"Do you think he is poor?" Schiller patiently listened to Jenna's long story before asking.
"He is not poor, but he is short of money." Jenna grabbed her hair and said: "His original money was only enough for him to survive. As the economic situation worsened, his financial situation also took a sharp turn."
"Do you think he didn't do better because he didn't have the money?"
"No, that is not enough to make him feel humiliated. Such a person will not be humiliated because he has no money. He can even do something under the eyes of so many policemen that no one has been able to detect until now.
Serial murder cases, it is easy for him to make money."
Many students made sounds of realization, but quickly broke into whispers because Jenna was speaking a little inconsistently.
At the beginning, it was said that the murderer felt humiliated because he could not complete the work well, and later it was said that he was actually not short of money. So if it was not limited by money, what would he be?
"This case is very special." Jenna said again: "The identity of the victim is more special than the murderer. They are both law enforcement officers."
This point was not stated clearly in the handout, so a student raised his hand and asked Schiller. Schiller nodded and said, "Yes, you should be able to see the identity of the victim if you turn on your mobile phone and look up the Gotham Scarecrow serial murder case."
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Some students took out their mobile phones and started to search. Sure enough, as Schiller said, this case is quite famous because the three people who died were all FBI agents. Therefore, the murderer's wanted order level is very high.
, it’s a pity that the case has not been filed yet.
But this is public information after all, so it’s not surprising that Jenna found it on her mobile phone. At this time, Jenna continued.
"It's not that he doesn't want to make this case more perfect, but because he really can't kill more law enforcement officers, otherwise he will risk being exposed."
"You think he's scared?"
"No, he was not afraid of being caught. He was just annoyed. Once the clues implicated him, his rhythm of life would be disrupted. He didn't want to pay such a price, so he stopped."
Jenna then analyzed: "It can be seen from this that his mental state is different from ordinary people. He is not a crazy sadist. He does not commit crimes out of the need for instinctive enjoyment, because indulgent people often do not
After considering so many things, they will kill them all at once and then stop."
"He is rational and has not been carried away by desire. He deeply understands what kind of plan can be used without affecting his own life. However, this method of restraint makes him feel that he is constrained and feels very
feel oppressed."
"But Miss, these mental characteristics are still not obvious enough to help us identify the murderer. Do you have any more opinions?" Schiller asked.
Jenna nodded and said: "What I'm about to say, since he is a rational person, he should be able to think that doing this case can neither make him happy nor remove obstacles for him, so why should he?"
What to do?"
"I previously assumed that it was because the law enforcement officer offended him. This may be part of the reason, but it is not the whole reason. It can only be said to be one of his motives for doing this case."
"It's like he wanted to do a case, but remembered that he had conflicts with law enforcement officers, so he chose them as his target. Revenge against them was not the first motive, but a choice by the way."
"Then what do you think his first motive was?"
"This is exactly the key. His doing this case will not allow him to achieve material progress, nor will it allow him to obtain spiritual satisfaction. It may still make him feel unsatisfied after completing it, and it may also attract the attention of more law enforcement officials.
Looking for trouble for himself seems like a shortcoming, but he still does it."
"This proves that his motive for doing this case is not in the past. Whether it is conflicts with law enforcement, pursuit of art, or financial embarrassment, these are all reasons from the past, and none of them are established. Then there is only
Possibly now and in the future.”
"The motive now naturally refers to killing in passion, but it can also be seen from the overall method of the case. This is not a case that he can do with a slap on the forehead in his passion. It needs to be carefully designed and arranged. Now the motive has been ruled out.
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"Then the only possibility is future motivation." Jenna said clearly.
The students below began to whisper again, and one of them said: "I've heard about past motives and present motives, but I haven't heard about future motives. Can he predict the future?"
"He can't predict everyone's future, but can't he predict his own? Can't you predict what you're going to have for dinner?"
"How can this be called foreknowledge? Isn't this my decision?"
"Of course, you can decide your own future, and he can also decide his. Once decided, he will naturally know what his future will be like, and this will create motivation."
"You mean he's paving the way for the future?"
"This may be only part of the reason." Jenna thought for a while and said: "Killing these people is profitable for him, but it also makes him feel spiritual satisfaction."
"But didn't you say that he was not satisfied?"
"These are two different things. He is indeed depressed that he cannot do better, but doing it is better than not doing it at all."
More and more people couldn't understand what she was talking about. Schiller knocked on the table lightly to quiet them down, looked at Jenna and said: "Don't be so pretentious, miss, do you want to see a group of monkeys dancing wildly?"
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Jenna couldn't hold back her laughter. Looking at the unkind glances around her, she tried hard to restrain her expression and said, "Ahem, I never mentioned monkeys or anything."
"What I mean is that a certain decision he made may prevent him from committing crimes for a long time in the future. He knows this, so even if the time is not ripe now, he cannot produce perfect works.
, he also wants to have some fun first."
"This is the reason why he is satisfied but feels depressed at the same time. He is restricted by various conditions and cannot make a perfect work, but because he knows that he will not be able to make it in the future, he doesn't care about the imperfection and just makes one first. That's how he is.
Thought."
"Then why do you think he can't do it anymore?" Schiller asked again.
Jenna touched her chin, and she understood that the real difficult part had begun, because as long as this part was studied, the murderer could basically be identified.
Jenna stared at the photos for dozens of seconds and said: "It's very strange. I feel that there is a strange black humor in these works. They seem to be reflecting something. Professor, have you heard of this and this?"
Are there any other cases related to the circumstances of the case?"
"Do you think there should be?"
"He must be echoing something. It might be a case, it might be a certain place, or it might be a certain name."
"Why do you think so?"
"Putting a tall and vertical object in the middle of a flat field has a strong display meaning, and can even be said to be a provocation."
"totem?"
"Yes, it's similar to the totems of primitive society, and attracting attention is the mission of this type of style." Jenna's speaking speed began to slow down, and it was obvious that this was beginning to approach her limit.
"That means he was provoking something, and given the identity of the victim, he was probably provoking law enforcement."
"The best way to provoke law enforcement agencies is to ridicule their incompetence, as if to say, I have put the answer in your face, and you can't find out who I am."
"So I think this is by no means the first time he has committed a crime. He must have dealt with law enforcement before, and then he used his case to echo some of his previous things and use another way to tell the answer to law enforcement.
Taunt them, even if I tell you the answer, you won't understand."
Schiller laughed. He gently put down the lesson plan in his hand, looked around and said, "I think some of you here may have heard that there is a super criminal in Gotham named Scarecrow."
The whole classroom was in an uproar.
Jenna's eyes also lit up, which meant that this part of her inference should be correct, but she didn't expect that Schiller was still giving her strength.
"I dealt with him in a case a long time ago. So tell me, miss, what kind of person is the Scarecrow?"
Jenna felt sweat start to form on her forehead, because she knew that the relationship between Schiller and the Scarecrow was probably more than just dealing with each other, which meant that if her judgment was slightly biased, the professor might be disappointed.
Jenna could even feel the wind blown out by her rapidly working brain, and her breath could only pass through the gaps in these airflows.
But the high tension made her consciousness more concentrated, as if she had jumped directly into the sea from a very high place. She felt that she was surrounded by countless emotional information.
"The Scarecrow is a very arrogant person, extremely arrogant, but he is also a cowardly person, full of escaping spirit. He thinks he can defeat anyone, but he does not think he can defeat anyone head-on. He is...
…a very contradictory person.”
"This contradiction makes him trapped in self-pulling. When he defeats others by attacking from behind, he is proud of his wisdom, but at the same time he realizes that he is a poor man who dare not face the enemy head-on. He loves himself and hates himself.
, it almost tore him apart."
"The biggest impact of this self-pull on his spirit is that it makes him an extreme person. In order to escape from his own contradictory problems, he will invest his energy in a certain aspect to make himself better.
Forget the mental pain.”
"This aspect is probably what he is best at. He has mastered a certain skill and reached the pinnacle in this aspect. This makes him more proud, makes him more cowardly, and makes him feel more painful."
"He is like this in almost every aspect. He devotes himself wholeheartedly and then achieves achievements with his excellent talents, but he is not completely happy about it. He is more likely to fall into more intense pulls. This strong sense of contradiction is what makes him unique.
spiritual characteristics.”
Schiller finally smiled, and then he said: "Very good, then let's put this reasoning into practice. How do you think we should find him?"
"I don't know what he was good at before." Jenna said: "It may be mathematics, it may be literature. These are too broad to find out, but at least through this straw man case we know that he has recently
What interests me most is murder."
"If nothing else, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to this work in the past year. Of course, it does not mean that he has been killing people throughout the year. He may also be studying various murder cases and learning various murder techniques.
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"At the same time, he is very proud of his method of committing crimes. This is the arrogant side of his character. He will definitely read the reports that criticize him, which will satisfy his ego."
"So I think if anyone is going to judge this murder, I mean, put it in a messy analysis, or just put it in the context of other murders that don't fit in and say it was someone else.
If you do, he will be very angry."
"In order to clear his name, he will definitely take some measures, but considering the cowardly part of his character, he will not face the challenge head-on, that is, he will not confront others in reports and public opinion circles, but will avoid it.
Its edge is taken in other ways."
"What do you think that is?"
"He will commit crimes again." Jenna said with great certainty: "But since he himself thinks that he will not be able to commit crimes again in the future, it proves that the environment he is in now is not suitable for him to commit crimes at all. If he does it rashly, he will definitely be killed.
It will endanger himself."
"In this case, if he is stimulated by public opinion and takes action even if he takes risks, there will definitely be flaws. We don't even need to take the initiative to search or arrest him, and he may fall into the trap himself."
"Well said, Miss." Schiller led the applause, and applause also rang out in the classroom. However, Jenna saw Schiller's exposed fangs at this moment.
"Then today's assignment is to write a random analysis of Scarecrow's serial murder case with the purpose of forcing Scarecrow to reveal his flaws. I will publish these reports through the Gotham Police and other law enforcement agencies."
"If the Scarecrow really exposes his flaws because of these articles, then naturally you will have caught the murderer and you will have a great victory."
The students cheered, and then looked at Jenna one after another, because if this method is really successful, it means that Jenna's analysis is completely accurate. Is it really possible to catch the murderer through this mysterious and mysterious method?
But Jenna felt that this matter was far from that simple.