After two days of being a salary thief, Mahon finally got the first case in New York.

In the conference room, Hughes, Mahon, Jimmy, and Felicia attended the meeting, and Felicia had already sorted out the information about the case and distributed it to everyone, and the surveillance video was playing on the TV.

Felicia: "The NYPD case, two rape and murder cases. ”

She switched the picture, "The first time was four days ago, on the Hudson River, when someone was walking the dog in the morning, the puppy found it, the deceased was a sex worker, the main activity area was Clinton, Hell's Kitchen, but the place where she died was in Hudson River Park next to the Upper West Side.

The deceased was naked, no clothing or other objects were found around, and the fatal wound to the back of the head was a heavy blow to the back of the head, judging by the wound, which should have been a weapon such as a wooden club, and suspected to be a baseball bat or a stick of the same size. No murder weapon was left at the scene, and no other abnormal tissues and bodily fluids were detected on the deceased's body, which was very clean, but according to the forensic report, she did have sex before her death. ”

Felicia switched the screen again, "This is yesterday morning someone called the police, the same sex worker, the same Hudson River Park, but a little far away from the location where the body was dumped last time, and the same as the previous case, there was no murder weapon or clues." ”

Felicia: "Because of the consistency of the two cases, it is currently preliminarily determined that the same person committed the work, and the NYPD has reviewed the park's surveillance, but nothing unusual has been found so far." ”

Ma Hong: "The case is now on our side, and now we need to investigate the scene again, Jimmy, you should be familiar with that side, let's go first." ”

Hughes didn't speak at all, looking at what he meant, he just came to sit in on it, and Jimmy nodded: "I live on the Upper West Side, and I've been to that park a few times." ”

Ma Hong closed the file, "OK, let's go." He nodded to Hughes, and the three of them got up and left the room.

Mahon is really resolute, Jimmy drove in front to lead the way, Mahon took Felicia to drive the same car to follow Jimmy, and the three of them rushed to Hudson River Park together.

Because of the second body that was just found yesterday, there is still a cordon at the scene, and although NYPD patrols are no longer here and no one else has crossed the cordon, at least the scene does not appear to have been damaged.

Ma Hong circled the scene twice, carefully observed the surrounding grass, and then looked up at the Hudson River not far in front of him, the river is very wide, and it is just a guardrail, which can be easily crossed, if you want to throw something, it is very convenient, and there are few people here, there is no monitoring, and it is really a headache.

Jimmy is also a little blind to this scene, not to mention the park in New York, the intersection monitoring is not fully covered, as long as it is normal when entering the park, who will know what happened to them in the park? This place is not to mention surveillance, there is not even a figure at night, and you can come directly from the Hudson River, as long as you want.

Ma Hong walked to the edge of the guardrail, looked left and right, and really didn't find any useful clues, "Let's go to the first case and have a look." ”

The distance is not far, they walked directly over, the cordon at the first location has been removed, after all, this is a park, and the cordon has been pulled for a few days, which is too affecting the view.

This is similar to the place just now, it is also a meadow near the river, but it is a little more secluded, because there are trees in the way, if it is not for the dog walkers, you may have to wait to see if anyone will go behind the trees.

It's been a few days, and the footprints on the scene are messy and have no reference significance at all, and they can only observe the surroundings and speculate on the line of action.

Mahon: "Felicia, contact the Port Authority of New York when you go back and see if they have found anything like women's clothing and bags in the Hudson River." ”

Felicia: "Understood"

Ma Hong: "Jimmy, you're familiar with this place, you should go around first and then make sure about the monitoring situation." ”

Jimmy: "Understood. ”

Mahon looked at the Hudson River in a daze, and after a while, he said, "Find a boat club and see if anyone rents a boat to cruise the river these two nights." ”

Jimmy glanced at Mahone, "Okay, I'll go later." ”

Ma Hong turned around and prepared to leave: "Okay, that's all you can do for the time being, let's start work first." ”

Jimmy watched Mahon and Felicia leave, and couldn't help frowning a little, after entering the scene of the case, Mahon's expression basically hasn't changed, and he has always been very serious, is this his personal style, or is there something on his mind? It wasn't like this when I was in the bureau before, and I felt like I was preoccupied.

Is he worried about the case? No agent can make sure that all cases are solved, right? So strong sense of responsibility?

Jimmy wasn't idle, let's get the monitoring done first, this park is very large, and it takes a lot of time to go around it. Jimmy is already very familiar with the process of monitoring, and the first priority of each case is to investigate the scene and monitor each case, technology changes life, and monitoring is the fastest way to find clues for case handlers.

Unfortunately, Jimmy's thinking was too simple, he spent more than an hour walking around the park twice, and only found three monitors that could be used, and because of the angle, none of the monitors were filmed inside the park. The rest, whether it is a traffic camera or a store camera, is looking at the road and the doorway, which is completely informative.

Two of the three surveillances are the surveillance at the entrance of the park, and the other is a high-altitude camera next to the park, which can cover half a block, but the clarity is too bad, and only vague figures can be seen, which is said to be placed in a very high position to avoid being destroyed, but this kind of shooting effect, Nima might as well not let it go.

Jimmy complained to the person who installed the surveillance when he saw the surveillance footage, but this was the only camera that could capture the outside of the park other than the park's own surveillance.

With a few sets of surveillance footage, Jimmy returned to the office, no way, a considerable part of the current surveillance is still the traditional videotape recording method, often recorded for a week or so and then reused, people love and hate the video.

The pixels are too low, not clear, and will be overwritten, these are all disadvantages, but the advantage is that these videos will not be modified, as long as you get the original version of the video, you can basically determine the scene without worrying about being edited. Of course, it is also feasible for someone to deliberately edit and re-transcribe, but for ordinary people, they do not have this strength.

In the office, Felicia connected the video recorder and began to play the video, and the people who checked the video were Felicia and Jimmy, and the two checked and confirmed the people inside to see if there was any suspicion. Ma Hong took the case report and the autopsy report again, and investigated whether there were any omissions.

"Felicia, have you spotted any suspicious targets?" Ma Hong read the information and walked over.

Felicia didn't take his eyes off the TV and said, "Nope, everyone in and out of the park looks normal. The park's security and management were investigated by the NYPD, and they found nothing out of the ordinary, and the cleaning company contacted them. ”

Ma Hong: "OK, you continue to check." Jimmy, you said you live on the Upper West Side, right? Are you familiar with your surroundings? I looked at two more cases just now, both women are in the range of 160-165 in height, one with brown hair and one with red hair, curly, medium to thin body, where should we look for someone with these characteristics? ”

Jimmy turned his head directly to look at Ma Hong,, how do I know this? I've never dealt with a street girl. Jimmy said speechlessly, "Do I seem to be the kind of person who would be familiar with these places like this?" ”

Mahon looked at Jimmy and nodded, too, a handsome Asian, still an FBI agent, living on the Upper West Side means that he is not short of money, and there is such a beautiful female police detective girlfriend, it really doesn't look like he will go to the side of the road.

Ma Hong turned his head to look at the TV, "There are too few conditions now, and we haven't found much common ground for the time being, I think we may need to patrol the neighborhood for a while." ”

Jimmy directly refused, "It's not feasible, Hudson River Park is too long, if you only rely on the three of us, there is no way to monitor such a large area, and the first two cases are separated by three days, we don't know when he will appear, we can't just stay there and wait." ”

Ma Hong shook his head: "Whether it has an effect or not, we need to do our best, we will monitor in two shifts at night, starting from 22:00, I will come first, Jimmy, you go back early to rest, come early in the morning." ”

Jimmy: "No problem. I'll go back to rest when I'm done with this video. ”

Mahon nodded, turned back to his place, and Jimmy poured a little back into the footage, reconnected the place he had just opened, and continued watching. The previous feeling was indeed right, after Ma Hong entered the case processing stage, he was obviously very different from usual, he looked very focused, even to the point of nervousness, this is too responsible, right?

Could this be the real ace agent? Are all the bastards you've met before?

Jimmy was thinking crankily while watching the video, it seems that his life will not be better in the future, and it is probably no fun to touch the fish.

Jimmy left the office, called Nia and said a word, went home to rest, set the alarm clock, and at 1 a.m., Jimmy got up and drove to Hudson River Park.

It's actually not far from where he lives, it's really not far, it's only a 20-minute walk, but you can't drive it, and if something happens, you can't chase it with your legs. So even if the distance is not hot enough, you have to drive to the park and take over from Mahon and Felicia.

Mahon and Felicia explained and let her drive back to rest, while Mahon and Jimmy went separately to the opposite end of the park. This time, they brought a walkie-talkie, for the scope of the park, the walkie-talkie distance is enough, so it is much more convenient than the telephone, Jimmy used to go out with a walkie-talkie, because, he has no support, it is useless to bring a walkie-talkie alone.

When Chris was there before, Chris was basically with Jimmy, and there weren't many opportunities to investigate separately, so the walkie-talkie couldn't be used, and the reality was like this, Jimmy couldn't help it, there were good things that didn't work, it was too miserable.

The park is very quiet at night, with the occasional bird and bug chirping, and it is forbidden for homeless people to sleep in the open, of course, on the surface, and theoretically only Jimmy and Mahon are left in the park except for the security guards who remain on duty.

Jimmy began to walk around the park, he was in much better shape than Mahon, he had slept for a few hours, and now with the blessing of his heart, he was not afraid of the darkness at all, he walked along the path, looking around to see if there were any humanoid objects.

There are a lot of stray cats in this park, which I didn't notice before, and now you can see small animals wandering around in all corners, from the point of view of size, it should be stray cats, stray dogs, the size is much larger, for kittens, there is basically no safety problem.

As Jimmy had predicted, they had worked all night and found nothing, and there were quite a few boats in the Hudson River, but they were not the target of Mahon and Jimmy.

In the morning, Mahon told Jimmy to go back to rest, go back to the office in the afternoon, and then take a taxi to the hotel. Jimmy was also helpless, this kind of stop-and-go for a night, it was too tiring, and I don't know how Mahon persevered, but he patrolled for a few more hours than Jimmy.

In the afternoon, Jimmy returned to the office, Mahone and Felicia were already in the office, it seemed that Jimmy was still too lax, he suddenly felt that he and Mahon seemed to be a little incompatible with their style, no, you guys? Although this is the first case since you came, it doesn't have to be like this, right?

Mahon: "Jimmy, here's a list of yacht clubs, some of which Felicia sorted out in the morning, and we need to talk to them to see if there are any evening cruises. ”

Felicia added: "I got a surveillance video of the yachts and fishing boats passing by the Hudson River that night, of course, there were too many of them, so all the large ones were eliminated, and there were only a dozen or so left, and there were boat numbers to locate these clubs." ”

Jimmy nodded, "Got it, we need to make sure they didn't observe anything unusual when they were on the river at night, right?" ”

Ma Hong: "It's not necessarily useful, but I still have to look into it." ”

Jimmy: "OK, are you going to look into it separately?" ”

Ma Hong shook his head: "Together, we are not familiar with New York, and we still need you to lead the way." ”

Jimmy nodded: "No problem, I'll take a look at the positions of these clubs first." Jimmy turned on the computer, looked up the location of the corresponding club, and marked it on the map, which took a bit of time, but a day was enough for them to go back and forth.

Jimmy can be regarded as seeing a little bit of Ma Hong's characteristics, as long as it involves the case, he will not let go of all the small clues around, and will do his best to investigate, trying to restore the scene and the traces of the murderer.

In a place like this where there are huge clues to investigate, especially in a high-end place like a yacht club, Jimmy is not interested in communicating at all, and it is too easy to get into trouble.

Jimmy is actually a little numb now, and he is thinking about whether to communicate with Hughes, the FBI is indeed very good, but it is below a certain level, for the rich, for the high-end people, the FBI is a fart.

Now Mahon is going to ask the yacht club for information about the boat, and there is a chance that something will happen, and it will definitely not be a trivial matter. That group of people drove a yacht at night, do you need to talk about any activities on it?

(End of chapter)