Then Jubal pointed the pencil in his hand at the analysts, "The three victims are all from about the same area, the border between northern Manhattan and Connecticut, so that is the murderer's hunting ground, but why did you choose them?"

We need to find common ground, so we need all the background information of these victims, friends, relatives, husbands and related criminal information, Jiejie, can you compile and analyze these data?

I heard you've completed that behavior analysis course at BAC. ”

Jiejie nodded and said that it was no problem, which was similar to her previous work in screening case materials when she was at BAU.

"Okay, Jack, can you tell me what you think from a psychologist's point of view? What kind of opponent are we going to deal with, and is there any preliminary analysis? ”

Jubal finished arranging his work and walked over to Jack and asked in a low voice.

I don't know if BAU's performance this time made him interested in hunting down serial killers through behavioral analysis, but as soon as Jack entered the door, he heard him babbling about the definition of a serial killer.

"There's a little detail that might help." Jack turned on his phone and showed Jubal the detailed photos of the three bodies he had just taken at the scene.

"You said the three victims were all married, right?"

Jubal frowned as he looked at the photos of the three horrible corpses, "Yes, that's right, what do you want to say?" ”

That is, Jack and the others will soon be independent and become a separate action team, and if they are transferred to an ordinary person, they will be a little apprehensive in their hearts, worried that they will not be able to control the scene.

"So there are two possibilities, the murderer took the ring as his own trophy and used it as a collection for aftertaste, and the second possibility, under what circumstances would a person take the initiative to take off the wedding ring on his hand?"

"So there's a possibility that the killer used the ring as a trophy." Jack began to analyze purely from the perspective of a psychopathic killer, generally speaking, the guy who went to rob the money would not take such a trouble to dispose of the corpse, at least not leave no clothes at all.

Jack swiped the phone screen, pausing slightly and zooming in on the details in several close-ups of the hands of the three corpses, "I didn't find wedding rings on their fingers." ”

"That's right, whatever the case may be, given that the three victims are all beautiful married women under the age of 30 at the moment, we can tentatively assume that the other party is a Cao thief. Belch. I mean the killer may be obsessed with a young and beautiful wife.

Isobel, who was with him, also saw these photos of the scene, and in addition to her ugly face, she could not hide the anger in her eyes, which was out of empathy for being a woman.

"So what does that mean?" Isobel on the side was a little curious, she was also an ASAC (assistant director), but she didn't have Joyna's domineering appearance.

After all, the previous terrorist attack attempt was widely spread within various federal law enforcement agencies, and all kinds of gossip were flying within the FBI, in addition to the BAU operation team, the New York office operations center as an important supporting role was also famous.

So how did he pinpoint these victims? I thought it would be better to talk to the victim's husband and ask their wives if anything unusual had happened lately, or if anyone had harassed their wives. ”

"When you're having fun." Hannah, who had been listening from the sidelines, was quick to respond.

"On the surface, the ring represents love, a symbol of marriage, but in another sense, it is also an oath of attachment and ownership."

Jack remembered the first case after the BAU team was officially formed, the psychopathic killer who specialized in hunting couples, and his hobby was collecting the panties of victim women.

"None of them?" Surprised, Jubal took his phone and flipped through it.

Jack finished speaking and was about to reach out to get his phone back, but found Jubal staring at the photo on his phone in a daze.

"Jubbar?"

"Ah, what?" Jubal woke up from a dream and hurriedly handed the phone back to Jack.

"Oh, okay, Aubrey is coming back from the scene, you can go to the husband of the most recent deceased, Beatrice Santos, and I'll arrange for another agent to talk to the husbands of the other two victims with him."

"Just arrange for me, just so that I can get acquainted with everyone by the way." Isobel took the initiative to ask, and it was obvious that she had lowered her posture.

"OK, I'll send you Aubrey's number." Jubal didn't look quite right, not knowing what he was thinking, and just as Jack and Hannah were about to leave, he stopped Jack alone.

"Have you noticed the type of wire the killer used to tie up the victim and the way it was knotted? Is it a 14-gauge wire and a square knot? ”

Jack raised his eyebrows in surprise, "That's right, don't tell me you guessed." ”

In AWG (American wire gauge), the larger the wire number, the smaller the wire diameter, 14 means that the wire diameter is 1.63 mm, the cross-sectional area is 2.075 square millimeters, according to the principle of rounding, it is directly expressed in colloquial language is two square wires.

The square knot is commonly known as the dead knot, and the kind of dead knot that clumsy people often can't tie the bow well when they tie their shoes, and they will be tied if they are not careful.

Jubal looked uneasy, "I need to check on something, maybe a few more phone calls, you go get busy first, I'll explain this to you later." ”

"Well, contact me promptly if you have any questions." Jack felt that this guy was a little unwilling, and it seemed that he hadn't seen him show such an expression for a long time since the last time he secretly helped him solve the problem of his eldest daughter's illness.

But now is obviously not the time to get to the bottom of it, and since he said so, Jack stopped asking and turned to chase Hannah away.

About 60 kilometers northeast of New York City, there is a small town called Stanford, which of course has nothing to do with the famous university in California on the west coast of the United States.

Stanford is administratively planned to be part of Connecticut, but it is actually a satellite city around New York, which is too close to each other.

It took Jack and Hannah an hour to leave the New York City limits, and then it took less than 40 minutes to locate the residence of one of the victims, Beatrice Santos, based on the address.

Beatrice Santos' husband, a brown-skinned Latina, can tell that the family is financially well-off, and the house is well kept.

Most of the average New Yorkers will choose to rent a house in the city, and the really wealthy will choose to buy a house in the suburbs or small towns around New York, resulting in high housing prices in the surrounding areas of New York, especially in such areas where the rich are concentrated.

According to the information, Beatrice Santos's husband is a high-level IT engineer with a good income, and he has been waiting at home early after receiving a call from Jack.

Apparently the husband had learned in advance from the local police station that the body of his missing wife had been found and was currently in the second stage of grief - anger.

In her book On Death and Dying, the American psychologist Elizabeth Kübler Rose proposed the "Five Stages of Grief".

They are denial/isolation, anger, self-blame, frustration/depression, and eventual acceptance.

The husband is clearly in the second stage – anger, and when the pain slowly emerges, it is natural for the person to project the sadness, feeling angry at himself or others, and thinking that someone needs to be responsible for the death of his loved one.

"I'm just going crazy why Beatrice was found in the lake in Central Park, why did she go into town, why did she end up there!"

Looking at the man swirling in front of his eyes, although he knew that he would be angry as long as he continued to speak, Jack still had to say what he meant.

"It's still under investigation, Mr. Santos, and we need you to tell us again in detail about the night your wife disappeared."

(End of chapter)