Chapter 950 Twenty Years Ago

"Since then, Elena has completely disappeared, as if she has never existed in this world..."

Mentioning the mysterious disappearance of his cousin, Sergeant Grayson couldn't hide his grief and indignation in his eyes.

"David Kaufman insists that Elena was kidnapped by her so-called 'lover' and is hiding out somewhere with a lot of money, but I don't think he's telling the truth."

"Over the years, I have been persisting in investigating Elena's disappearance. The more I search, the more mysteries become. All kinds of clues point to David Kaufman."

"The role he played in this case is not simple. Unfortunately, I have not yet obtained solid evidence to prove that he should be responsible for Elena's death."

"Gleason, do you suspect that David Kaufman murdered his wife, and as for the elopement, he made up lies to cover up the murder of his wife?"

Professional habits prompted Pinkerton to make a series of darkest speculations at once.

Grayson nodded coldly.

"I do have such suspicions, but unfortunately, I have no evidence to accuse Kaufman of committing the crime of killing his wife..."

The conversation between the detective and the sheriff was a private communication, not directly related to the case, and Joan didn't need to record it. Therefore, while he was listening, he still had time to pay attention to the changes in Elder Gumoduo's face.

When Gregson pointed out that Kaufman was suspected of killing his wife, Joan noticed that Elder Gumoduo's eyes flickered, and his facial muscles trembled uncontrollably.

"Mr. Pinkerton! Mr. Sheriff!" Joan suddenly interrupted their conversation, "I think Elder Gumoduo should know something about the whereabouts of Mr. Kaufman's ex-wife. Why don't we listen to him talk about it? The inside story of the matter?"

"I don't understand what you are talking about..." Old Toad lowered his head guiltily.

"Old man, of course you know what we're talking about."

With a sneer, Pinkerton approached him two steps, pointed to Gudella who was sitting against the wall with a slumped face, and then made a "throat cut" gesture on his neck.

Grayson turned to look out of the cabin window. Pinkerton threatened the suspect. As the sheriff, he could not express his support publicly, but he could pretend not to see it...

The moral orientation of the boggard society is not the same as that of human society, but the emphasis on family and kinship is even greater than that of human society.

Pinkerton threatened Gumodo with Gudella, as if pinching the weakness of the old toad, forcing him to bow his head again.

"Well, I admit to having done some of the dirty work for Kaufman, and that included getting rid of his cheating wife."

Elder Gumoduo sighed, and seemed to feel that this matter was done in a disgraceful manner.

"My cooperation with Kaufman began twenty-five years ago, when Kaufman had just been promoted as a hotel manager, trying to do something so that the boss would agree to marry his daughter to him."

"However, the small hotel he took over is really dilapidated and has no competitiveness in the hot spring resort. The business is very bleak."

"Kaufman, eager to change the situation, got in touch with me through a mutual friend and offered to pay me to intimidate his competitors."

"I don't need human gold and silver coins, but I need magic crystals, so we agreed to use magic crystals to settle the bill, and then took a group of brothers from the same race to harass the hotels that competed with Kaufman for business, scaring away local tourists... ..."

"We did this a few times, and it worked out pretty well. People found out that the only hotel run by Kaufman in that area was safe, and business naturally boomed."

"When Kaufman was young, doing business was very straightforward. I paid my bills exactly. We are all very satisfied with our cooperation."

"We haven't been in touch since then, until five years later, David Kaufman approached me again and offered to hire me to do one thing, which was to kill his unfaithful wife and seduce his wife That little white face."

"So, you brutally killed poor Elena?" Sergeant Grayson asked through gritted teeth.

"I didn't!" Elder Gumoduo puffed up his "voice bag" angrily, "I did do a lot of dirty work for Kaufman, but I never killed a woman, don't tarnish your reputation!"

"You monsters, how do you know what reputation is!" Sergeant Grayson said with disdain on his face.

Qiao An couldn't help coughing twice, and stopped writing to interrupt.

"Mr. Sheriff, please allow me to make some explanations for the suspect. According to the tradition of the bog people, an adult man, especially a man of noble origin, cannot kill women and children under any circumstances, otherwise he will be regarded as a coward. , sullied the honor of himself and his family."

"Don't kill women and tadpoles," Elder Gumoduo corrected, "Tadpoles are no longer children when they land on the shore and lose their tails. We held adult trials at the edge of the wetland, and the prey we selected were all adult men among human beings. Never attack your women and tadpoles."

"We human beings, if sperm and fertilized eggs are not counted, there is no metamorphic larval stage of 'tadpole' in the growth process." Qiao An solemnly refuted.

"Okay, okay! Now is not the time to discuss academic issues, so stop picking on each other."

Ted Pinkerton didn't know whether to laugh or cry, interrupted the debate between Joan and Elder Gumoduo on the topic of "tadpoles", and motioned to get back to the topic.

"Since you don't intend to kill Mrs. Irina, why did you accept Kaufman's assassination mission?"

"Because I need magic crystals...Magic crystals are an indispensable material for making magic wands, and they are also the currency that circulates within our tribe." Gumoduo glanced at Joan resentfully, "My 'water-controlling wand', It was snatched away by that little mage."

Joan's face was hot, and he quickly turned his head to look out the window, whistling, pretending to be looking at the scenery.

"I didn't want to kill the woman myself, and I didn't want to offend Kaufman, the big benefactor, so I came up with a compromise and invited my eldest sister, Guslin, to carry out this dishonorable mission together."

"Guslin is Gudella's mother, a very fierce woman—women kill women, and it's not a loss of reputation."

Pinkerton nodded and asked, "In other words, Mrs. Irina and her lover died at the hands of your elder sister, Ms. Guslin?"

Gumoduo shook his head lightly, his face became very strange.

"To be precise, we didn't kill Kaufman's wife, just her lover."

Pinkerton and Gregson looked at each other with disbelief on their faces.

"You didn't kill Mrs. Irina, so where did she go?"

"She died. Before we could do anything, she was dragged out of the carriage by her lover, strangled to death, and then threw her body into the bottomless mud."

Elder Gumoduo talked about the past, his eyes looked a little gloomy, especially when he mentioned Mrs. Irina's lover, he showed contempt from the bottom of his heart.

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