Chapter 118: New Partner, New Case, New Star

Luke's annual salary of 42,000 in Houston has become the current 54,000.

Selena has risen from 47,000 to over 60,000, but this increase in salary is not enough to offset the increase in living expenses.

Of course, if the two of them work for a few years, they can get an annual salary of more than 80,000 yuan, and then they will have more money.

But before that, the two may only be able to rely on the $50,000 settling expenses.

Selena is so frustrated because she has left all the settling expenses to the family.

Luke has no opinion on this.

Although Selena looks very independent, she still cares about her family very much. In terms of money, she is also different from most Americans. She is willing to pay for her family, and that is her freedom.

Luke didn't find it strange either. He was Chinese in his last life, and it's not unusual that parents and children help each other so much that they went bankrupt.

His $50,000 knife was mentioned to Catherine, but she didn't want it.

Robert even took the call, told him to get out of the way, and took the flowers himself if he had money.

After all, Robert also has a salary of more than 50,000 years a year, plus Katherine's salary of more than 30,000 years, Luke came out to work again, reducing their expenses by at least a few thousand dollars a year. The pressure on the two is not great.

Before Luke said that he was going to college, Robert had saved more than 20,000 US dollars and was going to pay him college tuition. Now, of course, this money is left to Claire, a sophomore in high school.

So, now Robert and Catherine are not short of money.

After a good rest for a long time, the two went to the Western District Police Station the next day and officially went to work.

Facing the two, the serious crime team leader Dustin Hammer's attitude was lukewarm, which made them both relieved.

As long as it's not some disgusting stuff like Berwick.

The two finally did not continue to be partners this time, but were each assigned to another old detective.

This is also reasonable.

After the Berwick incident, Luke found that he wanted to go wrong.

That is, although the two are partners, he can gain the dominance of the case, but it will arouse the dissatisfaction of the team leader.

In Houston, except for those three big cases that happened by chance, he didn't solve many cases for more than a month, so the harvest is actually a bit low.

Therefore, he and Selena discussed it.

The two of them each followed an old police detective to speed up their familiarity with the environment here. After a while, he applied to bring the two back together.

At that time, the two of them would be more familiar with the environment here, and they would have their own sources of intelligence in their hands. They would no longer be afraid of the new team leader, like Berwick, who would make it clear that they were inexperienced and unconnected.

Although this transfer may not be easy, Luke can think of a way.

Selena was assigned to a black police detective named Donald Dark, and Luke was partnered with a middle-aged Hispanic woman named Elsa Torres.

The Los Angeles Police Department has the largest number of female police officers in the United States, about 20%.

Second, there are more than 30 percent of Hispanic police officers here.

The arrival of Selena has undoubtedly added a little bit to these two figures, and it is not surprising that Luke was assigned a Hispanic woman as his partner.

Looking at Luke, Elsa was a little curious: "Let's go, I still have two cases on hand. Are you okay? Do you need me to give you a vacation?"

Luke smiled: "Oh, Elsa, I actually like work."

Elsa pouted: "Nonsense, no one likes work. At least not many people in the serious crime team like it."

Luke nodded with a smile: "Well, then you can just pretend that I just came here and want to show the correct work attitude."

Elsa was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Well, that's fine."

Getting in the car, Elsa drove the car out.

From this point of view, this is a very strong woman, and she doesn't even want to give Luke the steering wheel.

but,

In the serious crime group, it is difficult for women with weaker characters to stay.

Luke asked casually, "What case are we going to investigate?"

Elsa: "A troublesome case, know about Winterst-Katie?"

Luke thought for a while and shook his head: "It's a little familiar, but I can't remember it."

Elsa glanced at him: "You really don't know?"

Luke: "Famous? Male or female?"

Elsa: "...a female star who has only become popular in the past two years. She is only 21 years old this year. She entered the industry at the age of 16, and at the age of 19, she acted in the film "Don't Move" by the great director Peide and became famous. ."

Luke: "Oh, I really don't know. It's just familiar, maybe I've seen her name on the news by accident."

Elsa hehe: "She has a good figure, and Kenlu, you haven't seen her movies?"

Luke shrugged: "I like watching movies and TV shows with big special effects and big scenes, such as Star Wars or Band of Brothers. The kind you're talking about should be literary films, right? I don't really watch them."

Elsa sighed and accepted the answer.

"She had a little trouble recently. A person died in her house two days ago, but she said she didn't know the person at all. Now, I'm going to go to her house again to ask about the situation." Elsa said.

Luke: "What about the specific circumstances of the deceased?"

"Anonymous. No identification, no dental records, no records in the fingerprint bank or in the DNA bank. Young white male, twenty-five to twenty-seven years old, 1'75 and over 220 pounds. Oh, By the way, his body was floating naked in the swimming pool of Miss Katie's house, only to be found by the cleaning nanny the next morning, and then to call the police." Elsa said a lot of information.

Luke listened carefully, and was surprised after listening: "One meter seventy-five, two hundred and twenty pounds? Is this a big fat man?"

Elsa nodded: "So, except for the inner ghost, I can't think of the possibility of this person dying there quietly. The security of Miss Katie's house is okay, not a 200-pound fat man who can come in and out casually. The place."

Luke was also surprised by this.

It is inconvenient for a fat man with more than 200 pounds to move, let alone run into the house of a female star.

These wealthy people basically have electronic security systems in their homes. When they are touched, someone will check them. They are not professionals, so it is not so easy to sneak in.

While the two were talking, they had already driven the car to Beverly Hills.

Luke wondered: "Caddy lives here, she is very rich? Isn't she popular for a few years?"

Elsa shrugged: "She already lives here, how to make money, how much money, that's what the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) cares about."

Luke also asked casually, and when he heard the words, he changed the subject: "Did you find any clues in the previous investigation?"

Elsa shook her head: "This big star is very arrogant. Every time they meet, a lawyer is present. If it wasn't for a human life lawsuit, she would directly ask the nanny to let us get out."