"The killer might be a bit tricky, do you need him alive or dead?" Chen Yu whispered as he walked, his footsteps masking his words that echoed in the prayer-filled stairwell.
"Alive would be best, we need to interrogate him and confirm the evidence... Where is he?" Jack said subconsciously.
This case was too big, which meant they had to secure a solid chain of evidence, including a confession from the killer; only then could the case be closed completely. If they captured a dead suspect, the media would definitely concoct stories about how the New York Police framed innocent bystanders just to solve a case.
Conspiracy theories would run rampant as well; unless the killer personally admitted, people always managed to find so-called 'clues' in the most definite proofs, everyone becoming a Sherlock Holmes of the internet.
Even if they captured the killer and got a confession, such discourse would definitely not diminish.
