LA Detective

Chapter 126 Strange scene (two chapters in one)

Police Department.

In the morning, Luke was sorting out the transcripts of the 'Gone Girl' crew.

Matthew walked into the office with three packages, "There is a courier (FedEx), I put it on the table in front."

There is no one sitting at the front desk, and there are usually some sundries and shared items.

"Hey, my courier has finally arrived." Xiao Hei ran over for the first time, picked it up, and threw one of the couriers to Luke and one to Jenny.

"Thank you." Luke took the courier and tore open the package.

David looked at the three of them and joked, "Women only know how to shop online, tough guys don't."

Luke laughed, "You're right, even a fool would not."

"Haha..." Marcus and Jenny laughed loudly.

The deputy team supported his face with his right hand and propped his elbows on the table, "Why did you provoke him? That kid has never suffered from his mouth."

"Am I wrong?" David spread his hands.

"And he's right."

"Haha..." Everyone laughed again.

Seeing Luke tear open the outer package, Xiao Hei showed a curious look, and looked at it, "Hey, you actually bought a book, "The Vanishing Lover". Is this book related to the movie that the deceased is shooting?"

"That movie was adapted from this novel, and the author of the novel is also the screenwriter of the movie. Since the murderer may have killed people according to the plot of the movie, I want to see if I can find any clues in the novel." Luke began to flip through the pages while talking. Reading novels.

The deputy team said, "Luke's words reminded me that with the exposure of Lucas' fake death, most of the people related to the crew of 'The Vanishing Lover' have been negatively affected, and the only one who has benefited is probably this writer too.

What's his name... I seem to have an impression, but I can't remember it all at once. "

Luke reminded, "Romit Bull"

The deputy team said, "That's right, we should talk to him, maybe he can provide some valuable clues."

Susan walked into the office, "What are you talking about?"

Luke waved the book in his hand, "I'm talking about the author of this novel."

"It's over, let me have a look." After Susan finished speaking, she changed the subject, "There are new identification results from the forensic laboratory.

The forensic doctor extracted some bloodstains that did not belong to him from the mouth of the deceased, to be precise, from his teeth.

Although there was no successful comparison in the database, it was certain that it was a woman's blood. "

The deputy team nodded, good news, "Although it is speculated that the deceased may have left tooth marks on the murderer, as time goes by, the tooth marks on the murderer are likely to heal, and this evidence has certain limitations.

But DNA is different, as long as the suspect is caught, he can be convicted. "

Xiao Hei smiled and said, "DNA belongs to women.

I guess that scumbag Abu Guerra made another old mistake, cheating a certain woman's feelings for money and interests, and ended up angering her and was killed. "

David joked, "Why does it feel like someone is talking about himself."

"Haha..." Everyone laughed again.

……

The next day.

York community.

A Lexus parked in front of a two-story villa with a blue roof.

A white man quickly got out of the car, ran to the door, and knocked hard on the door, "Boom..."

No response.

"Boom..." the white man yelled, "Courtney, are you home?"

"If you don't open the door, I'm going in!"

After the man's voice fell, he entered the password on the combination lock, opened the door and walked in.

"Courtney, are you okay?"

The man waited and watched in the living room, but saw no one.

Continue to walk in, push open the bedroom door, the whole person is stunned,

"Courtney! No..."

……

Five minutes later, the surrounding police arrived at the scene.

Half an hour later, Luke and others rushed to the York community.

Xiao Hei got out of the car and glanced around, "Sure enough, it's a place where rich people live. The yard in front of the house is bigger than my house."

David shook his head, "Your attention is really strange, now is not the time to talk about it."

Xiao Hei nodded, "That's right, even a big house is useless when a person is dead."

david "..."

Luke knew what David was trying to say.

Courtney Buss is the heroine of the movie "Gone Girl".

The same crew, two people died one after another. The death of Courtney Bass is likely to be related to the death of the protagonist's stand-in Abu Guerra, so their team is still responsible for this case.

People walked into the scene one after another.

I have to say that the decoration of this house is indeed very beautiful, with a stylish and simple style, and some places are decorated very cleverly. It can be seen that it has been specially designed by someone.

Nothing unusual was found in the living room.

Luke walked into the bedroom and saw a woman in pajamas hanging from a rope, her eyes wide open, her tongue sticking out, her face pale, and her plump figure looming under the pajamas.

Xiao Hei sighed softly, looked up and down, "It's a pity, she is a good woman."

David frowned, "How did you tell? Just because she was wearing tulle pajamas?"

Xiao Hei said flatly, "You still don't understand, I have no common language with you."

David said, "Fortunately."

Luke has also been observing the corpse, and this corpse gives him a strange feeling. He has seen many death scenes, but this time is very different.

There is a rope tied to the chandelier, and Courtney Bass' neck is hung below it. It looks like she has been hanged, but her feet are suspended in the air, and there is no stool underneath.

How did you get there?
It stands to reason that if you hang yourself normally, you should step on the stool, and then kick the stool away after the neck is caught, and the person will be strangled and suffocate to death.

This is not the case now.

In another case, the deceased jumped up and grabbed the rope, and pulled it up to wrap around his neck.

This situation has certain requirements for arm strength, which is difficult for ordinary women to do.

In addition, there is a dressing table and stool not far from the bed, so it is easy to move them here, and there is no need to do anything extra.

Then there is only one possibility left, that the deceased was murdered and deliberately faked to hang himself.

But in this case, a stool should be placed.

Only in this way can it be disguised as a hanged fight.

The killer is too careless?
Or is there another purpose?

The suspicious places are more than these two points.

There was a patch of blood on the right chest of the deceased, and the amount of bleeding was not large, as if stabbed by a sharp knife, which also did not meet the characteristics of suicide by hanging.

Luke's expression moved slightly, showing a thoughtful look.

The survey team began to survey the scene, put the body down, and the forensic doctor began to work.

David and Xiao Hei are responsible for taking notes for the informant.

Xiao Hei looked at the white man, "Are you the informant?"

"It's me." The man's expression was dim, his eyes were red, as if he had cried.

"What is your relationship with the deceased Courtney Bass?"

"She's my girlfriend."

"What's your name?"

"Peter Dest."

"How did you find out that Courtney Bass was killed?"

"I contacted her in the morning, but no one answered. I suspected that something happened to her, so I hurried over to check.

I knocked on the door and called my name and no one answered, so I just pressed the password and went in.

After that, I saw...

so horrible. "

David pressed, "Just because she didn't answer the call, you think something happened to her? Are you being too sensitive?"

"The Gone Girl movie may not be released, Courtney is not in a good mood, very depressed, I do worry that something will happen to her.

She has paid a lot for this movie, trying to figure out the script every day, shooting on the set day and night, and as soon as we meet, she will ask me to help with the lines.

The movie meant a lot to her, and suddenly it couldn't be made because of someone.

This hit her hard, she did nothing wrong and should not suffer such consequences.

The hard work of filming these days has also been in vain.

I'm really worried that she can't think about it. "

"When was the last time you saw her?"

"last night."

Xiao Hei asked, "What time?"

Peter Dest recalled, "I came around nine o'clock and left around twelve o'clock."

"Isn't the time short? What have you done?"

"She was very unhappy because of the movie.

I stayed with her, chatted with her, and the two of us drank some wine, trying to make her relax.

And then...we fell asleep. Peter Dest added, "I want her to forget her troubles for a while and be happier." "

Xiao Hei nodded, "You are right, I can understand you."

"Thank you."

"Was she okay before you left?"

"Of course, I left after watching her fall asleep."

"It's so late, why don't you stay?"

"I would, too. But she's a star, there's paparazzi all the time, and if I'm leaving in the morning, it's probably going to be headlines, and we don't want that.

Therefore, I generally don't live in her house, which is also a kind of protection for her. Speaking of this, Peter Dest choked up a little, "I really didn't expect that she would... If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have left without saying anything." "

"Brother, it's not your fault. You've done a great job, and no one can guess what's going to happen next." Xiao Hei patted him on the shoulder.

Peter Dest nodded, "Thank you, you are a good man."

Seeing that Xiao Hei always said something worthless, David interrupted him, and then asked, "Did you find anyone suspicious when you left Courtney's house last night?"

"No."

"How was she feeling at the time?"

"It's good, but a little tired."

"Do you think she's going to kill herself?"

"I don't quite believe it, the two of us talked a lot last night.

I told her not to worry too much about the movie, even if she can't make movies in the future, I can guarantee her life is good.

We can get married and I will always take care of her.

I have the ability to give her happiness. "

David asked, "What do you do?"

"I'm a dentist."

Xiao Hei praised, "Good job, my mother always wanted me to be a dentist. If my mother knew you, she would definitely like you very much."

David was fed up with his bullshit, ended the conversation, and handed Peter Dest a business card, "If you think of any clues, you can call me."

"I will.

If there is anything I need to do, you can contact me.

I will do my best to help you catch Courtney's killer sooner rather than later. "

After watching Peter Dest leave, David said to Xiao Hei beside him, "Captain is wise, if you let me partner with you, I will beat you to death."

Xiao Hei leaned aside and retorted, "Luke and I are the best partners."

"Bullshit" David dropped one word and returned to the scene.

In the bedroom, Luke and others were surrounding the corpse.

Forensic doctor Sheila has completed the preliminary autopsy and said, "This should be the scene of the first crime, and the time of death of the victim was between ten o'clock last night and two o'clock in the morning.

The victim had played poker before his death and had no apparent defensive injuries.

The body had two significant wounds, a pinch mark on the neck and a stab wound to the right side of the chest. "

Susan asked, "How deep was the cut?"

"About ten centimeters."

"The deceased was stabbed to death?"

"No, the wound was deep, but there was very little blood around it, indicating that it was stabbed after death, and the cut marks also fit this feature.

Therefore, the deceased should have died of suffocation by being strangled by the neck. "

"Did he hang himself?"

Sheila replied, "Judging from the scars on the neck, the deceased was probably strangled to death by hand, and then hung on a rope to create the illusion of suicide.

Also, we found some flakes of skin under the nails of the deceased, and will try to extract DNA later. "

Jenny asked, "Since the deceased had already been strangled to death, why was he stabbed in the chest again?"

Sheila shrugged. "That's what you need to investigate. I will inform you of the new findings."

The deputy team shook his head, "This scene is very strange, I have seen many fake suicide scenes, although there will be some loopholes, but it will definitely not be as rough as this scene.

Either the murderer thought we were fools, or there was another purpose. "

Xiao Hei rubbed his chin and guessed, "Could it be that the murderer has some kind of special hobby, such as having a special interest in corpses. It's like playing with dolls."

Luke went on to say, "Marcus is right, the murderer did want to use this corpse to express some purpose."

Xiao Hei asked back, "What did you see?"

"Remember the death scene of the double Abu Guerra?"

Xiao Hei thought for a while, "I don't see any similarities except that both of them have filmed 'The Vanishing Lover'."

Luke said, "What they have in common is the novel The Lost Lovers. They were all killed according to the method of death in the novel."

"Wait." Xiao Hei frowned and thought, "I remember that among the lovers who disappeared, the hero was indeed buried alive, but the heroine should not have died. Didn't she have a child later? Could it be that I remembered wrongly."

Luke explained, "That's right, that's the altered screenplay, and in the original Gone Girl novel, the heroine hangs herself.

The scene in the book is very similar to the scene, wearing tulle pajamas and hanging under the chandelier, without stepping on anything.

This is an open ending, it could be suicide or homicide. "

David complained, "Luke, elaborate on the difference between the screenplay and the novel, I've forgotten all about it."

"To make a long story short," Luke describes, "in the script, the hero and the heroine fall in love at first sight.

The hero is a poisonous fan, pretending to be rich and handsome to cheat, but in the end he really fell in love with the heroine.

The two soon fell in love.

Later, the heroine disappeared suddenly, and the hero desperately searched for her.

Knowing that the hostess' family went bankrupt, he chose to leave for fear of dragging him down.

The male protagonist was very moved and embezzled the boss's money to help the female protagonist pay off the debt.

When the boss learned about it, he buried him alive.

After learning about the incident, the heroine was very sad and wanted to commit suicide, but unexpectedly found that she was pregnant and raised the child alone. "

"There is not much difference in the role of the male protagonist in the novel, mainly because the female protagonist has changed a lot.

At the end of the novel, I realized that the heroine is actually a liar, and his purpose of approaching the hero is to cheat money.

Later, the heroine learned that the hero was buried alive in order to help her pay off her debts.

Distraught.

Only then did she realize that she had truly fallen in love with the male lead.

Feeling guilty, he chose to hang himself. "

Everyone was silent after listening.

After a long time, Susan nodded, "I prefer the ending of the novel."

The deputy team nodded, "The movie is like fast food. It only lasts for a few 10 minutes. It can't describe the connotation that the novel wants to express, and it can't even express a complete world view."

Xiao Hei asked, "Since the heroine is hanged at the end of the novel, why is there a knife wound on her chest? Isn't this superfluous?"

Luke also couldn't figure this out. If the murderer killed people according to the scene in the novel, then the heroine should have been hanged, and there shouldn't be a knife wound on her chest.

If the chest is a fatal wound, then it can still be said that there may be an accident during the killing process, and he had to kill with a knife as a last resort.

But in fact, this is not the case. The choke mark on the neck is the fatal wound, and the chest is a posthumous stab wound.

What is the purpose of doing this?
Did I miss some details in the novel?
At this time, the survey team also completed preliminary testing.

Mary took off her mask and gloves and introduced, "We searched the scene of the crime, and we found the social security card of the deceased.

The body of the deceased showed signs of being dragged. The first scene should be on the bed, and then the body was dragged under the chandelier.

We also found a dagger in the trash can in front of the deceased's house, but no fingerprints were found on the dagger, which will be identified and compared with the deceased's wound later. "

After Mary's report, the on-site investigation came to an end.

But Luke always felt that something was wrong.

What is the reason for the murderer to stab the dead?It seemed superfluous to Luke.

Luke returned to the bedroom again, ready to re-simulate the crime scene.

Luke walked to the side of the bed, pretending that the deceased was still lying on the bed, and then strangled the neck of the deceased with his hands. The deceased grabbed his arm and begged for mercy, but was choked and unable to make a sound.

His strength also became weaker and weaker, and the deceased gave up struggling and stopped breathing.

Luke took the knife and thrust it into the dead man's chest, then pulled the knife out and set it aside.

He carried the body under the chandelier again, and hung the dead up with great effort.

No, Luke still felt that the knife was a bit redundant, and it didn't fit the scene described in the book.

Luke glanced around and saw that the closet next to him was open.

No one has touched this wardrobe, it has always been like this since it came here.

Luke approached the closet to check, and found that the closet was full of clothes, and there was only a space at the closet opening, which was just enough to accommodate one person.

Luke squatted down and looked under the closet carefully. There were some shallow friction marks, and no obvious footprints could be seen, but he felt like someone had stepped on it.

Luke took out his phone and took a few pictures.

He turned around and stood in the closet, facing the bed in front of him...

There is one more guess in my heart.

Last night, there may have been other people besides the murderer at the scene.

(End of this chapter)