"So, don't interact casually outdoors."
Luo An was speechless when he saw Ken sitting on the ground with weak legs but still holding tightly to the crying Raven:
"Mosquito bites aside, the Federation releases so many horror movies every year. Don't you remember any of the stories in them?"
Ken swallowed and said with a trembling voice:
"I...I thought those were all stories."
"Stories are inspired by life, young people."
Shaking his head, he let the two young people get into the SUV to rest. Then he took out his mobile phone and called the parents of the two young people and asked them to pick them up quickly.
"It should be the same person, Luo An."
At the edge of the lake, in a deep pit washed out by the current, a female corpse was lying quietly with her head buried in the water.
Lacey stood on the edge of the pit and took a brief look. She found that the strangulation marks on the neck of the female corpse were clearly visible. There were signs of being tied up on her wrists and ankles. Some bruises could be seen faintly on the collarbone. The pants of the corpse were also a little skewed.
The most important thing is that the ring on the corpse's hand has disappeared.
"All right."
Seeing Susan's body, Luo An was silent for a moment, then called Augustus and briefly described the situation here. Augustus immediately notified the trace inspection department and asked them to seize the time to send agents here to inspect the scene.
After hanging up the phone, Luo An began to look around and saw a row of deep footprints in the dead leaves on the ground.
"It seems that the murderer's original plan was to throw the victim into the lake behind his back."
On the side, Lacey walked up to Luo An, looked down at the footprints, looked up at the path some distance away from here, and then looked at the lake that was still a short distance away, and shrugged:
"But he couldn't carry his back halfway, so he dumped the victim here."
"No, probably not."
Looking carefully at the footprints on the ground, Luo An frowned. After bending down and squatting down, he simply measured the length of the footprints, and then said:
"The length of this footprint is definitely more than 25 centimeters, I don't know whether it is 26 or 27 centimeters.
Taking the lowest number of 25 and calculating the height based on the length of the footprints, 25 times 6.8 is about 170, so the murderer is definitely taller than 170. "
Lacey, who came from the Intelligence Department, looked confused and before she could react, Luo An continued:
“Both Louise and the scavenger said the white male was of average build.
I asked Susan's weight before, and it was only about 45kg. "
Under normal circumstances, an adult white man who is over 170cm tall and of medium build cannot carry an adult white woman who is 1.6 meters tall and weighs over 90 pounds.
Louise and the scavenger had never said before that they saw the murderer with physical injuries.
After clapping his hands and standing up, Luo An turned his head and saw the look on Lacey's face for a moment, then grinned: "I learned it at the FBI training academy."
As a killer in his previous life, erasing his own footprints and how to fake them to confuse the trackers are necessary courses, such as some basic knowledge:
The young man's steps are short, his footprints are thin, the distance between the footprints is irregular, and his walking route is curved.
Young people have long steps and large footprints. The distance between the footprints is regular and they walk in a straight line.
The elderly have short steps, walk steadily, the distance between their footprints is short, and the pressure on the heels in the footprints is heavier than the soles of the feet, etc.
After learning the basic knowledge, the old killer taught Luo An a lot of ways to hide his true age through steps, footprints, etc.
"OK."
Lacey didn't ask in detail. She came from the Intelligence Department and had some knowledge of this knowledge, but she wasn't very proficient in it, and she didn't think of it for a while.
"So, what do you mean?"
"My point is very simple. The murderer's original intention was indeed to throw the body into the lake. You are right about that."
Luo An pointed to the lake not far away, and then pointed to the messy footprints next to the deep pit, frowning slightly:
"But when he got here, he must have encountered some kind of emergency that forced him to throw the body in the pit."
Hearing this, Lacey frowned: "What unexpected incident?"
Luo An spread his hands: "I don't know, it's just a guess. Maybe someone found the murderer's parked car."
"All right."
Lacey nodded, without saying anything more, and began to carefully search the perimeter of the scene with Luo An.
In the ravine between the pit and the lake, on a tree growing sideways, Luo An accidentally discovered a small transparent packaging bag.
"What's this?"
Seeing Luo An carefully picking it up from the leaves, Lacey also came over, tilted her head and asked:
"Like a flour bag."
"possible."
Luo An nodded, carefully put it away, and continued to search around the perimeter of the scene.
Soon, several agents from the Trace Inspection Section drove a car to the scene.
After Luo An briefly handed over the transparent packaging bag to the other party, two detectives from the Trace Inspection Section jumped into the pit and began to carefully examine the surroundings of the body.
After a while, the two frightened young lovers were also picked up by their parents.
Seeing the violent reactions of the parents of both parties dancing, Luo An felt that these two exciting men and women would not be able to sleep tonight.
After the on-site inspection was completed and the body was packed and loaded into the car, Agent Nell from the Trace Inspection Section, who had met Luo An because of the appearance of the female body in the refrigerator during the previous disappearance case, came over.
"Hello, Nell, thank you for your hard work."
Luo An stretched out his hand, greeted Nell with a smile, and asked with a smile:
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
"It's all work."
A smile appeared on Agent Nair's chubby face. After hearing Luo An's question, he briefly talked about the situation at the scene, and then said:
"The victim is suspected to have been raped by the murderer before his death, but it cannot be determined before the autopsy. If the cause of death is likely to be the strangulation marks on the neck."
Luo An nodded: "OK, please notify me as soon as the autopsy report comes out."
"no problem."
Nell smiled and agreed to Luo An, and both parties went back to their cars and returned to the FBI New York headquarters together.
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Office area of Investigation Team No. 5.
"Still no trace of the gray car, Roan."
Lacey went to inform and comfort the family members of the victim Susan, while Luo An unloaded his equipment and sat back on the chair at his workstation.
Just as he was about to stretch, Mona stopped typing on the keyboard and came to Luo An to complain.
"There are too few networked surveillance systems in that area, which can be checked with one hand, and there are too many peripheral traffic arteries and huge traffic volume, making it impossible to check for suspicious gray cars."
The gray car drove sideways through the surveillance camera outside the forest area. Due to the angle, the license plate of the gray car could not be seen in the video, nor could any difference in the windshield be seen. Naturally, it was impossible to check the other party through the main traffic lines. .
The only thing that was certain was that the gray car had four tires and the doors were intact.
"Don't be discouraged, Mona. As long as you keep working hard, you will definitely gain something."
After pouring a bowl of hot chicken soup on Mona's head, which made her hair wet, Luo An pushed her back to the computer.
"you......"
Just as Mona was about to continue saying something, Ryder suddenly pushed open the door of Investigation Team No. 5 and shouted excitedly to Luo An:
"Luo An! The results of the portrait simulation you asked me to do have come out. You will never guess who the man who appeared in the church is!"
