must be some pattern in his whereabouts. What we have to do is to find this pattern and predict him. Next target. "
Aubrey frowned, and he vaguely understood what Jack meant, "Crony's mother is a migrant sex worker, which is almost impossible to track."
Jiejie, who had seen many of Red's map drawings and analysis in the BAU, already knew what Jack was going to do. "The criminal record of Ronnie's mother was retrieved. The time was set before Ronnie became an adult and left his mother to live independently. They were in The move between states was forced, and the only reason was that her mother was arrested for selling silver.”
As Alice operated, locations were marked on the map one after another, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, and North Carolina, almost all over the eastern and southeastern central states of the United States. It was staggering.
Jack's conjecture was absolutely correct. Ronnie committed the crime in the place where his mother was arrested. All the places with repeated marks pointed to the same city or town.
Obviously, having to move because of his mother's arrest was also a disservice to him, who had been living on the move.
"Notify the local police departments at these remaining locations to issue a warning that local dance studios may be targeted, and notify local state troopers of the license plate and characteristics of the Subaru that Jackie Vogel was driven away from, so they can be on the lookout for them. Pay attention to highways, especially gas stations along the way.”
Following Jubal's order, everyone picked up the phone and took action.
In the afternoon, police from various places received replies one after another. The local police stations that received the notification had dispatched police officers to inspect the surrounding dance studios.
Just in case, the Ravenswood Police Department also sent two groups of plainclothes officers to track and monitor Ronnie's mother. Although it was unlikely that Ronnie would go back to find her, as the source of everything, Jubal believed that it was necessary to keep track of it at all times. Her whereabouts.
State troopers in three neighboring states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, have deployed additional patrols on major highways leading to each other to search for suspicious vehicles, but so far nothing has been found.
"What should we do next? Just wait like this?" Clay seemed a little angry. As a special forces soldier who was used to executing orders, he was not impatient, but after becoming a police officer, he sat and watched one victim after another. Just showing up made him very uncomfortable.
"Of course not." Jack reached out and drew along Interstate 77 on the map.
"The Newark (New Jersey) office has sent a team of agents to Harrisburg, so our remaining three locations are all along Route 77, from Marietta, Ohio, south to north Mineral Springs, Carolina.
My idea was to go directly to Marietta and then split up into two groups, with one group and the command vehicle staying there while the rest headed south on Route 77 toward Mineral Springs. "
After hearing this, Jubal used the pencil in his hand to draw a circle around the mineral spring town at the end. After thinking for a moment, he nodded in agreement, "Just do what Jack said. Alice and I will go to Marietta and stay behind while the others drive along the road." Take Route 77 south.
24 hours have passed since yesterday, and Ronnie has not committed another crime, which means that he and Lei Lin may have temporarily left several nearby states. Maybe they are on Highway 77 at this moment, and we need to take the initiative. "