When Jimmy had a headache to investigate the direction, Mark and Wright were not idle, although they were not in charge of the case, but after all, they had done a lot of cases, and they were all experienced, they were all trapped on the island, and there was nothing to do except make phone calls, and the two of them also coincidentally reviewed the surveillance video they had checked before working overtime, and then Mark found a very inconspicuous problem in the surveillance.

"Knock knock......" Mark got up with his notebook and knocked on the door outside Jimmy's room, Jimmy walked over and opened the door and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Mark said with a look of surprise: "I found something wrong, there is a surveillance video that has been tampered with. ”

As he spoke, he walked into Jimmy's room, and the two sat at the table and watched Mark play back a surveillance video, "Look here, the video time has changed, and the picture is not the same as before, the light changes quite a lot, if you guess correctly, the middle of this video has been artificially altered." ”

This is an outdoor surveillance, not on the pier, just on the day of the banquet, because it is daytime, you may not have noticed it when you were viewing the video before, the shadow of the plants here has been deflected, and it is likely that it was cut from a period of time or other dates to cover it directly, that is to say, during this time, this monitoring may have recorded something.

Jimmy went out and called Wright over to take a look together, "Wright, those tech support personnel are still there, let them try it and see if they can find the original video." ”

Wheath nodded, and walked out directly regardless of the current time, the technical support staff lived in another building, and it was more convenient to find them directly than to call, and it was convenient to communicate.

Jimmy watched Wright leave, and he patted Mark: "Mark, give you a task to investigate the situation of the Hareton family, whether they have direct competitors, whether there are any recent business or other behaviors, and if there is any difficulty, find Wright to arrange someone for you." ”

Mark: "Do you still suspect that this bombing was a murder for hire?" ”

Jimmy: "That's the best possible thing, you investigate his connections and business disputes, I'm going to investigate whether there are any other ships passing by near this island and the blast site, and a lot of things can only be investigated separately like this." ”

Mark: "I see, are we leaving?" ”

Jimmy: "Give me a little more time, I'll search the island again tomorrow, and if there are no other leads, we'll leave as soon as possible to start an investigation of other leads." ”

Mark nodded, and didn't say anything more, there are too many things that need to be investigated, and they are really short of manpower, especially the people who originally supported them have now become the support personnel for the kidnapping case next to them, which is easy to close and the case is also very serious, and the credit is also great, they are too realistic.

Wright was soon back, and the technicians had the same copy of the video, enough for them to dispose of on their own, but according to them, because the video was kept in a loop on the hard drive, there was basically not much possibility of finding the original video.

Taking advantage of the excitement of the new discovery, Jimmy directly arranged what they were going to do next, Mark and Wright reconfirmed with the others according to the images found by the dock surveillance, Jimmy would walk around the island again after dawn, trying to find out if there were any clues, no matter what the result, they were about to leave here.

Because of the suddenness of the investigation of the case and the surrounding environment, the security guards and servants and cleaners on this island did not arrange all to be taken away for questioning, and directly borrowed the villa and other rooms here for temporary detention and preliminary investigation, which is also convenient for Mark and Wright to interrogate others, especially after the body of the security guard was found, and those security personnel were re-interrogated, and it was necessary to find out what was missing from the surveillance, and whether the nearby security personnel found anything abnormal, In short, the task for both of them will be heavy.

Jimmy's re-investigation of the island is basically meaningless for the suspect in the bombing, and from the current point of view, he should be very cautious and will basically not leave any useful clues, but as the content of the investigation, this cannot be completely ruled out.

The island is not large, and Jimmy searched the location of the villa along the small cliff he found earlier, including the location of the body, trying to reproduce the suspect's course of action, but did not find any other clear clues.

Mark got a little bit of information from a cleaner who had found a shovel with wet soil on it after the party, but after all, it was a common tool, and he thought that someone else had used it and not cleaned it, so he just cleaned it and put it back in place, and didn't care.

A few days passed, and the tools were also used, and the people in the forensic department took the fingerprints on it and went back to confirm it, only to find that in addition to the cleaner's fingerprints, there were also Jimmy and Wright's fingerprints on it, which was embarrassing, and one of the two shovels that Jimmy took over happened to be the one identified by the cleaner.

The next day, the three of them arrived at the dock with their luggage, the two boats were already in place, they left first, the other agents and the arrested people in the back will also leave today, Hareton's wife and other suspects have been arranged to go to the Miami office, and their kidnapping case needs to be fully investigated and need to return for another part of the investigation.

According to Jimmy's arrangement, Mark flew directly to Los Angeles in Puerto Rico, and Jimmy had already called from the Los Angeles office to ask for the other party's cooperation, and Mark needed to investigate the Hareton Foundation and the Hareton family business, and it would not work without the support of the locals.

Wright and Jimmy went to Puerto Rico's port administration to ask for AIS information before and after the incident, and then returned to Miami to extract AIS information.

The AIS positioning information can clearly find the information of the surrounding ships at the time of the explosion, and then exclude all the cargo ships that are preparing to enter the port from other places, and quickly identify three ships, two of which are fishing boats and one cargo ship.

The fishing boat did not leave the port of Miami, but it happened to pass near the exploded yacht and was included in the investigation list, and as for the cargo ship, it continued its journey to Europe after the explosion, which can basically be ruled out.

The investigation of the fishing boat is very painful, for this kind of survival tool level boat, they will not stop at the commercial dock with many boats, but at a small pier, where there is not even surveillance, the two contacted the owner of the boat and asked directly at the dock and then gave up.

More than a week has passed since the fishing boat was cleaned back and forth, not to mention that the owner did not admit that strangers had come on board, and even if someone did come on board temporarily, they would not have left any useful information.

While Jimmy and the others were scratching their heads, Mark's investigation wasn't going well.

The Los Angeles office, like the New York office, is one of the three largest offices of the FBI, and with the cooperation of the business investigation team, Mark successfully obtained information about the company related to the Hareton family, but the information did not contain too many business details, and Mark had to investigate it himself.

Although there is only one person, it is no problem to go to several companies of the Hareton family with FBI documents to inquire about their managers, after all, the killing of the owner of their company is a big deal, and in the face of Mark's inquiry, in addition to information involving trade secrets, it does provide information about many competitors.

Mark would talk to Jimmy on the phone every night about the current progress of the investigation, and even though Jimmy knew that none of the companies were actually the ones behind the suspects, he still asked Mark to continue his investigation based on the information of these competitors.

This is also no way, according to the existing clues and the direction of the investigation, Mark's investigation is necessary, except for Jimmy, no one thinks there is anything wrong with this investigation, which is why Mark can get the support of the Los Angeles office just as a special agent.

It was only after three or four days of investigation that Jimmy received a call from Dave and came to a seaside villa in Palm Beach. When he received Dave's call, Jimmy thought there was something going on in New York, but he didn't expect Dave to come to Florida at all, and he just beckoned him to meet him, and didn't mention any case on the phone.

Jimmy Palm Beach is no stranger, not to mention that he came here to travel, he also came here to take care of Dave when he was shot at the beginning, but that time Dave was attending a banquet, and after leaving the hospital, he stayed in a hotel, and this time he actually stayed directly in one of the villas, and I don't know if he bought it.

However, as the boss of the New York office, it doesn't seem like a big deal to build a villa, and this kind of person definitely doesn't lack this kind of money.

The villa wasn't big, Jimmy drove over and knocked on the door, and Dave himself came over to open the door for Jimmy to come in. There was no one else in the villa, and I don't know if Dave was alone or if everyone else left so they wouldn't be disturbed while talking to Jimmy.

Dave was dressed in his lounge clothes and sat down with Jimmy and poured him a cup of coffee, "Jimmy, how's the bombing investigation going?" ”

Jimmy stood on the couch and didn't sit down: "There are already some clues, and a not very clear image of the suspect has been obtained from a surveillance camera. ”

Dave walked over with a coffee cup: "Sit, don't be so nervous, just have a casual chat." ”

Jimmy took the coffee cup, and then sat down with Dave, Dave took a sip of his coffee cup and said, "It's been two weeks since the bombing, and you've been here for more than a week to investigate, how do you feel?" Is there confidence? ”

Jimmy: "To be honest, the confidence isn't particularly high. The suspect is undoubtedly professional-level and well-versed in how to circumvent himself and leave available clues, and is not at all taboo about killing.

It is now known that he boarded a yacht on the island of Hareton and planted a bomb and killed a security guard on the island, but we found no clues on the island except for his route to the island and a blurry image on the dock surveillance, and the person who can do this is definitely not simple.

Judging from the wound left by his killing of the security guard, it is more appropriate to say that this person is not so much an explosion expert, but a professional killer, and the operation of wiping the neck from behind cannot be done by ordinary people, nor can it be done so cleanly, I walked around the island and did not find the first scene where he killed the security guard, only the body of the security guard. ”

Dave nodded, "So you think this case is a hired murderer?" ”

Jimmy: "It's basically certain that the person who did it had a clear goal, and he didn't choose the way of assassination, and he killed people in such a violent way, which is obviously related to the employer's requirements, otherwise for the killer who can land on the island and kill the security guard and quietly leave, it is no problem to assassinate him directly on the island."

In fact, according to my observations on the island, the security forces there are completely unable to stop a professional killer, even if he directly kills Hareton and exposes his whereabouts, it is completely possible to kill the person who found him, easily escape from the island, and even completely avoid appearing in the monitored area. ”

Dave: "Any thoughts on the identity of the suspect?" ”

Jimmy: "No, I have very little contact with the professional killer of the dark world, I can't tell, but he can plant explosives and can remotely detonate people, I suspect he may have a military background, and he should have enough experience in special forces or related industries."

Actually, I wasn't much interested in the suspect himself, I was more concerned about who hired him. Being able to ask the killer to blow up Mr. Hareton and his party in public shows that the employer behind him has a lot of hatred for him, and such a person may cause more trouble. ”

Dave nodded again, a smile on his face: "This is also something that I and others are worried about, no one can guarantee that they have not offended such a person, and it must have cost a lot of money to hire a professional killer to kill Hareton." Have you ever thought about looking at it from a money perspective? ”

Jimmy looked at Dave in surprise, how could he suddenly bring up this direction? After taking a sip of coffee, Jimmy asked softly, "Did you get any news from there?" ”

Dave: "No, it's just a matter of listening to what you say and adding an investigative direction, and the specific case will definitely be handled by you." ”

Jimmy: "My current arrangement is for Mark to travel to Los Angeles to investigate information about the Hareton Foundation and the Hareton family-related businesses, looking for clues about whether they have any stakeholders involved, and I and the people in the Miami office are in Miami investigating the possible boat on which the suspect was traveling and the video footage that may have been left at the dock, and there are no definite results on either side.

In terms of funds, we didn't stare at it, after all, it was Hareton who died, and there was no point in staring at his money flow. ”

Dave: "Well, it's good for you to continue the investigation, besides, don't be in a hurry, investigate slowly, and pay attention to rest and pay attention to your body when you come out to investigate, you haven't had a good rest in the past few days, right?" ”

Jimmy was completely confused, why is Dave's title always so elegant, and it will change after a while? (End of chapter)