Jimmy took a night's rest and drove to Big Bend National Park. After meeting with the park police, they led him to a cave.
All the bones in the cave have been taken away, but the cave has been sealed after the bones were found. The traces inside have not been too damaged. There are also white lines on the ground and cave walls. The bullets found on the cave walls. The holes were all well preserved. The police only took out some bullet fragments from them. Just as Roland said, the source of these fragments could not be determined, and no traces such as fingerprints were detected.
The first investigation that Jimmy had to do was ballistic positioning. Some warheads were found on the body, and there were bullet holes in the wall of the cave. Ballistic positioning could determine the gunman's trajectory.
Jimmy took out the laser locator from the tool box, inserted it into the bullet hole, and then used a red rope to start pulling the trajectory. The park policeman next to him also helped pick up some branches and wood from outside to assist in positioning.
This is not an easy job, and the key is to be careful. There are dozens of bullet holes in the wall. After pulling all the wires one by one, the shooting situation at the scene will be roughly clear.
According to the shooting direction, several shots were fired at the entrance of the cave. It can be seen that the gunman fired into the hole after entering from the entrance. Because some of the bullets hit other people or animals and did not fall on the cave wall, so The gunner's movement route drawn based on the existing ballistics has some jumps and is not completely continuous.
Jimmy asked the park police to leave the cave, and he began to take photos and draw pictures of the gunman's shooting route. Of course, Jimmy's drawing was just a simplified diagram. He drew the appearance of the cave on paper, and then marked each positioning point determined based on the ballistic trajectory.
Jimmy didn't tell Roland how he and the old Jimmy killed the demon in the cave. It wasn't because he didn't want to ask, but because he didn't want to talk to Roland like a prisoner. As long as he was sure that there would be no clues to connect Roland and him in this case, Then Jimmy can do whatever he wants. No matter what is found or nothing is found, it is a matter of a report. It only needs to investigate the scene. There is no need to give a complete conclusion or give a suspect in the end.
After figuring out the shooting route in the cave, it was getting dark. Jimmy and the park police left the cave together and returned to the camp. Because the cave is relatively remote, in order not to make mistakes every day, the park police brought their patrol tent. Jimmy also lived in a tent with them. Fortunately, it was a rectangular tent with several folding beds inside, and the park police even had separate shifts to do night duty at night.
Jimmy started writing a report in the innermost part of the tent based on the shooting route map and the number of bullets. Of course, it couldn't be a final report, it was just a stage report. After summarizing the reports of each stage, the final report could be formed.
The park police seem to be very busy today, assisting in investigations, setting up tents, and working shifts. In fact, they don't care. For the park police, their biggest job every day is to patrol everywhere. Now this kind of assistance , it’s just like taking a vacation, it saves worry and everyone is happy.
Watching the FBI agents investigating during the day and coding at night, it was really busy. Everyone was performing their duties, and they would not disturb Jimmy.
By the time Jimmy finished his report, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening. Jimmy packed up his things and went out to relax. A bonfire had been set up outside the tent. The park police were chatting around the bonfire. After Jimmy joined, everyone He also coaxed Jimmy to talk about the cases he had encountered to kill time. Jimmy did not refuse and chose some file cases he had seen and talked about them. Of course, they were not classified, and they were all cases that could be included in the FBI files. It's not that small, but there are many exciting things. In comparison, the lives of the park police are not so exciting. Most of their lives are boring.
After killing some time, everyone went back to the tent to sleep. The next day, Jimmy returned to the cave and added some details based on what he had sorted out last night. At the same time, he also started searching on the ground of the cave, because Jimmy suddenly thought of something yesterday, if Those people on the ground were all killed by Jimmy at the beginning, and it is not even ruled out that they fell to the ground to refill their guns, so there may be some bullet holes on the floor of the cave, but the previous reports were all on the cave wall, not the ground. So he had to check it again inside.
Because it had not been discovered before, it was likely that even if there were bullet holes, they would be very small and blocked by dust or other things. This time, Jimmy brought a small hand-held hair dryer, the kind with batteries, and a small brush, and began to inspect the inside of the cave. Checking the ground was another meticulous job. The park police were too lazy to enter the cave. They rested directly outside the cave.
After more than an hour, Jimmy finally checked the ground inside the cave and found a total of three shallow bullet holes. Due to the possibility of ricochet and the fact that the bullet holes were a bit shallow, there was no way to pull the wire directly, so he had to do It is estimated that after Jimmy took the photo, he took out a notebook and recorded the location of the bullet holes and the estimated shooting location.
After the investigation of the shooting point was over, Jimmy began to look for other clues in the cave. According to Roland, there is a space rift here, connecting the two planes, so there should always be relevant traces left. However, there were no traces in the cave during the previous investigation. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jimmy began to turn over the fallen rocks in the cave and inspect the cave walls, and finally discovered an anomaly on the innermost cave wall. The other cave walls had undulations and potholes, but here there was a smooth cave wall with an area of about one square meter. It looks like it has been cut. Considering that there is always something unreasonable about the existence of a crack, it should be here.
This was what Jimmy wanted to know. He would not record it in the report. After finding the location before the crack, Jimmy packed up and prepared to leave the cave.
After dealing with the situation in the cave, Jimmy began to check the area around the cave with the police, mainly to check whether there were backpacks or wallets or other things that could prove the identity of the people in the cave. Unfortunately, it took too long, and there was no such thing on the barren mountain. There are no corresponding documents found on the corpses in the cave, and their identities are still unable to be determined.
Jimmy and the park police returned to their station. Because the case occurred a few years ago, Jimmy needed to investigate the records of the park police here to see if there were any unusual cases or situations a few years ago.
Fortunately, although several years have passed, their files are still there and have not been lost. Jimmy checked the files at the police station for two days and finally figured out some of the prerequisite details for Roland and the others to investigate and kill the demon. .
There are several camping areas designated by the park in Big Bend National Park. They are relatively safe and the scenery is not bad, so people often come here to hike and camp. At that time, a campground was attacked. Although no one died, it still allowed people to hike and camp. The police had a headache. They began to investigate the surrounding area. However, the cave was very far away from the camp, and the investigation at that time did not directly find the cave.
In the end, the police gave the final explanation that someone maliciously attacked camping tourists. Since there are indeed illegal immigrants in the national park, this possibility also exists, but it was limited to the conditions at the time. They did not find the final attacker.
After the newspaper spread the news, Roland and the others noticed this place. Because Roland was familiar with the monster in the description and had dealt with it before, they decided that there was a rift here.
When Roland and the others closed the rift, they were usually accompanied by activities such as killing demons, so they never communicated with the police, and there was no record of shooting in the police records.
The true facts of the case could not be written down, so Jimmy could only continue to search for records. Finally, he selected a few police reports and prepared a case investigation report based on some speculations. According to police information, there were a certain number of people in Big Bend National Park. of smuggling groups, and there may also be cross-border smuggling routes. Due to incomplete information, Jimmy concluded that in the case of 6 deaths, it may be due to conflicts between illegal immigrants and smugglers that they Violent clashes broke out, culminating in a pursuit of several people into a cave, where they were later shot dead by gunmen.
The number of bullet holes is relatively large and may involve multiple gunmen. Anyway, according to the ballistic guidance, there are deviations in the location of the gunman's shooting and interruptions in the route. There is indeed a certain possibility that there are multiple gunmen.
The gunman started shooting from the entrance of the cave and continued inside the cave. It can also be judged that the gunman opened fire outside to drive the crowd into the cave, and then carried out a massacre inside the cave.
The gunman used a .45-caliber pistol. The type of gun cannot be determined based on the bullet, and there is no evidence such as fingerprints. It is recommended that the case be put on hold until other smuggling cases are discovered in Big Bend National Park to determine whether the case can be combined.
Although such a report cannot really end the case, for Jimmy, he has tried his best to list the suspicious problem points and add his own inferences, which should be enough to cope with it.
After obtaining the consent of the police station, Jimmy copied part of the information, sorted it out with his own case report and ballistic test results, repaired it in the park, and then drove back to Dallas.
(End of chapter)
