Wednesday, 11:15 a.m., Special Investigations Unit, Office Area.

Mona sat at her desk, her face full of serious tapping on the keyboard.

With the sound of crackling keyboards, Luo An held a teacup and carefully looked at the photos and messages of the four victims on the whiteboard.

In general, the act of cutting off the tongue is a punishment for the informant, which means that the other person has said something that should not be said.

The identities of the four victims are currently the Speaker, the priest, a naval officer, and a tannery worker.

The first three victims were of higher status and may have been connected, but the tanneries were not at all of the same world as these three.

Judging from the very solidified national conditions of the federal class, unless there is an accident, the tannery workers may not be associated with the first three in their lifetime.

Then there is the manner of death between the four victims.

The speaker of the parliament was beheaded, the officers were beheaded, the priests were beaten to death with sticks, and the tannery workers were skinned.

The only person whose identity was associated with the manner of death was the tannery worker, and only he had regular contact with animal skins during his lifetime, and his skinning could be seen as a "punishment" for the murderer.

But if you think about it this way, except for the military status of the naval officer, which can barely be related to the beheading, there is obviously no connection between the identities of the other two victims and the manner of death.

"It's a dead end."

Putting down the teaglass, Luo An shook his head, this road is not going to work, he can't continue to waste time on this.

Turning around, Luo An looked at Mona and asked casually:

"How's it going?"

At this point, an hour had passed since the other agents left the Special Investigation Team, and Roan planned to give Mona a break to help him get a file on Winslow's operations, and Roan was now very interested in Winslow's "intuition".

"There are so many people missing every day in Los Angeles that the LAPD gets reports of missing cases every day, and there are even more reports of missing cases."

Hearing Luo An's words, Mona spread her hands, leaned back to the chair with a helpless face, closed her eyes and rested:

"Between 19 and 7 days ago, the LAPD received more than 50 reports of disappearances.

I found 3 guys who had lost contact and disappeared inside, as well as guys who had other residences secretly without telling their family and friends.

I've just called the LAPD for help and went to those residences to check on the situation. ”

"Great work......"

Luo An handed Mona a cup of coffee, walked behind her and helped her pinch her shoulder, and said with a smile:

"I'll treat you well tonight."

"Humph!"

Thinking of the scene of sore legs during the previous half-day vacation, Mona immediately leaned forward to avoid Luo An's hands, and then snorted coldly and threw Luo An a pair of white eyes.

Luo An, who was going to ask Mona if she wanted to eat steak or lamb chops tonight, was slightly stunned by her movements, and saw the expression on Mona's face clearly, and then understood that she had misunderstood what she meant.

Luo An rolled her eyes speechlessly, blaming Lacey for saying some nonsense all day long, Mona was taught badly by her!

Lacey in the distance sneezed hard......

Jingle Bell –

Just as Luo An was about to explain what he really meant, the landline on Mona's desk suddenly rang, pressed the answer button, and a LAPD patrol officer on the other end of the phone trembled.

"Special Investigation Team? We found a body in the house you were talking about. ”

Hearing this, Luo An and Mona's faces instantly sank.

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Half an hour later, in a neighborhood in southeast Los Angeles.

This neighborhood in Los Angeles is mainly inhabited by the middle class, and the houses are good, basically one ladder and two households.

Luo An arrived at the community with Mona in a brand-new SUV, parked the car, and glanced at the SUV, Luo An smiled.

The special investigation team originally had two SUVs, plus a ...... from Wonder Of the three cars that were coming, there were five in total at this time.

The five new detectives went out to investigate clues this time, and they all drove old SUVs, and only Racy's group drove one of the three new SUVs.

Roan was very pleased with the new agents.

Walking into the community, Luo An and Mona took the elevator to the crime scene on the sixth floor, took out the gold badge to show their identity, and slowly walked into the room.

This room is very large, as soon as you enter the door, you can see a spacious and bright living room, the things in the living room are a little messy, and there is a lot of dust on the sundries on the ground, Luo An and Mona can see at a glance that there has been a fight here.

Walked into the living room and turned right and continued to walk a few steps, it was the bedroom of this room, and before he reached the bedroom, a bloody breath came to his face and penetrated into Luo An's nostrils.

Walking to the bedroom door with Mona, I wanted to watch, and a red world suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.

The overall decoration style of the bedroom is mainly the most common white in Los Angeles, but at this time, the surrounding walls are full of blood splashes.

There was a large bed in the center of the bedroom, and there was no one on the bed, but the original brown sheets had been stained black with blood.

Beneath the bed, a tattered corpse lay curled up, covered in stab wounds and the ground covered in clotted blood.

Seeing the scene in the bedroom clearly, Mona's face immediately darkened, Luo An frowned, and with his experience, he could instantly see that the newly discovered victim was hacked to death by the murderer with a knife.

Pulling Mona away and waving his hand to signal the agents of the trace laboratory to enter the bedroom to check the situation, Luo An took Mona back to the living room, and while carefully inspecting the items in the room, he asked:

"Mona, what's going on with this victim's personal information?"

"Matthew Modlin, 43, works for the Los Angeles Department of Revenue."

Mona opened her laptop, looked at the information inside, and explained:

"He was found missing by a colleague 14 days ago and called the police, this guy likes to gamble and is a regular visitor to Las Vegas.

Because of gambling, Matthew's wife and daughter had left him, and his colleagues knew about Matthew, so the LAPD only investigated briefly and determined that Matthew had run away because of money. ”

Luo An has little interest in the character and life experience of gamblers, but he is very puzzled why Matthew, a bad gambler, has such a house that no one else knows.

"Nominally, the house was left to his daughter by Matthew."

Mona spread her hands and said that Matthew bought the house when she was not involved in gambling, but Matthew did not tell his wife about the house.

Matthew gambled for many years, and this house has always been his bottom of the box and hole cards, and the house has changed hands many times over the years, but it eventually returned to Matthew.

"And then he died here."

Luo An shook his head, gambling has always been a point of no return, if it weren't for the fact that the tongue in Matthew's mouth in the bedroom was also missing, knowing Matthew's experience before his death, he would most likely think that this was the hand of Matthew's enemies in revenge.

Continuing to inspect the house, as Luo An expected, he still didn't find any useful items, and at this time, the detectives from the trace examination department also walked out, and Mona hurriedly asked:

"Did you find anything?"

The detective of the trace examination department shook his head and said:

"Not at the moment, it will take a little time to investigate the details on site."

"OK, hard work."

Mona was a little helpless, turned around and found Luo An standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room quietly looking into the distance, walked to Luo An's side, and followed his gaze to see a cross, which was a church, Mona's face was full of doubts:

"Ann Roan, what did you find?"

Luo An groaned for a while, with a smile on his face, and asked:

"Mona, apart from the priest, do the other victims have faith?"

(End of chapter)