North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 276 Investigation
Jimmy rested for the night and drove to Big Bend National Park in one breath. After connecting with the park police, they led the way to a cave.

All the bones in the cave have been taken away, but the cave has been sealed off after the discovery of the bones. The traces inside have not been damaged too badly. There are also white lines on the ground and the cave walls. The bullets found on the cave walls The holes were well preserved, and the police only took out some warhead fragments from inside. Just like what Roland said, there was no way to determine the source of these fragments, and no traces such as fingerprints were detected.

The first investigation Jimmy had to do was ballistic positioning. Some warheads were found on the body, and there were bullet holes in the wall of the cave. Ballistic positioning was the only way to determine the shooter's trajectory.

Jimmy took out the laser locator from the toolbox, inserted it into the bullet hole, and then started to pull the ballistic with the red rope. The park police next to him also helped to pick up some branches and wooden sticks from outside to assist in positioning.

This is not an easy job, and the key is to be careful. There are dozens of bullet holes in the wall. After pulling all the wires, the situation of the shooting at the scene at that time is roughly clear.

According to the shooting direction, several shots were fired at the entrance of the cave. It can be seen that the gunman shot into the cave after entering the cave. Some of the bullets hit other people or animals and did not fall on the cave wall. The gunner's action route drawn based on the existing ballistics has some jumps and is not completely continuous.

Jimmy asked the park police to leave the cave, and he began to take pictures and draw the gunman's shooting route. Of course, Jimmy's drawing was just a simplified picture, drawing the appearance of the cave on paper, and then marking each positioning point determined according to the ballistic trajectory.

Jimmy didn't communicate with Roland how he and the former Jimmy killed the demon in the cave. It's not that he didn't want to ask, but he didn't want to talk to Roland like a prisoner. As long as there is no clue to contact Roland and him in this case, Then Jimmy can do whatever he wants, no matter what is found or nothing is found, it is a matter of a report, as long as the scene is investigated, there is no need to give a complete conclusion or give a suspect at the end.

After finishing the shooting route in the cave, it was getting dark. Jimmy and the park police left the cave and returned to the camp. Because the cave is relatively remote, the park police brought their patrol tents in order not to waste time every day. Jimmy also lived in a tent with them. Fortunately, it was a rectangular tent with a few folding beds in it. At night, the park police also took shifts to do night duty.

Jimmy started to write a report based on the shooting route map and the number of bullets in the innermost part of the tent. Of course, it could not be the final report, but a stage report. After summarizing the reports of each stage, the final report could be formed in a unified manner.

The park police seem to be very busy today. They are assisting with investigations, setting up tents, and working shifts. In fact, they don’t care. For the park police, their biggest job every day is patrolling. Now this kind of assistance , Just like a vacation, it’s easy to worry about, and everyone is happy.

Watching FBI agents investigate during the day and code at night, they are really busy, everyone performs their duties, and they will not bother Jimmy.

When Jimmy finished the report, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening. Jimmy packed up his things and went out for activities to relax. A bonfire had already been raised outside the tent. The park police were chatting around the bonfire. He also booed and asked Jimmy to talk about the cases he had encountered to pass the time. Jimmy did not refuse. He picked some files and cases he had seen and talked about them. Of course, they were not classified. It's not so small, and the wonderful things abound. In comparison, the life of the Park Police is not so exciting. Most of their lives are boring.

After killing some time, everyone went back to the tent and fell asleep. The next day, Jimmy returned to the cave and added some details based on what he had sorted out last night. Those people on the ground were all killed by Jimmy at the beginning, and it is not even ruled out that they fell to the ground and repaired the gun, so there may be some bullet holes on the ground of the cave, but the previous reports were all on the cave wall, there is no ground, So he had to re-check inside.

Because I haven't found it before, it is very likely that even if there are bullet holes, they are very small and blocked by dust or other things. Jimmy brought a small hand-held hair dryer this time, the kind with batteries, and a small brush, and began to clean the inside of the cave. Inspection of the ground is another meticulous job, and the park policemen didn't bother to enter the cave, they just rested outside the cave.

After more than an hour, Jimmy finally checked the ground inside the cave and found three shallow bullet holes. Because there is a possibility of ricochets, and the bullet holes are really shallow, there is no way to pull the wire directly. It is estimated that after Jimmy took the photo, he took out his notebook and recorded the position of the bullet hole and the estimated shooting position.

After the investigation of the shooting point, Jimmy began to look for other clues in the cave. According to Roland, there is a space gap here, connecting two planes, so there should always be relevant traces left, but there were no clues in the cave during the previous investigation. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Jimmy began to turn over the falling rocks in the cave and inspect the cave walls, and finally found an abnormality in the innermost cave wall. The other cave walls had ups and downs and potholes, but here there is a smooth cave wall with an area of ​​about one square meter. It looks like it has been cut. Considering the existence of cracks, there are always some unreasonable places, so it should be here.

This is what Jimmy wants to know, and he will not record it in the report. After finding the location before the crack, Jimmy packs up and prepares to leave the cave.

After dealing with the situation in the cave, Jimmy started to check the area around the cave together with the police, mainly to check whether there were backpacks or wallets that could prove the identity of the people in the cave. Any discovery, there is no corresponding certificate on the corpses in the cave, and there is still no way to determine their identities.

Jimmy and the park police returned to their station, because the case happened a few years ago, and Jimmy needed to check the records of the park police here to see if there were any unusual cases or situations that happened a few years ago.

Fortunately, although it has been a few years, their files are still there and have not been lost. Jimmy checked the files at the police station for two days, and finally figured out some pre-details of Roland and the others who came to investigate and kill the demons. .

There are several camping areas designated by the park in Big Bend National Park. They are relatively safe and the scenery is not bad, so people often come here for hiking and camping. At that time, a camp was attacked. Although no one was killed, it was still let The police had a headache, and they began to investigate the surrounding area, but the cave was very far away from the camp, and the investigation at that time did not directly find the cave.

In the end, the police made the final explanation based on someone maliciously attacking camping tourists. Since there are indeed illegal immigrants in the national park, this possibility also exists, but limited to the conditions at the time, they did not find the final attacker.

After the news spread in the newspaper, Roland and the others noticed this place. Because Roland was familiar with the monster in the description and had dealt with it before, they decided that there was a crack here.

When Roland and the others close the rift, they are usually accompanied by activities such as killing demons, so they have never communicated with the police, and there is no record of shooting in the police records.

The real situation of the case must not be written, so Jimmy can only continue to search for records. In the end, he selected a few police reports and compiled a case investigation report with some guesses. According to the police information, there are a certain number of cases in Big Bend National Park. There are many smugglers, and there may be cross-border smuggling routes. Due to incomplete information, Jimmy concluded that the conflict between illegal immigrants and smugglers may have led to the death of 6 people. Violence broke out, culminating in the pursuit of several people who entered the cave before they were killed by gunmen inside the cave.

The number of bullet holes is relatively large, and multiple shooters may be involved. Anyway, according to the ballistic guidance, there are deviations in the shooting positions of the shooters and interruptions in the route. There is indeed a certain possibility that there may be multiple shooters.

The gunman started shooting from the entrance of the cave and went all the way into the cave. It can also be judged that the gunman shot outside to drive the crowd into the cave, and then carried out a massacre inside the cave.

The gunman used a .45 caliber pistol. The type of the gun cannot be determined based on the bullet, and there is no evidence such as fingerprints. It is recommended that the case be put on hold temporarily, and it will be determined whether it can be dealt with when other smuggling cases are found in Big Bend National Park.

Although such a report can't really end the case, for Jimmy, he has tried his best to list out the suspicious problems and add his own inferences, which should be enough to deal with it.

After obtaining the consent of the police station, Jimmy copied some materials, sorted them out with his own case report and ballistic inspection results, and after resting in the park, he drove back to Dallas.

(End of this chapter)