American Comics: The Invincible Wheel of Fortune

"Yes, here is the phone number and address." Ryan nodded and replied, then handed Kate a small note.

Kate took the small piece of paper and glanced at it, thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then Aaron and I will be responsible for questioning the victim's boyfriend. Ryan, you and Esposito will go to the victim's address to investigate... …What about the Espocito people?”

Ryan replied: "Let us finish the case at hand. I will call him and go directly there later."

"Okay, thank you both for your hard work."

Manhattan Island, Lower DC high-end apartment.

Aaron and Kate contacted the victim's boyfriend, Jed Westwood.

This guy is still a second-generation young man. His father is engaged in import and export trade. The business is not big and he is not rich, but he is still better than the middle class.

Kate explained the general situation on the phone. Jade sounded very sad, but paused and finally said that he didn't have time to go to the police station for questioning.

Assisting in the investigation was a consensual matter, but fortunately it was not a flat refusal, so Aaron and Kate had no choice but to agree on a time to visit.

After the two identified themselves, they were invited into the house. In the living room, sitting on the sofa, was a young white guy, in his mid-twenties, not tall. He was facing Zhou Zheng, but his eyes were slightly red. It was obvious that he had not been here for a while. I just cried before.

Sitting next to the young man was a middle-aged woman, in her forties, who still had the charm of a mature woman. She would caress her back from time to time and whisper something in her ear.

Not far away from the young man, there is a middle-aged man sitting, who looks to be a few years older than the middle-aged woman. He is holding a glass of wine. He has a calm demeanor and a deep face. You can tell at a glance that he is not the same person.

"Mr. Jed Westwood?" Kate asked, and when the young man nodded slightly, he continued: "Hello, I am Detective Beckett, and this is my partner, Detective Walker."

Jade nodded and said: "Please sit down, these two are my parents, Theo and Elena Westwood."

Aaron and Kate said hello to the two of them again, and said a few polite words such as condolences and condolences, and then got down to the topic. Aaron still maintained the principle of seeing more, listening more, doing more, and speaking less. Kate came to do it. Lead the questioning.

Kate asked: "Mr. Westwood, how long have you known Ms. Tamako Hiiragi?"

Jade: "Almost a year and a half."

Kate: "How is your relationship?"

Jed: "It's been pretty stable before."

Kate: "When was the last time you saw Tamako Hiiragi?"

Jade thought for a moment and said, "Last weekend, I didn't see Yuzi for more than a week."

Aaron and Kate keenly felt that there was something wrong here, and Kate then asked: "Have you been in contact during this time?"

Hearing Kate's question, Jade looked a little sad again: "We talked on the phone, but Yuzi was very perfunctory every time. I asked her if there was anything wrong, but she didn't say anything."

Kate asked again: "Are there any relationship problems between you two?"

Jade's eye circles were a little red again, and he took a breath and said: "I don't know, I didn't think there was anything wrong at all. It was fine before, but suddenly it's like this..."

"I also went directly to her home but couldn't find her. I contacted her place of work and said she didn't go to work at all this week. If I hadn't been able to contact her by phone, I would have called the police."

The young man was quite affectionate, and both Aaron and Kate were moved. They secretly thought that there was indeed something wrong, but it seemed that he had little to do with Jade.

"So when was the last time you talked?"

The young man smiled miserably and said in a low voice: "Three nights ago, I really didn't want to continue like this anymore, so I finally made up my mind to really talk clearly with Yuzi."

"Then I heard that Yuzi seemed to be in a noisy environment, and she didn't answer my words. She hung up the phone after saying a few words, and then turned off her mobile phone."

After Jade finished speaking, his eyes filled with tears again. His mother hurriedly comforted her for a while, and complained that she knew that Yuzi was not a stable person, but Jade's father next to him looked noncommittal and didn't care. I can't see what's going on in my heart.

Alas, the poor kid was suspected of being dumped, but there was no result yet, and then he found out that his girlfriend had been murdered, and there was no one left with this entanglement.

Kate thought for a while and asked: "Didn't Okja reveal anything before she behaved abnormally? Anything that you felt might not be right?"

Jade frowned and was silent for a while, then shook his head and said in a low voice: "No, believe me, I have thought about this problem countless times. I want to know what went wrong more than anyone else."

Although he didn't ask anything substantive, it revealed some problems, and Kate intuitively believed that the case should not have much to do with this sad young man.

Kate nodded and asked again: "Mr. Westwood, according to procedure, I'm sorry to have to ask this question, where have you been since yesterday day?"

Jade didn't hesitate and answered directly: "I am with my friends. My friends know that I am in a bad mood and come to stay with me."

Jed's father, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke when he heard this: "Okay, detectives, let's stop questioning here."

This is not an interrogation of suspects, it is all done on a voluntary basis. If there is someone who is uncooperative, they will find a bunch of lawyers and won't say a word, making the police hate them but they can do nothing.

Jade is very cooperative, but he has the right to terminate the conversation at any time. Now that someone has spoken, Kate and Aaron really can't continue questioning unless they formally ask for interrogation.

Kate glanced at Aaron, that means they are not happy, so we can withdraw, right?

Aaron signaled to wait a moment, cleared his throat, looked at Jade's family, and asked: "I'm sorry, everyone, but the last question is, are you familiar with Ms. Hiiragi Tamako's sister Hiiragi Yoko?"

Jade's parents looked at each other and shook their heads. Jade's mother replied: "I just know that there is such a person, but I have never met him."

Jade nodded and said: "I have met her a few times. How should I put it? She is a girl who is not easy to get along with and is very rebellious. The two sisters live together, but Yoko does not go home often and is always hanging out outside. .”

"Although Yuzi took good care of her sister, her sister was not particularly grateful. Later I heard that after the two sisters had a quarrel, they ran away from home and there was no news from her. Yuzi even called the police, but they were not found."

"Tamako was very depressed at that time, and she finally recovered. However, she still misses her sister very much, and it makes her very sad when she thinks about it. I usually avoid this issue very carefully and don't mention it in front of Yuzi."