Chapter 267: Smooth
"Does Pastor Lowe have any serious illnesses?" I asked. What I'm looking for is evidence of Pastor Lowe's illness.
The church staff was slightly surprised: "Pastor Lo has Allah's protection and will not get sick." ”
I didn't try to refute the ridiculous statements of these people, they meant it very clearly, even if Pastor Lowe was really sick, they didn't know. The reason I think Pastor Lowe is sick is because of the little medicine he pressed at the bottom of the box. The vial was filled with poison, and the label of the medicine was damaged, so there was nothing wrong with that.
Strange is the location of that little medicine. Would a person, after choosing to commit suicide, still put the bottle of poison back to the bottom of the suitcase, apparently not. And, the luggage in the suitcase was neat, and the suitcase was placed on the edge of the bed, which was more like where he wanted to go.
I speculate that Pastor Lowe did not commit suicide at all.
He wanted to take the medicine and eat it, so after taking the medicine, he would stuff the medicine bottle back at the bottom of the box, because the medicine was always in that place. However, not long after he put the bottle back, he died of poison. He died after answering a phone call, that is, he did not hang up the phone intentionally after hearing that the police suspected him of murder, but because of the onset of illness.
The illness made Pastor Luo unable to speak a word, and his mobile phone fell to the ground, he used all his strength to take out the medicine at the bottom of the box, but he didn't expect that he was eating poison!
That's my reasoning, and it would explain why Pastor Lowe would stuff the bottle back at the bottom of the box after taking the poison, because he didn't know he was going to die, but would return to normal as usual. The poison invaded Pastor Luo's body, perhaps because of the psychological effect, he got a moment of relief, but he didn't expect that when he put the suitcase on the edge of the bed and was about to lift it up and rush back to cooperate with the investigation, he couldn't hold it anymore.
If my inference is correct, then Pastor Lowe must have a more serious or long-term illness, which must not have too many mood swings, otherwise it is easy to get sick. Moreover, Pastor Luo also has the habit of bringing the medicine with him, which will make people adjust the medicine.
The bottle in the identification center was obviously new, and there was no other drug ingredient in it except for the residue of poison, that is to say, the real murderer deliberately used the exact same bottle to drop the original medicine bottle, this high degree of similarity, so that Pastor Luo would not think about the authenticity of the medicine at all when he became ill.
However, whether in Pastor Luo's home or church office, I did not find any clues about Pastor Luo's medicine, and when I asked everyone, they did not know what illness Pastor Luo had.
"Does Pastor Nalo have any relatives?" I asked again.
The staff told me that Pastor Lowe had never had a family, so he had no wife and children, and that he had been living alone because of his age and the fact that his parents had passed away. This is also not consistent with my speculation.
According to my inference, Pastor Lo's medicine was dropped, then this person must know Pastor Lowe very well and know where to put his medicine, and this person is also relatively close to Pastor Lowe, so that he can drop the medicine without Pastor Lo noticing.
When I came out of the church, the detective who followed me asked me what I was going to do next, and I thought about it carefully and asked him to send someone to investigate several nearby hospitals to see if I could find Pastor Luo's medical records. After looking at the medicine bottle pressed at the bottom of the box, I was convinced that Pastor Lowe was not committing suicide.
According to Shen Cheng's inference, Pastor Luo's crime is a type of religious homicide, but it is different from religious homicide in the traditional sense.
In terms of criminal motives, if the murderer wanted to kill the greedy, it did meet the characteristics of religious killing, but from the perspective of the means of killing, except for Luo Danan's death on the thirteenth floor that seems ominous to Westerners, the characteristics of murder and religious murder are not at all compatible.
And now, I finally understand what the weird feeling in my heart is.
Shen Cheng's reasoning and my reasoning went too smoothly.
We deduced that the murderer used physical means to kill Luo Danan, we found a physics book and a thrust calculation process at Pastor Luo's house, Shen Cheng speculated that Chen Zhaodi was an accomplice, and Chen Zhaodi died immediately, Shen Cheng deduced that it was a religious murder, we immediately found Pastor Luo, and I deduced that the murderer used light to detonate a gas tank in a small space, and we immediately found the pressure calculation formula and chemical reaction formula at Pastor Luo's house.
It was like these things were already in those places, waiting for us to pick them up. Now that I think about it, both me and Shen Cheng have made a mistake, and we were guided by clues. I don't know why, or even because of the murderer's guidance, we reasoned step by step about the results that appeared, and based on the results we deduced, we found relevant evidence.
It is at this moment that I completely overturn the inference between Shen Cheng and me, because Shen Cheng's reasoning and I are both well-reasoned, and no one can refute anyone, so the final result is only determined according to the speed of time. Shen Cheng came to a conclusion faster than me, so I thought what he said was right, because I had no way to refute him, and if I had come to a conclusion first, Shen Cheng would have thought that my reasoning was correct.
My mind was set, and I needed to reconsider all our assumptions about what was right and what was wrong.
First of all, the biggest doubt is whether Pastor Lowe is a suspect or not, and I firmly believe that he did not commit suicide in fear of sin, but acted as a substitute for death. It was a coincidence that we had enough evidence to miss Pastor Lowe's confession that he died. Therefore, the murderer is someone else.
Starting with Luo Danan's case, based on his posture before death and the banknotes, it is indeed possible that he was brought into the construction site and killed for picking up banknotes. However, with Pastor Luo as an intermediary, Luo Danan may not need his wife's help to enter the construction site. As long as the murderer let Luo Danan enter the construction site in the name of Pastor Luo, Luo Danan will definitely do it, because Pastor Luo still has a project in his hand that Luo Danan wants to get money for.
After entering the construction site, Luo Danan could easily find the money placed on the ground, and picked it up one by one and put it in his pocket, and when he walked to the designated position, the boulder fell. And that night, according to Pastor Lowe's neighbors, Pastor Lowe also ran out in a hurry.
This is also one of the "evidences" that he successfully obtained, and now that I think about it, Pastor Luo did not run away to kill people at all, but he was also led out. The purpose is very simple, to make others think that Pastor Lowe has run away to kill people.
and then to the bombing case of Chen Zhaodi Luo Kang, which can kill people by using optics, but it may not be Pastor Luo who kills people. According to Shen Cheng's previous analysis of the murderer's psychology with me, he is good at calculation, but he is difficult to sit still. After committing a crime, such a person cannot leave so much evidence that can prove his murder in his own home, but destroy it.
So, even if Pastor Lowe kills someone, he won't be stupid enough to wait for the police to come to the door to arrest him. Therefore, Pastor Luo was framed, and as for the person who framed Pastor Lowe, the characteristics are obvious, he is very familiar with Pastor Lowe, can easily enter Pastor Lowe's home, and is very familiar with Pastor Lowe's daily life.
Also, the murderer must have known that the police could easily find out that Luo Danan's family believed in Catholicism, so when he killed Luo Danan, he deliberately chose the thirteenth floor. This height is not the best height for murder, the murderer is so good at calculation, he will not know that the purpose of his doing this is because he wants to use this ominous number to let us connect Luo Danan's death with religion, so as to blame Pastor Luo.
The murderer was extremely clever, and in the process of killing people, he also blamed other people, and did it almost seamlessly, if it weren't for the medicine bottle pressed at the bottom of the box, I wouldn't have thought so much about it. Although there is no direct evidence that my inference is correct, I firmly believe that eight or nine are not far from ten.
Now it is only necessary to know how the murderer used the trick to create a figure on the construction site that everyone could not tell whether it was one person or two people, and confirm the identity of the murderer.
I called Shen Cheng, but Shen Cheng's phone was turned off. I thought about whether to wait for him to solve the case together, or to find the results myself first, after all, he didn't read the appraisal report, and I did, before, he and I made mistakes, at this point, we are on the same line, but his reasonable reasoning is faster than mine, which cannot be denied.
In the end, I still didn't choose to wait for him, in my heart, catching the murderer is even more important.
Towards night, the criminal police finally found Pastor Luo's medical records in a hospital......