Chapter 502: The Clouds of a Small Town (13)
The case can be closed when the Pontiac car used by the murderer is found along the line of buying gasoline. After all, there is not a single Pontiac registered in the city, and only the murderer will have one.
Although the owner, Cooper, had always insisted that the blood stain in the corner of the garage was deer blood, he couldn't tell the tiny strand of blonde hair that belonged to a woman anyway.
The prisoner was caught, but the matter was far from over.
Cooper was fat, strong, and probably mad, but in some ways he was a 'normal man' and he couldn't do anything like that to blow his brain out from within.
An Yizhi had previously estimated that there were three murderers in the entire disappearance case, and they were now only one of them, far from the level of closing the case.
However, there seems to be an inexplicable tacit understanding between the three murderers, when Cooper doesn't go out to commit murder, the other two will appear, and when Cooper does, they will hide again.
So after Cooper was controlled, Ann took James to search for clues at Cooper's house to see if it was possible to find clues about the other two murderers of Youguang.
Of course, there is no search warrant, and strictly speaking, this is considered trespassing.
Passing through the garage, the first room is the living room.
The first thing that is certain is that Cooper lives alone, and he can be considered a relatively neat person. Needless to say, the average man who lives alone has a messy home, and Cooper's home is very clean.
An Yizhi once tried to wipe the corners with his fingers, but found that there was not much dust, and the other party was obviously a guy who often did big cleaning.
The style of living alone is also more obvious, the yard is drying his personal clothes, there are no women and other sizes, and the clothes that are put into the house are neatly folded, in contrast, An Yizhi has not learned how to fold shirts yet......
On the table in the living room are two shopping bags, the result of Cooper's trip to the supermarket a little earlier.
When I opened the bag, it was similar to what An Yizhi saw, it was full of some vegetables and fruits, as well as a lot of seasonings, and there was no meat.
Honestly, that's pretty incredible for Americans, at least there should be something like bacon, right?
"Mr. An, I don't think it's good to do this, we should wait for the support of the headquarters......"
James was a little apprehensive as he followed Ann Yizhi.
Originally, they had overstepped their authority in investigating this case, but because they had caught an important suspect, the upper echelons should not have said anything about it. But rummaging around the suspect's house without permission can easily fall into the hands of others.
"Don't worry, cheer up, you're the righteous detective who caught the serial killer, don't worry about this."
"But ......"
"If Fielding were still alive, he wouldn't have thought there was anything wrong with my actions, and sometimes I had to use some illegal means in order to solve the case, and it was not okay to cling to dogma and rules."
"Yes, is that so?"
"Of course."
Another good boy was taken by Ann's fingers......
After turning around, there was nothing noteworthy in the living room, and Ann pointed back into the kitchen connected to it.
Like the living room, the kitchen is also well organized, everything is in its rightful place, their owner seems to have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, no matter what is to be placed symmetrically and neatly, An Yizhi even found that two jars of salt in his seasoning jar are just for symmetry!
When I opened the refrigerator, the freezer was almost empty, only a small amount of vegetables, which may be why the suspect went to the supermarket.
I opened the refrigerator and found it filled with neatly sized pieces of meat.
This made An Yizhi a little puzzled, he originally thought that this product was a vegetarian, but now he still eats meat.
"Mr. Ann, Mr. Ann, these meat ......"
"What's wrong with all this meat?"
"I seem to see a finger"
An Yi fingered: "......"
it!
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It didn't take long for Thomson to arrive at the scene with a large number of police officers roaring, and he didn't say anything about the fact that the suspect was caught by the people who proposed the task force, but he simply had a cold face, as if no one was pleasing to the eye.
James's exploits had apparently reached the police hierarchy, and Thomson would have no choice but to attack him.
Speaking of which, this guy is also quite miserable, Fielding has been suppressed by him during his lifetime, and finally when he died, he was robbed of the credit by Fielding's men, fortunately, he is also a relatively upright person, personal emotions are one thing, what to do is another.
Cooper has been taken away for interrogation as soon as possible, and the rest of the scene investigation has been taken over by professional forensic personnel.
They were much stronger than a bottle of An Yizhi, which was less than half a bottle, and not only found several kinds of hair belonging to different ages and races in the garage. Blood splatters were also detected on walls, ceilings, crevices, and other imperceptible places, and the luminol reaction showed that at least 10 people had been sprayed with blood in the area.
And An Yizhi regretted that his hands were cheap, and he knew that he would not open the refrigerator.
The forensic personnel took the pieces of meat out of the cold room, and from the rough identification of the scene alone, it was clear that they belonged to at least seven or eight people, and that they were all the 'best-tasting' meat in the ribs and back.
Hearing them say that these are like buying vegetables in the vegetable market, An Yizhi feels that he can't eat meat for a while now.
No wonder Cooper didn't buy meat, only a lot of vegetables and seasonings, it turns out that this guy has meat reserves in the refrigerator!
The forensic crew's feat didn't stop there, they soon found newer signs of use from the shovel they found in the garage, and after a casual two turns, they found traces of dirt turning behind the yard of Cooper's house.
A group of policemen rolled up their arms and sleeves, holding shovels and digging until An Yi pointed them and drove back to the police station, where they dug up a total of six scattered corpses that were almost turned into skeletons, and the preliminary judgment was that there were more below.
Although you sometimes see such deranged criminals in certain videos or TV shows, there is no real feeling after all. And this time it's so realistic.
Not to mention An Yizhi, the faces of the two people who are away from the original grass and the brave invincible are not good, and when they think of Cooper's murder, they cut off the flesh of the victim one by one, and finally put it on a frying pan to fry it, sprinkle seasonings and side dishes and eat it.
That's sour......
Cooper's interrogation is also in full swing, and since Ann has played a key role in the arrest of the culprit, the police have made an exception to allow the three players to hide behind one-way glass.
The trial did not go smoothly at first, with Cooper remaining silent about the bodies and the evidence, and occasionally speaking only to find a lawyer.
It wasn't until police negotiators arrived that things got better.
Soon, Cooper began to tell the story of his crime.
According to him, one time because he was too happy, he accidentally strangled a street girl, and then he broke it down in order to cover up the truth, eating large pieces of meat by himself, and burying small pieces of bones in the backyard.
It was just a case at first, and it can be said that it was barely an accidental homicide.
However, this experience awakens the demon in his heart, and he begins to become addicted!
As time passed, he began to tell one by one how he seduced the victims and how he 'cooked' them, and the tone was almost like the Celestial Empire on the tip of his tongue, and he also commented on the taste of each victim.
Hearing that in the end, even the negotiator couldn't bear it, so he ran out of the room and vomited.
I don't know if there is a death penalty in North Carolina, anyway, An Yizhi thinks that it is enough to cut this grandson with a thousand knives.
The rest of the interrogation was completed by Thomson, and the development was more in line with An Yizhi's expectations.
Although Cooper killed more than a dozen people, he did not admit that he had anything to do with the subsequent disappearance, and even more categorically denied that he had anything to do with the death of Detective Fielding.
Although Thomson seemed to want to put the charges against Cooper for the disappearance of those people, give an explanation to the citizens as soon as possible, and let the reporters outside who were about to rush into the police station stop the point, Ann knew that Cooper had nothing to do with those cases, he was just pushed out and used as a scapegoat.
- although he is also guilty.
Seeing this, An Yizhi lost interest in continuing to read, since Cooper didn't know anything about the other two murderers, it would be useless and a waste of time to ask any more questions.
"Mr. An, where are you going?"
James asked with a bunch of information, he became famous this time, but because there were many violations, there were commendations, but it was not exempt from writing a bunch of reports.
"Just walk around and take the train back in the evening."
"In such a hurry? I want to thank you very much. ”
"No need, I'll see you next time."
With a wave of his hand, Ann said goodbye to James, and the three of them left the police station in the rented Beetle.
That being said, it was clear that this copy was not yet complete, and Ann pointed out that they couldn't make a train to leave the city, and it was not possible to get the system to derail the train again.
- With the bad character of the system, it is absolutely possible!
Ann pointed out that they now had a key clue in their hands, and that was the abandoned church.
But no matter how you think about it, you know that it will be very dangerous, and the detonator disguised in kraft paper alone may not be enough to get them out, and it is almost the same as a real thing.
The current time is three o'clock in the afternoon, and there is still some time before nightfall, and An Yizhi and the three of them plan to use this time to enhance their combat effectiveness as much as possible.
They have a total of four pistols in their hands, one of which was snatched from the hapless drug dealer Frank, which is enough firepower to deal with ordinary prisoners, but what happens next, I'm afraid it is not ordinary prisoners.
Ann has a hunch that this time they will encounter the most unreasonable and scumbag in the background of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Zealotics.
These fanatics have something in common with some fanatics, but they are not all, and the three views of fanatics can no longer be said to be incorrect, but they are not at all.
To put it simply, these people are a bunch of sane lunatics!