[Criminal Minds] years before love

So ten years later, Hotch stood on the campus again. He actually knew that he didn't hate this place so much.

Rossi stood beside him, following his gaze, "I've never been here before."

"It's the same now." Hotch looked at the campus in front of him that was no different from his student days.

Rossi patted his waist, "Don't think too much, Aaron, let's go, we may have to investigate two cases, don't let the past affect your professionalism."

Hotch nodded, "I understand."

Then lead Rossi across a large lawn towards the teaching building.

The local police were already waiting for them downstairs.

A guard was pulled at the door of the office.

"The door lock was not damaged, maybe the victim opened the door." Hotch used a flashlight to confirm that there were no scratches on the lock, "Most people in the office are unaware of danger, not to mention that as a teacher, he must often be knocked on the door by students .”

Of course the corpse had been removed, but the blood stains on the ground hadn't been cleaned up yet, and the room wasn't particularly messy, at least there was absolutely no trace of a fight.

"At least the murderer doesn't make him feel threatened." Rossi nodded. "I guess the age may be about the same as his students. Female killers who disembowel themselves are rare, but we still tend to think that the murderer is a white male."

"Could it be the students of this school?" The local police sent to accompany them asked while watching them wandering around the house.

"Combined with several other cases, I don't think so." Hotch shook his head, "There are no gates or walls here, and access is very random, and most teachers can't know each of their students."

"Uh, shouldn't we usually learn about the first crime?" The little policeman, who was probably younger than Hotch, introduced himself as Stephen Grey, and he followed the two of them quite curiously.

"Compared with janitors, university professors are more inclined to record their own lives and are more organized. Their social circles are usually simpler, and it is easy to find special places." Rossi glanced at him, and rarely opened his mouth to explain.

"And we don't think it was his first case." Hotch pulled open a desk drawer and rummaged through it. "There are very few serial killers who develop a full profile on their first crime."

"I investigated, and we haven't encountered a similar case." Gray retorted in surprise.

"He didn't necessarily commit crimes in your jurisdiction." Hotch shook his head. "What did you find out about the victims?"

"Rory is a history teacher, personable, very popular on campus, and has no criminal record." Gray looked at the record in his hand.

"In terms of morality and family?" Hotch didn't find anything that shouldn't be there. The drawers were basically full of office supplies and literature, and turned to him.

"At least as far as we know, there should be no special problem." Gray obviously understood what he was asking, and he blinked, "He is young and unmarried, and he is quite popular with female students, but from the survey , he kept a considerable distance from them all."

Rossi asked unexpectedly, "Where are the male students?"

"Huh?" Gray was stunned for a moment, "No, I haven't checked, but I haven't heard any related claims."

Rossi smiled, and finally stood in front of the coat rack in the corner, shaking off the hanging white coat as if smoothly, but there was no blood on the coat, so the police did not pay attention to it.

Hotch's eyes drifted away, too.

The pattern was sewn on, at the cuffs, to look like buttons.

"Looks like we don't have to take chances." Rossi bagged the clothes in his hand and looked back at Hotch, "You're right, they're back."

"What them?" Gray looked at the two in bewilderment.

Hotch didn't answer right away, but frowned and stared at the desk for a while, then suddenly compared the length of the drawer, and pulled the whole drawer out with a sudden force.He leaned down and looked, "There is a mezzanine inside."

It was full of receipts.

Rossi thought for a while, and then pressed Hotch, "We have a serial killer who is killing people like crazy. The question here is suspended. I'll ask someone to thoroughly investigate the financial situation and interpersonal relationship of this popular teacher first."

Hotch's body stiffened imperceptibly for a few seconds, Rossi kept looking at him, and eventually he could only nod.

"What's going on?" Gray leaned his head to look at the things in his hands, and immediately realized that the source of such a receipt could never be Rory's salary.

"We suspect that he is involved in a ... long-established special trading organization." Rossi looked at the photos hanging on the wall, and the young professor looked quite high-spirited inside.

"Trade what?" Gray tensed up.

"Illegal goods." Rossi said lightly, "but that's an old case of the Bureau of Investigation, so it's not suitable to tell you for now. Take us to other sites to see."