The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 265 Which Girl?

"It's not certain yet. What I can tell you now is that the deceased was a girl."

The information revealed in the words of the sheriff made everyone who had just arrived frowned. It had been three hours since the body was found, but the police still could not determine the identity, or even which one of the missing persons the deceased was.

The No. 18 police station of the LAPD Southern Branch, also known as the Southeast District Bureau, although it is a little worse than the wealthy branch of the Wilshire Branch, it is not a small local police station in a remote area.

Certainly not to the point of incompetence, not to mention the premise that the FBI intervened from the very beginning. Now that this is said, there is only one answer.

The severity of the damage to the corpse can no longer be determined through simple methods such as photos and fingerprints, but must be judged through time-consuming autopsy or even DNA testing.

Sure enough, when the group came to the dry drainage ditch, what they saw was a red barley female corpse whose head was smashed to a bloody mess, and her hands were also severely damaged.

Hannah, who arrived at the scene earlier than everyone in the BAU, was standing by the ditch, and had just finished communicating with several on-site forensic personnel.

Of course Jack knew that she was busy with this case last night. A phone call in the middle of the night woke up Hannah who was sleeping soundly in his arms.

He also specially stewed a black-bone chicken soup with wolfberry and sent it to her at noon today, but he didn't expect that BAU would be asked to intervene so soon.

"Briefly introduce the situation. Katie Owen and Lindsay Vaughn, who are minors and have just turned 15, disappeared in a movie theater at midnight yesterday. There are their parents. This is the list of related people I just compiled. It's all up there."

Speaking of which, Hannah handed over the information in her hand to Hotchner, and she looked very professional when she entered the working state.

"Don't tell me their parents have seen the corpse." Jiejie whispered.

"Not yet, as soon as the K9 police officers (police dogs) caught her scent, we isolated them from the scene." The sheriff on the side said.

"So they've been waiting outside?" Jiejie raised her eyebrows.

The sheriff sighed, "Yes, I can hardly procrastinate any longer, I have run out of reasons."

"I'll go and talk to them." Jiejie took the initiative to take over the most troublesome thing at the moment, to calm the emotions of the family members.

The scene was too tragic, and it was impossible for them to see it. The parents who had a mental breakdown did not help the investigation of the case, and might lead to radical incidents.

"Jiejie, I'll go with you." Hannah also followed.

Of these two girls, one recently bought a bunch of popular science books on psychology, and looked at herself drowsily every day, while the other practiced shooting at the shooting range every day, and her gun calluses were thickened.

Jack can only appease them separately, there is no particularly good way.

"I'm glad you're here, I've never seen anything like this." The sheriff looked young, but in his early 30s.

"Let's go down and have a look." Hotchina said while putting on gloves.

Carefully avoiding the evidence marks on the ground, Jack came to the corpse with Reid, and Hotchner, Rosie and Emily stood behind them.

"This is not the first scene." Jack, who had recently improved his forensic science skills through reading and learning, could see something was wrong at a glance.

The corpse was covered with scars, large bruises, and knife cut marks all over the body, while there were only clear drag marks on the ground, few footprints, and almost no blood around.

"There are obvious signs of being bound on the arms and thighs. This girl has been tortured for a long time." Reid knelt down next to the corpse and observed carefully.

It was getting dark at this time, Jack turned on the flashlight and shone it on the girl's neck, "The cause of death is most likely strangled, and the bruises on the neck are very obvious."

Rhett nodded in agreement, "There are still clear belt buckle marks on it."

"Why did you destroy her face and hands?" asked the sheriff who followed him puzzled.

"This is a kidnapping case, isn't it? There is absolutely no need for this."

"Obviously the purpose of the kidnapping is not extortion." Hotchner replied, "The victim probably knows the murderer. The murderer wants to use this method to force us to spend time on identifying his identity, thereby buying time for him to escape."

"Do you think the other girl is alive?" The sheriff, who had probably heard of BAU's name, had completely given up thinking for himself.

At least among the LAPD Jack knew, probably only John, who was still a rookie, could ask such a question.

Rossi still took the trouble to answer, "Before we find the body, we must assume that she is still alive."

"What we have to do now is to find out where she was killed and to determine which girl we are looking for."

When everyone left the drain and came to the blockade, Jiejie and Hannah were still communicating with the parents of the two girls.

"This is Mrs. Owen's mobile phone. She is used to turning on the automatic recording function of calls. At around one o'clock last night, a call came in from Katie's number."

Hannah said and handed Jack an Apple mobile phone, "I checked it. The call time was less than one minute. It should be a secret call. I can hardly hear what I'm talking about. It needs technical processing."

Jack nodded, found the recording file directly, sent it to his mobile phone, and then forwarded it to Garcia.

"Hey, cutie." Garcia's cheerful voice came from the connected phone.

Hannah suddenly showed a half-smile expression on her face, and looked at Jiejie who was beside her, and Jiejie silently made a mouth shape, meaning that we will talk about this matter later.

"Hey, let's get down to business, Garcia." Jack looked at the two of them with some embarrassment. Is this unanimous?

"I have a call recording here, to help filter the background sound and extract useful information."

"No problem, leave it to me, my sister's place will always be your peaceful little harbor."

It's almost enough, just let him go, Jack is already regretting why he talks so much with Garcia, usually it's nothing, but now in front of Hannah, this kind of scene is too much to die for.

On the other side, Hotchner and Rossi are questioning the parents of the two girls.

"Would you mind telling me about the previous situation?" Hochner's serious expression seemed to calm the emotions of the family members more than the two ladies.

Mrs. Owen, with red and swollen eyes, clenched her hands on her chest with a distressed expression, "Yesterday was Bruce and I's wedding anniversary. We went out to eat together, and Keeson drove the girls to the cinema."

"I'm Keeson Vaughn, Lindsay's father." A sturdy middle-aged man took Mrs. Owen's words, introduced himself, and continued.

"I was responsible for picking them up after two hours, but I didn't see them after waiting outside for a long time."

　It's my birthday, I'll go out later to get my bones straight, if I have time when I come back, I'll write another chapter, if I don't have time today, I'll give myself a vacation, hehe.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)