North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 755 Case Investigation

Jimmy didn't know Kevin's subsequent investigation, but he had fulfilled his promise to Winston. As for what would happen next, it would only depend on Winston's own handling.

The reception is a week away, and there is plenty of time. Jimmy is not in a hurry to arrange his time. Anyway, he has a lot of free time at the moment, so he can just complete his plan step by step. Just like the previous plan, studying and exercising are just a sudden change. The incident disrupted his plans.

Three days after the sinking, Ruiz knocked on his office door. He declined Jimmy's invitation to drink tea and said solemnly: "Jimmy, I think you are going on a business trip again."

Jimmy looked at Ruiz in surprise: "What's the matter?"

Ruiz: "Did you hear about the yacht explosion off Miami a few days ago?"

Jimmy: "I've seen the news, but I haven't paid attention to it. What's wrong?"

Ruiz: "The incident has been listed as a key case of concern by the headquarters, and capable personnel need to be sent to the Miami office to assist in the investigation. The headquarters is seeking our opinions. Are you interested in going to the headquarters to cooperate with them in investigating this case?"

Jimmy frowned: "Why are you looking for me? I have never handled a shipwreck case."

Ruiz: "I haven't replied to them yet. It depends on what you mean. If you feel bored now, you can consider going there. If you don't talk about the yacht explosion and just treat it as a homicide, your detection rate has been in recent times. These two years were the highest.”

Jimmy: "I'm not interested. A case that I can't take the lead in is boring. There are always people holding me back and I can't get on with it at all."

I don’t know how Dave arranged it. This matter eventually fell on Jimmy. However, this time it was not directly arranged by the headquarters, but a joint investigation by the New York branch and the Miami branch. The three major branches The New York branch of one of the departments took the lead in handling the case, and the level was not low. It seemed that some people still valued Jimmy, a master in handling cases.

It was the second day that Ruiz appeared in Jimmy's office again, "Jimmy, as you wish, you will take the lead in this case."

Ruiz: "I don't know yet. Dave has given an order to choose an assistant to go to Miami. People will be arranged there to support you. In addition, our laboratory has also been notified. If there are any items that need to be tested, , we can send it by air express for priority processing.”

Ruiz: "Okay, I'll talk to them again."

Ruiz: "This time is different from the previous one. This time the matter is very serious."

If this case cannot be solved, Jimmy's evaluation will be lowered, and he will even be angered by some powerful people behind the scenes. If it is solved, it will be even more troublesome. If he solves the case as soon as he takes action, their previous arrangement will be completely ineffective. Let such a person It's already too much for an agent with outstanding merit to be benched. To sit on the bench again after this incident is just eye candy. Someone may seize on this issue to cause other power seizures.

Jimmy was speechless and rolled his eyes at him: "Then go ahead. Anyway, I'll just listen to other people's arrangements. It's just a business trip subsidy."

Ruiz: "Follow the orders from above."

Ruiz returned to his office with a bad face. Originally, Dave just asked him to come to Jimmy to talk to him. In fact, no one wanted him to go out to handle cases now. After all, they had just said before that he would be stable for a year or two, and this was just the beginning. It took him a few months to arrange for him to go out to work. It was difficult to explain the matter. They had an unspoken agreement before.

He only took a quick glance at the list Winston gave him before. After all, they were all dead and there was no need to pay attention to it. Now it seems that this list is really destined to him. Look at Ruiz’s side. As a result, if you really want to investigate on your own, you should try not to involve the killer team at the hotel.

Jimmy looked at Ruiz in surprise. It had only been one day and this matter had been settled? How nervous are the people behind the scenes about this? "Why so fast?"

Jimmy frowned: "Isn't this a bit too much?"

Ruiz turned around and left Jimmy's office without drinking a sip of tea. Jimmy followed behind and closed the door again, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Ruiz is really helpless. Jimmy is really difficult to deal with, and this matter has nothing to do with him. If he is suppressed forcefully, he really dares to give up.

Ruiz called Dave and gave up after giving Jimmy's opinion. Let them communicate about this matter again. He no longer wanted to be the bad guy.

Ruiz: "What if the higher ups ask for it?"

Jimmy: "Come on, last time I went to the headquarters, if Peter hadn't forcibly suppressed other people's opinions and assigned me a deputy to investigate the case, it would have been impossible to solve the case so quickly. When I finally returned to the headquarters to make a case statement, those departments Not so friendly to me."

Ruiz thought for a while and said: "This is the case of the headquarters after all. If it can be handled well, the impression on the headquarters will be much better, and there will be an opportunity to climb up in the future."

Jimmy: "It's more serious when you need to take the initiative. If I solve the case, the credit will be someone else's. That would be boring."

Ruiz didn't expect to be overthrown by Jimmy so abruptly. He originally planned to persuade him. After all, Jimmy was already an SSA. Going to the headquarters to handle cases was considered cross-department coordination. These were the experiences of handling cases in other places recorded in the files. , it was a very good experience, but Jimmy actually wanted to take the initiative.

As expected, this matter involves a wide range of things. For the FBI to be involved in the investigation, it must be arranged directly by the headquarters. Someone must be behind the matter to promote this matter. Otherwise, the local police will be enough. Even if it is promoted to the FBI, it will be handled by a branch at most.

Jimmy: "Okay, then give Mark to me temporarily. We will be quite happy working together."

Ruiz nodded: "Okay, get ready and leave tomorrow."

Jimmy nodded helplessly, he was going on a business trip again. He seemed to have been traveling a bit too frequently after getting married, so he could only have a good chat with Nia, hoping to spend tonight safely.
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The next day, Jimmy met Mark at the airport, who was also carrying a suitcase. The two checked in together and boarded the flight to Miami with their equipment bag and suitcase.

Taking the water glass handed over by the stewardess, Mark looked around and then asked in a low voice: "Yang, what is going on this time? I suddenly received an order yesterday to come to the airport today to cooperate with you in going to Miami."

Jimmy also lowered his voice. Their conversation was still inconvenient to be made public: "Didn't Ruiz tell you? It was the news we saw on TV that day, the yacht explosion over there. We will investigate it this time. "

Mark nodded: "I know it's this case, why is it us?"

Jimmy: "Just follow the arrangements from above. When you get there, follow my arrangements and don't conflict with them."

Mark: "OK, I understand."

Mark picked up the novel he had prepared in advance and read it. Jimmy became more relaxed. He had already observed all the passengers in advance, and now he just closed his eyes and rested. After all, working hard for half a night was still very energy-consuming. The Miami office had already been involved in the investigation on the day of the yacht explosion. The Coast Guard and FBI searched for a salvage team to start salvaging the hull and body, as well as anything related in the surrounding waters. These are not easy to solve and are time-consuming and labor-intensive.

When Jimmy and Mark arrived at the Miami office, they had received a notice from the headquarters and learned that the investigation of the case was taken over by agents from the New York office. After Jimmy and Mark announced their identities at the front desk, an agent soon came out to greet them.

Agent: "Welcome to Miami, I'm Senior Agent Austin Wright."

Jimmy: "SSA Jimmy Young, Manhattan office. This is Special Agent Marc Anderson."

Austin Wright took the two of them to a separate office, "Both of you, because of time constraints, we can only temporarily arrange for you to work here. All relevant office supplies will be in place soon."

Jimmy: "Thank you, Agent Wright. Where is your current investigation team? I hope to get back to work as soon as possible."

Austin Wright looked at Jimmy in surprise: "Don't you need to take a rest first? We have already booked a hotel room for you."

Jimmy glanced at Mark and shook his head at Agent Wright: "Let's start as soon as possible. I want to call together the current members of the investigation team to synchronize the progress of the investigation."

Agent Wright nodded: "Of course, you can take a rest here first, and I will arrange for them to come back for a meeting right away."

After Agent Wright left, Jimmy and Mark put their luggage and equipment bags aside, tidied the office table a little, and soon received a call from Agent Wright to go to the conference room.

It turns out that the atmosphere in the Miami office is very bad. Just like the last time Jimmy took over the missing agent case in the Washington DC office under the coordination of the headquarters, and the people in the local office were unhappy when handing over the information, the people in the Miami office were also the same. Face unhappy.

But after all, it was a transfer order from the headquarters. They did not embarrass Jimmy in person. They took out all the information they had collected in the past few days and announced the current investigation progress in the conference room by the various agents responsible for the investigation.

In a large conference room, Jimmy and Mark sat on one side of a long table, and on the other side were the members of the current investigation team. After Agent Wright introduced their identities to each other, Jimmy did not exchange too much greetings and directly asked the detectives from the investigation team to tell them. The officer will first report on the current investigation progress.

"The current salvage progress of the yacht is not ideal. Several main parts of the hull have been salvaged, but the most important black box and data storage equipment have not yet been found."

An agent was playing the current salvage progress on the front monitor. The salvaged hull has been placed on an open space on the dock, but it seems that the current hull is not complete.

"Part of the hull was so badly broken that we haven't completely salvaged it yet. We don't even rule out that part of the hull has drifted away with the ocean currents. So far we have only recovered these. Through the hull design drawings obtained by the shipbuilding company and their engineers confirmed, from We have found four suspected explosion points on the hull that have been confirmed so far, but the fragments of the explosion points are too fragmented, and there is no way to completely piece them together."

Jimmy and Mark took a notebook and recorded the clues they had investigated. "Have you done any explosive detection? Although it has been soaked in sea water, there should still be some that can be detected, right?"

The detective nodded: "We detected C4 explosion residue from one of the fragments. If the explosives used in the blast are consistent, this is the conclusion."

Jimmy: "Is the detonator confirmed?"

Detective: "It's not possible to be sure at the moment. We need to wait until all the fragments are found before having engineers from the shipyard conduct comparison and confirmation. However, from the current point of view, it is unlikely that the detonation device will be found."

Jimmy nodded: "Go ahead."

The agent closed his own information, and another agent began to display the corpses that had been recovered so far, and provided identification information for each identified corpse. To their surprise, the integrity of these corpses was quite good. , which means that at least the bodies that have been found so far are basically not near the explosion point, otherwise what they found should be body parts.

Detective: "Currently we have identified the captain and several registered crew members, and the passengers have identified five people."

The agent showed the identities of five people, one of whom was Jimmy's target. "This ship belongs to the Harriton Foundation, and the current user is Elias Harriton, the chairman and CEO of the Harriton Foundation, who is also the deceased. One and the other person involved in the fatality was Lucas McKinley, director of human resources at the Harriton Foundation. The other three were also well-known business figures."

Jimmy: "How many of them are still unidentified?"

Detective: "The six bodies are all female, and two of them should look younger. We have collected fingerprints, but we have not yet obtained matching information in the fingerprint database."

Jimmy: "Contact the Harriton Foundation and ask them to confirm the identities of these six people and whether they are their employees."

Detective: "The Harriton Foundation is headquartered in Los Angeles. We have asked our colleagues in the Los Angeles office to confirm. There is no news yet."

Jimmy: "OK, continue."

Another agent took his file folder and stood up, "We salvaged a lot of items from the sea. In addition to the equipment that was originally brought on the ship, there are also several damaged mobile phones and a video recorder. Currently, they have been recovered. It was handed over to the technical department for data recovery, but no results have been obtained yet.”

Jimmy recorded again and looked up at the detective across the conference table: "No more?"

Seeing that the detectives didn't answer, Jimmy knew that he was in trouble. He seemed to be experiencing cold violence. "OK, now we have several new investigation directions. First, the trajectory of the yacht before it exploded and which ports it docked at. This information needs to be confirmed as soon as possible. The explosives were most likely installed when it docked at the dock.

Second, autopsies of the recovered bodies should be completed as soon as possible to confirm whether they died of explosions, drowning, or an explosion after death. The forensic doctor should be able to give a conclusion.

Third, investigate all those who have been identified to see if they have any known enemies, and whether this incident is a vendetta or other reasons.

OK, let’s add these three pieces of survey information for the time being. Let’s take action. "

Jimmy stood up and clapped his hands: "This case investigation is very important. Thank you for your preliminary investigation. Now we need to advance the investigation as soon as possible. I hope everyone will work together to give the public an explanation as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)