Chapter 1119
Unfortunately, despite the presence of Hannah, a tree-climbing expert, the team was unable to find any more clues at the scene.
After the FBI took a circle of photos, Lopez notified the local police that the blockade could be lifted.
Not long after, Jie Jie and Aubrey also arrived here through the border. They had gone to question the girl Rosie Bantar who was traveling with the victim Lee Kern.
It doesn't look like they spent much time on this task.
"You mean that girl just admitted that she was smuggling drugs across the border?" Jubal was a little surprised when he heard Jiejie's story.
"It's not drugs, it's prescription drugs, insulin and other drugs." Aubrey explained.
"We found her in a nursing home, where many elderly people relied on her weekly drug purchase, so after discussing with me, Jiejie decided not to pursue the case."
It sounds like a plot similar to "Dallas Buyers Club" and "I'm Not a Drug God", but the prescription drugs that the girl Rosie bought were not unapproved new drugs or cheap generic drugs, but ordinary prescription drugs.
Unlike those cheap painkillers that are sold in large quantities, the prices of most common prescription drugs in the United States are quite ridiculous.
For example, "Ofloxacin", which contains antibiotic ingredients, is the common ofloxacin (used for eye drops or ear drops) in Seris. The price of one bottle is US$503.59.
After insurance compensation, the out-of-pocket price is US$16.04. Considering the high medical insurance coverage in the United States, there is naturally a generic drug for people without medical insurance - "GoodRx", priced at US$24.04 per bottle.
As for the price of drugs such as insulin, there was once a 20-fold price difference between the United States and Mexico. This means that an American diabetic patient needs to spend about 30% of his disposable income on purchasing insulin to maintain his life every month.
There are nearly 40 million such patients in the United States, which is close to 10% of the total population.
Even the men in Congress couldn't stand such horrific prices. They once implemented a wave of forced price cuts, forcing the three major American insulin giants - Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi - to lower the prices of their insulin products. 70%.
However, there are policies and countermeasures, and soon these pharmaceutical companies began to launch so-called new insulins that replaced the bottles without changing the medicine, and gradually discontinued the insulin products that had originally been reduced in price.
"So the boys who travel with Rosie across the border to Tijuana every week are just her cover?" Jack quickly figured out what was going on.
An 18-year-old girl who frequently travels to and from the border alone is not only likely to arouse suspicion, but also poses a risk to her personal safety. Bringing a frat boy with her every time can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
"It's a smart move, but how did they separate?" Jack asked Xiang Jiejie.
"Lee Kern drank too much and vomited violently in the back alley of a bar, but the pharmacy was about to close at that time, and Rosie had to leave him behind to sell medicine.
When she came back, she found that Li was no longer there. She thought he had left on his own, so she hurried back to San Diego.
When we found her, Rosie didn't even know Lee had been murdered. "
Jiejie is now also a BAU certified behavioral analyst. No one thought that an 18-year-old girl could easily deceive her with her acting skills alone. Moreover, after learning that Lee Kern was murdered, Rosie also took the initiative to provide an important piece of information. clue.
"While they were drinking at the bar, Li saw someone passed out in the bathroom with a small packet of cocaine in his hand, so he took it away."
Aubrey gestured at the size, "It was about the size of a sandwich bag. Rosie said she warned Lee not to get himself into trouble, then grabbed the bag and threw it in the trash."
"OK, the first scene is probably near the bar. Lopez led people to seal off the surrounding area. We need to conduct a dragnet-style search."
Jubal was refreshed. Less than 24 hours had passed since the incident, and they still had great hope of finding more clues nearby.
The bar Rosie mentioned was less than two kilometers away from Plaza Delgado. According to the location prompted by the girl, Aubrey and Clay easily found a trash can made of oil drums in front of the bar. The bag of cocaine was found.
After twisting a handful of powder and observing it carefully under the sun, Lopez took off his gloves, "The purity is not very high, about 70 or 80 grams, but it can be sold for a lot of money on the street. This will be that boy. The cause of death?”
"Maybe, but if the drug dealers caught Li and wanted to recover these drug addicts through him, shouldn't they use torture to extract a confession? Why would they simply cut his throat with a single knife?"
Clay squatted on the ground, covering his nose, and continued to pick through the disgusting things poured out of the trash can, but unfortunately he didn't find anything more.
Lopez shrugged, "I don't know, but whatever those bastards do won't surprise me. I'll ask the bar owner."
"I'm with you." Jiejie followed him into the bar.
Aubrey looked up at the alley leading to the back door of the bar, "This is where Rosie and Lee separated. It was about 10:30 pm."
He pointed to the vomit in the corner and led everyone to continue walking deeper into the alley.
".At that time, the entrance to the bar will be very busy, and Li's accident should not have happened in public."
After a series of twists and turns, passing more trash cans, wooden pallets with empty bottles, and rusty oil drums, a mud wall covered with messy graffiti appeared in front of everyone.
A lot of flies and other insects were reveling here, because the walls and the ground were full of splattered blood.
Jack avoided the chaotic footprints on the ground and approached the wall to observe the blood carefully, "I think we have found the first crime scene. These are typical arterial blood splashes."
Because the case was not handled in their own country, everyone did not expect Mexico to provide any decent forensic team to come to support, so they could only do it themselves, put on gloves, take out the evidence bag and start collecting evidence.
There was basically no hope for footprints, but they had to be photographed and collected evidence after they were finalized. They did not expect to find the murderer through footprints, but they could be used as evidence for conviction afterwards.
The ground here was not cement, but simply hardened sand. You could see a long drag mark mixed with blood that stopped abruptly at the entrance of the alley, replaced by two tire marks.
Jubal took a picture of the tire tracks with his mobile phone and took out a tape measure to measure the distance between the tires. "The murderer took the body away in a car and transported it to the other side of the square. This also explains how the body was hung on the tree.
Tie the other end of the rope to the bumper, and even one person can easily lift the body."