Although everyone tacitly understands some things, when they go out to handle cases, especially in the process of investigating cases, Jack and Jiejie are still more attentive and rarely get close in private.

This time is a special situation, someone has been a "pornography expert" for two days in a row, and thinks it is necessary to correct his "surname" habit in time.

The place I'm going to go today is too far from Denver, and although there is no siren on Jack's Raptor F150, this time because it is a private car, he brought an extra portable police light.

The birds of prey, flashing their lights along the way, galloped at speeds of 100 miles (160 kilometers per hour) and finally reached the Pagosa Springs just before noon.

Pagosa Springs is one of Colorado's most famous tourist attractions, with one of the deepest geothermal springs in the world and a sizable spa resort on the outskirts of the city.

Their destination today was a house in a middle-class neighborhood in the suburbs, and Jack knocked on the door and showed his FBI credentials.

"Mr. Overholt? I'm Agent Tavol, and this is Agent Rossi. ”

The middle-aged white man who opened the door was slightly stunned, subconsciously glanced at the little boy who was playing behind him, took the initiative to take two steps forward, walked under the porch, and closed the door behind him.

“FBI？ Is there anything I can do to help? ”

Rosie put away her papers and asked, "You've been living here for four years, haven't you?" ”

The white man named Overholt nodded, his expression a little confused.

"Then I suppose you should have known what happened here when you bought the house, right?" Rosie asked tentatively.

Overholt breathed a sigh of relief, having roughly guessed the intention of the two of them, and whispered.

"My son didn't know about it, and I didn't want to make him scared."

"Of course." Jack took two steps back, leaving as much room for conversation as possible.

"We understand, we just want to see the basement."

"No problem, wait a minute." Overholt turned and went into the house to retrieve the key, then walked out again, tilting his head towards the two and motioning for them to come with him.

Rounding the porch to the side of the house, Overholt let go of his voice and said.

"If it weren't for the agent who took the initiative to reduce the price to one-fifth of the surrounding house price, I wouldn't have bought this place, and since I moved in, I've locked the basement, you know, it's here, after all."

He paused and showed an embarrassed smile, "Anyway, you don't need it, when it rains, there will be water in it, it will become very wet, and the circuit will be a mess." ”

Once inside, he pulled out the key, opened a padlock, and opened two cellar doors at a 60-degree angle to the ground.

"Well, I hope you don't mind going down on your own."

Jack pulled out his flashlight and walked in front of Rossi, "We won't be staying long." ”

The basement is quite large, almost fifty or sixty square meters, but the musty smell confirms the current owner's statement, it is very damp underneath, and few people come inside.

This is good news for Jack and Rosie, as it suggests that many traces of the scene have been preserved.

BAU is not CSI, they do not need clear evidence to point to, a lot of evidence that cannot be used in court is a disaster for CSI, but for BAU, it is an important reference for psychological profiling of suspects.

"Interested in rebuilding the site?" Rosie also turned on the flashlight and followed behind Jack.

"Uh" Jack flipped through the file sent by Garcia in his hand, and began to recreate the suspect's crime based on the scars found on the deceased's body described by the medical examiner above.

"The suspect must have been planning for a long time, he made an appointment with Diana Foster, a real estate agent, under the pretense of looking at the house, and after looking at the main room of the house just now, he pretended to ask casually if he could see the basement before leaving.

Unlike California, Colorado was the hardest hit by the tornado, and most of the houses here had basements, and Diana Foster didn't think much of it, as she is now, leading him down here. ”

"And then, bang!" Rosie waved the flashlight in his hand at the back of Jack's head, and continued.

"Just like that, the guy gave her a blow, made her unconscious, and closed the door.

It's underground, quite far from his neighbors, and he can do whatever he wants, even without gagging his victims, which is what he likes. ”

Jack shines his flashlight around, and finally rests on the wooden support beam, which has obvious signs of being rubbed by the ropes.

"The autopsy report specifically noted the bruises on the deceased's arm, and the victim was hung up, just like the guy had drawn."

"Damn." At this time, Jack hated his too good imagination, what "single-column binding", "double-column binding" and the like, and began to attack his normal "surname" fetish again.

"The victim was tortured for a long time, and finally he was connected to electricity, and the victim struggled desperately to dodge, and finally he was so excited that he was convulsed all over his body.

However, the autopsy report stated that the electric shock burns on the corpse did not match the electric bull stick or taser gun, do you think the murder weapon could be the kind he drew on the picture? ”

Rosie looked a little confused.

Jack shook his head, "The kind of battery he drew that requires a large size is not easy to carry, maybe he improved it later, but I suspect this guy is using local materials." ”

As he spoke, he looked around the direction of the wires, kicked away a pile of debris, and revealed a socket mounted against the wall, and with a flick of his hand, the socket cover fell off, which had obviously been touched.

"The socket box has been simply modified, and the clips are still on the wires."

Rosie pouted, "This guy has a lot of hands." ”

Jack thought of the pile of textbooks he found in the warehouse, "This guy didn't have a higher education, but he was a serious 'good' student at a vocational school. ”

Rosie sighed, "The method is too old-fashioned, this can't be his first victim, he planned everything, made full use of the conditions, and left plenty of time for him to enjoy slowly for a long time, and nothing went wrong in between." ”

There was nothing more to gain from the basement, and after saying goodbye to the current owner, Jack and Rosie set out on their way home.

The Raptor F150 still had its police lights on all the way, speeding on the highway until Rossi's phone rang and saw that the video request sent was Garcia, and he quickly raised his finger and signaled Jack to slow down.

"Three more women with the description, aged 31 to 38, were found along highways in New Mexico, Kansas and Utah.

The body was found barley, and the characteristics of the electric burns matched, oh my God, it was horrible, I would have had nightmares tonight. ”

It's rare for Garcia's mood to be so low, and he looks like he has palpitations.

Rosie didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only talk about the matter first, "Garcia, when is the point in time?" ”

Garcia replied, "From the fall of '12 to '14, I was comparing the relevant information with the Federal Missing Persons Database, because it was a cross-state dump, and these cases were originally classified as anonymous, and there was no further investigation."

I guess by the time you get back to Denver, I'll be able to sort out all the information. ”

It's really a federal feature that I have to taste, just because I'm not a resident of this state, I was directly listed as an anonymous person when I didn't have more clues, and I didn't even bother to spend time applying for permission to search for the federal missing population database.

Someone who was listening while driving silently rolled his eyes and didn't comment.

"Good work Garcia." Rosie hung up the video and turned to Jack.

"It seems like this is just the beginning, and unfortunately Agent Moss guessed it, and it's another serial killer like Ted Bundy or the 'Green River Killer', and I can almost predict how the media will react."

Jack snorted, "I don't know how the media will react, but Agent Moss's ecstatic look is already in my mind, and I shudder at the thought of her excitement at the discovery of the body." ”

(End of chapter)