"FBI?"
Seeing the golden badge displayed in front of him, Qiao Nuo was stunned for a moment, but then he looked happy and nodded repeatedly:
"Yes, my wife disappeared. Just last night, I..."
As Jono was talking, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Why was the person coming not the New Jersey State Police, but the FBI?
Could it be that......
Thinking of this, Qiao Nuo's expression suddenly changed and he asked hurriedly:
"Mr. Agent, what happened to my wife? Where is she now?"
"Please calm down, Mr. Jono."
Luo An turned around and gave Lacey a look. The other party nodded. After walking up the stairs and saying a few words, he managed to get Jono's daughter to open the door and easily enter her daughter's room.
Ryder walked out of the door and began to look around the apartment, trying to find some useful clues.
"Our goal is to find your wife, that is the same for both of us."
Luo An motioned to Qiao Nuo to sit down first, and then said with a serious face:
"So please calm down and answer my questions seriously, okay? The more detailed your description, the greater the chance that I will find your wife!"
"OK, OK."
After hearing Luo An's words, Qiao Nuo poured a glass of water and drank it. After taking a deep breath, he said with a gloomy face:
"Susan and I got married two and a half months ago..."
The story behind the story is not complicated. Jono was in his forties and had been married. Later, his wife died in a car accident, and he raised his daughter Sheena alone.
In recent years, his daughter Sheena has grown up and attended a residential high school. By chance, Jono met his wife Susan, who is now thirty years old.
Jono and Susan fell in love at first sight, and after interacting for a while, they held their wedding two and a half months ago in the small St. Phil's Church next door.
During this period of marriage, my daughter Sheena always had tantrums whenever she came home from high school, and it was the same the night before.
The father and daughter had a big quarrel and each went back to his own house. Yesterday morning, Qiao Nuo suddenly discovered that the door to the house was open. When he looked carefully, his daughter was also missing.
So they quickly contacted the New Jersey Police Department and reported the disappearance. At the same time, Jono and Susan also drove around looking for Sheena.
After hearing this, Luo An lowered his head to record in his notebook, then raised his head and asked:
"Susan also went to look for your daughter? Did you two search separately?"
"That's right."
Qiao Nuo nodded and said in a deep voice:
“About 9:30 last night, I found my daughter in a small hotel.
Then I called Susan, and she said she was near Louise Supermarket and would be back in half an hour, but she didn't get home until 11 o'clock in the evening. I called her, too. No one heard. "
Luo An wrote and drew in his notebook and continued to ask: "Does Susan drive?"
"have."
Qiao Nuo pointed at an old red car outside with an ugly expression on his face:
“Susan has been driving this car since before she married me.
After she lost contact last night, I went to the supermarket to look for her. The car was parked at the corner diagonally opposite the supermarket, with the key inserted in it. I couldn't find her, so I drove the car back. "
"OK."
Luo An drew a circle on his notebook and was going to go to the supermarket to check the surveillance system later. Just as he was about to stand up, he suddenly blinked and tilted his head and asked:
"Mr. Qiao Nuo, what is your wife's height and weight?"
"1.66 meters, about 45kg."
Luo An stood up from the sofa, and Lacey also walked out of her daughter's house on the second floor. After waving goodbye to her daughter, she and Luo An walked out of the apartment door.
"Just a teenage girl who got ripped off by the school quarterback."
Seeing Luo An tilting his head to look at her, Lacey shook her head: "This matter most likely has nothing to do with her. At least I didn't see her lying to me."
Luo An nodded, trusting the judgment of Lacey who came out of the intelligence office.
Turning his attention to Ryder, Ryder shook his head:
"There are no clues near the house, and there are no signs of struggle in the car. It is obvious that the missing person Susan got out of the car on her own initiative."
"OK."
Without hesitation, Luo An decisively took the two of them back into the SUV and drove to Louise Supermarket.
——
Louise Supermarket is a small supermarket similar to an Oriental commissary. The owner is an old white lady named Louise.
Hearing Luo An's inquiry, Louise shook her head and said that her canteen had no money to install surveillance cameras. As for what happened last night...
"As soon as the woman got in the car, a gray car parked next to her."
Louise said that she was old and her eyesight was not working well. She could not see clearly what happened last night:
"A white man got out of the gray car, about forty years old, with curly hair and wearing an ordinary black coat.
The man chatted with the woman in the red car for a while. The woman got out of the car with a smile. The man opened the trunk with a smile. Before the woman could react, the man stuffed her car in. "
Lacey, Ryder: "..."
Luo An: "Okay... Okay."
With a twitch of the corner of his mouth, he recorded Louise's words in a small notebook.
As for why Louise didn’t call the police, it can only be said that the people living at the bottom of American society have no past.
Luo An continued to ask:
"Did you see the license plate number of that car? Or, have you seen the man driving the car before?"
"I don't have good eyesight. How can I see the license plate number clearly? It's even less possible for me to see the man's face clearly."
Louise curled her lips and felt that the dentures in her mouth were a little crooked. She stretched out her hand to straighten them and said slowly:
“But I did see that man before when I went to eat at Little St Phil’s Church.
He didn't eat, but stood half in the shadow and half in the sun, watching the newlyweds in the church smoking silently. "
Hearing this, Luo An, Lacey and Ryder looked at each other, their eyes brightening. Just as they were about to ask Louise a few words again, the other party suddenly took out three cans of drinks from the side and stuffed them into their arms:
"$3, thank you."
Luo An: "..."
After silently paying the money, Lacey and Ryder went around to check the old-fashioned cameras that were not connected to the Internet, hoping to find some clues.
Luo An walked towards where the red car was parked last night.
"Mona, where I am standing now, is there any surveillance on the Internet?"
After hearing Luo An's words, the sound of typing on the keyboard came from the other end of the phone, followed by Mona's sigh:
"Your area belongs to the old city, and there is no Internet surveillance in a large area."
After telling Mona the color of the car and the time he left here, Luo An continued:
"Then check the main roads outside this area that have surveillance videos and record the suspicious gray cars that appear during that time period."
"OK".
After hanging up the phone, Lacey and Ryder came back after a while.
"The surveillance systems installed by most businesses are old-fashioned surveillance cameras, and they are all facing indoors."
Lacey's face was not very good: "There are several surveillance cameras facing the outdoors, but the surveillance area is only the entrance of your store."
Ryder nodded: "Same here."
"All right."
This is the case in all old cities in America. Luo An didn’t say much, but took Lacey and Ryder into the SUV again:
"Go and have a look at the Little St. Phil's Church. I have a hunch that there will be a surprise for me there."
