Russell frowned tightly, "The situation on my side seems to be similar to yours, Mrs. Ledeck is a little suspicious, but whether it is from her age or identity, she does not have the ability that a kidnapper should have, she is a pampered noblewoman." ”

Jack nodded understandingly, "Why don't you talk about the suspicions you found first?" ”

Russell held out two fingers, "There are two things, and when I first asked her about the time last night, she blurted out the original words, 'About ten o'clock, before they kidnapped Hubble.'" ”

"She used the plural 'they'?" Jack understood in seconds that he and CSI were at least two murderers judged by the scene, and the "they" blurted out by Mrs. Ledeck seemed very suspicious.

Russell nodded, "Second, Mrs. Ledeck once sued TC for manslaughter after the San Francisco District Attorney dropped the charges for her daughter's death due to lack of evidence.

Of course, she said that she withdrew the complaint soon after, and according to her, it was the psychic carrier Karen who let her know that her son-in-law was innocent. ”

"Ahh Jack smiled, "And what the psychic Karen told me is that TC is selfish and has betrayed. ”

"You mean that Mrs. Ledeck may agree that TC was not the murderer of her daughter, but it's clear that she, like outsiders, thinks TC and her nanny Sherby Bryce had an affair before?"

Jack waved his hand, signaling that Russell didn't understand what he meant.

"It doesn't matter what the psychic Karen says, Mrs. Ledeck has a motive and the time to commit the crime, she was there last night and can help get the kidnappers to sneak into the villa."

She knew about jewelry, and perhaps she also knew that Hubble was born through surrogacy, and that Hubble was actually her own grandson, her daughter's child, not the illegitimate child of the nanny and son-in-law.

Perhaps Mrs. Ledeck thought that Hubble should live with her rather than with her daughter's murderer, then the kidnapping would have killed multiple birds with one stone. ”

Russell suddenly realized and continued.

"Kill the nanny, take away the grandson, and TC, who is suspected of killing his wife, has become the most suspicious object of the police, if he is imprisoned for this, then as long as the kidnapping transaction is completed, Hubble will naturally live with his grandmother, oh, and by the way, he can also get back his daughter's jewelry."

"Of course, all this is just speculation, and if the ransom is delivered smoothly, then Mrs. Ledeck is very suspicious." Jack added.

"I'll tell Inspector Bryce about this speculation, and ask him to find someone to investigate Mrs. Ledeck, and besides, do you plan to get involved in paying the ransom?" Russell asked.

Jack shook his head, the place where the ransom was delivered must have been surrounded by police at that time, no more than him, no less than him, and it was unlikely that there would be an accident.

"I want to investigate the psychic carrier Karen through the FBI's channels, and she doesn't feel right to me, but I can't say it yet."

After all, it was only a power outage in Nevada, and Los Angeles was not affected, Jack temporarily separated from Russell, returned to his car, first connected the mobile phone to the power bank to charge, and then sent a message to Garcia.

Ask her to get up and help investigate the case that happened in San Francisco, that is, the murder of Natalie Riodan, TC Riodan's wife.

At the same time, he also asks Garcia to help investigate Karen's background as the psychic medium, and Jack always feels that he has overlooked some clues in her, and his intuition tells her that this woman is more suspicious than Mrs. Ledeck.

Now that it was just dawn, Jack looked at the time, it was just six o'clock in the morning, and after sending the message, he put down his seat, found a comfortable position, and fell asleep in the car.

The stat bonus of the system only allows him to stay awake without sleep for several days, and it can also shorten the sleep duration and increase the quality of sleep.

However, sleep is not only important for recovering from physical fatigue, but also for adjusting and recovering one's emotions.

Especially after entering BAU, he often has to face all kinds of uncomfortable murder scenes, and Jack has developed the habit of sleeping at least 6 hours a day.

For ordinary people, 6 hours of sleep may be a bit insufficient, but for him now, it can be regarded as sleeping lazy every day.

A hurried phone ringing woke Jack from his dream, and he looked at the time again, and it was already 9 o'clock.

The call was made by Russell, and the process of delivering the ransom was unexpectedly accidental, and the kidnappers used a trick to escape from the police encirclement.

But unexpectedly, five minutes later, gunshots were heard not far from the scene, and when the police arrived, they found that the kidnappers had been killed in the car, and the box of jewelry worth more than 2 million yuan was left intact.

Jack hung up the phone, and instead of rushing back to the police station upstairs, he turned left and packed a bacon pancake and a large cup of milk coffee for breakfast at a nearby restaurant.

He ate and walked without hurry, and at the same time browsed the information sent by Garcia, and already had some eyebrows in his heart about the identity of the murderer.

The bacon pancakes tasted unexpectedly good, and the milk coffee named Aobai was also silky, and Jack filled his stomach with satisfaction and pushed open the glass door of the police station.

In the hall, CSI researcher Nick Stokes and veteran detective James Bryce are talking to Russell about what happened.

They ambushed the kidnappers at the agreed place in the Palermo parking lot early and monitored the situation at the scene.

At 7:50 a.m., TC Riordan drove to the third floor of the parking lot ten minutes early, carrying a suitcase containing jewelry.

As a result, the wait lasted for half an hour, and soon it was 8:20, 20 minutes beyond the time agreed by the kidnappers, and everyone thought that the kidnappers would not show up, or that they might play some tricks, such as changing the location temporarily.

However, at this moment, a white man wearing a red hat got out of a van that had been parked not far away.

The man seemed to have deliberately chosen a dark coat similar to that of TC Riodan, and after taking the suitcase, he walked to the back of the van with TC and whispered a few words in the blind spot of Nick and the old detective's line of sight.

At this time, the white man handed the red hat to TC and asked him to put it on, enter the cab and start the van, and drive directly to a certain location to pick up his son.

TC did not dare to disobey the order and got into the van, where the white man pretended to be sitting in the back compartment with a suitcase full of jewels, but in fact deftly slipped through the rear door that had broken the window glass in advance and left the van.

Without anyone noticing, this guy climbed over the railing on the third floor of the parking lot, and with the help of the rope that had already been arranged, he went down to the first floor without realizing it, and escaped.

(End of chapter)