Chapter 446: The situation outside the villa on the night of the crime, clues

Las Vegas, the living room of a hotel suite.

“I found that the barbed wire fence had been broken outside the duplex villa at the southwest corner wall.

  On the road outside the barbed wire fence, traces of cars stopping were also found. "

Hearing Luo An’s question, Winslow stood up with a serious face, handed a few photos to everyone, and explained:

“Based on observation, I can confirm that two to three people sneaked into the villa area from this location.

 After the incident, they also dealt with their footprints and barbed wire, but the traces cannot be completely erased. "

Luo An looked down at the photo handed over by Winslow, and could clearly see the traces of someone walking there.

"but why?"

 Lacie shook the photo in her hand and asked with confusion on her face:

"Since the maid named Iona has poisoned the people in the villa and committed suicide herself, why do these people still break into the villa?"

 Chenier was silent for a second and expressed her speculation:

“Could it be these people who want to rummage through the villa and take away something?”

Winslow added:

“These people may have sneaked into the villa to confirm whether the poison administered by Iona had any effect.

Or the prosecutor could check to see if Iona got scared when something happened and didn't dare to poison her. "

Michelle next to her thought for a while and expressed her speculation:

“Is there a possibility that it was not the maid Iona who drugged everyone in the villa, but these guys who sneaked into the villa?

The maid Iona is only responsible for delivering poison to those people one by one. "

  “It’s all possible.”

Luo An nodded and confirmed the guesses of several people. The key problem now is that there is no surveillance in the villa. Everyone left this world due to poison and there are no witnesses. Therefore, the situation on the night of the crime can only be reasonably speculated.

 Luo An was silent for a few seconds, turned to look at Mona, and asked:

“Mona, are there no clues in the surveillance video about these guys who sneaked into the villa?”

 “At present, no.”

Mona shook her head and typed on the keyboard while indicating that the surveillance on the outer wall of the villa had been replaced on the night of the crime. She could not find out who the people who sneaked into the villa were.

In addition, the Odell family's villa is located in a large area with convenient transportation, but there are not many road surveillance cameras and many roads are blind spots. Mona can't find the suspect vehicle at all.

 “It’s not all bad news, though.”

Mona suddenly stopped what she was doing, turned the laptop around, pointed at the screen and said:

“I calculated the distances between the outside of the barbed wire fence, the road where parking is possible, inside the duplex villa, and the patrol officer who reported the signal loss on the night of the incident.

 It is a coincidence that the duplex villa and the locations of several patrol policemen can form a circle.

 The road outside the wall happens to be the center of the circle. "

 “What a beautiful coincidence.”

Luo An chuckled and posted the clues and photos that everyone had compiled on the whiteboard one by one, summarizing as he posted:

“So, on the night of the crime, and in the third hour after the reception, someone used computer technology to replace the surveillance on the villa wall.

Then, a car stopped at the wall in the southwest corner of the villa, and two or three people got out, cut off the barbed wire, blocked the signals in the area, and made it impossible for people to connect to the outside world, and then sneaked into the villa.

 Inside the villa, we are currently unable to determine who specifically administered the poison that night and by what means, but the maid Iona is the most likely suspect.

Everyone was poisoned and died. The two or three guys who sneaked into the villa most likely did something else. After doing it, they followed the position of the barbed wire fence, left the area, and drove away without a trace. "

 After listening to Luo An’s analysis, the agents of the special investigation team nodded. Lacey thought for a while, stood up and asked:

“What should we do next?” Luo An drew a big circle on the photo of the barbed wire fence:

“The most important thing is to find out the identities of the two or three people who sneaked into the villa.”

Hearing this, Lacey was about to continue talking when Roan suddenly stopped, looked back at Chenille and Mona, and asked in a deep voice:

“What is the name of the maid who took temporary shifts with the maid Iona that night? Where is she now?”

“The maid’s name is Belinda, she is 40 years old and has a son who is in middle school.

 Belinda is mainly responsible for the logistics area, so I suspect that Iona, who switched shifts with her, is the one who poisoned me. "

 Chenelle immediately described Belinda’s identity. As for where Belinda was now, Chenelle turned her head and looked at Mona.

Mona’s fingers flew rapidly on the keyboard, and suddenly she frowned:

“Everyone, since the night of the incident, Belinda took leave and went home, and her new travel and consumption records have not been found.

 In addition, his son did not go to school the next day, and both of them are now out of contact. "

 “Fu-k!”

When Lacey heard this, her expression suddenly changed and she cursed. Luo An said without any nonsense:

“Mona, you stay here and use computer methods to see if you can find out the identity information of those people. Chenille, you assist Mona.

But before that, you two first check the last consumption records, call records, etc. of Belinda and her son before they lost contact, and see if you can find any useful clues.

 Michelle, please hurry up and find out what happened to that diary.

 Winslow, Lacey, come with me and go to Belinda's house immediately! "

"clear!"

The agents agreed with a loud voice and immediately got up to carry out their respective tasks.

  —

The Dodge was speeding down the road in Las Vegas. Winslow was sitting in the backseat inspecting the equipment. Lacey was sitting in the passenger seat, talking to Mona on her cell phone.

“Where Belinda and her son live, there are very few cameras on the road, and there is no surveillance installed in their home.

I checked the records of disappearances and kidnappings in that area and found nothing special. "

Mona on the other end of the phone said quickly:

“I followed Luo An’s request and checked the call records between mother and son.

 It shows that the night when Belinda took temporary leave, it was her son who called her.

 The content of the phone conversation cannot be found, but the whole process from the time her son called to Belinda asking for leave and leaving the villa took less than three minutes.

 In several road surveillance cameras with cameras, it can be seen that Belinda has a rather anxious attitude when driving. "

After Mona hung up the phone, Lacey tilted her head and looked at Luo An, who was driving, and guessed:

“So, someone may have kidnapped Belinda’s son that night, threatened Belinda with his son, and took a temporary leave of absence from the villa, thus allowing the long-awaited Iona to take her place.”

Luo An was noncommittal, and the car quickly arrived at the residence of Belinda and her son. They lived in an ordinary residential building on the edge of Las Vegas.

At the door of a certain room on the third floor, Luo An, Winslow, and Lacey stood on the left and right sides, counted down to three, and broke into the room together.

There were no corpses in the room as expected, no traces of kidnapping or ransom, or even signs of struggle. There were only normal warm decorations and undisposed kitchen waste.

Lacey picked up a pillow and looked at it. She didn't find anything wrong. She looked at Winslow and shrugged:

“It seems that the situation is different from what I imagined.”

Had Mona not confirmed through road surveillance that Belinda had returned to this community, and they also saw Belinda's car downstairs, Lacey would have suspected that Belinda disappeared before returning home at all.

 “Lacie, Winslow, come to me.”

 Before Winslow could answer, Luo An's voice suddenly came from the bedroom:

 “I discovered something.”

 (End of this chapter)