"Yes, I did say that before."
Luo An nodded, shook his head and said:
"But I found that it's useless to simply look for the victim's wedding date. We still have to start with the murderer."
"?"
Lacey and Ryder walked out of the conference room with question marks on their faces. Roan took out the folder of the victim information file at his desk.
After calling Mona, who was still typing on the keyboard, to come over, Luo An took out a pen and drew a big circle on the disappearance time of the four victims.
"Watch carefully"
Luo An placed the file folder in front of the three of them and said in a deep voice:
"It suddenly occurred to me that the first victim disappeared eight months ago. If converted into weeks, it would be roughly 32 weeks ago.
The second victim disappeared two months ago. Converted into weeks, it was roughly 8 weeks ago.
The third victim disappeared a month ago. Converted into weeks, it was roughly 4 weeks ago.
The fourth victim disappeared 2 weeks ago. "
"Holly Shit!"
"Fu-k!"
Seeing the numbers written by Roan on the file, Lacey and Ryder cursed together, while Mona's eyes lit up and she shouted:
"Geometric sequence?"
"No wait."
"?"
Ignoring what he subconsciously answered, Luo An nodded to Mona and said:
"It may be a geometric sequence, but there is a missing 16 in the middle. We can boldly speculate that there should be another victim about four months ago, but no one has found her body yet.
Or maybe the New Jersey police had discovered her body, but the body was assigned to another case by the police. "
"Shit!"
Cursing the New Jersey police in a low voice, Lacey looked away from the file, looked at Luo An and asked:
"But 2 in the geometric sequence is already the smallest number. Does it mean that the murderer will not kill again?"
"It's just possible that it's a geometric sequence, but it's not 100%."
Luo An shook his head and said solemnly:
"Think about it from another perspective, two 2s are 4, and two 4s are 8, so which two things add up to 2?"
"Two 1's!"
"Raised by Biao Zi!"
Lacey answered, Mona cursed secretly, Ryder frowned and took a sip of bitter coffee.
This means that the murderer may continue to commit crimes this week.
Wow——
Walking to the front of the No. 5 Investigation Team office area, Luo An took a whiteboard, erased all the things Augustus had written on it, and then began to write seriously.
For a moment, under the solemn gazes of the agents of the No. 5 Investigation Team, Luo An finished writing down all the clues and analysis he had obtained so far.
After coughing lightly, just as he was about to introduce everyone, Augustus and Verenis suddenly walked in.
"Sir."
Verenis waved her hand and saw all the agents from Investigation Team No. 5 surrounding Luo An, and asked coldly:
"what happened?"
"Nothing, I'm just going to analyze the case with everyone."
Luo An threw the pen aside, looked at Verenis and asked with a smile:
"Sir, do you have any new tasks for us?"
Without answering Luo An's question, Veranith walked to the whiteboard, examined it carefully for a moment, tilted her head and asked:
"The case of serial murders of female corpses in the lake?"
Luo An, who was winking with Augustus and asking Veranith why she came to the No. 5 Investigation Team, heard Veranith's cold voice and immediately replied:
"That's right, it's this case. I just got some new clues and I'm going to discuss it with you."
Verenis nodded, without saying anything else, she casually pulled over an agent's chair and sat down with her legs crossed:
"speak."
"...OK."
Seeing that Augustus also pulled up a chair and sat next to Veranith without telling him anything, Luo An licked the corner of his mouth and didn't care, picked up the pen and introduced her.
snap——
The whiteboard marker hit the upper left corner, Luo An pointed at the PPT...pointed at the information on the whiteboard and said:
"The first victim, Linda Chibo, was married and was twenty-eight years old. The second victim, Beatrice Leon, was married and was thirty-four years old. The third victim was Nata Leigh Carlisle, married, 25 years old. The fourth victim, Tamara Terry, married, 30 years old.
When the case was first handed over to Investigation Team 5, we only discovered the following similarities between the victims:
First: they are all married women.
Second: After the murderer kidnapped the victims, he tortured them for a period of time, causing bruises on their upper bodies and lacerations on their lower bodies.
Third: The murderer’s method of killing them was to strangle them directly with a rope.
Fourth: After killing them, they all took away the rings from the victims’ hands. "
After hearing Luo An's narration, Mona Lacey and other agents became more focused. Augustus nodded with satisfaction. Veranith moved her legs up and down, her lips pursed slightly, her expression remained unchanged, and she did not speak. .
"Because the victim's body had been soaked in the lake water for too long, the forensic doctor could not find the murderer's DNA, and the above information could not determine the murderer's identity, so we launched a follow-up investigation."
Luo An took the whiteboard marker, tapped the text in the center of the whiteboard, and said solemnly:
“During the course of our investigation, we discovered new links between the victims:
First: the church where the four victims were married was the same church, the Little St. Phil's Church.
Second: Draw a circle with a radius of 3 miles with the Little St. Phil's Church as the center. The lake where the body was found and the homes of the four victims are all within this circle.
Third: The time when the four victims disappeared, that is, the time when the murderer took action, converted into weeks, was 32 weeks ago, 8 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago. There is a missing 16, which is suspected to be an arithmetic sequence. "
After hearing this, Mona and Lacey, who was holding her slender waist, did not change their expressions. Ryder picked up the bitter coffee and took a sip. The other agents looked solemn. August opened his mouth to ask a question, but saw that Veranis went to the side and fell silent again.
Veranith looked at the text on the whiteboard, narrowed her eyes slightly, thought for a moment and asked:
"What are you going to do next?"
Luo An glanced at Verenis, his expression remained unchanged, he pointed at the text in the upper right corner of the whiteboard with a whiteboard pen, and said in a deep voice:
“First of all, Agent Lacey and Agent Ryder have retrieved the list of information about newlyweds and couples in Little St. Phil’s Church in the past two and a half years.
Secondly, according to the information, the first victim, Linda Qibo, got married eleven months ago and disappeared eight months ago. The second victim, Beatrice Leon, got married five months ago and disappeared two months ago. The third victim, Natalie Carlisle, was married four months ago and disappeared a month ago.
Except for the fourth victim, Tamara Terry, who was married eight years ago but disappeared two weeks ago, all the others were abducted by the murderer in the third month after their marriage.
So there are four things we need to do next:
First: Carefully investigate the people in Little St. Phil's Church. This case cannot be unrelated to them.
Second: Focus on investigating the couples who were married at Little St. Phil's Church three months ago and currently live within the circle to see if there have been any disappearances among these couples this week.
Please leave our contact information during the investigation so that if a case occurs later, the victim’s family can contact us in time.
Third: Investigate couples who were married in St. Phil’s Church three months ago 16 weeks ago, that is, seven months ago, and lived in the circle within four months of their marriage, to see if any disappearances occurred among them On the body.
If there is such a case, then it is possible for us to find traces of the murderer and catch the murderer.
Fourth: Investigate the criminals in the circle who live near the Little St. Phil's Church and have been imprisoned for rape cases, stalking cases, obscenity cases, etc., but have just been released from prison in the past year.
Because the forensic report showed that the murderer was not the first murderer, and the crimes were gradually escalating, these people were also highly suspected. "
Having said this, Luo An turned around and said to everyone with a serious expression:
"The more the murderer does, the greater the chance of making mistakes, and the higher the chance we have of catching each other. I believe that as long as the agents of our No. 5 Investigation Team work together, we will definitely be able to catch this murderer!"
"GOOD!"
"You're right!"
"Well done!"
After listening to Luo An's analysis, the agents of Investigation Team No. 5 were encouraged and applauded one after another.
Augustus also stood up and left his chair, slapped Luo An on the shoulder, grinned a few times, looked back at the agents, and shouted:
"Now, everyone, check out those people Luo An just mentioned! Let us throw the murderer into prison as quickly as possible!"
The agents took the newlyweds' information from the large cardboard box, ran back to their workstations, and started working.
The expression on Veranith's face did not change, but she was also very satisfied in her heart. She got up and left her chair and walked towards August's team leader's office.
When passing by Luo An, Verenis said to Luo An in a cold voice:
"Come in."
Luo An: "?"
