Chapter 3228 3240 [Flaw]
Jiang Xia looked at this very self-conscious police officer, admired the large ball of aloe vera-flavored murderous aura in his tattoo space, stood up from the back of his chair, and said with satisfaction: "Kumada Tatsuya was indeed not a simple suicide. He and Lawyer Tachibana were killed by the same person."
"That clever and brave prisoner...is now among us."
The police was shocked: "Who is it?!"
Curacao: “…” Shouldn’t you question the detective’s wording—he actually used the words smart and brave to describe the criminal. How can he be a serious detective?
Conan did catch the two words, but he just sighed and expressed the same feeling.
Jiang Xia continued, "The same sleeping pills were detected in Lawyer Tachibana and Tatsuya Kumada's bodies because the murderer first used drugs to make Lawyer Tachibana fall asleep and then drowned him. He then put the same sleeping pills in bourbon whiskey and used it to knock Tatsuya Kumada unconscious. He then disguised the second victim as a suicide by hanging."
As he said this, he looked at the two policemen and asked, "Where exactly were the sleeping pills that Lawyer Ju took placed? Have you found out?"
Officer Inoki suddenly felt like he was being checked by his superior, and he quickly said, "When we salvaged the body before, all the small items he carried with him were washed away by the water, so we could only infer the situation from the stomach contents. However, after the recent salvage, we successfully recovered the thermos cup containing coffee. The sleeping pills he drank were put in the coffee."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Lawyer Ju is very particular about the quality of life and usually only drinks freshly ground coffee. In addition to him, the rest of us also drank coffee that morning, but we didn't take sleeping pills."
"In other words, the only people who had the opportunity to drug Lawyer Tachibana were the maid who made the coffee, Mr. Sakuraba who helped her deliver the coffee to Lawyer Tachibana, and Lawyer Tachibana himself."
The successful old lawyer can obviously be ruled out. Mao Lilan looked at the remaining two suspects and suddenly remembered something: "When Lawyer Tachibana's boat sank, Mrs. Yaeko was right next to us, which means..."
The eyes of the group all fell on the male secretary.
"?!" Secretary Sakuraba stood up suddenly, "What do you mean? I didn't kill anyone! During the time when Lawyer Tachibana sank into the sea, I was working in the Tokyo office! - The people in the office can prove it for me!"
The lawyer with middle-parted hair nodded: "I did see Secretary Sakuraba that day."
Two policemen who were about to rush over to arrest someone: "..."
Now, all the suspects have an alibi.
The two policemen who were ready to attack but unable to do so were forced to give up and looked to Jiang Xia for help.
Jiang Xia: "It doesn't matter where you were or what you were doing when the ship sank, because the murderer cleverly created a timing device - there is no need for anyone to be on the scene, just a few hours of preparation in advance, and when the time comes, Lawyer Ju will naturally sink to his death."
The two police officers looked confused.
The high school students who were witnesses remembered. Suzuki Sonoko slammed her palm and said, "I understand! The man wearing a red hat and driving a fishing pole who passed by when we were walking the dog was the murderer! He was preparing to kill Lawyer Tachibana at that time!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "The murderer attacked Lawyer Ju two hours before the boat sank, and that day happened to be a high tide day."
"That's right." Although the horse-faced police officer didn't quite understand why Jiang Xia suddenly mentioned this, he was deeply impressed by the previous high tide - the water level rose and fell drastically, which added a lot of trouble to their salvage work.
Jiang Xia: "During the high tide, the water level changes the most between low tide and high tide, so the murderer deliberately chose this day to act."
"Yesterday when we were walking the dog, Lawyer Orange drank the coffee in the cup and soon fell asleep on the fishing boat.
"At this time, the murderer put on a red hat and drove a fishing boat to Lawyer Orange's side - but the murderer did not kill him. He just took off Lawyer Orange's life jacket and threw the anchor he stole when he stole the fishing boat into the sea."
"Unlike ordinary anchors, the other end of the anchor rope is connected to an iron hook. The murderer hung the iron hook on the side of Mr. Tachibana's boat and then sailed away."
"Then the water level slowly rose. Because the rope connected to the anchor was limited in length, the force on the hook continued to increase. Finally, as the tide rose, the fishing boat that was hooked on one side of the boat finally capsized, and Lawyer Ju fell into the water.
"The iron hook connected to the anchor also sank into the sea, and the timing device just 'disappeared' on its own."
The two police officers looked at each other, as if awakened from a dream. Officer Inoki hurriedly walked to the side and called his police subordinates: "Didn't I ask you to send more people to search the sea area where the crime occurred? - Focus on the search of the salvage site of Lawyer Tachibana! Look for anchors, ropes and other things underneath!"
The others had just come to their senses from this bold and novel method. They were shocked and said, "Who on earth did such a thing..."
As he was speaking, Officer Inoki, who was on the phone next to him, put down the phone in surprise and brought good news: "Mr. Jiang Xia, the anchor and rope you mentioned have been salvaged - in fact, they were salvaged at sunset, but my group of stupid subordinates didn't know they were so important, and only thought that they helped the old store manager find the lost things... By the way, I have confirmed with the manager of the boat rental shop, that is indeed the anchor in his shop!"
Jiang Xia nodded and continued, "After the murderer set up the trap and left the scene, he just left the stolen fishing boat on the shore.
"The red baseball cap found on the boat was actually left there intentionally by the murderer in order to confuse the police and make us think that the murderer who killed Lawyer Tachibana was Tatsuya Kumada."
Speaking of the red baseball cap, the two police officers remembered something. They looked at each other and spoke carefully: "Speaking of which, we have tested that cap before. Apart from Xiongtian's hair, there is no trace of anyone else wearing it."
Jiang Xia: "The murderer had two red baseball caps of the same style in his hand - one of which he managed to take from Kumada before he actually took action.
"The other hat was the same model that the murderer bought casually. When committing the crime, the murderer wore a new hat on his head, but the one thrown on the boat afterwards was the real hat taken from Kumada, so it only had information related to Kumada Tatsuya."
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