Chapter 406: Storm (Please Subscribe, Recommend, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) I Wrote Until 4am and Asked for the Monthly Ticket!!

While Kai and his group were fighting, the battle in Chicago became more and more intense.

Although the battle in Chicago was bloodless and even calm, it was no less dangerous. When Assistant State Attorney Peter Stone launched an investigation into the Tuttle Foundation, a political storm began to take shape.

As soon as Peter Stone officially investigated the Tuttle Foundation, the state prosecutor put pressure on Peter Stone to stop the investigation, on the grounds that the Tuttle Foundation was a religious foundation and a very famous charitable foundation in Illinois. It was unreasonable and reckless to launch such an investigation without any pointing evidence, which would cause protests from religious people.

Religion has always been the bottom line of American society, and anything related to religion needs to be carefully and carefully. You should know that in the United States, religious industries do not need to pay taxes. In a sense, religion is a bit lawless in the United States.

What's more, the Tuttle Foundation is a religious foundation backed by the Catholic Church. This foundation is committed to helping poor believers out of difficulties, and subsidizes some young people who intend to become priests to complete theological courses. It also opens schools so that some poor children can receive a good education, and even provides scholarships.

In short, the Tuttle Foundation is not only backed by a big tree, but also has a very good reputation. It is definitely a target that prosecutors at all levels avoid.

But just when the state prosecutor stopped the investigation of Peter Stone, a report from the church appeared in the state prosecutor's office. That's right, the Catholic Church reported its own foundation, and they reported corruption within the Tuttle Foundation!

According to this internal report from the Archdiocese of Chicago, since 1981, the foundation has lost more than millions of dollars in funds every year, and part of these funds come from donations from believers in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The church's self-explosion caught many people off guard.

Then on the same day, Peter Stone found out that there was a serious corruption inside the Tuttle Foundation, with a lot of funds disappearing inexplicably, and a considerable part of the funds being transferred under various names. Can you believe that it costs $500,000 to paint the exterior walls of a school under the foundation? That's a school, not a skyscraper.

After getting evidence of corruption, Peter Stone went a step further and began to thoroughly investigate the flow of funds in the foundation.

This made more people nervous.

To put it bluntly, the Tuttle Foundation is just a cover for the Tuttle Church to conduct money-for-power transactions. If the funds are investigated, many people will be implicated. So on the second day, the investigation was hindered. First, the Illinois State Court ruled that Peter Stone's investigation was illegal and released several suspects who were detained by Peter Stone on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

As a result, several suspects were taken back to the police station on other charges just after they walked out of the police station building.

Then the state police suddenly came to the Chicago Police Department and asked the Chicago police to transfer several people to them for investigation purposes.

The Chicago police were still discussing how to deal with the state police's request, but a police inspector in the police station took the initiative to transfer several suspects. This shocked the Chicago police. They didn't expect that such a trick would be played on their own territory.

The inspector was immediately controlled, and then the Chicago police immediately planned to recover the suspects, but before the Chicago police took action, news came that the state police who came to pick up the suspects had a car accident on Michigan Avenue, and several suspects were unfortunately killed!

Naked murder to silence witnesses!

Such blatant silencing has not appeared for many years, which made the Chicago police extremely annoyed. They took several state police officers back to the police station and planned to open the situation from them. As a result, before the interrogation began, the state police took several police officers away very forcefully. They even clamored to sue the Chicago police. According to them, the Chicago police not only did not provide help after their police officers encountered a car accident, but also prohibited them from going to the hospital. This is a waste of life.

In short, it was a quibble. As for the suspects? Anyway, the state police didn't care much. People were dead and everything was an accident. What else could they want?

At the same time, on Peter's side, the FBI suddenly intervened in the matter and forcibly took away and sealed the information that Peter had finally found from the foundation.

At this point, it seemed that the group supporting the "Tuttle Church" had won.

But in the afternoon, there was a sudden news that the Chicago police had cracked a serial murder case!

The perpetrator was named Errol William Childress. The details of the case were made public in a very short time, and a large number of physical evidence and bodies related to the missing persons were found in the suspect's home. By the time the media exposed it, the police had dug out more than 138 bodies from the suspect's yard, most of which were the skeletons of women and children. According to the items related to the deceased found in the suspect's home, after comparison and confirmation, the Chicago police have confirmed the identities of 30 of the deceased.

The death time span of these deceased people is very long. The earliest deceased confirmed by the Chicago police was about thirty-five years ago. The suspect William Childress is only 41 years old. It is a bit far-fetched to say that he started killing at the age of five. Therefore, the police have reason to believe that Billy Childress's father Billy Childress is also a perverted killer.

However, when the police found Billy Childress, he had been tortured and imprisoned by his son, William Childress, for fifteen years and had completely lost the ability to bear legal responsibility, so he was exempted from prosecution, but he will spend the rest of his life in the hospital. Even according to the doctor's diagnosis, it is unknown whether this old generation of killer can survive.

His facial features were sewn up by his son with needle and thread. His eyes and mouth have basically lost their original functions. Some organs in his body have even atrophied and necrotic to varying degrees. Even according to the doctor, it is a miracle that he is still alive now.

Of course, if the matter ends here, it can only be regarded as a social news and will not affect the current political struggle in Chicago.

But the series of documents and video materials collected from William Childress's home are different. Those documents contain some records of William Childress's dealings with many political and judicial figures, as well as records of William Childress's financial dealings with the Tuttle Foundation.

The most explosive of these is the relationship between William Childress and Illinois State Senator Edwin Tuttle. According to the video and audio materials found at the scene, Edwin Tuttle is not only very familiar with William Childress, but also gave William Childress a lot of help, such as helping him contact some judicial figures and helping to "deal with" some so-called "disclosures."

Now the entire Chicago political arena exploded.

Edwin Tuttle is a veteran senator in Illinois. He has served as the Chicago District Attorney, the State Attorney, and then ran for governor. Although he failed to be elected, he became one of the two senators in Chicago in the subsequent Senate election. He is an absolutely veteran politician, and his relationships are spread throughout the Illinois judicial department.

Once this news broke, the world was shaken instantly.

Although Edwin Tuttle kept denying that he had any relationship with William Childress, it was useless. What's worse, even if he could deny that he had any relationship with William Childress, he could not deny his relationship with Billy Lee Tuttle, and Billy Lee Tuttle's sister happened to be William Childress's mother...

With this favorable wind, Peter Stone began to focus on investigating several missing cases that were obviously problematic, one of which was the most typical. This was a little girl named Mary Fontenot who disappeared 19 years ago in 1990 when she was 10 years old. The Tuttle family once funded a kindergarten called Shepherd's Home, where Mary stayed. In 1988, Shepherd's Home was accused of child molestation and was forced to close. Two years later, it was renamed Bright Path Academy and reopened on Pelican Island, and Mary became a student there again.

Mary's mother called the police immediately after she found out her daughter was missing, but the local sheriff Ted Childress privately changed the police report, canceled the report, and asked the then investigator Steve Jerici not to continue investigating the missing case. He claimed that the girl's mother was a prostitute and drug addict, and said that he knew the girl's father and knew that the girl had gone with her father. Steve Jerici later found out that the girl's mother was also missing, so he really gave up the investigation. Then Steve Jerici was appreciated and recommended by Ted Childress and began to rise step by step.

According to Peter Stone's investigation, Ted Childress and Billy Childress were cousins.

Then a series of officials and police were brought down by this case, and the entire Illinois political arena became chaotic for a while.

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But this has nothing to do with Kai. After cleaning up the scene and calling the Chicago police to enter, this matter has nothing to do with him. In fact, at this point, many things are no longer controlled by Kai.

In fact, now the case has become less important. Once the public opinion storm is formed, some interest groups will add fuel to the flames. For example, most of the people who targeted State Senator Edwin Tuttle were not seeking justice for the innocent victims. They were more interested in taking advantage of the situation and wanted to bring Edwin Tuttle down.

After all, the political pie is only so big. If Edwin Tuttle eats it, others can only eat less or even nothing. Before, Edwin Tuttle had no flaws, and everything was fine. But now that Edwin Tuttle has revealed such a big flaw, naturally there are people who want to rush over, knock down Edwin Tuttle, and share his pie.

The adult world is very cruel.

In addition, Kai and Matthew are too conspicuous in this case. If they continue to stay, they will definitely become targets. After all, the people affected by this case are far more than just Edwin Tuttle.

Although the church took the initiative to take the blame this time, making their target much smaller, but if they continue to jump, they will be uncomfortable. This is also the reason why Kai found the church and forced them to trade. The church is large in size, so even if it stands out and attracts firepower, it will not be a big problem. Even if those whose interests are damaged want to retaliate, what can they do to the church? At most, they will disgust the church, but so what?

The church has been standing for so many years, what storms has it not experienced? Isn't it still the world's largest religion?

It's just difficult for Deputy Director Cooper. On the one hand, he needs to stabilize his position and deal with pressure from all parties. On the other hand, he can't offend all parties too much, which will affect his ascension to the throne of director. The mental energy required in the middle is not comparable to that of ordinary police officers handling cases.

But how to say it, since Cooper wants to ascend to the throne of director, some pressure must be borne by him.

"So... you haven't been able to deal with Tapia yet?" It's rare that Kai is relatively free today, so he stayed in the police station office and chatted with a group of colleagues. Marcus and Mike happened to be there, and seeing how dejected they were, they were probably scolded by Theresa again.

"Don't mention it. These days, that bastard seems to have retired from the underworld, and he's as honest as a high school nerd. He hasn't even found a lady, and we really have no way to deal with him." Marcus was almost driven crazy by this case. As time went by, the patience of the police and the DEA was being consumed bit by bit. The reason why Marcus took over this case before was that he didn't want his sister to take risks.

But now the case has not made any progress, and the DEA and the police can't wait indefinitely. They hope to follow the original plan and let Marcus' sister Sydney take the initiative to attract Tapia's attention.

So Marcus is getting anxious every day, but there is no better way.

The same is true for Mike. After all... this guy is having an affair with Sydney, and Marcus, the idiot, hasn't noticed it at all...

"We thought of some... not-so-formal ways, but that guy is too cautious, leaving us no chance at all." Mike complained to Kai while texting Sydney with his phone.

"Hey! Nigga, can you stop holding your phone like a high school student all day? Can't you just focus on the case?" Marcus was upset to see that Mike was still playing with his phone. "Oh my God, what's wrong with people nowadays? They hold their phones all day without even raising their heads. Why don't they study so seriously?"

Mike silently quit the chat, and then put away his phone with a guilty conscience. It is a very dangerous thing to flirt with his sister in front of a sister control. This is why Mike has not confessed to Marcus until now, although Sydney has always hoped that Mike can take the initiative to tell Marcus... After all, she is in love, not cheating, so is there any need to be so sneaky?

Marcus complained a few more times, and finally looked at Kai and hesitated.

"What? Do you want to confess to me like you did to Mike? First of all, I'm not a guy. Secondly, even if I am, you can't be my type. You're too ugly." Kai teased Marcus when he saw his expression. If you're too serious with black people, you'll be unpleasant. Especially these two.

"Hey! I've said it before, don't joke about this, okay?"

The oolong that Marcus and Mike made in the electrical appliance store last time has become the biggest joke in the detective bureau. Every day, someone jokes about their "ambiguous relationship" and sexual orientation, which makes Marcus angry to death. In the end, he forced a rule that he is not allowed to joke about this in the future.

"Okay, okay." Kai raised his hand to indicate that he was wrong. "If it's not a confession, then what are you going to say?"

Marcus gritted his teeth and finally said, "I want you to help us!"

Mike raised his head and looked at Marcus in surprise. Although Marcus is small and thin, this guy has a very strong self-esteem. If you want him to give in, you must be his wife. Among police officers, it is absolutely shameful to actively ask others to intervene in the case they are in charge of, as it is an admission that they are incompetent.