"Katie? Come out."
The sound of opening the door woke the drunk man up, but the alcoholism on his body had not dissipated. He turned over, hugged the shabby blanket, and continued to sleep soundly.
And Katie shrank back instinctively. She didn't want to accept the interrogation, because this was the first step to the gallows, and she couldn't take it out anyway.
However, just like when they came in, two burly police officers carried the obscene woman out amid wailing sounds.
In addition, in order to prevent Katie from going crazy and attacking the two officers, an experienced detective put a pillory on her after entering the interrogation room.
It was an upright stick with an iron plate on top with holes for the prisoner's arms and head.
The principle is extremely simple. As long as the pivot is moved slightly, the prisoner will spin several times in terror.
Katie had seen this kind of scene before, and while she was laughing at it, she secretly lamented that if it were her, she would definitely not be able to withstand the double torture, both mental and physical.
"You are only three steps away from the death penalty."
Officer Wensley calmed down, sat on the seat in front, and looked at Katie, the prostitute who killed a single mother and may be responsible for several lives, and said word by word:
"Transfer to the judicial authorities for final trial and confirmation of sentence."
"Then, when the torture device is paraded through the streets, people will use dead cats and dogs, internal organs, potatoes, feces, mud and other things to express their disdain for the condemned prisoners."
"In the sound of spitting, the executioner set up the crossbar and the noose, ending a sinful life."
This is a fact.
Every London resident knows that every Monday morning at eight o'clock, some of the most heinous people are executed outside Newgate Gaol or Horse Dealer's Road Gaol, in order to appease public anger and at the same time deter mobs, retired imperial soldiers and unruly workers. class.
"Sir, I am not guilty..."
This powerful eldest sister in the Orioles world had a cooing voice. She was responsible for several lives and was vulgar and arrogant, but she just ignored the lives of others.
When the torture device was put on and faced with the police officer's harshest reprimand, Katie gave up. She tried to beg for mercy, but found that her hands and head were firmly fixed and she could not move at all.
"Not guilty?"
Officer Wensley's eyes flashed with anger. He photographed the confession on Katie's face and looked directly into Katie's pitiful eyes. "In order to compete for territory, you deliberately created conflicts and got into a fight with a wandering warbler from another neighborhood. .”
"During this period, a little girl was used as a threat to make a single mother give up her resistance and beat her to death with stones."
"If this isn't intentional murder, what is it?"
At this moment, Officer Wensley looked more like an angry red bull than a good old man.
Although Lu Li had discussed with him in advance and asked him to be responsible for putting on a bad face, this was indeed a step too far. It's not that these words were wrong. Katie should be sentenced to death, but not now.
Why would a person who knew he was going to die cooperate with the investigation? Therefore, we must first deceive her into giving her the illusion that she can get away with the crime and get a reduced sentence.
"With so many witnesses, do you feel you are being wronged?"
Lu Li did not offer any words of comfort immediately, but instead analyzed the situation for the helpless Katie, "As for the physical evidence, as long as the police department puts in the effort to investigate, they will definitely find something."
At this time, Wensley also adjusted his emotions and stated the facts in a cold voice:
"Did you know about James's dismemberment case? Did he think that by hiding the bodies in various urban areas, they would not be discovered? If he explains what happened at night, he might be able to get a chance to reduce his sentence."
Obviously, Officer Wensley stole the show, playing both blackface and redface.
However, as long as it can achieve the desired results.
In the following period, the eldest sister Katie was particularly well-behaved and explained everything that happened during the night, including the role played by her mistress.
This guy is in charge of the aftermath.
After Katie's murder, he negotiated with the gangsters from the next block; after discovering Newberry's body, he disposed of all traces.
"You are the first person to come to the corpse place after the murderer. Please describe the situation at the scene in detail."
"Poor Newberry must have been abused during her lifetime with slashes all over her body. Her liver, spleen and part of her intestines were placed between her legs, as well as other parts of her body."
"In a weird order, right?"
Lu Li reminded.
"Yes, the people in the next block are so mean. I just killed a prostitute by mistake, but they took revenge like this..." Katie couldn't help but raise her voice.
them?
Lu Li shook his head. The death situation completely matched the forty or so previous cases. This case was not a revenge crime as Katie thought.
"Where is the place where the body was dumped? Don't tell me it was my concubine who did it. You don't know anything about it."
"Hidden in a boat at a pier on East Street, Silvis planned to find a suitable section of the river and throw the body into it."
"Silves?"
"My man."
At this point, the interrogation work has come to an end.
There may be many old stories worth digging up, and maybe there are other crimes involved in these wandering warblers, but these are not things that need to be investigated right now.
"Come on, take us to that pier."
Lu Li stood up and folded the testimonies he had written down next to him. The progress was going very well, but he didn't know what was going on with Duke and Holmes.
In fact, the job he just did didn't have much technical content. An experienced grassroots police officer could have done the same thing, but someone had to keep an eye on it.
At the same time, two police officers took off Katie's shackles and helped her step down from the shelf.
"Don't stop the interrogation, and don't let the person go. The man named Silvis lives on the second floor of the 'Queen's Head' pub. Let's take a few guys to search."
Wensley confessed something.
Then, follow Lu Li to the dock.
It's early morning.
Two four-wheel carriages bearing the logo of the police station stopped, and the surroundings of the pier were extremely quiet.
Three police officers wearing cockscomb helmets were the first to hold umbrellas. Considering that Katie still had value, she was also taken care of so that she would not stand in the heavy rain and freeze.
"Which one?"
Lu Li's eyes swept across the river. There were nearly a hundred boats parked on it, including small boats, medium-sized wooden boats, and various steamboats.
Katie looked around in a panic. She wanted to make a meritorious service, reduce her sentence, and spend all her savings to hire a good lawyer to defend herself against manslaughter, so that she would not have to die.
"Move forward and take a closer look." Wensley said with a sullen face.
After sniffing, Lu Li discovered a cruel fact. There was no smell of blood in the air. I was afraid that the man named Silvis had left to dump his body in another river section.
"Sir...there's something going on over there."
Suddenly, a police officer holding an umbrella spoke.
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