Entertaining Children

  Chapter 424 Details of the case

Veronica Quinn’s law firm is located on the 45th floor of a 60-storey office building in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out from the glass windows on the entire wall of her office, the modern New York City is full of tall buildings. The bustling scene looks quite spectacular. The three people who arrived at Quinn’s office were unwilling to admire this rare and spectacular sight from the high-rise building, and immediately sat down on the meeting sofa in the office, laid out various files and looked at it in detail.

  After entering the office, Veronica Quinn closed the door, and Tim Haggis, who was responsible for protecting Xiao Yao, didn't need to guard the door like a door god, but sat on the sofa with the two. He is an FBI agent and a professional police officer, so Veronica Quinn also invited him to participate in the analysis and discussion of the case.

Tim Haggis is a rookie agent who has just transferred from a commando. His current strengths are skill and physical abilities. He is still weak in case analysis, logical reasoning and other aspects that purely require brainstorming. This is for him. Said that it was also a rare opportunity to learn and exercise and increase experience, so he readily agreed and participated together.

"Let me talk about the evidence held by the police first." Veronica Quinn spread out various dossier materials, picked out a photo from it and showed them to the two of them, "This is the murder weapon found by the police. It's a kitchen. The knife used has the victim's blood stains and Miss Sun's fingerprints on it. The mark on the handle of the knife is the mark of Miss Sun's personal belongings."

"Yes," Xiao Yao took the photo and looked at it and nodded. "In the circle at the end of the knife handle is the Chinese character "Sun", which is the last name of my girlfriend. Her father is our Huaxia Entertainment Circle. A celebrity who is very good at cooking. A few months ago, he hosted a food variety show. The kitchenware sponsor of the show specially made two sets of kitchen knives for him, and his surname was carved on the handle of the knife. As a mark, he gave one of the sets to his daughter, so this knife is indeed my girlfriend’s belongings."

  "Father's gift, did she put it away properly?" Veronica frowned. When she accompanied Sun Tingting to record her confession, Sun Tingting simply admitted that the knife was hers, and did not elaborate on the origin of the knife.

"No," Xiao Yao said, shaking his head, "We in China have a saying "make the best use of everything". My girlfriend's father is very good at cooking, and she is also good at cooking. She often cooks by herself. So this set of knives is placed in the kitchen. Their school has few people, and the dormitories are apartment-style apartments with one bedroom and one living room. The open kitchen and the living room are connected together. The door locks in the dormitory are not complicated, so It is not excluded that someone sneaked into her dormitory and stole her kitchen knife."

Xiao Yao pointed to the photo again and said: "If I wanted to kill, I would not be so stupid to use a knife with my own logo as a murder weapon, nor would I just throw the murder weapon in a place not far from the crime scene. This is not very obvious. Is it a loophole?"

"Ms. Sun’s confession stated that because it was late when she went back to the dormitory last night, she went straight back to the bedroom to rest. She didn’t have the habit of making breakfast by herself, and went out directly after getting up this morning, which means that since last night She hadn’t been to the kitchen since she came back to go out this morning, and she didn’t notice if she was missing a kitchen knife. Such a statement is not convincing.” Veronica said, “The police believe that Miss Sun is just a The students of the Conservatory of Music have no criminal record. This is the first time they have committed a crime, and they have no experience. They used things with their own unique symbol as a murder weapon and abandoned them near the scene. Such omissions are normal and are not questionable. "

   "I'll go, it will become a bad thing when there is no case." Xiao Yao muttered in Chinese speechlessly.

"I have a question," Tim Haggis said, "Since Miss Sun has no criminal record, there should not be Miss Sun's fingerprints in the police database for the police to compare. How did they determine that the fingerprint on the knife handle is Sun? Miss?"

"After they found the knife, they found out that the Chinese character on the handle was Miss Sun’s surname, and they already knew that Miss Sun was motivated, so they applied for a search warrant from the judge and searched Miss Sun’s dormitory. Fingerprints have been extracted from personal items such as cups and combs to compare with the fingerprints on the handle of the knife.” Veronica explained.

"Speaking of motivation," Xiao Yao continued, "I heard that their school will have a very important violin concert next month. Many masters from the classical music circle will be there. This is indeed a rare opportunity. It would be far-fetched to say that she had a motive for killing just because of the competition for performance opportunities. Chambersley is not the only one who learns the violin, the victim and my girlfriend. If this is alone, other students in the violin major are not capable of committing crimes Motivation?"

   "But they are the best performers in the violin major, and they are also the two most promising performers," Veronica said, "and besides the competition for performance opportunities, have they had conflicts in other areas?"

   "Other aspects? What do you mean?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"Emotional aspect." Veronica said, "The victim Laura Sim had a boyfriend who was also a student at the Chambers Conservatory of Music. He was a piano student named Wyatt Wayne. It is said that Wyatt I like Miss Sun very much and dumped Laura to chase Miss Sun. Laura is very dissatisfied with this. She has quarreled with Miss Sun several times, and many students in the school have seen it."

  "The victim’s boyfriend dumped the victim to chase my girlfriend. It should be that the victim had a motive for murdering my girlfriend. My girlfriend has no reason to kill the victim because of this." Xiao Yao said strangely.

   "You are really focused," Tim Haggis looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Someone is chasing your girlfriend, why don't you seem to be worried at all."

   "My girlfriend is very good. It's normal for someone to chase him." Xiao Yao touched the pendant on his neck and said, "But I'm pretty sure that guy definitely didn't catch it."

   "Are you so confident?" Tim Haggis smiled, "Didn't you just arrived in the United States yesterday?"

"Because I saw her wearing the gift I gave her on her neck." When Xiao Yao saw Sun Tingting, he saw that the necklace he gave was worn on Sun Tingting's neck, so he was very confident about it. .

"Miss Sun was indeed not with Wyatt," Veronica said. "But according to other people's confessions, Miss Sun seemed to have found someone to beat Wyatt. The victim was very angry about it, so she and Sun The young lady had physical conflicts, which was the main reason why the police judged Miss Sun had a murder motive. However, Miss Sun did not admit this. She said that her friend could not understand Wyatt's entanglement with her, so she took the lesson. It was not because she found someone to beat Wyatt on purpose."

   "Wait, I'll make a call." Xiao Yao took out the phone and dialed a number, directly pressed the speakerphone and placed it on the coffee table in front of the three of them, "I think I know who called Wyatt."

   "Young, how is Tiana?" Paul's voice came after the call was connected.

   "Protective imprisonment, temporary loss of freedom." Xiao Yao briefly confessed, and then continued, "I want to ask you, did you once beat a kid named Wyatt for Tiana?"

   "Wyatt? No impression, I don't know him." TJ's voice intervened, and it was obvious that the speaker was also on there.

   "Wait, was it the boy who followed Tiyana to the dance studio last time and pestered her?" Zhou Jingyi's voice came out.

"Yes, there is such a thing," Paul said, "I remember it was a white boy who followed Tiana to the dance studio. We saw Tiana didn’t want to pay attention to him at all, but he stayed with Tiana all the time. , He came forward and drove him away. He refused to leave and gave me a push, so we beat him up and threw him out. Later, we were afraid that the boy would continue to pester Tiana and drove him away that day. Tiana went back to school. Later, when we came back, we saw the guy again, and we stopped to warn the kid to keep him away from Tiana. It seemed that a passing student had seen it. We don’t know the guy’s name. , But we just beat Tiana once. It should be him. He is about five feet ten inches tall, with black medium-length hair, a split head, and a thin body."

"It should be him." Xiao Yao saw that Veronica had found Wyatt's photos and information, nodded and placed it in the middle, then said to the phone, "Thank you. I'm going to hang up, there are other things. I'll look for you again."

"My friend was hit too, and received my friend's warning, love to hate, he had framed reason my girlfriend." Xiao Yao hung up the phone, nodded his finger Wyatt photos Road.

"But he has no reason to kill the victim." Veronica said, "He dumped Laura, and Laura went to trouble Miss Sun because he was beaten. If you were Wyatt, you would kill Laura. ?"

"And he also has an alibi." Tim looked at the information on the coffee table and said, "The forensic doctor judged that the victim's death was between nine and eleven last night. Wyatt was in Roselle, Northwestern District. He is a part-time pianist in the restaurant. Last night was his performance time from 8 to 10 in the evening. Because of the pursuit of the fugitive from the plane robbery, some roads in New York City were blocked last night. Wyatt could not be in an hour. Nene returned to school from Roselle."

"Ms. Sun's testimony was that she was practicing piano in the Chambers Concert Hall last night, from 8 to 9 in the evening. At 9 o'clock, the victim Laura also went to the concert hall to practice. In order to avoid conflict , Miss Sun left the concert hall.” Veronica continued, “After leaving, Miss Sun went to a quiet and unmanned piano room to continue practicing, and did not return to her dormitory until about 11 in the evening. When she left the concert hall, someone had seen her, but witnesses could not tell whether she was leaving the concert hall or going to the concert hall. During the period when she was practicing in the piano room, Miss Sun was always alone and did not notice anyone passing by. , So Miss Sun has no strong alibi."

"From nine to eleven o'clock last night!" Xiao Yao patted his head bitterly, and said regretfully, "I shouldn't have secretly come to the United States without telling her. If she knew that I was in New York last night, she would definitely pick it up at the airport. Me. My flight is expected to arrive at half past nine in the evening, and she will leave school before nine o’clock. After that incident, she will also accompany me to the FBI to take notes. It’s almost twelve o’clock when she comes out. If so, someone from the airport and an FBI agent from the branch can give her an alibi."

   "Hey, Yang, don't blame yourself, you don't know that this kind of thing will happen." Tim Haggis comforted Xiao Yao, "Now that something has happened, we must focus on how to solve it next."

   "Yes, what should we do next?" Xiao Yao looked at the female lawyer Veronica Quinn next to him.

"Actually, judging from the evidence, no one has seen Miss Sun's assault, so it is not ironclad." Veronica said, "One of our most effective defense strategies is to tell the police that this was done by someone else. This situation of Miss Sun is suitable for adopting this strategy. But the problem is that the police now have no other suspects except Miss Sun."

   "I believe my girlfriend definitely did not kill anyone." Xiao Yao said, "This matter must have been done by someone else. The police have no other suspects, but they didn't find anyone else's suspicion."

"Well, I have the same idea." Veronica nodded and pointed to the information on the coffee table. "They didn't find it, and it doesn't mean we won't find it. So we will look for this case next. Bring out other suspects to request the police to restart the investigation."

   "Understood." Xiao Yao nodded, picked up the information on the coffee table and looked at it carefully.

  (End of this chapter)