Chapter 244 Christians

  Queens, New York.

  Outside an apartment in a certain community, Roan, Ryder, and Lacey stood at the door with weapons in their hands, two on the left and one on the right.

  Looking at each other, Roan counted down to three, and then Ryder raised his foot and kicked hard towards the door.

  Boom!

   "FBI!"

"Do not move!"

   The three yelled as they quickly checked every room in the apartment, and in the kitchen they saw a young white woman with headphones dancing her body making dinner.

  The young woman turned her head and saw Roan and Ryder suddenly appearing, and the Glock 18 in their hands, she was startled and screamed.

   "We are the FBI!"

   At this time, Lacey, who had checked all the rooms, walked back and shook her head at Roan. Roan frowned slightly, pulled off the earphones on the woman's head, and asked:

   "Where's Richard Meier?"

   "I don't know, he's not here!"

   Slowly calmed down her mood, the young woman named Irene explained:

   "It's been two months since we broke up! Why are you looking for Richard?"

   "We suspect that he is related to a serial murder case."

  Roan put away the Glock 18 and said in a concentrated voice:

   "Do you know where Richard Meyer is? We need to talk to him.

   Or, you can also explain why you have been using Richard Meier's credit card. "

   "What?"

  Hearing the word "serial murder case", Irene took a deep breath, waved her hands again and again to express that those cases had absolutely nothing to do with her, and then explained everything.

   "Richard and I met a year ago."

  Irene’s identity is a waiter working in a high-end restaurant. When Richard took someone there for dinner, the two met.

  Richard was attractive and a factory owner at the time, so Erin soon moved in with him.

   Those toys were bought together when the two lived together. After all, Irene was young and played with many tricks, and Richard was also willing to try new things.

  Hearing this, Lacey and Ryder glanced at each other, it seems that their previous judgment was wrong, Richard is not gay.

  Roan nodded calmly, and continued to ask:

"And after that?"

   "Richard's factory went bankrupt after that."

  Irene sat on the sofa with a complicated expression on her face:

  “Richard had a breakdown at the time, and he started drinking too much.

  A month and a half ago, Richard suddenly sent me a message, saying that he was going to leave New York to go out and relax, and then I never saw him again, only occasionally contacted by message. "

  A month and a half ago, the words "send message" and "send message" made Roan's eyes narrow, and he thought of a possibility:

   "You mean, you've never spoken to Richard on the phone since then?"

  Irene seemed to have thought of something, swallowed and nodded:

   "Exactly."

  Ryder and Lacey looked at each other, and they both thought of a situation.

  Roan said directly:

   "Can you still reach Richard by message now?"

   "No."

  Irene shook her head, walked into the bedroom and found a mobile phone, and said:

   “I messaged him a week ago asking when he was going back to New York, but he never got back to me.”

   "Fu-k."

  Ryder slapped himself on the head and cursed, while Roan took the phone and handed it to Lacey, saying:

   "Lacey, immediately take this phone back to the No. 5 investigation team and let Mona try to see if she can use this phone to locate the location of Richard's phone at this time."

   "OK."

  Nodding after taking the phone, Lacey quickly walked out of the apartment and started the SUV to return to the No. 5 investigation team.

  In the apartment, Ryder poured himself and Roan a cup of coffee, poured another cup of coffee and handed it to Irene, said in a deep voice:

   "Ms. Irene, you must have guessed a possible state of Richard at this time.

  So I hope you will think about it carefully. Is there anything wrong with Richard's words and actions before he left you? "

   After taking the coffee, Irene's face was pale and her hands were shaking.

   After thinking for a long time, Irene shook her head:

   "I'm really sorry, Mr. Detective, I don't know what is wrong with you, because Richard was bankrupt at the time, and the whole person has always been wrong."

   "Will Richard repeat certain words after drinking?"

  Roan sat opposite Irene, and slowly guided:

   "Such as repeatedly scolding someone?"

   "This one does exist."

  Irene nodded:

  "He kept saying that he misjudged the wrong person, trusted the wrong person and so on."

  Ryder, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Irene, he knew who Richard was scolding.

  Roan continued to ask:

   "Then did Richard say what he planned to do? Like revenge or something."

   "No."

  Irene shook her head:

  “I didn’t hear what Richard said about revenge, nor did I hear what he planned to do. I only heard him say that this is God’s punishment for him.”

   "God?"

  Roan's brain turned sharply, as if he had discovered something:

   "Richard is a Christian?"

   "Yes, Richard has always been Protestant."

  Irene answered subconsciously, then suddenly remembered something, her body froze suddenly, she turned her head and said in a stuttering voice:

   "Mr. Detective, I remembered something.

   After Richard went bankrupt, every time he sobered up from alcoholism, he drove to a church for confession.

   And Richard sent me a message saying that the day he left New York, he also drank a lot of alcohol, and at the same time I never saw the two cars again. "

   "Great, Erin, this is great information!"

  Roan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked where the address of the church was.

  Ryder next to him also grinned, straightened up and stood up. Could it be that it was the hand of the pastor of the church?

   "That church is in New Jersey."

  Eileen found a Bible that was pressed under the bed. There was a bookmark inside, and the address of the church was on the bookmark.

   "Good."

   Taking the bookmark, Roan and Ryder immediately left the apartment, and then... took out their mobile phones to call the SWAT operation team.

   On the one hand, they need their help to arrest people later, on the other hand, the SUV of the No. 5 investigation team was driven away, and Roan and Ryder needed someone to pick them up.

  ——

  The vehicle of the SWAT operation team was driving towards the target location at high speed, and Roan was sitting in the back, calling Mona.

   "How is it? Did you find out where Richard's cell phone is?"

   "Sorry."

  Mona in the office area of ​​the No. 5 investigation team sat on a chair and said helplessly:

  "The other party didn't answer the phone or reply to the message, so I couldn't find out the specific location of the other party.

   But we found the last time Richard's car was seen, on the highways in New Jersey and New York. "

   Roan was already mentally prepared for this result, and briefly described the new clues he had just obtained from Irene. Roan finally said:

   "Check with William and the pastor of this church to see what is going on with him and whether he is suspected of committing a crime."

   "OK, give me a moment."

  Mona nodded, hung up the phone and began to work quickly with William and other technical agents.

   At 9:47 p.m., Roan, Ryder and a team of SWAT guys arrived at the church in New Jersey.

   At this time, the church was pitch black, and Roan and Ryder led several SWAT team members to block the front and rear doors of the church.

   After counting down to three, the two led the swat team and rushed in together.

  (end of this chapter)