At 5:33 in the morning on October 19, Baron Chris Hoffman was found tragically dead on the steps of an abandoned train station in Tanyi City.
At first, people only found a naked corpse. The head of the corpse was missing, and its hands and feet were chopped off and placed neatly next to the torso.
Judging from the injuries on the body, Hoffman suffered unimaginable cruelty before his death. The murderer cut off Baron Hoffmann's genitals, smashed his teeth, and almost beat him into a pile of broken bones covered in flesh and blood, before finally cutting off his head.
A white flower soaked in blood was inserted into the victim's broken spine. It was very small, with a stem as long as a thumb. Throughout the morning, its fingernail-sized flower trembled in the cold wind, and the dried blood almost covered the victim's body. The petals are dyed deep black.
This was just a roadside wildflower, not a precious variety. The police quickly found a bloody broken stem among the wildflowers next to the abandoned station. The murderer casually picked the nearby flowers and placed them on the ground. Got here.
The police officers used tweezers to carefully remove it from the body and kept it as an important evidence.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the Baron's wife recognized that this was Baron Chris Hoffman through the body's size and birthmark. After the identification, she fled from the morgue in disgust and ordered her servants to take care of the Baron's funeral. Don't let her "look at this disgusting thing again."
By talking to the Baroness, the police officers got a very important clue: starting from the 7th of this month, unknown letters continued to be sent to their home.
It appeared in their mailbox one letter a day for twelve consecutive days.
The letters appeared early and late, with no fixed pattern. There was no sender on the envelope, only Chris Hoffman's name written on it.
The police followed the baroness to her home, and the baroness took out these strange letters—twelve letters contained twelve photos, all of which were portraits taken by Hoffman the day before receiving the letters.
On the screen, Hoffman is in the church, Hoffman is in the restaurant, Hoffman is in front of the steps of the theater, and Hoffman is in the back seat of the car...
The shooting distance is far or near, some are blurry and some are clear, and some shooting times are in the morning and some in the evening. There is no regularity at all.
"What was his reaction when he saw these photos?" the police officer asked.
"It felt a little strange at first," said the Baroness, holding a slender pipe in her hand with a cold expression, "but he was quite happy afterwards and said that it must have been a woman who was fascinated by him who secretly followed him and took the photo. ——Men like him have always been very popular among women."
"Did he have a more specific guess at the time?"
"How could he tell me this?" The Baroness changed her posture and exhaled a puff of white smoke. "I just chopped up his thing. I guess which little lover did it? You guys follow his lead. Just check the address book, don’t ask me.”
"Has the Baron had any grudges with anyone in recent years?"
"I don't know." The Baroness smiled, "I never care about his life or business matters."
"..." The police officer glanced at the Baroness and then lowered his head, "What were you doing between two o'clock and five o'clock in the morning last night?"
…
Since the police have implemented a news blockade to a certain extent, the news related to this bizarre murder case has not caused much turmoil in the city for the time being.
However, the policemen in Tanyi City are obviously not very happy - they were still discussing the Fernand case in Bruno City with enthusiasm last month, laughing at their incompetent colleagues who were all exhausted but found nothing, and in the end they had to rely on Leave the blame to chelation to save your respect.
Now, Hoffman's body was even more tragic than Fernand's, and since there were no obvious traces of chelates or mercury needles, they couldn't shirk the blame even if they wanted to.
However, since this case is not far from the Fernand case, and the two have known each other for more than ten years, ahgas still noticed that even though Fernand and Hoffman had little contact over the years. The situation here.
Hoffman himself is a middle-aged man with a fitness habit. Although he is forty-four this year, he does not look much different from a young man in his twenties or seventies. Moreover, due to his brief experience in joining the army in his early years, he has some fighting skills.
So while it's possible that this man's tumultuous relationship history may have posed some danger to him, it's hard to imagine such a strong man being let down by a love-struck woman.
And more importantly, there was no drug left in Hoffman's body. The murderer obviously didn't knock him down with drugs first and then kill him.
The police quickly focused their investigation on tall, muscular men.
In just a few days, the police visited no less than 400 people in total, including Hoffman's lovers, friends, business partners, his creditors, people who owed him money, and clerks he had hired... However, there are very few people here who can satisfy both the motive and the conditions for committing a crime.
New clues kept appearing and being eliminated, and everything began to become confusing.
At the same time, details related to the case spread like wildfire in Tanyi City. Soon, something worse happened——
On October 22, Viscount Frollo Fischer Rich received a portrait in a ubiquitous ordinary envelope with the Viscount's name written on it.
Likewise, there is no signature on the envelope.
The police in Tanyi City finally realized that this might be a premonition of serial killings - after Baron Hoffman was killed, the next victim was Viscount Rich.
Sure enough, on October 23, Viscount Rich received the second photo.
As the police closely monitored the Viscount's residence, this photo appeared at the front desk of a pub that the Viscount frequented and was handed over to the Viscount through the pub owner.
After learning the specific circumstances of Hoffmann's death, Viscount Richie became incontinent and fainted on the spot. The police realized that he might know something and waited patiently for him to wake up. However, when he woke up, the Viscount just cried and shouted. , a ghost came back, and a ghost wanted to harm him.
No matter how the police asked him, he never gave any valid information, so the police had to give up and pretend to leave.
After the police left, Viscount Rich immediately drove to Duke Villefort's residence. At the same time, his servants also set out with him to invite Viscount Claude Tanglar and Count Kim Schmidt respectively. .
The police officers squatting outside followed closely, and each followed.
Everyone was tense.
No matter who is the murderer behind this case, it will definitely be a shocking case.
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