"It seems a little unusual, I didn't actually see any news about it today." Rosie was a little strange, and deliberately glanced at the time, it was already noon.

"Recently, the whole network has been talking about the winter storm." Jack flipped through the portals.

Compared to the central part of the country, where heavy tornadoes are common, and the East Coast, which is hit by hurricanes at every turn, the climate in California has always been good, but as the extreme weather has increased year by year, it has been quite uneven.

"But it's really strange, at this time in the past, the media should have rushed to the front."

"There's something even weirder." Jiejie released a photo of the body, "Mr. and Mrs. Cosenza and their 10-year-old son, were killed in their master bedroom, both were shot in the forehead, the gun was left at the scene, it belonged to the male owner, the police suspected that he shot his family and then set fire to himself."

This is the Fagan couple, Kelly and Frank Fagan, who, like the Cosenza family, died in their master bedroom due to a suspected explosion caused by a gas leak. ”

"Gas explosion?" Hodgner frowned and looked at the photos of the scene, he looked like he had recovered as before, as a psychologist, he was accompanied by his family, and did not have any PTSD problems, perhaps this also had something to do with the murderer's death.

Rhett also expressed doubts, "This power has to leak a lot of gas." ”

"How could the media miss the news of a house explosion?" Rossi is still wondering about the media's problems.

"I'll go back and ask if there's anything behind it." Jack said that it was up to him, and that Orange County was included in the greater Los Angeles area, and rounding up was also his territory.

"So, why did the local police find us? Do these two families have anything in common? Emily had the same questions.

Jiejie also seemed a little confused, "Garcia did a preliminary investigation of the background of the two families, the wife of the Fargans, Kelly Fargan, was born in Germany, and the husband of the Cosenzas, Ron Cosenza, is from Italy, and there is no intersection or common ground.

But the two incidents were only two miles apart, less than an hour apart, and that was Orange County. ”

Orange County is not only a tourist attraction, but also a gathering place for the middle class and the wealthy, and is known as the richest county in the United States.

"So the local police are worried that if it is true that both cases are murders and arsons, it is likely that the same murderer committed them."

"It also means that the arsonists may have been committed in a gang and are very organized and motivated." ”

"Then hurry up, it is said that there will be a storm in 72 hours, and the murderer is likely to commit another crime before then.

Red and Jay went to the Cosencha house, Jack and Emily went to Fagan's house, and Rosie and I went to the Orange County Crime Lab to have Garcia investigate the two families further. ”

Hodgner got up, as if he couldn't wait to get involved in the case, and the rest of the people smiled, he barely participated in the last case, and it seemed that he was a little suffocated.

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"Interestingly, although I am not a professional fire investigator, I can see a lot of problems." Jack walked around the scene of the fire and felt that the suspicions of the Orange County police about the murder were not unreasonable.

"There are smoke alarms in the house, and there is even an automatic sprinkler system, except for the initial explosion, the whole house is not too serious after that, but the gas alarm in the kitchen is not working."

Emily's focus is on the other hand, "This is one of the safest places in Los Angeles, why would this family use such an ugly iron gate and such a high-level security system?" What do they do? ”

Jack glanced at the information sent by Garcia on his phone, "The wife is a financial consultant, and the husband is an IT elite, a typical middle-class family. ”

"The door lock is also strengthened, and the house is like a safe house." Emily said.

Jack said he disagreed, "The neighborhood where the house is located is not cheap, and it lacks the necessary monitoring equipment for safe houses, and the security system, although advanced, is just an ordinary civilian product." ”

Emily shrugged, "Anyway, the family is looking too cautious, it looks like they're watching out for something?" ”

At this time, Jack's cell phone rang, and it was from Rhett and Jiejie, who had gone to another scene.

"How about you over there, there are too many suspicions here, the fire broke out at 8 o'clock, the master bedroom of the Cosencha family is on the second floor, at that time the mother should be downstairs to help the children with their homework, and the father should have just arrived home from work.

The family's habits contradicted the bedroom where the body was found. ”

Jack was reminded by him and found the same problem, "So, it's not time for the Fagans to rest, and Garcia's information shows that they should have gone to a dinner party last night. ”

At this time, the phone shows that there is a new call, and Jack tunes into a three-way call, which is Hodgner and Rosie who went to the crime lab.

"The medical examiner found a problem, the Cosenza family was shot first and then set on fire, and he did not find any traces of smoke in the man's lungs." Hodchner said.

"Is it possible that he shot himself as soon as he lit the fire?" Emily asked.

"Unlikely, the fire started first from the bedroom, and even if the fire only burned for a short time before he fired, the medical examiner said it was impossible to find nothing in the trachea." Hodchner replied.

"Let's go back and talk about it, it seems that these two cases are not as simple as they seem."

Recently, it has been raining a lot, although it hasn't rained much today, but it is still cloudy, and the sky is very early, and a group of people returned to the headquarters just after 5 o'clock, but there are thousands of lights outside.

Garcia was already waiting for everyone in the large conference room with his notebook in hand.

Jack took out two boxes of meat buns from the refrigerator, heated them in the microwave, and placed them on the table with hot cocoa, and everyone chatted about the case while eating.

For a while, the meeting room was full of meaty aroma, accompanied by the sweet aroma of hot cocoa, which made everyone who was a little sluggish because of the sudden low temperature weather in Los Angeles couldn't help but lift their spirits.

"Dear Jack, I don't know what we would do without you." Garcia hugged Jack and left a purple lip print on his cheek.

Jack smiled wryly, wiping off the strangely colored lip prints with a wet tissue in Jiejie's smiling eyes.

Waiting for everyone to fill their stomachs, Hodchner stood in front of the evidence board, "The two families have no history of mental illness of any kind, they are in good health and happiness, there are no financial problems, and from the records, everything is normal, even perfect." ”

(End of chapter)