novelslam Chapter 74 Suicide out of fear of punishment?
Chapter 74 Suicide out of fear of punishment?
Chapter 75 Suicide out of fear of punishment?
"Marlena, what's wrong?"
"Thank you for your help today, this is a token of my gratitude."
Lee Ethan glanced at the pizza in the other person's hand, and finally accepted it politely.
"Thank you, would you like to come in and have a coffee?"
"Then I'm sorry to bother you."
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No, why did you agree? I was just being polite. After all, we're a man and a woman alone together. Aren't you afraid of being subjected to some kind of 18-related situation?
In the living room, the warmth of the heater made Malena take off her coat, revealing her voluptuous figure wrapped in a sweater underneath. Her jeans also fit her legs perfectly, and the full curves were indeed alluring.
Her long, black, wavy hair cascaded down her back, and her features exuded a mature and alluring charm.
Li Yisen handed the freshly brewed hot coffee to the other person.
"Marlena, is there something you want to say?"
"I'd like to talk to you about the Jenkins family."
"Jenkins?"
Malena nodded.
"Joseph is a regular customer at our restaurant. He was chatting about his family while we were dining there yesterday."
As expected, there was something they wanted.
Tell me about it.
"Joseph's wife, Eva, already had mental health issues. Two months after moving to Lano, their daughter, Alice, gradually started to behave like Eva, leading to suspicions of a hereditary disease. Later, many strange things happened in their family: their daughter sleepwalked, and his wife killed their dog. Today, Joseph was planning to take his daughter to the hospital, but unfortunately, this happened."
"You mean they have two mentally ill people living together in their family?"
"Um.
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Lee Ethan had no intention of continuing the conversation. He put on his coat and planned to go check on Jenkins' house, as it was indeed dangerous for two mentally ill people to be together.
"Marina, thank you for reminding me, I'll go take a look."
"I'd like to go see it too."
Li Yisen didn't refuse, since it wasn't during working hours anyway.
Edward is on duty at the police station and can call for backup at any time.
However, we should urge the higher-ups to fill the manpower gap, and even add more personnel.
The police records clearly state that 600 people require 5 police officers, but now that there are 800 people, it should require at least 6 or 7 officers. You know, the more subordinates he has, the faster he can collect rewards.
As the police car was en route to Jenkins' residence, a communication came through the police station.
"The Jenkins family, located in XXXX, called the police, claiming that their mother went berserk and killed their brother. The caller is Alice Jenkins."
Now Li Yisen drove even faster. In fact, the two were only 900 meters apart, and they arrived in less than two minutes.
Lee Ethan drew his pistol and rushed into the room, and Malena hesitated for a moment before following him.
The scene inside the room quickly made Malena cover her mouth, because there was a pool of blood and a dead body at her feet. It was a young man under 20 years old, whose chest had been pierced by a sharp weapon.
"Ethan Jenkins."
"The eldest son of the Jenkins family?"
"right."
Upon hearing this, Lee frowned and continued forward. Soon, two women appeared in the hall. Alice Jenkins, whom he had rescued during the day, was lying on the ground, barely alive, while Eva Cook, who appeared to have committed suicide, was beside her.
The woman grabbed the scissors with both hands and plunged them into her heart, which is very likely a suicide.
Li Yisen picked up the walkie-talkie.
"Dispatch center, Lano needs an ambulance. Request Lake Los Angeles Hospital to send someone."
"receive."
Lee Esen looked at Malena and gave her instructions.
"You're too late. Don't disturb the crime scene, go back first."
Malena nodded. The stench of blood in the room was unbearable for her; staying there made her feel dizzy and confused. When she turned to look at the dark basement corridor to her left, she felt even more frightened.
Police support quickly arrived and cordoned off the scene, followed by an ambulance from Lake Los Angeles taking Ellie Jenkins away.
Lee Ethan's task now is simply to wait for the arrival of Clermont's criminal investigation team; the prima facie evidence points to Eva, the mother.
The investigation team arrived that evening, led by Lee Ethan's old acquaintance, Kaia Anderson, leaving Lee Ethan completely bewildered.
What's going on? He's only been a detective for six months and he's already leading a team? You should know that only a senior Level 1 detective can do that.
"Is your father pulling strings behind the scenes again?"
When Lee Yisen questioned whether the second-generation police officer was cheating, Kaia directly pinched his waist.
"Does your stomach hurt? Let me rub it for you."
"Are you crazy, woman? Let go! Let go now, or you'll never get married!"
"Heh, no need for your concern."
Kaia suddenly spoke with a serious expression.
"You're really not afraid of death when it comes to becoming famous."
"What are you talking about?"
Kaiya took out her phone, which contained a video of Li Yisen jumping into the river to save someone. It had already received hundreds of thousands of views and tens of thousands of likes, with the vast majority of comments being positive. Clearly, someone's plan was half successful.
Lee Esen retorted.
"I genuinely wanted to save people."
"Heh, I believe you genuinely wanted to save people, but you know best whether you have other motives. Don't try to fool me."
The two locked eyes, and Li Yisen could clearly see the other's anger.
Just then, a gust of cold wind rushed into the room, and Kaiya couldn't help but touch her shoulder. The next second, Li Yisen took off his coat and put it on her shoulder.
"The desert is 8 degrees colder than the west coast; you're wearing too few clothes."
Kaiya sniffed the clothes and gave her evaluation.
"It smells a bit bad."
"If you don't want it, give it back to me."
"I don't mind."
"I mind."
The two bickered as they investigated the crime scene. Since Kaia was leading the team, she didn't mind that a mere patrol officer was involved in the murder investigation.
As dawn broke, the investigation team had been working all night, and now, with the on-site investigation and autopsy results, the case was almost closed.
"Although it was concealed, there were still many flaws. The most crucial one is that there are two muscle marks at the wound site, which means that the scissors pierced the fatal wound twice. It is difficult to detect with the naked eye and can only be detected with instruments. The first piercing was the fatal wound."
Kaia looked at Ethan Li as she spoke.
"Is it possible that Ellie Jenkins' wounds weren't fatal, yet she killed her son but spared her daughter's life?"
The people present had another idea: the murderer was Alice Jenkins, and whether it was stabbing or calling the police, it was all to frame her mother.
Kaiya tugged at the man's coat and stood up, revealing a pair of long, straight legs with no gap between them.
"Go ask the sole survivor; this case should be closed."
Just then, the phone rang. It was a colleague from the criminal investigation team who had accompanied Alice to the hospital.
"Alice Jenkins jumped off a building."
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Did he commit suicide out of fear of punishment, or what?
Hospital witnesses found in the ward's surveillance footage that Alice was looking at the camera for two hours after waking up, which was strange enough.
When it was 6 a.m. and the sky outside the window began to lighten, the girl suddenly clutched her head and kept shouting.
"I didn't kill him, it wasn't me, it was me, it turns out I was the one who killed him, ah..."
Finally, the girl opened the window and jumped out; that's how short the video was.
Based on the existing evidence, it is highly likely that Ellie Jenkins suffers from schizophrenia and has two or more personalities.
Lee Ethan had the same suspicion until he saw a diary, a diary that Malena had shown him, belonging to Alice Jenkins.
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