The person who killed Keiko Hatoyama was an attending physician in the medical team responsible for her.
This doctor is from the United States. After hearing about Keiko Hatoyama's condition six months ago, he took the initiative to come to Japan and apply to join the medical team.
He has excellent medical skills, and although he does radical things, the other doctors who have worked with him have not found anything unusual about him, so they do not know his motive for killing Keiko Hatoyama.
On the night when Bai Heqing left, it happened to be the doctor's turn. He stayed in the hospital until the early morning in accordance with regulations that night. During this period, he even came to the ward to check on Keiko Hatoyama's condition.
This is a normal situation, but in order to avoid suspicion, the doctor who comes to check usually brings two female nurses with him.
The doctor came alone that night. The detective guarding the door of the ward wanted to stop him, but after Keiko Hatoyama in the ward spoke, he was allowed in.
According to the time of death of Keiko Hatoyama, it is speculated that he killed Keiko Hatoyama when he entered the ward under the pretext of inspection.
The method was slitting the wrists, a slow way of killing.
There is no doubt that this doctor was the only one who could do this that night.
In addition to the fact that he was the only one who went to Hatoyama Keiko's ward that night, more importantly, given Hatoyama Keiko's physical condition, she simply did not have enough strength to cut a wound that would allow her to bleed fully without solidifying in the process. .
After the doctor left, the criminal policeman at the door also took a look into the ward. According to him, he saw Keiko Hatoyama on the bed and pulled the quilt, thus confirming that there was nothing abnormal about Keiko Hatoyama, so I felt relieved.
After that, the nurse who came to check in the early morning found Keiko Hatoyama’s cold body...
As for the doctor, after he left the hospital in the early hours of the morning last night, it seemed that he did not return home, but simply disappeared.
Apparently, he escaped.
Mr. Hatoyama once again used his personal network. He contacted his old friend Stewart, the director of MI6 in London, and asked Stewart to help him investigate the doctor's information in the United States.
The results came quickly.
Not only the doctor's own biographical files, but also his family information and parents' information, Stewart got it all.
The information this person provided before was not false. He is indeed a US imperialist and has a family and children there.
Although it is still unclear why he killed Keiko Hatoyama, it is enough to be sure.
As long as his wife, children and parents are there, he will probably go back.
The police and public security were quickly mobilized and investigated all flights, passenger ships, and traffic arteries out of the city from that night to the next day at extremely fast speeds.
But no clues were found. It seems that he did not leave by these means of transportation, but chose to stay in Tokyo and continue to hide. Want to wait for the storm to calm down before leaving?
It is indeed possible.
But if this is the case, the problem will be troublesome. Tokyo is so big, and it is no longer difficult to find someone in such an unmonitored city who doesn't know whether he is still here.
What's more, this doctor seemed to have been prepared for it. Maybe he did not choose to stay in Tokyo, but had escaped in some way that night and fled Japan...
Did the murderer stay? Or escaped?
Due to an extreme lack of clues, the police investigation reached a deadlock.
Time passed by in suffocating futility. After issuing a wanted warrant and digging into the ground for two consecutive days without any clues, the police gradually fell into despair.
I'm afraid this person has really escaped...
The only method they have left now may be to ask MI6 agents to guard the doctor's wife and children in the United States, waiting for his possible return, and then capture him...
This situation reminded Bai Heqing of the time ten years ago.
In the winter of that year, his mother was also killed so suddenly, and in the end... he also failed to catch the murderer.
The past history will repeat itself again, but this time, maybe fate finally favored him. When everyone was in despair, Okino Mina, who had just shipped a batch of furniture from abroad, came to him. .
"Shirakawa, I heard that Miss Hatoyama was killed."
Putting on makeup again to disguise himself as a criminal policeman, his friend, a phantom thief he met in Europe, entered his office without anyone noticing.
"Um……"
Sitting blankly at his desk, looking at the search reports on his desk, Bai Heqing, who had tortured himself to the point of being extremely haggard in the past two days, just responded to her gently without even raising his head.
"Cheer up! Who are you showing you to be so decadent?!"
Stepping forward and grabbing him by the collar, Okino Mina said in an iron-clad tone:
"Listen! I just got all the police information! The murderer killed Miss Hatoyama in the early morning and escaped!
I'm telling you now! On the night Miss Hatoyama was murdered, I met a doctor near that hospital!
That doctor staggered around as if he had lost his soul. That's how you look now! And he looks exactly the same as the man on the wanted notice you sent out! Did you hear that? ! exactly the same! "
Hearing her words, Shirakawa Kiyo's originally silent eyes gradually lit up again. He raised his head and stared blankly at Okino Mina, who was holding his collar.
"What's more important! He asked me how to get to the East District Port that night! Did you hear me clearly?! Don't ask me why I was wandering alone on the street late at night! I can't tell you because my husband hasn't moved yet. Come here, so I can't bear the loneliness of being newlywed and I run out to drink and no one is with me, so in the end I have to go home miserably alone, right?!
alright! None of this is the point! The important thing is that he asked me for directions! You should know what this means without me telling you, right? !
Quickly clean up this mess of yours! Move it! Have your men investigate that port! Did you hear that clearly? Investigate all the records of ships that have entered and left the port in those two days!
Especially ships going abroad! Not just passenger ships! The same goes for those freighters! because……"
"Because it is very likely that the murderer will disguise himself as a stowaway and sneak onto a cargo ship bound for the United States to avoid police pursuit and return to the United States quietly."
Shirakawa Kiyo picked up Okino Mina's unfinished words, and his eyes lit up.
"Smart! As expected of you! Officer Baihe!"
Seeing that he cheered up again, Okino Mina showed a smile on her face.
She finally let go of his collar, patted his shoulder encouragingly, and said with a smile:
"Okay, then I'll leave the next thing to you. The freighter from Japan to the United States will take at least more than half a month. There is still time. Don't rush. Take your time. You can also put off thanking me later. , let’s first catch the murderer of Miss Hatoyama...
Okay, let’s not talk anymore, I just moved all my furniture here, so I’m going back first…”
Waving her hands, Okino Mina left Shirakawa Kiyo's office.
"Ah, by the way, the detective guy I disguised is fine too, don't worry."
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(End of chapter)
