companion ghost

In the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Shen Lie crossed his legs and looked at Ning Yuan with an innocent face across the table: "Psychiatrist, huh?"

Ning Yuan wrinkled his nose: "You didn't ask."

Shen Lie changed the subject for good reason, "Why do you say that Eric didn't confess?"

Ning Yuan immediately opened his chair and sat down enthusiastically, "When the police officer mentioned that he killed his daughter, he felt guilty, tortured, and extremely painful. For a murderer, these emotions There are conflicts between them. If he kills a child he loves, he will be relieved knowing that the truth has been revealed. On the contrary, if he kills a child he does not love, in the interrogation room, he will have no guilt and Painful emotional swings,'

Shen Lie listened thoughtfully.

"Also, pay attention to the sentence he said 'I will be responsible for this.' In Rebecca's matter, he felt that he should take responsibility, which is also the source of his guilt." Ning Yuan crossed his fingers Putting it on the table, "He didn't kill Rebecca, but he definitely knows who did."

Shen Lie stared at the man opposite, when he talked about these matters related to his profession, it was totally different from his usual stern-faced appearance.Shen Lie reached out to pick up the microphone of the landline, and dialed a number: "Cathy, hurry up the forensic team... What do you think I want? I want the evidence to crucify the murderer! I will make a decision after confirming the fingerprints on the murder weapon." Charges for prosecution... Impossible, don't even think about it, I will never take the risk of letting you screw up my case, understand?... Very good."

Ning Yuan watched Shen Lie finish the call in a daze, "Have you always treated police officers like this?"

Shen Lie frowned and glanced at him, "Is there any problem?"

"I thought the relationship between the officers and the DA (district attorney) should be good."

"That doesn't mean that I have to be low-key." Shen Lie raised his jaw with a sneer, "I am not their subordinate, and they have no right to tell me how to do my job. On the contrary, if they want to avoid messing up the case, they must You must listen to me."

"..." Ning Yuan pursed his lips, "The real murderer."

"..."

Shen Lie buried his head in the written document, not bothering to talk to him.

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

Casey's unbelievable voice came from the medical examiner's office, and Dino was also frowning beside him.

Beside the table covered with many instruments of unknown use, a man in a white coat rolled his eyes when he heard this: "Is it interesting to tease you? I also reacted the same way when the results came out."

Dino frowned tightly: "So we can only let him go?"

Casey was also very annoyed, "The fingerprints are not Eric's, what else can we do!" After finishing speaking, he punched the man in the white coat, "I knew that nothing good would happen if James called us."

"That's really good, don't take the initiative to call me next time." James retorted.

"Stop girls." Dino stretched out his hand to prevent the two of them from continuing to confront each other in a funny way. They never stopped colliding with each other. "James, do you find anything else?"

James snorted, and didn't say anything for Dino's sake. Instead, he took out a few photos of Rebecca lying on the dissecting table with various wounds from the drawer.He pointed to one of them, which was a photo of the bruise on Rebecca's neck, "Did you notice the bruise? Rebecca's cause of death was suffocation, but the murder weapon was not the climbing rope we always thought."

"How is it possible!" Casey couldn't hold back and opened his mouth, "The traces of the climbing rope on the neck are obvious!"

"Yeah, it's so obvious, why should I do it if it's so obvious, you just come to the forensic doctor." James gave Casey another look, "Shut up and listen carefully."

"..."

Casey closed his mouth angrily, while Dino pinched the bridge of his nose beside him.

It felt like I was suddenly back in kindergarten.

"At the beginning, I wondered why the traces of this climbing rope were so messy, and it was useless at all. As long as you tighten it tightly, you can achieve the result. Why did you make such messy traces? Later, I discovered this," James continued. He took out an enlarged picture and clipped it to the whiteboard, pointed to an irregular pattern on the side of the neck, "Can you see what it is?"

Just as Casey opened his mouth, James said mercilessly: "I didn't ask you."

Dino didn't care to comfort his partner this time, he was carefully looking at the irregular bruise that looked like an oval but was much thicker, when suddenly he thought of something, stepped forward, and put his The right hand is held close to the photo.

Casey looked at the outline of Dino's thumb, and suddenly understood: "Rebecca was strangled?"

James nodded, "After the murderer strangled her to death with his hands, he used a climbing rope to create the illusion of strangulation."

"So we're back where we started." Dino sighed.

"No way," Casey taunted. "This time, there is not even the only murder weapon. The only thing that can testify against Eric is the poor surveillance video. I don't know if Shen will kill us."

"If this is the case, I won't call you here," James tapped the photo again with his knuckles, "because Shen might kill me too. Notice that the climbing rope marks on the front of the neck are heavy and messy , but it gets lighter as you go to the sides, the thumb print you just saw is on the right side of the neck, and there is a vague middle finger print on the left side of the neck a little forward," said James, stretching out both hands to make a pinch dead action.

"Left-handed?" Casey also stretched out his hand and gestured.

"If the middle finger can only reach the front of the left side of the neck, it means that the person we are looking for has small hands." Dino stretched out his left hand and grabbed Casey's neck, his middle finger was almost reaching Casey's neck. the back of the neck.Casey raised her head in cooperation, closed her eyes and stuck out her tongue.Dino was amused, and let go of his hand to rub his hair.

James rolled his eyes again.

Really idle.

"So you're telling me that that broken rock climbing rope is worth nothing, right?" Shen Lie looked at Casey and Dino with his arms crossed.

"...you can't say that..."

"Then refute me." Shen Lie turned around and walked towards the interrogation room, "Which one of you come with me, I want to talk to my dear daddy again."

"Go!" Casey pushed Dino decisively, "I'll make you coffee!"

Dino: "..."

"Well," Shen Lie raised his eyes and glanced at Dino who was following, "There is really no suspense at all."

Dino: "..."

I also feel very unsuspecting.

Shen Lie pushed open the door of the interrogation room and walked in. As expected, he saw Eric and the lawyer in suit and tie beside him.

"When can I take my client away?" The lawyer was a tall and fierce black woman, she looked at Shen Lie with provocative eyes.

"It's early, your client has to make a choice, whether to confess Lizheng here or see you in court." Shen Lie didn't buy her set, and sat opposite them with a smirk.

"Stop making trouble, you don't even have a decent evidence!" The lawyer sneered, "Even if I walk out of here now, you will have nothing to do with us."

"That's right," Shen Lie didn't look at the female lawyer again, and leaned slightly towards Eric, "You know, we already know who you are protecting, but obviously, you don't know that person is not worth it." You protect."

Eric was shocked, and was about to open his mouth, but was stopped by the female lawyer's hand, "You don't need to say a word."

Dino put his hand on his shoulder, and persuaded with his deep and convincing voice like a cello: "We already know about her, you really don't need to carry it to death."

Eric turned pale when he heard 'her', and it took him a while to say three words: "I can't."

Shen Lie pushed away the table and stood up, raised his jaw at the female lawyer, "That's over, I will sue your client for obstruction of justice."

The female lawyer looked in astonishment at Shen Lie who had already turned around and was about to leave the interrogation room: "Are you joking? Every suspect arrested by the police officer will not tell the truth, and you actually only sued my client?"

Shen Lie turned around and smiled slightly: "Look at my mood, I'm in a very bad mood now, so I decided to sue. I give you the right to choose. If you tell the truth, the charge will disappear. But you choose not to .”

Eric gritted his teeth: "You are a threat!"

Shen Lie shrugged indifferently, "Don't talk nonsense, there is still a police officer here. Ask your lawyer if my words are effective."

Eric looked at the female lawyer, who nodded to him helplessly.He gritted his teeth: "I can even bear the charge of homicide, let alone the petty crime of obstructing justice."

"It's kind," Shen Lie said softly, "But you still don't understand." After speaking, he turned the doorknob and walked out.

"I don't understand either..." Ning Yuan followed him with a puzzled look on his face, "He doesn't know how to talk at all, is there any point in this conversation?"

Shen Lie looked at him as if he was mentally retarded: "He can bear the crime of homicide with all his strength because we are sure that we believe that he is the murderer, but we now know that it is not him. If he does not tell the truth, he will be charged with obstructing judicial investigation. He's just a white back and can't help anything."

Ning Yuan wowed, "There are a lot of twists and turns in here."

Shen Lie snorted.

Are you stupid?