Chapter 197: Witness Statements
"Singing what?"
"That's right, there are words in my mouth, and I don't hear what they are."
"And then?"
"He picked up the squirrel and walked five times around the cross... I counted, three laps plus five laps, maybe a code or a clue, if anyone can crack it. ”
Since The Da Vinci Code came out, Katyusha has found that many witnesses tend to crack what they see rather than just say it.
"Anyway, he opened the backpack again, took out a stone and a knife, he sharpened the knife with the stone, and then put the knife on the squirrel, I wondered if he was going to disembowel it, but he didn't do it. I saw his lips twitch again, and then wrapped the squirrel's corpse in a strange yellow piece of paper, like a kind of parchment, and put it in his backpack. Then he seemed to have said the last thing he had to say, and went along the way he had come, striding like a beast. ”
"And what did you do afterwards?" Katyusha continued.
"I left and went to a few more meetings. I went back to the office and went online and saw the news about the boy. When I saw his picture, I was horrified and immediately called 911. ”
Katyusha motioned to Hugh? Hugh come here.
"Hugh, this is interesting, Mr. Pfister's testimony can really be of great help."
Hugh nodded in gratitude.
"Now can you tell Inspector Hugh everything you've seen here?"
"Of course," said Pfister again, recounting how to stop the car, "the boy had a dead animal, I think a squirrel, and he went around three times, without the animal in his hand, and then he put the cross in and circled it five more times. He was talking to himself, very strangely, like he was speaking some other language. ”
"And what about later?" She cares about how things go on the next day.
"He wrapped the squirrel in parchment, put the knife on it, said something in that strange language, and left."
"Interesting." Hugh said, "You're right, Katyusha. ”
At this moment, Katyusha took off her pale pink-framed glasses, wiped them, and carefully replaced them with another pair of black-framed glasses with a minimalist style.
Hugh immediately understood that she had put on the big-rimmed glasses, and stepped back. Katyusha moved towards Ffister, right within his personal body zone. She immediately sensed that he was feeling threatened.
"Hey, Ken, I know you're not telling the truth, and I need you to tell the truth."
"Not telling the truth?" He blinked in surprise.
"Yes." Katyusha sensed some clues from the other party's words, either he did not tell the situation in its entirety and deliberately concealed something, or he made up lies about some parts, and the other party's unnatural body language betrayed him.
Pfister is very good at lying, but a few comments and a few actions prompt her. Analyzing him in terms of content made her doubt from the start: in terms of what he said, not how he said it. Some of his explanations sound implausible. claims not to know who the boy is and has never heard of attacks related to the cross, while at the same time appearing to be constantly on the Internet for news; The claim that Travis was wearing a hoodie was mentioned in several posts in the Chimera report, but it is impossible to remember what color it was, and it is easier for people to remember the color of the clothes.
Pfister is still constantly pausing, as liars usually do, because they want to weave a thread of lies that people can believe. He also used at least one "presenter" gesture, drawing with his fingers around his neck; People subconsciously do this to make false statements more convincing.
So, suspicious, Katyusha used shorthand to test whether Pfister was lying: in order to determine whether a person was lying, the investigator asked to listen to his statement several times. The truth-teller will sort out the statement a little bit more or less and remember what he forgot the first time he told it, but the order in which the time happens is always the same. And a liar will often forget the order in which events occurred in his fictional statements. This happened when Pfister recounted to Hugh that he had confused when the boy had planted the cross.
Moreover, an honest witness will recall new facts during the second statement, which will not contradict the content of the previous statement. Pfister first said that Travis was muttering, and he didn't hear what he was muttering. But in the second statement, he included the detail that he did not hear clearly, which was a bit "strange", indicating that he had already heard.
Katyusha came to the conclusion that he was undoubtedly making it up.
In other cases, Katyusha would handle the interrogation in more detail, inducing the witnesses to tell the story. But the liar's personality, which she reckons is a social liar, and his slick personality means that it will be a time-consuming and difficult battle to get to the bottom of it. She didn't have time to do that. The second cross has today's date written on it, meaning it's possible that Travis is planning a second attack.
"Alright, Ken, you're good enough to go to jail." There was a sense of determination in Katyusha's tone, and since he was so uncooperative with her work, she decided to put pressure on the other party.
"What? Nope!" Pfister felt hopeless.
Katyusha didn't mind joining forces. She looked at Hugh. He said, "You can do it." I need you to be honest. ”
"Oh, no. You see......" but he did nothing in response to their temptation, "I am not lying! Not really. Everything I tell you is true. ”
It was very different from assuring her that he would say what he saw. Why do sinful people always think they are smart? She asked, "What you told me is really what you saw with your own eyes?"
Pressed by her laser-like gaze, Pfister looked away. His shoulders collapsed, "I didn't see it with my own eyes, but what I said was all true." I understand the case!"
"How do you find out?" She asked.
"For I have read that he has seen him do all that I have told you. On the blog, the 'Chimera Report' blog. ”
Her eyes glanced at Hugh. His expression was the same as hers. She asked, "Why are you lying?"
He raised his hand, "I want everyone to be alert to this danger. I think people should be more careful with that pervert. They should be more vigilant, especially with their children. We have to be careful with our children, you know. ”