With a target to smell, Labdorado jumped forward excitedly, and his partner, the police officer, didn't pay attention to the leash, and the guy sped away in one direction.

"I'm sorry, Jack is like that, sometimes he gets too excited, but it's a great partner." K9's partner was a good-looking white female police officer, and she was a little shy in the face of the handsome young FBI in front of her, showed an apologetic smile, and explained embarrassedly.

"I believe you, so it's called Jack, isn't it?" Jack's expression was a little odd, which was a coincidence.

Without waiting for the female police officer to answer, Jack the dog stopped by a small stream not far away and barked, and sure enough, the ones called Jack were all great.

"A body was found." While the two were talking, Sheriff Sean, who was at the front, had reached the stream, and then he shouted, "God, it's Mike McCabe, the school bus driver!" ”

The creek is not deep, just over half a meter high, perhaps because of the proximity to winter, the stream is almost dry, and only a little trickle is still flowing.

A corpse was lying on its back in the stream, a white male, who looked to be in his 40s, slightly bald, with a bloody hole near his temple, and the blood water flowed from the other side, staining the clear stream a pale red.

"Sheriff, find a way to get more people, whether it's a local militia or a community patrol, and call all the people you can muster." Jack looked at the corpse and said in a heavy tone.

"We need to arrange a dragnet search to look for more evidence or victims in the vicinity."

After that, he took out his mobile phone and first called Jubal in the operations center and asked him to send the FBI ERT team, and then called Mike Taylor, asking him to send his forensic personnel here as soon as possible.

With such a large scope, the FBI's ERT team will definitely not be able to take care of the limited manpower, but fortunately, they have cooperated with CSI Labs many times, and the cooperation between the two sides has always been very tacit.

Thankfully, after nearly two hours of dragnetting, no suspicious traces were found for the time being, at least no new bodies appeared.

After handing over the task at hand, Jack went to say hello to one of the leaders of the ERT team, and the smashed phones and tablets that had been found had been sent to the laboratory after preliminary forensics, and they needed to extract the data from them as soon as possible and send them back to the operations center.

Child abduction is different from adult abduction in that the child's mood swings are extremely high, and the kidnapper can easily lose patience, leading to a catastrophic outcome.

Moreover, now the kidnappers have not one, but 26 young children who may cry at any moment because of cold, hunger, nervousness, and even physical needs.

It's not a question of how many golden hours it is, Jack has been thinking about the possibilities in his head, what the purpose of kidnapping the children is, what the ransom is, or what political demands are there.

It's better not to be a cult sacrifice, Jack feels his scalp tingle at the thought of this possibility, it will be the worst possibility, and the consequences are simply unimaginable.

Riding in a county police car to Tuft Elementary School, Jack meets his boss and Hannah in the school's indoor arena as they prepare to leave after calming their parents.

This is probably the only indoor environment in the elementary school that can accommodate so many people at once, with makeshift desks and chairs placed on the wooden floor in the middle of the arena.

FBI agents are working in pairs to take notes on the parents of the kidnapped children, but as Sheriff Sean said before, this is a small place, and the news of the small place spreads very quickly.

As soon as Jack arrived, a parent with a mobile phone shouted loudly, "The county police said the school bus driver was dead, and they found a body in the woods, God, my child!" ”

The emotions of the parents were instantly excited, and the group surrounded the FBI agents, including Dana Moge and Hannah, and seeing that the scene was about to get out of control, Jack rushed to the gong hanging in the air next to the court, picked up the mallet on the ground and struck it hard.

"Bang!" The loud noise immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the arena, and Jack jumped on a desk and shouted, "Hey, everyone, listen to me!" I had just returned from the scene and we did find the body of an adult male at the scene. ”

He deliberately added an accent to the word adult, but it still attracted the soft cries of these parents, and seeing that the scene had become a little chaotic, Jack raised his voice again.

"Listen to me, my next words are important, and after careful searching, we found no other traces of murder at the scene, so the police have temporarily regarded this as a kidnapping."

"How are you going to find our children?" A male parent asked in a loud voice.

"Of course, with all our might, we have mobilized hundreds of police forces, and they are currently searching along both sides of the road for any possible clues, what you should do now is to go home as soon as possible!"

Before Jack's words fell, another parent questioned, "Go home?" What nonsense are you talking about? How could we possibly go home now. ”

"Listen to me, listen to me." Jack pressed his hands down and patiently explained, "It's useless for you to gather here, make sure you have all left your mobile phone numbers and email addresses, and the police will notify you as soon as possible if they have news."

But whether it's the kidnappers or their children, it's possible for them to call home, right? So you need someone to stay at home to answer the phone, check your email, keep an eye out for any clues and contact the police in a timely manner, understand? ”

Sheriff Sean's other bit of information was correct, at least the parents were good enough to understand what Jack was saying, and the excitement at the scene began to unleash in another way.

Parents have found the nearest FBI agent, just want to complete the transcript as soon as possible, register the information and go home, some parents are both present at the same time, and one of them can't wait to go home first.

"Well done." Dana Moge was still worried, but she barely smiled.

Jack didn't care about being modest, and followed her and Hannah to their Sabo class, and couldn't wait to ask, "Did the parents report anything unusual just now?" ”

Hannah still had the notebook in her hand and nodded, "There is a clue that has been sent back to the operations center for confirmation, and the wife of one of the couples I asked mentioned that she had accidentally noticed that a green van had been following the school bus for two days in a row.

She wasn't sure, but I asked the parents of the other children, and someone had seen the car. ”

Jack took the initiative to get into the driver's seat as a driver, and his spirits were lifted when he heard this, although the section of the country road where the school bus disappeared was not monitored, but when it entered a residential area or an urban area, it would definitely be photographed.

Moreover, the school bus route is fixed, and the time is also fixed, which is quite time-saving and labor-saving for finding monitoring, and it should be able to get results soon.

On the way back, Jack drove all the way with his police lights and sirens on, and soon returned to the federal building, and almost at the same time that the three of them stepped into the office, Jubal also had a harvest.

A video is playing on the big screen from the pile of smashed phones and tablets that Jack found, captured by more than one child at the time of the crime, and this video is the clearest video that has been recovered so far.

The child was seated in the back of the seat, and from his vantage point, he could clearly see that the moment the school bus was stopped, two adult men with black hoods and AR assault rifles stood outside the bus, pointed their guns at the driver, forcing him to open the door.

Amid the panicked screams of the children, two gunmen boarded the bus, one of whom controlled the driver, and the other seized the children's mobile phones one by one along the aisle, and the final video was frozen in the moment when he reached out to the child who was filming the scene.

(End of chapter)