companion ghost

Matt sighed: "Shen, you know the answer."

Shen Lie twitched the corner of his mouth: "I just want to work harder, after all Stephen may be our only witness."

Matt is turning the pen in his hand, which is a behavior that represents his thinking. After a while, he leans forward slightly: "I think your first priority is to find someone who is willing to issue a search warrant and arrest warrant for you in the early stage of the investigation." Just judges waiting for legal papers."

Shen Lie is not worried about this: "Judge Parker will be very willing, he has always hated pedophiles."

"Because of this," Matt said, "you should be careful. Once the defense lawyers know about Judge Parker, they will apply for a motion to replace the judge in less than a second."

"I don't think they will know this." Shen Lie frowned slightly, "The information of the judges is highly confidential."

Matt blinked: "It's always good to be prepared."

Shen Lie readily accepted the proposal.

When Shen Lie was about to leave, Matt raised his pen and gave a suggestion: "Shen, according to my suggestion, if you want the final trial judge to be Judge Parker, you can go to some unimportant documents Get another judge to sign it, so that you can distract the defense from the judge."

Suddenly, Shen Lie pointed in Matt's direction with the document in his hand, and said with a sincere smile, "Please eat."

Manhattan Police Department Homicide Squad Office

Kathy and Gloria looked at each other, and Kathy asked, "Where do we start now?"

Gloria pointed to Six, because the technical group was on the sixth floor: "Why don't we start with Emma?"

Casey shrugged: "Listen to you."

The two got up and went out to take the elevator. Kathy looked at Gloria's beautiful side face under the elevator lights, hesitated, and asked: "Gloria, no offense, but...you were with Matt before. How did you manage to let go of those pasts when you were together?"

Gloria turned her head and smiled: "Because I know that is the past, and we all need to look forward."

Casey froze, thoughtful.

When she arrived at the technical department, Emma was eating snacks with her legs crossed. When Kathy and Gloria opened the door, she was startled. After seeing who it was, she put her lower leg on the table again: "Scared I'm dead, I thought it was the captain."

Casey: "..."

Captain, shouldn't you think about how much you have gone too far recently.

Emma had lingering fears: "The last time Tony was listening to music in the office, the captain just came in and was scolded by him."

Casey shared the same hatred: "It's too much!"

Gloria patted Emma's head: "How about baby, come and check something for us?"

Emma nodded, and slipped the potato chips in her hand to Casey: "If you can't eat it, you can solve it."

Casey weighed the bag in his hand, there were quite a few left, he didn't pick one, he picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth, and then his whole facial features were squeezed together.

Emma almost screamed out of laughter: "Hahahaha, this is a spoof snack I bought online, imitating the booger-flavored multi-flavored beans in Harry Potter!"

Casey took a long time to recover: "Confiscated!"

Emma made a face: "I still have another box!"

Casey: "..."

Do you wholesale a box of this target to the whole police department?

Gloria was also laughing, and then pinched Emma's face: "Come and check the properties of Vincent 3."

Emma came to the computer in a swivel chair, typing on the keyboard: "Vincent's full name?"

Kathy tossed the booger-smelling potato chips aside; "Vincent Osterley."

"Hmm," Emma searched for a while, and found the result: "He has eleven properties under his name, which one are you looking for?"

Gloria handed her the address of the house where Stephen was held: "Find someone within six kilometers of this address."

Emma used software to screen: "There are still seven places left."

Gloria and Kathy were lost in thought.

At this time, Casey's cell phone rang, and Casey picked it up, and it was Dino: "What's wrong?"

Dino said on the phone: "There is progress on James' side. The place where Sean was held before his death is likely to be the sewer."

Casey swears, and then turns on the phone: "I turned it on, Gloria and Emma are both here."

Gloria said: "In the area drawn by the doctor, Vincent has seven properties."

There is no sound on the other side of the phone, and he should be thinking.

At this time, it was James with a strong retroflex voice: "I suggest you try to find out whether there is a sewer that has dried up near the property, or a sewer with a shallow water table. If you have been in the water for a long time After soaking, Sean's skin condition will be completely different from what it is now."

This time, Kathy and Gloria didn't need to talk, Emma searched in the database by herself.

One minute later, Emma gave the result: "There are still three places that meet the conditions."

Casey waved the phone: "Please send me these three addresses."

Emma made an ok gesture, and Kathy and Gloria left. Before leaving, Kathy didn't forget to take the bag of booger-smelling potato chips.

The police officers all gathered in the office, and after briefing each other on the progress of the case, everyone began to assign tasks.There are three places in total, Cassidy Nuo goes to the first, Jerry and Gloria go to the second, whoever finishes first goes to the third.

After the discussion, without further ado, everyone set off immediately.

Casey took the keys of the SUV provided by the police station and motioned for Dino to leave.When he got in the car, Dino sat in the co-pilot, and Casey found that he was still holding the bag of potato chips in his hand. He looked at Dino's sharp-edged side face, and became narrow-minded.

Casey took a piece out of the bag and handed it to Dino's lips: "Take one."

When Casey rarely took the initiative, Dino was surprised and delighted, and opened his mouth to eat without thinking.

——Then his facial features were also distorted.

Casey swished the gas pedal, and Auston could vaguely hear the hearty laughter upstairs.

Brooklyn, New York City, Prospectpark [note] area

Casey parked the car some distance from Vincent's Brooklyn property, and got out of the car with Dino.

This place is a rich white mansion, so the streets are clean and tidy, not a single manhole cover is missing.

Casey strolled around, returned to the car, rolled up his arms and sleeves and took out a crowbar from the trunk.

Dino was startled: "What are you going to do? We can't forcefully enter Vincent's house without a search warrant."

Casey glanced at him sideways: "Who said I'm going to smash the door?" He thought for a while, then took out a set of his sportswear from the trunk and threw it to Dino: "Change out your suit. .”

Under Dino's surprised and puzzled eyes, he locked on the manhole cover of a sewer, walked over and used a crowbar to pry the manhole cover up, this sewer did not have the smell of rotting garbage, but the smell of mold and damp was also there. It's heavy and doesn't smell good. Casey wrinkled her nose and said sarcastically, "It's really refreshing."

[Note] prospectpark: I really don’t know how to translate this, the transliteration is very strange, and the free translation is even more strange... I also welcome friends who know it to teach me!In short, this place is a residential area for rich white people, and other areas in Brooklyn are much poorer, and many of them are middle- and lower-class people of color.