newbobooks Chapter 36: 2 Tragedies
Chapter 36: 2 Tragedies
No, I can't be sure. After all, it has been more than half a year since the incident happened. It is possible that the window was damaged after the incident.
"Noelle, you told me before that the maid who worked before you was related to this case. Can you tell me more about it?"
Lisa continued to carefully examine the unusual marks on the window while listening to Noelle's introduction to the case.
"Yeah, okay." Noelle nodded happily. "Well, let me think about it... the maid I worked with before was named Chanel. Chanel seemed to have been a maid in this villa for quite a long time. When the case happened, there were only two people in the villa, my lady and Chanel."
"I remember that the police concluded that the case was suicide at the beginning?" Lisa opened the window and climbed out.
"Ah, yes." Noelle bent over and searched under the bed little by little. "At the beginning of the investigation, we found that the room where the lady died was a locked room, so we thought it was suicide. Then about half a year later - ah, about a month ago, a high school detective came and seemed to find that the crime scene was not a locked room. So he thought that Miss Chanel, who was also at the crime scene at the time, was a suspect. After telling the police, they began to investigate Miss Chanel."
"Hey? So what did the detective find that made him think that it wasn't a secret room?" Lisa was searching slowly on the ground near the window. Suddenly, she found something on the grass and squatted down to pick it up.
"Well... the detective found screws with their heads cut off around the windows at the crime scene and told the police, who believed it was a homicide."
At this point, Noelle's voice was a little low. "So they suspected it was Miss Chanel. Miss Chanel couldn't bear it and committed suicide. The police believed that she committed suicide out of fear of punishment, so the case was closed."
"But I think Miss Chanel is innocent. Before she died, she kept saying that she didn't kill anyone. Mr. Kotani also said that he believed Miss Chanel didn't do it. Even if the crime scene was not a secret room, it is possible that an outsider killed the lady." Noel gradually became taller and a little excited.
There was nothing under the bed, and after searching all around, nothing was found. Noel was a little annoyed - ah, Noel, you really shouldn't have asked Miss Lisa to solve the case, but you can't help at all.
At this moment, she looked towards the fireplace - come to think of it, she had never looked inside the fireplace.
Lisa climbed back into the room through the window and wanted to tell Noel about the results of the investigation, but she saw that Noel's child actually went into the fireplace to look for clues.
"Miss Lisa, look, I found something!" He came out from the fireplace and ran to Lisa with something in his hand.
"Oh~" Lisa blinked and was about to call her out when she heard her cheer.
Lisa actually didn't hold out much hope of finding new clues in the room where the crime occurred, but seeing that Noelle was eager to help, she couldn't bear to refuse, so she could only let her look around first.
Lisa looked at Noelle in front of her, who was covered in dust. There was ash from the fireplace on her face and hands, and her hair was a little messy. She reached out to help her tidy it up and said with a smile: "Well, Noelle is amazing. She actually thought of looking for something in the fireplace."
As he said this, he took the thing from Noelle's hand - it was a glass medicine bottle, which was not quite complete as it must have hit something and part of it was broken.
"Is this the only bottle in the fireplace?"
"No, there are some more, but most of them are fragments. Only this one is relatively complete, so I took it out." Then he asked Lisa, "Ms. Lisa, is this helpful to the case?"
"Yeah, it helped. It proved my guess." Lisa admitted straightforwardly, "Noelle helped a lot."
“So... Miss Lisa knows the truth of the case?” Noel opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"Hey, I got the general idea." Lisa looked at Noelle, "Well... one good news and one bad news. Well, no... maybe both are bad news."
"Let me first talk about the case of the lady in this villa. She did commit suicide. The scene was indeed a secret room. She must have committed suicide because of some addictive drugs - the drugs that you just found in the fireplace, Noel. Her mental and physical health could not bear it."
“So, did the detective who passed by make a mistake in his investigation?” Noel definitely trusted Miss Lisa more than the unknown detective, and immediately believed that the detective’s reasoning was wrong.
"That's the second thing I want to say. The detective was right. The window of this room was indeed not sealed. It had been fixed, but it certainly wasn't when the crime happened half a year ago. I just found a screw that was missed during the investigation. The head was indeed cut off, but based on the degree of rust on it, it can be determined that it was no more than three months old. It has no connection with the young lady's case. It may be that after the crime, the staff of the villa wanted to break into the house to steal something. Since there was usually no one in this room, they fixed the window of the crime scene like this to facilitate entry."
"Obviously, the high school detective who passed by had the wrong clues and made the wrong deductions. He could have known the truth with just a little more observation and thinking, but he couldn't wait to find the police and the media with the evidence and show off his discovery. You know, overconfidence is arrogance!"
"And the police are ridiculous. The detective came to overturn the police's case results, but they believed it without further investigation. Then they started looking for this non-existent "murderer", and finally found Miss Chanel who was also in the villa at the time of the crime."
Lisa still couldn't believe it. Were the police investigating the case idiots? Or were the people who searched the scene blind? It was fine that they didn't notice whether there was any problem with the window at the time of the crime, but they didn't do anything when they only needed to check it carefully. Did they trust the detective so much?
"Ms. Chanel is innocent indeed!" Noelle was somewhat happy, but when she thought that Miss Chanel had committed suicide, she felt a little sad, "But, Miss Chanel has already..."
"Yes, the maid has committed suicide out of fear of crime." Lisa smiled sarcastically, her eyes a little cold, "Because of the arrogant detective and useless police, oh~ and the selfish housekeeper, don't you think so, Mr. Jiatani?" Lisa turned her gaze to the door.