"Zhou, come to my office."

Early in the morning, in the public office area on the second floor of the Western Branch, Weekend and Carl are still the core of the entire branch, and they talk about everything, from the black and white silk stockings at the supermodel contest to make women more sexy, to the avatar of a supermodel appeared on a popular bag-raising-software in Silicon Valley, and in Silicon Valley, the rich people made many beautiful female college students make a fortune just pouting-fart-stocks...... Everyone in the public office area of the entire police station was stunned by the two of them, especially when the two of them were together, they were in charge of technical analysis on the weekend, and Carl was in charge of meat jokes.

At this time, Preston shouted horizontally, and the moment the weekend raised his head to look over, Carl reminded: "There is nothing wrong in your jurisdiction, right?" ”

"Nope." As for the situation in the jurisdiction, I was very confident on the weekend, and after the closure of Arrig's club, it didn't take long for the café to hang up the 'Close' sign, and the entire café was completely closed. After the removal of the biggest cancer in the precinct, the days of peace appeared, and during this time, apart from the inevitable traffic accidents in the neighborhood and some neighborhood disputes, their precinct was the quietest in the entire wandering district, and Preston could not be sent to him no matter what evil fire had.

When he walked into the office in his police uniform, he turned around on the weekend and saw everyone in the public office area staring at him, and then he closed the door with his hand.

“SIR。”

That's why I don't like to deal with leaders on weekends, it's okay to be restrained and unrestrained, and he doesn't plan to slap the horse anyway. The point is that the eyes of the group of guys behind you are staring at you all over your body. If you get too close to the leader. There must be rumors in the police station, and he hasn't forgotten how Iward and the others talked about Jimmy behind his back when he just worked at the Montek police station.

Preston's desk was neat, the phone was snapped to the edge of the table, and the folders were all laid flat on the left desk: "Sit." He reached out and gave in.

On the weekend, I was not polite, and I didn't have a big grin everywhere like Chekov, so I pulled out a chair and sat down normally.

"You're in luck."

Preston's remark made Weekend frown slightly, and he explained: "The deputy commissioner is very unhappy with the progress of the Homicide Section's investigation of the spontaneous combustion. I am going to recommend you to the whole police department, whether it is the Commercial Crime Bureau or the Anti-Crime and Anti-Narcotics Bureau, there are no suitable personnel. Weekend's eyes widened to say something, and Preston interrupted: "Don't be nervous, I have my point." ”

"You've personally arrested Ted's son, and Ted is the only one we suspect, and you've been in contact with each other on the streets, so it's likely that his next target will be you...... In addition, when you investigated the Cecil Hotel series of cases before, you performed so brilliantly. Almost the entire police department knows that the Western Branch is hiding a master of solving crimes, and it is normal for you to be on the recommended list. If you can't go up, you should feel surprised. ”

"Before I do, though, I want you to talk to me and talk about your thoughts on this case."

"Oh, by the way, don't be too happy, I'm just in charge of the recommendation, as for whether I can send you to the homicide department to investigate this case, I can't guarantee."

It certainly wasn't Preston's idea!

Know this over the weekend.

Preston didn't dare to fart when he stuffed both Adam and Chekov into the wandering area, how dare he recommend himself to investigate spontaneous combustion at such a sensitive moment? Isn't that the equivalent of standing in front of the conference room of a group of five and scolding the street? Still shouting with great fanfare, 'You five-member team can't see well, the elite of the entire homicide department is not as good as a patrol officer under my Preston command.' ’。

He didn't have the guts, and he couldn't have been stupid enough to be this far.

"Zhou?" Preston reminded him as he pondered over the weekend, because Preston found him stunned.

Weekend said: "In fact, the modus operandi of this case is very ordinary, but it has mastered partial knowledge that ordinary people do not grasp." ”

Preston didn't interrupt him this time, but quietly denied the weekend in his heart.

The homicide department is not a police department in a small town in Texas, where the forensic department can rank among the top three in the United States, except for the forensic departments in Connecticut and Las Vegas, the forensic staff here are the best...... Even these people can't find a way to commit the crime, how dare you say that the criminal's modus operandi is ordinary in such an environment?

"SIR, the murderer just used a blindfold, in the Amanda case, the murderer invited the deceased to the beach, draped his suit over the deceased, and then the deceased spontaneously combusted, and when the murderer was arrested, there was a shell with his fingerprints next to him." The unorganized language was spoken according to the idea of solving the case on the weekend, and it was so chaotic that people couldn't understand the order at all, and Preston was dizzy to listen.

"That's where everybody's eyes are on, the murderer, the dead, the clothes, the shells completely obscuring everyone's view, so that we can only see so many people that everyone can't look away, it's the taxi driver. There was no problem with the taxi driver's confession, and the taxi driver's credibility proved it, so the moment he stretched out his hand to Ted, everyone began to look for the reason in Ted. ”

"Why doesn't anyone think about the backrest of a chair in a taxi? Why doesn't anyone think about the order in which Ted and Amanda get off? Why don't you wonder if Amanda caught the taxi driver's eye when she got out of the car, and at this time when his gaze shifted, Ted moved his hands and feet on the back of the chair? ”

Preston was drawn to the weekend, and he seemed to see the other side of the case, and the guy sitting across from his desk seemed to have a completely different approach to the case than other detectives, and he could see what was revealed on a second level, which was often overlooked by ordinary people or normal people.

"Zhou, you mean Ted set fire?"

Preston asked questioningly, "But the experts at the fire department have determined that this is a case of spontaneous combustion......

"What is nature? Nature refers to the combustion phenomenon of combustibles that increase heat energy by self-heating or external heat when there is no external fire source in the air. Sodium, for example. ”

"Sodium is a metallic element and an important component of muscle and nerve tissue in the body. It can react with water to form sodium hydroxide. Very active in the water. It can release enough heat energy to produce hydrogen. If the heat energy is large enough, sodium can cause combustibles to burn. In 2002, Belgian Adele picked up shells on the beach, spontaneous combustion occurred on the way home, and later after the investigation of experts at the fire scene, Adele's shells contained sodium, and after investigation, the substance came from a group of young people who were releasing fireworks into the sky by the sea. The fireworks that rushed into the sky and turned yellow is the sodium at work, which is the mystery of Adele's spontaneous combustion incident in 2002. ”

Database.

Preston has the feeling of seeing a database, and this database is still intelligent, able to completely combine all the clues and cases that have happened in the past, and use what seems to be a chaotic way to set a sheep's intestine path that others can't see at all to reach the end.

It's just that...... After thinking about it for a while, Preston began to have doubts again: "Zhou, what you said has some truth, but you seem to have forgotten one thing, the forensic department has inspected Ted's suit, and there are no chemicals on it at all. ”

"Of course. Water was enough for Ted's suit, and he needed rubber gloves all the time. The taxi driver followed Amanda out of the car and smeared the sodium on the back of the saddle, which must not be long, otherwise the sodium would oxidize. This would explain why Amanda shook the suit to the ground in an instant when she was put on it by Ted, not that she didn't understand any politeness, but when the water stains on the suit touched her skin, she felt cold! ”

The head of the weekend's explanation said: "After this faux pas, Amanda, who didn't plan to continue dating Ted, naturally won't explain anything, and leaving quickly may be the best choice." So, she went back to the car and sat in her place in a very short time, while Amanda's skin and clothes were already wet with water stains on Ted's body. The sodium and water had a chemical effect on the car, and it took a little longer to heat up, which is why the car had already gone far before Amanda burned. Remember what the taxi driver said about Amanda? Amanda's remark of 'how can the back of your chair be hot' instead of 'Oh God, my body is burning like it's burning', which is enough to prove that the source of the fire did not come from the body, and I believe this can also be identified by the experts of the fire department. ”

"The experts of the fire department are not experts of the forensic department, and they are responsible for the cause of the fire, so isn't it natural to burn without an open flame approaching? The Forensic Bureau was responsible for identifying the corpse and Ted, and they may have also examined the burned scene, but it must have been after getting the identification report from the fire department's experts. With this authoritative report leading the way, the work of the Identification Section has become simpler, as it is enough to prove whether the experts of the Fire Department have made mistakes, after all, it is not their strong point to conduct the identification of the fire scene, so with the cooperation of the two working groups, the most important areas of attention have been completely ignored. ”

Preston didn't expect the weekend to be so bold and dare to directly accuse the Forensic Section!

"Zhou, you mean, Ted isn't that hard to catch?"

"I didn't say that." Weekend shook his head and said, "I can figure out what happened to Amanda's death, but the two dead people in the church stumped me. ”

"You mean ......"

"Yes, Ted has upgraded his modus operandi." Weekend frankly admitted: "I'm not sure I've caught him yet." ”

Preston was confused again: "Didn't you just say that you have solved Amanda's case?" ”

"That's all my speculation, SIR, I didn't touch this case, all the sources heard from the knight when he handed over Arig to the Homicide Bureau for questioning...... What's more, as long as any forensic report by the police is repeated, it will become a key point for the opposing lawyer's argument, plus there is an on-site appraisal by experts from the fire department with the title of 'spontaneous combustion', even if everything I say is true, it is too difficult to put Ted in prison. We didn't catch Ted's hands, and we gave Ted time to deal with the tools of the crime and spread his clothes on the reef to get wet, all of which will be the standard line for his acquittal. SIR, Ted, was playing chess with the LAPD's Homicide Section on his own, and it was clear that we had lost the first game. ”

Astound!

A patrolman can deduce such a meticulous case and the history of the crime from the clues he hears, this, this......

Preston replied this time, believing that Ted's son Robin was sent to prison by his own hands over the weekend because this guy has the ability!

"Zhou, I will definitely do my best to send you to the homicide department."

"Thank you." After thanking him for the weekend, he silently got up and left the sheriff's office, with one more question in his mind, his understanding of the case came from a conversation with the knight, so how did Preston know? The questions he asked could never have been written in news reports, and he had read every news report these days over the weekend, none of which involved the facts of the case, and almost all of them were mysterious speculations.

The moment he turned his head to look into the office, he just saw Preston pick up the phone, and said to himself, "That call...... It won't be all the time, right? (To be continued......)