Chapter 433 Putting the Blame on the Evil One

Chapter 433 Putting the Blame on the Evil One

The indentation of the plug on Mr. Iida's back proved that he had been injured indoors.

Miwako Sato proved through investigation and reasoning that the only possible option for this "indoor scene" was the deceased's own home.

But there were no traces of a struggle in his home, and it didn't look like a scene.

"Experience tells me that when there is a conflict between evidence and evidence." Miwako Sato analyzed confidently: "The party with problems must be the party that is more likely to commit fraud."

"I see, Sato-senpai"

Under the guidance of his seniors, Takagi Wataru also figured out all this:

"It's easy to simply fake the scene after a crime has been committed."

"But the deceased's injuries and life experience cannot be faked at all."

"So the problem must lie in this scene!"

"And the person who faked the scene after committing the crime was obviously not the arsonist who acted without scruples and did not need to have scruples."

"So the murderer must be someone else!"

"And this murderer."

As Takagi Sheba spoke, he got stuck in embarrassment:

"Who could this murderer be?"

"Why did he fake the scene?"

"This." Sato Miwako also showed a troubled expression because of these questions: "Mr. Iida lives alone and has no relatives. His colleagues in the company also said that he is very popular and has not made any enmity with anyone."

"There are no suspects at all from his social connections."

Who could be the murderer? This question cannot be answered for a while.

"As for why he faked the scene."

Sato Miwako frowned tightly.

She seemed to have thought of something, but she still couldn't grasp the point.

"How strange." Takagi Sheba muttered quietly next to him: "Why did the murderer fake the scene so that no one could see that the deceased had fought with him indoors?"

"And the arsonist."

"Mr. Iida died in the alley in the end. When the arsonist came to set the fire, he should have seen his body, right?"

"How dare that guy continue to set fire here when he saw a corpse here?"

"Aren't you afraid that the police will blame this life on him? Or do you mean that the madman who set the fire didn't care at all?"

"This" Miwako Sato was slightly startled.

Immediately afterwards, her big eyes lit up energetically: "Takagi, you asked this question very well!"

"Senior Sato, what did you think of?"

Miwako Sato did not answer.

She just turned her head sharply and looked out the window.

Mr. Iida's home is the kind of house that has no yard and no walls. The MINI Youth Edition is a single-family house.

Because there is no barrier from the courtyard wall, looking out from the window on the first floor, you can directly see the alley and the neighbors on the other side of the alley.

"Takagi, let's go to that room and take a look."

Miwako Sato first inspected the living room, and then pointed to a room also located on the first floor, close to the alley, with the windows facing the neighbor opposite.

This looks like Mr. Iida's bedroom.

After walking into the bedroom, the first thing Miwako Sato noticed was an electric fan placed randomly on the wall.

The electric fan's power cord was hanging casually on the ground, as was the plug.

"Found it, the power plugs scattered on the floor."

Sato Miwako's voice was secretly filled with excitement:

"This is most likely the 'indoor' scene where Mr. Iida fought with the murderer before his death."

"The scars on his back should have been caused by the power plug that was pressed to the ground after he fell here."

"Yes." Takagi Shita nodded, but his tone was not too sure:

Because after their investigation, they found that Mr. Iida did not usually clean up the furniture and electrical appliances, and unused power strips, electric fans, and vacuum cleaners were randomly placed.

So there were plugs scattered on the ground in several places in his house.

Even if a power plug is found on the floor of this bedroom, it does not mean that this must be the scene of the indoor fight.

"No, this is it."

Sato Miwako's expression quietly became firm.

She pointed to the baseball and baseball gloves placed on the bedroom table and said to Takagi Wataru:

"See? A baseball fan will usually buy a three-piece set of baseball, gloves, and bat."

"But here are only Mr. Iida's baseballs and baseball gloves."

"So where's his baseball bat?"

"This" Takagi Shita began to search in this room.

You can really only find baseballs and baseball gloves, but not baseball bats.

"Could it be."

Officer Takagi reacted belatedly:

"Was it taken away by the murderer?"

"That's right." Sato Miwako nodded:

"Asai just told us that the deceased had severe blunt force trauma on the back of his head."

"And he also speculated that the instrument of injury should be a wooden stick."

"wooden sticks"

"Isn't it the baseball bat that disappeared mysteriously?"

Miwako Sato confidently concluded:

"The murderer must have taken the baseball bat as the murder weapon away from the scene and disposed of it after committing the crime."

"This" Officer Takagi was stunned again.

He discovered another place that puzzled him:

"But didn't the murderer leave the dagger behind?"

"If he thought about disposing of the murder weapon, why did he only take the baseball bat and not the knife that was also at the scene?"

"It's very simple."

Miwako Sato answered with a smile:

"Because usually the murderer handles the murder weapon with the purpose of erasing any traces he may have left on the murder weapon."

"The murderer's purpose in handling the murder weapon was actually to help fake the scene."

"Think about it if a bloody baseball bat was left in the house and police found it."

"Will the police still believe that nothing happened in this house as he wishes?"

"Well" Takagi Wataru still couldn't understand: "Why don't we just throw the baseball bat out of the house and throw it with the dagger?"

"No." Sato Miwako shook her head:

"Takagi, when you handle enough cases, you will be able to notice based on experience:"

"Generally, murderers who commit crimes with weapons only bring one kind of murder weapon."

"And the baseball bat and the knife are the two murder weapons."

"In cases where there are two murder weapons, the murderer usually took it from the scene when he was killing someone indoors because he needed to fight with the deceased."

“Not to mention, the baseball bat itself is massive.”

"Based on common sense, few people would bring baseball bats to their homes to commit crimes."

"so."

"If he left the baseball bat at the scene, our police would definitely suspect that he took the baseball bat from near the scene."

"And where can I get a baseball bat nearby?"

"Only indoors, of course, only in the home of the deceased."

"So the killer had to take the baseball bat and dispose of it, otherwise we would have realized that the deceased may have been involved in a struggle in his own home."

"And once we know that."

Sato Miwako paused slightly.

She turned her head and looked through the bedroom window at the fire scene across the alley that had been burned to ruins:

"You will begin to wonder how the arsonist came to the deceased's house."

"You will start to wonder if the arsonist is actually the murderer."

At this point, even Officer Takagi, who was a little slow to react, reacted completely:

"I see."

"This is the murderer's purpose of disguising the scene——"

"He wanted to put the crime of murder on the arsonist!"

He swallowed and added to clarify his thoughts:

"When the arsonist set the fire across the alley."

"Mr. Iida may not be dead yet."

"The murderer and Mr. Iida may still be fighting in this bedroom."

"And the window of this bedroom just faced the neighbor's house across the alley, which is where the fire started, where the arsonist poured gasoline and set the fire."

"So, after the murderer knocked down Mr. Iida, he might accidentally see from the bedroom window that someone was pouring gasoline and setting fire to him across the alley."

"He realized that the arsonist might be the serial arsonist who had recently gained notoriety in the news and left the police helpless."

"So, the murderer chose to tidy up the indoor fight scene."

"After the arsonist left, he moved Mr. Iida, who had lost the ability to resist, to the alley outside the house, where he stabbed him to death."

"Thus."

Takagi Sheba said excitedly:

"There were no signs of a struggle indoors, and the body was outside near the fire."

"When our police officers arrived at the scene, we subconsciously believed that the deceased was brutally murdered by the arsonist when he acted bravely to stop the arsonist."

"The charge of murder rests entirely on the arsonist."

"Unless the arsonist is successfully arrested, it is basically impossible for us to discover that the person was not killed by him."

"But how can it be easy to catch the arsonist who is committing crimes in the vast crowd of Tokyo?"

"Even if we are lucky enough to catch him and discover the truth, we have already wasted the prime time of the investigation."

"By then, the real culprit will probably have cleared all traces and is waiting to pretend to be innocent with our Metropolitan Police Department."

As he talked, Takagi Sheba sighed more and more:

"This murderer is not simple."

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