Sending the two colleagues out, Beckett walked over to the coroner who was crouching beside the victim and asked in a low voice, "Renee, did you find anything?" ”

The black coroner, Renee, glanced up at Beckett and said softly: "The time of death should be between half past two and three in the morning, and the cause of death is that this knife stabbed into the heart, which was directly fatal." As for what is left, I'll have to go back and have the autopsy come after I do. ”

"Hmm!" Beckett nodded lightly and said, "I see, Renee." Hurry up and get the results, I always feel that this case is a little unusual. ”

"I'll give it the highest priority." Renee nodded, and waved her hand for the assistant to help get the body into the body bag.

Beckett walked around the room, and finally her eyes were on the safe on the side, and she walked over slowly, carefully looking at the traces left by the contents inside, then looked down at the marks of the fight on the ground, and finally crouched on the glass residue scattered on the ground, slowly frowning.

"Did you find anything?" Renee asked her assistant and a patrol officer to carry the body downstairs, and she walked up to Beckett's side and asked with a concerned expression.

"Sort of!" Beckett stood up and said as he groaned: "I have seen the victim's shoes and clothes, and it is obvious that he came home after jogging for half a day yesterday, and went to take a shower when he got home, so the thief must have entered the house at that time." ”

After a slight pause, Beckett walked not far from the door and continued: "Look here, there is still a trace of water stained here because the windows are wide open. Looking at these chaotic footprints, it is obvious that the two of them have fought here. Our victim is obviously a little better than the thief, and then he subdues the thief here. ”

With that, Beckett took Renee to the couch again, pointed to a few drops of blood dripping there, and said, "Something must have happened here, Renee, you go back and help me check the DNA of this blood, I want to know who it belongs to." ”

"I see." Renee nodded slightly, these few drops of blood were most likely left by the thief, with his DNA, regardless of whether there are relevant clues in the database, this case is relatively easy to handle.

"The rest of the matter is a little confusing." Beckett frowned tightly and said, "You see, the traces of the heavy blow on the floor that I ignored should be when the victim was interrogating the thief, the glass window was suddenly broken from the outside, interrupting the victim's interrogation, and the victim kicked the thief to the fireplace at the same time, you can show this by looking at these trails of dragging." ”

"But how could glass suddenly shatter from the outside in?" Renee was a little puzzled and whispered, "Could it be that the thief broke the glass and came in?" ”

"No, look here." Beckett said in a deep voice: "Look, these traces that don't know how to come out, the glass is obviously covered on it, and it has not been affected by the heavy blow in the slightest, which shows that it was after the two of them fought that the glass suddenly shattered, and it was precisely because of this change that the victim shot him." However, there are some problems here, according to the traces covered by broken glass, when the glass was broken, the thief was always on the side of the closet, and the victim was standing on the side of the safe, which makes some sense, could it be said that they moved to the closet and the safe at the same time at a very fast speed while the glass was broken? ”

"It may also be that the victim and the thief were already on the closet and safe before the glass shattered, which is not unreasonable." Renee stepped aside and offered a different proposal.

"So it's up to you to see what conclusions you can draw from the autopsy." Beckett sighed softly and said, "Anyway, why did the glass shatter inward, how did these heavy blows on the ground come about, if these two questions are not solved, the whole case will not be solved." ”

Renee nodded, and according to the traces of the scene, two somewhat different conclusions were drawn, so at this time, other evidence must be corroborated, and now they can rely on the forensic doctor's conclusion on the autopsy of the corpse.

While Beckett and Renee were talking, there was a sudden sound of voice outside, it was the voices of Espoo and a woman, and the two of them walked towards the scene of the crime as they spoke.

Beckett frowned, but still greeted him, only to see Espoo walk in with a somewhat petite, black-haired woman in her early thirties, and when he saw Beckett, he immediately introduced her: "Detective Lisbon, this is Detective Becket." Beckett, a Lisbon agent from the State Bureau of Investigation, who is in charge of investigating the robbery of the Natural History Museum. ”

"Hello, Lisbon Agent." Beckett understood a little, she stretched out her hand and shook Lisbon, and said: "I heard about the incident over there, but I didn't expect that there would be gangsters who would rob the museum with heavy weapons so blatantly, such a crime is really too bad." ”

"Hello, Detective Becket, you can call me Lisbon." The Lisbon agent smiled lightly and said, "I also stumbled upon Officer Esposito while I was looking for witnesses nearby, so I came up to take a look." The two cases were so close that they were only a few blocks away, and the time difference between the two cases was less than an hour, so I asked Officer Esposito to take me up to take a look, and maybe we'd have a chance to work together. ”

"You mean there's a good chance there is a connection between the two cases?" Beckett understood what the Lisbon agent meant, she muttered for a moment, and then, as if remembering something, said, "You can just call me Beckett." ”

"Hello, Beckett!" Seeing that Becket was relatively friendly, Lisbon breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, their California Bureau of Investigation is an investigative agency under the California Attorney General, and belongs to the state police sequence. In normal times, they are only responsible for investigating cases that occur on land under the direct jurisdiction of the state and cases that cannot be resolved independently by the local government, so they are not very popular with the local police.

The LAPD is a completely different investigative system from the California Bureau of Investigation, and there is no affiliation between the two parties. Moreover, the Los Angeles Police Department is one of the four major police departments in the United States, with far more personnel, equipment, and funding than the California Bureau of Investigation.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Lisbon looked at Beckett with some pleading. Beckett nodded lightly and said, "Please, Espoo, you can tell Lisbon about the victim's situation." ”

"Yes. The victim's name is John Stone, 36 years old, who just rented a house half a month ago, and was found dead in his room this morning. After a pause, Esposito continued: "According to the search records, the neighbors around heard several gunshots nearby at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, but because they are equipped with high-strength tempered glass, the sound insulation effect is very good, so they can't determine where the shooting was fired, and this is Los Angeles, so no one called the police." ”

"According to the preliminary determination of the forensic doctor, the victim died between 2:30 and 3:00 last night, and a dagger was plunged straight into the heart, killing him." Beckett glanced at Renee as he spoke, and Lisbon also nodded at Renee as a greeting, and continued to listen to Beckett say: "According to the traces at the scene, this should be a shooting case converted from a theft, and the gun should belong to the victim, because there is only one type of bullet in the room, and the gun is only the Desert Eagle in the victim's hand." ”

Beckett stopped at this point, and that's all she could say, after all, Lisbon was not a member of their team, let alone a colleague of the Los Angeles Police Department, and it was really inconvenient for her to disclose the details of the case without official documents.