North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 340 A New Case
Jimmy's boring time didn't last long. Chris went out for a trip and came back with a new mission, but he hasn't entered the FBI case list yet and is still in NYPD.

Chris: "Jimmy, get ready, let's go to the NYPD."

Jimmy picked up his suit, "OK, what's up?"

Chris: "A case that may be a bit problematic. An investigative reporter was knocked down in the parking lot and fell to his death. You know, the dead person is a reporter, so it is necessary to investigate."

Jimmy nodded and drove Chris to the police station in Brooklyn.Although Chris can drive with one hand, since Jimmy has followed, it is natural to let him save some time.

Chris found a police detective and successfully obtained the case files. Chris and Jimmy checked the files in a conference room, and the police detective in charge of the case followed.

Chris: "Harold, please tell me about the case."

Detective Harold: "OK, from a normal point of view, this case should be that reporter Ash Perino made a mistake when driving from the 4th floor of the parking lot, fell from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor, and the vehicle overturned , The scars on Aishi's body are basically impact wounds and abrasions. The fatal injury was his neck. Because the car overturned, he hit the roof upside down and twisted his neck to death. You can look at the autopsy report, and the Photos from the scene.

But when we investigated his car and belongings, we found that there were only wallets, mobile phones and pens in his bag, no diary or notes.

At the same time, the car was knocked down by the front of the car. After the front of the car hit the car parked on the third floor, it overturned forward, but the rear bumper of the car seemed to have impact marks, because there was no monitoring inside the parking lot, so we cannot rule out that his car was before There has been a car accident, but he has never had the possibility of repairing it. He can only say that it is suspected that someone hit him from the back of his car and caused him to rush out of the 3th floor parking lot.

The following are photos of the scene at the time and photos of the vehicle inspection after the car was towed to the police parking lot. "

Chris nodded. The situation shown in these photos is indeed very suspicious. In theory, the rear bumper of the car was hit by someone, so he must have chosen to apply for insurance to deal with it, because Ai Shi is a reporter, and his income is not bad, so naturally They won't be like many poor people who don't care about the car at all. If there is a car accident, as long as it doesn't affect the continued driving, they will keep driving.

Also, as a reporter, it is completely abnormal not to carry a notebook with you. It seems that someone took the notebook ahead of time or took it after it was dropped.

Chris: "Has the car been fingerprinted? Especially the doors."

Harold: "I did. Not to mention the fingerprints of other people, the handle of the cab doesn't even have the fingerprints of the owner Aishe. Someone has obviously cleaned it."

Chris: "It's interesting. Is there a video of the entrance and exit of the parking lot? Let's take a look."

Harold nodded, he walked outside the meeting room, and brought two video tapes over after a while. "We have already edited this, from 5 minutes before Ai Shi entered the parking lot to half an hour after he got into a car accident. If there is any abnormality, this period of time should be enough for investigation."

After Harold finished speaking, he turned on the TV and VCR in the meeting room and started playing. Harold had obviously played it many times. He paused in time, and Chris and Jimmy could see that when Ash drove into the parking lot, his car He is the only one here, and there is no one with him.

Harold has made statistics in advance. After Ash entered the parking lot, and the two hours between his car accident, a total of more than 70 vehicles entered, and within half an hour after the accident, a total of 20 vehicles left The parking lot, as for other surveillance videos, unfortunately, the parking lot does not have internal surveillance, only the entrance and exit have two internal and external surveillance, monitoring the entrance and exit respectively.

Chris handed the file to Jimmy: "Jimmy, let's take a look at the file first, Harold, let's go out and talk."

Jimmy took the file and began to look through it. The reporter Aishi is an independent investigative reporter, which means that he does not belong to a certain newspaper or TV station. Usually, investigative reporters like them investigate major events, form documents or frameworks, and then Negotiate with the newspaper or TV station and finally sell the report.

The other is to accept the agency's designated incident investigation. Generally, there are not many such cases. After all, no matter whether it is a newspaper or a TV station, they all have enough reporters to complete general reports.

This kind of person actually has a side job, that is, a part-time private investigator, investigating some affairs that are inconvenient to report to the police, such as cheating or finding people, especially investigating cheating incidents. Many people will hire them to investigate the whereabouts of their spouses. In the United States, divorce is a Very big decisions, often involving quite a few asset divisions.

Of course, Jimmy's ability to know this also depends on the rich information in the FBI archives. Some things involved in various industries will be somewhat recorded.

The police here currently only have these on-site investigation reports. Ai Shi’s residence has not been searched yet, and a search warrant needs to be justified. Relying on these police guesses alone is not enough for a judge to issue a search of Ai Shi’s residence.

Yes, generally speaking, search warrants are for suspects, to search for evidence that may exist, but now this kind of search for the dead is still to investigate the cause of death and the possible circumstances of the murder. In order to be lazy, it is normal for the judge not to issue it .You must know that it is the most trouble-free to close the case directly as an accidental fall, and no one will object to it except the police detectives. The scene is really well disguised.

Chris and the others didn't know what they were talking about outside, and Jimmy had already started to think wildly. He didn't know whether the police detective reported the case to the FBI, or Chris found it himself.If Chris had come here by himself, the police detective might not be very happy. If no one paid attention, he would feel awkward and close the case.

Chris and the others talked outside for a few minutes, and when they came in, Chris returned the file to Harold, "I won't take the case away, you guys deal with it first. Goodbye, Harold."

After Chris finished speaking, he picked up his windbreaker and was about to leave. Jimmy followed and left the meeting room.

When they came to the parking lot, Jimmy stopped Chris, "Chris, how to deal with this case?"

Chris: "What do you think?"

Jimmy shook his head: "It's not that we have any ideas, it's that the detective is going to close the case by accident?"

Chris nodded, didn't speak, and continued to look at Jimmy.

Jimmy: "There are many doubts in this case. I think we can investigate it, but..." Jimmy said here, pointing to the police station.

Chris: "It's okay, we can investigate even if the case is closed. Are you interested?"

Jimmy nodded, and he could tell that this reporter was involved in some case. The investigation of this kind of case may not find anything in the end, and there is no result, but at least it is interesting enough.

Chris nodded, "Okay, you can follow up this case, but don't ask for it."

After Chris finished speaking, he turned around, went to the passenger seat, opened the door and got in the car.

Jimmy drove Chris back to the office, turned on the computer and began to investigate Aishi's information. When he read the file just now, he had written down his name and birthday, and the rest would be much easier to investigate in the system.

Aish comes from Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Yes, it has the same name as Paris, France. In order to distinguish it, it is often translated into Paris.

After graduating from the University of Kentucky, he came to Brooklyn, New York. The system recorded the work records of real estate agents, but they disappeared later. It seems that he had changed industries a long time ago and became an investigative reporter.

Unfortunately, he is not a well-known figure, and there is only basic information in the system at present, and there is no relevant report content about him before.It seems that there are many things that need to be done to investigate.

Jimmy took the notebook and copied Aishi's personal information, then turned around and asked Chris: "Chris, do you want to investigate with me?"

Chris shook his head: "This is your private investigation, you can handle it yourself. Remember to answer the phone at any time."

Jimmy shrugged, it seems that Chris also knows that there is no case here, and he is idle, so let's take a stroll.Jimmy took his clothes and went downstairs, first went to Ash's house to look around, although there was no search warrant, but maybe someone was in his house, NYPD has notified his family after confirming his identity.

An apartment building in Brooklyn, the address registered by Ash in the system is here, but the owner's name is not his, it should be rented.Jimmy knocked on the door, and a woman's voice sounded inside: "Who?"

Jimmy: "FBI, please open the door."

The woman opened the door, the anti-theft chain was still hanging on it, she looked young, in her 20s.Jimmy took out his ID and flashed it, "FBI Special Agent Jimmy Young, is this the home of Ash Perino?"

The woman nodded: "What's the matter with you?"

Jimmy: "May I ask who you are?"

Woman: "Ginny, Ash's girlfriend."

Jimmy: "Ginny, sorry. Can I come in and talk?"

Ginny bit her lip and thought for a moment, then opened the anti-theft chain, and Jimmy entered the room. This is a small apartment, about the size of the apartment Jimmy rented before.

Jimmy: "Ishi once gave me a few messages, which can be regarded as my informant. Sorry, I just learned about his accident."

Ginny: "What are you doing here?"

Jimmy: "It's like this, Ash left too suddenly this time, do you know what he's investigating recently?"

Ginny shook her head: "His work never tells me."

Jimmy: "Can I see what he left behind?"

Ginny stared at Jimmy: "Who the hell are you?"

The vigilance is quite high, Jimmy took out the ID and handed it to the woman: "FBI special agent. Ginny, Ai Shi was my informant before, and now he has an accident, so I will check his situation and confirm Find out if it was an accident. I need to be responsible to the informant. If it is not an accident, then I need the information about the incident he recently investigated.” Jimmy is investigating in private, so he cannot justly say that it is the information needed to solve the case, so he can only think about it. Too abrupt a reason.

Ginny took the ID and looked it over and over several times, but it was obvious that she had never seen what the FBI ID looked like before. She just flipped through it and didn't know how to identify it.

Ginny returned the ID to Jimmy, she thought for a while, nodded, turned and walked into the bedroom.After a while, she came out with a notepad. "This is Ai Shi's work notes. His laptop is usually carried with him, so he is not at home."

Jimmy squinted, then returned to normal: "Does he bring his laptop with him every time he goes out? What else?"

Ginny: "Laptop, camera, voice recorder, he always carries them with him, in his bag."

Jimmy nodded. He took out disposable gloves from his pocket, put them on, and took the notepad from Ginny's hand.

This notepad does not use many pages. It only records three pages of content. It seems to be shorthand for chatting with someone. There are not a few complete sentences. It is mainly about time, objects, and names of people. Transport routes.

If it was general content, Jimmy wouldn't be interested, but what was recorded here gave Jimmy a chill down his back.

Jimmy looked up at Ginny: "Does he only have this notepad?"

Ginny nodded: "He usually doesn't deal with these things at home. This is a notebook he forgot to bring when he left home."

Jimmy: "Then where does he usually write manuscripts?"

Ginny shook her head: "I don't know, maybe he has a studio outside. We're not married yet, and I won't interfere with his work."

Jimmy nodded: "I need to take this book home. I think you'd better go out to play for a while and relax. You seem to be in a bad state now. You can't come back from death. You have to look forward."

Ginny frowned and looked at Jimmy: "This is none of your business. Take it with you and get out of here."

Jimmy looked at the angry Ginny, and knew that what he said just now was wrong, but for her safety, it was best to leave.

Jimmy: "Ginny, calm down, listen to me. Ash is dead, there are too many traces of his existence here, I know you have a good relationship, but staying here for a long time will make you more emaciated, you will I have been sad.

Maybe it's cruel to say this, but I still want to say, you and Ai Shi, you two are not married, you are free, these sad days have made you very tormented and haggard, I don't think he should want to See you like this now.

Go out for a while, relax, forget about him, and start a new life.It's good for you and good for him. "

Ginny clenched her hands tightly while Jimmy was speaking, and when Jimmy finished speaking, she directly raised her hand and punched Jimmy.Of course, Jimmy had already seen her movements, so he would not be hit. He grabbed Ginny's arm, "Calm down, calm down."

Even if he provoked Ginny again, Jimmy didn't intend to stop. He had to let Ginny leave Ash's apartment, and as soon as possible. Of course, he couldn't force her to leave directly. There must be a reason.

Ginny yelled, "Get out, get out now."

Jimmy: "OK, OK, I'm leaving right now. I'm leaving now. Calm down."

Jimmy was still not good at comforting others, he backed away from Ginny, and then walked out of the apartment, and Ginny slammed the door behind him, making a loud noise.

Jimmy observed the surrounding rooms with his heart, and made sure that there was nothing unusual inside. He went downstairs and returned to his car, opened the notepad and continued to read the records on it, and at the same time, he was also observing whether anyone would come to Ash .

There is nothing wrong with the materials and materials recorded in the notepad alone, or there should be no problem in another place, but this is New York.There are no large farms in the five boroughs of New York. There is very little demand for other fertilizer materials such as urea, nitrate, and ammonium nitrate. They are mainly used in special places such as gardens, but there are quite a lot of these materials recorded in the notebook.

There are also some special equipment recorded in the notepad, such as devices that can be used to make special gases, radio equipment, etc. These individual equipment are not a problem, and it can even be said that it is very simple to just buy equipment.But if it is matched with the above materials, then New York will really be sour for a while, no matter which institution you want to drink a pot of.

(End of this chapter)