While Kai and his group were fighting, on the other side, the fighting in Chicago became more and more intense.
Although the battles in the city of Chicago were not bloody and even calm, there was no shortage of dangers in them. When Assistant State Attorney Peter Stone launched an investigation into the Tuttle Foundation, a political storm began to take shape.
From the first moment Peter Stone formally investigated the Tuttle Foundation, state prosecutors put pressure on Stone to stop the investigation on the grounds that the Tuttle Foundation was a religious foundation and a very important institution in the state of Illinois. It is unreasonable and reckless for a well-known charitable foundation to initiate such an investigation without any pointing evidence, which will arouse protests from religious circles.
Religion has always been the bottom line of American society, and anything related to religion needs to be done with caution. You must know that in the United States, religious industries do not need to pay taxes. In a sense, religion in the United States means that it is a place outside the law.
What's more, the Tuttle Foundation is a religious fund backed by the Catholic Church. This fund is dedicated to helping poor believers out of trouble, and sponsors some young people who intend to become priests to complete theological courses. It also opens schools so that some poor children can Get a good education and even offer scholarships.
In short, the Tuttle Foundation is not only backed by a big tree, but also has a pretty good reputation. It is definitely a target that prosecutors at all levels will avoid.
But just when the state prosecutor's investigation of Peter Stone was suspended, a report document from the church appeared in the state prosecutor's office. Yes, the Catholic Church itself reported on its own foundation, and they reported corruption within the Tuttle Foundation!
According to this internal whistleblower document from the Archdiocese of Chicago, more than millions of dollars in funds have disappeared from the foundation every year since 1981, and part of these funds came from donations from believers in the Archdiocese of Chicago. .
The self-destruction of the church caught many people off guard.
Then on the same day, Peter Stone found out that corruption within the Tuttle Foundation was extremely serious. Many funds disappeared without explanation, and a considerable amount of funds were transferred under various names. Can you believe it? , does a school under the foundation need half a million US dollars to paint the exterior walls? That's a school, not a skyscraper.
After obtaining evidence of corruption, Peter Stone began to go further and began to thoroughly investigate the flow of funds from the foundation.
This made more people nervous.
To put it bluntly, the Tuttle Foundation is just a cover for the Tuttle Church to conduct money and power transactions with the outside world. If the funds are investigated, many people will be implicated, so the next day, the investigation encountered obstacles. , first the Illinois state court ruled that Peter Stone's investigation was illegal and released several suspects who were detained under Peter Stone's order on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
As a result, several suspects were brought back to the police station on other charges as soon as they walked out of the police station building.
Then the state police suddenly came to the Chicago Police Department to investigate and asked the Chicago police to transfer several people to them.
The Chicago police were still discussing how to deal with the state police's request. As a result, a police inspector in the police department took it upon himself to hand over several suspects. This shocked the Chicago police. They didn't expect that someone would actually perform such a trick on their own territory.
The police inspector was immediately controlled, and the Chicago police immediately planned to recover the suspects. However, before the Chicago police could take action, news came again that the state police who had come to pick up someone earlier had a car accident on Michigan Avenue. Several people were injured. Unfortunately, all the suspects were killed!
Naked murder and silence!
Such a blatant silence had not happened for many years. This made the Chicago police extremely angry. They brought several state troopers back to the police station and planned to open up the situation to them. As a result, before the interrogation started, the state troopers were very angry. They took away several police officers forcefully, and they even clamored to sue the Chicago police. According to them, after their officers were involved in a car accident, the Chicago police not only failed to provide help, but also prohibited them from going to the hospital. This was a disregard for human life. .
All in all, it's just a quarrel. As for the suspects? Anyway, the state police don’t care much, people are dead, everything is an accident, what else do you want?
At the same time, on Peter's side, the FBI suddenly intervened in the matter and forcibly took away and sealed the information that Peter had finally searched from the foundation.
At this point, it seems that the group of people who support the 'Tuttle Church' have won.
But in the afternoon, news suddenly came that the Chicago police had solved a serial murder case!
The perpetrator's name was Errol William Childress. The details of the case were made public in a short period of time, and a large number of physical evidence and corpses related to the missing persons were found in the suspect's home. By the time the media exposed it, the police More than 138 corpses have been excavated from the suspect's yard, the vast majority of which are the bones of women and children. After comparison and confirmation based on the items related to the deceased found in the suspect's home, So far, Chicago police have identified thirty of the dead.
The death time span of these deceased is very long. The earliest deceased among the deceased confirmed by the Chicago police was about thirty-five years ago. The suspect, William Childress, is currently only 41 years old. It is a bit far-fetched to say that he started killing people at the age of five. Therefore, the police have reason to believe that William Childress's father, Billy Childress, is also A perverted murderer.
However, because when the police found Billy Childress, he had been tortured and imprisoned by his son, William Childress for fifteen years and had completely lost the ability to bear legal responsibility, so he was He is exempt from prosecution, but he will spend the rest of his life in the hospital. Even according to the doctor's diagnosis, it is unknown whether this older generation murderer can survive.
His facial features were sewn up with needles and thread by his son, his eyes and mouth have basically lost their original functions, and some organs in his body have even experienced varying degrees of atrophy and necrosis. According to the doctor, he is still alive now. is a miracle.
Of course, if the matter reaches this point, it can only be regarded as social news and will not affect the current political struggle in Chicago.
But a collection of documents and video footage collected from William Childress's home is different. The documents included records of Childress's dealings with numerous political and judicial figures, as well as financial dealings between Childress and the Tuttle Foundation.
The most explosive one is the discipline between William Childress and Illinois State Senator Edwin Tuttle. According to the video and audio materials found at the scene, Edwin Tuttle not only interacted with William Childress was very familiar with it, and he also gave William Childress a lot of help, such as helping him contact some people in the judicial field and helping him 'handle' some so-called 'disclosures'.
At this time, the entire Chicago political scene exploded.
Edwin Tuttle is a veteran senator from Illinois. He once served as Chicago District Attorney and State Attorney, and then ran for governor. Although he failed to be elected, he became one of Chicago's two senators in the subsequent Senate election. One of the congressmen, an absolutely veteran politician, with connections throughout the Illinois judicial department.
Once the news broke, the ground was shaken instantly.
Although Edwin Tuttle continued to deny that he had a relationship with William Childress, it was of no use. What was worse was that even if he could deny that he had a relationship with William Childress, he could not. Denied any kinship between him and Billy Lee Tuttle, whose sister happened to be William Childress's mother...
Taking advantage of this trend, Peter Stone began to focus on investigating several disappearance cases that were obviously problematic, among which one case was the most typical. This is a little girl named Mary Fontenot who disappeared in 1990 when she was 10 years old. The Tuttle family once funded a kindergarten called Shepherd's Home, where Mary stayed. In 1988, Shepherd's Home was accused of child molestation and was forced to close. Two years later, it was renamed Bright Way Academy in Pelican. The island reopens and Mary becomes its student again.
Mary's mother immediately called the police after discovering that her daughter was missing, but local Sheriff Ted Childress privately changed the police file, canceled the call, and asked the then investigator Steve Geracy not to continue the investigation. In this disappearance case, he claimed that the girl’s mother was engaged in prostitution and took drugs, and that he knew the girl’s father and knew that the girl had left with her father. Steve Geracy later investigated and found that the girl’s mother was also missing, so he really gave up the investigation. Then Steve Geracy got the appreciation and recommendation of Ted Childress and started backgammon. Lift.
According to Peter Stone's research, Ted Childress and Billy Childress were cousins.
Then a series of officials and police officers were pulled down by this case, and the entire Illinois political scene became chaotic.
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But this had nothing to do with Kai. After cleaning up the scene and calling the Chicago police to enter, the matter had nothing to do with him. In fact, when things have reached this point, many things are no longer under Kai's control.
In fact, now, the case has become less important. Once a public opinion storm forms, some interest groups will add fuel to the flames. Take State Senator Edwin Tuttle for example. Most of the people who target him are not actually seeking justice for those innocent victims. They are more interested in eating bloody buns and trying to kill Edwin Tuttle. ·Tuttle dismounted.
After all, the political pie is always only so big. If Edwin Tuttle eats it, others will have to eat less, or even not eat it at all. In the past, everything was fine if Edwin Tuttle had no flaws, but now that Edwin Tuttle has exposed such a big flaw, naturally there are many people who want to pounce on him, knock down Edwin Tuttle, and break up. His cake.
The adult world is very cruel.
Furthermore, Kay and Matthew are too conspicuous in this case. If they continue to stay, they will definitely become targets. After all, Edwin Tuttle is not the only person affected by this case.
Although this time it was the church that took the initiative to take the blame, so their goals were much smaller, but if they continued to dance, they would be making themselves uncomfortable. This is why Kai would find the church and force them to trade. The church is large, so even if it attracts fire by standing up, it won't be a big problem. Even if those whose interests have been harmed want to take revenge, what can they do to the church? At most, it would make the church disgusting, but so what?
The church has been standing for so many years. What kind of trouble has it not experienced? Isn’t it still the largest religion in the world?
It's just difficult for Deputy Director Cooper. He needs to stabilize his position and deal with the pressure from all parties. On the other hand, the other side cannot offend all parties so much that it will affect his ascension to the position of director. The amount of effort required in this process is not comparable to that of ordinary police officers handling cases.
But what can I say, since Cooper wants to ascend to the position of director, some pressure must be borne by him.
"So...you haven't been able to deal with Tapia yet?" It was rare that Kai had some free time today, so he stayed in the police station office and chatted with a group of colleagues. It happened that the pair Marcus and Mike were also there. Judging from their dejected looks, they were probably scolded by Teresa again.
"Don't mention it. Over the past few days, that bastard has been washed away in a golden basin. He is as honest as a high school nerd. He hasn't even found the lady. We really have no way." Marcus was almost obsessed with this case. It's going crazy. As time goes by, the patience of the police department and the DEA is being exhausted little by little. The reason why Marcus took over this case before was because he didn't want his sister to take risks.
But now there is no progress in the case. The DEA and the police department cannot wait indefinitely. They hope to follow the original plan and let Marcus's sister Sydney take the initiative to attract Tapia's attention.
So now Marcus is anxious and angry every day, but there is no good way.
The same is true for Mike, after all...this guy is having an affair with Sydney, and Marcus, the idiot, doesn't even realize it...
"We thought about some... not very formal methods, but the guy was too cautious, leaving us no chance." Mike took his cell phone and texted Sydney while complaining to Kai.
"Hey! Nigga, can you stop holding a cell phone all day like a high school student? Can't you just concentrate on the case?" Marcus felt very unhappy when he saw that Mike was still playing with his cell phone. . "Oh my god, what's wrong with people nowadays? They hold their cell phones all day long without even raising their heads. Why aren't they taking their studies so seriously?"
Mike silently exited the chat, and then put away his phone with a guilty conscience. It was a very dangerous thing to flirt with his sister in front of a girl lover. This is also the reason why Mike has not confessed to Marcus until now, although Sydney has always hoped that Mike would take the initiative to tell Marcus... After all, she is in love, not having an affair, so why should she be so secretive?
Marcus complained a few more times, and finally looked at Kai and hesitated.
"What? Do you want to confess to me like you did to Mike? First of all, let me declare that I am not Guy. Secondly, even if I were, you can't be my type. You are too ugly." Kai saw Marcus's face expression, jokingly. Being too prudish in the company of black people can be very unpleasant. Especially these two.
"Hey! I told you not to joke about this, okay?"
The last time Marcus and Mike made a mistake in the electronics store has become the biggest joke in the detective bureau. Every day, someone would make fun of their "ambiguous relationship" and sexual orientation, which made Marcus so angry that he almost died. Make it a rule not to joke about this matter in the future.
"Okay, okay." Kai raised his hand to indicate that he was wrong. "If it's not a confession, then what on earth are you going to say?"
Marcus gritted his teeth and finally said: "I want you to help us!"
Mike raised his head and looked at Marcus in surprise. Even though Marcus was small and thin, this guy had a very strong self-esteem and wanted to make him submissive unless it was his wife. Among police officers, it is absolutely embarrassing to actively ask others to intervene in the cases they are responsible for. It is an admission that they are not good enough.
