Chapter 5 Chapter Four

So James Randall came into our scouting sight.During the investigation of his background, the detectives found an interesting phenomenon. The local prostitutes in Clearwater Town recognized Randall as one of their regular customers. Maybe he was the Terry he met in that kind of place.It's really incredible that the two went from sex trading to cohabitation.However, this can be explained by saying that they both need to find a home or a harbor for each other. Surveillance agents from the Tampa police followed Randall for several days.He was finally spotted pulling into a car dealership with a truck fitted with Firestone tires.Perhaps he has already smelled something. If he is the serial killer, then he may be more sensitive to the daily actions of Qingshui Town than the police, because only in this way can he be fully prepared psychologically and behaviorally to be ready to kill at any time. run away.But he didn't have a fixed model or use any experience to apply his thinking of self-action, and he was only competing with the police based on his own intuition, which we have already felt.

But we don't want to be exposed, so we have been watching him secretly.Detectives following him that day saw the dealership take two tires off his car and replace them with new ones.One of the following detectives immediately called Robert.I was on the sidelines when I heard the agent say excitedly on the phone: "We found those two rear tires." However, what we need are four tires.Only when all four tires are available can a strict comparison be made.Robert and I came up with a clever plan. Two days later, a detective posing as the tire dealer's employee visited James and Terry's house.

"Hi, hello, I'm from the tire shop. There's something wrong with the new tires on your car." The detective said. "What's wrong?" James asked. "It's some design flaw, I guess..." the detective said with a smile, "However, if you take the car to the dealership right away, you can get four brand new tires for free, which is our offer to you." A little compensation." This strategy was set up so naturally and so cleverly that almost no one could see a single flaw in it.Indeed, even I am proud of this ruse. The other party took the bait and felt that he had taken a big advantage.So that afternoon, Terry and James showed up at the tire dealership.Then, naturally, the dealer gave them the four new tires we purchased.At that time, Terry and James were very happy, and they didn't even say a word of thanks, as if they had lost their words, they just looked at me excitedly, and I looked at you.

Unbeknownst to them, of course, the new tires fitted to James' trucks were marked.If these tires turn up at a crime scene in the future, we can be confident they are from James Randall's truck. Meanwhile, Peter pored over four old tires on James' truck.They have a "cypress" feature -- that is, small cuts in the tire tread that grip the ground and keep the car from skidding. "Seppus" can help police understand the wear level of tires and is an important tool for forensic scientists to solve crimes.The "Seppes" on Randall's old tires matched the crime scene photographs exactly.

Another distinctive feature also fits with it, and quite by coincidence, I found that the right rear tire of the James truck happened to be the tire in the best photo taken at the crime scene, and there was a stone embedded in the right rear tire tread and the location coincided perfectly with the crime scene records, so the stone embedded in the tire gave us yet another definitive proof. Of course, I also hope to get more conclusive evidence, I want to test the fur of Terry's pug. Robert simply dispatched two female detectives from the Tampa Police Department.They knocked on Terry's door one afternoon, this time posing as pet store attendants.

"Hello, ma'am, we recently launched a grooming service for dogs as a promotion, and your dog can enjoy one service for free." The female agent smiled and said to Terry who came to open the door. When Terry heard this, he laughed immediately, and said enthusiastically, "Please come in and talk, don't stand outside the door." Afterwards, the two female detectives told me that they really didn't expect things to go so smoothly at that time. Terry's kindness and cheerfulness made them feel different emotions for a while—they really didn't want Terry to It was the murderer the police station was looking for, although they rejected this idea again and again in their hearts.Of course, they did not forget their mission to obtain evidence from the pug.

Now Terry has allowed our female detective to come in. "Please take a seat first, I'll be right there." Terry said and entered another room.Perhaps, she would have to discuss this matter with her boyfriend James before making a decision. "Well, how is your service? I forgot what I said just now, can you say it again?" After a while, Terry came out of the room and sat down on the sofa. "Okay, we'll tell you again." Our female detective said nothing.In fact, Terry was a little tired these two days. At the same time, she was also a little nervous, and began to feel uneasy, nagging that she forgot this or that when doing things, and said that she didn't know where it happened. something wrong?She also asked our female police detective: "Have any of you ever felt like me?"

"Yes, ma'am, it's a sign of overwork, we've had it too..." Our female detective replied perfunctorily as she worked. "You guys do a great job of cleaning!" Terry obviously didn't hear any flaws, watching our female police detective cleaning the dog in the house, he couldn't help saying in admiration. "Thank you for your compliment." Our female police detective responded to her words, while flicking the dog's fur onto a clean white towel. This is the most important part of the operation. Dog hair found on the body of Cindy Pouch for comparison.

It's all over and our detectives are starting to pull out.Of course, these actions are all done in such a polite and gentle way.Terry sent them to the door and said, if there is any free next time, it is best to notify in advance. Evidence of dog hair was thus obtained, and I began to look through the microscope overnight, and found that the hair on Terry's pug was very similar to the dog hair found on the two victims. In the morning, exhausted, I made myself a cup of coffee. Before I finished it, Robert rushed into my office like a gust of wind. "Man, look at this..." Robert held up a document and asked me to read it.

I casually flipped through the investigation materials about James' background.To my surprise, James was arrested and imprisoned for raping his first wife twice. After serving six years, he broke his oath during a parole and fled Massachusetts, where he had been working, back to his hometown of Clearwater. town. James was identified in the material as a sexual sadist, that is to say, in order to satisfy his own sexual desires, he completely ignored whether he caused harm and pain to the other party.Sadism is typically biting, pinching, or verbal abuse.Slightly heavier ones may tie up sexual objects, abuse, whip, etc.

If someone intentionally and secretly cuts or defiles a woman's clothes in a public place, or cuts a woman's hair to arouse sexual excitement, it should also be regarded as a sadistic act.Some men also electrified their wives with electric currents all over their bodies, and even carved their names on their wives' chests with a knife, or burned their wives' vaginas with kerosene wicks, so that the wives finally could not bear the abuse and divorced.There are also such examples. The worst form of sexual sadism is the fatal killing of the opposite sex, becoming a pornographic murderer.These people get a kind of sexual pleasure from the act of killing, which even replaces the whole sexual activity.The causes of sadism are not fully understood.Some experts once pointed out that when a person’s sexual impulse goes to the road of abuse, it can have two explanations. The first explanation is that this sadistic tendency is the Part of all courtship processes in primitive times, so it seems, it's an atavistic phenomenon.The second explanation is that some men with sexual weakness and impotence want to use it to obtain some aphrodisiac effects, in order to achieve the purpose of satisfying sexual desire.In any case, sadistic behavior does not suddenly appear in adults. It seems that the clues have gradually become clear, and we formally summoned Terry to the police station one morning.After a day of communication, she finally confessed to us what kind of life she was living during this time. Terry described James like this: "He was really crazy about me. I was sitting on a chair and he yelled at me, then grabbed me by the neck, pushed me against the wall and beat me hard. , that's the last thing I can remember that happened. When I woke up in bed, he was lying on top of me and raping me... I think, at that time, it was like he was making love to my dead body." Terry has been living in fear, and what she told us seems like a nightmare, so real that it is unimaginable.In the description, the expression on Terry's face has been trembling, her head has been lowered, and the tone of her speech is also changing slightly. We know that she is already in shock for her boyfriend, although our clues are not yet Complete, but we should now say that this case is already moving in a good direction, and we are very confident. Terry felt that she had gained freedom and new life after quitting drugs and prostitution, especially after having a boyfriend, she had a kind of pride and self-confidence.However, she was soon disappointed. She said: "In my life, I have never felt the pain of being deceived like this. He is indeed a master of acting. When you tell me, Jimmy may be the one who killed those few people." I couldn’t believe my ears when I was the murderer of a girl. Although I don’t want to believe it, how I wish the deaths of those innocent women had nothing to do with him. Really, I don’t believe that killing is his thing at all. Fuck. I thought he liked the life with me, it was a pure and beautiful relationship. Both of us had a bad life before, I always thought he would cherish this rare good life now, he always When he gets home, he can have a hot dinner; next to him, there is a woman who can care about him; when he wants to watch a movie, someone will accompany him to the movie; if he needs someone to chat with him, or at home You can watch TV with him and you won’t be able to find someone; and he and I take the pug around for a walk every night, what a wonderful day that should be.” The "Jimmy" that Terry said was James' nickname at home.This name was given to him by his mother when he was young. In the place where he was born, many people called him "Jimmy". Gradually estranged him, and since then he has not dared to communicate with him much. Everyone knows that James has raped his ex-wife twice, and was arrested and imprisoned for this.The town whispered that James was a sadist.Even the people in the town are still speculating whether the reason why Terry lived with him is also related to sexual abuse.From then on, people expressed more concern or sympathy for Terry, but none of them dared to tell Terry a little more about this situation.Terry likes to take her pug around for a walk, and she has used this method for a long time to repel the emptiness and anxiety in her heart.She didn't even know how long such days would last, let alone whether such days would end. Now, everything is clear. After more than a year of investigation and evidence collection by the Tampa City Police Department, they can finally put an end to the series of naked corpse cases in Qingshui Town.Among the hardships, only me, Robert and other colleagues know. The police department applied for a search warrant and searched the home of Terry and James.Detectives found an abandoned pink rug under James and Terry's bed.After scientific testing, it was found that the main material of the carpet is nylon, and the edge part is polyester fiber.The fibers were identical in shape and color to those found on the victims' bodies.In the villa, the police also found more physical evidence that the murder took place here. The fibers were distinct enough to be compared with those found on the victim.My conclusion is that any one of these victims is related to this particular rug, however, there may also be fibers from another rug that happen to be identical to the fibers in this rug. When searching James' room, the police also found some abnormalities: scattered on the floor were some fragments of cigarette paper, which seemed to have been chewed, in different shapes and sizes. So, we observed the pug's habits in James' room, and found that it usually took out cigarette butts from the ashtray, put them in its mouth and chewed them, and then spit them out on the floor of the room.It seems that Terry and James' pug is indeed unusual. We started to analyze because Terry was still smoking cigarettes after quitting drug addiction, but she had a habit of throwing the cigarette butts away at any time. Sometimes, she would throw the cigarette butts in the ashtray, and sometimes she would Toss the cigarette butt on the floor and stamp it out with your foot.At this time, her pug will pick up the cigarette butt and chew it in his mouth.The pup was chewing and trotting, so it was no surprise that there were small pieces of cigarette paper strewn all over the floor, suggesting that this pup, too, had been infected by Terry. We also found that when Terry was smoking, the dog would run up and wag its head and tail at the owner as soon as it smelled the cigarette, and kept opening its mouth and sticking out its tongue to "circle" the smoke in its mouth.Terry said that if the puppy does not "smoke" for two days, it will not eat, and it will even yawn and cry continuously, looking listless. Terry told us: "At the time, I thought it was a cold or a fever, but now it looks like it's nothing. I'm addicted to cigarettes, and I have to smoke a cigarette every five or six minutes. When the smoke is everywhere, the puppy will jump up and down again. At this time, no matter how hard you drive it away, it will not go away. As for the cigarette butts in the cigarette tray, they are all toys for its mischievous play. Sometimes, I look at He chews the cigarette butt in his mouth, and it's also fun." Generally speaking, the clues of the development of the case already have a clue.We've tested the DNA on the saliva from the cigarette paper, and it belongs to Terry, which proves that the cigarette paper came from the room they lived in.I also remember the saliva-covered cigarette paper found on Cindy's body, which was a bit left over from the dog's chewing.So to speak, it was the piece of paper that stuck to Cindy's chest.As for James, he was unable to perceive these things at the time, which is a very important physical evidence. Realizing that she had made a huge mistake, Terry said with great remorse: "It seems that some of the murders happened in my home, in my bed. I can confirm that two of them happened here. , I was visiting my dying mother in West Palm Beach." Of course, James took the victim home while Terry was away.On that pink carpet, he sexually abused them, strangled them during sex and killed them.Then, the victim's naked body will absorb some fibers and dog hair on the carpet, which is the physical evidence we later found on the body.As James moved Wendy's body, his truck's tires left another mark in the sand.Also, the cigarette paper we found on the body of Cindy Pouch, it was a piece of cigarette chewed by a dog that had Terry Jean's DNA on it. At trial, James Randall's first wife testified against him.Her description of Randall's sexually abusive tendencies was outrageous to listen to. "He asked me to lie down, and then tied my hands behind my back with my shoelaces. At this time, I don't know if I can stand this behavior and survive." James' ex-wife So tell the court. James Randall has been sentenced to two life sentences for the murders of Wendy Ann Evans and Cindy Jean Pursue.Generally, in the criminal law of the Anglo-American law system, this is a kind of imprisonment penalty, which is a punishment that convicts are imprisoned for life and their personal freedom is restricted until death.This is a crime applicable to more serious crimes. In theory, criminals need to be imprisoned for life, but in practice they are often paroled or pardoned. This kind of life imprisonment is the penalty second only to the death penalty. In the states that have abolished the death penalty in the United States, it has become the highest penalty and is applicable to some serious crimes such as murder.Some state criminal laws in the United States stipulate that life imprisonment is applicable to Class A felonies.That is, in a law that retains the death penalty, it may serve as an optional statutory penalty for certain crimes, and in a law that abolishes the death penalty, it may serve as an absolute statutory penalty for certain crimes. Life imprisonment has the function of isolating criminals for a longer period of time, and it can better protect society.But long-term imprisonment will also bring great damage to criminals mentally and physically, and it is not conducive to their rehabilitation.Therefore, there are still debates about whether life imprisonment should be abolished in western countries. Terry once visited James in prison and asked him: "Why didn't I kill, um, why didn't I, Jimmy?" At this time, James looked at Terry, tears streaming down his face.Not wanting the police to hear what he said, he whispered, "I hurt someone, so I won't hurt you." "You are despicable and shameless!" Terry turned and left after saying this.Later, she met me at a party and she said of James this way: "I'd love to see him die, he deserves the death penalty for what he's done. Life in prison It wasn't enough for this man. The people he killed were prostitutes, some of them were taking drugs, but on the other hand, they were also women." Forensic identification knowledge tips: In crime scene evidence investigations, investigators use a method of fingerprinting non-porous surfaces called strong adhesive fuming.The Strong Adhesive is made from cyanoacrylate, a colorless, transparent liquid used to make instant adhesives, which is synthesized from ethyl cyanoacetate and formaldehyde and then depolymerized.Put this drop of strong adhesive and the object containing the fingerprint into a small container at the same time, and then heat the container for six hours. After the strong adhesive is heated, the smoke will thicken and adhere to the grease of the fingerprint.Under a laser, they fluoresce, revealing a clear image of the fingerprint.