Chapter 330: Unconscionable Escalation of Violence
Jack always thought that Emily was the one in the group who could achieve a more complete emotional withdrawal, but at this time, he saw that she was stunned and looked at the corpse in front of her in a daze, and she looked a little distracted.
"Emily, are you alright?"
Emily woke up from a dream and hurriedly waved her hand, "I'm just a little shocked, I've seen more bloody and cruel crime scenes than this, but this in front of me, it feels completely different." ”
"This is an unbridled provocation and complete destruction of social order and human morality, and it is normal for you, as a normal person, to have feelings of fear."
Red comforted him in his way.
"Okay, let's focus on it, let's analyze the scene first."
Hodgner coughed lightly and motioned for everyone to come to their senses.
So everyone began to say a word to me, and quickly restored what happened.
"Victim No. 1, the head of the family, was thrown here after entering the door, he was seriously injured at the time, and he may never have fully awakened."
Rossi pointed to the couch leaning against the door, where lay the body of a black male, about 40 years old, with a large sunken piece on the side of his head, and the front of his face from the bridge of his nose to his forehead, smashed to pieces.
Relatively speaking, he may be the "lucky" of the four, and the fatal injuries are basically in the head, in other words, the pain he endured is much lighter than the other three.
"After the suspect entered the door, everyone else was in the dining room and could not see the situation in the living room, at which point victim number two came out and came to check on the situation and was attacked on the porch."
Red pointed to a small gap on the side of the porch and made a gesture similar to swinging a golf club.
Victim No. 2 was the husband of another white couple, slightly younger than Victim No. 1, in his thirties, and in his less than forty.
The corpse had fallen to the ground near the porch, the carpet was slightly dragging and Jack picked up his shirt and touched the corpse's waist, abdomen and chest.
"After at least five to six blows, more than half of the ribs were broken, and the internal organs from the liver to the stomach should have been damaged.
"The murder weapon should be a crowbar or something, and if the baseball bat is too thick, the bruise area will be much larger."
Emily bypassed Jack and walked into the dining room, saw the remaining half of the food on the table, and said loudly outside, "The two female victims should have been in the dining room at first, and then they were restrained and brought to the living room. ”
Hodchner's gaze fell on the bodies of the two female victims lying in the middle of the living room, and he closed his eyes a little unbearably before he spoke.
"They took down the two husbands, forced the wives to take off their clothes, then insulted them, and then continued to beat them wrongly, which was not reasonable."
Rossi took a deep breath, "They were beaten beforehand. ”
Jack stretched out his hand to signal everyone to stop talking, and carefully observed the location of the two corpses, the hair scattered on the ground, and the blood stains on the wall, before slowly speaking.
"Rapidity is only one of the means of their violence, not the goal, and the two female victims, like the two male victims, lost the opportunity to scream for help at the first time."
"Both of them were hit the head, followed by repeated beatings, round-ups, and they didn't even care if the victim was dead or alive, like fiddling with two rag dolls."
"They have serious fractures in their calves and arms, and no matter how well the rooms here are soundproofed, it is impossible to completely avoid screaming at night, and the only explanation is that they have lost the ability to call for help when they are tortured."
Jack said and pointed to the faces of the two female victims, who were completely bloody, with their jaws, teeth, and nose bridges shattered, and even their eyeballs not saved.
"I'm sorry for missing me."
Antonio Dawson, a houty Latino police detective, seemed to be unable to listen any longer, whispered a barrage of Spanish slang and walked out briskly.
Jack re-covered the four corpses with a white cloth one by one, feeling his chest blocked, in fact, among the people in the group, his emotional detachment ability was probably stronger than Garcia, who was not much out of the field.
The reason why he behaves more rationally than others in most cases is nothing more than a detachment from staying out of the situation, and at the moment, he can't get out of it.
"So it's clear that there are at least three or four suspects, one person who moved the body into the house and threw it next to the sofa, another person who attacked victim number two at the same time, and another person who controlled two women."
"This is more consistent with what Jack and Red were at the door of the apartment before, inferred from the bloodstains." Rosie concluded with a summary.
Emily's mood has basically recovered, and she nodded in agreement, "According to the previous information, if the group psychology generated by the deliberate sabotage incident has developed to this point, then the number of 3 to 4 people is more reasonable." ”
"It's not like juvenile crime, and while it's about as brutal as Jack deduces, their attacks are too efficient, with an emphasis on control and precision."
"And teenagers usually behave sloppily, Dr. Red, what do you think?" Rosie asks for Red's opinion.
"I can't see any experimentation, it's very sophisticated, everyone knows what they're doing, there's no confusion or mistakes, I don't understand."
Compared to the past, Red spoke very little today, and his expression was full of confusion.
"From vandalism to violent crime, I can understand, but the whole process is certainly gradual, the first attack, usually against only one person, four victims at a time? It is also accompanied by persistent surname abuse and violent abuse, which is also too exaggerated. ”
"The Chicago police must have missed something, they couldn't have evolved that fast."
Hodgner's face was black and ink was dripping, "Let's meet up with Jiejie first, she said the conference room was ready." ”
It has been rumored that the city of Chicago has been underfunded in recent years, and if the dilapidated public facilities do not mean anything, then the office of the intelligence team of the 21st Precinct of the Chicago Police Department is very revealing.
Two desks with missing arms and legs were barely put together, and on top of them were a 52-inch LCD monitor with a broken corner, and the model was so old that it took Red half an hour to project the clean laptop screen.
"On April 23, the windows of fifteen luxury cars were smashed, and on April 30, the windows of a newly opened high-end clothing store were completely destroyed."
"On May 4, two different high-end restaurants were vandalized, doors and windows were smashed and the interior was splashed with red paint."
"On May 10, and the most recent one, another newly renovated residential house in the same neighborhood as the crime occurred, was completely destroyed before the owner moved in."
While introducing the situation, Jie Jie played the photos provided by the Chicago police to the public.
Not only the members of the BAU team were in attendance, but also the head of the intelligence group, Hank Boyt, and his agents.
"So they went from attacking public property to private homes, but there were no casualties."
"It's classic class hatred revenge, they're targeting the rich, at least the middle class, and the question is, what caused their crimes to escalate to where they are today."
As Hodchner finished speaking, his gaze swept over everyone present.
(End of chapter)