Chapter 529: Puzzle Solving B (On the Darkness Under the Crude Fabricated Lamp)
Lin Lei suddenly stopped talking, his eyes staring at one place.
Sheriff Henry was waiting for Lin Lei to decrypt it, but he didn't hear Lin Lei speak for a long time, and following the direction of his eyes, Sheriff Henry couldn't help but gasp!
Yes!
Could it be ......
"I see!" Sergeant Henry slammed his head, as if he had understood the mystery thoroughly.
Claude's brow twitched slightly, but he remained unmoved, with no obvious abnormal expression.
Sheriff Henry said loudly, "Detective Lin, what do you meanβ"
"That place, why don't you go and check it?" Lin Lei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said lightly.
Sergeant Henry immediately called his subordinates and was about to give orders, but Lin Lei interrupted him: "Wait a minute. β
Sheriff Henry was stunned for a moment, and said to Lin Lei with some confusion: "Detective Lin, what are you...... It really should be checked there, and I'll send someone to check it right away!"
The "there" that Henry said was exactly where Lin Lei's eyes were staring at -
Next door to Claude, the Iversons' house!
The Claude family lives on the corner and has only one neighbor, the Iversons.
The police turned out to be overlooked by such an important circumstance.
Why can't Claude have accomplices?
He hid the body in Iverson's house, and after the police couldn't find it at all in his house, once the rumors passed, Claude would slowly dispose of the body before it was too late!
This is again divided into two cases.
First, Iverson was Claude's accomplice.
Second, Claude secretly hid the body somewhere in Iverson's house.
However, Sergeant Henry finally hesitated, his brow furrowed, as if he had encountered some inexplicable suspicion.
Lin Lei smiled slightly, glanced at Sheriff Henry meaningfully, and said slowly: "What, Sergeant Henry, do you think there is anything wrong?"
Without waiting for Sheriff Henry to speak, Qiao Yan frowned and said, "BOSS, I don't think it's likely......"
Lin Lei continued to smile and said, "Uh, why?"
Qiao Yan thought for a while and replied: "This is the kind of detective TV series that is not careful, the so-called 'black under the lights'. I'm not saying that 'black under the lights' is impossible, it's just that 'black under the lights' must have a lot of coincidental conditions, and it's not some crude detective TV series that talk nonsense for the sake of 'hunting for curiosity'. For example, in this case, if Iverson is Claude's accomplice, then what is his motive for committing the crime?"
After a pause, Qiao Yan continued: "According to the general plot, that is, Claude gave the Iversons a sum of money, and then conspired to commit the crime. In fact, this possibility is not very large, although money is very useful in many cases, but when it comes to homicide cases, the vast majority of people will not choose such high-risk things. β
Qiao Yan is right, there are not too many criminals who kill people for money - but more people, even if they give him more money and ask him to kill, he will not dare.
It's like a bank is open there, and people come and go every day, and if everyone is extremely vicious, then what security does the bank have?
Even if the bank has high protection, what about the people who withdraw money?
There are people like Zhou @ Ke @ Hua, but how many years does it take to produce one?
Many times, the crude detective TV series always use money as the "master key", as if all the motives for committing the crime can be explained by money, in fact, how can it be so simple?
Randomly arresting a "melon-eating masses" and then identifying him as a murderer and installing a motive for "killing people for money" is a common episode, but in fact, it is extremely unlikely to happen in reality.
"Most importantly, Claude's previous wives have also disappeared. Even if he took 10,000 steps back and said that he had bought off Iverson, could it be that he had also bribed his neighbors to commit crimes in the past? This does not make sense at all, and the more people who know about such a secret thing as murder, the easier it will be to capsize. Qiao Yan continued to express her judgment.
Lin Lei nodded, glanced at her appreciatively, and said, "That's right." β
As soon as the words changed, Lin Lei quickly turned his attention to Claude again, and said coldly: "The question is back to the original point, how did you destroy the corpse?"
Claude was a little dazed for a while, he thought that Lin Lei meant that he had bought off his neighbors Iverson and his wife - this is really a rotten bridge, how could such a smart person as he do this?
Unexpectedly, Lin Lei and Qiao Yan soon denied this relatively "mentally retarded" reasoning, which made him feel an invisible pressure.
Say more and make more mistakes, say less and make fewer mistakes, and don't say good.
Claude silently recited this sentence in his heart, his lips moved, but he didn't say a word after all.
Lin Lei glanced at Claude, who had already seen through his thoughts, snorted coldly, turned his head to Sheriff Henry and said, "I have cracked the secret of the disappearance of the corpse." β
Such a bland sentence stunned everyone present.
Claude's eyes widened, and he looked at Lin Lei incredulously, as if petrified, motionless.
And Sergeant Henry, after the initial shock, hurriedly asked, "Detective Lin, tell me quickly, what the hell is going on?"
Lin Lei took out a piece of chewing gum from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.
After a long time, Lin Lei said slowly: "Claude's most fatal flaw was actually presented in front of everyone early in the morning......
"What flaw?" Sergeant Henry continued.
Lin Lei glanced at Claude and said lightly: "Dig a pit." β
As soon as Lin Lei's words landed, Sheriff Henry's brows immediately furrowed tightly, he thought for a while, and asked in a low voice: "Detective Lin, do you mean that Claude deliberately made a movement in the middle of the night to wake up the neighbors Iverson, and then pretended to bury the body?"
Claude definitely didn't bury the body in the pit, which Sheriff Henry had confirmed before - Claude's yard had been dug up to the ground, and there was no body of Alice at all.
Lin Lei glanced at Sheriff Henry meaningfully, shook his head gently, and said in a deep voice: "When I said digging a pit, I didn't mean this. Claude's desire to act in such a play is of course suspicious, but the point of the case is not here. β
"What is that?...... "Sheriff Henry became more and more puzzled.
"Dead cat. Claude killed a feral cat and buried the cat's body in the yard. Lin Lei's eyes suddenly widened, staring at Claude deadly, and said in a very calm tone.
"Cat?" Sergeant Henry was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the dead cat?"
Lin Lei's gaze became sharper and sharper, and his tone was like a sharp knife: "Mr. Claude, you should understand what I mean, right?"
Claude trembled violently, and he almost collapsed to the ground......
Lin Lei didn't speak again, he fell silent, just stared at Claude coldly.
Qiao Yan on the side was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice: "BOSS, what's wrong with the cat......?"
"Cats eat corpses?" Sergeant Henry blurted out, and soon he denied the answer: "Impossible! How can a cat eat such a big corpse? Not to mention that the cat's stomach is so big, I know that cats are very picky eaters, and they don't eat carrion at all." β
Lin Lei's eyes deepened, and he said lightly: "What you said is not bad at all, Sergeant Henry." Whether it is a cat, a dog, or even a pig, these common domestic animal pets are impossible to eat human corpses. This is the town, and there can't be any brown bears and gray wolves...... However, this cat is very important in this case, and it directly reveals Claude's modus operandi - the mystery of the disappearance of the corpse!"
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