The monk of the way of beauty

Chapter 312 Choice

"Later, we found more clues. Laura is a staff member of a charitable foundation under the name of Mayor James. The two of them were even caught on TV together in the same frame." Beckett's eyes flickered With the jumping sparks, she was very excited.

Ling Xiao took out a glass of ice water and put it in front of Beckett. She drank up the can of iced Coke just now.

"Based on these things alone, it may be difficult to determine that Chief James is the one who killed Laura." Ling Xiao shook his head slightly and reminded: "You still need a definite motive, time and murder weapon, just guess You can't even get a search warrant."

"Of course we know this, so we conducted a more in-depth investigation." Beckett looked up at Ling Xiao panting rapidly, and said at the same time: "Do you know what we found in that charity foundation? In that foundation, nearly 230 million U.S. dollars were secretly embezzled. Laura was fired because she was found to be copying these confidential documents. At the same time, the city attorney general's office also confirmed that Chief James was the one One of the suspects in the investigation. That was the motive."

Ling Xiao tapped lightly on the tea table in front of him. After a long time, he said: "Mr. James has several charitable foundations under his name. This charitable foundation has embezzled 230 million yuan. What about other foundations? How much have they been embezzled? Once this kind of thing is investigated, it will be like a snowball, and it will become more and more unstoppable. This motive, together with the indirect evidence before, is enough for you to launch a positive investigation on Chief James. "

"That's right, that's right." Beckett nodded and said, "We can be sure that a certain employee of the city hall is making a pornographic call. When I accidentally said something, it happened to be heard by Laura. , That's why she went to work for a charitable foundation and secretly investigated it."

"It's not enough." Ling Xiao suddenly felt that all this was too much of a coincidence, he stared at Beckett and said, "If you want to make this matter a solid case, you must find that employee and find out more facts. sexual evidence."

"If you want more evidence, you need a deeper investigation and further contact with the city hall." Beckett nodded and said, "Detective Montgomery also has the same opinion. He suggested that I go directly to the mayor. Either the head of the government will allow us to investigate, or we will apply for a search warrant and publish everything in the media."

"Needless to say, Chief Shi will definitely agree to your request, otherwise, once these things are announced in the media, his general election this year will be completely ruined." Ling Xiao sighed slightly, then looked at Beckett and said : "Then next, have you found the staff of the city hall, and the evidence of the transfer of funds of the charitable foundation, the method of killing, and this whole chain of evidence is formed, so that you can completely convict him .”

"I know, but I don't know that Mr. James made these things too carefully. We didn't find any of these things. Except that the fibers on his clothes were indeed consistent with those in Laura's mouth, we didn't know anything else. could not find it."

Beckett suddenly said with some hesitation: "Ling, I always feel that this murder case is probably not done by Chief James. I have contacted him, and he was very frank and cooperative in this matter, and he worked hard. The night La was killed, he had a clear alibi, so it was impossible for him to kill the person himself. Even if he wanted to do it, a person like him would find a professional killer, but the problem came out again. How did Ra find the fibers of his clothes in his mouth."

"So you suspect that someone planted it on him." Ling Xiao nodded, smiled, and said, "Actually, I also had the same thought. This incident was too coincidental in many places. Inside the city hall , but those who have access to funds are some high-level figures. How could people like them make sex calls, and how could they call Laura, and Laura is stubborn and wants to People who reflect social injustice, people like her who go to investigate such things, the last thing they worry about is being bribed, and her killing will arouse public sympathy."

"That's right, that's what happened." Beckett took a deep breath, raised his head to look at Ling Xiao, and said in a deep voice: "I always feel that something is wrong, and I feel that I am being led by the nose every step I take. Let's go, so it's very likely that Mr. James was framed by someone."

"Not necessarily." Ling Xiao shook his head slightly, and said, "Maybe he was framed in the murder case, but the misappropriation of funds is very likely to be true. It is the cause of the whole thing, It is because of this incident that others started to set up a scheme. You must know that a fund misappropriation case will at most cause James to resign and step down, while a homicide case is likely to put him in jail."

"That's not right." Beckett disagreed with Ling Xiao's judgment. She shook her head and said, "If the fund misappropriation case really exists, why would those people kill Laura and let Chief James do it?" It’s not better, but it will make his crime more real.”

"That's why you need more evidence and a more careful investigation." Ling Xiao sat down opposite Beckett, looked at her, and asked directly: "So, Caitlin, what are you going to do next?"

"What am I going to do next?" A trace of confusion suddenly flashed in Beckett's eyes, she sighed slightly, and said, "Ling, you know how much I want to bring him to justice, but I'm worried In this matter, he was wronged. As a policeman, my conscience tells me that I must handle the case impartially, without any personal feelings involved. Ling, I..."

For a moment, Beckett didn't know what to say. She, who was always capable, showed a rare weakness at this time.

"Hey!" Ling Xiao shook his head slightly. Chief James is by no means a good person. If he was allowed to get away from this matter easily, Beckett would be absolutely unwilling, but let her know that this is an unjust, false and wrongful case. , but insisted on doing it, it really violated his life principles.

"Everything depends on the evidence." Ling Xiao took a deep breath and said: "Don't worry about the murder case, you should keep a close eye on the fund embezzlement case, and you can decide for yourself according to the degree of detail of this case. How exactly are you going to do it?"

"What does this mean?" Beckett frowned, Ling Xiao had better confuse her instead, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't you say that the fund embezzlement case can only let him step down at most? Why do you want to stare at him?" about this?"

"Hehe, you are a fan of the authorities, Catherine!" Ling Xiao shook his head slightly, smiled, and said, "Now you have four choices. The first is to ignore possible problems and follow the clues in your hand." , There is one check and one check, and there is a second check and two checks. You will never make redundant actions. In the end, you don’t have to worry about whether James is wronged. Of course, I know you definitely don’t want to do this.”

Seeing Beckett's annoyed expression, Ling Xiao quickly stopped talking, changed the subject and said, "The second option is to find out the truth and find out every problem in the whole case. If he was framed, he must admit that he did it. If he didn’t do it, you have to find out, and you can’t let him take the blame. Start with the fund misappropriation case, find out this, and the murder case can be found out. "

Seeing Beckett's agitated expression, Ling Xiao's expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice: "The third option is to procrastinate. If there is any doubt about the matter, then investigate it. It will take a little more effort to ask Mr. James to investigate. Son, didn't you always want to know what happened back then, and now I just took this opportunity to find some clues. As for this case, we neither wronged him nor helped him find out. It dragged on for a long time, Naturally, someone will bring the matter to the media, and by then, even if the two cases are not concluded, James will not be able to continue running for the presidency, let alone running for the presidency."

"Is this?" Beckett suddenly began to hesitate. Doing so would not violate his principles of life, would not wrong him, and would allow him to learn the lessons he deserved. It seems good, but I don't know why, Beckett My heart is always a little uncomfortable.

"The fourth choice." Ling Xiao looked at Beckett, squinted his eyes, and said in a low voice: "That is, no matter what the truth of this matter is, you should find a way to prove the innocence of Chief James. Work hard in this direction.”

Beckett was stunned by Ling Xiao's words, she couldn't believe what she heard!

(End of this chapter)