"This is a normal inquiry, okay?"
Before Lacey could say anything, Luo An took out the Glock 18 and put it on the desk with a smile on his face:
"We do not suspect you, Mr. Darren. But due to procedure, we must ask these questions to eliminate any suspicion against you."
Seeing Luo An's gun, Darren frowned and was about to get angry, but when he saw the smile on Luo An's face, he reluctantly suppressed it and said in an unhappy tone:
"I was checking out a real estate property in Los Angeles yesterday and stayed at the Hilton Hotel for the night."
"OK."
Lacey wrote and drew in her notes, asked a few simple questions, and then asked with a serious face:
"Mr. Darren, may I ask if you and your wife have offended anyone recently? Did you find any strange people when you bought this villa?"
"no."
Darren waved his hands repeatedly and said in a very angry tone: "There was nothing wrong when I bought this villa, and our husband and wife have always been gentle to others, and matters in the company are handled in accordance with the regulations, and we have never offended anyone at all."
"......All right."
Lacey briefly wrote down these things, then turned to look at Luo An, who immediately said:
"Mr. Darren, given the financial situation of you and your wife, we judge that the other party kidnapped Ms. Sabina for ransom, so if nothing else happens, the other party will call you soon to ask for ransom."
"OK."
Hearing Luo An's words, Darren breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said directly:
"It doesn't matter, as long as Sabina can come back, it doesn't matter how much the other party wants, I don't care!"
Luo An ignored the other party's low-key pretense and continued:
"But for Sabina's personal safety, we will send an agent to follow you to protect your safety and monitor your mobile phone to try to locate the kidnapper's location through the phone..."
"No, you can't do that."
Hearing this, Darren stood up suddenly and said in a very unhappy tone:
"Since the other party only wants money, then just give them the money! What if the other party learns of your existence and directly rejects the vote? I can't bet Sabina's life!"
"you......"
As soon as Lacey heard this, she subconsciously wanted to refute the other party, but Luo An grabbed her arm and turned to look at Luo An. Luo An stood up and asked seriously:
"Mr. Darren, are you sure you don't need us to protect your safety?"
"unnecessary!"
Darren replied coldly, but for some reason his tone suddenly softened and he continued:
"I just want my wife to come back safely. If the other party wants money, then give it to them. We are not short of money! It's just a simple transaction. I can do it myself. You FBI only need to catch the kidnapper."
"OK."
Luo An nodded and didn't say anything else. He pulled Lacey out of the study room of the villa before she could react.
The two walked out of the villa. Lacey checked around to make sure no one could hear her, and suddenly asked in confusion:
"Luo An, the other party is very uncooperative and very suspicious!"
"Yes, it may have been his hand."
Luo An nodded, turned on his Nokia and asked Mona on the other end of the phone:
"Mona, have you found out Darren's recent financial situation or consumption bills?"
"Of course, you have to believe in my strength, Mona."
Mona's clear voice came from the other end of the phone, laughing:
"Darren did have a first-class plane ticket to Los Angeles yesterday, but there were no records of his stay at several local Hilton hotels. So I checked Darren's previous bills and found that he had been there frequently in the past year. In the casino city of Las Vegas, it’s almost always a matter of money being made but not being recorded. A simple estimate shows that he has probably lost nearly two million US dollars.”
Luo An nodded and continued to ask:
"When Darren and Sabina got married, did they sign any prenuptial agreement?"
"Uh, wait for me a few minutes."
There was a crackling keyboard sound on the other end of the phone. After a long time, Mona's voice came over, and she said excitedly:
"There is one! It was recorded in a well-known law firm in New York. There are several pages of regulations written in it. One of them is that if Darren divorces himself, he must leave the house and if Sabina dies, Darren Only $300,000 will be available, and all of the funds Sabina inherited from her parents will be donated.”
"...I don't understand how rich people think."
Luo An shook his head, tilted his head and said to Lacey:
"Darren's money mainly comes from his and Sabina's company. He spent a lot of money addicted to gambling, and the capital chain in his hand is probably broken. And he can't tell Sabina about this, so in order to get it A large sum of money, and kidnapping his wife for ransom is obviously a good idea.
According to the prenuptial agreement, Darren could only receive three hundred thousand dollars after Sabine's death. This amount of money prevented Darren from killing his wife for money because it was not worth it. "
Lacey also came to her senses, and then analyzed Luo An's words: "So Sabine should be safe now, because if she dies, Darren will not get the money. Darren is just asking for money."
"That's right."
Luo An nodded, he could try this direction, so he raised his Nokia and looked at the car in front of him and asked:
"Mona, the cars in this villa are all the latest Cadillacs. The license plate numbers are ***, ***. Can you locate them?"
"certainly!"
Several crackling sounds on the keyboard sounded, and Mona quickly said with a smile:
"Done! I know where they are going now!"
"OK, thank you for your hard work, Mona."
After hanging up the phone, Luo An turned to look at Lacey and smiled:
"You said before that you came from the Intelligence Department and have very good tracking skills. Darren will leave it to you. You can go wherever he goes."
"Easy!"
Lacey smiled, threw a trust me gesture to Luo An, turned around and walked into the villa.
A two-pronged approach ensured that Darren's next move would never leave his control. Luo An nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was about to return to the car and wait for Darren's next move, Nokia suddenly rang.
Taking out his cell phone, he found that it was Ryder who called him. Luo An was a little confused but still answered the phone.
"Roan, I need your help."
Ryder on the other end of the phone said without any nonsense:
"I have read all the files on the serial murder case and found no clues. I just heard in the office that you have solved the kidnapping case. In that case, how about you analyze the files on the serial murder case?"
"Forehead."
Luo An picked up the Nokia and looked at it, then hesitated and said:
"I haven't solved the kidnapping case. The murderer of the kidnapping case has not been caught yet. I can't go back to the office yet..."
"You don't need to come back."
Ryder's voice on the other end of the phone changed. An SUV similar to the one Luo An was sitting in slowly stopped on the road not far away. Ryder stepped out of the car with his cell phone in hand and grinned:
"I've come to you with the papers."
Luo An: "..."
