The year-round sewage discharge from chemical plants not only affects the fields of nearby villages, but also affects the villagers, especially the elderly and children. They ingest toxic substances through consuming well water, crops, etc., causing a series of diseases.
There are now as many as fourteen seriously ill patients claiming that the source of their illness is related to the sewage discharged by Yongpu Chemical. In theory, dozens of relatives and friends of these fourteen people are suspected of killing the president.
"My Healing Game"
"Now we are working intensively to collect their alibi, but it will take time, and according to the villagers, two people left the village and went to the city around the time when the incident occurred."
Shiratori closed the manual and said in summary.
"All in all, we now have three suspects. Two left the neighborhood and the remaining one works here as a cleaner."
"The janitor here?"
"Yes, before the bomb exploded, the police on duty said that a cleaner entered the president's office, but after the explosion, he disappeared. Now someone has gone to look for him."
The company's cleaners are familiar with the terrain and can easily observe the movements of police officers on duty.
"Is he the most suspect among the three people?" Kudo Shinichi asked.
"Actually, no. According to people who know him, Shimoda Qiuichi, which is the suspect's name, is barely over 1.6 meters tall and has a thin body. Compared with the deceased..."
Following his words, everyone turned their attention to the corpse of the president on the floor. The deceased was visually over 1.8 meters tall and had a big waist. No one would doubt that he was a boxer even if he changed his outfit and said he was a fighter.
If the suspect named Shimoda Akichi is really what Shiratori said, even if it is a sneak attack, the possibility of knocking down the deceased is unlikely.
"And importantly, judging from other people's descriptions of his life trajectory, he has always been in business, home, and hospital, and there is no room for him to obtain bombs."
The bomb that plays the role of luring the tiger away from the mountain is a serious restriction on the identity of the murderer. Even if explosives are not uncommon in this world, they are not accessible to a villager who works as a cleaner.
In other words, if Shimoda Akichi had not appeared at the scene of the crime, he would not have been included as a suspect at all.
Troublesome, Kudo Shinichi once again felt that his practice was not up to par, and there was not even a possible logical inference in his mind.
He closed his eyes and began to reorganize the messy clues. The silhouettes of the scene emerged in his mind one by one, and then he selected them one by one, leaving behind the content that he had no idea of its use for the time being.
Finally, he focused on the neck and forehead of the deceased.
Based on the assumption that the scene of hanging and suicide was disguised by the murderer.
The presence of bombs will attract the attention of police officers and also attract more police officers, so for possible murderers, the disposal of murder weapons is a problem.
If he were to be taken away, interrogation by the police might directly lead to his arrest. In other words, the murder weapon might be left at the scene.
Thinking of this, Kudo opened his eyes and scanned the rope-like props on the scene.
Finally, his eyes fell on the landline phone on his desk. The phone line connecting the receiver to the landline seemed to be a very suitable murder weapon.
Realizing this, he changed his gloves, walked to his desk, lifted up the landline phone, and unplugged the receiver cord to look at it carefully.
At the same time, a police officer from the forensics department was waiting in front of him with an evidence bag.
There were no obvious stains on the phone line. Even if there were skin flakes from the deceased, it would be difficult to see clearly with the naked eye. To judge whether it was a murder weapon, the only way to determine whether it was a murder weapon was to wait for the test results from the forensics class.
Kudo Shinichi, who failed to detect any abnormalities, unplugged the phone cord from the receiver and prepared to put it into an evidence bag for storage.
However, at this moment, his eyes focused on the receiver.
The landline phone receiver has two ends, one end is placed at the mouth to receive the sound, and the other end is close to the ear for answering the call. At this time, Kudo's attention is on the side receiving the call.
There were visible stains and several broken hairs stuck in them.
"Could this be it?"
Noticing this, he took the receiver and quickly approached the deceased and compared it with the blow marks on his head. The results were very consistent.
In other words, the mark on the forehead of the deceased who was hit by a blunt instrument was caused by the earpiece made of hard plastic.
"Shinichi, did you find any clues?"
The Megure Police Department, which had been mobilizing police officers to collect clues and maintain order, noticed Kudo Shinichi's actions, put down what they were doing, and came closer to ask.
"This receiver is probably the cause of the injury to the deceased's forehead."
A forensics class member came over and quickly bagged the receiver and receiver cord separately.
"Not bad, Shinichi, he is worthy of being Yusaku's son." Megure Police Department sincerely praised Kudo Shinichi's ability.
If this sentence were replaced by Yuguchi, Kudo Shinichi would definitely refute confidently that this is his strength, not because of his father.
But at this time, he was not in the mood to say this.
The thing that caused the blow was found, but a new problem arose.
If the murderer hit the deceased on the head with the receiver, what method should he use to avoid being detected.
A surprise attack from behind?
No, if it was from behind, then the injury marks should not be on the forehead but on the back of the head.
The wound will remain where it is now. It can only be a head-on conflict. Pick up the receiver, aim it at your head and smash it down!
But in this case, given the physical condition of the deceased, how could there be no traces of fighting left behind by the resistance on his body.
Although these traces of fights on the body exist, many of them were left a few days ago. The police at the scene learned that due to the discharge of sewage, there had been physical conflicts between local villagers and the deceased in the past two days, and many injuries were caused. They are all left over from that time.
After excluding these old injuries, there were only a few new injuries, which were distributed on the lower chest, abdomen, waist and other places. The marks were very shallow and were not enough to cause a blow to the deceased that would affect the ability to move.
"Could it be medicine? Do we have to wait for the analysis results of the deceased's stomach contents to come out?"
Kudo Shinichi was not sure.
His current level is still not good enough. Although Kudo Yusaku said when he came here that he could contact him if he encountered any problems, Kudo obviously didn't want to call his dad who liked to play around so quickly.
"No, no, let's go over the situation at the scene again!"
The junior high school detective shook his head and once again thought about whether there were any clues he had missed.
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If there are any bugs, please mention them. This thing is too confusing...
The author's IQ is really lacking...well, he is just stupid and humble.
