Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 141 Peppermint Body Wash

The apartment of the fifth deceased has been sealed off, and several groups of police officers and FBI investigators have come to complete the investigation. Now the room is clearly organized, and every place worthy of attention is surrounded by a white circle.

It is actually very simple to re-check the crime scene. Just follow the circles of white coils and you can easily check all the traces that have been discovered.

This is how the FBI agent who came with Shuichi Akai rewatched it.

He stepped on footwear that would not contaminate the scene. He first carefully looked at the marks on the door lock and nodded. "The door lock does have signs of prying, indicating that the murderer quietly broke in while the deceased was sleeping in the bedroom..."

As he said that, he noticed that Akai Shuichi walked into the room without stopping and had no intention of checking the door lock. He couldn't help but turned around blankly and said, "Hey, Mr. Akai, don't you look at the door lock?"

The FBI is a special department. What is special is that in addition to its official position, people also tacitly respect abilities and always respect those who are capable.

Like Shuichi Akai.

He had been with the FBI for a long time and had almost unanimous respect.

Whether it is a case or the pursuit of fugitives, Shuichi Akai is one of the best among the younger generation of FBI. Some of the older FBIs even find him pleasant and flattering.

Of course, it refers to level [-] and above.

Lower-level FBI investigators and informants were expected to be respectful and courteous to him.

Precisely because Shuichi Akai is very strong, the FBI agent was a little confused: Isn't it so difficult to identify the door lock first?
But in the report on the apartment murder case, apart from the condition of the body which is undoubtedly the focus, is the door locked?

Many police officers and FBI investigators found signs of picking in the door lock that the murderer tried hard to hide, so they determined that the murderer was a secret intruder who knew how to pick locks.

"It's okay to identify the door lock first," Akai Shuichi had already pushed open the bedroom door with his gloved hands, "but it's not suitable for dealing with cunning criminals."

"They will create perjury."

"To draw correct conclusions, we must search based on the most tangible clues."

The bedroom was clean except for a trace of a human figure on the inside of the bed, and a roughly framed white coil on the nearby wall and tiles at the corner.

After spraying the luminol reagent, there were crystal spray traces lighting up inside the coil, which were blood stains.

Shuichi Akai looked at the traces and pulled out the first batch of bedroom photos taken by the police.

In the photo, there are still blood stains in the bedroom. The quilt is still covering the victim's body. The splattered blood has dried up. The bedside is red. There is a glass of water on the outer bedside table, which is already half red. Red smudge.

When he saw the photo, Akai Shuichi had already confirmed one thing, but he didn't say it until now, "The murderer is not an infiltrator.

He said calmly: "The deceased in the fifth case knew the murderer."

"Same as the second case."

The voice was very soft, but my colleague seemed to hear a thunder, "Huh?"

"Yes, they know each other?" He was at a loss to adapt to this conclusion that was completely different from the FBI's current speculation. "Same as the second case?"

The victim in the second case died in the bathtub.

Akai Shuichi simply responded, "Yes."

He handed over the bedroom photo, and took out an additional bathroom photo from the second case and handed it over, "It's obvious."

It is clear?
A colleague looked carefully at the photos of the bedroom and compared them with things, and also looked at the photos of the bathroom carefully:

The bathroom is clean and white and looks quite large, with partitions dividing the wash, toilet, shower and bathtub areas.

The bathtub area is on the innermost side. Only the side near the bathtub in the entire bathroom is spattered with large amounts of blood. This is because the body of the deceased was not discovered immediately. During the long night, it first sank into the water without any force and then floated up again. , the posture has changed, and when frozen in the photo, it looks like he is half-turned and floating.A dull eye emerged from the water and flickered under the flash of the camera, looking quite terrifying.

There are also some blood stains on the ground near the head of the corpse, some are low and sputtering, and they look very clean, with clear drops.

It was really scary. My colleague didn't see any clues. He lowered his head and looked hard at the photo for more than ten seconds without saying anything.

"The bedroom is a double bed, divided into inner and outer sides. The water cup is placed on the bedside table on the outer side, but the body is almost sleeping on the innermost side." Shuichi Akai opened the closet door and inspected the interior while pointing out the abnormality, "There is nothing on the bathroom floor. There are no water marks or water marks, and the blood stains are obviously intact."

The former indicates that someone slept with the deceased on the night of the shooting.

The latter means...

"The deceased didn't resist?" My colleague was a little confused, "Isn't it normal that he didn't resist?"

Akai Shuichi corrected: "There is no resistance at all."

When taking a bath in a bathtub filled with water, if you resist a little, or even don't resist, but just make some actions out of instinctive fear, a splash of water will appear, and the blood will not be completely intact when it falls on the ground. The blood stains were not small, but were blurred by water.

Or, the murderer sneaked in silently and did not even let the deceased notice when he entered the bathroom.

Or, the murderer was someone who would not surprise the deceased even if he entered the bathroom.

If it's the former, there's a problem: "The bathroom is huge."

"There are no speakers, headphones, cell phones, etc. in the bathroom."

The murderer didn't even notice when he sneaked into the bathroom and walked to the bathtub. Could it be that the deceased was deaf?
Maybe it's possible.

Unfortunately, the police retrieved her physical examination report from the hospital a few years ago and did not find that she had any tendency to become deaf, nor did they find from the records that she had any intention of seeing a doctor for a few weeks or months.

"There are no traces of the second person's clothes being moved in and removed urgently in the closet," Akai Shuichi finished checking and closed the closet. "The deceased and the murderer were not in a cohabitation relationship."

He lowered his eyes, looked at the white wardrobe, and thought for a moment.

A colleague who was just thinking about what he said suddenly heard him suddenly say: "...if one day you want to dye your hair gray, why?"

what?
Colleague: "Huh?"

Shuichi Akai turned around and repeated calmly: "The reason why you dye your hair white."

He patiently asked in a different way, "Which of the local gangs, customs, and beliefs is related to gray hair? Or are there any customs in other neighboring states related to gray hair?"

"You're a local."

To understand some obscure customs, outsiders can only ask locals.

The colleague shook his head blankly: "No, I haven't heard of it."

This answer was somewhat beyond Akai Shuichi's expectations. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Never heard of it?"

Soon, he suddenly took a few steps, walked past the end of the bed, stopped in front of the bedroom window, opened the window, raised his head and sniffed a few times.

"What's wrong?" The colleague quickly followed him and sniffed a few times, smelling a refreshing fragrance. "Hey, mint?"

There is a mint smell in the air, which smells like shampoo or shower gel. It is not strong, but rather refreshing, adding a sense of lightness to the dull scene.

It's very light, almost so light that it's about to completely dissipate. It's at a delicate moment when it's about to dissipate.

(End of this chapter)