The new horrible crime that happened in a while grabbed people’s attention drastically. Alvin John’s name came up again, but the police denied by saying the way of this criminal’s killing and torturing method is different. Mrs. Zejens wasn’t that friendly with the neighbors. She only interact with them occasionally, and the neighbors avoided her because of her cranky personality. She is the type who would smack kids’ head once if their ball gets on her lawn. It is the fact that she was not welcomed.
“-We are still investigating by questioning. You can’t go back to your house for a while.”
Tim carefully explained to this one pale man. The man willingly accepted the interrogation when he came to the station, but because of the big shock he got, he was little in panic. He was stuttering and crying but strongly defended that his mother didn’t have that good personality, but she wasn’t the type who deserves this kind of treatment. Tim was little perplexed trying to soothe him and went to Jude who was leaning on the wall with a sleepy face in the side of the station.
“What do you think?”
“-Huuh? What?”
“Jude, wake up. I mean the case, this case.”
“Ah, yeah, the case. It looks like this person really hated this lady.”
“That’s obvious. How can a person do this if he or she didn’t have this kind of feeling towards her?”
“That person probably argued with the lady and got verbally abused a lot. Not only with few mean glare. We can focus on that and find who she had a bad relationship with anyone. Then something will come out.”
“Argued? Why?”
“The hand in her mouth.”
He frowned his eye brows little bit like saying “what?” And Jude closed his eyes shook his head few times like he’s trying wake up, and he pointed at the pictures that they took in the scene on the desk.
“The hand from the corpse’s body was shoved inside the head’s mouth on the table. And they knew it later, but they found food waste poured on the cut throat of the body.”
“So?”
“It’s saying shut up.”
He’s tone was like he already knew it. He looked at Tim like- why are you asking so obvious? Tim just nodded his head doubtfully. It was easy to figure out, but he couldn’t get used to this horrible situation. Just because he wanted to shut her mouth, he did that? With an uncomfortable feeling, Tim asked Jude who was looking through his pockets saying, “Ah- I want to eat mint candy, mint candy.”
“In the future…. Will the killing happen again?”
“Huh? Who knows. If he is the type who hid his violent nature, this can be his trigger and kill people from now on. If he just hated that lady, this can be the last one. But looking at how he did cruel things in his first crime, it’s highly likely that he’ll do it again. Haaa (yawning sound), we can just investigate and catch him fast.”
“……That’s true.”
Am I being sensitive? Tim looked at Jude peeling off the mint candy wrapper and asked himself. He was usually indifferent about everything, but during these kind of horrible homicide, Tim thought it was amazing that he is able to keep his pace all the time.
“Let’s rest little bit and start the questioning again.”
“Okay. It’s not like we’re the only people working…. I’m gonna sleep little bit. It’s killing me.”
“Okay. I’ll wake you up after three hours.”