" Those debt collectors' methods are actually very monotonous, that is, violent debt collection. But every time they want to 'clean up' someone , they can't just knock people out with sticks. They should have a more civilized way, such as covering people's mouths and noses with ether-soaked handkerchiefs. So, I asked Lawyer Joe to check it out beforehand."
Max said.
"What?"
Clark immediately looked at Lawyer Joe upon hearing this.
Lawyer Joe narrowed his eyes and smiled, and joined the conversation .
"I'm sorry, after I delivered the letter to your office yesterday, I went to check those debt collectors, because the nature of their work, it's really easy to check their records. This group of people not only have a lot of ether, but also have several records of illegal reselling of analgesics and morphine. Several doctors related to them have all had their medical licenses revoked. "
"Why did you intervene in my case and didn't tell me in advance!"
Clark said angrily.
"Your case?"
Lawyer Joe seemed to be taken aback.
"I'm sorry, but you have already proposed to close the case a few months ago, so this is no longer your case. And I'm just doing some post-case investigations , I don't need to report to you."
"Huff huff ....."
Clark exhaled heavily, but finally didn't say anything, he could only clench his teeth and twitched his cheeks slightly.
Max didn't care about Clark's angry state, and continued.
"So, there is a great possibility that I just fell asleep on my front feet, and , and was drugged by the fake Drake with ether on my back feet. A small bottle of ether and a handkerchief, it's really easy to kick these things in your pocket."
Lisa frowned slightly, she wasn't on Clark's side, but she wouldn't take sides with Max either. Just thinking about the incident itself. It has to be said that Max's inference is very likely. If it is true, then the conclusion of [the warehouse is a secret room] will be overturned directly.
However, at this moment Clark countered his words.
"Well, even if what you say is possible, so what? There is no evidence at all, and all the words are speculations and assumptions. I can make up a bunch of stories like this . Also, you said that the deceased Drake died at the very beginning, so why didn't we find it out during the autopsy?
Besides, if it's as you think, the corpse is in fact someone else. Then who stunned you. And the real Drake's corpse was brought in later , what about the next day? Where is the person who was pretending to be Drake ? There is no room for hiding people in this warehouse! Did he just go out? If he went out directly, who locked the lock on the inside of the door? What's more, who killed Drake ? It couldn't be the debtors. They were just loan sharks, not killers. Why did they kill him ?
Finally. Even if they want to kill people, why stab people to death with iron sticks in the warehouse, use knives, strangle them to death, anyway, there are many ways to kill someone than using that thing.
Oh, by the way, that iron chisel happened to be in the warehouse! It also happens to have your fingerprints on it!
Compared with your fabricated stories, these evidences are obviously more convincing! "
Clark is a detective after all. Just when everyone felt that Max's deduction was reasonable, he pulled everyone back to their thinking with just a few simple words. Yes, all of Max's assumptions after all were without any evidence. It can only be a hypothesis. If there is no evidence, the most he can do is to postpone his sentence.
Then, in the constant appeals and punishments, he is tossed between the cell and the court year after year, and he may finally maintain this situation. It is not uncommon .
But Max didn't seem to be in a panic.
" Don't worry, there is still more than half an hour before I will be escorted back. Since you have so many questions, let's pick the important ones first. First of all, the first question: who killed the person?"
The answer is that he was killed by debt collectors.
As for the reason, it's actually very simple—an accident! "
"Accident? "
"That's right, it was an accident! "
Max raised the case file in his hand:
"It is very clear that Drake is a person who is addicted to stock trading and spends time in the stock exchange every day, but on the night of the incident, the stock exchange closed at 6 o'clock.
While I came out of the bar after 10 o'clock in the evening and was knocked out.
During this period of four hours, in fact, Drake was already arrested by the group of debt collectors.
Moreover, under the threat for such a long time, those debt collectors unfortunately killed Drake by mistake! "
At this moment, the words in the entire warehouse continued in silence:
"Of course this is not my imagination, because I found out from the case file that the target of those debt collectors that night should be only one person, Drake.
As for me, it was entirely because of an unexpected situation that I was dragged over as a scapegoat. "
Max pointed to a line of confession on the case file and continued.
"I felt something was wrong at first. I only borrowed 10,000 dollar , but Drake borrowed a full 300,000 dollar . With such a huge difference, those debt collectors actually treated me the same as this kind of person. There is a sap, a threat, and there are illegal detentions. Is it logical ? "
"Hehehe! You really have two strokes ah. "
Clark laughed suddenly:
"But unfortunately, no matter how fancy your words are, it is still useless. Because there is a loophole in your words! That's the time!
The forensic doctor has already said that the death of the deceased was between 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. that day? If it was Drake who died before you were arrested, then the time of death would be more than two hours behind. Are you calling the forensic doctor a fool ? "
"No, no, no~"
Max shook his head immediately:
"Forensic doctors are definitely not fools. On the contrary, they have seen too many corpses, so there is an error in the time of death? In other words, the real murderer used their knowledge of the corpse to change the time of death! "
Silently, Max's words still surprised everyone. As for the other people present, they didn't even raise any doubts. They were just thinking quietly and waiting for Max's answer at the same time. .
Max used his previous life memories as a doctor and continued:
"The forensic doctor estimates the time of death of the corpse based on the blood, because after a person dies, the blood will gradually coagulate, resulting in plaques, muscle stiffness, etc. Even elementary school students know these things."
Max turned the case file to the page of Drake's corpse:
"So when the forensic doctor sees the corpse, he will of course judge the time of the deceased's death based on the hemorrhage from the corpse. But they didn't expect that the death was not caused by hemorrhage at all.
"Nonsense! Then what do you think the deceased died of?"
Clark said suddenly.
"I don't know!"
"Ah?"
At this moment, the others finally expressed their doubts , what Max said before this week was very convincing, why didn't he know it all of a sudden?
But Max immediately said:
"Don't worry, I said I don't know, there is a reason. And this reason just explains why the deceased died of [a heavy object piercing the heart]!"
"Could it be...!"
Lisa suddenly asked startled, obviously she thought of something.
"That's right!"
Max didn't finish listening to Lisa's words, so he took over:
"The reason why the deceased died so badly is because the murderer wanted to cover up the real cause of death!"
"Beep beep, beep beep."
And at this moment Lawyer Joe's cell phone rang suddenly.
Lawyer Joe picked up the phone, answered a few words briefly, and then hung up the phone.
"It's from the hospital."
He smiled, looked at Max and said smiling.
"Sure enough, it's exactly what you thought