Chapter 697: Bitter Coffee
Gao Cheng nodded at Shogo Somei, who was a lot haggard, and looked at the scene of the murder by himself, because there were already forensic personnel taking pictures and collecting evidence, so he didn't have to worry about destroying the scene.
Upon entering, a middle-aged man with a fortune could be seen lying at the dining table, clutching his throat in pain, which, as in many previous cases, was consistent with cyanide poisoning.
A coffee cup was poured onto the plate on the table, and the coffee flowed down the table to the chair, leaving two pools of dried coffee stains on the carpet.
The strange part is the position of the chair, both feet in the front of the chair are drenched with coffee, but the right foot does not coincide with the coffee mark on the carpet, as if someone has moved it.
And it's not like waiting for the coffee to dry before moving it......
Gao Cheng carefully examined the coffee marks on the table, and suddenly deduced that someone was sitting on the chair when the coffee was spilled, and got up and moved the chair when the coffee was poured on the right leg of the chair and left marks on the stall, and then some of the coffee was poured on the left foot of the chair.
This inference is also in line with the direction of the coffee spill, which is short on the right and long on the left......
Gao Cheng looked at the coffee cup on the table again, and picked up the plate at the bottom, and found that the coffee marks below did not match the shape of the plate.
Knowing that the first one to come was Somei Shogo, Takasei's gaze stopped at Somei Shogo who explained to Twilight.
According to the testimony of the uncle and the apartment manager, the entrance door was locked at the time, and the anti-theft chain was also hung up, but after breaking the door, Somei Shogo ran in front and directly found the living room.
In addition, Xiaolan has been guarding the door, and no one else has escaped, and only Shogo Somei can do it.
In other words, it was because it was Shogo Somei that there were a lot of loopholes left under the rush of time, and the method of hiding any traces was quite crude.
Gao Cheng intervened and looked around the scene, and walked straight to the locked balcony floor-to-ceiling window.
It was still raining heavily, and when I opened the door, I could see the parking lot downstairs, and his car directly below.
"Was this floor-to-ceiling window locked in the first place?" Gao Cheng asked back.
"yes," said Twilight, "but just in case, I opened the balcony and checked it...... In short, there is a possibility of suicide in this case, and it happens to be the same apartment......"
"Please, please wait a minute, officer," Shogo Somei asked urgently, "there is also a possibility of suicide...... Isn't that suicide? Because it's a secret room......"
"It's different, if you hang yourself in a secret room or cut your wrists, it should be suicide, but if you poison it, it's not necessarily, if the criminal brings a cake to visit Mr. Nakame, after poisoning the coffee, and then leaves under the pretext of being in a hurry, when he goes out, he tells him that the neighborhood is not very safe, and let him hang up the anti-theft chain, so it is not impossible to complete the murder in the secret room......"
Twilight looked at a plate of cakes placed next to the coffee cups on the table, explained quite experiencedly, and asked Shogo Somei, "By the way, where were you around half past six at the time of the crime?" ”
"Me?" Somei Shogo sweated a lot, and when he saw Twilight asking himself, he hurriedly replied, "I haven't been in good health lately, so I didn't go to the company, so I slept at home, and then I received a confirmation call from Mr. Mori around 6:30......
"Is that phone from home?" Twilight asked.
"No, I picked it up on my phone......"
"So can anyone prove that you slept at home all day?"
"No ......," Shogo Somei said nervously, "Are you doubting me?" ”
"Just in case......"
"Ah......h
"What's so strange?"
"It's the mark of the coffee tipping over, and if it's usually put on a saucer and tipping over, it should be a circular mark underneath...... There was no coffee on the plate either......"
Gao Cheng walked into the room from the balcony, heard Conan's exaggerated voice and felt a chill, and looked at the curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
He had noticed just now that the curtains on both sides were wet, and apparently the floor-to-ceiling windows had not been closed when Shogo Somei found the body.
Looking at Shogo Somei, who was suspected by Conan, Gao Cheng frowned slightly.
took advantage of the first discovery of the corpse, and did so many tricks and feet in a hurry, except that he was the murderer, there was only one possibility......
"I don't know what the purpose is, but I know who did it, right?" Conan smiled confidently at the puzzled Twilight, "The only person who can do this kind of thing in the room after the coffee is dry is the one who came in first and found Mr. Nakame's body...... President Somei, it's just you, aren't you? ”
Uncle Maori followed and stared at Shogo Somei, whose face changed: "It's really only you, you were the first to enter the secret room to eliminate the evidence that you didn't have time to eliminate at that time, right?" ”
Shogo Somei panicked: "It's just that the traces of coffee tipping over were found under the coffee cup and saucer, what kind of evidence is this kind of thing, is it necessary for me to hide it?" ”
"Well...... this"
Uncle Maori's own head was a little stuck, and he couldn't help but look at Conan, who was usually very clever, but Conan didn't continue to interject, just looked at the coffee stains on the carpet with an incredulous expression.
This time it was not just a homicide, it was impossible to commit a crime......
"Officer Twilight," Gao Cheng's voice suddenly pulled Conan back to his thoughts, "has the woman's identity been confirmed?" ”
"Not yet," Twilight sighed at the mention of the woman who jumped off the building, "She died on the spot, and the family will be contacted when the identity is confirmed......
"I think," Gao Cheng Yuguang noticed Shogo Somei's expression and said softly, "If there is no accident, I already know the identity of the deceased." ”
"Got it?"
"What deceased? Has anyone else been killed? ”
Everyone present followed Twilight to look at Takasei, but only Shogo Somei lowered his head.
Takasung didn't immediately mention the matter of the female staff, but said to Takagi, "Officer Takagi, can you confirm the situation of President Somei's company first?" It is better to find the whereabouts of President Somei at half past six at the time of the crime......"
Takagi, who was standing behind, was stunned, and subconsciously ran out of the door: "Okay, I know......"
Twilight's thick eyebrows were twisted together, and she couldn't help but ask, "I said Brother Chenghu, do you really know the identity of the deceased?" ”
"It's not just her identity......"
Gao Cheng took the cup on the office coffee table and put it on the dining table, and then told everyone his inference: "What President Somei wants to hide is actually the existence of another person other than Nakame Producer......"
"Another?"
"The reason why there is no coffee on the plate is because it is not a coffee saucer in the first place, and it should be used to put cakes, right? It's just that someone put two cakes on a plate......"
Gao Cheng looked at Shogo Somei, who was bowing his head deeply, and divided the cake on the plate on the table, and suddenly there was a scene of two people using snacks on the table.
"Due to time constraints, President Somei had to pour the coffee from another coffee cup into the flower pot in the corner, and the empty cup was disguised as a pen holder, but the smell of coffee was still quite obvious......
"No," Twilight said strangely, looking at the table displays, "there's only one fork for eating cake...... Did you hide in the kitchen? ”
"If you have time to hide in the kitchen, you can take the plates and put the coffee cups in the sink," Gao Cheng shook his head, "That fork is probably still on Mr. Somei, right?" ”
"Because there is no time to ......"
Shogo Somei took out the fork from his arms in a little frustration: "Mr. Nakame's body is right in front of me, and if I don't shout loudly right away, the first one will be suspected......"
"So," said Twilight, "Mr. Nakame was given ...... by Mr. Somei."
"Yes......" Shogo Somei bowed his head and said, "I've always been angry with him at work, so I pretended to commit suicide in a secret room like the police officer you said, and when I left, I also noticed my coffee and cake on the table, and I said that I would clean up before leaving, but Mr. Nakame said that if there is something urgent, I will leave first, and let him clean up, just in case I came back to take a look, and the result was ......"
"It's a pity, Mr. Somei."
Gao Cheng suddenly interrupted: "You can't be a prisoner. ”
"Huh?" Shogo Somei's eyes twitched.
"Because until the moment when the producer of Nakame was killed for drinking poisoned coffee, the prisoner was still at the scene, and I just received news that someone saw you in a pharmacy near your company at the time of the crime......"
Gao Cheng took the record book from Takagi, who had returned, looked directly at Shogo Somei and said, "Even the employees of your company, the clerks in the pharmacy can testify......"
"I'm ......" Shogo Somei said with a dry smile, "I went to buy medicine today, and it was around 5 o'clock, did they mistake the time......"
"President Somei locked the floor-to-ceiling windows," Gao Cheng interrupted sternly in a loud voice, "to avoid the police from thinking of the parking lot jumping incident, right?" That female employee of yours jumped from the balcony and died instantly, right after killing Nakame Producer! ”
Shogo Somei's face changed completely, he couldn't speak with his mouth open, tears couldn't help but gush out, and he fell to his knees with a bang.
"No...... No! Maiko she is innocent...... It must be the victim of Nakame, it's all Nakame producers......"