The world of American TV series: Starting with the L.A. Patrol.

Chapter 414 Untitled

Learning from his past experience, Jack also equipped his new car with a car satellite phone. If he encounters a terrorist road movie in the future, no one can stop him from calling for reinforcements unless his car is blown up.

Everyone wanted to experience the surging power of the new car. Even Hotchner changed his usual proactive attitude towards driving. In the end, Red drove the Saber and followed Mammoth.

After everyone felt the top-quality leather seats and the comfortable push-back feeling, and chatted about the car for a while, they turned the topic back to the current case.

"Currently, there are four related door-to-door robbery and homicide cases counted, spanning about six weeks. The first one was in Bakersfield in early August, Fresno two weeks later, and Chico eight days later.

Then in early September, he changed direction again and headed south, to Sacramento."

Because every time we go out, there are at least two cars, and everyone is used to turning on their mobile phones and chatting with external speakers on the way, but today Rhett drove behind alone, listening to him writing and drawing on the map. Muttering to himself in the same way, Rossi couldn't help but raise his voice to remind him.

"Dr. Reid, concentrate on driving. Now is not the time to draw a map. These crime locations are distributed within a radius of four hundred miles. We can study them slowly when we find them."

Reid's confident voice came over the phone, "It's been almost a year since I came to Los Angeles. I just need to recall the map of California in my mind."

Rossi was choked for a moment, but luckily Emily spoke in time to cover up her embarrassment, "How many serial killers are there? Are there any who are running around committing crimes like this?"

"Very few." Rossi shook his head, "I divide such serial killers into two categories. One is homeless wanderers, wandering around with no fixed abode.

Another type is professional needs. Their work requires them to travel around, and they can commit crimes while on business trips. "

"For example, a truck driver?" Jiejie now participates in case discussions more frequently. Rossi and Hotchner both support her in changing her career direction to professional psychological profiling.

"Is Jiejie talking about the long-distance transport driver Bruce Mendenhall? After he shot the victim, he took the victim's body across four states and then dumped the body near the cargo terminal." Reid continued. Words.

"But Mendenhall only selected high-risk victims, usually sex workers or female hitchhikers."

Jack objected, "If it's a truck driver type murderer, he needs a tool truck. Although the victim in this case lives in a remote community, if a strange large truck appears, it will definitely attract people's attention. Right?

But in these four cases, the neighbors stated that they did not even see a strange car. "

The truck driver type serial killer mentioned by Jiejie is very difficult to catch, not only in a country like the Federation where there are serious gaps between states, but even in the whole world, it is a big problem.

Even in the vast majority of cases, these serial killers who target sex workers and single female backpackers are difficult to detect because of the special nature of their profession.

For example, the arrest of long-distance truck driver Bruce Mendenhall was a complete coincidence. The trucking station where the body was found was located near the junction of three states. The local police department asked the FBI to intervene due to jurisdictional issues.

After some investigation, the FBI found more similar cases and suspected that this was a serial murder case, but there was no good way to identify the murderer.

An old local police detective was unwilling to do so. After repeatedly watching the blurry parking lot video N times, he placed his suspicion on a yellow truck.

Then on his way to the trucking station again, he saw a similar truck passing by. He stopped it on a whim, and found a large amount of blood in the cab.

Afterwards, after identification, a total of eight women's blood stains were found in the bloody cab, and so far only the bodies of three of them have been found.

If they are facing this type of serial killer this time, Jack really doesn't think they can successfully catch this kind of suspect. Maybe the BAU team will suffer their first Waterloo since its establishment.

But Hotchner agrees with Jack's point of view, "I tend to be more of a salesman. They will knock on the door and have a hard time getting anyone's attention."

Rossi added, "It could also be computer engineers who travel around and install software on people's homes and repair their computers."

<divclass="contentadv"> Then everyone pointed their suspicions at housing agents, real estate appraisers and other occupations that are not noticeable but require traveling around, but no one mentioned maintenance electricians.

A few hours later, a group of six people in two cars arrived at the Sacramento Police Department. As soon as they entered the task force office, everyone was shocked by the crowd of people in front of them.

The entire flat floor was filled with busy police detectives wearing civilian clothes and police badges. Jack smiled and joked, "I have never seen so many detectives in the LAPD for a whole year." .”

A muscular black police detective with a shaved head quickly came up to the crowd and extended his hand enthusiastically.

"I'm Detective Lyman, and welcome all of you, the amazing psychologists from the FBI."

"I'm Agent Jean Re." Jiejie smiled, shook hands with him, and then introduced everyone to him.

"We have reserved a room just for you. Please come with me." The bald black police detective led everyone into a large conference room.

There are also several police detectives in the conference room who are busy sorting out information.

The first thing that caught everyone's attention was that they used an entire wall as an evidence board. In addition to a huge map, there were various photos of the scene.

Next to the huge map was an A4 piece of paper with only a few words typed on it, "The route of the 'Highway 99 Killer'."

"It seems that your job has been stolen." Emily quietly nudged Red with her elbow, and she and Jiejie looked at each other and smiled.

Hotchner stood in front of the map and looked at it for a while, then turned around and asked, "Who gave this code name?"

Detective Lyman walked up to him, tilted his head, and seemed quite proud, "I started it."

"Well, I'm going to prepare a PR release for the media." Knowing that Hotchner was going to show off his power, Jiejie quickly found an excuse to leave.

"Let me help you!" Emily followed her away smartly. In this situation, whoever stayed behind would be embarrassed.

"Rosie, do you want some coffee? I seemed to have seen a nice cake shop just now, can I bring you one by the way?"

Seeing that the two girls wanted to apply oil on their feet, Jack forcefully put on a foodie vest and pulled the dumbfounded Red out of the office.

Only Rossi found a table and sat down by himself, took out a stack of information from his briefcase and sat down to pretend to study.

The four of them walked to the door of the office and stopped together, pretending to be discussing something, but secretly pricked up their ears.

In the conference room, the bald black police detective Lyman was unaware of the difference in the atmosphere and was still explaining endlessly.

"I thought since he committed crimes along Highway 99, why not just call him the 'Highway 99 Killer'. I have notified the California Highway Patrol to increase police presence and patrol frequency along Highway 99."

"Wait, don't rush yet." Hotchner spoke slowly and slowly, but his tone was firm and could not be refuted.

"We will send a memo to everyone involved in the investigation requesting that the code name be withdrawn."

Detective Lyman's face stiffened, he opened his suit and put his hands on his hips, "I don't understand what you mean."

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