"Were there any items found at the scene that shouldn't have belonged to the deceased?" Hodgner asked.

"What do you mean?" Finlay was puzzled.

"The Boston Reaper would take an item from each victim and put it on the next victim so that the police would know that he did it, a trait that we haven't made public."

Hodgner's explanation caused Finray to ponder, and then began to scroll through the photos on his phone, finally stopping at the face of the male deceased.

"Isn't that it?" He pointed to the glasses on the deceased's face in the photo.

"At first, I was still wondering why the deceased was shot in the temple, but the glasses were intact, it seems that the murderer put them after his death."

Hodgner looked up suddenly, "He only took glasses from one victim, it's ninth, and it stands to reason that it should be on the tenth victim, but we haven't found it." ”

"Is there anything special about Victim Nine?" Jack Tifenret asked the question.

"He's the only one who survived." As Hodgner answered, his gaze was fixed on the curious crowd of onlookers outside the blockade.

"Do you have any acquaintances?" Seeing that his eyes were a little strange, Jiejie stepped forward and asked.

"Perhaps, remember the book I showed you on the plane, the Grim Reaper?" Hodchner bowed to a middle-aged white man with a briefcase outside the cordon.

"That's the author of that book, Roy Colson."

Under the guidance of Jiejie, Roy Colson, who has a rather polite temperament, walked in front of everyone.

"Agent Hodgner, long time no see, didn't that Director Vaughn say that this case was done by a copycat, what kind of wind blew you here?"

Roy Colson warmly stepped forward and shook Hodgner's hand.

"Assist the police in apprehending the murderer, long time no see, Roy." Hodgner looked at him with a frown, no joy or sorrow on his face, neither a sense of rejection for the media nor the joy of seeing an old friend.

Roy Colson sighed, "That's what you're talking about?" It's been ten years, you really haven't changed at all, it's still like this, but I wrote a book for that guy, and I sent you a signed copy, you won't not receive it, right? ”

Hodgner's face remained expressionless, indifferent to his almost action, and instead emphasized it in an almost awkward sentence.

"Officially, we have no reason to believe that this is not a parody crime."

"And what about the informal statement?" Roy Colson smiled a little, as if he had already guessed that he would say that.

Instead of answering his question head-on, Hodgner asked rhetorically, "Roy, which is more important to you, getting writing material or catching the murderer?" ”

Roy Colson also did not answer directly, "I interviewed all the families of the victims, and I made the tragic experience of the deceased known to the world, and if you read my book, you must know it." ”

"The writing is good, you have given enough respect to the deceased, and your evaluation of our work is also very fair, and I also know that you donated all the manuscript fees for this book to the family of the deceased, so I am willing to talk to you."

Hodgner's words made Jack and Finlay on the side raise their eyebrows at the same time, such a reporter can be said to be quite rare in this country.

"This is Agent Jennifer Jean, and I promise you that she will contact you as soon as we can release some news."

Hodgner said, introducing Jiejie to him.

After the two exchanged business cards, Roy Colson shook Hodgner's hand again, and reminded in a deep voice before leaving, "If it's really him, he'll do it again soon." ”

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After the investigation was over for the time being, Jack invited Finlay to get in the car and return to the FBI office in Boston.

The number of cases is very large, and the time between them is very long, and they plan to go through the cases overnight.

Especially the pair of glasses that were found at the scene just now that originally belonged to victim No. 9, does this mean that the murderer intends to do it again against the fish that once slipped through the net?

"Georges Foyer, then 28 years old, victim number 9, and the only survivor who narrowly escaped from the murderer."

The Boston office set aside a small conference room for the newly formed task force, and Red and the others sat down and began to play the information of Victim 9.

"Nine deaths." Rossi sighed as he looked at the stitched wounds on George Foyer's body in the photo, which were still hideous and horrific.

But 19-year-old Amanda Lambert, who was with him, was not so lucky, she was stabbed 67 times.

As Red continues to press the remote control, the photograph shows the corpse of a young woman covered in bruises.

Hodgner went on to introduce some of the things he summarized that year,

"Killers like to attack in or near private vehicles, usually at night, near dimly lit, sparsely populated roads.

According to Georges Foyer, the killer approached them disguised as a lost tourist and pretended to ask for directions. ”

Red then put a portrait sketch on the screen, "This is a portrait of the murderer that the Boston Police Department sketcher was in the hospital at the time, based on George Foye's description." ”

Finlay nodded, "As far as I know, this sketch was published on television and in the newspapers for three days in a row, but nothing was found. ”

"And this eye he painted." Red placed several photographs on the screen at the same time, showing both photos of the scene and scans of the letter proposing the agreement.

What they all have in common is that they all have a hand-drawn "eye of God" on them, with one eye in the middle of a triangle and several lines above and below to indicate eyelashes or light.

"The Eye of God, also known as the All-Seeing Eye, was adopted by the Confederation in 1782 and forms part of the coat of arms along with the phrase 'Annuit coeptis', which is stamped on the back of a dollar.

And 'Annuit coeptis' comes from the Latin word meaning 'God has given us everything', and the murderer seems to have compared himself to God. ”

Dr. Red's science popularization made Jack think differently.

In his impression, the movie "National Treasure" he saw in his previous life mentioned that this "omniscient eye" was also related to the predecessor of Freemasonry, the "Free Stonemason", and then led to a large conspiracy theory.

Considering that Benjamin Franklin, one of the country's founding fathers, was a well-known Freemason, conspiracy theories related to it have always been marketable.

When Jack came back to his senses, he only heard Jiejie asking curiously, "How did that George Foyer survive?" ”

Red then opens a voice file, revealing a recording of it.

"911, what emergency did you have?" First, the voice of the 911 operator.

"I killed two more people." Then there's a sound that's clearly changed by a voice changer.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you mean you killed someone?"

"Targets 8 and 9, on Riverton Road behind the Tyson Quarry, next to a silver Toyota."

As the recording ended, Emily continued, "The call was made from a public phone booth a mile away from the scene of the crime, and the ambulance arrived 15 minutes later, Amanda Lambert died instantly, and George Foyer was dying of massive blood loss.

According to what we have found, before this, the 'Grim Reaper' would call the police after each crime and inform them of the specific location of the body until George Foyer survived.

Perhaps for this reason, after the murderer was him, he never reported to the police. ”

"It sounds like a lesson has been learned." Rosie complained.

"I suspect that the killer left those glasses at the scene of the crime for a reason, and that George Foyer may be in danger." Hodchner said.

Jack said he had a different opinion, "So why did he go earlier?" George Foyer was only the ninth victim, and ten years ago, before the Grim Reaper stopped committing crimes, there were 21 victims in total, right? ”

Rosie pondered for a moment, also a little uncertain, shook his head and said, "Anyway, let's find him first, maybe you can ask him about his experience over the years." ”

Emily picked up her phone, "I've informed Garcia, she should have a message soon." ”

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