"Do you think he was poor?" Schiller patiently listened to Jena's long account before asking.
"He wasn't poor, but he was short of money." Jena scratched her hair and said, "What money he originally had was only enough to sustain his life. As the economy worsened, his financial situation deteriorated sharply as well."
"Do you think he failed to do better because he lacked money?"
"No. That wouldn't have been enough to humiliate him. A person like that wouldn't feel humiliated over being poor. He could commit a serial murder case that still hadn't been solved right under the noses of so many police officers. Making money would have been easy for him."
Many of the students made sounds of sudden realization, but they soon began whispering among themselves again, because Jena's words seemed somewhat contradictory.
At first, she had said the murderer felt humiliated because he could not create a better work. Then she said he did not actually lack money. If money was not what limited him, then what was?
"This case is highly unusual." Jena spoke again. "The victims' identities were even more unusual than the killer's. They were all law enforcement officers."
That detail had not been included in the handout, so a student raised a hand to ask Schiller. Schiller nodded and said, "Yes. If you search for the Gotham Scarecrow serial murder case on your phones now, you should be able to find the victims' identities."
Some students took out their phones and began searching. Just as Schiller had said, the case was fairly well-known, because the three people who died had all been Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents. As a result, the Wanted Poster for the killer had been issued at a very high level, but unfortunately, he still had not been brought