Whenever he feels lost, Jason Gideon will go to his own cabin to live for a while, and then return to work again.
And this time, he was not only confused about his work, but his recent experience had overturned his understanding of the world. As he was about to return to his cabin, Sarah contacted him.
"Do you need my help?" Sarah leaned against the kitchen door frame, holding a glass of lemonade in her hand, drinking while looking at Gideon who was busy around the frying pan.
Gideon looked back at her and said with a smile: "No, this is what I'm best at." Only when facing her did this knowledgeable and steady man show a trace of liveliness.
A love song was playing on the ancient record player, and a low and sexy male voice hummed softly, making the time in this small world quiet down.
The kitchen window looked across the street, and a car drove into the frame from the other side of the road and stopped in front of the garage of the house opposite. After a while, the car door opened, and a beautiful female college student walked out. Gideon looked up, then lowered his head and continued working on his task.
The red wine was poured into the glass, and the aroma of the carefully cooked food was exuding. Sarah and Gideon sat opposite each other, raising the red wine glass and touching it lightly.
"How have you been lately?" Sarah cut some lamb chops into her mouth, nodded in appreciation and said, "Very good!"
Gideon always had a smile on his face. He looked at the candlelight and said: "Something happened at work, but we will walk through it together. I just saw your two neighbors from the window. They looked really good. The relationship is good."
Sarah thought of the two families opposite and said with a smile: "Yes, Lisa and Winnie have a really good relationship. When they heard that Jamie's father passed away, Winnie went to the funeral together, and they often went for walks together after dinner. But because of the two murders, the most active children now don’t dare to run around.”
Gideon paused as he ate: "A murder?"
In fact, Sarah regretted it just after she said it. She didn't want to talk about those bloody cases during a rare candlelight dinner. But since Gideon asked, Sarah didn't hide anything and said: "Two incidents. The first happened this month. The deceased was a woman. The newspaper said she was strangled and buried in the woods. The second incident Just in the past two days, a male college student, I think he was from Winnie's school, had his throat cut."
"Has the murderer been caught?" Gideon sensed Sarah's mood and patted her hand gently and apologetically.
Sarah held his hand back and sighed: "Not yet. Because the methods of committing the crime are different, the police also believe that it was done by different people." This also means that there are two murderers around the town. .
Gideon was a little worried after hearing this, but the topic could be stopped here. Any further conversation would ruin the atmosphere.
Gideon and Sarah were still very cautious about their relationship, and they hadn't even broken through the window paper yet, so they danced after dinner and left after the last meeting.
When he went back that night, he began to investigate the two murders Sarah mentioned. In addition to worrying about Sarah's safety, it was also for professional reasons. After hearing about it, he became a little concerned.
And soon, he asked someone to get relevant information about the case. It was at this time that he saw a very familiar name: Winnie Green.
The second deceased was at the same college as Winnie Green,
They even pursued each other crazily since the beginning of school in the fall, and the last person he saw before his disappearance was also her.
Looking at it this way, Winnie Green has encountered quite a lot in this short period of time. Her friend Louisa Veblen has been kidnapped by a murderous maniac. Her neighbors have experienced supernatural events, and she lives across from Sarah. Gideon knew that these things had nothing to do with her, but that was what made her seem special.
When he was at work, Gideon did not mention this case to his companions. The cases they took over needed to be screened by JJ, and not all cases would be put on their desks.
Until the small town of Radbila, the third case occurred. This time the victim was still a woman. A bag was placed on her head and there were strangulation marks on her neck but she died from having her throat cut.
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Radbila Township Police Department.
This is the second time everyone in the BAU has come here, and the police and residents did not expect that a serial killer would appear again around the town.
Photos and close-ups of the victims were posted on the whiteboard, and the police chief was telling them about the progress of the case. In fact, so far, they are not sure that the murderer of the female death case and the male death case is the same person. Maybe the first murderer changed his killing method after seeing another case?
A policeman asked: "If the murderer is a person, what made him change the target of his murder? ()"
Usually, the victims are often women and children who are physically weak and unable to resist a murderer who is stronger than them. They have taken over many cases, and most of the victims are women. And such killings of both men and women are still a minority, unless the murderer has a threatening weapon or is physically strong. But none of the three bodies had gunshot wounds.
Morgan said: "Maybe he was strong and males were in his hunting range." ⑾()⑾『Come to []_See the latest chapter_Full chapter』()" He sat on the table with one leg on the ground, his eyes falling on the police officers, "He was very cautious, the first victim was Being strangled, when faced with men, he chose the safer and crueler method of slitting the throat. "
"Then why was the third female victim's throat cut when her neck was tightened?"
Gideon: "Because he has evolved, maybe the last victim was not that easy to deal with and made him suffer a little. Maybe he was simply obsessed with this feeling."
Their meeting ended quickly, and Emily looked at the
The photos said: "Were they put bags on their heads because they felt guilty? They couldn't face their faces? But there was no bag on the male victim's head, and his eyelids and lips were sewn shut."
The behavior of these murderers is often very contradictory. They harvest lives cruelly, but they also feel guilty. But this guilt will not make them stop. As long as they don't catch him, he will continue to attack.
Gideon: "Perhaps something happened to the unknown suspect that made him angry towards Ward Bernal."
Hotch arranged the action after the team members discussed for a while, "JJ and Red will go to meet the victim's family, and the others will go to the crime scene to investigate."
Everyone responded "yes" and took action immediately.
Garcia sat in his office at headquarters, checking the surveillance provided by the police.
She watched as Winnie Green's and Ward Bernal's cars entered the underground parking lot one after another and stopped in the empty space. Because it is an underground parking lot of a shopping mall, there are many cars parked inside. The two cars are not parked together, and the lighting is not good.
() can’t see clearly either.
From the picture, it looks like they had an argument. After they said something, the woman walked into the elevator alone, and soon the man ran in too. At this time, the video in the elevator became much clearer. No matter in terms of expression or movement, the woman was very repulsive. What they said made the man angry.
When Garcia saw that Winnie stepped on Walter Bernal's feet first, he couldn't help but said "Wow ()". When he realized that Walter Bernal was already dead, he quickly closed his door again. Mouth shows respect.
The elevator door opened and the woman left the elevator. After the man's toe was severely injured, he took the elevator back to the underground parking lot. At this time, a man walked out of a dark corner and walked in the direction of Ward Bernal.
Garcia cut several angles and saw the hooded man opening Ward Bernal's passenger door and getting in, and the car slowly left the underground parking lot.
Garcia: "Let me see, where have you been..."
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This was the first time Winnie entertained members of the FBI at home. Not long after she arrived home, she heard someone knocking on the door. When she opened the door, she saw two familiar faces.
JJ smiled at Winnie: "Hey, good afternoon, Miss Green."
Rhett nodded to her shyly: "Good afternoon."
Winnie blinked and asked in surprise: "Good afternoon, Agent Jeanre, Agent Reed, why are you here?" Then she moved away and said, "Want to come in?"
"You can call me JJ." JJ smiled and walked in the door, followed by Rhett.
"Okay, you can also call me Winnie. You guys sit down first." Winnie went to the kitchen to get a cup and opened the refrigerator and asked, "Do you drink juice? Orange, apple, peach?"
JJ and Red sat down on the sofa and looked at the decorations in the house and said, "Thank you, orange juice."
Red: "Orange juice."
Winnie took out three bottles of orange juice. She would occasionally invite Lisa and Jamie over for dinner, and peach and apple-flavored juices were prepared for them. She opened the tab of the can, poured the juice into the glass, then placed it on the tray and brought it to the coffee table.
After giving the juice to them, Winnie also sat down on the sofa on one side and asked: "Are you here for Ward Bernal? The BAU is here, is it another serial killer?"
JJ and Red looked at each other and nodded: "Yes, we want to get to know each other better."
Rhett took a sip of orange juice and thought it tasted good. He explained: "We don't only take on serial killer cases, we also take on other cases." It's just that the proportion of serial killers is larger, and they are more harmful.
Now that they are here, Winnie repeats what happened that day. But because it was them, they answered the police in more detail than last time. After finishing speaking, JJ took out two photos from the document bag and showed them to Winnie.
"Do you know them?"
Winnie shook her head: "I don't know. I don't have a wide circle of friends. Apart from my classmates at school, I am just my neighbors."
The BAU was very busy with work, and they didn't have time to stay outside. After asking everything they could, the two stood up and left. Winnie walked them to the door and happened to meet Jamie who was coming back from get off work. After Jamie saw two familiar FBI agents walking out of Winnie's house, he ran over worriedly.
Jamie's eyes fell on the two detectives and asked Winnie: "Winnie, what happened?"
Winnie shook her head and said: "It's okay, they came to understand the situation for the case of Ward Bernal."
Jamie was relieved after hearing this. They later learned that the second deceased was Winnie's pursuer, and he followed Winnie to the mall on the day he disappeared.
He and Lisa both felt that Winnie was very unlucky and always got involved in bad events inexplicably. If it weren't for different cultural beliefs, they would definitely suggest that she go to a Taoist or Buddhist temple to worship.
But he couldn't say anything since everyone was dead, but he felt annoyed for Winnie: "She was just being followed. You should really bring the anti-wolf spray." He looked at Winnie with a look of disapproval: " The last stalker was dealt with, and this one was killed. Winnie, you have to bring something to protect yourself."
JJ, who was about to leave, stopped and looked over: "Excuse me, what do you mean by stalker?" Her eyes wandered over Winnie and Jamie, frowning as she thought about something. !
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