Chapter 1789: Summer in Fool Village (Part 3)

After parting with Cobblepot, Schiller began to think on the way back to the office.

Start with the motive, who wants to go against the mafia family?

First, rule out the police. After Gordon became the police chief some time ago, he and the mafia have a common interest to some extent. The transformation of the mafia is also good for the public security in Gotham.

Besides, other police chiefs may still have accidents, but Gordon is known as the last conscience of Gotham. He is unlikely to use such despicable means as poisoning.

In the past, the city government was also the enemy of the mafia. Although the mafia often bribed officials in order to obtain protection, the power struggle in the political arena may indeed affect the mafia.

But the current city government structure in Gotham is very stable. Roy has no opponents, and the mafia also recognizes his transformation ideas. The two sides have been at peace for so long. Even if there are conflicts, Roy will definitely prefer to communicate rather than take direct action, so the city government is also ruled out.

Merchants and entrepreneurs also have motives for committing crimes. The gangsters' overbearing style of behavior has offended many people, but now the most influential entrepreneur in Gotham City is the Wayne family. Even if Bruce will kill people now, he doesn't need to kill gang members.

Now is the period of development. Gotham's major forces have finally reached a consensus. Even if the Wayne Group is short of money, he can't be short-sighted enough to let the situation get chaotic again, which is not good for anyone.

So will Falcone do it himself? This is the most likely possibility, but if the death of the heir of the Farnese family will weaken the next generation of the Farnese family, then what about old Mrs. Spencer?

The old Spencers have stopped caring about things a few years ago. The family business has long been handed over to their son, and old Mrs. Spencer is a dying person. Even if she doesn't do it, she won't live long. Why add such an accident?

After analyzing the motives, Schiller found that there were still no useful clues, and then he began to think about the method. Who has the ability to kill these two people?

The answer to this question is too wide, and anyone who has come into contact with them is suspected.

Thinking of this, Schiller paused, turned a corner, and did not continue to walk to the office, but went to the library instead. He needed to look up some information, especially medical information related to acute poisoning and the urinary system.

Not every psychologist needs to learn internal and external medicine. If Schiller has any shortcomings in medicine, he does not have as deep an understanding of internal medicine as surgery and psychiatry.

In daily life, poisoning patients are not uncommon. The most common is food poisoning. Even so, the risk of poisoning is still very high. Then there are snakes. Some snake venom requires corresponding serum to treat the symptoms.

The symptoms of systemic edema usually come from urinary system problems, to be precise, kidney problems. Urinary system manifestations are also common in the symptoms of poisoned patients. Usually, toxins cause kidney problems, resulting in edema caused by the inability to discharge body water smoothly.

These manifestations have quite professional pathological analysis. Schiller only read a few articles and found the problem.

In simple terms, if the poisoning was done artificially, then the drug that causes kidney problems is not the best choice. First, the amount is not fatal enough, and second, the poisoning time is long, so there is a lot of room for rescue and treatment.

If the urinary system manifestations are only incidental, then there must be more and more obvious symptoms before that. However, Coppert emphasized that in addition to systemic edema, the patient has no other manifestations, so we can only wait for the forensic report.

However, we can make a logical inference from this. The murderer obviously has a better choice but does not use it. Instead, he takes this troublesome and risky stupid method. He must have his intention.

Then it also shows that the other party is unlikely to kill for profit, because if it is a fight for profit, the killer will only kill according to the existing experience. Even if it is poisoning, it is the kind of poison with strong lethality and low possibility of cure.

There is no need for the killer who takes money to do things to create a unique killing method. Generally, those who do this are serial killers with their own special purposes.

Is swelling all over the body the key? Schiller thought, did the murderer use this poison to kill the victims just to make their bodies show this effect? Or let them experience a special kind of pain?

Schiller's mind instantly listed many possibilities, and he believed that the correct answer must be included in them, but now he had to go to the multimedia classroom to receive the autopsy report sent by Cobert via email.

In front of the computer, Schiller clicked on the email and briefly browsed the autopsy report of Little Fanas, and then looked at the photos. The most unexpected thing was the photo.

The corpse in the photo was completely unrecognizable as a young man. He was completely swollen like a giant, and even his facial features were not clear. If you can't imagine it, it can be compared to the Michelin tire man, but it is much more disgusting and terrifying than that.

Schiller didn't think the corpse was disgusting, he just felt a little strange. Some motivation inferences in his mind were gradually eliminated, and some were highlighted.

Schiller first examined the state of the corpse from the perspective of an ordinary person, and found that he could not get any feelings except disgust and horror. Then he observed it from his own perspective and saw a ridiculous state of idiocy.

People have a mocking mentality towards huge, bloated and clumsy things. The corpse is showing a similar state. Does the murderer want the audience to laugh at the victim?

The murderer of a serial murder case generally has two ideas, making the victim experience what he has experienced, and making the victim experience what humans cannot experience.

The former is like revenge, and the latter is like sublimation. The former focuses on showing the world his past, and the latter is the murderer wants the audience to see the future he wants.

In many cases, the victim's posture implies the murderer's ridicule. The murderer's process of killing them and all the treatment of their bodies are to humiliate them, and this time is the same.

The murderer publicly humiliates the victims to the world, making them present a bloated and ridiculous posture that they would never present in their lifetime.

This proves that the murderer is likely to have been ridiculed in this way, and it is very likely that he has been ridiculed by these two victims.

Instantly, the answer in Schiller's mind was highlighted.

He immediately turned to the phone and dialed Cobert's number. Before Cobert could speak, he said quickly.

"I read the autopsy report you gave me. I know who the murderer is. Go find the unpopular fat man in the twelve families."

Schiller quickly hung up the phone without further explanation, and when he returned to the office, Anna and Victor were still there.

Schiller now had time to ask Victor about the student's specific situation, so he walked to Victor's desk and asked, "How is your student? Is he okay?"

"Fortunately, he survived." Victor breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You don't know how thrilling it was. He fell in the laboratory. Fortunately, two female students in the laboratory next door found him. They quickly called me and the infirmary."

"But in just a dozen minutes, his whole body was swollen like a tire. We rushed him to Wayne Hospital. The doctor said that if he came one minute later, his kidneys would have completely failed."

Schiller's hand suddenly stopped as he reached for the pen. He frowned and looked at Victor and said, "What did you say? The student was swollen all over?"

"Yes, it was scary." Victor fiddled with the pen in his hand and said, "It's not like I haven't seen horrible crime scenes before. But according to the two girls, Osk was like a balloon that was blown up, and it expanded in just a few minutes..."

Schiller immediately turned and walked to the telephone station. Victor looked at him and asked, "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Schiller made a silent gesture to him, and after dialing the phone, he said to the other end, "Wait a minute, Cobert, my answer just now may be wrong. Have you done it?"

"What? You have caught the murderer? But... tell me where you are now, and I will go over. Yes, don't touch the murderer for the time being, let me see him."

Schiller walked behind Victor's seat, patted his shoulder and said, "Drive me there, I need to think about something."

Victor said nothing, picked up the car keys and followed Schiller. The two came to the front of Victor's car, opened the door and got in.

"What's going on?" Victor asked while starting the car.

Schiller briefly described the incident and his thoughts, and then said: "The whole process of the murder is like a complex and sophisticated machine. The motive, method and result are all necessary, and there is a very subtle interaction between all elements."

"If one link is changed, it means that all subsequent inferences may be wrong."

"The state of the victims' bodies after death proves that the murderer wants to humiliate them, and this humiliation is directed."

"Making them swollen means that the murderer wants the world to see their bloated side and wants them to be laughed at because of their ugly image of a big belly. This means that the murderer is likely to have been laughed at by them in this way, and he wants them to experience the same feeling. "The two previous victims were members of the Twelve Families, and old Mrs. Spencer is already bedridden. The people she can contact are very limited. It is almost certain that they are all members of the Twelve Families." "There are not many members with abnormal body shapes in the Twelve Families. Just gather them together and interrogate them one by one. The murderer is not a serial killer with great artistic pursuits. His motive for killing is more revenge. It is very likely that he just did it out of anger. He will definitely feel regret and fear afterwards. A little questioning will reveal the truth. Cobert must understand this truth." "But why did you change your mind again?" "Because your student has the same problem, and he is still alive." Schiller tapped on the door handle of the car. "What does this prove? Prove that he is actually more lame than you thought, and there are still fish that slip through the net?"

"The murderer's motive is nothing new, but his method is very clever. Even Mrs. Spencer, who never leaves the bedroom of the Spencer family residence, could not escape. Little Fanus was also attacked by people who were not short of protection. Do you think your student will escape by chance?"

"Why then..."

"A serial killer motivated by revenge will not kill randomly. He attacked your student, which proves that your student may have mocked him. Then he could kill important figures in the gang, but an accident happened to an ordinary student. There must be something hidden in it, so I want to go and see."

The car stopped, and Schiller pushed open the car door and got out of the car while saying: "What's more, being able to prepare a drug that makes people swell like a tire man is also a plastic talent in chemical pharmaceuticals. I have to find a student for Jonathan to keep him quiet."

The two walked into Cobert's manor together. Cobert sat on the sofa, and two burly gangsters in front of him pressed a fat man.

Schiller walked up, and Cobert shook his hand and pointed at the fat man.

Schiller paused the moment his eyes fell on the fat man, and then he asked.

"Are you sure it's him? He has never killed anyone."

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