Chapter 24: Melancholy Anna
Wu Feng found a loophole in Wang Xueqian and Natasha's reasoning.
Varian went out in the middle of the night and only came from Alexander to confess, and the possibility of Alexander lying cannot be ruled out at the moment.
As for the women's necklace, it seemed that it deliberately ran in front of Wu Feng and the others, causing Wu Feng and the three of them to find out.
Wu Feng remembered the darkness that Alexander had hidden in the depths of his eyes.
But Wang Xueqian and Natasha have preconceived that Varian is the murderer, how can Alexander, who is full of sunshine and confidence, be the murderer?
Natasha pulled out the handcuffs and immediately wanted to arrest someone, after all, the evidence was already there, and Vera's necklace was found from Varian.
Wu Feng stopped her and said, "Varian can't run away for the time being, I still have a suspicion here, and I want to ask Anna face to face." ”
"You want to meet the beautiful Anna, right? I've seen her, and she's a rare beauty. Natasha put the handcuffs back.
"I'll be the chief judge this time." Wu Feng smiled and said, "Anna has not been out of the room since she entered the hotel, she has neither the time nor the motive to commit the crime, so she should not go to court." ”
Anna is tall, with a cold temperament in her face, and a thick cold and melancholy in her eyes, she seems to be the goddess of ice and snow in the northern snow country.
As soon as Anna arrived at the temporary interrogation room, Wu Feng felt that the warm room seemed to be lowered by a few degrees.
Wu Feng chose the same opening as Xue Qian.
"Name, age, gender."
"Anna, 19 years old, female."
"Tell me about what happened the night before."
"It was my birthday, Alexander, Thea, Vera, and Varian celebrated me at the KTV, and we drank a lot of vodka, and then it was snowing, and the car couldn't drive, so we walked to Ivan's House."
"After coming here, I stayed in my room and didn't go anywhere, and at about 12 o'clock, Thea, Vera and Alexander went outside to build a snowman, I was a little afraid of snow, and then I asked Thea to come up and accompany me. Yesterday at 8 o'clock in the morning, we found that Vera was missing. ”
Anna's narrative is simple, it is said in a few sentences, and there is no contradiction with the confessions of Thea, Alexander, Varian.
Wang Xueqian and Natasha looked at Wu Feng at the same time, and the meaning in their eyes seemed to say: "The beauty has also been seen, hurry up and get down to business and catch Varian." ”
Wu Feng ignored their eyes.
"Are you really afraid of snow?" Wu Feng asked.
"Does this have anything to do with Vera's disappearance?" Anna asked rhetorically.
"It's okay, you can refuse to answer, I'm just a little obsessive-compulsive, I always want to figure out illogical places when I encounter them, logically speaking, you grew up in this ice and snow city, it seems that you shouldn't be afraid of snow, just like a fish can't be afraid of water." Wu Feng said.
Anna paused, as if reminiscing, and the melancholy in her eyes deepened.
"I'm not afraid of snow, I'm just afraid of blizzards." As soon as Anna said something, it seemed to touch a switch in her heart, and she suddenly couldn't help crying.
Natasha approached Wu Feng and whispered: "I know what's going on, three years ago, one of Anna's previous boyfriends, William, disappeared in a snowstorm, Anna reported the case, I saw it in the file of the police station, it seems that the place of disappearance is in this hotel, and later after investigation, no trace of William was found, because William was not a local, but a tourist from other places, and the police could not contact William's family at that time, and the conclusion in the file was: William may have left the city of Eske and returned home." After all, young boys and girls break up, and many times they choose to say goodbye and disappear suddenly. ”
Wu Feng nodded, Natasha's statement made sense logically.
"No way, William won't say goodbye, it's also my birthday, we made a wish together that we will go to the same university in the future, and we will be together forever." Anna was in a whirlpool of a blizzard, helpless and desolate.
"Can you tell us more about that?" Wu Feng asked.
"Our KTV's birthday was the same as the night before, and then there was a snowstorm, and William took me home first, and then he came to stay at the hotel alone, and then, later, ...... "Anna lost control of her language."
"Later, William, like Vera, suddenly disappeared on the night of a blizzard." Wu Feng made up the last sentence for Anna.
Anna was no longer in a state of being questioned, and Natasha sent Anna back to her room to rest.
Wu Feng felt that Vera's case had become interesting, in the same hotel, two people disappeared on the night of a snowstorm, and the owners of the hotel who were the least suspicious in this case, Ivan and his wife, suddenly increased their suspicion.
Next, Natasha served as the presiding judge and arraigned Ivan and his wife, Ivan and Nina.
Both are 40 years old, but their hair is gray and they look much older than their actual age.
The interrogation process was extremely simple, and no useful clues were found.
The two men confessed that due to the snowstorm that day, the hotel closed at about 10 o'clock, and the two rested early, and at half past eleven, the two were woken up by the knock on the door of Alexander, Thea, Vera, Anna, and Varian, who came to stay.
After checking in for the five of them, they went back to the house and went back to sleep, but Ivan and his wife said they didn't know anything about what happened next.
"Why aren't there surveillance cameras installed in the hotel?" Wu Feng asked.
If there was surveillance video, there would be no need to waste so many brain cells.
"We're just a family hotel, and it's a waste of money to install a camera." Ivan replied.
"In the city of Eske, there is a lot of privacy, and there are not many hotels with surveillance cameras." Natasha added beside Wu Feng.
The confessions of all the suspects have been obtained, and after the Ivan couple went out, Wu Feng, Natasha, and Wang Xueqian began to analyze the confessions of several people.
Natasha and Wang Xueqian agreed that Varian was the most suspicious, he had the time to commit the crime, the motive for the crime, and the physical evidence - Vera's necklace was also found on his body.
The suspicion is that Varian's crime time came from Alexander's confession, and the key physical evidence appeared too abruptly, and Vera's necklace seemed to be sent to the door on her own initiative.
Wu Feng thinks that Thea and Alexander are the most suspicious, because if Alexander is the murderer, Vera's necklace appears in Varian's trouser pocket, which is easy to explain, after all, Alexander and Varian live in the same room, and he has enough opportunities to put the necklace in Varian's trouser pocket.
From Alexander's confession, he has always deliberately guided Wu Feng and the three of them to pay attention to Varian, Varian's lust, lack of money, and going out in the middle of the night were all said by Alexander on his own initiative.
The goal, of course, is to let Varian take the blame.
But Alexander and Thea did not have the time and sufficient motive to commit the crime.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan also had time to commit the crime, and Vera was alone in the room all night.
Of course, they had no motive for committing the crime.
But Anna's ex-boyfriend, William, had disappeared from the hotel, and the two disappearances had taken place in the same hotel, which made the Ivan couple much more suspicious.
However, the key piece of physical evidence, Vera's necklace, cleared their suspicions, and if it was the one killed by the Ivans, Vera's necklace could not have appeared on Varian.
Anna also had no time to commit the crime, and she was in the same room with Thea all night.
Coupled with the physical evidence of the necklace, Anna's suspicion can also be ruled out.
After analyzing the case, it was still impossible to lock down the murderer, especially the key physical evidence did not come in handy, which made Natasha and Wang Xueqian very frustrated.
There was still an hour before noon, and Wu Feng suggested that he should go to find the corpse first, and maybe he could find more clues from the corpse.
And the corpse can't escape, it must still be in this hotel.
Next, the three people carefully searched every room of the Ivan House Hotel, including the basement and the lobby of the hotel, and found Vera's body.
Next to the bedroom of the Ivan couple, there was a locked room, which at first caught Wu Feng's attention.
Natasha said it was the room of Mr. and Mrs. Eva's son, whom she had searched the previous morning.
With a cautious attitude, Wu Feng still let Ivan and his wife open the lock and went in to inspect it.
The room was a children's room, with an entire wall full of shelves and all kinds of toys neatly arranged, the room was neat and clean, and the sheets on the bed were arranged without a trace of wrinkles.
Next to the bedside cabinet is a converted wheelchair.
On the top of the cabinet, there is a photo of a little boy sitting in a wheelchair, watching his parents build a snowman for him, with a happy smile on his face.