Chapter 347: Murder and Frame-Up (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) 5,000 Words, Please Vote for Me
Chicago Governor Hotel is located in the center of Chicago, right next to Oak Street Beach. It only takes a few minutes to walk to experience the style of Chicago's lakeside beach. It is less than 2 miles (2 kilometers) from Navy Pier and Millennium Park. The hotel also provides yacht services. They not only provide suite services, but also rent some beach villas as special services. People can hold some more private gatherings and parties.
The history of the Governor Hotel has also witnessed the changes and prosperity of Chicago. It is considered one of the landmark buildings in Chicago. It is one of the most famous and expensive hotels in Chicago. An ordinary suite here costs hundreds of dollars, and the cost of yachts and beach villas is as high as tens of thousands of dollars. Those who can spend here are definitely rich or noble.
But today, the beach villa area of the hotel seems particularly "lively", with police cars and police everywhere, and from time to time there are some big shots with their heads and faces wrapped in clothes, leaving from the special passage specially opened by the police.
These guys are big shots in Chicago. Obviously, their interest was completely interrupted tonight.
"Excluding the two victims, we found a total of 147 bullet holes. Obviously, there was a gunfight here. According to the ballistic analysis, a group of people were chasing someone." Matthew said to Kai while recording something in a large notebook.
Kai nodded and looked at the scene casually. Two dead, one male and one female.
The man was about thirty years old, white, lying on a chair, wearing a very expensive suit, but the suit was obviously not suitable for him and was not well-fitting. It seemed that he should have bought ready-made clothes. And from the fact that he rolled up the cuffs of the suit and opened the floral shirt with his chest, this person obviously rarely wears a suit. He feels like he doesn't look like a prince even if he wears a dragon robe. There are many very obvious pinholes on his arms. It seems that he should be a drug addict.
He has three gunshot wounds, one on the knee and the other two on the chest. The fatal ones are the two gunshot wounds on the chest.
The female dead was about twenty years old, black, and her clothes looked very decent, but they were actually cheap. From this point, it can be seen that the girl's economic situation is not ideal. But from another perspective, it can also be seen that this girl has a very good sense of fashion.
She had two gunshot wounds on her body, all in the chest and abdomen, and she was lying on a broken glass coffee table.
"The name of this deceased is Eddie Domingo. I have seen him. He used to be a policeman." Matthew pointed at the male deceased and said.
Kai looked at him and asked, "Once? How did he leave the police force?"
"Bribery, frame-up, extortion, dereliction of duty, a typical black policeman. After being caught by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was kicked into prison. After that, he has been hanging out with some gang members, acting as a matchmaker for others and a criminal broker." Matthew didn't know where he got this information from, but he could come up with it casually.
Kai nodded, and he saw some tin foil placed next to the sofa. It was used by the police station to wrap No. 5 heroin, and there was a red label on it. Obviously, this guy was related to the theft case of the police station. Then Kai turned his eyes to the female deceased. Next to the deceased, Mike was squatting next to the body, covering his face, and was in a low mood.
"What about her?"
Matthew didn't care about Mike's emotions at all, and said very directly: "She should be a prostitute, she should have seen something she shouldn't have seen..."
But before Matthew finished speaking, Mike suddenly jumped up, grabbed Matthew's collar, and hit him in the face. →
"Madfake! She's not a prostitute! No!"
Matthew was hit, and instinctively wanted to fight back. He was not the kind of person who would not fight back when being hit, but his fist was grabbed by Kai. Matthew turned his head and looked at Kai, who shook his head: "That's his informant. And obviously, she found a very important clue for us."
Matthew rarely considers other people's feelings when speaking. He is the kind of person who says whatever he thinks, and most of the time, what he says is true. In fact, from Kai's point of view, the victim should have been a prostitute. Because the pimps will never introduce green hands to conduct important transactions, because there is too much uncertainty, and only those with rich experience will be trusted.
Just looking at the villa in front of you, you can see that this business is definitely not small. However, no matter what, the person is dead. Some things are better left unsaid than revealed.
Marcus also pulled Mike away at this time and comforted him.
"Listen, brother, we will find those bastards and make them pay. Definitely!"
Mike didn't say anything, just shook his head. He felt it was his fault. If he hadn't asked Max to find out if there were any new faces who were spending a lot of money to have fun recently, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
At this time, Kai came over and patted Mike on the shoulder.
"Sorry, you know what kind of character Matthew is. He didn't mean to say that girl."
Mike kept silent, and Kai sighed. Without saying anything else, he took out a mobile phone. It was the deceased's mobile phone, and there were eight missed calls in it. All from the same name, Louise Phil. Similarly, there was this number in Eddie Domingo's mobile phone. Obviously, this was the phone of the madam.
"Have you heard of this Louise Phil?"
Mike raised his head with anger in his eyes. "Of course! She was Max's former boss. Max hasn't been in this business for a long time. She must have asked Max to come here!"
"Hey! Hey!" Kai stopped Mike and said very seriously: "Mike, look at me! Calm down! If you are in this state, I think you are not suitable for this case anymore. Anger can't solve any problems!"
Perhaps Kai has lived long enough and seen enough, so he has a kind of momentum that is intimidating without anger. This makes Kai always unconsciously become the center of the crowd, and there is no sense of disobedience when giving orders. Just like now, Kai is obviously at the same level as Mike, but unconsciously, he speaks in the tone of a superior. Miraculously, other people don't think there is anything wrong with this. Even the rebellious Mai Kai and Marcus think there is nothing wrong with it.
Mike was taught a lesson by Kai and finally calmed down a little. Seeing that Mike finally calmed down, Kai spoke up: "We found traces of another person at the scene. He or/she should have come with Max, but he is not dead, he should have escaped. I need you and Marcus to find the madam and ask her to give the name and address of that person! We need to find her! This is very important, Mike! Do you understand?"
"I understand!" Mike nodded vigorously.
Kai nodded with satisfaction this time.
"Marcus, keep an eye on him! Don't let him do anything stupid."
"Don't worry!"
...
After Mike and Marcus left, Kai received a call. After hearing this call, Kai and Matthew rushed back to the police station immediately. The two fake policemen they arrested before were silenced in the detention center!
This is not the worst. What's worse is that there is news from Theresa that someone reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs that it was Matthew who instructed a prisoner in the detention center to do it.
This is completely nonsense. After they caught the two fake policemen, they didn't even ask them, they just threw them into the detention center. Kai and his team actually had no evidence to accuse them of murder and assaulting police officers. After all, they were just pretending to be police officers, and there was no evidence that they really wanted to do something bad to Matthew.
So Kai and Matthew planned to use them to fish from the beginning to see if the people behind them would come to rescue them. But unexpectedly, the people behind them were much more decisive than they thought, and they killed people directly to silence them, and then put the blame on Matthew.
Of course, this blame was too far-fetched. Even if the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were mad dogs, they could not really use this bullshit report to deal with Matthew.
But this time, Kai still guessed wrong.
As soon as they returned to the police station, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wanted to detain Matthew directly. The reason was not that the two fake police officers were killed. It was drug trafficking! When Matthew was not there, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually got a search warrant and searched Matthew's locker directly, and found almost five kilograms of drugs from it! Coincidentally, these drugs are exactly the same as a new type of drugs that have appeared on the streets recently!
Kai laughed out loud when he heard this.
This made the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs extremely dissatisfied. One of the people with middle-parted hair said very unhappily: "Do you have any opinions on the handling of our Ministry of Internal Affairs?"
"Of course!"
Several people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were stunned. They all said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was equivalent to the Jinyiwei. Even if the general police were dissatisfied with the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they would not express it in person. After all, no one likes to be targeted by the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"What opinions?" The middle-parted man asked with a sullen face.
"That is... Are all the people in your Ministry of Internal Affairs idiots?" Kai really had nothing to say. Everything was said by the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including the search warrant and drugs. They were all said by their Ministry of Internal Affairs. Who else knew. Theresa was also very annoyed about this. Not only did her direct leader not know about the issuance of the search warrant, but even Matthew himself was not notified. Did they think that they could arrest an on-duty policeman in this way? What kind of reason is this? The Ministry of Internal Affairs does not have this power.
"You..." A group of people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were immediately angry.
Unfortunately, Kai didn't indulge them. He pushed them away and took Matthew straight to Theresa's office. A group of people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs originally planned to take tough measures directly, but thinking of Kai's record of catching all the people from the intelligence team in one fell swoop, they were a little hesitant. It's not that they are afraid, but it's not worth it. If that kind of thing really happens, the face of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be completely lost.
This is the second time Theresa has clashed with the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
But this time it's not Triss as before, but a different person. A man.
"Teresa, you know this is the rule. If your people commit crimes, they will be under the jurisdiction of our Ministry of Internal Affairs. I know you have been in a mess recently, so why don't we make it simple? Give the people to me, and I promise not to bother you. Everyone is happy."
"Fuck! Yuri! Damn Russian! Why can a bastard like you join the Chicago Police Force? Is it because you Soviets are best at killing your own people? Go to hell! If you want to touch my people, show me the evidence!"
"Isn't the evidence in front of you?"
"Go to hell! These are all illegal! Your search warrant is illegal. When you found the drugs, there were no one of my people around, and Matthew himself was not present! These are all illegal!" The Ministry of Internal Affairs faces the police, so evidence collection also needs to be more rigorous. For example, their search this time is full of all kinds of deliberate!
In the middle of the night, because of an unclear report, Matthew was suspected of instructing the prisoners in the detention center to kill two fake policemen, and then the district attorney approved the search warrant a few minutes later! In the absence of any evidence! Then there are the damn drugs! This is even more ridiculous! A police officer hid drugs in a locker at the police station! Can you go a little further?
More importantly, if this matter is completed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then she, the leader in charge, can say goodbye directly, and she will no longer have to think about being a police officer in this life. It was strange that Teresa agreed. Even though the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs named Yuri repeatedly hinted that if Teresa facilitated, there would be rewards, Teresa refused to nod.
Button!
Kai walked to the door and knocked on the door. Regardless of whether Theresa answered or not, he walked in with Matthew.
"Boss, are you looking for me?" Kai didn't even bother to look at Yuri.
"Well, you've been with Matthew lately, right?" Theresa's face improved a lot after seeing Kai. Why? Of course it’s because Kai’s backstage is so tough! As long as Kai can testify, there is nothing the Ministry of Internal Affairs can do.
"Are you talking about the accusations made by those idiots from the Ministry of Internal Affairs against Matthew?" Kai was not polite at all.
"Ahem, Detective Wayne... I think your attitude is very problematic. Are we just following the rules? There is no need to argue like this." In response to Kai's bad words, the Russian man named Yuri did not react as he did to Special Agent. Lesa was so confrontational, but she spoke very gently.
Kay's background was no secret to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After all, that's what they're in charge of. They knew that behind Kai stood Tony Stark. So if there is no need, they don't want to conflict with Kai, because it is meaningless and they might offend the Stark group.
"Really? You just acted according to the rules, just because of a groundless report, you got a search warrant and then took out the drugs from an empty cabinet?" Kai said sarcastically: "No need to deny it, everyone understands. Those lies are just Don’t use it to fool people.”
Yuri looked a little embarrassed, but he still forced a smile. "Since you're sure Matthew is innocent, why don't you let us check?"
Kai curled his lips in disdain. This guy was obviously a policeman, but he was willing to work for those disgusting pedophiles. It was simply off-putting. Kai didn't want to get involved with this guy at all. "You should have seen my information. You know that I have a good relationship with the FBI. Do you want me to report this case directly to the FBI?"
Yuri's expression finally changed. He lowered his voice and said, "Detective Wayne, this matter has nothing to do with you... Why do you need to get involved? This is not good for you. If you can stand by and watch, I guarantee that you will gain the friendship of many big people."
"Why don't you speak louder so that everyone can hear it?" Kai said with a sneer. What a bullshit big shot, just a group of cult leaders.
Yuri's face turned dark immediately. It was impossible to say such words to others.
So he planned to break up.
"Then I must take him away? You should all know that we have this power!"
Yuri was indeed right. Although many of their procedures were very nonsense, what was even more nonsense was that they did follow the procedures.
"What power? Tell me?" At this moment, a rich voice came from the office door.
Everyone turned to look and saw a tall, middle-aged black man walking in.
Theresa and Yuri both stood up: "Director Cooper!"
Matthew's backstage is here!
In the middle of the night, the number two man in the Chicago Police Department came. It can be seen from this that Chief Cooper really cares about his old subordinates.
Yuri can no longer be described as having a black face. He was also entrusted by someone. Originally, he didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, but the problem was that he couldn't refuse. What's more, he also knew that many of his things were untenable, but he had no choice.
The people there had no idea what Matthew had found, so they were a little panicked, so they sent someone to deal with Matthew, but Kai interfered. This time the commotion was serious, so I could only hurriedly silence him, and planned to take this opportunity to deal with Matthew completely.
According to their original plan, once Matthew was taken away by Yuri, Yuri would arrange a scene for Matthew of "arresting a gun and being shot to death." Even if there were many loopholes and doubts in the process, they would not hesitate to do it anyway. When the time comes, someone will naturally help Yuri tide over the difficulties.
But this must have a prerequisite, that is, they can take Matthew away as soon as possible.
But the result...
"Okay, now can anyone tell me what power you just mentioned?"
Yuri forced a smile and told Cooper what he said before.
"That's right. The Ministry of Internal Affairs does have this power. But it doesn't have to be so troublesome. Since we have to interrogate, it's better to be here. I can also observe. How about it? Isn't this considered a violation of discipline?"
Director Cooper was not as angry as expected, on the contrary, he was very gentle. But this is not what Yuri wants. With a big boss like Director Cooper by their side, how can they still play tricks? Those things are all temporary fabrications and cannot stand up to scrutiny.
"Of course!" But Yuri didn't have the right to refuse.
…
Through the one-way glass, Kay, Teresa and Director Cooper watched the 'performance' in the interrogation room with expressionless faces.
"What exactly did Matthew find?" Cooper asked after a long time.
Teresa shook her head and said she didn't know either. In fact, it didn't take long for her to be transferred, so she really didn't know what Matthew had found out.
Cooper looked at Kai.
Kai also shrugged: "Billy Lee Tuttle. He found out some things related to the Archbishop, not too much. But I didn't expect those people's reaction to be so big."
Cooper looked at Kai seriously. Finally, he said: "He is in danger. Why did you help him?"
“I’m a policeman, right?” Kai said.