Chapter 82. Taking advantage of the propaganda plan
A news quickly became popular all over the country, starting from the Los Angeles Times, to the reprints of the Washington Post and the New York Times, and then to the joint reposting of many newspapers and agencies across the country, only three days were left. Even on the fourth day, the British Times and the Australian Sydney Morning Herald were dispatched one after another. Of course, various TV stations were rushing to report.
The mysterious murder case occurred in Huron, a small town in California. Three students who disappeared in Lincoln High School in Los Angeles died in May, but had a body well preserved for at least three months. The main cause of death was as high as 80% of the blood loss in the whole body, as well as the trauma of tearing the neck but not biting the beast, and living alone in a residential home with impaired mobility and Alzheimer's disease. There is more than one mystery in it, and it is really important to pay attention to it.
There are many people who have a headache about this. The Huron police have limited police force and cannot conduct in-depth investigations into the case. Considering that the deceased is a Los Angeles person, the Los Angeles police station was naturally brought in. Furthermore, since this is already a matter between two cities, Mayor Huron, the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of California have paid close attention to the case. For a moment, half of the West Coast became lively.
Considering the police force arrangement and the distance between the two places, the case was quickly classified as the Luocheng Police Station, and a special task force was set up for this purpose. As for the team leader, he was an agent sent from the FBI, who led about thirty police officers and eight police cars.
"Sergey, what do you mean is that these three students disappeared after beating an Asian elementary school student?"
In the office, Inspector Marl tapped the desktop with his finger.
"Yes, the child was beaten to a coma at that time, and was found by his sister on the street corner and sent back to the school directly. The police only happened after that, and then the principal of Lincoln High School found that they could not find the three students."
Marl pondered for a moment: "Who is that sister?"
"Alice Wang, and his younger brother Oscar attended the same elementary school, one in fifth grade and the other in sixth grade."
Oh, it turns out that he is just a primary school student.
Mar nodded clearly and said, "So, our case is actually the follow-up of that case. The fight turned into a missing case and then turned into a murder case. I believe you should have investigated a lot at that time. What are you getting?"
Sergei pondered for a moment: "The police station initially investigated the missing case, and after blood was found in the gutter at the scene, it was indeed investigated in the direction of the murder. Polin and I even took over the job of escorting the Wang family's children to school. After all, no one can be sure, if there is a serial killer, would he look at them by the way?"
Marr's eyes were turning deeply. In the dark, there seemed to be a clue that could string everything together, but he could not catch what the clue was. The two elementary school students were not the focus, but the focus was on investigating the lives of the three high school students. Perhaps they offended some people they should not offend, which caused resentment from the other party, which led to a series of disappearances and murders.
"Anyway, let's visit everyone first, and those two primary school students will take a look."
As he said that, he got up and walked out of the office quickly, leaving Sergey there to frown and meditate.
"Albuquerque..."
After murmured, he followed and walked out.
When print media across the country and even around the world began to report a certain piece of news, Alice was not idle at all. With her spirit and the work efficiency of destroying 50 Microsoft engineers across N streets, if she was busy, there were too many facts that she could do.
"A trip to the mainland is enough for winter vacation. Toad mirrors and bell-bottom pants will not become popular so quickly, not to mention that we have a lot of early work."
In her father's study, Alice was chattering about her entrepreneurial plan to Sophie.
"But it's already the end of October, so our clothing brand has to register as soon as possible. Ashley submitted seven ideas to me, but because her fundamental interest is all about designing clothes, she also said that it doesn't matter if I make up any one. Mom, do you have any good suggestions?"
Sophie pondered for a moment: "It doesn't matter what the brand name is. As long as the brand image is fully promoted and the brand image is built, any name will become a classic. Apple is the best example. Everything else is easy to say, only one thing, Vivi, are you sure that "Ghost Record" can raise enough funds for us? Mom doesn't understand movies very well, so don't lie to me."
"Let me say that, horror movies are the type that are most likely to achieve low-cost and high box office. Although my plan to invest only 20,000 yuan, as long as I shoot it well, the final box office and cost have nothing to do with it!"
Sophie smiled: "It's just like the saying goes, the cost and the selling price are not directly related, right?"
Alice nodded continuously.
Yes, although Basic Economics will tell you that prices fluctuate around value, it is not absolute!
As long as the price I sell can be accepted by the user, but the user does not know the cost, or even knows the cost, I can't do anything, then isn't it just that I like to sell what price I want to sell?
This is almost the reason for this reason, from the early days when the refrigerator was filled with fluorine, the cost of 300 yuan, to the extremely profitable sales of glasses.
Although the filming cost of this movie is only 20,000, as long as it is well filmed, the box office will definitely break through the sky!
"In fact, compared to the cost of shooting, the real big shot is still in publicity. Fortunately, this case happened to appear recently. Wow, is there any publicity that is better than this when the shooting site of a ghost film that caused a sensation across the country? It's still almost free!"
Sophie sighed lightly. She certainly knew the recent murder case very well. After all, the three victims beat her youngest son up before they disappeared!
"It's indeed a good publicity, but Vivi, you're really brave."
She shook her head and smiled bitterly: "The scene of the murder case, and the investigation is still unclear, and the body is so weird... Forget it, I can't care about you, but do all the people in the crew agree? Just those college students you are looking for at UCLA?"
Alice groaned: "Of course they want to go there to film. Everyone is young people in their twenties and they are all playing movies. Some of them are not very adventurous. To be honest, I even think that even if I don't say it, some of them will have such a suggestion."
Sophie nodded. If it were legal consultation, she would definitely be able to make countless suggestions to her daughter, but in this macro and extensive entrepreneurial development, Alice is really much beyond her.
After thinking about it, I could only say: "If this is the case, then the publicity will start. After all, it doesn't take too long to make this movie, but it's been a long time for the box office and funds to be recovered. If you really want to raise enough funds during the winter vacation, you should take full action now."
Alice nodded hard at last and said, "Of course!"
Alice's idea was right. When the students of the film club learned that they were going to shoot a ghost movie in the house where the murders occurred in Huron City, everyone was in a state of excitement.
In the early morning, David Finch came to the classroom very early and carefully wiped his beloved camera. Although he didn't know why, Alice happily handed over the position of deputy director to herself after listening to her name. Although she was just an assistant director, after thinking about it, David of course happily accepted it.
Look at the watch. It's just past six:30 now. Everyone plans to gather at the school gate at 8:30 and drive to Huron City. It's about three hours away. According to the news Alice got from the Los Angeles Police Station, all the evidence at the crime scene has been collected, otherwise they would not have the right to go in and shoot the film.
"It seems that Alice is really capable. She can actually get internal information from the police station. Where does she work with relatives?"
David looked out the window. He was also a member of the film club and the graduate student who was responsible for the heroine was walking towards the club building. It seemed that the climax of the gathering was coming soon.
Chapter completed!