Chapter 49

Send two colleagues out, Beckett walked to the coroner who was squatting next to the victim, and asked in a low voice: “Lanie, have you noticed anything?”

The black coroner Lanie looked up at Beckett and said softly: “The time of death should be between 2:30 and 3:00 in the morning. The cause of death is this blade pierced into the heart, directly dying. As for the rest. also nothing, I have to go back and talk about autopsy later.”

“en!” Beckett nodded slightly, and said, “I see, Lanie. Hurry up and get the results, I always feel this This case is a bit unusual.”

“I will put it at the highest priority.” Lanie nodded, waved his hand and asked the assistant to help put the body into the body bag.

Beckett patrolled one side of the room, and finally her gaze was placed in the safe on the side, walked over slowly, carefully looked at the traces left by the contents, and then He looked down at the marks of the fight on the ground, and finally squatted on the glass residue scattered on the ground, frowning slowly.

“Anything to find?” Lanie asked an assistant and a police officer to transport the body downstairs, while she walked to Beckett’s side and asked with concern.

“Considered to be!” Beckett stood up, groaning, and said: “I have seen the victim’s shoes and clothes. It is obvious that he came home after jogging for a long time yesterday. Go to take a shower, then the thief should have 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. For this reason, there is still a trace of water stains left here. Looking at these chaotic footprints, it is obvious that two people have fought here. Our victim obviously has some fighting methods, and is stronger than the thief, and then here Thief uniform.”

Speaking, Beckett took Lanie to the sofa again, pointed to a few drops of blood there, and said: “What should happen here, Lanie, you go back and help me check Take a look at the DNA of this blood. I want to know who it belongs to.”

“I see.” Lanie nodded gently. These drops of blood are most likely left by the thief. Yes, with his DNA, regardless of whether there are relevant clues in the database, this case is relatively easier to handle.

“The next thing is a little puzzled.” Beckett said with a tight frown: “Look, the traces of heavy blows on the floor that you overlooked should be the victim interrogating the thief. At the time, the glass window was suddenly broken from the outside, interrupting the victim’s interrogation. At the same time, the victim kicked the thief towards the fireplace. You can see these dragged traces to illustrate this point. .”

“But how could the glass suddenly be broken from the outside to the inside?” Lanie was puzzled, and whispered: “Could it be the thief who broke the glass in?”

“No, look here.” The traces of the heavy blow on the ground of Beckett, said solemnly: “Look, these traces that do not know how came out, the glass is obviously covered on it, and there is no such thing as a heavy blow. This means that the glass suddenly shattered after the fight between the two. It is precisely because of this change that the victim shot. However, there are also some problems. According to the traces covered by the glass slag, the glass is broken. When it broke, the thief was always on the side of the closet, and 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 while the glass shattered? Side?”

“It’s also possible that the victim and the thief were in the closet and safe before the glass shattered. This is not unreasonable.” Lanie stood aside and made different suggestions. .

“So it depends on what conclusions you can draw on autopsy.” Beckett lightly sighed, said: “Anyway, why does the glass shatter inward? These heavy blows on the ground are How come, if these two problems are not solved, the whole case cannot be solved.”

Lanie nodded, and based on the traces of the scene, came to two somewhat different conclusions, then At this time, other evidence must be used to corroborate, and now they can rely on the medical examiner’s Dissection conclusion on the corpse.

Just when Beckett and Lanie were talking, there was a sudden voice outside, the voice of Espoo and a woman, and the two of them walked in towards the scene of the crime.

Beckett frowned, still greeted him, and saw Espoo walked in with a little petite woman in her early 30s with black hair. After seeing Beckett, she immediately introduced: ” Agent Lisbon, this is Detective Beckett. Beckett, this is Agent Lisbon from the State Bureau of Investigation. They are responsible for investigating the robbery of the Natural History Museum.”

“Hello, Agent Lisbon. “Beckett understood a little bit. While extending the hand and shook Lisbon, she said: “I heard about the matter over there. Didn’t expect a criminal to rob the museum with heavy weapons so blatantly. “His crime is too bad.”

“Hello, Detective Beckett, you can call me Lisbon.” Agent Lisbon laughed lightly and said, “I was also in the vicinity when looking for witnesses. I accidentally ran into Officer Esposito, so I went to take a look. The distance between the recent two cases is too close, but a few blocks away, and the time difference between the two cases is less than an hour, so I let Officer Esposito took me to take a look, maybe we will have the opportunity to jointly handle the case.”

“You mean there is likely to be a connection between the two cases?” Beckett understands After understanding what Agent Lisbon meant, she pondered for a moment, and then as if thinking of something, she said: “You can call me Beckett directly.”

“Hello, Beckett!” Seeing Beckett is relatively friendly, Lisbon sighed slightly in relief. In fact, their California Bureau of Investigation is an investigation agency under the California Attorney General and belongs to the state police. Usually, they are responsible for investigating only cases that occur on state-owned land and cases that cannot be resolved independently by the locality, so they are not generally popular with local police.

Los Angeles Police Department and their California Bureau of Investigation are completely different investigation systems, and the two parties are not at all affiliated. Moreover, the Los Angeles Police Department is one of the four major police departments in the United States. Its personnel, equipment, and funding far exceed those of the California Bureau of Investigation. If Beckett insists on not cooperating, Lisbon will have nothing to do.

“Can I go in and take a look?” Lisbon looked at Beckett pleadingly. Beckett nodded gently and said, “Please, Espoo, tell Lisbon about the victim.”

“Yes. The victim’s name is John Stone, 36 years old, half a month ago. The rented house was found dead in the room this morning.” After a short pause, Esposito continued: “According to the search records, the neighbors all around heard several gunshots nearby at two or three in the middle of the night. It sounded, but because it is equipped with high-strength tempered glass, it has a good sound insulation effect, so they can’t determine where the gun was fired, and since this is Los Angeles, no one calls the police.”

“According to the medical examiner’s preliminary determination, the victim died between 2:30 and 3:3 last night. A dagger was thrust into his heart and killed him.” Beckett said and glanced at Lanie, Lisbon I also said hello to Lanie nodded, and continued to listen to Beckett said: “Based on the traces of the scene, this should be a shooting case transformed from a theft. The gun should belong to the victim, because there is only One type of bullet, and the gun is only the Desert Eagle gun in the victim’s hand.”

Beckett stopped here when he said that, and there is only this she can say. After all, Lisbon is not theirs. The members of the team are not colleagues of the Los Angeles Police Department. Before there is an official document, it is inconvenient for her to disclose the details of the case.