Chapter 453 Town, Old News, Funeral (1 more)
After Luke asks the sisters about what happened and the details of the horror story, the two set off again.
The car first got on Highway 1, turned around and circled around, got on Highway 73 and drove a little further southeast.
Finally, after a forty-minute drive on a country road, the two arrived at a place called Haruki Town.
As the car entered the town, both of them vaguely felt that the town was shrouded in an uneasy atmosphere, and the pedestrians who walked by looked hurried and seemed indifferent to everything around them.
Occasionally, the two opened the window of the car and made eye contact with some residents, and the other quickly turned his face away, not greeting him, but as if he was hiding from the plague.
Not long after they entered the town, their car was stopped.
A sheriff in an khaki police uniform was outside the driver's seat, bowing down, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”
Luke looked calm, put his hands on the steering wheel, and motioned to himself and Selena: "We are the staff of the Thirty-Seven Middle School campground, and we want to talk to Will Rollins about something." ”
The sheriff frowned: "What are you talking to him about?" ”
Luke's smile was still the same: "When Will was camping two days ago, he did something not very good. The Director of Discipline told him to come back and calm down, but it wasn't punishment. After all, camping is a children's holiday, and it is not appropriate to leave him alone, so we came. ”
The sheriff's expression relaxed: "That's the case, you can just go directly to Will's house." ”
Luke sighed and asked seemingly unconcerned, "Is there something going on here?" We didn't see many people here. ”
The sheriff's face froze, and he said coldly, "We don't have many residents here. ”
With that, he turned and left.
Luke watched the sheriff drive away, started the car himself, and sighed softly: "It seems that they are in a lot of trouble." ”
If it were a small trouble, it would not make the sheriff so noisy.
Selena was on the sidelines, checking the information of Chunmu Town, and said, "There's nothing special here. The population is not large, the economy is not good or bad, the law and order situation here in the database is also within the normal range, and there are not many bad criminal cases. In addition to this ......"
She casually put the tablet on the center console and continued: "More than ten years ago, there was a serial murder case here, which appeared in many newspapers in Los Angeles. ”
Luke casually glanced at the photo of the old newspaper headline on the tablet: "Child serial killer? Didn't get caught? ”
Selena reached out and tapped on the tablet a few times: "No, because there was not enough evidence to arrest this suspect at the time, so ......"
Luke: "He's on the loose and now he's committing crimes again?" ”
Selena shook her head, and another photo of a newspaper headline appeared on the tablet: "So, the suspect was blocked by angry parents in an abandoned church outside the town and then burned to ashes by a fire." ”
Luke snorted, "Burnt to ashes?" Just kidding. "It's not easy for people to burn to ashes, and funeral homes also need special incinerators to achieve this effect.
With fuels such as wood, the most coke can be produced, but ash is not possible. After the bones are burned, there will be recrystallization, and Dingtian is a counterfeit relic.
Selena nodded: "Because the police did not find the body of the suspect, the incident of these parents burning the suspect is suspicious, and no one is in jail." That suspect has since disappeared, though. ”
Luke: "Well, what's this burnt unlucky guy for?" ”
Selena: "Caucasian male, born in 1948, month and date unknown, 5'10" tall. Was once a gardener at a kindergarten in the small town of Badham, or a school worker? He disappeared in 1990 and to date there is no evidence that he is still alive. ”
Luke wanted to scratch his head a little: "Born in 48? Isn't he fifty-five or sixteen years old now? ”
Can this guy live forever? Or is it talented, and people who are sixty years younger can still run out and kill?
He still has doubts about this.
After all, it's not surprising that anything is happening in this world.
For example, a man who was called an old popsicle by Stark slept for 70 years, and when he woke up, he fought all over the world, and he didn't look old at all.
As the two spoke, Luke drove the car to the Will Rollins' classmate's house.
The house looks very good, and the financial conditions are not bad, maybe that's why Will was able to go to Los Angeles for high school.
Knocking on the door and talking to Will's father and Will himself for half an hour, the two came out again.
Luc lowered his voice and said to Will's father, who had been sent to the door, "I'll explain Will's situation to Juliet, but there's little hope of letting him go back." You know, the mood of the kids at the campsite isn't quite right now, and so is Will's mood right now...... Not very stable. ”
Father Will smiled wryly and nodded: "Okay, it's my request that is too presumptuous." ”
Luke sighed, but said, "If you can, it's better for him to change his environment and not stay in this town, which will have a very bad impact on him now and in the future." ”
Father Will nodded silently and watched the two leave.
After the two got into the car, Selena frowned: "This Will can't already have mental problems, right?" I feel like he's not in the right place, it seems...... I haven't slept well in days. ”
Luke shook his head: "Who knows." ”
"Where to go now?" Selena looked ahead and asked casually.
Luke: "Go find that Chriss-Fowles, who was the first witness to suicide. ”
The two drove to the other end of the town, on a gently rolling hill area, where stone monuments of various styles stood tall.
There was an awning, where twenty or thirty people were sitting, and in front of them was a coffin, and a priest was reading a eulogy.
This is the cemetery of the town.
In the information they found at the police station, the middle school student lying in the coffin was Dean Russell, who died a few days ago.
A few days ago, he slit his neck with a knife in a fast-food restaurant.
Several witnesses witnessed the tragic scene, but strangely, Will said that his playmates in the town had told him that it was the devil who had killed Dean.
That's why Will was picked on by Jeff's twin daughters.
After all, it's always hard to get people who have seen the devil to come up with evidence.
After waiting for more than twenty minutes, the funeral ended.
Watching the crowd disperse, Luke and the two walked over.
At this moment, a boy walked up to a girl, and the two stood in front of a shelf of photos of Dean before his death, talking about something.
As he got closer, Luke's keen ears caught up in the conversation between the two.
The boy asked, "Chrissy, you've known Dean since you were a kid?" ”