Marcel inspected for a few times again but he did not discover anything.
Marcel said gently, “No!”
Rae Baxter asked him, “Don’t you discover anything?”
Marcel thought for a while with a slight surprise. “The house in the CD isn’t here!”
“Is it not him or he has some other houses! Also, who was the woman just now?”
“Let’s check tomorrow!” Marley said. “Look for the certificate of property ownership!”
“Alright!” Rae went to the bookshelf to look for some information since there were many books.
She came near to the bookshelf and withdrew the books one by one from the shelf. She opened the books but there was nothing suspicious in them.
“Captain Hopkins, I also think that Braeden Walls is strange. The three girls seem to be extremely afraid of him. Also, Shayla Anthony and Alondra Webb are marked. What does it mean?”
“This place is not suitable for talking. Take a quick look, we can talk about it after leaving!”
“Yes!” Rae flipped through a few books which seemed to have the biggest potential to carry something but in vain.
After staying in Braeden’s house for more than an hour, Marcel left together with Rae. They did not get what they wanted.
While going back, Marcel said, “It is absolutely clueless. What do you think?”
Rae thought and said, “Either he is truly innocent or he is really problematic. The instruments in the film need to be kept but it isn’t an easy job. If he is an innocent person, he will not have those things. Of course, he can also hide those things purposely! Also, there’s nothing in Melody Knox’s dormitory. Why would the CD appear there? I remember that I was extremely cautious when searching the materials but why would the CD appear suddenly?”
After being scolded by Marcel, she was shocked because she did not expect to meet Marcel. So, she did not think of the entire flow of the incident. The girls in their dormitory also provided fake information thus she was not confident.
When she recalled back, she noticed that she also tidied her bed when packing things. But, why would the CD appear between the layers?
“Someone had done something to the CD!” Marcel directly gave the answer.
“Ah?” Rae was astonished.
So, actually Marcel knew about it!
Rae never thought that Marcel would realize it. Who put the CD there intentionally?
“We can investigate it tomorrow!” Apparently, Marcel did not want to talk more about it.
At that moment, Marcel’s phone vibrated.
He looked at his phone and suddenly said with a deep voice, “Record down my phone number!”
He said a phone number and Rae was unable to catch up. He said again rapidly and Rae immediately took out her phone to record. Also, she saved his phone number.
At that moment, Marcel said another phone number and told her, “This is my private phone number!”
Rae immediately saved it into her phone and she thought that he would give her his private number unexpectedly. Did Marcel change?
After doing that, he picked up the phone.
“Yes, speak!”
The duration of the phone call was short. Marcel only said a few words, “Alright, I will reach the office after half an hour!”
After hanging up the phone, Marcel said to Rae, “Let’s go back and stop searching. We will go to the housing bureau for confirmation tomorrow!”
“Yes!”
They went back to the office rapidly and Easton Holder had been waiting at the door, “Captain Hopkins, every Melody’s appearance in the film have been marked. Seemingly, she liked to walk at the side door of Affiliated High School of SC Normal University. She will go out from there every noon and be back in the afternoon. I have checked the area near the school. After leaving from the side door, it is SF Street and the first presidential area is the living area of Affiliated High School of SC Normal University. I have sent someone to get the videotape of the surveillance camera. Currently, it is being analyzed and it is expected that the result will be released before work tomorrow.”
“On the day of the incident, what was Melody doing?”
“She did not appear in the surveillance camera for the entire day. We also went to the school and found out that Melody was absent for five days.”
“When was the last time that she appeared in the video?”
“On the 17th day, she appeared in the second cafeteria of SC Normal University at half past five in the afternoon. During that time, she vomited, and perhaps it was due to pregnancy!”
“Then, what about Philippa? Do you compare Philippa’s whereabouts?”
“I also mark out Philippa’s locations and I suspect that she is missing on the same day as Melody. I don’t know whether both of these are related or not!”
At that moment, Rae went out to call someone and returned after a few minutes. She reported, “Captain Hopkins, there are a total of 213 livestock farms in City B regardless of sizes. There are also a total of 65 male donkeys that are recorded. It still needs some time to investigate!”
“Alright!” Marcel turned his head to look at Rae, “Definitely, it takes time. It is not that easy to get all the DNA from those 65 donkeys. Also, we don’t know the number of donkeys that aren’t recorded!”
Who would treat a donkey for a sex partner?
This was too perverted!
Marcel also called someone, “Gustavo Wagner, what’s the situation at your side?”
Gustavo replied in the call, “It still needs three hours and I will immediately report to you when the result is out, Captain Hopkins!”
“Good!” Marcel quickly hung up the phone.
“Captain Hopkins, how about Braeden and Alondra?”
“Continue detaining them! No one is allowed to talk to them! After 24 hours, continue detaining them for another reason!”
Easton was shocked, “Continue detaining?”
“Yes, but without interrogation!” Marcel said.
“Alright, please be assured that it will be dealt with properly!” It was not a tough job to simply look for a reason to continue their custody but he was curious about Marcel’s plan in his mind.
“Easton, you send someone to check whether Piper Salinas has sisters or not, including cousins!” Marcel said again.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...