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

Chapter 1419 An unexpected reunion

As expected, the experienced ones have to be the wisest. After confirming that the fire scene was deliberately arranged like this, Jack connected with Stella via mobile phone on the spot, allowing the two professionals to communicate directly through video.

A second autopsy was performed on Claudia Cruz's body, and CSI researchers discovered an unnatural crack in the victim's skull.

Stella showed a photo to the camera. "It's not very obvious. Our forensic doctor boiled the skull and only discovered this scar after removing the burnt flesh and skin on the surface."

Boiling bones is also a common forensic procedure, and is often used for corpses that are severely decomposed or have severe surface carbonization and do not have much anatomical value.

This is also one of the reasons why Jack is only a half-forensic doctor and has not studied further in depth, because this step of operation is almost no different from his usual bone soup except that condiments such as onions, ginger and garlic are not added.

Just find a large stainless steel pot, throw the body pieces in and cook until the flesh and bones are separated, then take out the clean bones. During this process, even the taste is somewhat similar to
Stella pointed to the tiny cracks marked on the photo and said, "Generally speaking, high temperatures do cause cracks in the skull, but cracks usually spread along the bone seams. Impact injuries are different. You can clearly see a blunt injury here."

Although it was only a slight bone fracture, the crack was extremely obvious above the white bones.

Jack had read some of Dr. Temperley Brainerd's (Xiaogu) works, so he immediately looked around the scene, "What we are looking for should be a curved, semicircular blunt object."

Soon his eyes fell on a half-burned table at the door. There was an old-fashioned copper table lamp there, which had been mostly burnt black and the light bulb on top was missing.

"Like this?" Jack picked up the copper lamp and shook it in his hand. "It weighs about 3-4 pounds, but the surface has been burned by fire, so the DNA evidence is probably gone."

"But fingerprints won't. On the contrary, high temperature will firmly attach fingerprints to the metal surface. You might try your luck." Old Downey said cheerfully, seeming happy that he could be of help.

After bidding farewell to the kind-hearted retired fire investigator, Jack drove the copper desk lamp to the CSI laboratory, and then returned to the 12th Precinct to pick up little Lila.

Finch found little Lila's grandparents, Claudia Cruz's parents, an ordinary couple in their fifties who lived next door in Pennsylvania.

They didn't even know that Claudia was pregnant. When they heard that their daughter who "died unexpectedly" had left behind a baby who was only half a year old, they were surprised and sad, but also a little comforted.

The Cruzes are eager to see little Lila, but neither Reese nor Jack thinks it's a good idea.

Now that it has been confirmed that Claudia died of murder, and the "machine" has also reminded little Lila that she is in danger, then the person in the dark may also come after the Cruzes.

Jack notified the FBI office in Pennsylvania and asked them to send someone to protect the couple first, and then send little Lila to reunite with them after things in New York were settled.

In the evening, when Jack and little Lila appeared at the operations center of the federal building, it immediately caused quite a stir.

Although this certain person no longer appears in the operations center as frequently as before, and feeds his colleagues much less often than before, except for a few newcomers, most people still have a good impression of this young and handsome agent.

Seeing him walk into the operations center with a cute little baby in his arms, the female agents' hearts were broken and they wailed. "Oh, Jack, how could you do this to us? Which damn bitch is so lucky?" Some even deliberately groaned, as if they had been abandoned.

Jack waved his hands at the group of beautiful girls with a frown on his face, "Stop it, stop it."

Hannah and Jiejie were also at the operations center. They were not angry at all and were even hiding behind the crowd and watching the fun with a smile on their faces.

The crowd didn't calm down until their boss Dana Moger showed up. Jubal took the opportunity to step forward to rescue Jack and drove the guys back to their workstations to work.

"What a cute little girl." Dana took little Lila from Jack, skillfully wiped the saliva off her chin with a wet tissue, and carried her into her office.

Jack closed the door behind her, opened the thermos and started to make milk powder. Little Lila seemed to know how to read people's minds and lay very obediently in Dana's arms. She didn't pull at her shirt collar, but just stared at her with her big eyes without blinking.

Dana couldn't help herself after all, and kissed her pink little face, "Where on earth are you from, little angel? You should let Jack kill all those bad guys who want to harm you."

"Ma'am, can this be considered an order from you?" Jack teased.

Dana rolled her eyes at him, snatched the prepared milk powder and dripped it on the back of her hand to test the temperature before feeding it to little Lila. Then her face turned serious and she asked, "Are you sure her biological father is Adnan Petrosian?"

Jack nodded and said, "It's almost certain, it has been confirmed that his only son, Bradley, is a closeted person, but not bisexual.

In addition, the murder weapon I found at the fire scene has been sent to CSI, and they found a fingerprint on it and are comparing it to various criminal databases."

"It's incredible." Dana exclaimed, and then added, "I mean, that 'machine' can actually predict these things."

"Harold Finch is a genius," Jack agreed, but now was obviously not the time to discuss this, so he turned the topic back to little Lila.

"We found Lila's grandparents, and they are willing to raise her, but Petrosian needs a warning, otherwise there is no guarantee of their safety."

Dana looked at the cute little baby in her arms, her eyes full of tenderness. After a while, she raised her head and regained her usual strong woman demeanor.
"Do what you want, Jack. If necessary, you can make a bigger noise. Sometimes a warning alone is not enough to let those unscrupulous powerful people know when to stop."
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"Jack?"

The slightly high-pitched female voice startled Jack, who had just walked out of the Federal Building. He turned around and was surprised to see a familiar but long-unseen pretty face. "Taylor Kelly, when did you come to New York?"

The beautiful news anchor of Los Angeles Channel 8 walked up to Jack aggressively, looking a little frustrated, "You... You actually..."

Her slender fingers trembled as she pointed at little Lila sitting on Jack's chest, her chest heaving violently, "Damn, why is she so cute? No, I want to know who her mother is?"

(End of this chapter)