Chapter 424

Veronica Quinn's law firm is located on the 45th floor of a 60 story office building in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out from the glass windows of the whole wall of her office, the modern bustling scene of New York City is quite spectacular. The three people who arrived at Quinn's office didn't want to enjoy the rare spectacle from the high-rise building. They immediately sat down on the reception sofa in the office, laid out all kinds of files and looked at them in detail.

After entering the office, Veronica Quinn closes the door, and Tim haggis, who is responsible for protecting Xiao Yao, doesn't have to guard the door like a door god, but sits on the sofa with them. He was an FBI agent and a professional police officer, so Veronica Quinn invited him to participate in the analysis and discussion of the case.

Tim haggis is a rookie agent who has just been transferred from a commando. His current strengths are skill and physical fitness. He is still weak in case analysis, logical reasoning and other aspects that purely need to use his brain. This is also a rare opportunity for him to learn and exercise and increase experience, so he gladly agreed to join in.

"Let me start with the evidence that the police have." Veronica Quinn spread out all kinds of files, picked out a picture from it and showed it to them. "This is the murder weapon found by the police. It's a kitchen knife with the victim's blood and miss sun's fingerprints on it. The mark on the handle of the knife is the mark of Miss Sun's personal belongings."

"Yes," Xiao Yao looked at the photo and nodded. "Inside the circle at the end of the handle is the Chinese word" sun ", which is my girlfriend's surname. Her father is a very good cooking star in our Chinese entertainment circle. A few months ago, he hosted a food variety show. The kitchenware sponsor of the show specially made two sets of cooking knives for him. His surname was engraved on the handle of the knives as a mark. He gave one of them to his daughter, so this knife really belongs to my girlfriend. "

"Does she put away the gift from her father?" Veronica frowned. When she accompanied sun Tingting to record her confession, sun Tingting simply admitted that the knife was hers, and did not give a detailed introduction to the origin of the knife.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head. "We have a saying in China called" make the best use of everything. "My girlfriend's father is very good at cooking, and her own cooking is also good. She often cooks by herself, so this set of knives is placed in the kitchen. There are few people in their school. The dormitories are all apartment style apartments with one room and one living room. The open kitchen and living room are connected together. The door lock in the dormitory is not complicated, so it can't be ruled out that someone sneaked into her dormitory and stole her kitchen knife. "

Xiao Yao pointed to the photo again and said: "if I want to kill people, I will not be so stupid to use the knife with my own logo to make a murder weapon, nor will I just throw the murder weapon near the scene of the crime. Isn't that an obvious loophole? "

"Miss Sun's confession said that she went back to the bedroom to have a rest because it was late when she went back to the dormitory last night. She didn't have the habit of making breakfast by herself, so she went out directly after getting up this morning. That is to say, she hasn't been to the kitchen since she came back last night to go out this morning, and she didn't notice if she was missing a kitchen knife. Such a statement is not convincing. " Veronica said, "the police think that Miss Sun is just a student of the Conservatory of music and has no criminal record. This is the first time she has committed a crime. She has no experience. She took something with her own exclusive mark as a murder weapon and left it near the scene. This kind of omission is very normal and not questionable. "

"I'll go. It's a bad thing when there's no record." Xiao Yao murmured in Chinese.

"I have a question," said Tim haggis. "Since Miss Sun has no criminal record, there should be no fingerprint of Miss Sun in the police database for comparison. How do they determine that the fingerprint on the handle of the knife belongs to miss sun?"

"After they found the knife, they found out that the Chinese characters on the handle of the knife were Miss Sun's surname, and they knew that miss sun had motives, so they applied to the judge for a search warrant, searched Miss Sun's dormitory, and extracted finger prints from personal belongings such as toothbrush, mouthwash cup and comb to compare them with the fingerprints on the handle of the knife." Veronica explained.

"When it comes to motivation," Xiao Yao continued, "I've heard that there will be a very important violin recital in their school next month. There will be a lot of masters in the classical music circle. It's really a rare opportunity. But it's far fetched to say that she has a chance to kill people just because she competes for the performance opportunity. It's not only the victim and me who learn violin in chambers Two girlfriends, if only by this, don't other students majoring in violin also have motive to commit crimes? "

"But they're the best violinists and the two most promising performers," Veronica said. "And apart from the competition for performance opportunities, have they had conflicts in other areas?"

"Other aspects? What do you mean Xiao Yao is curious.

"Emotionally." Veronica said, "the victim, Laura sheem, had a former boyfriend who was a student of chambers Conservatory of music and a piano student named Wyatt Wayne. It is said that Wyatt fell in love with Miss Sun and left Laura to chase her. Laura is very dissatisfied with this. She has quarreled with Miss Sun several times, and many students in the school have seen it. ""The victim's boyfriend dumped the victim to pursue my girlfriend. It should be that the victim has a motive to kill my girlfriend. My girlfriend has no reason to kill the victim because of this." Xiao Yao said strangely.

"You're really focused," said Tim haggis, looking at Xiao Yao. "You don't look worried about someone chasing your girlfriend."

"My girlfriend is very good. It's normal to be chased." Xiao Yao touched the pendant on his neck and said, "but I'm sure that guy didn't catch up."

"You're so confident?" Tim haggis said with a smile, "didn't you just arrive in America yesterday?"

"Because I saw her with the present I gave her around her neck." When Xiao Yao saw sun Tingting, he saw that the necklace he sent was still well worn on Sun Tingting's neck, so he was very confident about it.

"Miss Sun is not with Wyatt," Veronica said. "But according to other people's Confessions, miss sun seems to have found someone to beat Wyatt. The victim is very angry about this, so she had a physical conflict with Miss Sun. This is one of the main reasons why the police judge that Miss Sun has a motive to kill. But Miss Sun didn't admit it. She said that her friend didn't like Wyatt's entanglement with her, so she taught him a lesson. It wasn't that she wanted someone to beat Wyatt on purpose. "

"Wait, I'll make a call." Xiao Yao took out the phone, dialed a number, pressed the hands-free button and put it on the coffee table in front of the three people. "I think I know who called Wyatt."

"Yang, how is Tyana?" When the phone got through, Paul's voice came out.

"Protective imprisonment, temporary loss of freedom." Xiao Yao gave a simple explanation, and then said, "I want to ask you, have you ever helped Tiana beat a boy named Wyatt?"

"Wyatt? I have no impression, I don't know. " TJ's voice came in. It's obvious that there's hands-free.

"Wait a minute. Was it the boy who came to the dance room with Tiana last time and kept pestering her?" Zhou Jingyi's voice came out.

"Well, that's what happened," Paul said. "I remember a white boy who came to the dance studio with Tiana. We see that Tiana doesn't want to pay attention to him at all, but he always stays by Tiana's side, so he drives him away. He refused to leave and gave me a push, so we beat him up and threw him out. Later, we were afraid that the boy would continue to pester Tiana, and we drove Tiana back to school that day. Later, when we came back, we saw the guy again and stopped to warn him to stay away from Tiana. It seemed that some passing students had seen him at that time. We don't know the guy's name, but we beat Tyana for once. It should be him. He's about five feet ten inches tall, with long black hair, split ends, and a thin body

"It should be him." Xiao Yao saw Veronica find out Wyatt's photos and information, nodded and put them in the middle, then said to the phone, "thank you. I'll hang up. I'll get back to you when I have something else to do

"I've been beaten by my friend and warned by him. Love begets hate. He has a reason to frame my girlfriend." Xiao Yao hung up the phone and pointed to Wyatt's photo.

"But he had no reason to kill the victim." Veronica said, "he dumped Laura, and Laura went to miss sun for trouble because he was beaten. If you were Wyatt, would you kill Laura? "

"And he has an alibi." Tim looked at the information on the coffee table and said, "the forensic judge decided that the time of death of the victim was from 9:00 to 11:00 last night. Wyatt works as a part-time pianist at the Linton restaurant in roselde, northwest. Last night was his show time, from eight to ten in the evening. Some roads in New York City were blocked last night because of the pursuit of fugitives from the plane robbery. Wyatt can't go back to school from Russell in an hour

"Miss Sun's testimony is that she was practicing in chambers' Concert Hall last night, from eight to nine in the evening. At nine o'clock, the victim Laura went to the concert hall to practice. In order to avoid conflict, Miss Sun left the concert hall. " Veronica then said, "after leaving, miss sun went to a quiet room and continued to practice. She didn't go back to her dorm until about 11 pm. When she left the concert hall, she was seen, but witnesses could not tell whether she left or went to the concert hall. While practicing in the piano room, miss sun was alone all the time, and she didn't find anyone passing by, so she didn't have a strong alibi. "

"From nine to eleven last night!" Xiao Yao patted his head and said regretfully, "I shouldn't have come to the United States secretly without telling her. If she knew I was in New York last night, she would definitely pick me up at the airport. My flight is expected to arrive at 9:30 p.m. and she will leave school before 9:00 p.m. After that, she will accompany me to the FBI to take notes. It's almost 12 o'clock. In that case, there will be an airport person and an FBI agent from a Branch Bureau who can give her an alibi. "

"Hey, young, don't blame yourself. You didn't know that would happen." Tim haggis comforted Xiao Yao and said, "now that things have happened, we have to focus on how to solve them next.""Yes, what shall we do next?" Xiao Yao looks at the woman lawyer next to her, Veronica Quinn.

"In fact, from the evidence, no one has seen Miss Sun's murder, so it is not conclusive evidence." Veronica said, "one of our most effective defense strategies is to tell the police that someone else did it. Miss sun's situation applies to this strategy. But the problem is that the police have no other suspects except miss sun. "

"I'm sure my girlfriend didn't kill anyone." Xiao Yao said, "it must have been done by someone else. The police have no other suspects. It's just that they haven't found anyone else's suspicion."

"Well, I think so, too." Veronica nodded, pointed to the information on the coffee table and said, "just because they didn't find it doesn't mean we won't either. So our next step is to find other suspects in this case and ask the police to restart the investigation. "

"I see." Xiao Yao nodded, picked up the information on the tea table and looked at it carefully.