Chapter 567: Typical Murder Case (Part 2)

Schiller first set his eyes on Bruce, and Bruce turned his head. Looking at the pool of blood hidden in the darkness, his thoughts returned to last night.

In Wayne Manor at night, Bruce was looking up some information in the library. Although he had come back from the metropolis and knew that his housekeeper was not an ordinary person, he still needed to investigate the agents, the Philby List, the Soviet Union, and those old things.

But at this moment, a strong noise came from upstairs. Bruce closed the book helplessly, covered his forehead, then stood up and went upstairs.

In the room upstairs, Aisha was learning to speak with Dick and Alfred. She could already make some different tones of "wa wah wah", and even say English words with less than two syllables.

But everyone knows that every child is a trumpet spirit when learning a language. Pronouncing loudly seems to help them build confidence in the language, so many times they shout as loudly as possible.

They also like repetition, and seem to be able to find the rules of language in repetition again and again. With loud voice and repetition, Elsa is now a human alarm. Bruce even thinks that he can develop an alarm device for the Bat Cave based on Elsa's cry.

Although the Bat Cave is halfway across the city from Wayne Manor, Bruce will definitely hear it as long as there is a sound.

This is different from crying. When Elsa cries, Bruce and Selina will try their best to comfort her. When she is tired of crying, she will naturally go to sleep. But learning a language is a serious matter. Looking at Alfred's admiring expression, Bruce knows that he has no right to speak here.

Moreover, there are class hours for language learning classes, and they will not stop until a certain period of time has been learned. Obviously, Alfred thinks that it is more important for Elsa to learn to speak than for Bruce to stop looking up information in the library.

Originally, Alfred would not disturb Bruce from doing his work, but some time ago, Bruce was obsessed with magic and had a bad record. He not only followed Constantine, but also found some strange magic books. Alfred was very worried that Bruce would go astray, so he always tried to divert his attention.

So now, the old butler doesn't care when Bruce has to stay in the library to check information, so he won't deliberately arrange Aisha's language class to miss this time, which makes Bruce unable to do anything because of the noise.

Some people may say that Bruce can go to the Batcave to work, but the problem is that the Batcave is far away from Wayne Manor, and Alfred requires Bruce to go home every day, so the library of Gotham University has become a better place to work.

Bruce checked information until very late last night, so he simply slept in the dormitory. Although the facilities of Gotham University are a bit old, the layout is still good. All dormitory bedrooms are single rooms, and there is a public lounge on each floor.

But because it is an old dormitory building, the sound insulation is poor. In fact, when Lex dragged the box from the first floor, Bruce, who lived on the second floor, was already awakened.

And Lex and Thomas happened to meet in the stairwell on the second floor. Bruce heard everything they said, so he was not surprised when he saw Lex, and cooperated with him to pretend that they didn't know each other.

"You may not have noticed that the sound of you dragging the box is really too loud. The vibration of the box hitting the stairs even reached my bed board." Bruce turned his head and looked at Lex and said.

"And it is precisely because of this that I suspect Thomas, because the time it takes for you to drag your box from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor is just enough for an ordinary person to go from the 4th floor to the 1st floor from the other side of the stairs, cross the entire corridor, go up to the 1st floor, and come to the stairwell on the 2nd floor where you are."

Bruce looked back at the entire corridor and said, "Based on Thomas's stride and speed, the error will not exceed 3 seconds. Such coincidences are more than just coincidences in murder cases."

"I guess that when your box first hit the stairs and made a sound, I was awakened on the 2nd floor, and Thomas, who had just finished the crime on the 4th floor, was also alarmed."

"He realized that there might be new students coming, and he didn't know the exact number, so he hurriedly cleaned up the crime scene, then ran downstairs, and then walked along the path you walked. That staircase caught up with you. "

"When he found out that you were alone, he realized that he didn't need to panic, and he could also use you as a co-witness to the crime scene. But there was something stupid. He didn't make a delay device. When you came, Doris should have been dead, so there was no way for you to be a witness to his absence. "

"You only explained why Thomas appeared. "Lex said with his arms folded: "From the time estimate, it can't be used as conclusive evidence, but I knew he had killed someone not long after I met him."

"He did a very stupid thing, that is, in order to cover the blood on his shirt, he put on a suit jacket. Indeed, there was no clue from the angle of sight, but when he walked in front of me with his suitcase up the stairs, I pretended to be exhausted and was left behind by him. "

"In this way, there is a height difference between us, and I can examine the marks on his body more comprehensively. At this time, I found that I could see blood from the gap between the hem of his suit jacket and his shirt."

"Of course, it is also possible that he was injured himself, so I continued to observe and found that he was not easy to lift the box, and it can even be said that he was a little exhausted. If he was really injured, there was no need to show such a warm attitude to help me before. After all, we have never met before and are just strangers."

"I guess he is covering up something, and until I came to the 4th floor and saw the crime scene, I was sure that he was the murderer."

"Why?" Gordon asked.

Lex walked to the crime scene and pointed at the body and said: "The victim was pierced in the chest by a javelin, and from the wound, the javelin was pierced from top to bottom, that is, the murderer must have committed the crime in this posture..."

As he said, Lex made a gesture of raising the javelin and stabbing it downward, that is, holding both hands in a virtual position, with the left hand in front and the right hand behind, forming a straight line, and after raising it above the head, stabbing it downward with force.

Lex continued, "Thomas is taller than me, so he doesn't need to raise it so high, but Doris is definitely not short enough for Thomas to stab her from top to bottom without raising the javelin."

"Therefore, if he wants to commit the crime in this way, he must raise his arm, that is, if he was only wearing a shirt at the time, there would be blood stains on a place that would not normally be splashed with blood, that is, the armpit."

"And before, I saw blood on his shirt through the gap in his suit jacket behind him, and it happened to be on the right armpit."

"Wait a minute!" Gordon suddenly said, "You can see blood stains on your shirt through the gap in your suit in the almost dark stairwell?" Gordon lifted his windbreaker and looked, and found that it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything, and he was close enough.

At this time, the entire dormitory building was out of power, and there was still some light in the corridor because of the windows, but the staircase part was almost dark because of the angle of the windows.

But at this time, Gordon, standing at this angle, saw that there was a glimmer in Lex's eyes, which did not look like an ordinary human.

Schiller also saw this. He remembered that Alberto, who fell into the wine pool before, also had a glimmer in his eyes, which might be caused by the Dionysus factor.

No one knows whether the Joker has night vision ability, but anyway, he can fight with Batman wearing night vision goggles in the dark night of Gotham.

"Okay, now the only thing left is the motive." Gordon stood next to the body, thought for a while, and then said: "My subordinates just reported to me that there was nothing suspicious on the deceased, and her handbag was full of ordinary cosmetics, which seemed to be used to touch up her makeup before going on stage."

"According to Christine, Doris has a boyfriend, but he works at the Central Research Institute in Metropolis. The two are in a long-distance relationship, but because the distance is not far, they get together every week. She and Thomas should not have any intersection."

At this time, Bruce said: "Thomas also has a girlfriend, or a fiancée, who was arranged by his family. He is not interested in baseball or football, and has never been close to the cheerleading troupe. He only knows the troupe's leader Christine, and Christine just didn't say that Doris and Thomas had any emotional entanglements, so it should not be a murder of passion."

"He should have had Premeditated, otherwise, it is impossible to prepare something like a javelin. I have to admit that this is a useful weapon, but to get this at Gotham University, you must apply for an equipment room..."

"Then we can check the application records and find out, right?" Gordon immediately picked up the phone and said to the other end: "It's me, come over again, take the search warrant, we need to retrieve evidence..."

Soon, several people came to the office where the physical education teacher was. The physical education teachers at Gotham University are divided into normal physical education teachers and aerobics coaches with cheerleading groups. At this time, the aerobics coach happened to be in the office. She took out a form and said: "...Here, three days ago, Thomas came to apply to borrow a javelin..."

"Can you confirm which javelin it is?"

"Yes, all our equipment has a number."

"Is it the javelin numbered 5012?" Gordon asked.

"Application records... Equipment number... Yes, it's 5012."

Now, the identity, motive, method, and murder weapon are all in place. It can be said that the evidence is conclusive. Thomas, who was taken to take a statement, had no chance to resist. As the camera clicked, the image of Thomas in prison wearing prison clothes and holding an information board was permanently left in the archives of the Gotham Police Department.

This is a murder case with a beginning and an end. The investigation process was very smooth and the chain of evidence was very clear. It can be said to be a typical murder case.

Even if Bruce and Lex didn't need to make inferences, Gordon alone would eventually check the application records in the equipment room. At most, it would take a day to get to the bottom of the case.

The day after the case was closed, the Gotham Police Department received a call from Christine, the head of the cheerleading group. She cried and said:

"Detective Gordon! Come quickly! Come to the Gotham University gymnasium... Another member of the dance group died!!!"

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