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Chapter 240 - 175: Clues on the Corpse, Pinpointing the Identity of the Murderer

Chapter 240: Chapter 175: Clues on the Corpse, Pinpointing the Identity of the Murderer

Serial murder cases typically involve three or more linked homicides.

Green had collected information on missing Chinese male international students from various major high schools and community colleges in Los Angeles over the past six months—adding up to nearly twenty individuals.

In the past, if such a case were made public, it would dominate the news headlines for weeks.

"So many missing persons, was there really no clue before?"

Brian seemed surprised.

The families of those who disappeared would have also contacted the schools, even the embassy.

Once the embassy received numerous tips, they would have realized the severity of the situation; it’s impossible they hadn’t heard anything at all.

Green shook his head:

"Yesterday afternoon, I called up a friend, and we contacted the Chinese communities at various major schools, and then I went to Parker Center (Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters) to inquire about missing Chinese international student cases in the past six months.

As a result, only three reports had been filed.

Two were written off as false alarms, and the remaining one was a private report by the missing person’s girlfriend—she has since been expelled from school and the contact information she left at the police station is no longer valid."

Upon hearing this, Brian fell silent.

He could tell what was happening.

Those schools had all suppressed the cases.

In the United States, academic elites’ influence was no joke, with vast social networks spanning government, business, and a considerable portion of the middle and upper-echelons of society.

The disappearance of a foreign student was not something they would care about.

As for the friends of those missing... considering the fate of the girl who reported the case, as told by Green, they knew the threats they would face.

These days, students coming from Hua Country to study are either wealthy or the "child of the whole family’s efforts" plus "talent," able to seize the opportunity to come here.

People are selfish.

It’s just so fucked up.

Of course, there is another important factor.

That’s the issue of the Chinese community’s voice.

Los Angeles is actually a core area for Chinese immigrants, with a significant number, almost equivalent to the second-largest ethnic group after white people, and most are in fairly good condition.

The problem is, despite there being numerous wealthy and middle-class Chinese here, due to factors such as geography, the composition of immigrants, generation gaps, and so on, they have not unified into a powerful force.

Early immigrants mostly preferred to work honestly, make money, and few strived for political office, often it’s the rich who make political donations rather than climbing the ladder themselves, leading to a very fragmented voice overall.

In such a situation, being victimized is unavoidable.

Strictly speaking, in this period, due to the need for the market in Hua Country plus some extraneous factors, in earlier years, it wasn’t hard for the Chinese community to rise up.

At least, it was simpler than for the black uncles.

The problem is that inner fighting is fierce, disappointing indeed.

..

Pushing down some thoughts.

Brian returned the documents to Green: "Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?"

Green nodded, pulling out and handing a piece of the material to Brian:

"Confirmed, this is his information.

The deceased was a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles branch, from Jiangsu, Hua Country, lived off-campus.

Yesterday was a bit rushed, I reached out to his roommate through the school’s international student mutual aid group, hoping to get ahold of the deceased’s computer and phone.

But the roommate said all the stuff was taken by the deceased.

The deceased had recently been in an online relationship, the last contact with them was four days ago, when he planned to drop out of school for love, so they didn’t call the police in the end.

However, I felt that something was off about those students, but when asked for details, no one cooperated with me, and it was too late, so I returned."

Brian nodded: "Green, you’ve done great, very effective. By the way, give me the roommate’s number, I’ll contact him."

Interesting, the victim turned out to be his schoolmate.

Brian is a UCLA graduate.

This university is part of the University of California system, located on the west side of Los Angeles, established in 1919, with very high global rankings.

More than twenty missing international students—although not all of them necessarily met with mishaps, some probably just came to attend unaccredited schools and then worked illegally—the majority of the missing students were the pride of their families.

A single disappearance is equivalent to a broken family.

Plus, these people are also compatriots of Brian’s world.

He still hopes to catch the killer as soon as possible.

..

Brian picked up the desk phone and dialed the roommate’s number.

While waiting,

he quickly scanned the information of the deceased:

Yang Wei, from Jiangsu, 18 years old...

The information was somewhat rudimentary, lacking identification details; it was evident that it wasn’t registered information from the school, or else the deceased’s parents’ contact details would have been included.

For Green to have gotten this much by the afternoon was impressive.

Listening to the dial tone in the phone,

Brian pondered the criminal’s mindset.

Such cyber crime likely involves casting a wide net, then filtering and pinpointing the chosen targets.

So why is the killer fixated on Chinese male international students?

First: Possibly gay.

That needs no explanation.

Second: Aesthetic preference, perhaps favors the Chinese male demographic—after all, in terms of delicate skin and body odor, the Chinese are indeed quite exceptional.

Third: Chinese international students are relatively ’naive and easy to deceive.’

At this time, societal attitudes in Hua Country are somewhat conservative, and the internet and other technology are slightly behind the United States, information not exploding as much, with the better students typically being the ones who study diligently and hard.

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