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"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third murder case in two months." JJ looked at the bloody scene on the screen and stabilized his mood.

"Is it a case like Karl's? Started while the family was traveling and imprisoned them in the basement." Hotch recalled the rings worn by the fathers of every victim family he found in Karl's office, and his tone was low.

"No." JJ shook his head, "It's even more brutal than that case."

"He drowned the child; the mother was shot, and the father was strangled." Jessie looked at the photos of the scene. "It's not bloody, it's just a little disgusting..."

"No fingerprints at the scene, no DNA found, no flipping, no breaking and entering, no sexual assault."

"The local police called him a ghost," Morgan picked up Elle's words.

"Do they need our help with the investigation?" Gideon looked at JJ.

"Yes. In fact, they also had a suspect, but due to insufficient evidence, they had to let him go."

"So we went this time to help them find evidence?" Reid straightened his tie.

"Stop him before the next tragedy happens." Hotch sorted out the files. "See you on the plane in half an hour."

"Actually, there are still some commonalities in these three cases." Reid flipped through the files on the plane, raised his head and said to the crowd. "The mother died the fastest, and the child suffered a lot compared to the father. The murderer was likely to have been abused by his father and elder brother when he was a child, which made him hate this group of people during the killing."

"He took something from the body." Jessie went back and forth comparing the photos in her hand.

"What?" Morgan leaned over.

"The first family...the glasses my mother wore." Jessie pointed to the different colors next to the face of the deceased in the photo. "The second family...the watch...the third is the ring on his hand...what is he doing with these? As a trophy?"

"Or reminisce about his missing mother's love." Elle took a photo and looked at it.

"Did the local media say anything?" Hotch asked JJ.

"Pittsburgh's law and order has always been among the best in the country. Three bad incidents happened one after another, and the local people are already in panic."

"Try to calm the emotions of the people and control the local reports." Gidoen instructed JJ, "Also, I want to see the information of the suspect who went in and was released."

"Okay, our lucky guy's name is Norman." Garisa quickly passed on the information, "He lost his mother when he was young. It is said that he and his mother suffered from his father's domestic violence all the year round... His father married another man when he was seven... …until now."

"I guess his stepmother brought an older brother, too?"

"Yes!" Grasia tapped the keyboard, "One point for Elle."

"And what about his father now?" Hotch pressed.

"Nothing has been found so far. It seems that he cut off contact with them after he grew up."

"Thanks, Grasia."

"He fits the profile. But we lack evidence." Reid stared at the screen for a long time, "Is there another person?"

"We'll have to wait until we get off the plane and conduct an on-site survey before making a conclusion." Gideon took off his glasses and said in a low voice.

"There are no witnesses at the three crime scenes. How did he do it without anyone noticing." Reid looked at the house sealed off by the cordon, a little puzzled.

"It's not quite invisible." Gideon broke the seal and entered the door. "The place where the three families live is relatively remote, which gave him an opportunity."

"You may not believe it if you say it. We sent people to monitor Norman, but the tragedy still happened." The local police chief stated with a little helplessness when he saw Hotch and his party.

"Why don't you lock this guy up?"

"We can only imprison him for 48 hours, and we have to release him immediately, otherwise it will be against the rules." The sheriff responded to Morgan's question.

"The tragedy happened after he was released, didn't it?"

"That's where the problem lies." The sheriff looked at Elle, "I planted a secret whistle outside his door, and found nothing unusual."

"It's also possible that he discovered your surveillance and deliberately made you think he was inside." Hotch looked around, "Let's go meet that Norman."

"Hotch." JJ came in from outside, phone in hand. "There are some situations here. The cat raised by the last family has just called from the pet hospital to say that they have rescued this little guy."

"You don't think the cat has any message for us, do you?" Morgan doubted. "Even if it yelled at Norman, we can't take that as evidence."

"What if there is?" JJ turned his gaze, "As a survivor in three cases, it is now the only clue..."

"Jessie, you go to the hospital with JJ." Although Hotch also had reservations, he still let the two go to visit.Maybe there will be a turning point?

"Do you believe?"

"What do you believe?" Jessie didn't respond for a while.

"A cat is a very psychic animal. Since this little thing has survived, there must be a meaning for it to survive." JJ looked at the pet hospital not far away. "Honestly, I want to adopt him when this case is over."

"It's a good idea, but...do you have any experience in raising cats?" JJ seemed to have a different interest in collecting butterflies.

"E... I can learn it. It's also good to find friends around me to understand."

"That's true." Seeing JJ stuttering suddenly, Jessie was a little puzzled, but didn't ask any further.The two entered the door one after the other.At a glance, I saw a white cat lying around the corner.The tail was broken, leaving only a short section.Wrapped in gauze, she looked extremely weak.

"Why is this cat so dirty?" Jessie asked, "Didn't it be cleaned before the operation?"

"When it was delivered, we immediately performed an operation and treated the wound, but the cat refused to wash it after the operation anyway. We were worried that the wound would burst if it moved too much, so we didn't give it a bath. "

JJ and Jessie looked at each other, what a strange cat.

"It refuses to take a bath, is it because it smells like a murderer?" JJ bent down and touched the white cat's head, watching it silently with its blue eyes.

"..." Jessie looked down, "The murderer wouldn't drop DNA on it for no reason, unless he was scratched by the cat's claws."

"I'll call Elle." Jessie suddenly responded.

"This guy is in the interrogation room now, and he looks very angry about coming here for the third time." Elle looked at Norman who was sitting in the interrogation room. "Hotch and Gideon are chatting with him now, what's wrong?"

"Can you notice if there are any scratches on his hands or legs?" Jessie tried to make Elle understand what she meant. "That's the kind, cat scratches."

"Morgan is perfectly capable of this kind of rough inspection. I understand." Elle hung up the phone and waved to Morgan and Reid, "You two, come here."

"You have to understand that the blood on this paw may not belong to Norman." Jessie took a cotton swab to collect the things in the cat's paw while soothing the cat's emotions. "And after all this bumpy ride, it's possible...to get nothing."

"I understand." JJ looked at the white cat, "This is a psychological tactic, and pretending to tell him that we found his DNA... is also a method."

"The sheriff said he had police forces all over Norman's house, so how did he commit the crime?" JJ asked strangely, "It won't work, and he can't punch holes."

"Hole?" Jessie looked at JJ, "Could he have a secret passage?"

"The cat isn't dead, you know?" Gidoen looked at the silent man in front of him, and said to himself, "It's the cat that scratched you." He pointed to Norman's arm.

Norman subconsciously looked at his hand, but still didn't speak.

"We also found a secret passage in your house. Follow it out and it will be near the main road." Morgan walked into the interrogation room and looked down at Norman, "What else do you have to explain?"

The door was pushed open, and Reid stopped a few meters away from the interrogation table with a few certificates issued by the hospital, "Jessie and JJ found blood from the cat's paw, it's your blood."

Norman raised his head, his face suddenly pale.

"He recruited." Hotch looked at Jessie and JJ who came back, "Good job."

"Actually, that certificate is fake." Jessie smiled and looked at JJ who was holding the cat, "JJ said, this is a psychological warfare, if he doesn't take the initiative to reveal all the criminal facts, we have no way to accuse him. "

"Anyway, it's an indisputable fact that the cat grabbed him." Elle looked at JJ, "Are you going to adopt it?"

JJ nodded.I thought of asking Elle and the little doctor about their emotional experience when they were shopping in New York.She remembered that Elle said at the time that she wanted to create opportunities to meet, such as opening windows and so on...

She looked at the cat in her arms, she didn't know how to open the window, but raising a cat...

Can I learn from Emily...

The author has something to say: Emily: Why do my cats have objects and I haven’t yet?

JJ: Why are the people Elle and I fall in love with so incomprehensible?

Serigo: Meow meow?

The meaning of this extermination case is to let JJ adopt a big white cat (cover his head)

The Fish King plot is about to go online... The addition of the little doctor and Emily is bound to violate the rules

So can the little doctor change the direction of the plot?

☆, fish king