Entertaining Children

  Chapter 430 Discovering Evidence

   "Okay. I'm pretty sure that the piano's pitch is accurate, and the sound is normal. There shouldn't be anything hidden in it." At the end of the song, Xiao Yao stood up and said.

   "Well, I'll look for it elsewhere." Tim Haggis said helplessly.

   Xiaoyao watched Tim Haggis get busy, and no longer stayed in the living room, went into the bedroom to check.

   "Hi, Tim, you should come and see this!" After Xiao Yao opened Wyatt's wardrobe, he shouted to Tim Haggis outside.

"What did you find?" Tim Haggis heard the sound and walked in, watching Xiao Yao standing in front of the open closet, then curiously walked over, looked inside the closet and said, "You won't tell me he Hide drugs or blood-stained clothes in the closet, right?"

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head, turned to look at Tim Haggis, "Wyatt’s parents are not rich and can only barely allow him to study at Chambers Conservatory, and he only has That job as a part-time pianist in a restaurant on Thursday hours, right?"

   "Yes." Tim Haggis nodded, "His parents only pay for his tuition, and his part-time job in his restaurant is just enough for him to cover the rent and daily expenses of this apartment."

   "So, we have one more reason to suspect him of drug trafficking." Xiao Yao smiled, and said to the inside of the closet. "The things in the closet add up to about 30,000 US dollars."

   "What?" Tim Haggis widened his eyes, "Just such a wardrobe of clothes, hats and accessories, so valuable?"

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded, "The value of this dress is about five thousand dollars. Judging from the position he hangs in the closet and the dust on the transparent dust cover, it is obviously not rented. There are other clothes and shoes. Although most of them are casual styles, they are all high-end goods of well-known brands. Many of them are new styles that I have seen in the catalogues of those brands. "

"You really have you, you really know everything!" Tim Haggis gave a thumbs up, "It seems that this kid is indeed doing some shameful deeds. I have to look for it more carefully. some."

Tim Haggis returned to the outside living room and continued searching, Xiao Yao also continued to search carefully in the bedroom, but apart from the valuable clothes in the closet, Xiao Yao did not find any other valuable clues. .

  When Xiao Yao finished searching the bedroom and turned to the bathroom connected to the bedroom, two police detectives with police badges appeared at the door of the apartment.

"Hi, Gary, Alex, Maier said that the guy renting here may be involved in drug trafficking, let's come over and see." The black-haired policewoman with a ponytail greeted the two uniformed police officers standing at the door. .

   "Yes, when the guy heard that the FBI anti-narcotics agent came to him, he closed the door and ran away. Mostly there was a problem." The uniformed officer named Gary nodded.

"Door?" Another young male detective pointed at the apartment door that fell to the ground and smiled, "When did you become so powerful? When we need the assistance of uniformed police officers in the future, can we appoint you to help? Us? "There are also many cases where the police broke into the door, but most of the time they broke the door lock. It is extremely rare to knock down the entire door like this.

   "We didn't do this." Another uniformed police officer named Alex shook his head.

   "You didn't do it? Could it be that fellow Maier?" The male detective asked strangely, "His stamina is good, but he shouldn't have that much strength, right?"

   "It's not Detective Maier either." Alex continued to shake his head.

  "Hello!" When the male detective wanted to continue to ask, Tim Haggis, who heard the movement, had already greeted the two detectives at the door.

  The two detectives put aside their conversation with the uniformed police officer, walked into the apartment, looked at Tim Haggis and said, "Hello! Are you the FBI agent who assisted Maier in the investigation?"

   "Yes, FBI agent Tim Haggis." Tim Haggis removed his suit jacket, revealing the police badge on his waist.

"Larry Flag, this is Anna Valdes." The male detective also introduced himself and his partner, shook hands with Tim Haggis, and then asked, "You are from the FBI anti-drug team. Detective? Why did you help in the Melcha murder of the homicide group?"

   "Actually, I belong to the robbery group." Tim Haggis said.

   "But we heard that the suspect escaped because he heard the FBI anti-drug team was looking for him." Female police detective Anna Valdes said.

   "I made a slip of the tongue at the time, and made a mistake." Tim Haggis smiled, "Who knows he has a ghost in his heart, he showed his feet."

   "Spoken mistakes are inevitable, but I like your mistakes." Larry smiled tacitly.

   "Mayer said you still have a special adviser? Where is he?" Anna asked.

   "It's inside. He's checking the bedroom and the bathroom." Tim Haggis reached out and pointed in the direction of the bedroom.

   "Tim! I think I found something again, I need a tool!" Xiao Yao's shout came from the bedroom again.

   "Let's go and see." Tim Haggis greeted the two detectives and took the lead into the bedroom.

  The three people came to the door of the bathroom, and saw Xiao Yao kneeling on the ground, pouting his butt, and leaning his head towards the ground, not knowing what he was doing.

   "I found something in the cracks of the floor tiles, but I can't take it out with gloves." Xiao Yao said without looking back, "Do you have tools such as tweezers?"

  "Can a knife be used?" Larry took out a folded folding knife from his body.

   "It should be possible, uh..." Xiao Yao promised, and then realized that it was not Tim's voice, and turned his head curiously. Looking at the door besides Tim Haggis, two unknown people were standing, Xiao Yao quickly got up from the ground.

  "NYPD anti-drug group police detective?" Xiao Yao asked suspiciously.

   "Yes." Tim Haggis nodded and helped introduce, "Detective Larry Flagg, Detective Anna Valdes."

   "Hello. This is Yang Xiao." Xiao Yao greeted the two detectives, and then reached out to Larry Flagg, "You said you can lend me a knife? Thank you."

   "You're welcome." Larry handed the knife in his hand to Xiao Yao's hand.

  Xiao Yao pulled the blade away, turned around and fell on the ground again, carefully picking out something from the cracks in the floor tiles.

   "Tim, I think I found the baby!" Xiao Yao carefully looked at the thing on the tip of the knife, and cried out with excitement.

   "Really? Let me see!" Tim Haggis was also quite interested.

   Xiao Yao turned around and handed the tip of the knife directly in front of Tim Haggis. On the tip of the knife was a small piece of thin white wood.

  "A small piece of wood? What's the use?" Tim Haggis asked puzzledly. In his eyes, this is nothing but common debris, and it is no surprise that it appears in any bathroom.

"This is not an ordinary piece of wood," Xiao Yao said seriously, "This thickness and color, I think this piece of wood comes from the violin's bridge. I remember the photos of the scene I saw last night, and I noticed the scene of the crime. There is a photo of a violin belonging to the victim. I remember that the violin in the photo is damaged. It should be the violin that fell to the ground and broke. If the fragment is from the victim’s violin horse, it can prove the victim Wyatt was on the scene when he was killed."

"Are you sure?" Tim Haggis said, "The victim is Wyatt's ex-girlfriend and must have been to his apartment. Maybe she brought the violin to this apartment and accidentally caused the piano. The horse’s damage is left here. Such a small defect, maybe she hasn’t noticed it herself?"

"Impossible!" Xiao Yao firmly shook his head. "The bridge is a very important part of the violin. It transmits the vibration of the strings to the panel, making the entire violin vibrate together. Some people call it the heart of the violin, he The quality of it can affect the feel of the player and the performance of the violin. Therefore, a professional violinist will never fail to discover the damage of the bridge, and will never use a damaged bridge. The victim goes to the concert hall. Practitioner, so the bridge of the violin in her hand must have been damaged when she was killed, otherwise she would definitely replace the bridge."

"If this is the case, then we should immediately send this to the forensic department of the police station, so that the forensic staff can immediately verify whether this fragment comes from the violin on the scene." Tim Haggis is extremely convinced of Xiao Yao's music and With professional knowledge of musical instruments, I got excited when Xiao Yao said this, and turned to the two police detectives, "Detectives, have any of you brought the evidence bag?"

  The two detectives were a little confused. Meyer didn’t mean that the suspect was involved in drug trafficking. Why didn’t the drugs be found, so he found evidence of his murder first?

  But they also understood the conversation between Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis. Anna Valdes immediately took out a small transparent plastic bag and said to Xiao Yao: "Put it in."

  When Xiao Yao put the small pieces on the tip of the knife into the plastic bag, Anna immediately shouted outside the door: "Gary, please come here."

  The uniformed police officer who called Gary ran in immediately and asked Anna: "Anna, what's the matter?"

"Excuse me, please send this to the police station immediately and give it to Maier." Anna handed the small plastic bag to Gary. "Tell Maier to let the forensic verify whether this fragment belongs to the victim's violin found at the scene. The horse fell. It can prove whether Wyatt was at the scene of the crime that night."

   "Are you going back to the police station together, or staying here to continue the search?" Anna asked Tim Haggis and Xiao Yao again.

  Mayer and them briefly introduced the situation, knowing that their main purpose is to assist Maier in investigating the murder, involving drugs, but they accidentally discovered during the investigation process.

   "I want to stay here and see if I can find other things." Xiao Yao said.

  In terms of authentication, Xiao Yao couldn't help. Now when I go back to the police station, I can only sit and wait for the results of the authentication department. It is better to stay here to find more evidence.

  "Then I will leave for the police station now." Gary put the plastic bag carefully into his pocket and put it in place.

  After the uniformed policeman left, the search continued. Anna and Larry simply divided the work, Anna helped Xiao Yao continue to search the bathroom, and Larry went to help Tim search the living room.

  After checking the ground, Xiao Yao carefully inspected the wall below the sink, and aimed at the locker with mirror above the sink.

  This wooden storage cabinet is not embedded in the wall, but hung directly on the wall. Xiao Yao first checked the outside of the locker, and found no problems, then reached out and opened the mirror-inlaid cabinet door. There are some common items in the cabinet, nothing special. But when Xiao Yao saw the side wall inside the locker, a strange look appeared in his eyes.

  Thinking about it, Xiao Yao stretched out his hand and directly pulled out all the things in the locker and put them into the dry sink. After emptying the locker, Xiao Yao reached out and touched the innermost board of the locker.

   Xiao Yao’s movements caught the attention of Anna who was also checking the bathtub and shower in the bathroom. Turning to see Xiao Yao emptied the locker, Anna also walked over and asked curiously: "Is there a problem with this cabinet?"

  Speaking, Anna reached out and knocked on the innermost board. The sound was heavy and seemed to be solid, so she frowned and said: "Listening to the sound, it doesn't look like there is a sandwich."

   "But the depth inside and outside is different." Xiao Yao said to Anna. With that said, he gestured for the width of the outer side planks of the locker and the width of the inner side planks. The difference between the two was obviously greater than the thickness of the planks.

   Xiao Yao reminded that Anna also found the problem. Reached out and fumbled for a while in the locker, but couldn't find a way to open the board inside. In desperation, she could only shout loudly: "Larry, we may have found something, you need your knife here!" After Xiao Yao put the small piece of wood into the plastic bag, he returned the knife to Larry.

   "No trouble, can you let me come?" Xiao Yao patted Anna on the shoulder and motioned for her to stand aside.

  Anna stepped aside suspiciously, and saw Xiao Yao slowly making a fist with her right hand, and then violently hitting the wooden board on the back of the locker. The locker was nailed firmly and did not fall off the wall, but the wooden board on the back of the interior had been shattered by Xiao Yao's punch, and a fist-sized piece collapsed inward.

  Anna was taken aback by Xiao Yao's actions, her eyes widened and she looked at Xiao Yao incredulously.

  Tim and Larry, who heard Anna's shout, were already walking to the bedroom. They ran two steps quickly and came to the bathroom when they heard a loud noise.

"Yang, we have other ways to open the mezzanine of the locker. Do you have to be so violent?" Tim saw the crack on the wooden board inside the locker at a glance, and he knew it was Xiao Yao's without even thinking about it. Masterpiece smiled helplessly, "This is not as urgent as you just kicked the door."

   "He did it?" Larry looked at Anna in surprise, then turned to Xiao Yao and said, "And that door was also caused by you?"

   "Do you think I can punch the wooden board of the locker like this?" Anna rolled her eyes helplessly.

"Hey, shouldn't your focus now be on the things inside?" Xiao Yao had already seen the white color through the cracks, reached out and broke off the broken pieces of wood, and said with a smile, "Huiya There is obviously a problem. Do I still need to compensate his apartment door and this locker?"

  The three people followed Xiao Yao's movements and looked into the locker, and they were surprised to find that white powder wrapped in plastic bags was exposed at the location of the hole.

  (End of this chapter)