Profiler 3: Crime Ends

The morning sun from the window next to it came in directly, and the two felt it at the same time, as if a certain beam of light flickered.

"This is……"

Jiao Yang turned around, and Lu Yuanli also jumped off the cabinet.

Lu Yuanli looked down and saw a small box lying on the carpet. There seemed to be a badge in it, and there was something like a certificate beside it.

Lu Yuanli looked at it and said, "What is this?"

"Your things, you don't know, you still ask me?!"

Jiao Yang smiled and bent down to pick up the pile of odds and ends, and put them on the cabinet casually, "Daisy sent it, said it was a souvenir from the Regional Scholars Conference..."

"Regional Scholars Conference?"

Lu Yuanli picked up the small rectangular box with some hesitation, and saw that it was actually a metal USB flash drive. The shiny thing they saw just now was the zipper pendant on it.

Jiao Yang looked down and his expression became tense.

Because they both found that the color of the zipper pendant and the shape of the chain looked familiar.

Jiao Yang immediately took out his mobile phone and recalled the pictures he took at the first crime scene.The color and texture are indeed very close.

The two couldn't help but looked at each other. Could it be that the murderer was a regional scholar who had participated in the Criminology Research Conference? !

Although Lu Yuanli thought that this possibility was really unlikely, he immediately called Comrade Police Officer Kevin Smith, and at the same time, compared the pictures of the two things and sent them to his mobile phone.

Lu Yuanli said: "Kevin, I found something here. This is a souvenir I gave out at the Regional Scholars Conference. It looks very similar to the evidence from the previous two days. Please ask your colleagues to contact the Secretary-General of the Regional Scholars Conference and find For those in charge of criminal psychology and other majors, let’s compare which conference’s souvenir is this style of key chain.”

"it is good!"

Kevin said excitedly: "This discovery is very important, I will tell my colleagues right away!"

Thinking of the discovery in the morning, Jiao Yang was a little absent-minded throughout the day, always thinking that it meant something, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

At night, the two went to bed early.Lu Yuanli was just about to fall asleep in a daze when Kevin called.

Lu Yuanli turned on the light casually. Although he didn't check the exact time, he felt that it would be around 12 o'clock. Why did he call at this time?Could it be that the pendant was found...

However, before Lu Yuanli asked, Kevin said with difficulty: "Professor Lu, come to the scene with Jiao Yang, the third case...appeared."

Lu Yuanli said, "Okay, let's go there right away!"

Lu Yuanli hung up the phone and got up to change clothes.

Jiao Yang said: "Don't you think that Kevin's voice just now sounds a bit weird?"

Lu Yuanli murmured, "It seems to be a little bit."

Jiao Yang said: "What does he have to hide from us? Could it be that... there was a breakthrough in the case?"

Lu Yuanli said: "It's possible. After all, there are some details involved in the case, and it's inconvenient to communicate directly on the phone. Let's talk about it when we go."

The victim this time was, of course, not the priest from the State University.

There were only sporadic vehicles on the street in the early morning.In less than an hour, the three had already met outside another remote church.

Kevin looked very excited, rubbed his hands together and said, "Professor Lu, it's inconvenient to say on the phone just now that our colleagues may have caught the murderer!"

Since the second case appeared and was judged to be a serial murder, the California State Police officially handed it over to the CBI, so Kevin said it was "our colleague."

Jiao Yang paused, "Did everyone at the scene get all the stolen goods?"

Kevin was a little excited, but tried his best to keep calm and said, "It's almost..."

"Why do you arrest me? I didn't kill anyone! I just came to see, but I didn't expect these to be true, damn it! Let me go!"

Before the two entered, they heard a familiar voice.

Jiao Yang hurriedly opened the door, passed the stairs, and saw a young priest in his thirties lying horizontally in the hall. His face and neck were cut open. Judging by the blood all over the floor, it was probably severed by a sharp ax blade. The aorta of the neck was slashed, and blood gushed to death. From the chest to the abdominal cavity, it was completely cut open, but it seemed that there was no lack of organs.The blood was fresh, and it seemed that the time of death was within one or two hours.

A small plastic flashlight was thrown next to the body. The victim may have been killed when he heard the noise or was deliberately lured out by the murderer.

Standing next to him was a young man of medium build, reddish-brown hair, wearing a jacket, covered in blood, and with some funny traces of makeup on his face, who was arguing with several CBI police officers.And beside him, there was a red and black stainless steel logging axe.

Jiao Yang glanced at Lu Yuanli, and blurted out, "Eric?!"

Eric looked back and saw Jiao Yang, and shouted excitedly: "Hey friends! Please explain to them for me that I am not a murderer! I just heard that someone will be killed here today. Come and see, I didn't expect I was knocked out, and that person is the murderer!"

A policeman next to him laughed and said, "Please, make it up! How do you know that someone will die here today? What's more, who would come to see a murder scene in the middle of the night, and is there anyone selling tickets?!"

"No, what I said is true!"

Eric kept yelling over there. In order to keep the scene quiet, Kevin asked someone to take him into the police car first.

The hall finally became quiet, and Kevin said to one of his colleagues, Braden: "Dude, this is Professor Lu and his assistant. Tell me, how did you find the scene? What happened when we arrived at the scene?" Condition."

"Hello, Professor Lu."

Police Officer Braden pointed to Eric's direction and introduced: "Our colleagues are divided into three shifts and keep an eye on this guy every day. I haven't seen him go out tonight. When the two teams hand over shifts, check the monitoring , there's a tall woman in exaggerated attire, said Dick, our captain, feeling a little off.

Everyone looked at the surveillance carefully and felt that it looked like Eric, so they went up and smashed the door, only to find that Eric was not there.Then I found that Eric's car was missing. I checked the monitoring all the way, and through the cooperation of the traffic control department, I found out his route, which seemed to be in this small church.

We called for backup, broke in and saw that the priest named Kyle died here.Eric, with an ax in his hand, was lying next to the body, covered in blood.We locked him up. "

Jiao Yang nodded, and went to lift up the hem of the priest's robe to look at the deceased, but there was no organ defect.

Jiao Yang asked two police officers to lift up the body of the deceased and looked at the ground, but there were no red letters.

Jiao Yang said: "Officer, I want to ask a question, was Eric in a coma when you guys came in?"

Although unwilling to admit it, Braden nodded and said, "It seems to be true."

"So, gentlemen."

Jiao Yang said: "Do you all think that Eric is the murderer now? I think this is unlikely. We can only use Eric to log in to the dark web forum as evidence to fully monitor him. On that forum , He has always been a spectator, at most participating in the discussion, not even making suggestions. I am more inclined, the murderer deliberately released the news to lure him to be a scapegoat!"

Kevin was taken aback and said, "Professor Lu, what do you think?"

Lu Yuanli said: "I observed a slight protrusion on the back of Eric's head. He may have been knocked out."

Brydon said: "However, in that position, it may also be that after Eric found out that he was surrounded by us, he knocked himself out to try to get rid of the crime! Or when the priest resisted, he took something and hit him on the head."

Jiao Yang smiled and said: "Maybe the murderer also wanted to create the scene like this. However, the place is too clean and tidy, and there is no trace of resistance and struggle on the body of the deceased. It is really not like someone who has experienced a fierce fight. Maybe we can find Look for it, is there anything that seems to stun Eric."

Brandon glanced at the bloodstains all over the floor, and thought, this is... clean, tidy? !

However, since Jiao Yang said so, several policemen took some heavy things from the room, such as fruit bowls, sculptures, ashtrays, hard-shell thick-covered books, etc., one by one.

Jiao Yang scanned the room, and suddenly saw a circular mark on the window sill.

When he walked over, he found that there were still some slightly transparent water stains on the window sill.

Jiao Yang subconsciously dipped his finger on it, and smelled it closely, there was a slight smell of lime water.

Jiao Yang felt that this was like some kind of flower fertilizer.He squatted down along the water stains. The water stains on the carpet seemed to have dried up, revealing some traces of white powder.

Jiao Yang looked around following the traces of the powder, and finally at the corner between a cabinet and a column, he saw a white vase with a broken mouth.

"Kevin!"

Jiao Yang took out the vase, pointed it to Kevin, and said, "Look at the shape of the bottom of the vase, there are scratch marks, this should be the thing that stunned Eric. You can do an identification to see whose fingerprints are on it. Yes, have you seen these water stains? Collect them, and please help me identify their ingredients."

Lu Yuanli came to Kevin's side and lowered his voice, "Can we talk to Eric?

Kevin said with a embarrassed expression: "This doesn't seem to be in compliance with the rules."

"It's ok."

Lu Yuanli said, "Perhaps I, as a counselor, can assist you when you interrogate Eric?"

"it is good!"

Kevin said: "I'll find a way to arrange it, please ask first, and then go through the formalities again!"

"Wait a mininute!"

When they came here just now, they seemed to see...Jiao Yang suddenly thought of something, and walked out.

Kevin didn't understand, so he said, "Professor, what's wrong with him?"

Lu Yuanli spread his hands, expressing that he didn't know, "Searching the scene is his forte, not mine."

The two followed out together, only to see Jiao Yang get up and go to the flower garden outside the house.In this season, there are only branches and leaves, and there is no flower in the flowerbed.

Jiao Yang looked carefully at all the plants he planted, and a certain chain of evidence seemed to gradually become clear in his mind...