Queens, New York.

Outside the apartment in a certain community, Roan, Ryder, and Lacey were all armed with weapons in their hands, standing at the door of the house on the left and on the right.

One glance at each other, Roan counted down to three, and then Ryder lifted his foot and kicked hard at the door.

Boom!

“FBI！”

"Don't move!"

The trio shouted as they quickly checked every room in the apartment, and then met a young white woman in the kitchen with headphones and dancing her body to make dinner.

The young woman turned her head and saw Roan and Ryder suddenly appearing, as well as Glock 18 in their hands, and immediately screamed in shock.

"We are the FBI!"

At this time, Lacey, who was inspecting the entire room, walked back and shook her head at Luo An, Luo An frowned slightly, pulled off the headphones on the woman's head, and asked:

"Where's Richard Meyer?"

"I don't know, he's not here!"

Slowly calming her mind, the young woman named Erin explained:

"We've been apart for two months! What are you looking for Richard? ”

"We suspect he is connected to a serial murder."

Luo An put away Glock 18 and said in a condensed voice:

"Do you know where Richard Meyer is now? We need to talk to him.

Or, you can explain why you've been using Richard Meyer's credit card. ”

“What？”

Hearing the word serial murder, Erin suddenly gasped, waved her hand again and again to say that those cases had absolutely nothing to do with her, and then explained everything.

"Richard and I met a year ago."

Erin's identity is a waitress who works at a high-end restaurant, and the two met when Richard took someone there to eat.

Richard was charismatic and a factory owner, so Erin soon moved in with him.

The toys were also bought together when the two lived together, after all, Erin was young and played with a lot of tricks, and Richard was also willing to try new things.

Hearing this, Lacey and Ryder glanced at each other, it seemed that their previous judgment was wrong, and Richard was not barrel sexual.

Luo An nodded quietly and continued to ask:

"And after that?"

"After that, Richard's factory went bankrupt."

Erin sat on the couch with a complicated expression on her face:

At that time, Richard was very devastated, and at the same time began to drink heavily.

A month and a half ago, Richard sent me a message out of the blue that he was leaving New York for a walk, and I never saw him again, except for the occasional message. ”

A month and a half ago, the words and messages made Luo An's eyes squint slightly, and he thought of a possibility:

"You mean, you've never had a verbal conversation with Richard on the phone since then?"

Erin seemed to have thought of something, swallowed and nodded:

"That's right."

Ryder and Lacey glanced at each other, both thinking of a situation.

Luo An said directly:

"Can you still reach Richard via message?"

“No。”

Erin shook her head, went into the bedroom and found a mobile phone, and said:

"I messaged him a week ago asking when he was going back to New York, but he never got back to me."

“Fu-k。”

Ryder slapped his head and scolded, while Roan took the phone and handed it to Lacey, saying:

"Lacey, immediately take this mobile phone back to Investigation Team No. 5, and let Mona try to see if she can locate the location of Richard's mobile phone at this time through this mobile phone."

“OK。”

Taking the phone and nodding, Lacey walked out of the apartment briskly and started the SUV to return to Investigation Team Five.

In the apartment, Ryder poured himself and Roan a cup of coffee, poured another cup of coffee and handed it to Erin, and said in a deep voice:

"Ms. Erin, you must have guessed some kind of possible state of Richard at this time.

So I want you to think about whether there was anything wrong with what Richard said and did before you left. ”

Taking the coffee, Erin's face was a little pale and her hands were shaking.

After thinking for a long time, Erin shook her head:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Detective, I don't know what you're saying is wrong, because Richard was bankrupt at the time, and the whole person has been wrong."

"And when Richard gets drunk, does he repeat certain words?"

Luo An sat opposite Erin and slowly guided:

"Like scolding someone repeatedly?"

"This one does."

Erin nodded:

"He kept saying that he saw the wrong person, trusted the wrong person or something."

Ryder, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Erin, and he knew who Richard was scolding.

Luo An continued to ask:

"Did Richard say what he was going to do? Like revenge or something. ”

“No。”

Erin shook her head:

"I didn't hear anything Richard say about revenge, I didn't hear what he was going to do, I just heard him say that it was God's punishment for him."

"God?"

Luo An's brain teaser seemed to have found something:

"Richard is a Catholic?"

"Yes, Richard has always been a Protestant."

Erin subconsciously replied, and then suddenly remembered something, her body suddenly stiffened, turned her head and stumbled:

"Mr. Detective, I remembered something.

After Richard went bankrupt, every time he drank and sobered, he drove to a church to make a confession.

And Richard sent me a message that he had been drinking a lot the day he left New York, and that I had never seen the cars again. ”

"Very good, Irene, this is very useful information!"

Luo An's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked where the address of the church was.

Ryder next to him also grinned, straightened up and stood up, could it be the hand of the church pastor?

"That church is in New Jersey."

Erin found a Bible pressed under the bed, and inside was a bookmark with the address of the church.

“Good。”

Taking the bookmark, Roan and Ryder immediately left the apartment and ...... Pull out your cell phone and call the SWAT Squad.

On the one hand, they need their help to wait for someone to be arrested, and on the other hand, the SUV of Investigation Team 5 has been driven away, and Roan and Ryder need someone to pick them up.

————

The SWAT squad vehicle is speeding towards the target location, and Roan is sitting in the back, making a phone call to Mona.

"How? Where's Richard's phone? ”

“Sorry。”

Mona sat on a chair in the office area of Investigation Team No. 5 and said helplessly:

"The other party doesn't answer the phone and doesn't reply to messages, and I can't find the specific location of the other party.

But we found the last place where Richard's car was seen on highways in New Jersey and New York. ”

Luo An was mentally prepared for this result, and briefly recounted the new clues he had just obtained from Erin, and Luo An finally said:

"Check out the pastor of this church with William to see what is going on with him and whether he is suspected of committing a crime."

"OK, give me a moment."

Mona nodded, hung up the phone and began to get busy with William and the other technical agents.

At 9:47 p.m., Roan, Ryder, and a team of SWAT members arrived at the church in New Jersey.

At this time, the church was pitch black, and Roan and Ryder led several SWAT team members to block the front and back doors of the church.

After counting down to three, the two of them led the SWAT team members to rush in.

(End of chapter)