North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 224 What the hell case
Jimmy finished his lunch and started to walk out of the park. Since the vacation can be cancelled, it means that the case will not be small. Moreover, Jimmy has a bad guess. Since he asked himself to go there, the case probably involves violence. , not just simple artwork cases.

Although it is not off-duty time, the traffic in Manhattan is still very painful. Jimmy thinks it is too wise to listen to James and not drive here. In this kind of traffic situation, the most suitable motorcycle or simply getting on a bicycle is better than driving. Come quickly.

But motorcycles are really unsafe. Jimmy considered this issue and finally gave up. On the one hand, it is not safe. On the other hand, Jimmy has become a man in a suit every day, and motorcycles are not convenient.

Let’s decide what car to buy after clarifying my consumption budget. Anyway, I don’t need it too much now. As long as the probationary period is over, the FBI will distribute the bus. Maybe I don’t need to buy a car by then.

Back in the office, Jimmy found that Peter and the others were all there. Seeing Jimmy coming back, Peter called everyone to the conference room.

Peter: "OK, everyone is here. Now let me talk about the case again. This is a murder case that happened in the Upper East Side. There are only two sections of surveillance on the gate of the villa."

Peter first played a video, which is a surveillance video. The position of the camera should be the upper right corner of the gate. Here you can see a black SUV driving from one side to the left side of the gate. Two people came out of the car. At this time, the surveillance time It is 0:40.

The two took out two black travel bags from the car and threw them on the ground. There should be a lot of things in them, and they looked quite full.A man took two bundles of ropes out of the car, and each of them bundled the ropes. There should be hooks at the end of the ropes. They threw them up to the wall, and then each of them climbed up the wall with a bag on their backs, and then disappeared out of the screen. .

The second part of the video followed, at 1:25 in the morning, the door opened inwards, and the two of them came out carrying a few bags and something. It looked like one or two large boxes stacked on top of each other. They then opened the back door of the SUV, put the boxes in the vehicle, retrieved the rope from the wall and drove away.

After the video finished playing, Peter started playing the photos again.

Peter: "Nathan Byrd, the owner of the B·Z Club, a club for firearms enthusiasts in New York, has a large woodland shooting range in Orange County, New York State, and the club is a partner of several law enforcement agencies. He will also participate in the cooperative training of police officers with local police stations, and has more than 1000 registered paying members. Nathan Byrd once served in the SEALs and opened this club after retiring in 1994."

Peter played the next picture, "Nathan's body was found by the cleaning company hired by Nathan Byrd. The cleaning staff would come to clean up every two days. When they came to Bird's house in the morning, they found that Nathan Byrd has been shot dead on the bed, from the photos, he didn't respond at all, he should be shot dead in his sleep, and his two dogs died on the lawn in the yard."

Peter continued to play, the exterior of the house, the condition of the lawn, the photos in the room, and many photo frames and glass fragments scattered on the ground.

At the end of the play, Peter looked at everyone, "This is undoubtedly a murder case. NYPD has inspected the scene after receiving the alarm from the cleaning company. Since there is no surveillance in the house, we don't know whether the two people were in the house. in the action.

The two murderers were absolute professionals. They did not leave any traces in the house. There were no bullet casings, fingerprints, or hair. It can be seen from the surveillance that both of them were wearing hoods, gloves, and sneakers. A few clear footprints were found on the lawn, and there were basically no distinguishable traces left on the other ground.

It is currently speculated that the two entered the villa over the wall. First, they encountered two dogs on the lawn. Both dogs were killed. One of the bullets and the bullet on Nathan's body were identified as belonging to the same gun.

After killing the two dogs, they should have used the key to open the door, because the electronic alarm was not triggered, it may be that the key was prepared in advance and the password of the electronic alarm system had been obtained.

Nathan is a former Navy SEAL, and he has been insisting on firearms training after retiring. Such a person will definitely react when he hears the gunshot, but he was shot directly on the bed.

It is basically inferred that the two should use the reduced charge and the silencer. This can also be testified from the neighbors around, because it is very quiet in the middle of the night, but no one around heard the gunshots.

According to the cleaner's testimony, Nathan Byrd was an art lover.He bought a lot of works of art, sculptures and oil paintings, which used to spread all over the villa. As you can see from the photos shown just now, the paintings on the walls and the small sculptures in the room have disappeared. According to the surveillance footage, the last two suspects went out The box I carried when I was there was supposed to be the lost artwork.

NYPD submitted the case to the FBI and asked for assistance. After we checked the data, we found some abnormalities.

Nathan Bird is not only a club owner on the surface, he also has an identity, a war broker.

According to the available information, Nathan provided intermediary services for other organizations or mercenaries in his own club. The DEA suspected that Nathan had provided information for a guerrilla in Mexico, which led to the failure of their beheading operation. However, there was no direct evidence to prove that, So I didn't move him.

This case has also changed from a simple homicide case to a case involving organized crime. It has been transferred from NYPD to the FBI Organized Crime Section for investigation, and Ruiz is in charge.

Now for our mission, we are not responsible for this murder, but we need to help them find this batch of lost artwork, these two suspects took so much trouble to get the painting out of the frame, If the statues are removed, they will definitely find a way to sell these works of art. As long as we can find clues about their sale of works of art, we can trace their traces.

But there is a problem, although Nathan Bird has a room of various oil paintings and statues, but we don't have any photos and names of these artworks, because Nathan doesn't like to take pictures, so there are no photos of these artworks in his room Of course, we have also checked Nathan's name through several auction houses and galleries, and he is not their client, so the source of this batch of artworks is very questionable.

The only thing we know so far is that, according to the cleaners, when they were serving Nathan in the early days, he didn't have the artwork, which popped up three years ago. "

(End of this chapter)