Chapter 712: The Southern Killer
Seeing that Nan Ming was unharmed, Chen Wei couldn't be happier.
For Chen Wei, the exchange was a rare one, as the relationship between China and the United States had been tense and rigid in the past decade, as China has grown faster and faster, until the news of China's high-level visit to the United States was released, and the ice began to break down.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been more exchanges between China and the United States at the provincial and ministerial levels, all of which are preluding the future visits of bigwigs to the United States.
In April, high-level public security officials visited the United States, which also led to a series of exchanges, and the two sides set the tone for a number of exchanges from the grassroots level to the high-level level, including international joint law enforcement, as well as mutual visits and learning.
And Chen Wei's exchange this time belongs to the grassroots level of exchanges, although he has been promoted, but from the national level, it is still the grassroots and can no longer be grassroots.
And Chen Wei and the others should actually be seven people together this time, three grassroots personnel from each of the two departments of forensics and serious cases, and a middle and high-level official responsible for leading the team.
However, because of the funds of each department to take care of themselves this time, Chen Wei and they went directly to Washington by special plane in order to save money, saving air ticket money, and came two days earlier than others, and the team leader has not yet arrived.
Chen Wei had already thought about it, and he proposed to follow his FBI counterparts to participate in law enforcement, and a director of the FBI thought about it and agreed.
Then, after signing a statement relinquishing part of their power, the so-called life and death situation, Chen Wei, Jiang Sanjia, and Li Ying were assigned to a task force.
Although the three people signed the contract, the FBI did not want its Chinese counterparts to encounter danger when they first arrived, so this time the arrangement was given to the three people. It's a bizarre case.
"Southern Killers...... What is that?serial killer?" Jiang Sanjia muttered the name, very curious, Chen Wei frowned, but his expression was very solemn.
In an archive room full of various materials, Chen Wei and the three met several of their American colleagues, a small team of five. A middle-aged Mexican-American man named Attano with a face as square as a stone is the leader of the task force, along with two men and two women, one of whom is a quarter of Chinese descent and can speak Chinese not very fluently.
Chen Wei and the three of them are not fluent in English, but they can also speak, and there is no problem with basic communication.
"You call us a task force, but it's better to say we're archivists. Atano stroked his black and white hair, his big square face full of helplessness, and he introduced the three of them to the case he was following.
"It was probably the late nineties. When we digitized information across the country, we found a series of regular, but extremely strange serial murders, where the deceased were killed without any motive and seemingly at random, but their names were very similar. Sass Bright, Benjamin Bright, ...... "Attano touched his hair again," and at that time there was a theory called statistical nomenclature that was cited by some best-selling authors. People who think these names are prone to murder. ”
Attano handed several yellowed files to Chen Wei. Chen Wei squinted and saw that some of the records were handwritten, full of scribbled English, and he was a little struggling.
At that time, this strange phenomenon had already attracted the attention of some agents, and as more and more information was entered. We found that the range of dead people also quickly expanded to more than 20 people. There were also some deceased whose names were not the same, but who were murdered in a very similar way, were also included in this file, and the list later expanded to more than fifty people. Attano handed another list to Chen Wei.
A long list of and the ones that go with it. Photos of different ages and races, some are young people in the flower season, some are kind old people, and there is a long list, giving people a heavy sense of depression.
Sure enough, it's a serial killer......
"Later, our semanticists joined in and discovered the pattern, that all the names of the deceased had a specific meaning, Sas, South, Benjamin, Son of South, San Francisco, Corsican South, Bolotigne, Polish, Saul, Spanish...... Their surnames also have the same meaning, most of them mean light and brightness, and some mean darkness and death. The United States is a country of immigrants, and even if many people have names in less common native languages, they will still be murdered. Through the efforts of our semantics, the list of this archive was eventually increased to one hundred and thirty-seven people, the earliest dating back to fifty years ago, which was an extremely long-lived killer, or organization, and perhaps even a murderous family...... We call it, the Southern Killer. ”
Attano swallowed his saliva, fifty years, more than one hundred and thirty human lives, which was a heavy pressure.
"And in the years since we set up the task force, the list is still growing, and there is a victim who has been watched and protected by our agents for a long time, and is still murdered, and even our agents are ......" Attano shook his head, "This killer is very ruthless and meticulous, almost never misses, so our investigation has been very hard over the years, our agents have gone everywhere to collect evidence, but there is no progress, sometimes there has been a breakthrough, but there is always a lot of resistance, the reason for this is indescribable......"
Attano waved his hand: "When this task force was at its largest, there were dozens of people, rushing back and forth all over the country to collect evidence, but now, there are only five of us left, conducting some conservative investigations and data excavation work. ”
Attano pointed to a corner: "This is the scene of the last two murders, if you are interested, I can show you, I'm afraid there is no opportunity to take you out of the field recently......"
Chen Wei and Jiang Sanjia listened to this, and their faces gradually changed.
Li Ying was vaguely aware of something, but he didn't know it, just stared blankly at the surroundings.
Chen Wei pondered the words and sentences, and said slowly in his not very proficient English: "Mr. Attano, in our country, there have been many murders, which meet the same conditions, according to the information I have gathered, there have been seventeen murders that meet the relevant conditions, and they were also killed because of the same name combination, and it is also difficult to catch the murderer, but in our country, the order of names is reversed, and the people they killed have the same name." ”
South Hell!
Attano's eyes widened, almost bulging.
Li Ying even screamed out.
Jiang Sanjia is not surprised, Nan Ming doesn't know, but he does.
A big reason why Chen Wei is willing to give up his career and status in Wubei and transfer to the capital is because of Nan Ming, because of the two people with the same pronunciation who also died in front of him, the liar Nan Ming and the big Ming brother Nan Ming!
The confrontation between Nanming and Miss Abiy, many times he can't intervene, but he has already set his sights on these killers, and he will use the way he is best at to find them out and kill them to protect his family.
Protection and justice, this is Chen Wei's lifelong pursuit.
However, the country has a large population, some information is relatively closed, and there is no police agency dedicated to national operations like the FBI, and only local police organizations have made little progress in information collection and evidence collection.
Chen Wei's department is actually a department that imitates the working style of the FBI, but it is still in the embryonic stage.
Chen Wei never dreamed that in this distant United States, he would find an archive room with 137 people, which was simply a treasure given to him by God!
"The killers in the south are not only operating in China, but also in China?"
Attano was also stunned, he hurriedly grabbed Chen Wei and said, "Can you reveal some information? The information you have will be very helpful to us!"
"Don't dare, let's communicate with each other and help each other!" Chen Wei said in a deep voice.
Attano and Chen Wei held each other's hands tightly, and suddenly there was a feeling of meeting the underground party in an old movie.
"Comrade Attano, I can count myself as seeing you......" Jiang Sanjia muttered quietly.
was quietly kicked by Chen Wei.
Several other people were also dumbfounded, is this pie in the sky, or what?
How could there be such a coincidence?
At this moment, a female detective who was operating in front of the computer stood up: "Boss, there is a situation." We've just searched for a new case that fits the characteristics of a Southern killer......"
"What? Who is the victim?"
"There are no victims. The female detective looked strange, "The person who was attacked is called Sath Bright, the daughter of a small rancher, and they ...... The attacker was caught. ”
"Someone got it...... Southern Killer?" Attano Horan stood up and ordered, "Where?"
"In Boise, Idaho. The female detective said.
Chen Wei and the three of them were startled and also stood up, Boise!
"Contact the BPD immediately, let them protect the scene and witnesses, and we'll rush over immediately!" said Attano Horan stood up.
"Mr. Attano, I hope to go with you as well. Chen Wei hurriedly said.
Attano thought for a few seconds, and then said, "Okay, let's go together, since we have you together, it's more convenient for us to contact a special plane." ”
At the FBI headquarters, there are many special planes for some departments, and Attano's Southern Killer Task Force is a small transparent FBI, and he has never had this opportunity before, but now Attano, with an indomitable momentum, smashed out a special plane from the senior executive, with his square head, and flew straight to Boise.
Chen Wei and the three of them, they have taken a plane in the past two days, and they are all on a special plane, which is also interesting.
Along the way, Chen Wei was a little apprehensive, but because Attano and the others were next to him, it was not convenient for him to contact Nan Ming directly, but the case file had been passed over, and the killer was injured, and the attacker and the witness were unharmed, which made him slightly relieved.
rushed all the way to BPD, and as soon as Chen Wei entered the hall, he saw Nanming's surprised eyes. (To be continued.) )