Chapter 29 Abuses of the administration of justice

"Lin, how's it going, do you know Natalie's whereabouts?" asked Sean eagerly after coming out of the interrogation room.

"I don't know, Yuri Rommel only mentioned that the MPV was silver, and didn't say anything else!" Lin Xiuyi shook his head and said regretfully.

"So what do we do next?" Sean asked, frowning, distressed.

"Call up all the surveillance cameras near Route 90 during the time when Natalie disappeared, and find out all the silver MPVs!" Lin Xiuyi said without hesitation.

"Lin, do you know what traffic is on Route 90?" Sean asked in distress.

"Go ahead, we only have such a clue!" Lin Xiuyi said to Sean in an unquestioning tone.

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How many people have been missing on Route 90, I'm afraid no one can say clearly. The FBI and police will only know that the girls were once missing until after they found the bodies. Those poor girls were taken away by dangerous perverts like the Green River Killers, as if they never existed. No one cares where they go, whether they live or die. Route 90 is like Bermuda for these girls, silently turning a person into nothing. The most pitiful victims are those whose bodies have not even been found. It's like the iron box left behind by the Green River Killers, which also contains evidence that 34 innocent lives were ever excessive (one of the known victims was male).

Richard, the prosecutor in charge of the case, has already discussed with the FBI the judicial process in the Green River killer case, and the prosecutor intends to sign a plea agreement with Yuri Rommel's lawyer, Yuri Rommel tells the FBI where the remaining 33 victims are buried, and confesses to all the crimes committed, and the prosecutor can consider demycinating Yuri Rommel's first-degree murder charges. This means that Yuri Rommel is likely to be sentenced to life imprisonment or more than 20 years in prison, rather than the death penalty. It's so ironic that a serial killer who killed 53 victims can't be prosecuted for first-degree murder.

It may seem absurd, but this is the malaise of the American justice system. Because lawyer Yuri Rommel has developed a strategy for him that he will never be executed. Under U.S. law, a suspect cannot be executed as long as there are cases in which the judicial process has not been fully concluded. This means that as soon as Yuri Rommel reveals where a victim buried his body, his case will have to go through the judicial process again. According to the average litigation period of homicide cases in the United States for five years, Yuri Rommel may not tell all the victims' bodies until he dies, but that box of hair proves that there are indeed 53 victims. Prosecuting Yuri Rommel for first-degree murder would result in endless proceedings that would cost the city of Seattle hundreds of millions of dollars in conservative estimates alone. Therefore, a plea agreement is a very beneficial option for both the prosecution and the victim.

Under the American legal system, it is sad that serial killers like Yuri Rommel can go unpunished and pay for their crimes without paying with their lives. A murderer of one person can be punished for first-degree murder, but if dozens of people are killed, the murderer will have a chance to get out of prison. In the face of this kind of bastard logic, although Lin Xiuyi felt angry, he also felt helpless. All he can do is spare no effort to fight crime and save victims like Natalie who still have hope of surviving.

There is no need for Yuri Rommel to lie to Lin Xiuyi, because he is about to sign a plea agreement with Richard, and if he can successfully save Natalie, he can get Yuri Rommel out of prison a day earlier. In this case, Lin Xiuyi believes that the clues provided by Rommel are still credible.

Everyone in the entire FBI sub-bureau joined in the search for surveillance, and a total of more than 70 silver MPVs were found from the surveillance video collected by dozens of cameras. And only a dozen of them can see the license plate, because the plea agreement was signed, so Yuri Rommel was willing to cooperate with the FBI to find the missing car, fortunately, an MPV with a local Seattle photo was recognized by Yuri Rommel.

"I had an impression of the shape of the child, and the general outline was like this, I didn't recognize it at the time, but now I think it's probably a Toyota Senna......" Yuri Rommel looked at a table of photographs and picked out one of them without hesitation.

"Why are you so sure of this?" Lin Xiuyi asked sternly.

"Don't forget, I'm in the car recycling business, and my instincts tell me it's the ......car," Yuri Rommel said triumphantly.

Lin Xiuyi nodded at Sean, Sean immediately went to Matthew with this photo, and Lin Xiuyi also got up and left the interrogation room again. In less than five minutes, Sean immediately ran over in a hurry and reported to Lin Xiuyi:

"Lin, do you know who that car belongs to?"

"What's the matter, what did you find?"

"Remember the suspect Jason Siegel found, the car is his!" Sean hurriedly reported to Lin Xiuyi.

"You mean Lynn Spencer, but we found out that he has a van and a pickup truck in his name, and he doesn't have an MPV?"

Lin Xiu asked rhetorically.

"Lin, this car is registered in his butcher shop, so we didn't find ...... at the time"

Lin Xiuyi suddenly felt a tingling of his scalp at this time, Lynn Spencer was a dangerous person who had committed one attempted rape and three rape cases, although he had never received any legal punishment for this, but this only fueled Lynn Spencer's arrogance. America's poor demographic system renders their reports of missing persons worthless, and no one knows at all how many girls are missing. Without the body, the police and the FBI could do nothing. Seattle's top three names in the United States of America are meaningless because they ignore the large number of people on Route 90.

"Go, call everyone, and find this Lynn Spencer right now!"

Lin Xiu rushed out with Sean without saying a word, and they called more than a dozen colleagues and went straight to Lynn Spencer's butcher shop. Lin Xiuyi secretly worried about Natalie in his heart, although there was no evidence, Lin Xiuyi's intuition told him that this Lynn Spencer was probably not a good stubble.