Las Vegas, District Office.

Dean and Chesston meet with the officers who receive them.

The other party is a middle-aged white woman, named Louise, a very common name in the United States, painted with exquisite makeup, if it were not for the crow's feet at the corners of the eyes that revealed the other party's age, it almost made people think that she was only in her early thirties, and her charm was still there.

Meet Dean, the handsome man.

Louise looked enthusiastic.

She warmly held Dean's outstretched hand, her fingers drew small circles on Dean's palm, and her tone teased: "Hello, I'm Louise, Inspector of Las Vegas, by the way, are you sure you're not a movie star or a male model or something?" ”

"Maybe when I run out of money one day, I can consider giving it a try, but at least I'm the FBI agent who came to help investigate the case, and you can call me Dean."

Dean is a single-minded man.

He was only interested in women under 35, so he withdrew his palm in confusion.

Cheston on the side gave Louise a step appropriately: "Inspector Louise, I'm Chesston, Agent Dean's assistant, and the person you contacted on the phone. ”

Louise withdrew her palm and rubbed her fingers in front of the two of them, as if she was reminiscing about the feel of Dean's sturdy palm, which looked frivolous and... Lascivious.

It can only be said.

Any woman who can mix in the police station and can still get on the top is very distinctive.

Seeing this, Chesson's eyes flashed with doubt.

He didn't understand why, as the detective of the police department, Louise behaved so badly the first time she met them.

But Dean's eyes flashed.

This woman is tempting them.

This kind of unexpected encounter can most truly reflect a person's way of handling things and acting style.

If he didn't guess wrong, Louise was dissatisfied with the FBI's meddling in the serial women's corpses, but she couldn't stop the above from shirking her responsibility, so she put on this gesture when they met for the first time.

So, Dean smiled and took the initiative to speak:

"You like to smoke marlboro, the most recent one, it should have been three minutes before you met us.

You usually don't dress up very much, and the makeup on your body is not to deal with us, but you attended your loved one's wedding party last night, and you had a one-night party, and you didn't have time to remove your makeup.

By the way, you should have the experience of joining the army, your right ankle will hurt all year round, you have a weak but very homely boyfriend, you like to snuggle up in your arms with your little boyfriend, if the conditions allow, come to a marlboro, it will make you get great satisfaction! ”

The more Louise listened, the more dull her face became.

All right!

But then, the dull expression on her face turned into anger: "Bastard, you investigate me!" ”

Dean shrugged: "If you want to listen, I can still tell how often you and your little boyfriend hey hey, what posture you like to use, and like to do some strange behaviors when hey, but these are not what I investigated, but within a few minutes of meeting you, you told me yourself!" ”

said.

Dean stepped aside, stretching out his hand.

Cheston pulled a cigarette from his bosom and pulled out one and placed it between Dean's fingers.

Smack.

Cigarette lighting.

Dean puffed out a puff of smoke and said lightly:

"You are a domineering person, so you don't want anyone to meddle in your case, but there have been several cases of female murders, and you have not found any clues, you can't find the direction, you are impatient, and you are also dissatisfied with our arrival.

If I'm not mistaken, you may have some other project in place to embarrass us and release your frustration.

But this attitude of yours may lead to the next possible female victim being delayed in rescue time, resulting in the loss of her own young life, so Inspector Louise, please don't let other people's lives pay for your emotions! ”

The more Dean spoke, the more shocked Louise became!

She felt as if she didn't have the slightest secret under Dean's eyes.

This man saw the ugliness in her innermost heart!

At this moment, Louise was shocked, embarrassed, and annoyed in her heart!

She wanted to be hard-mouthed.

But when Louise looked at Dean's seemingly soft, but actually tough eyes, her eyes subconsciously looked at the ground, and her head hung down uncontrollably, like a little girl who had made a mistake, and said at a loss: "I'm sorry, I... You..."

"No need to explain!"

Dean waved his hand and said commandingly, "Take us directly to learn about this case!" ”

There are many ways to communicate with people.

In the face of a stubborn, controlling, and domineering object like Louise, it is the most efficient way to communicate by directly breaking through the opponent's psychological defense and creating a powerful and mysterious image of herself.

Of course, it is easy to arouse the hostility of the other party afterwards.

But Dean didn't care.

Strength is the confidence he can speak.

...

After taking Dean and the others to the morgue of the forensic department, Louise woke up suddenly, recovered from the disturbed mind, and got rid of the strange state of subconsciously obeying Dean's command.

She glanced at Dean fearfully, but happened to look at Dean with a slight smile in his eyes.

Louise chuckled.

This seemingly handsome young detective is so scary!

She licked her lips, suppressed the cranky thoughts in her heart, led the two of them to a row of corpses, and introduced a little unnaturally: "These are the bodies of the five victims we found on the side of the highway, and on the side is Walt Forensic Medicine, who is also our old forensic doctor with the highest level in Las Vegas." ”

"Pull back the white cloth."

Cheston hurriedly stepped forward and helped the forensic doctor Walt, who was in charge of the autopsy, to remove the white cloth covering the corpse together.

The five corpses, all naked, were supposed to be plump on the surface of their bodies, their abdomen was sunken, revealing the rib bulges that they were struggling to support, and the ugly and dense black stitches were like centipedes coiling on them, and the pale skin formed a strange still painting.

These are marks produced after forensic dissection.

In the lower part of the five victims, there are five dark deep holes, the size of an ordinary person's wrist, regular and deep, as if someone has directly pierced through it with some sharp weapon, and the entire area that was originally the reproductive system has been removed.

"There's a pervert enough."

Dean's eyes narrowed slightly, and he crouched down, scrutinizing the wounds of the corpse closest to him.

Because it was too long to die.

The location of the wound is black and red, and when you get closer, you can see some traces of carbonization on the flesh wall.

This usually occurs on severe burns.

Walter Forensic Doctor on the side introduced in a timely manner:

"Mr. Detective, the victim in front of you, named Marg, 21 years old, a saleswoman in a department store, lost her trace after work two weeks ago.

In the early morning of the fourth day of Marg's disappearance, a passing driver found her neatly arranged body on the side of the road. ”

"What about the specific cause of death?"

"Suffocate to death!"

Walter's forensic tone affirmed: "The five victims all have common characteristics, and I found chloroform in their bodies. ”

"What is this?"

Cheston on the side asked suspiciously.

Dean pricked up his ears as well.

Although he has the habit of reading books and collecting knowledge, he is not omniscient.

Walter forensic doctor paused to tell and explained: "This is a kind of anesthetic that has been eliminated, this thing has an anesthetic effect, but it is easy to cause damage to the human body, damage the liver and the like, so as early as the fifties, it is rare." ”

"Well, it seems that the murderer may be an older man."

Cheston En had his say.

Walter Forensic Medicine did not comment on this, and continued to explain: "The content of chloroform in the five victims is very high, which is enough to make them lose consciousness directly, and even control the body, simply put, it makes the body unable to breathe instinctively, and there are symptoms of respiratory amnesia, which leads to their suffocation." ”

"So they didn't die painfully?"

Walt Forensic nodded:

"If you've done anesthesia, you know that if a person is under anesthesia, the person's consciousness is like entering the clouds, fluttering, and finally completely unconscious.

The facial features of the other five victims also prove that they did not feel pain before they died, otherwise their gradually cooling bodies would not allow them to maintain the peace on their faces after feeling their bodies hollowed out.

That's one of the things I'm most confused about. ”

The medical examiner sighed:

"Based on the characteristics of the corpses, it is inferred that the murderer anesthetized the victims when they were relatively emotionally stable, and then used high-voltage electric batons to insert them into the place and torture them.

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That's why there are still burn marks left underneath the wound.

After that, the murderer used some kind of sharp weapon, neatly cut off the place, stretched out his hand, and ripped off the female victim's intestines, kidneys, liver, and other internal organs, and placed them in the shape of flowers, next to the victim who was dead peacefully...

It was a very heart-wrenching scene. ”

After listening to Walt's account, Cheston couldn't help but shrink his neck.

Remove the entrails with your bare hands!

Ordinary people really can't do this kind of thing!

Flowers are placed in front of the deceased, generally used to express mourning and remembrance, and are a beautiful act.

Imagine that.

The strange contrast between the flowers made of the fresh entrails of the deceased and the female victim who died peacefully...

This murderer is really perverted!

...

Dean's reaction was not as big as Cheston's.

No matter how perverted things are, he has seen them all.

His focus was on the inference that Walter forensic doctor said the murderer had acted.

After ordinary people know the death of the female victim, they will subconsciously feel that the murderer must be a cruel pervert.

The murderer is perverted, Dean does not deny it.

But he saw something more: a sense of ritual!

In general, serial killers have fixed characteristics, either to show their differences, or to gain a sense of attention, or just a certain habit.

This case should belong to the last kind - habit.

Habitual characteristics are also divided into many points.

Some are to satisfy their own collector's habits, such as collecting a certain body part of each victim, or an item from the other person.

And then there are others, which are living habits.

Dean speculated that the murderer might be a person with good manners, a strict etiquette education, and some artistic cells.

This kind of person is often influenced by habits, even if it is a simple tableware, it will be pleasing to the eye.

Of course, it is not excluded that the murderer did this on purpose and wanted to attract attention.

After all, every time the other party kills the deceased, he deliberately chooses the highway where the vehicle travels, and then kills the deceased and walks away, for fear that others will not find the body of the deceased.

Dean is uncertain about the killer's behavioral characteristics.

This needs to be supported by more information.

So he got up and asked Louise, "Inspector Louise, how is the traffic on the road where the body was found?" ”

"That highway is the main road into downtown Las Vegas, even if it's late at night, there will be no shortage of vehicles!" Louise thought for a moment and added:

In fact, the five victims, all about five or six hours after their deaths, were found by the drivers who came and went and called the police, and the location where each victim was found was placed by the murderer with a beach parasol.

This is the main reason why those drivers notice corpses on the side of the road, and they initially thought it was some beautiful woman sunbathing. ”

Hearing this, Dean fell into deep thought.

If so, it is almost certain that the murderer wanted to attract attention and deliberately let people find the body!

I thought about it.

He turned his head to look at the forensic doctor Walter who had not spoken after the introduction: "Mr. Forensic Doctor, is the place where the body was found the first scene?" ”

Walter Forensic nodded affirmatively:

"The corpse was evenly spotted, and there were no obvious signs of movement.

In addition, although the wind and sand covered up and swept away many traces and clues at the scene, the bloodstain characteristics under the corpse can prove that the victim was found within half an hour of his death.

So the murderer at most took off the internal organs of the deceased near where he found the victim, and then placed the body on the side of the road, but this distance was not too far.

The point is the damn wind and sand, so we have no way to verify these.

We also did not find any traces of dragging near where the body was found. ”

Chesson, but felt a little strange: "That, didn't Inspector Louise say that the road where the body was found had a lot of traffic, and it took a lot of time for the murderer to remove the female victim's internal organs, isn't he afraid of exposing himself?" ”

"It's easy to solve."

Dean swept over the five corpses, pale but still pale, and asked the forensic doctor, "After the bodies were found, did you notice that their bodies were sticking to the sand?" ”

Chesston and Inspector Louise on the side looked puzzled when they heard the question.

They didn't know why Dean was asking.

In the eyes of the forensic doctor Walt, there was a sudden expression: "I have been entangled in where the murderer is dealing with the victim before, and your words have reminded me!" ”

"What?"

Chesston and Inspector Louise, who looked confused, said in unison.

Walter Forensic Medical Examiner explained: "After the bodies of the five victims were found, although the body surface was soiled by the wind and sand, no sand was found inside, in this case, if the murderer was outside without covering, it was difficult to dispose of the body, it was difficult to do!" ”

"But you said before that the place where the body was found was the scene of the eucalyptus scene, so how did the murderer do it?"

Cheston was stunned.

Inspector Louise, because she had been following up on this case before, reacted one step faster, and also showed a sudden expression, and said in surprise: "

I know!

Car!

It's the kind of car with a big trunk!

The van is too conspicuous!

So the murderer should have disposed of the female victim in the van, and then took advantage of the fact that there was no one around, and placed the body on the side of the road, so as to explain why the female victim's body, after being found, no obvious sand was found in the body!

In this way, the murderer is not worried that he will be exposed! ”

Dean stood aside and added: "The other five victims are all local residents of Las Vegas, and they are all young blonde women, so the murderer should also live in Las Vegas to facilitate the selection of targets, so checking the surveillance of the intersection should help us!" ”

Louise and Walt forensic examiners looked at each other excitedly.

Now, the direction of breaking the eucalyptus is there!

That's how it is.

Seemingly clueless eucalyptus, clues, often hidden in some inconspicuous details.