[Criminal Minds] years before love

Rossi is now in another city far away, carefully identifying the photos of the corpse and the autopsy report, trying to distinguish the parts that may belong to the serial case.Drug overdose is almost the most common cause of death among street teens, and malnutrition and injuries from fighting are hardly even features.

Cases involving juveniles are always particularly bad, but Rossi singled out the worse ones, the ones where autopsy reports considered long-term violent injuries, especially ones that might have involved sex.

Including the missing teenager.

He was really glad he didn't have Hotch on the case.

"He's here again." The police officer who was helping him suddenly sighed.

"Who?" Rossi looked up and saw a haggard middle-aged man grabbing a police officer and saying something, "Unsolved case?"

"Kane. Just this case." The police officer shook his head and pointed to the photo. "His father, since we confirmed that this is his son, has been here almost every day."

Rossi thought for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Have you confirmed with him the circumstances of the disappearance?"

"That happened more than ten years ago." The police officer was startled, and then he dug out an old file from the documents scattered all over the table, "This is the report from that year, there is not much. Seriously understaffed. His father reported him when he was missing, no witnesses, no signs of a fight, no extortion calls, etc. No way to investigate further.”

"If your son disappears on a certain day, believe me, even ten years later, everything on that day will be as clear to you as yesterday." Rossi stood up, "Although these memories may be full of a lot of processed details , but still worth a listen. I'll talk to him."

The policeman was a little helpless, he really didn't have any more information to say, the man who had just completely lost his son seemed dissatisfied with this, and was waving his arms to argue.

Rossi stepped forward and interposed between the two, "Hello, Kane. I'm David Rossi, FBI."

The other party was taken aback, "FBI?"

"I'm here on your kid's case." Rossi held out his hand to him.

Kane looked him up and down for a moment before shaking his hand hesitantly.

"Would you like to talk to me?"

"Talk about what?"

"About your son, anything is fine." Rossi tilted his head towards the sofa not far away, "He has been missing for more than ten years."

"Thirteen years," Kane corrected, following him, "I believed he was alive until—until I saw him with my own eyes."

"How old was he then?"

Kane handed over a photo that was almost faded by petting, "5 years old."

"It looks cute." Rossi took it over, silently comparing the photos of the corpses he had just seen in his mind.

"Cris is the cutest kid in the world." Kane was still staring at the photo, "If I packed my things faster that day..."

"tidy up?"

"Cris wanted to go to the bathroom. I was about to leave work, so I let him go by himself, and I picked him up at the door after I packed up..." Kane shook his head, "I didn't see him. At that time I thought he was playing games with me, I searched everywhere, the restroom, the library, the street, and home. But...that was the last time I saw him alive."

"Wait, you mean, off work?" Rossi frowned.

"Uh, yes. Sometimes I bring him to work, Cris is very good, never fights, he doesn't cause trouble." Kane explained, "His mother divorced me, I can't let him alone People stay at home."

"That means...he disappeared in the library?" Rossi stared at him. The report he just saw was too simple and didn't mention details. It was obviously a random report after he decided that it would be difficult to solve the case.

"Yes." Kane thought about it again, nodded to confirm, "The police have searched, the library, the house, and the streets along the way... We searched everywhere we could, but we didn't find anything."

"We'll do our best to find him this time." Rossi took his hand. "I promise."

Kane sighed slowly and nodded slightly.

And Rossi immediately got up and went back to the police officer, "Did you compare the children who disappeared more than ten years ago with the children who died this time?"

"That's difficult." The police officer was a little embarrassed. "They were young children more than ten years ago. I'm not sure we can recognize them."

"No, I mean, was there a disappearance case near the place where their bodies were found?"

"what do you mean?"

"This is not a suitable place to dump corpses." Rossi picked up the pen, turned around and wrote "library" on the blackboard, "but if he disappeared in the library, that's probably why he was thrown in front of the library .”