Entertaining Children

The law firm where Veronica Quinn works is located on the forty-fifth floor of a 60-story office building in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out from the glass windows on the entire wall of her office, the modern New York City with many tall buildings The bustling scene looks quite spectacular. Bayi?Chinese?Net?W?W㈧W?． (A) 8 (A) 1? Z? W (I). ?COM The three people who arrived at Quinn's office were not in the mood to appreciate the rare and spectacular scene from the tall building, and immediately sat down on the reception sofa in the office, unfolded various files and read them in detail.

After entering the office, Veronica Quinn closed the door, and Tim Haggis, who was in charge of protecting Xiao Yao, didn't have to stand by the door like a door god, but sat on the sofa with the two of them. He is an FBI agent and a professional police officer, so Veronica Quinn also invited him to participate in the analysis and discussion of the case.

Tim Haggis is a rookie detective who has just transferred from a commando. His current strengths are skill and physical fitness, but he is still weak in case analysis and logical reasoning that require pure brains. It was said to be a rare opportunity to learn, exercise and increase experience, so he readily agreed and participated together.

"Let me first talk about the evidence that the police have." Veronica Quinn spread out various files and materials, picked out a photo from it and showed them to the two, "This is the murder weapon found by the police. It is a kitchen The knife used had the victim's blood and Ms. Sun's fingerprints on it, and the mark on the handle of the knife is a sign of Ms. Sun's personal belongings."

"Yes," Xiao Yao took a look at the photo, nodded and said, "The circle at the end of the handle is the Chinese character for "Sun", which is my girlfriend's surname. Her father is from our Huaxia entertainment circle. A celebrity with good cooking skills. A few months ago, he hosted a food variety show. The kitchenware sponsor of the show specially customized two sets of cooking knives for him, with his surname engraved on the handles. As a mark, he gave one of the sets to his daughter, so the knife really belongs to my girlfriend."

"Did she put away the gift from her father?" Veronica frowned. When she accompanied Sun Tingting to make a statement, Sun Tingting simply admitted that the knife belonged to her, and did not introduce the origin of the knife in detail.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "We have a saying in Huaxia called "make the best use of everything". My girlfriend's father is a great cook, and she is also a good cook, and she often cooks by herself. So this set of knives is placed in the kitchen. There are few students in their school, and the dormitories are all apartment-style suites with one bedroom and one living room. The open kitchen and living room are connected together. The door locks in the dormitory are not complicated, so It cannot 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 someone, I won't be so stupid to use a knife with my own logo as the murder weapon, and I won't just throw the murder weapon not far from the crime scene. This is not an obvious loophole. ?"

"Ms. Sun's confession said that because it was late when she returned to the dormitory last night, she went directly to the bedroom to rest. 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, from the time she came back last night to before she went out this morning, she hadn't been to the kitchen, and she didn't notice if a kitchen knife was missing. Such a statement is not convincing. "Veronica said, "The police believe that Ms. Sun is just a student of the Conservatory of Music and has no criminal record. This is her first crime and she has no experience. She used something with her own exclusive item logo as a murder weapon and abandoned it near the scene. Such omissions are normal and not suspicious. "

"I'll go, it will become a bad thing if you don't have a criminal record." Xiao Yao muttered in Chinese speechlessly.

"I have a question," Tim Haggis said. "Since Ms. Sun has no criminal record, there should be no fingerprints of Ms. Sun in the police database for the police to compare. How did they determine that the fingerprints on the handle were Sun's fingerprints?" Miss?"

"After they found the knife, they found out that the Chinese characters on the handle were Ms. Sun's surname. In addition, they knew that Ms. Sun had a motive, so they applied for a search warrant from the judge. Fingerprints were extracted from personal items such as cups and combs, and compared with the fingerprints on the handle of the knife." Veronica explained.

"Speaking of motivation," Xiao Yao continued, "I heard that their school will have an important violin recital next month, and many masters in the classical music circle will be present. This is indeed a rare opportunity, but It would be a bit far-fetched to say that she had a motive to kill just because she competed for the opportunity to perform. The victim and my girlfriend are not the only ones learning violin in Chambers. Motivation?"

"But they are the two with the best grades in the violin major, and they are also the two most likely to get a chance to perform," Veronica said. "Besides the competition for performance opportunities, have they had conflicts in other areas?"

"Other aspects? What do you mean?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"Emotionally." Veronica said, "The victim, Laura Sim, had a boyfriend before, who was also a student of the Chambers Conservatory of Music, and his name was Wyatt Wayne, who studied piano. It is said that Wyatt She fell in love with Miss Sun very much, and dumped Laura to chase Miss Sun. Laura was very dissatisfied with this, and had quarreled with Miss Sun several times, and many students in the school have seen it."

"The victim's boyfriend dumped the victim and went after my girlfriend. It should be because the victim had a motive to kill my girlfriend. My girlfriend has no reason to kill the victim because of this." Xiao Yao wondered.

"You are really focused," Tim Haggis looked at Xiao Yao and said, "You don't look worried at all when someone is chasing your girlfriend."

"My girlfriend is very good, it's normal for someone to chase her." Xiao Yao touched the pendant on his neck and said, "But I'm pretty sure that guy definitely didn't catch her."

"Are you so confident?" Tim Haggis laughed, "Didn't you just arrive in the United States yesterday?"

"Because I saw that she was still wearing the gift I gave her around her neck." When Xiao Yao saw Sun Tingting, he saw that the necklace he gave was still on Sun Tingting's neck, so he was still very confident about it. .

"Miss Sun is indeed not with Wyatt," Veronica said, "but according to other people's confessions, it seems that Miss Sun asked someone to beat Wyatt. The victim was very angry about this, so she and Sun Miss Sun had a physical conflict, which is one of the main reasons why the police judged that Miss Sun had the motive of killing. However, Miss Sun did not admit this. She said that her friend could not understand Wyatt's entanglement with her, so she acted a lesson It's not that she asked someone to beat Wyatt on purpose."

"Wait, let me make a call." Xiao Yao took out the phone and dialed a number, pressed the speakerphone and placed it on the coffee table in front of the three of them, "I think I know who called Wyatt."

"Jan, how is Tiana?" Paul's voice came out when the phone was connected.

"Protective confinement, temporary loss of freedom." Xiao Yao briefly confessed, and then continued, "I want to ask you, have you ever helped Tiana beat a kid named Wyatt?"

"Wyatt? I don't remember it, I don't know it." TJ's voice cut in, and it was obvious that the hands-free was also turned on there.

"Wait, is it the boy who followed Tiana to the dance studio last time and pestered her all the time?" Zhou Jingyi's voice came out.

"By the way, there is such a thing," Paul said, "I remember it was a white boy who followed Tiana to the dance studio. We saw that Tiana didn't want to talk to him at all, but he stayed by Tiana's side all the time. , so we came forward to drive him away. He refused to leave and even pushed me, so we beat him up and threw him out. Later, we were afraid that the boy would continue to pester Tiana, so we drove him away that day. Tiana went back to school. Later, when we came back, we saw that guy again, and we stopped and warned the kid to stay away from Tiana. It seemed that some students passing by saw it. We don’t know the name of the guy , but this is the only time we helped Tiana beat someone up, so it should be him. He is about five feet ten inches tall, black and medium-length, with a parted head, and a thin build."

"It should be him." Seeing Veronica find Wyatt's photos and information, Xiao Yao nodded and put it in the middle, then said to the phone, "Thank you. I'm going to hang up, I have other things to do See you again."

“被我朋友揍过，又受过我朋友的警告，由爱生恨，他有陷害我女朋友的理由。”肖遥挂上了电话，手指点了点怀亚特的照片道。

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

"And he also has an alibi." Tim flipped through the information on the coffee table and said, "The forensic doctor judged that the time of death of the victim was from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock last night. Dayton restaurant as a part-time pianist. Last night was his performance time, from 8:00 to 10:00 pm. Because of the pursuit of escapees from the plane robbery, part of the roads in New York City were blocked last night, and Wyatt could not be in an hour Returning to school from Roseld."

"Miss Sun's testimony is that she practiced piano in the concert hall of Chambers last night, from eight to nine o'clock in the evening. At nine o'clock, the victim Laura also went to the concert hall to practice piano. In order to avoid conflict , Ms. Sun left the concert hall." Veronica continued, "After leaving, Ms. Sun went to a quiet and deserted piano room to continue practicing the piano, and did not return to her dormitory until around eleven o'clock in the evening. When she left the concert hall, someone saw her, but the witnesses could not tell whether she was leaving the concert hall or going to the concert hall. During the time when she was practicing in the piano room, Ms. Sun was alone and did not feel anyone passing by. , so Miss Sun has no strong alibi."

"Nine to eleven last night!" Xiao Yao slapped his head resentfully, and said regretfully, "I shouldn't have secretly come to the United States without telling her. If she knew that I arrived in New York last night, she would definitely pick me up at the airport. Me. My flight is expected to arrive at 9:30 in the evening, and she will leave school before 9:00. After that incident, she will accompany me to the FBI to make a statement, and it will be almost twelve o'clock when I come out. If so, there will be someone from the airport and a branch FBI agent who can give her an alibi."

"Hey, Yang, don't blame yourself, you don't know that this kind of thing will happen." Tim Haggis comforted Xiao Yao, "Now that something has happened, we have to focus on how to solve it next."

"Yeah, what should we do next?" Xiao Yao looked at the female lawyer Veronica Quinn next to him and said.

"Actually, judging from the evidence, no one saw Ms. Sun's murder, so it's not conclusive evidence." Veronica said, "Our most effective defense strategy is to tell the police that it was done by someone else. Ms. Sun's situation is suitable for adopting this strategy. But the problem is that the police have no other suspects besides Ms. Sun."

"I believe my girlfriend definitely didn't kill someone." Xiao Yao said, "This incident must have been done by someone else. The police have no other suspects. It's just that they didn't find other people's suspicions."

"Well, I think so too." Veronica nodded, pointing to the materials on the coffee table, "They didn't find out, but it doesn't mean we won't find out either. So our next step is to find out in this case Find other suspects, so as to ask the police to reopen the investigation."

"Understood." Xiao Yao nodded, picked up the information on the coffee table and read it carefully.