Coroner Coroner

"Why did he fake the scene?"

"This..." Miwako Sato also showed a embarrassed expression because of these questions: "Mr. Iida lives alone and has no relatives. His colleagues in the company also said that he is very popular and has no enmity with anyone."

"From his social relations, there are no suspects at all."

What would be the murderer? This question will not be answered for a while.

"As for why he faked the scene..."

Miwako Sato frowned tightly.

She seemed to think of something, but she still couldn't grasp the point.

"It's strange..." Gao Mushe murmured softly beside him: "Why did the murderer fake the scene so that people can't see that the deceased had fought with him indoors?"

"And the arsonist."

"Mr. Iida died in the alley in the end. When the arsonist came to set the fire, he should have seen his body, right?"

"That guy sees a corpse here, how dare he continue to set fire here?"

"Aren't you afraid that the police will count this life on his head? Or, that lunatic who set the fire doesn't care at all?"

"This..." Miwako Sato was slightly taken aback.

Immediately afterwards, her big eyes lit up energetically: "Takagi, you asked this question very well!"

"Senior Sato... what did you think of?"

Miwako Sato did not answer.

She just turned her head abruptly and looked out the window.

Mr. Iida's home is the kind that has no yard, let alone a courtyard wall. The MINI Youth Edition has a single family building.

Because there is no barrier from the courtyard wall, looking out from the windows on the first floor, you can directly see the alley and the neighbors across the alley.

"Takagi, let's take a look in that room."

Miwako Sato first surveyed the living room, and then pointed to a room that was also on the first floor, close to the alley, and the window faced the neighbor directly opposite.

This looks like Mr. Iida's bedroom.

After entering the bedroom, the first thing Miwako Sato noticed was an electric fan randomly placed by the wall.

The power cord of the electric fan was hanging on the ground randomly, and so was the plug.

"Found it, the power plugs scattered on the floor."

Miwako Sato's voice was secretly filled with excitement:

"This is very likely the 'indoor' scene where Mr. Iida fought with the murderer during his lifetime."

"The scars on his back should be formed by the power plug that was pressed to the ground after he fell here."

"En." Takagi She nodded, but his tone was not too sure:

Because after investigation, they found that Mr. Iida didn't usually clean up the furniture and electrical appliances, and the unused power strips, electric fans, and vacuum cleaners were all randomly placed.

So there are several places in his house with such plugs scattered on the ground.

Even the discovery of a power plug on the floor of this bedroom doesn't mean it must have been the scene of the indoor fight.

"No, it's here."

Miwako Sato's expression quietly became firm.

Pointing to the baseball and baseball mitts on the table in the bedroom, she said to Takagi:

"See? A baseball fan usually buys a three-piece set including a baseball, glove, and bat."

"But here is only Mr. Iida's baseball and baseball glove."

"And where's his baseball bat?"

"This..." Takagi started to search in this room.

Really only found baseballs and mitts, but no baseball bats.

"Could it be..."

Officer Takagi reacted belatedly:

"It was taken away by the murderer?"

"That's right." Miwako Sato nodded:

"Just now, Asai told us that the deceased suffered blunt trauma to some extent on the back of his head."

"And he also speculated that the wounding tool should be a wooden stick."

"Wooden sticks..."

"Isn't it about the mysterious missing baseball bat?"

Miwako Sato concluded with confidence:

"The murderer must have taken the baseball bat used as the murder weapon away from the scene and disposed of it after committing the crime."

"This..." Officer Takagi froze again.

He found another place that puzzled him:

"But didn't the murderer leave the dagger behind?"

"Since he thought of disposing of the murder weapon, why did he only take the baseball bat and not the dagger that was also at the scene?"

"It's simple."

Miwako Sato replied with a smile:

"Because the general murderer handles the murder weapon in order to erase the traces that he may have left on the murder weapon."

"And the purpose of the murderer's handling of the murder weapon is actually to help forge the scene."

"Just think about it, if a bloody baseball bat was left in the house and the police found it."

"Will the police do what he wants and believe that nothing happened in this house?"

"Hmm..." Gao Mushe still couldn't understand: "Then just throw the baseball bat out of the house and throw it together with the dagger?"

"No." Miwako Sato shook her head:

"Takagi, when you've done enough cases, you'll be able to notice empirically:"

"Ordinary murderers commit crimes with weapons, and they only bring one kind of murder weapon with them."

"A baseball bat and a dagger are two weapons."

"In cases where there are two kinds of murder weapons, the murderer usually takes them from the scene because of the need to fight and entangle with the deceased when the murderer kills indoors."

"Not to mention, the baseball bat itself is bulky."

"Judging from common sense, few people would bring a baseball bat to their home to commit crimes."

"so…"

"If he had left the baseball bat at the scene, we, the police, would have suspected that he had picked it up from near the scene."

"And where can I get a baseball bat around here?"

"Only indoors, of course, only the home of the dead."

"So the killer had to take and dispose of that baseball bat, or else we would realize that the deceased may have had a fight in his own home."

"And once we know that..."

Miwako Sato paused slightly.

She turned her head and looked across the alley through the window of the bedroom, the fire site that had been burned to ruins:

"You will start to wonder how the arsonist came to the deceased's house."

"You will start to wonder if the arsonist is the murderer."

Speaking of this, even Officer Takagi, who reacted a little slower, fully reacted:

"I understand…"

"That's the purpose of the murderer's disguise—"

"He wants to place the murder charge on the arsonist!"

He swallowed, and added to clarify his thoughts:

"While the arsonist set fire across the alley."

"Mr. Iida may not be dead yet."

"The murderer and Mr. Iida may still be fighting in this bedroom."

"And the window of this bedroom is facing the neighbor's house across the alley, which is where the fire started, where the arsonist poured gasoline and set it on fire."

"So, after the murderer knocked down Mr. Iida, he might accidentally see from the window of this bedroom that someone was pouring petrol on the opposite side of the alley to set fire."

"He realized that the arsonist might be the serial arsonist who's been in the news recently and left the police helpless."

"So, the murderer chose to tidy up the indoor fighting scene."

"After the arsonist left, he moved Mr. Iida, who had lost his resistance, to the alley outside the house, and killed him there."

"Thus…"

Takagi said excitedly:

"There were no traces of fighting indoors, and the body was outside near the fire."

"When our police arrived at the scene, we would subconsciously believe that the deceased was brutally killed by the arsonist when he was brave enough to stop the arsonist."

"The charge of homicide is entirely on the arsonist."

"Unless the arsonist is successfully arrested, there is basically no possibility for us to find out that he did not kill the person."

"How can it be easy to catch the arsonist who is fleeing and committing crimes in the vast crowd of Tokyo?"

"Even if we were lucky enough to catch him and find out the truth, we would have wasted the prime time of the investigation in a daze."

"By then, the real culprit will have already dealt with all the traces and will pretend to be innocent with our Metropolitan Police Department."