The monk of the way of beauty

Chapter 49 Investigation

After sending the two colleagues out, Beckett walked up to the coroner who was squatting next to the victim, and asked in a low voice, "Renee, did you find anything?"

The African-American coroner, Renee, looked up at Beckett and said softly: "The time of death should be within half an hour after 02:30 in the morning. The cause of death was that the knife was stabbed in the heart and killed directly. As for the rest Nothing, I have to go back and do the autopsy later.”

"Yeah!" Beckett nodded slightly, and said, "I see, Renee. Hurry up and get the result, I always feel that this case is a bit unusual."

"I'll put it on top priority." Renee nodded and waved her hand to ask the assistant to help put the body into the body bag.

Beckett looked around the room, and finally she put her eyes on the safe on the side, walked over slowly, carefully looked at the traces left by the things inside, and then lowered her head to look at the ground There were traces of fighting on the ground, and finally squatted on the glass debris scattered on the ground, slowly frowning.

"Did you find anything?" Renee asked an assistant and a patrolman to carry the body downstairs, while she walked to Beckett's side and asked with concern.

"Probably!" Beckett stood up and said while pondering: "I have seen the victim's shoes and clothes, it is obvious that he went home after jogging for half a day yesterday, and went to take a shower after returning home, so the thief should be He entered the house at that time."

After a short pause, Beckett walked not far from the door, and then continued: "Look here, because the window is wide open, there is still a trace of water stains here. Looking at these messy footprints, it is obvious that two There was a personal fight here. Our victim obviously has some fighting skills and is stronger than the thief, and then subdued the thief here."

Then, Beckett took Renee to the sofa again, pointed to a few drops of blood dripping there, and said, "Something should have happened here, Renee, go back and check the DNA of these blood for me, I think Know who it really belongs to."

"I see." Renee nodded lightly. These few drops of blood are most likely left by the thief. With his DNA, no matter whether there are relevant clues in the database, this case is relatively safe. It would be easier to say.

"The next thing is a little unclear." Beckett frowned tightly, and said, "Look, these heavy blow marks on the neglected floor should be when the victim interrogated the thief. It was suddenly shattered from the outside, interrupting the victim's interrogation, and at the same time the victim also kicked the thief towards the fireplace, you can see this from the traces that were dragged out."

"But how did the glass suddenly break from the outside to the inside?" Renee was a little puzzled, and whispered, "Could it be that a thief broke the glass and came in?"

"No, look here." Beckett said in a deep voice about the marks left by the heavy blow on the ground: "Look, these marks that don't know how to come out are obviously covered by glass, and there is no trace of heavy blows. This means that the glass shattered suddenly after the two fought. It was because of this accident that the victim shot. However, there are also some problems. According to the traces covered by glass slag, the glass shattered When the glass shattered, the thief was always on the side of the closet, but the victim was standing on the side of the safe, which makes no sense. Could it be that they moved to the closet and the safe at a very fast speed when the glass shattered? side?"

"It's also possible that the victim and the thief were in the closet and the safe before the glass shattered, which doesn't make sense." Renee stood aside and offered a different suggestion.

"So it depends on what conclusions you can draw from the autopsy on your side." Beckett sighed softly, and said, "Anyway, why did the glass shatter inward, and how did these heavy blows on the ground come from? Yes, if these two issues are not resolved, the whole case will not be resolved."

Renee nodded, and based on the traces at the scene, she came to two somewhat different conclusions. At this time, other evidence must be used to support it, and now all they can rely on is the coroner's autopsy Conclusion.

When Beckett and Renee were talking, there was a sudden voice outside. It was the voice of Esper and a woman. They walked towards the scene of the crime while talking.

Beckett frowned, but still went up to meet him, and saw Esper walking in with a petite woman in her early 30s with black hair. After seeing Beckett, he immediately introduced to her: "Lisbon Detective, this is Detective Beckett. Beckett, this is Lisbon from the State Bureau of Investigation, and they're investigating the robbery at the Natural History Museum."

"Hello, Detective Lisbon." Beckett understood a little bit, she extended her hand and shook hands with Lisbon, and said, "I've heard about the incident over there, I didn't expect that there would be criminals carrying heavy weapons so blatantly." Looting a museum is such a heinous crime."

"Hello, Detective Beckett, you can just call me Lisbon." Detective Lisbon smiled slightly and said, "I also accidentally ran into Officer Esposito when I was looking for witnesses nearby, so I just Come up and take a look. The two recent cases happened so close together, only a few blocks away, and the time difference between the two cases was less than an hour, so I asked Officer Esposito to take me up to watch Take a look, maybe we will have the opportunity to jointly handle the case."

"You mean that there is a possible connection between the two cases?" Beckett understood the meaning of Detective Lisbon's words, she pondered for a while, and then said as if remembering something: "You can just call me Beckett."

"Hello, Beckett!" Seeing that Beckett was relatively friendly, Lisbon breathed a sigh of relief.In fact, their California Bureau of Investigation is an investigation agency under the California Attorney General and belongs to the state police sequence.They are usually responsible for investigating cases that occur on land directly under the jurisdiction of the state and cases that cannot be resolved independently by the locality, so they are usually not very popular with those local police.

The Los Angeles Police Department is a completely different investigation system from their California Bureau of Investigation, and there is no affiliation between the two parties.Moreover, the Los Angeles Police Department is one of the four major police departments in the United States, and its personnel, equipment, and funding far exceed those of the California Bureau of Investigation. If Beckett insists on not cooperating, Lisbon has nothing to do.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Lisbon looked at Beckett pleadingly.Beckett nodded slightly, and said, "Please, Esper, tell Lisbon about the victim."

"Yes. The victim's name is John Stone, 36 years old. He rented a house half a month ago. He was found dead in the room this morning." After a short pause, Esposito continued: "According to the interview For the record, the neighbors around heard a few gunshots nearby at two o'clock in the middle of the night, but because the place is filled with high-strength tempered glass, the sound insulation effect is very good, so they have no way to determine where it started. guns, and this is Los Angeles, so no one called the police."

"According to the coroner's preliminary determination, the victim died between 02:30 and half an hour last night. A dagger was stabbed in the heart and killed him." Beckett said and glanced at Renee, and Lisbon also looked at Renee nodded as a greeting, and continued to listen to Beckett's words: "According to the traces at the scene, this should be a shooting case transformed from a theft incident, and the gun should belong to the victim, because there is only one person in the room. One type of bullet, and the only gun was the Desert Eagle in the victim's hand."

Beckett stopped here, and that's all she can say. After all, Lisbon is not a member of their team, let alone a colleague of the Los Angeles Police Department. Before there is an official document, it is really inconvenient for her to disclose the details of the case.

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