[Zhongyingmei] That snake

"There is a question, why did the case go to the BAU after three months?" Oliver asked, such a modus operandi should be reported quickly even if there is only one victim.

"Because of jurisdiction issues." ** said helplessly, "In fact, a very similar case also appeared in New Jersey, and the local police did report it, but they turned to BSU in Baltimore for help, while the Pennsylvania State Police turned to us. .The jurisdictional formalities took some time."

"Will Graham is their profiler at BSU?" The place name of Baltimore suddenly opened Oliver's memory.

The staffing of BSU is very different from that of BAU. BSU has only one profiler, Will, but there are three regular forensic doctors to assist in handling cases; while the BAU team is mostly composed of profilers, and most of the forensic autopsy work is handed over to the local authorities. Police forensic.

"Yes." Hotch answered his question. "Agent Graham has a gift for empathy, but has been a lecturer at the FBI Academy and only recently returned to work in the field."

"You know him?" Hotch added additionally.

"I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Lecter when I went to Baltimore to see him," Oliver said. "If this is the same unsub, do we need to cooperate with BSU?"

"It depends on the next step of unsub's crime and our speed of solving the case." Hotch's answer is not clear, after all, BAU has never encountered a situation where two identical departments share a case at the same time in the past.

"I have also prepared information on the case in New Jersey, please check it carefully." ** reminded everyone.

Unlike the Pennsylvania case, unsub took place indoors, in a motel.

The two victims, a man and a woman, also had their backs cut open along their ribs, and the wings were suspended by slender fishing lines.Facing the bunk, they knelt on their knees and clasped their hands.

"Rossi, what do you think about unsub?" Reid asked, "I have read your published book, which has made a lot of analysis on Satanists, and this case has a strong religious meaning."

"Did you know that the angels in the Bible don't have wings, only in murals and sculptures do people add wings to them," Rossi said.

"So this is his imaginary angel?" Prentiss asked.

"The media call him an angel maker." Morgan sneered as he flipped through the documents, "Who can make a living person into a flesh-and-blood angel?"

"He sees himself as a god." Oliver frowned. People who see themselves as gods tend to be solitary, arrogant and indifferent.

"According to statistics, about 90.00% of the population of five in the United States is religious. But," Reid paused, "it would be considered disrespectful to think of yourself as God. I don't think he is religious."

"God made angels and gave them powers. But there was no sign of the victim's movements or facial expressions." Hotch has been observing crime scene photos.

The detailed photos of crime scenes are always like this, with underexposure and weird angles, which makes people feel depressing from the light, not to mention the cold corpses in the pictures.

"Angels also serve God," Oliver continued. "The victims had their hands folded, their heads bowed, their eyes closed, and they were praying, for the unsub."

"Unsub is receiving the power of the angels."

Having been in BAU for a long time, Oliver still has to force himself to restrain the urge to tear up these photos and analyze the case calmly when encountering this kind of case.

"Unsub does not believe in religion but relies on the power of angels. His knowledge of angels comes from other people's narratives." Rossi affirmed.

"But if it's a prayer, what does the angel need to pray for God?" Oliver rested his right hand on his cheek, staring at the chessboard on Hotch's table.

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After arriving at the local police station, Oliver and Prentiss were sent to inspect the body.

It's winter, and Pennsylvania's latitude is high.The cold snap kept the corpses from decomposing too quickly in the wild.Even without the stench of rotting corpses and crawling bugs, it's still not a pleasant job.

"There are no special marks, no symbolic ornaments. If it weren't for the pair of wings that are too eye-catching, I don't think it has anything to do with God." Oliver sighed, holding a magnifying glass to observe the knife marks on the corpse, the body secretions had dissipated Almost, he can only rely on his eyesight to find information on the corpse.

Unsub cut off part of the muscle and fat from the inside of the meat wing, but the outer skin is intact. No wonder there is no clue from the police pictures.

Unsub appears to mimic the shape of the feathers on a wing, and each victim's halved muscles vary in size. Oliver picked up a piece of muscle with tweezers to examine.

Prentiss, who was watching from the side, shivered, and couldn't help rubbing the goosebumps on his arms. Suddenly, he heard Oliver ask: "What method do you think Unsub uses to select these... the size of the meat slices?"

Prentiss moved to the operating table in small steps, looked directly at the cold body lying on the metal operating table, and said, "Let me see. It seems that the victims are distinguished according to their own size." .”

Oliver raised his head upon hearing this, and now he is standing on the far left side of the corpse, looking to the right, there are five corpses neatly arranged in a row, with red muscles interlaced with light-colored fat bones, and his vision from near to far is blurred Clear, like fingertips walking on the black and white keys of the piano.

Shaking his head to clear his mind, Oliver found that what Prentiss said was not unreasonable. The 'feathers' on the back of a stronger man are wider and thicker, while the 'feathers' on the back of a thinner woman are slender and thinner.

"Even this kind of thing has its own characteristics." Oliver shook his head, "Either he likes art, or he's a paranoid."

Boldly inspecting all the corpses, Prentiss had some doubts in his heart, and asked the forensic doctor who had been standing aside as a background, without saying a word: "Is the flesh on their backs... missing a part?"

The forensic doctor nodded.It seems that his silence is not because of being cautious towards strangers, but simply taciturn.

It’s always a bit of a headache to communicate with this kind of person who asks questions and answers one sentence at a time. Prentiss continued to ask: “Which part is it? I can only see a vague range.”

The forensic doctor approached a relatively robust corpse, and his dissected flesh wing was the largest of all the corpses.The forensic doctor used tweezers to separate the skin and muscle, pointed to the upper muscle tissue and said: "The removed human tissue is concentrated in this part. Judging from the knife marks, Unsub cut the wings first, and then removed this piece of muscle." .”

"What do you think of his technique? Does it look like a doctor?" Oliver asked.

"His job is very simple. His ribs are very hard. When the tip of the knife touches it, the master will shift the direction of force. The technique is not exquisite. There are still wrong knife marks on the first corpse. He is a novice."

"Do you have the autopsy report on the body in New Jersey?"

"No." The forensic doctor's answer was still concise.

Oliver had a headache, he didn't want to go to Baltimore, it's not a place for fed agents.

"okay, thank you."

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Hotch returns from the crime scene, where the BAU team gathers in the office to discuss the case.

"Three of the crime scenes were on mountain roads and two were in parks. Those two were densely vegetated and hard to spot," Hotch said.

"Unsub chooses a remote location so that he will not be disturbed when he commits crimes. I deduce that he often commits crimes at night." Rossi added that since the end of the case of Dr. Octopus, the BAU veteran has tried to integrate into the team and get used to the team way of working.

"The vegetation is dense...there are evergreens planted in both places?" Oliver asked.

Hotch nodded in acknowledgment.

"The medical examiner gave us some additional information that the victim's back muscles had been removed," Prentiss said.

"Cut it off?" Rossi was a little surprised, "How big is it?"

"Just a fraction."

"He created the wings for the angels, but now he plucked some of them, why?" Rossi said to himself.

"The wings are human flesh and blood, he might be a cannibal." Oliver pursed his lips, well, the appearance of Will's name made him extremely sensitive to the conjecture of cannibalism.

"No, he won't." Rossi retorted without even being surprised, "In the eyes of unsub, an angel is just an item to give him power. He won't eat them, just like no one would eat a feather A feather in a pillow."

"Give him power, what will unsub use this power for?" Morgan had a flash of inspiration and called Garcia.

"Babygirl, do you know the case we are investigating now?"

"Hmm, a very bloody, very unartistic case. Come, knight, and tell me your request."

"Help me check the background information of several victims, and then cross-check their biographical records."

"Bingo, this is really very simple. Let the queen tell you, these children have criminal records, some big and some small. Robbery, rape, theft and the like."

"So we're dealing with vigilantes?" Morgan hung up.

"Vigilante police are highly planned and highly mobile. Their attitude towards victims should be extreme disgust. Instead of turning them into angels and taking them into heaven to serve him." Hotch said.