The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 212 The Unfortunate Couple (Part [-])
"How many of these cases have the opportunity to re-examine the dead body?" Rossi asked.

JJ looked at the documents and replied, "There are still at least 2 cases that have not been completed. The corpses should still be in the coroner's office. Uh... there are 3 cases. Among them, the bodies of a couple have not yet been claimed by relatives. "

"Contact D.B. Russell at the Las Vegas Crime Lab, send the information over, ask them to step in, and re-do the autopsy, hopefully to help us locate the murder weapon, and most importantly, determine whether the female victim suffered Arriving at Qiang X."

Rossi paused, then continued, "Don't let those vehicles go, although the report says that the driving recorders have been destroyed and the GPS data cannot be recovered."

"But I've been looking at the reports from these crime labs recently, and now the analysis of trace evidence can roughly determine the location of the crime scene, which is very useful to us."

Jack raised his head in surprise and glanced at the 60-year-old profiler. Unexpectedly, he was really not just talking before, but had been studying hard to understand new things.

"The crashes are located on highways around Carson City, Lake Tahoe, and Reno. The nearby cities are densely populated with travelers. It's the ski season, and there are seasonal workers mixed in."

As a local, Jack analyzed some of the information he knew. He had stayed in California for several years anyway, and he had heard of this tourist attraction between the two states.

"That means there are a lot of potential victims to choose from."

Hotchner added, "Judging from the experience of the victim, whether it is beating or assault, it requires a private space and a long time to commit the crime."

"It means that the murderer is a local, or owns real estate in the local area or has lived there for a long time." Emily also put forward her own ideas.

Everyone said something to me, although it was only a simple inference based on the information on paper, but a general framework was quickly drawn up.

A psychopathic rapist who specifically preys on passing couples or couples, and then uses a large truck on the highway at night to fake traffic accidents to cover up evidence.

"How much does the local media know?" After listening to everyone's analysis, Rossi suddenly raised his head and asked JJ.

JJ shrugged, "The media didn't know about it. As usual, they reported this as a traffic accident."

Emily understood in seconds, "This is our advantage. The murderer didn't know that he had been exposed, so he lacked vigilance."

"Yes, JJ, you will contact me later."

Hochner looked down at the information in his hand, "Sheriff Bruner, explain to him the importance of confidentiality, if the suspect finds himself under investigation or attention, he may change his modus operandi, or go elsewhere to pick the victim .”

The time for reporting the case is not long. After all, the current information is still very limited, and the final deployment arrangement is decided by Hotchina.

"Everyone go back to rest early today, and set off early tomorrow morning. The bureau has allocated two cars for us. Jack and I will drive one. Please remember to bring enough warm clothes."

Because Nevada is next door to California, there is no need to use the Gulfstream business jet this time, and it only takes four hours to drive there from Los Angeles.

Early the next morning, two brand new Saabbans left Los Angeles one after the other and drove due north along Highway 1.

Reno City is located near Lake Tahoe, which is one of the most famous ski resorts in the United States. The eastern section of the Sierra Nevada Mountains just extends here, and there are dozens of ski resorts dotted nearby.

Now is the ski season, the time of the year with the most tourists, you can see all kinds of large and small RVs and RVs going in the same direction on the road, some of which have sleds or even canoes on their roofs.

Many people know Las Vegas, the casino city, but they don't necessarily know that Reno is the second largest casino city in the United States after Las Vegas. It used to be called "Divorce Capital".

In the early 20th century, that is, from the 20s to the 50s, divorce was still a disgraceful thing for beautiful Chinese people. It may be unimaginable for people today, but it was true at the time.

In order to revitalize the economy, Reno amended the law in 1931, stipulating that a couple can divorce without reason as long as they live here for 6 weeks. Suddenly, thousands of old Americans came to this small western city.

In the heyday, people who came here to get divorced crowded the hotels, family hotels and even local farms to the brim. Some people couldn't find housing, so they simply set up their own tents. They would rather suffer for a few weeks and return to being single. free.

There is also a famous Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, which is a well-known scenic spot. Those newly divorced ladies would stand on the bridge and throw their wedding rings into the river, so the Truckee River under the bridge became the "Divorce River" " alias.

The above content is all from Dr. Reid’s rambling science popularization along the way. After all, no matter how big the Saab class is, it can’t spread out a table of mahjong. It starts early in the morning, and no one needs to catch up on sleep in the car. Let's chat together.

At noon, two Saabs drove into the local police station, and a middle-aged police chief with gray hair received them.

"I'm Bruna, welcome."

"Hello, Sergeant Bruner, we talked on the phone earlier, and these are my colleagues."

Lake Tahoe is a typical alpine lake with an average altitude of nearly 2000 meters. It is winter, and the average temperature is close to minus 10 degrees. When you come here from the warm California coast, everyone is wrapped in thick clothes when you get off the bus. Thick down jacket.

As the "diplomat" of the BAU team, JJ introduced each other to each other.

"The place here is not big, but it should be barely enough."

Sheriff Bruner, who was not tall and thin, and who gave people the first impression of being very capable, took the initiative to shake hands with Rossi and Hochner, who were obviously the oldest among the crowd.

This is a small local police station, bigger than the one in the small town of Margrave, but much shabby compared to the police station in a developed city like Wilshire.

"All we need is a table and an evidence board."

Hotchner didn't care about this. Without his order, Reid had already pushed over a nearby evidence board, pasted his rearranged photos by category, and wrote his name and relationship on the side with a whiteboard marker. Key Information.

"Sheriff, if you don't mind, my team members want to go and have a look at the scene." Rossi didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.

Sergeant Bruner seemed to appreciate the vigorous and resolute behavior of everyone in BAU, and nodded repeatedly.

"I'll arrange for the deputy sheriff to take you there right away."

"Oh, by the way, people from the CSI crime laboratory in Las Vegas arrived early this morning. They are re-autopsying the corpse, and some people are testing the wreckage of the vehicle. They initially ruled out two cases and can confirm It was indeed a traffic accident."

"In other words, we now have a total of four cases that are linked."

Reid, who was busy, nodded, took the information in the hands of Sergeant Bruner, removed a few photos that were already on the evidence board, and hung a surrounding map on the blank space.

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(End of this chapter)