Washington, D.C. -——

Walmart Supermarket Parking Lot –

Sirens sounded, and the rooftop near the parking lot was crowded with people.

The police set up a cordon to prevent outsiders from entering.

Outside the cordon, some onlookers were talking.

"I heard that someone died again."

"yes, I heard that damn serial killer killed another woman."

"That woman is so miserable, after being violated, her throat was cut—"

Like people in many places, these onlookers will use their imagination to add fuel and vinegar to the case, and make the case a little more bloody and emotional. So much so that from some people's mouths, it is comparable to some obscenity.

Du Yongxiao followed the murderous Wang Quinn and others, and quickly arrived in a police car.

The problem is that this is the third homicide in Washington, D.C., and the location of the crime is in the supermarket parking lot, or the hotel parking lot, because the murderer is called the "parking lot killer".

In fact, there are many murderers who choose to commit crimes in the "parking lot" in this era, on the one hand, this kind of place is more hidden, and secondly, there are more ways out, and the most important thing is that this kind of place can give the murderer an inexplicable stimulus.

Since it was a "serial homicide case", the police department immediately had to hand over these cases to the FBI to deal with.

The reason is also very simple, technology, equipment, and case-handling capabilities, local police departments and FBI are not comparable at all.

Secondly, this is the third case, and the public is complaining that if the murderer is not caught, then it will arouse public anger and the government will face great pressure.

In this way, the local police station personnel who originally handled the case have become decorations, and their task is to guard the scene and avoid the entry of idle people, especially media reporters.

……

The appearance of the "Killer King" Quinn caused a sensation, and those old police officers at the police station saw him and said: "Wow, the Killer King is here!" ”

"This is not a big arms or drug trafficking case, what is he doing here?"

"yes, I heard that he usually solves violent cases!"

It's no wonder that these people talk about the murder king like this, in everyone's cognition, the murder king is that kind of rough person, and he should handle the kind of major arms case with a bazooka and a rifle and a criminal attack, or a major anti-drug case, such a serial murder case, it should not be his strong point.

And that's exactly what happened.

"Murder King" Quinn also doesn't want to take over this case, but he wants to take up his post, he wants to take the position, if he continues to handle those hot cases, the case will be solved, but the destruction of urban facilities and accidental injuries to the people are inevitable.

As Quinn's former subordinate, George, the supervisor who has become Quinn's boss early, does not want to see Quinn retire and is only a detective in the FBI, so he deliberately handed over this serial murder case to him to deal with, hoping that Quinn can use this to make meritorious contributions and successfully ascend to the position.

Quinn didn't know George's hard work, but as soon as he arrived at the scene of the crime, as soon as he saw this bloody scene without a clue, he knocked on the door of his head and felt a headache.

This kind of case is different from the major arms and drug trafficking cases he handled before, he only needs to collect intelligence, and then cast a net to outflank it, which requires a little bit of cocooning to detect-——

Ay!

A rough person like Quinn is most afraid of doing "fine work".

Du Yongxiao also looked at the crime scene, on the dark and damp rooftop, a woman lay quietly on the concrete floor, flies buzzing around her, like an abandoned salted fish thrown in a garbage heap.

Her eyes widened and stared vacantly at the sky, one hand trying to grasp something, gaping, her nails stuffed with dirt and cracked bruises from the walls......

A knife cut her neck was cut, and the flesh of the knife turned outward, and the blood coagulated to a dark black and spilled all over the ground.

Looking at her underneath again, it was obvious that she had been violated, and she was in a mess......

Du Yongxiao took a deep breath and was surprised by the cruelty of the criminal.

This is already the third victim and the third woman to die. One can imagine what kind of sensation public opinion would have caused if the media had known about this news.

The police are incompetent, helpless against criminals, and the cries of crusade and scolding will merge into one and become the mainstream of public opinion.

Du Yongxiao took off his hat.

The snow was falling outside, but he felt hot and dry.

……

The person in charge of the referral of the case was the local police sergeant Rusco.

Rusco, 53, has been a police sergeant for 10 years, during which time he has solved many major cases and is known as the "Sherlock Holmes" of Washington, D.C.

Rusco is proud of this, so he hopes to solve another big case before he retires, and draw a perfect end to his life as a sheriff.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his idea came to him, there were three homicides in a row in the jurisdiction.

Rusco was furious at first, someone dared to commit a crime in his own jurisdiction? Followed by excitement, isn't this a God-given opportunity to make yourself the perfect lore before retirement?

Immediately, Rusco devoted all his energy to this "parking lot killer" case and led his subordinates to prepare to solve the case.

But he was only halfway through the investigation when he was told that the FBI would take over the case.

Immediately afterwards, Rusco heard that it was the FBI famous "Killer King" Quinn who took over his case this time.

Rusco immediately understood that he wanted to give the credit to Quinn, so he let him change hands under the pretext that the "serial murder" was of a bad nature.

Rusco, scoffed.

"The FBI will grab these dog things!"

Therefore, when explaining the ins and outs of the case to Quinn and others, Rusco was not in a good mood.

"Here's how it -——"

Rusco narrated, although his emotions were a little perfunctory, he still told the story of the incident from beginning to end.

Du Yongxiao followed on the side and listened carefully.

Today, July 16, 1973, the Washington, D.C. Police Department received a report that a cleaner was working in the underground parking lot of a Wal-Mart supermarket when he noticed some bright red liquid on the stairs on the 10th floor.

Because there are a lot of shopping malls nearby, the cleaner didn't expect the liquid to be blood, but he felt strange, he was so careful about cleaning, why did someone spill the "drink"?

So, she searched all the way to the "drink", but when she found a nearby rooftop, she found a young girl lying in a pool of blood, no longer showing any signs of life.

The cleaner screamed and immediately ran to the police.

Sergeant Rusco led his men to the scene of the crime and secured the scene. After surveying the scene, a judgment was immediately made: it was a homicide!

Then, Rusco immediately started a routine inquiry with the cleaning aunt who called the police: whether he had seen suspicious people around the crime scene. Although the cleaning aunt was very frightened, she still cooperated very cooperatively.

According to her recollection, there were many entertainment venues near the basement, including a large shopping mall, so the flow of people was relatively large, and there were many customers coming and going.

But on the afternoon of July 16, she noticed a man who was in a hurry, and that the man was deliberately avoiding her when he saw her. The man is on the thin side, about 1.8 meters tall. In addition to this, the man appears to have an injury on his left arm.

According to other eyewitnesses, near the 10th floor and the parking lot on the 9th floor, everyone did see the man depicted by Aunt Cleaning one after another.

However, this evidence is not particularly favorable to Sergeant Rusco. Because according to eyewitness accounts, there are tens of thousands of men in Washington, D.C., who have such looks and physical characteristics, and the police have no way to determine exactly who the suspects are.

"That's pretty much it, that's all the clues we got after we went to the police, yes, God, the criminals are so cruel!"

Sergeant Rusco took off his hat with a heavy expression.

It's just that after he finished saying this, his eyes showed a trace of imperceptible contempt, and he asked the big guy Quinn: "After speaking, I don't know if Your Excellency has any objections to this?" ”

Obviously, this is a test question.

After listening to the "Killer King" Quinn, his brain hurts.

He hated this kind of case, he needed that kind of roughness. It is possible to pick up the case of the submachine gun "Tututu".

Of course, complaining like this in his heart, Quinn would not say it on the surface.

He pretended to be calm, turned his head, and said, "What do you think of squirrels, hyenas, crows, and octopuses?" ”

Raise soldiers for a day, and use them for a while.

Knowing that he was not good at detection, Quinn pinned his hopes on four of his men.

These four people have followed themselves from birth to death for many years, and they are all elites of the elite, and they will never be as stupid as themselves.

It's a pity that whether it's the female detective squirrel, or the male detective hyena, crow, octopus, I can't find a clue about everything in front of me, as well as the statement of the old sheriff Rusco.

This suggestion is to cast a net to catch fish, draw a portrait of the murderer, and then catch them one by one and interrogate them.

The advice was to peel back the layers and ask witnesses again, trying to avoid finding the wrong person.

Quinn rolled his eyes when he heard this.

What his subordinates said was equivalent to not saying it.

Quinn looked at Du Yongxiao, Du Yongxiao glanced at the corpse, and said lightly: "Maybe this is not the scene of the first crime." After speaking, he pointed to the blood stains on the ground and said: "Just like Aunt Cleaning saw, the blood stains of the deceased extended all the way from the staircase to the rooftop, and the activity area was relatively extensive, which shows that the deceased was still trying to escape for his life after being injured." ”

"Why, then, is there no one who has reached out to the victims? My guess is that these witnesses saw the victims fleeing with their wounds, but human nature is selfish. Perhaps the bystanders were so frightened by the sudden surprise that they were so frightened of the unknown danger that they would be implicated after they rescued her, so that no one came to the victim's aid, which eventually led to her bleeding to her death. ”

After listening to Du Yongxiao's words, Quinn was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the old sheriff Rusco.

Rusco looked at Du Yongxiao in surprise for the first time.

That's right, he deliberately concealed this when he stated the case just now, in order to make this group of self-righteous FBI agents make a fool of themselves, but they didn't expect to be broken by the young Chinese agent in front of him.

"Inspector Quinn, you're a great subordinate!" Rusco praised Du Yongxiao lightly.

Although he felt that Du Yongxiao was a little clever, he still didn't take him seriously.

The Chinese – much more stupid than the whites.

Quinn smiled, "What do you mean - for the case, you still haven't talked about it?" ”

Rusco didn't pretend either, "Indeed! I just talked about the first half, and I didn't have time to talk about the second half. ”

Quinn stared at Rusco: "Then I hope you can make it clear now!" yes, I hate that kind of half-talk-half-leave approach to everything, I hate it! ”

Rusco knew that his "reservation" had angered the big man, and immediately glanced at Quinn and then at Du Yongxiao, and then he spoke again.

……

As Du Yongxiao said, the blood stains of the female deceased show that the rooftop was not the scene of the first crime.

So, Rusco and the others followed the trail of blood and found a car in the underground parking lot on the 9th floor.

The car was a Buick brand, and there were a lot of blood stains near the body, with the most blood on the seat backs, and a lot of blood on the items inside the car. This also proves that this Buick car should be the first crime scene.

Through the search, Rusco soon found that there was a wallet in the Buick car, and after checking the documents inside, it was determined that the deceased's name was "Penny".

Not far from the scene of the first crime, the police soon collected another piece of bloodstained physical evidence, which was a handkerchief. It was determined that the blood on the handkerchief was type O and Penny was blood type B, which proves that the handkerchief may have been left behind by the killer after wiping the blood.

Given that there were only two different blood types at the scene, the police made reasonable guesses: one from the victim and the other from the murderer.

So, since both of them were bleeding, did the two have an argument at the first scene of the crime?

In addition, combined with the clues provided by previous witnesses, it is very likely that the killer is the white man they saw, who is also about 25 years old, because when he left, someone saw that his arm appeared to be injured.

After listening to Sheriff Rusco's story, Quinn bit his cigar and slapped his thigh and said, "So, that white man is the murderer!" ”

"yes, it must be him!" The squirrels and others also said.

Rusco smiled, his eyes contemptuous: "If the case is so simple, how can you FBI bother?" You know, there are so many white men who meet this condition! Do you want the FBI to go out and look for a needle in a haystack? ”

After Rusco finished sneering, he looked at Du Yongxiao again, and said with disdain: "Young man, what do you think about this?" ”

In his opinion, even these white people can't solve the case, let alone this stupid Chinese-—— as for just now, maybe he was just lucky and stepped on cow!

Du Yongxiao originally wanted to keep a low profile, but this Rusco didn't let go of himself, and when he was about to think about how to answer, he suddenly remembered something, and his eyes lit up and said, "What did you say?" The victim's name is Penny? So is her father a wealthy local businessman named Jon? ”

"Huh?" This time it was Rusko's turn to be stunned, "How do you know?" ”

He didn't talk about that just now!

Not at all!

(End of chapter)