Chapter 33 Section five

On Thursday, June 6, Tom Eisenman and Erin Brunn entered the back room of the reinforced concrete bunker for the second time.With lighting installed by crime scene lab technicians, they quickly found the "open door" button behind the wall-mounted first aid kit.After about one-third of the bookshelf slowly rotated open, a small door appeared in front of their eyes.The door was so narrow that Tom had to turn sideways to get in.There was a bare wooden bed against the wall in the small room, without sheets or pillows.Also in the house was a plastic jug of water, a roll of toilet paper, a chemical toilet, a dirty towel, a bottle of air cleaner and a bottle of termite repellent.

The back of the door is painted gray, similar to the color of the concrete walls and floors.Except for the "one-sided window" on the bare wall, there is not even a power plug.A few small air holes were drilled at the top of one wall near the ceiling, and the exit of the air holes to the "workroom" was covered by a baffle. This ingenious design allowed air to flow into the dungeon, but light could not enter. Tom Eisenman closed the door and sat quietly on the bed for a while.There is no light, no sound, not even the flow of air.Apart from the word "death", he couldn't imagine any other words that could be used to describe the prison in front of him.No, this tomb-like place—deadly dark, deadly still, deadly still.This is simply a living coffin!

Tom came out of the dungeon.When the doors and bookshelves are open, the inside can be seen through the "one-sided window".Tom let Erin in and closed the door. Tom found a small button hidden in the crack of the window frame of the "one-sided window". With a light push, Irene's voice came from the dungeon: "On the wall, someone wrote: Cliff, P.O. Box 349." Tom asked Irene to turn off the flashlight, and the dungeon was suddenly dark. No matter how hard Tom tried, he couldn't see any images from the "one-sided window".Tom suddenly remembered something, and he took the luminous sight.With this high-intensity instrument, Tom vaguely observed the outline of a fuzzy pink and purple Irene, but still couldn't see other objects in the dungeon.

Tom Eisenman remembered an article he had read saying that in the absence of any light or sound around, a person would quickly lose his mental balance, lose his mind, lose consciousness, and finally go crazy, Become an out-and-out lunatic.How long can I last, Tom thought, if I were put in this dungeon?one day?a week?a month?Then I'll break down, give in, and I'll do anything - just get me out! Leonard Luck's mother, Gloria Eberling, arrives unexpectedly, looking for Tom Eisenman. Officer Eisenman led Mrs. Eberling under the big pine tree and took two folding chairs. "I'm so scared." Gloria clenched her hands into fists, twisting her fingers nervously from time to time. "Last night, I went to Kaiser Hospital to see my son. You know, he hasn't woken up since that day. The doctor said , his brain is dead."

"very sorry." "I came to you because I was really scared. About two years ago, my other son, Donald, took a trip to Las Vegas, Reno, and never came back." "You mean, you haven't seen or heard from Donald for two years?" "I know something terrible must have happened, or he would have written." "Two years ago, when Leonard fled in fear of crime, did he force Donald to ask for money?" "Leonard will never hurt..." Tom Eisenman thought, I don't have to say that, but the old mother understood: Donald is dead. Three police dog trainers arrived at the scene on Blue Mountain Road, each with a German shepherd.The square-shaped ground search operation has been completed. According to Director ElBaradei's deployment, the excavation work can begin after the police dogs have sniffed the area again.Bulldozers from the Caravoro Regional Highway Authority have been ordered to wait on the driveway, but experts believe that the use of large machinery is not suitable for the time being.

On Thursday afternoon, under the scorching sun, Dr. Boyd Stevens, chief medical examiner of the San Francisco Police Department, was ordered to come to Blue Mountain Road. In addition to his rich experience, he also brought the most advanced equipment at that time.Before that, Dr. Terry Pike had to send some samples to Stockton, between San Andres and San Francisco, for testing because the rural Calavero area had relatively crude equipment. A police dog sniffed out a bone about four inches long in block 33C. Its owner planted a small flag like a golf course at the location of the discovery, and then sent the "physical evidence" in a plastic bag to the On the workbench of forensic doctors.

Dr. Boyd Stevens observed the sample with the naked eye and a microscope, and pressed the recording button of the tape recorder: "Human bone. Severely decayed. Half of it is off-white, and the other half is dark brown, indicating that only half is buried in the soil." Both ends were sawed off. There was still a small amount of soft tissue. Analysis items: 1. Remove the soft tissue for toxicological testing; , to determine the time frame of the decay of the corpse; 3. After the samples are processed, they will be sent to anthropologists to identify the gender, race, approximate age and other characteristics of the deceased.” Dr. Sidiwen explained to Director ElBaradei the so-called “processing” of the bones That is, soaking in a dilute mixture of sodium phosphate and household cleaner for two days to remove remaining sporadic soft tissue, and then exposing it to the sun for "bleaching."

In 1985, DNA technology was not yet available, so although hundreds of such human bone fragments were found in subsequent site investigations, they were not of much practical significance in terms of forensic science. Due to insufficient manpower, excavation work can only be carried out one by one.The first excavation site selected was a trench on the back hillside.It is said to be "excavation", but in fact, most of the time, the police officers used small shovels, brushes and hands to dig the soil bit by bit like archaeologists, and the dug soil had to pass through another sieve.

"It's unbelievable," said a police officer who sifted the soil. "In normal times, if you can find one piece of 'material evidence' in a week, you'd win the jackpot. Now we can sieve dozens of pieces of evidence." .” The first "unearthed" from the trenches were some clothes belonging to Robin Starley: a T-shirt with the words "Guardian Angel" printed on it, and two work clothes with Robin's name on them. "Guardian Angel" is a mass security organization, and Robin has worked as a volunteer in the organization.A floor mat from a blood-soaked Honda Pulley, a green garbage bag containing an envelope addressed to Wu Qita, and an invoice for a rental movie videotape dated July 1984 were also found later. On the 24th of January, the name on the invoice was Harvey Dubbs.

At around 4:30 in the afternoon, a disgraced police officer rushed down the back hillside, shouting: "Stretcher! We dug up two bodies!" Two forensic doctors at the scene followed the crowd to the ditch.The black wreckage had been badly deformed. Dr. Terry Parker said to his colleagues: "The body was burned at a high temperature." Dr. Boyd Stevens nodded silently.Both experts knew in their hearts that, like the sawn bone, it would be difficult for them to draw any conclusions about the case from these charred corpses.And obviously, the perpetrators are well aware of this.

At 8 o'clock that night, in the intensive care unit of Kaiser Hospital in the south of San Francisco, Mrs. Gloria Ebelin tremblingly signed her name on her son's "Willing to Abandon Treatment", and the doctor turned off Lena. All the instruments around the De Luck bed.A nurse pulled out all kinds of thick and thin tubes and needles stuck in Leonard's body, and threw them into the trash can.When the nurse pushed the last piece of medical equipment out of the ward, she nodded slightly to the policemen waiting in the corridor. Investigators turned on the camera lens and clicked the shutter on Leonard Luck's lifeless face.They took all of Leonard's personal belongings from the bedside table and copied a few lines from the medical record that hung on the bed shelf. Two hours later, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it was already 6:00 am the next day in England, and a train from London was slowly entering the platform of Leeds, Yorkshire.When officers from Scotland Yard arrived at the private secondary school, which did not wish to be named in the newspapers, refreshments had been prepared in the principal's drawing room.After exchanging pleasantries, the principal left with an excuse, leaving only the police officer and Wu Qida or Charlie Qida Wu's uncle Dr. Gu, who was also a teacher of the school, in the reception room. "Charlie showed antisocial emotions at a very young age," Dr. Gu paused, as if considering a more accurate expression, "and cruelty that was out of proportion to his age. He liked to draw women, but the women he painted Robots with exaggerated female organs. His family is very rich, but he can never get over the problem of stealing. That time, because he stole from a classmate here, I told him to fuck off." "Is he smart?" "Insanely intelligent. While he can't face reality or accept it, he certainly has the ability to tell right from wrong." "We know that he has two older sisters in Canada, but the FBI asked the Canadian side to check all the Chinese surnamed Wu in Calgary and Toronto, and no one has anything to do with Charlie Chida Wu." "It's very simple. My two nieces are already married. This is their husband's family name." Dr. Gu wrote a few words on a note and handed it to the police officer. A San Francisco patrolman remembered an incident that happened not long ago.That night a prostitute stopped his police car and said she had been hired as an escort by a bearded man who bought her to dinner and took her to a motel.The prostitute pushed open the door of the hotel bathroom, and saw a Chinese man standing naked inside with a steel knife.The Chinese man pushed the prostitute onto the bed, raped her, and kept stabbing the steel knife into the mattress next to the prostitute's head, while another man took pictures.As she was leaving, the man with the mustache said to her that they usually kill women when they are done, but he liked her and let her live.They withheld her driver's license, which had her home address on it.The two men said that if she spoke, they would find her and torture her to death. The police asked the prostitute to go to the police station to identify the photos, and she recognized Leonard Luck and Wu Qida. Blue Mountain Road scene.A worker from the Calavoro Regional Highway Authority got out of the bulldozer, lit a cigarette, and strolled into the woods next to the driveway.After smoking, he threw the cigarette butt on the ground and rubbed it gently with his toes, causing the ground to sink a little.When his feet left, the ground returned to its original state.After trying several times like this, the worker yelled at Tom Eisenman and Norman Flynn in front of the cabin: "Come and see, there must be something buried here!" Sure enough, there they dug up a 5-gallon, or 19-liter, plastic bucket with the lid less than 3 inches off the ground.In addition to Robin Starley's checkbook, a picture of a woman, several wallets, rings, necklaces, bracelets, etc., there are also 3 video tapes, one of which reads "Cassie/Blanda" on the label. Bailanda O'Connon is a neighbor on Blue Mountain Road. She, her husband Lonnie Bond, and her son Lonnie Bond Jr. rented Mr. Bo Carter's house on the back hillside. April 1985 The whole family disappeared at the end of the month or early May.As for Cathy, according to later police investigations, her full name is Cathy Allen, 20 years old, she used to work in a Safeway supermarket in the suburbs of San Francisco, and her boyfriend was Michael Carroll. Director ElBaradei slid a videotape into the VCR, and the screen showed the Leonard Luck family's Easter dinner not long ago, except for Coralah Blaze and her mother, Gloria Eberling, from From their conversation, they learned that the other two people at the table were Corala's parents. On-screen Leonard said, "We're one step away from nuclear war, and I'm fully prepared. When it does, you all know where to go." While cutting the turkey, Leonard explained to the crowd and answered their questions in a confident and authoritative tone.He analyzed the international situation at that time and believed that nuclear war was inevitable, and the result of the war would be the destruction of the whole world.But, he said, God would not let humanity perish with the earth, and he—Leonard Luck—would be the new Noah or Adam.Leonard said that he plans to build several reinforced concrete bunkers in various places, each of which will house an Eve, and these women will become the mothers of the new world. The video tape stopped abruptly, and the screen was covered with snowflakes. On the tape marked "Cassie/Blanda", the people at the scene saw the living room of the bungalow on Blue Mountain Road that they were already familiar with.On the screen, there is only a woman sitting on a chair with her hands handcuffed behind her back.It was background noise at first, and gradually the sound became clearer.I only heard a man say: "...Michael owes us money, and unfortunately, it is impossible for him to pay it back. We are giving you a choice now, Cathy, and this may be the last time we will give you a choice. If you Very obedient and cooperative, then 30 days later, if you want to know the exact date, it will be May 15th, we will either give you some anesthesia, or blindfold you, or use something else The method, in short, does not let you know where you are coming from, where you are going, and then bring you back to the city, and you can go. As for whether you will call the police or tell others about anything after that, I Don't care. You don't know my name, his name is Charlie. You don't know where this is. So what you say probably won't cause us any trouble...but if you won't cooperate, you're not here Agree to work with us at this moment, and we'll probably blow a hole in your head and drag it out to be buried next to Michael. We're doing it because, I admit, we're scared and nervous. We don't want to We don't want to get caught, so we don't leave anyone alive. It sounds cruel, but there's nothing we can do. "Your cooperation project with us includes providing some information about Michael, about his brother, about his bank account, and we will ask you to write these materials down to ensure that all the information is accurate. We may let You write a letter to his brother, make up a random story, say that Michael got a new job, you moved to a place far away, etc., etc., anyway, there will be no more Lots of links. "We won't let you idle while you're here. You'll have to cook for us, do your laundry, clean up, and make love to us. Of course, you don't have to. But if you don't want to die, you're afraid Not many options." The woman said: "No, I..." The voice was so soft that I couldn't hear the words behind. The man's voice continued, "Actually, Cathy, I do like you. I don't want to lie to you. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. We don't want to argue with you about whether it's all fair, and we don't want to Discussing whether we're good or bad, we're all about ourselves. Two self-serving brutes, you might say. You're sure to come up with worse things to say about us in the next few weeks, but we The rules of the game are so set. "In the last 24 hours, we have been tired, tense, and maybe a little nervous. We need you to do something to relieve our fatigue. Trust me, you also need to relax. Again, if you are very Obedient and cooperative, we will treat you as kindly as possible. If you don't like it, sorry, miss, we will throw you on the bed and tie you up, gang rape you, shoot you, and finally bury you. OK Now, the time is up, make your choice." Cathy whispered, "Okay, I'll work with you." "Speak up, let's hear you clearly!" "I would like to cooperate with you." "That's right." The man's voice said, "Michel is such a fucking idiot... Do you have the key to the handcuffs?" Another man's voice: "Yeah." A man walks into the frame, that is Leonard Luck, and he uncuffs the woman, "Stand up, Cathy, take off your clothes, let's inspect the goods." Another man enters the frame, an Asian of medium height. "Charlie Wu." Director ElBaradei in front of the TV did not know whether he was talking to himself or to others.