American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1412 Confrontation
After watching Joey Struthers enter the elevator and leave, Hotchner and Jack chose another elevator to go to the underground parking lot of the federal building.

Except for Red and Garcia, the others had already set off. Hotchner told Jack about their discovery.

"Ten months ago, a white woman named Ellen Cornell was in a serious car accident. Her medical records showed that she had suffered a severe brain injury and was discharged from the rehabilitation center after nearly four months of physical therapy.

He was released from hospital about a month ago, which was a week before the first murder.”

"Did Garcia find any connections between her and the other victims?" Jack asked.

"Yes." Hotchner pressed the elevator button for the second floor below ground. "Alan Cornell works for the same construction company as the previous victim, specializing in interior and window decoration design."

"This seems to explain why she can easily enter other people's houses." Jack suddenly realized.

Hotchner went on to recount their findings, “Garcia also checked her online shopping records and found that Cornell had recently ordered multiple wigs, and her home was less than two blocks away from the hair salon of the third victim.”

"It sounds like it should be her."

As they were talking, the two men had already walked out of the elevator quickly. Although Hotchner was the actual head of the BAU team, he would usually take the initiative to drive during operations. Jack did not argue with him, but put on his bulletproof vest as he walked.

Although the murderer's tools were all Western-style kitchen knives, this is America after all, and there are too many examples of police being blasted with shotgun blasts when they visit homes.

Even though a shooting at the University of Tokyo that resulted in one death and two injuries can shock the whole country, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, even a campus shooting would not even qualify for large-scale coverage unless more than four people were killed.

On the way, Jack was looking through the investigation materials sent by Garcia. There was nothing suspicious about the car accident that Allen Cornell had experienced ten months ago, but the consequences were somewhat tragic.

The road was stained with oil, causing the car she was driving to lose control and overturn at a turn. In addition to Cornell herself being seriously injured, a car in the opposite lane was also seriously damaged.

One of the two female college students on the bus died and the other was injured. The injured may have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

The victim yesterday was Alan Cornell's colleague and superior in the same construction company. Although Rossi and Emily had not yet arrived there, CBI Agent Norwood also sent local police officers to the door first.

According to local police officers, Allen Cornell and the victim Sarah McKinley had a heated argument in the bathroom.

The former accused the latter of plagiarizing his design ideas, and the latter retorted that he was helping to cover Cornell's work during the six months when Cornell was on leave due to a car accident.

The most important thing is that local police officers also confirmed that Cornell did not go to the company today.

The BAU team is currently heading to Cornell's residence. The information shows that she is the mother of two children. Her eldest daughter Cathy has just become an adult, her youngest son Max is 11 years old, and her husband is named Mike Cornell.
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"FBI! Open the door!"

While saying the usual nonsense, Jack kicked the door open. Almost at the same time he entered the house, he could smell a faint smell of blood coming from the inner room.

Along with the loud noise of him kicking the door, a scream from a young girl came from the direction of the kitchen, "Mom! What have you done!"

Thinking it was not good, Jack ignored the dogmatic house-by-house cleaning and rushed to the kitchen. Hotchner followed behind him and gestured to Agent Norwood and the two accompanying police officers, signaling them to check other rooms.

Rosie and Emily also entered through the back door, and finally everyone gathered in the kitchen.

A middle-aged white man was lying on the kitchen floor with a knife in the abdomen, his blood soaking the carpet beneath him.

Allen Cornell held her daughter Cathy hostage with a knife dripping with her husband's blood. Facing the FBI pointing guns at her, her eyes were full of madness, "Get out, this is my home."

"Call an ambulance!" Jack confirmed immediately that the man of the family was in danger of death. The knife almost grazed his stomach and pierced into his body before being pulled out immediately, causing him to fall into hemorrhagic shock.

Emily turned and ran at the sight, rushing towards the Subaru they were driving, which had a first aid kit readily available.

"Put down the knife! Alan!" Hotchner adjusted the angle of the gun and said in a deep voice after confirming that the shooting would not hurt the hostages.

Rossi, who was standing on the other side of the room, also aimed at the middle-aged woman's forehead - there was a very obvious bruise there, and approached step by step, "There's something wrong with your brain. Killing is not your intention, Allen Cornell!"

"I don't understand what you are saying. My injury has healed long ago!" Ellen Cornell is a big white woman, who is estimated to be over 80 meters tall and weighs no less than kilograms.

This body size might not be a big deal for an average adult male, but for a woman, it reasonably explains why she was able to commit multiple murders before.

"The previous car accident caused damage to your frontal lobe, causing you to lose your normal logical thinking ability." Rossi said as he approached the other person.

"No, I'm fine!" Allen Cornell grabbed his daughter's neck and blocked the petite girl in front of him.

"You guys say I'm sick, Mike says there's something wrong with me, but I'm not, I'm fine, I'm going to kill you and the bitch who caused me to get into a car accident.

This is all your fault, you ruined my life, why is everyone against me! I have nothing now, look what I have become."

As she spoke, she raised her right hand holding the knife and pulled off the wig on her head, revealing the bloodstained bald scalp underneath. It was a horrifying scene.

Luke, a new member of the BAU team, had quietly moved behind Ellen Cornell. Seeing this opportunity, he suddenly pounced on her and clamped her right hand tightly with both hands.

Rossi quickly raised his gun, grabbed the screaming girl and pulled her behind him. Hotchner followed closely and worked together with Luke to subdue Allen Cornell, who was still struggling desperately.

"The ambulance will arrive in seven minutes." Emily ran back like the wind, carrying the first aid kit. She seemed oblivious to the chaotic scene in front of her. She knelt in front of the injured husband of the family and helped Jack tear open the package of sterile gauze.

"Dad! Dad!" The girl fell in front of her injured father and cried loudly, "Oh my God, what on earth is going on!"

"He'll be fine." Jack stuffed the gauze directly into the abdominal wound and then gave him an injection of norepinephrine.

(End of this chapter)