[Criminal Minds] years before love

Chapter 128

The next morning, the officer immediately reported the situation to Rossi.

"You're right." After all this time, finally with a possible direction, the always nervous police officer seemed slightly relieved, "We contacted the school, their old headmaster remembered what happened more than ten years ago There was a child missing case. A student did not come to school, but truancy is normal for students, and he was not noticed until he was supposed to go home. I found out earlier that it might be different. We contacted the family, and the mother rushed over to do a DNA test, and it was her child."

"Where's father?"

"I haven't found it yet. After the child disappeared, they always quarreled... The marriage ended soon, and the two lost contact."

Rossi nodded. Not surprisingly, crimes involving children often destroy entire families. "What about the other victims?"

"I didn't even know we had so many cases of missing children." The police officer sighed, "A few of them were matched, and we are still waiting for family members and DNA results."

Rossi didn't seem very excited that his judgment was correct, but rather sad, and didn't respond immediately.

"Bad case." The police officer looked at the photo in front of him and whispered.

Rossi shot him a look. "It might be worse than you think."

The police officer was stunned, and sat down a little tiredly, "I thought the FBI would take over the whole case, I mean, you're the only one here, this is not the FBI's style of handling cases."

"The bureau originally wanted to dispatch the homicide team directly, but I persuaded them to let me assess the situation first." Rossi leaned on the table, slightly surprised by his question, "If you can't bear the pressure, I can let them take over immediately."

"Are you kidding?" The officer looked up and glared at him. "Our investigation has just made progress. You can't let the FBI take over at this time."

"Don't worry." Rossi patted his arm, "I don't have any plans for that right now."

The relationship between FBI departments has always been delicate. Rossi did not want to hand over the case to the homicide team too early. If his deduction is correct, then it is obviously not for the purpose of murder.

Rossi shook his head, "This wasn't done by one person."

"You mean the group committed the crime?"

Rossi nodded, "One person controlled several young boys at the same time for nearly ten years? The possibility is too small."

If possible, he still hopes to hand over the case to an organized crime department that is better at this and catch everyone, "And you think if they have been controlled and tortured for more than ten years when they disappeared, why would they be killed? ?”

"They want to escape?"

"I don't think so." Rossi lined up the photos of several victims. The autopsy showed that although there were many old injuries, there were no recent self-defense wounds. "And, judging from the current situation, they may have been thrown away. The bodies are at the place where they disappeared."

"Maybe, they find it troublesome?"

"Then they can just dump the corpse in a place where no one cares about it. As I said, it's not suitable to dump the corpse at the entrance of the library, and the same goes for the school and the subway entrance." Rossi wrote down the places where the corpses were found one by one.

"Is that...for attention?"

"Probably."

"Why?" The police officer glanced at the photos again. It took them a lot of time to get the current result, and it didn't even attract their attention at first.

"Generally speaking, such an organization would never want to have anything to do with the sun, and they would dispose of the corpse carefully." Rossi explained, "If they wanted to, you would definitely not find the corpse so easily."

"So this is to mock us?"

"Trust me, they have no interest in this." Rossi gave him a look. "These corpses were discarded when they were clean and intact, and the injection device used to commit the crime was also new. Although it is not ruled out to avoid tracking. But I think, More likely, it represents a form of guilt."

"What?" the police officer opened his eyes wide. "They kidnapped these children, tortured them, probably forced them to sell themselves... and finally killed them. You say this is guilt? Although I'm not sure if these children will live well Better, but that doesn't sound very plausible."

Rossi smiled mockingly, "I'm talking about guilt in a sense, and while this man didn't have the guts to confront the group directly, he did send the victim back to where he started."

"So—why were they killed?" the officer reluctantly accepted, returning to his earlier question.

"Maybe, from what I know of them, it's probably just because—they've grown up."