Chapter 920 “Signpost”

In 1992, the most serious riots in the 20th century broke out in Los Angeles. The entire incident resulted in the destruction of more than 5,000 buildings. The building opposite the apartment where Angela Warren and her maternal grandparents lived was the building that was destroyed after the riots subsided.

It was repaired and can be seen from the open window of Angela's bedroom.

At first glance, this is a very ordinary adolescent girl's room. There are posters of celebrities on the wall, and a lot of cheap cosmetics. Textbooks and comic books are piled on the bookshelf. In addition, there is a trophy and a collective on it.

In the photo, Angela was wearing a cheerleading uniform and standing with the "Dolphins" football players.

She wears the same makeup as young girls nowadays, and has a cheerful and lively smile.

Los Angeles is close to Hollywood. Even if your grades are not good, there are plenty of opportunities in Hollywood. If you can't, you can still go to Disney to work. Next to the group photo, look back at the photo of her wearing a Disney princess suit.

Like all young girls, she squanders her youth wantonly, and it is difficult to connect her with a suicide.

In fact, she would not die if she jumped from the third floor. If the car had not passed by, she would have been seriously injured at most. This was an unfortunate accident. The driver did not expect that someone would fall from the sky.

"Grandma said she had a sculpture of St. Anne in Angela's room and Angela smashed it," O'Sullivan said. "Then she painted these in her bedroom."

Mills and O'Sullivan looked up together. There were many five-pointed stars painted on the ceiling, which looked like a starry night sky.

"The five-pointed star does not represent the devil," Mills said. "If it did, there would be stars all over the Hollywood Walk of Fame."

"What's wrong with you?" O'Sullivan said. "This is really not something you would say."

"What words?"

"You sound like a college professor. Are you still the same person I know?"

Mills didn't bother to pay attention to O'Sullivan. He began to wander around Angela's room while the evidence team bagged things from the scene.

This is a suicide case. There is no need to be as cautious as a homicide case. People commit suicide for various reasons every day. What's more, the direct cause of Angela's death was not jumping from the building, but a car accident. It was just that there was a hypnotist with her before she jumped.

Stay alone in the room.

Hypnosis can often be seen in variety shows and movies. The hypnotist usually uses a pocket watch or a crystal ball to make people trance, and then the hypnotized person will do some things that ordinary people can't imagine.

"What is this smell?" Mills sniffed and asked, "Are there any dead rats in this house?"

"You can look for it." O'Sullivan said perfunctorily, "This is an old apartment building."

"Where is her mother?"

"In Beverly Hills."

"What?"

"She works as a maid for Hollywood stars." O'Sullivan said, "Sometimes Angela will sell the star's autographs to groupies through her to make a little money."

"What did she use the money for?"

"Making a movie, she and her friends sneaked into an abandoned church during spring break, planning to make a horror movie, and then something happened to her. Don't just tell me what I know, what do you know."

"Like that guy, I am also collecting evidence to prove whether she really needs an exorcism." Mills threw another nicotine gum into his mouth. "Normally it won't be that fast."

"What's so fast?"

"Death." Mills said, "Do you remember the 'Seven Deadly Sins Killer'? He cut off the skin of his fingers. This is an act of self-harm. Has Angela ever harmed herself?"

"No." O'Sullivan said uneasily.

"Maybe there really are angels in this city." Mills said calmly, "Let her go to a better place before she suffers real sin."

O'Sullivan didn't answer, and he looked at Mills even more strangely.

Mills continued to browse randomly in Angela's room. He looked so normal and strange that it was difficult to connect him with the detective who fired all the bullets at the "Seven Deadly Sins Killer".

The media will always give priority to reporting news that has great impact and attracts attention. Compared with the riots in Los Angeles, the impact of serial killers in New York was outweighed. When reporters think of such a thing, new news

It appeared again, so the major case that could have been as famous as Zodiac disappeared without a trace.

Not all police officers believe that Mills is guilty. Many police officers deal with drug dealers. It is one thing to exchange gunfire on the street. It is another thing for drug dealers to retaliate against the police officers' families. The "Seven Deadly Sins Killer" killed Mills's wife.

This crosses the bottom line, not to mention his mental state, it is very likely that he will be found not guilty.

The doctor said that he suffered from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The characteristic of obsessive-compulsive personality is the excessive pursuit of perfection. In order to gather the "seven" sinners, the Seven Deadly Sins killer also included himself and Mills.

He had lost his fingerprints, so his identity could not be determined from the fingerprint database, and there were no records of his teeth. Maybe he had never seen a dentist, or maybe he came from a family of dentists and knew how to delete his records.

Obsessive-compulsive personality is easy to appear in a doctor's family, because the parents love to be clean. If they are too harsh and harsh in disciplining their children, problems will more likely arise.

New York State has the death penalty, but it does not include mentally ill people. The "Seven Deadly Sins Killer" was crazy, but not schizophrenic or had multiple personalities. Moreover, he killed people on the fringes of society, except for a lawyer who told lies and a policeman's wife.

St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital was once known as the Home of Assassins because it housed three mental patients who assassinated the president. It once had 8,000 patients at its peak, but it is now abandoned.

There is a high chance that the "Seven Deadly Sins Killers" will be imprisoned in the FBI's criminal psychiatric hospital in Baltimore and become research materials for psychologists.

It would be difficult to calmly handle anyone who gets involved in a situation like this with Mills.

What caused the Los Angeles riots was a cut-off video. The TV station cut out the footage of the suspect driving drunk, driving at high speed, resisting arrest, and the police using high-voltage electric batons to knock him down and then stand up to fight back.

Rodney King, who participated in the riot, not only was not prosecuted for illegal drinking, drunk driving, speeding, etc., he also received US$3.8 million in compensation.

Thirteen years later, Mills seems to have emerged from the shadows of the past, and he has been dealing with such complex and bizarre cases since he appeared.

O'Sullivan didn't know much about Freud. He only knew that hypnosis was related to the subconscious, that repression contributed to the subconscious, and that repression also led to neurosis. As a "cop", he didn't know whether Mills had really come out of it or not.

Suppress yourself and make yourself appear normal.

"People are crazy now." O'Sullivan said to himself.

His only prayer is that the media does not discover this case, otherwise it may be over-exaggerated and cause unnecessary panic and commotion.

"Detective," said a member of the evidence team who was lying under the bed.

"What's the matter?" O'Sullivan walked over.

"Look." The team member showed him the digital photos they took.

A line of words was carved on the wooden floor with a knife:

Nature is the mistress of the master, and those who think they are masters of all things other than nature, will only succeed in vain.

"Leonardo da Vinci." Mills suddenly said.

O'Sullivan looked at him, eyes as wide as doves.

"It's not me." Mills held a book in his hand. "She seems to like Leonardo da Vinci very much."

The book in Mills's hand was the Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and Angela drew the key points on it with colorful markers.

"Maybe she didn't go to make a horror movie, but a documentary. She read a lot of books about time-lapse photography." Mills said, "She went to church to record how nature reoccupies human cities."

O'Sullivan opened his mouth wide and couldn't make a sound.

"Go back to the police station and see that unfortunate guy." Mills patted his old partner on the shoulder and left the unfortunate room.
Chapter completed!