North America Gunman Detective

Chapter 1433 - 773: Handover

There were eight bodies at Mrs. Harriton's death scene, and seven more in another abandoned building. The number of deaths was already frightening, and more cases were emerging, all linked to Mrs. Harriton. The LAPD had no choice but to block the information, strictly preventing media connections, or they would be facing not just the pressure of solving the case, but also the pressure from the public and media.

But such news was definitely not going to escape the attention of the FBI. Dave had also been keeping an eye on it and notified others as well. The situation in Los Angeles was getting hard to handle.

In fact, the situation had completely exceeded their capacity. The FBI's Los Angeles office was also closely observing the situation, including the small shareholder of Harriton Foundation's death mentioned by Dave to his boss before, and the elderly scoundrel casually disposed of by Jimmy. People connected to Harriton had died one after another in more than a month's time. Previously, these deaths were disguised as natural accidents, but now they had escalated to the level of mercenary attacks, with increasing intensity. No matter who it was, they would find it troublesome.

The only one who knew the truth was Jimmy, but he was a bit frustrated now. Many of the people in the information provided by Mrs. Harriton were unreachable; it was uncertain if they were dead or hiding. The lawyer who had met Mrs. Harriton the most recently had also disappeared, leaving fewer and fewer places to gather clues.

Others were unaware of the inside story here, so their investigation could only focus on Mrs. Harriton's murder case and the shooting case in the abandoned building, centering on the identities of the attackers and that so-called consulting company boss. Clearly, there should be another mastermind behind the scenes, and this was the direction of their investigation.

Since 2000, Los Angeles has had nearly 500 murders annually; for this city, the LAPD's work pressure is enormous, making it difficult to concentrate personnel on a single case, mainly because there are too many cases.

Detective Cook, after investigating the information on Mrs. Harriton's lawyer Sebastian, immediately began tracking his whereabouts. Due to the complexity of the case and the high number of deaths, he obtained authorization far exceeding that of a detective, quickly acquiring Sebastian's phone records and location data from the FBI Los Angeles office.

On the night Mrs. Harriton was killed, Sebastian's signal still showed he was in Los Angeles, but the next day he had already arrived in San Francisco, after which the signal was lost, which was beyond the LAPD's jurisdiction.

His last location information was in the suburbs of San Francisco, so it's likely he's still there, or investigating there might find some clues. However, he would need authorization and personnel arrangements to conduct a cross-district investigation; his manpower is quite insufficient.

His phone records showed that in the last days, besides contact with Mrs. Harriton, Sebastian had no other contacts, indicating that he might have a second or third phone; otherwise, it would be hard to explain why such a senior lawyer had no contact records with other people.

Besides Sebastian, another important investigation direction was the management of the Harriton Foundation and the executives of Mrs. Harriton's various industries, most of whom were in Los Angeles, making them relatively easier to investigate, even if unreachable by phone, house calls could be made. Their family and friends were also part of the investigation.

But after arranging a group of police officers and detectives to set off, they soon received the first bad news: an executive under Mrs. Harriton was found dead at home. When officers arrived, there was no response from inside the house. Through a side window, they saw someone lying on the floor, smashed the glass to climb in and open the door, finding the person on the floor already dead. The scene had no evident fatal injuries, so they had to wait for the forensic doctor's examination.

Clearly, no matter the cause of death, it was definitely connected to Mrs. Harriton's murder case.

These cases could no longer be handled independently; they must pool manpower and combine investigations. However, just as Detective Cook agreed and summoned several teams for support, they suddenly received notification to immediately package all case-related files. FBI Los Angeles office personnel would come and take over the series of cases.

Cook was dumbfounded; he'd gathered so many people to work for days, only to suddenly be ordered from above to hand over the cases. He'd just brought people in to help. But there was no choice; once the order was given, he could only complain a bit while still continuing to organize materials for handover.

After staying at the hotel for two days, Jimmy received another call from Dave, but this time, it wasn't to provide information but to tell him to bring data to the Los Angeles office the next day, and that he would be coming over himself, to talk in person.

By the appointed time, Jimmy arrived at the Los Angeles office; Dave was already there, clearly having arrived a day earlier, or he wouldn't have appeared there so quickly.

Dave: "Jimmy, did you bring the data?"

Jimmy: "It's all here. I've already compiled part of the report content before."

Dave nodded: "That's good, don't hold back any data. Make the handover today. The cases will subsequently be fully handled by the Los Angeles office."