Las Vegas, living room of a hotel suite.

"Outside the duplex, at the southwest corner of the fence, I found that the barbed wire fence had been broken.

Outside the barbed wire fence, traces of cars were also found. ”

Hearing Roan's question, Winslow stood up with a serious face, handed a few photos to the crowd, and explained:

"Based on observations, I'm sure there were two or three people sneaking into the villa from this location.

They also disposed of their footprints and barbed wire after the incident, but the traces could not be completely erased. ”

Roan looked down at the photo handed by Winslow, and clearly saw the traces of someone walking there.

"But...... Why? ”

Lacey shook the photo in her hand and asked with a puzzled face:

"Since the maid named Iona has poisoned the people in the villa, and she herself committed suicide by poisoning, why do these people break into the villa?"

Chenelle was silent for a second, and then said her speculation:

"Could it be these people who want to rummage through the villa and take something?"

Winslow added:

It is also possible that these people have infiltrated the villa to see if Iona's poison has worked.

Or check to see if Iona has something to do, she flinched and was scared, and didn't dare to poison her. ”

Michelle next to him thought about it and said his own speculation:

"Is there a possibility that it was not the maid Iona who drugged everyone in the villa, but these guys who sneaked into the villa.

The maid, Iona, was only in charge of delivering the poison to those people one by one. ”

"It's all possible."

Luo An nodded and affirmed the speculation of several people, the key problem now is that there is no monitoring in the villa, everyone has left this world due to poison, and there are no witnesses, so the situation on the night of the crime can only be reasonably speculated.

Luo An was silent for a few seconds, turned his head to look at Mona, and asked:

"Mona, are there no clues in the surveillance video about these guys who infiltrated the villa?"

"At the moment, no."

Mona shook her head, typing on the keyboard while indicating that the surveillance of the villa's outer wall had been replaced on the night of the crime, and she couldn't find out who the people who had sneaked into the villa were.

In addition, the area where the Odell family's villa is located is very large and the traffic is very convenient, but there are not many road surveillance cameras, and many roads are blind spots, and Mona can't find the suspect vehicle at all.

"It's not all bad news, though."

Mona suddenly stopped what she was doing, turned her laptop around, pointed to the screen and said:

"I counted the distance between the barbed wire fence, the road where parking could be parked, the inside of the duplex, and the patrol officer who reported the loss of contact on the night of the incident.

Very coincidentally, the duplex villa and the location of several patrol officers, can form a circle.

And the road outside the wall is exactly the center of this circle. ”

"What a beautiful coincidence."

Luo An smiled, pasted the clues and photos sorted out by everyone on the whiteboard one by one, and summarized while sticking:

Therefore, on the night of the incident, three hours after the end of the drinking party, someone first used computer means to replace the surveillance of the villa wall.

Then, a car stopped at the fence in the southwest corner of the villa, walked down two or three people, cut the barbed wire, blocked the area from signaling, and made it impossible to connect to the outside world, and then sneaked into the villa.

Inside the villa, who exactly was that night, and by what means of poisoning, we can't be sure at this time, but the maid Iona is the most suspicious.

Everyone was poisoned and died, and these two or three guys who sneaked into the villa probably did something, and after doing it, they left the area along the location of the barbed wire fence and disappeared without a trace. ”

After listening to Luo An's analysis, all the agents of the special investigation team nodded, and Lacey thought about it, got up and asked:

"What do we do next?"

Luo An drew a large circle at the barbed wire photograph:

"The most important thing is to find out what the identities of these two or three people who sneaked into the villa are."

Hearing this, Lacey was just about to continue talking, when Luo An suddenly moved, suddenly looked back at Chenille and Mona, and asked in a deep voice:

"What's the name of the maid who temporarily switched shifts with the maid Iona that night? Where is she now? ”

"The maid's name is Belinda, she is 40 years old, and she has a son who is in middle school.

Belinda is mainly in charge of the logistics area, so I suspect that Iona, who has changed shifts with her, is the one who poisoned her. ”

Chenelle immediately recounted Belinda's identity, and as for where Belinda was now, Chenelle turned her head to look at Mona.

Mona's ten fingers flew quickly on the keyboard, and suddenly frowned:

"Ladies and gentlemen, since Belinda took leave to go home on the night of the crime, she has not been able to find her new travel records and consumption records.

In addition, his son did not go to school the next day, and both are now out of touch. ”

“Fu-k！”

Hearing this, Racy's face suddenly changed and she scolded, Luo An didn't talk nonsense, and said directly:

"Mona, you stay here, use computer means, and see if you can find out the identity information of those people, Chenelle, you assist Mona.

But before that, the two of you will check Belinda's last consumption records, call logs, etc. before they go missing, and see if you can find useful clues.

Michelle, hurry up and figure out the situation with that diary.

Winslow, Lacey, come with me and head to Belinda's house at once! ”

"Understood!"

The detectives suddenly agreed, and immediately got up to carry out their respective tasks.

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The Dodge car sped along the Las Vegas road, with Winslow in the back seat inspecting the gear, and Lacey sitting in the passenger seat, talking to Mona on the phone with her phone.

"Where Belinda and her son live, there are very few cameras on the road, and there are no cameras installed in their home.

I checked the records of disappearances and kidnappings in that area, and found nothing out of the ordinary. ”

Mona on the other end of the phone said quickly:

"I checked the call records of the mother and son according to Luo An's request.

It shows that the night Belinda took a temporary leave of absence was the same phone call her son gave her.

The content of the telephone conversation could not be found, but the whole process from the time her son called to the time Belinda asked for leave and left the villa took less than three minutes.

In several road surveillance cameras with cameras, it can be seen that Belinda has an anxious attitude when driving. ”

Mona hung up the phone after speaking, Lacey tilted her head to look at Luo An, who was driving, and guessed:

"So, someone may have kidnapped Belinda's son that night, threatened Belinda with his son, and left the villa on temporary leave, thus allowing the long-awaited Iona to take her place."

Noncommittal, Roan quickly arrived at Belinda and her son's residence, where they lived in a modest residential building on the edge of Las Vegas.

At the door of a room on the third floor, Roan, Winslow, and Lacey stood on the left and right, counted down to three, and broke into the room together.

There are no imaginary corpses in the room, no traces of imaginary kidnapping and ransom, not even the slightest trace of struggle, only normal warm decorations, and unprocessed kitchen waste.

Lacey picked up a pillow and looked at it, not seeing anything wrong, and looked at Winslow and shrugged:

"It doesn't look like what I imagined."

If Mona hadn't been able to confirm that Belinda had returned to the neighborhood through road surveillance, and that they had seen Belinda's car downstairs, Lacey would have suspected that Belinda had disappeared before she even returned home.

"Lacey, Winslow, come to me."

Without waiting for Winslow to answer, Roan's voice suddenly came from the bedroom:

"I've found something."

(End of chapter)