[Criminal Minds] years before love

Chapter 130

"This looks like the case we're looking for." After struggling for a long time in the disappearance case files in recent years, a police detective finally found a suspicious case.

Most of the disappearance cases of children and teenagers have been proved to be misreporting or running away from home, and then excluding those whose purpose is to extort money and revenge, as well as those who found that the missing person was killed in a short period of time, really similar to what they were looking for There are not many cases.

A young couple with two 5-year-old children was playing in the outdoor playground of the mall. In a blink of an eye, one of them disappeared into the crowd. No one noticed anything unusual.

The officer took the file and looked at it, then handed it to Rossi, "I remember this case."

"Your case?"

"Most people have been dispatched." The police officer nodded. "It's a large shopping mall. It's a weekend, so there are many people."

"Any clues?"

"No." The police officer sighed. "No one has noticed that there are children being kidnapped, or that there are sneaky people in and out."

"It's not surprising." Rossi was not surprised. "They can commit crimes for so long without attracting attention. Obviously they are very professional and fully integrated into these environments. It is even possible that they will bring children with them when they commit crimes."

"We carefully checked all the footage, but unfortunately the angle was not good and the child was too small to be seen in the crowd."

"They have cameras?"

"The shopping mall has cameras at important entrances and exits, but the playground is outdoors, so you can only see part of it." The police officer recalled for a moment, "I can barely see the child running out of the camera range, but the existing video cannot see any suspects." people."

"Can I have another look?"

"of course."

As technicians played the footage and officers quickly pointed out the missing person, Rossi checked carefully to see if anyone had tried to approach him, but could only be seen playing around with his parents for a while with his sister before running off on his own Drive off, disappear from the camera, and no other kids even linger around him.

But a large part of this playground is not within the monitoring range. Obviously, the child did not disappear immediately. Judging from the direction of the father's line of sight, he should be staring at his child.

After a while, the little girl seemed a little fussy, and her parents coaxed her for a while.

After that, the mother was seen looking for the child.

After watching this short video several times, Rossi finally can only admit that they were not lucky enough to find the kidnapper who took the child.Although it was hard to say that he was simply lucky, he had learned about the surveillance coverage in advance.

The police officer held his head in frustration, "I've seen it almost a hundred times at the time, if there were any clues, I should have found it long ago."

Rossi was silent for nearly a minute, then he narrowed his eyes, "Can I see the video of the previous days and the next few days?"

"The evidence we collected is only 3 days before the incident, and the device will automatically overwrite the earlier records. As for the later... I'm sorry. But why?" The technician adjusted the time axis while shaking his head.

"That's not going to be the first day they've been there." Rossi stared carefully at the sped-up footage. "He got to the mall and there was a kid running towards him out of their parents' sight? luck."

"You mean they have an internal response? We investigated the staff of the shopping mall, including cleaners and maintenance personnel, and there are no suspects." The police officer seemed to understand what he meant.

"No, they don't need an insider, they just need to be there." Rossi shook his head. "Waiting there, parents will always be distracted. But I guess they won't commit crimes in the same place again in a short time."

"But if it wasn't for the staff...wouldn't it be suspicious to show up there every day? Even if he has children, no one would go to the playground every day." The police officer was a little confused, "Do we need us to get its latest video?"

"Wait." Rossi suddenly reached out and pressed pause.

The police officers and technicians looked at the screen, and there was nothing special in it. It was night, the mall was closed, and there were not too many people on the screen.

"what happened?"

"Ice cream truck." Rossi pointed to the half-truck entering the corner of the screen.

"But this is an amusement park, and it's normal to have an ice cream truck."

"So they don't arouse suspicion, but as far as I know, such large malls generally have fixed store locations, and they don't need ice cream trucks."

The police officer was stunned, recalled the structure of the shopping mall, and then broke into a cold sweat, "Yes, DQ is right next to their door."

Rossi's eyes lit up, indicating to adjust the speed.

After a few frames, they got a not-so-sharp photo.