Chapter 129 - 129: Perfect Crime

According to the conditions you said, they soon found out the identity of the old lady. But the pottery pot is still at the police station. She has to claim the lost item herself. It's too late today. She won't be able to go until tomorrow. I just got out of her house. Things exactly are what you said. Her grandson, an eight-year-old congenital heart disease patient, has been on treatment. They spent lots of money. However, someone donated seventy thousand dollars to her a while ago, so she hasn't been selling flowers lately."

Sophia felt that the "seventy thousand dollars" sounded familiar. She thought about it and asked, "The donor... is his name, Hammer?"

Mrs. Martha was surprised. "How do you know that? Can you even reason out the name of the donor?"

"No. I happen to know this man."

"Mrs. Walker was a poor lady. Her daughter-in-law died when she gave birth. Her son, who had a congenital heart condition, had died a few years earlier. So, only she and her grandson left. If the pot is sold, it should improve her family's life," said Mrs. Martha.

Sophia was stunned, "You said… her name is Walker?"

"No…" Mrs. Martha said, "Her husband is named Walker. People here all called her Mrs. Walker. Her name's Barrett."

Sophia stood there and murmured, "Walker... congenital heart disease... forty thousand dollars..."

"Yes." Mrs. Martha nodded.

Sophia was silent for a moment and said word for word, "Her son… Did he die three years ago? He died not from a heart attack, but… murder. Her son is named Odom Walker, right?"

Mrs. Martha was startled. "What do you mean? What murder? I never heard that."

"You just return the lost property," Sophia said, "the police will not tell you that. The pottery pot… I don't think Mrs. Walker can get it back." Said Sophia.

Mrs. Martha wondered, "Why? The police said it was too late to register and not let her take it."

Sophia sighed, "It was a… booty."

Odom Walker's case was a high-profile one three years ago. The case was not serious or complicated, but the killer's ingenious modus operandi put the whole case into trouble, arousing the interest of many people to pursue the truth.

Sophia didn't pay attention to the case until one day, David Terry went to her and asked her to help analyze some strange substances found at the scene of Odom's death.

After her analysis, she proved that the substances were not directly related to the death of Odom, which got her interested in the case.

At the time, David made it clear to her that Odom must not have died of a heart attack but someone's deliberate stimulation. And he was sure that this man was Jarred Patton, chairman of the Patton Group.

But David couldn't find any evidence. He was very upset.

"Perfect crime!" David said of the case. "Even if we knew it was him, there was nothing we could do with him."

Sophia had a different opinion, "There was no perfect crime in this world. Anything you do will leave a mark. The so-called perfect crime is just perfect hiding of these marks. But these marks have not disappeared, just missing a pair of eyes looking for it."

She studied it for more than half a month, and finally found evidence and sent Jarred to prison.

Jarred confessed at the time that his motive to kill Odom was to prevent him from leaking. Odom was an employee of his rival company. He paid Odom forty thousand dollars, using him to do some illegal things to knock down the rival company.

After the event, Odom asked for more hush money. Jarred believed the man was insatiable and would never be satisfied. Knowing that Odom had a heart attack, he cleverly took advantage of this to design a game and kill Odom.

But he didn't expect that his scheme was discovered. Eventually, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for intentional homicide. He was still serving a sentence of imprisonment.

The police later went to recover the forty thousand bribes received by Odom, which was not his legal income and should be returned. They searched all his accounts and his house but never found the money.

No one would have thought that a small clay pot that Mrs. Walker had picked up to plant flowers was Odom's forty thousand dollars.

Sophia did not tell Mrs. Martha the details. She only said that there was a famous case three years ago. She had read the report before and was impressed.

Sophia didn't follow Mrs. Martha said in detail that only three years ago, there was a well-known case, and she saw the story before she had an impression.

In fact, the details of Odom's case were later leaked and were reported in many media. Sophia only helped to analyze the case, but she became a detective on the Internet, making a lot of fuss and causing her trouble.

So much so that when it came to unsolved crimes, there were a lot of people calling for detective Sophia on the Internet, and even relatives of the deceased came to her lab to beg for justice.

The next day was Monday. Once Sophia got to school, she was asked into the office by Director Bull.

"Full marks again!" Director Bull was much more emotional than Sophia. He walked back and forth in the office, rubbing his hands subconsciously, "Sophia, how did you do that?"

"It's just interesting. I like chemistry." Sophia casually said.

"Then… why don't you study science?" Asked Director Bull.

Sophia frowned slightly, "Because… I don't like physics."

If she could choose it herself, she would have chosen science. She really didn't like physics, but her grade was more than enough for the College Entrance Examination.

"Really? I thought you were going to take part in the Physics Olympiad." Director Bull was a little disappointed.

Sophia was surprised.

Why would he think like that? Why would she take part in the Physics Olympiad?

Director Bull remembered her purpose of calling Sophia and said, "Well, I want you to post a blog about your test result.