Chapter 314: SOS
Toru Amuro felt that judging from the condition of the body, Shibata Shiro seemed to have grasped something very tightly before his death, and this did not match the creases in the photo.
At this time, Jiang Xia, who had been watching him take the photo, suddenly came over and whispered, "Mr. Shibata seems to have some strange bloodstains on his palm."
Amuro Toru pondered for a moment, and once again took advantage of the police officer's inattention to pry open the corpse's hands.
This time, instead of looking at the photo, he looked at the palm of the corpse with a clear purpose.
There was nothing in his hand except the photo, but there was a blurry circular bloodstain on the palm, as if he had once held something bloody, and then the thing was taken away, leaving the mark.
This size and shape is very similar to a wedding ring.
When the keyword "wedding ring" was mentioned, Toru Amuro immediately thought of Hattori Shizuka's ring finger with a Band-Aid wrapped around it. His expression changed slightly, and countless speculations about emotional disputes flashed through his mind.
Then, he discovered that the corpse's hand also had traces of a wedding ring worn all year round. But now, the corpse's ring finger was also empty, and the ring was missing.
Toru Amuro stared at the finger and fell into deep thought.
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Just as Toru Amuro was thinking that Shizuka Hattori's reputation was plummeting, Shizuka Hattori was actually secretly thinking about something in her heart.
She did not go into the study, the first crime scene, but stood obediently in the corridor, only occasionally looking inside the door.
As I looked at it, I sighed.
Why do detectives love to destroy crime scenes?
Well, this "they" may not include Jiang Xia for the time being. In comparison, although Jiang Xia also entered the scene, he did not move anything the whole time and just watched from the side.
It seems that what my husband said is not wrong. There are indeed some things worth learning from Jiang Xia... I have to remind my son when I get home not to always cause trouble for the police like other detectives.
Hattori Shizuka's leisurely comments didn't last long.
As the police began to investigate carefully, she soon discovered that her suspicion was rising sharply.
Needless to say, there was the photo held in the deceased's hand. In addition, neighbor Takezo Yoshikawa also remembered another suspicious thing.
——Not long ago, the deceased Shibata Shiro received a phone call. While answering the phone, Shibata took out a photo from a book and said to the person on the other end of the phone, "I found it." Considering what happened today, the person he was talking to was Shizuka Hattori, who had "lost contact with Shibata Shiro for nearly 30 years."
The level of suspicion was so high that after Inspector Megure asked the other two people about the situation, he felt that it was time to ask "Ms. Ikenami" to return to the police station for a talk.
However, when he turned his head and met the calm eyes of Hattori Shizuka, he suddenly felt weak for some reason, as if he was being stared at by a superior.
Inspector Megure hesitated for a moment, walked past Hattori Shizuka as if nothing had happened, and stopped next to Jiang Xia.
He cleared his throat and whispered, "What do you think?"
Jiang Xia thought about it for a while and whispered, "I think it would be better to arrest Mrs. Shibata."
Toru Amuro couldn't help but glance over here. Although he knew that Jiang Xia must have said this after reasoning, listening to the conversation between the two people always gave him a feeling like picking vegetables in the market.
"Mrs. Shibata?" Inspector Megure, who had copied the answer, was stunned by the answer. Among the three suspects, only Mrs. Shibata had a clear alibi. He subconsciously asked, "Why?"
Because there is a ghost on her leg...
Jiang Xia paused for a moment, then said seriously, "Her alibi may be problematic."
Originally, according to Jiang Xia's current strategy of keeping a low profile, reducing his visibility, and preventing some timid criminals from coming to him for commissions, he originally wanted to leave the reasoning to Toru Amuro.
However, when Jiang Xia glanced at Hattori Shizuka next to him, he changed his mind.
He could almost guess the purpose of Hattori Shizuka coming to him anonymously for the commission.
If this is an inspection, then he'd better show the positive image he should have. Start by reducing the surrounding forces, and further reduce Hattori Heiji's ability to avoid him. Although this Osaka detective has a bit of a bad temper, he can indeed attract a lot of serial murders...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia organized his words: "I think Mrs. Shibata is trying to confuse the time of Mr. Shibata's death in some way..."
Mrs. Shibata made an appointment with a friend to go shopping in the afternoon. Then she brought her husband a meal before the agreed time. For a man who often gambles all night, meal time is very erratic and can be moved forward or backward at will.
When Shibata Shiro was halfway through her meal, Mrs. Shibata killed the man and quickly went to meet a friend. After returning from the meeting, she would take the evening paper that was usually delivered at 5 pm into the house and put it on the dining table, pretending that it was brought in by Shibata himself. Based on the meal time, she could move the time of Shibata Shiro's murder to the time when she was shopping with her friends, and give herself an alibi.
Originally, Mrs. Shibata's plan did not include Shizuka Hattori.
But in practice, the predetermined plan went wrong - after she returned home, she found that her husband was not lying in the place where she had attacked him before, but had stubbornly crawled into the study and then died completely. During this process, Shibata Shiro took off his wedding ring and held it in his hand, thinking that it would be a death message.
Mrs. Shibata discovered this and hastily replaced the ring on Shibata Shiro's palm with a photo.
At that time, her neighbor, Takezo Yoshikawa, called and left a message saying that he would come to see Shibata Shiro soon. Mrs. Shibata decided to leave secretly and wait for Takezo Yoshikawa to come back, so that Takezo Yoshikawa would be the first to discover the matter, thereby further alleviating her suspicion.
But she didn't expect that it was not only Yoshikawa Takezo who came here, but also a few strangers who came to her door.
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Hattori Shizuka listened quietly, occasionally nodding her head to show her agreement. The newspaper reports about Jiang Xia's speed in solving the case were not exaggerated...
Just as I was thinking about it, a crisp ding sound suddenly came from the side.
Hattori Shizuka was startled, and when she looked over, she saw Mrs. Shibata sneer, raise her hand and throw out a bloodstained wedding ring. It was the relic that Shibata Shiro had just held in his hand and then replaced with a photo.
Jiang Xia looked down at the bright color bouncing on the floor and finally hitting his shoes. For no reason, he felt as if the boss had thrown the reward at his feet after he had passed the level.
He stepped back a little and watched the forensic police officer pick up the ring. He decided to go to the game hall he hadn't visited for a long time in a few days to discuss with his younger brothers who had recently become addicted to picking up cats about the new way of playing that they had come up with out of boredom during this period.
(End of this chapter)
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