Chapter 37 Lots of doubts
Yamada then raised a question – if we believe Ms. Hayashida… why didn’t she go through the alley behind when she returned to the scene for the first time?
Mu Gao suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and quickly looked at the notes he had just taken, and then continued, “Oh! By the way, the time Tsubokura left just now was 14:05, which was fifteen minutes after Ms. Hayashida paid the bill and left. Could it be that she was in the alley and saw Tsubokura leaving, so she went back to the main entrance?”

“From a timing perspective, this is possible, but… the premise is that Tsubokura is really the murderer and he is not an accomplice of Hayashida,” Akasaka emphasized.

“And if that’s true, the woman stayed at the crime scene for too long… She saw Tsubokura downstairs at 14:05, avoided him and returned to the crime scene through the front door, and then left at 14:43, which means she stayed at the crime scene for at least half an hour!” Fuji questioned her behavior.

Half an hour, this is definitely not what she said, after seeing the body, she left because of “fear”…

Afraid? Afraid that you’ll stay for another half an hour?
Yamada speculated, “Could it be that… it wasn’t Tsubokura who killed the victim, but Hayashida who came later…”

“Impossible. Although Ms. Hayashida’s actions were a bit strange, it is obvious that she did not prepare for this case in advance… The car was just parked in an inconspicuous place, but if she really planned to kill someone, she should not drive such a conspicuous red car, not to mention that she was repeatedly photographed by her own car and left the scene to go to the supermarket.” Aoki directly denied Yamada’s guess.

“Then… is it still Tsubokura?” Yamada changed the topic again.

Everyone was silent – who knows? We have to interrogate!

The problem is that Tsubokura is in the detention center. In theory, the Beika Police Department has no way of applying to question him again, unless the Prosecutor’s Office is willing to cooperate – the prosecutor can question him at this time.

“Bring Ms. Hayashida back for interrogation first.” Shiraishi said directly.

Shiraishi did not mention the “arrest warrant”. The court will be held again on Friday and we need to see the result within 48 hours!
The previous “search warrant” was used for the reason of supplementary investigation. At this time, applying for the arrest of “another suspect” in the case under trial may also cause doubts on the part of the court.

“Director, it’s already past eight o’clock.” Yuan reminded.

According to regulations, interrogations cannot be conducted after 10 p.m. to prevent “hawk-starving” style torture.

“Let’s go now… and torture her for a night first!” If Shiraishi’s [gentleness] were quantified, it would probably be only forty or fifty.

There is definitely something wrong with this person. Even if she did not kill the victim, she has definitely committed illegal acts in the case and directly interfered with the investigation. In this case, Shiraishi tends to give her a higher level of punishment, which is not against the rules.

The director has already made the decision himself, so certainly no one else will object.

That night, Ms. Hayashida was detained for one night – it can now be basically confirmed that she was at least “obstructing public service”, so a tough stance could be taken.

The next morning, Akasaka went to interrogate the case himself…

Compared to the gentle Gen, Akasaka, who wears a crew cut every day and has a bad face, has an interrogation style that is very consistent with his appearance, and you can completely judge a person by his appearance!
Although he didn’t hit the suspect, he slammed the table and yelled at her for two hours…

Because the vehicle’s parking surveillance was repaired and a lot of evidence against her was found, Ms. Hayashida was in a rather embarrassing situation this time and could no longer remain as calm as last time.

When Akasaka got tired of yelling, Yuan, who had arrived a long time ago, pretended to have just arrived, “cajoled” Akasaka out, and then interrogated him…

Under this “whip + sugar” tactic, when Shiraishi came to check the situation, he saw Hayashida in the interrogation room, crying loudly to Yuan.

…”How’s the explanation going?” Shiraishi asked Akasaka beside him.

“She said that she saw someone coming out of the alley, so she entered the apartment through the front door. After confirming the victim’s death, she took away the video that the victim used to threaten her and erased all traces of her presence, so it took some time. The so-called video has been picked up by Makio and Suzuki from her home, and it will be confirmed by Makio later.” Akasaka touched his hair at this time, and he obviously had a headache.

Lin Tian’s words were consistent with the police’s previous “presumption of innocence”, but…

It just makes sense. There is no evidence to prove that she didn’t kill the person. On the contrary, there is a lot of unfavorable evidence.

Normally speaking, if you investigate to this point, you are only one step away from the “truth”.

All they have to do is try Tsubokura and Hayashida separately – with so much evidence, Tsubokura can only tell the truth about what he did at the crime scene. Even if neither of them admits to murder, but… with mutual evidence, the truth cannot be false, and sooner or later one of them will be found to be lying.

However, the biggest obstacle now is that Tsubokura is already in the detention center as the defendant. There is no room for them to intervene there, so they can only interrogate Ms. Hayashida alone!

Her words just made sense, but they might not be true, and they might not be hiding anything…

Shirai, who had already had little presence in the case, was also present at this time. Not only did he feel guilty, but he could also feel that his colleagues were secretly complaining – if he had not arbitrarily “intensified the intensity of the interrogation” and impatiently pushed forward the inspection process, there would not have been the current predicament.

“Have you asked about the kitchen knife?” Bai Shi asked.

“Yes, she also used a kitchen knife, but it was another one in the kitchen knife set. In order to avoid suspicion, she even wiped off her fingerprints… and she said that she cleaned the entire set of knives before using them, and took away all the half-finished ingredients when she left.” Akasaka replied.

This can indeed explain why only the murder knife had Tsuruga’s fingerprints on it!

only……

“At the moment, both Tsubokura and Hayashida have motives to kill, and even have the opportunity to kill… If we look at it purely logically, Tsubokura is the more likely suspect, because he was obviously well prepared and even forged an alibi. It is basically certain that he came to see the victim with the intention of killing, and Ms. Hayashida’s behavior at the time of the incident seemed to be hasty…” Aoki said, propping up his glasses.

“But… there are some doubts. If it was really Tsubokura who killed the man, then he was wearing gloves and even wrapped his hair with a hat, but he still left fingerprints on the handle of the most important murder weapon. This is very strange.” Akasaka said with a headache.

Bai Shi suddenly noticed something and immediately confirmed, “Wait, she said she cleaned all the kitchen knives, and she used another one, but she also wiped off the fingerprints?”

“That’s right…” Akasaka nodded quickly.

“But there are fingerprints of both the victim and Tsubokura on the murder weapon, the kitchen knife, right?” Shiraishi recalled the previous evidence records.

Akasaka, Aoki… and Shirai were also stunned at this time – indeed, if that was the case, why were there fingerprints of the victim?

“Damn it! If only we could interrogate Tsubokura…” Akasaka said impatiently, but he reacted immediately and said quickly: “Ah! Chief Shirai, I’m talking about those guys in the Prosecutor’s Office…”

(End of this chapter)