Chapter 26: More Victims
"Rommel Car Recycling Company!"
It's a humble car recycling company, where obsolete cars are dismantled into scrap metal and sent to Asia as metal waste to be reproduced into steel. In Seattle, the metal recycling business is actually very lucrative, as simple as compressing a car into a bulky lump of iron and loading it onto a freighter bound for the other side of the ocean.
By the time Lin Xiuyi and Sean arrived here, the FBI had completely sealed off the place, and hundreds of scrapped cars were parked on the recycling site, which were stacked one after another, waiting for the final fate of being squeezed into a lump of iron. As soon as they walked in here, Lin Xiuyi and Sean smelled the smell of engine oil and iron embroidery.
"Click!"
The federal agents used tools to pry open the houses in the corners of the field, which were both offices and private residences! The furnishings in the houses were clean and tidy, and they looked very warm, much to the surprise of Lin Xiuyi and Sean.
"What about the suspect's wife, what is her reaction?" Lin Xiuyi asked Jeremy, the person in charge of the scene.
"Her wife's name is Lily Rommel, and she doesn't seem to know what her husband has ever done, and when we get here and tell her that her husband is the Green River Killer, she is so frightened that she doesn't believe us!" replied Jeremy
"Did you find anything valuable?" Lin Xiuyi looked around the room, which didn't look like the residence of the Green River Killer at all, but rather like a cozy residence for the blue-collar class.
"Sir, I think maybe you should take a look at this!" replied Jeremy, the person in charge, a little nervously.
Jeremy took an inconspicuous dilapidated cookie box from the on-site investigation team, opened it, and placed it in front of Lin Xiuyi.
"What's in here?" Lin Xiu asked puzzled as soon as he saw the black mess inside.
"It's the hair, sir!, if I'm right, this guy has a habit of collecting the hair of his victims!" Jeremy's expression was very depressed as he said this.
"How many of them are there?"
"It's a total of 53 bundles, but that's just my guess, we'll have to go back to the lab to find ......out the specific DNA test results," Jeremy said and immediately closed the iron box, as if a devil would run out of it at any moment.
Hearing this news, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but gasp, if it was really like Jeremy said, each strand of hair represented a victim, then the number of victims would greatly exceed that of the FBI.
"Sean, when is the Idaho FBI sending this bastard over?" Lin Xiuyi covered his forehead and turned to ask Sean.
"I contacted them before leaving, and said that the plane escorting the suspect Yuri Rommel had already taken off!" Sean looked at his watch and continued:
"It should be twenty minutes away!"
"Let's go back first! I'm afraid there won't be any results here for a while. ”
After Lin Xiuyi and Jeremy said goodbye, he strode out of the warning area with Sean. As soon as he walked out of the car recycling plant, Lin Xiuyi found that the outside was already full of reporters.
"Officer Lin, it is rumored that you caught the Green River Killer with your own hands, how did you do it......"
"Did you really catch the Green River Killer? He is said to have killed 20 people......
"What the FBI hasn't done for so many years, I actually let an RB person do it, how does the FBI feel......"
"Officer Lin, the total bounty for the Green River Killer is as high as $2.5 million, will you be the only one to win this prize?"
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Lin Xiuyi and Sean ignored the reporters, and it was uncertain whether there were any other victims who were still imprisoned by Yuri Rommel somewhere, and if the reporters knew too much, it would only add unnecessary trouble to the FBI's investigation.
With the help of federal agents who maintained order at the scene, Lin Xiuyi and Sean squeezed through the crowd and returned to the car. The car left with difficulty surrounded by reporters, and in another twenty minutes, the FBI's Seattle office would take over Yuri Rommel's custody from the Idaho FBI. This means that the murderous demon that has been entrenched in the heads of Seattle citizens for 35 years will be punished by the law from this moment on. The FBI's Seattle branch even held a press conference for the occasion.
But none of this is Lin Xiuyi's concern, the only thing he cares about now is how many hostages Green River killer Yuri Rommel still has in his hands, how many girls he has killed, and whether Natalie is alive or dead. All this information is going to come from the mouth of Yuri Rommel.
Shortly after Lin Xiuyi's car returned to the FBI Seattle branch, a helicopter with an FBI pattern slowly landed on the tarmac on the roof of the Seattle branch. Heavily armed federal agents quickly stepped forward to open the plane's hatch and lifted the wheelchair-bound Green River killer, Yuri Rommel, off the plane.
Idaho's FBI agents escorted Yuri Rommel into the building quickly, and in the elevator hall on the top floor, the FBI Seattle branch and Idaho FBI agents handed over documents. From the moment Director Musk signed his name on the handover papers, Yuri Rommel finally became the subject of the Seattle bureau's investigation. After the officials present read out the notice of rights and obligations to Yuri Rommel, Yuri Rommel was sent to the interrogation room for questioning.
Lin Shuichi and Sean were not in charge of Yuri's interrogation, as they were both involved in the capture of Yuri Rommel. If they continue to appear during the interrogation, it is likely to cause strong irritation to the suspect, which will eventually backfire.
However, the interrogation of the suspect Yuri Rommel is still an FBI interrogation expert, and the questioning begins with simple personal information such as name and age. Yuri Rommel seemed to be very cooperative and truthfully informed himself of his personal information. If it weren't for the conclusive evidence, no one would have dared to believe that this guy was the Green River Killer, because he didn't seem to be either murderous or neurotic, but instead gave people a sense of honesty.
"Mr. Rommel, do you know where this girl is?" When all the usual questions were over, the interrogator put a picture of Natalie in front of Yuri Rommel.
"Give me a piece of paper, and I'll tell you my answer!" Yuri Rommel said with the corners of his mouth raised, then meaningfully.