Seeing Marcel Hopkins’ action, Braeden Walls was stunned for a second, and then he even laughed, “Thanks!”
“You’re welcome,” Marcel said.
Not until then did Rae Baxter find Braeden’s lips peeling.
Maybe only Captain Hopkins could notice such details, she thought.
Braeden smiled sightly, “A cup of water for me? You must want more further details.”
“Nope,” Marcel also smiled, “it’s just humanitarianism. You look thirty. I can’t ignore your peeling lips!”
“Hahaha! I know.” Braden waved his hand to interrupt. “I will say, OK? Captain Hopkins, I knew it’s good for me to confess earlier. You must have got enough evidence since you decided to arrest me, but your evidence can’t sentence me to death!”
“Well,” Marcel nodded, “only the court can sentence you, not us.”
“When will you transfer me to the court?” Braeden asked.
“Tomorrow!” Marcel answered honestly.
“Good. It’s your style, fast and resolute. I would have no way out even if you detain me for some days. Does the court want to detain me again?”
“The earlier you confess, the faster this case will be finished!”
Braeden nodded, “Fine, I’ll confess. Indeed, I hate Sammy Champs, who was the cause of my mother and father’s car accident. My mother argued with my father, just because of Sammy Champs. I’m not sure if the car accident was a real accident, but I doubt that it was just a plan made by my mother, who wanted to kill my father and then herself. She had the reason to do that because she was mad then, but they couldn’t leave me alone in this world! My father deserved to die because he had betrayed my mother! But my mother was too pitiful! She did nothing too much. Fate also betrayed her!”
“Sammy Champs, that old woman! She even came to my house to attend my father and mother’s funeral! She profaned my mother’s place! I made my mind to revenge at that moment! Actually, I knew everything about the amour between my father and her, and I have already known this ten years ago! I wanted to revenge, but it was at my mother’s funeral that I made up my mind. I needed to bite the bullet and get her blood for my mother’s blood!”
“I’ve taken five years to make the plan, and finally got her trust. However, I failed! That bitch is a disgusting demon, who knew everything but pretended to know nothing! Hahaha! I am a fool, right? I planned to revenge, but actually, she’s just making use of me!”
What Braeden said was almost the same as Marcel’s inference.
Braeden intended to revenge and to destroy the Gill family!
However, he failed. Just as he got close to the Gill family, he was found out!
Kaden Duran’s mental illness had influenced his plan.
And Joanna Salinas’s death was also a huge shock for him!
“So, who do you think is Joanna Salinas’s killer?” Marcel asked.
Braeden Walls thought for a while, and then laughed, “Captain Hopkins, I’m not sure of it. There should be some suspects for Joanna’s death.”
“Yes,” Marcel nodded, “I’ll name three suspects, and you should judge who the real murder is.”
“The first one, Raphael Gill, the second, Mathew Gill, and the last one, Sammy Champs!” Marcel asked Braeden to judge.
Without hesitation, Braeden made his judgment, “It must be Sammy Champs!”
“Why?” Marcel wasn’t surprised, because he also thought Sammy Champs was the most possible one.
“You will never know even a little about an evil demon’s means! Maybe it was just her who wanted my mother to die so she put something in my mother’s car, but she just didn’t expect that my father was in the car, too!”
“Is there any evidence?” Marcel frowned.
“No!” Braeden shook his head, “but years ago, a stranger came to the cemetery with a carnation. I went to find him later. He was a repairman of a garage! I asked why he had sent the flower on that day, he refused to answer. I went to find him once more, but he was not there! I have never found him again! I think he must have something to do with Sammy Champs’s plan and my father and mother’s car accident!”
“Why didn’t you ask for the police’s help?”
“Calling the police will ruin my plan!” Braeden said, “Now I’m asking for your help, so you can investigate this.”
“Give me that repairman’s information, and I’ll ask my men to find him.” Then Marcel asked Garbassi to take charge of this matter.
At this moment, Rae’s phone rang. She went out to answer it.
Soon she came back but looked strange. She got close to Marcel and said, “Captain Hopkins, the fellows from Material Evidence Section called me just now. He said there is something strange about Mathew Gill’s clothes. The blood on it is like spray, but according to Joanna’s wound, there must be someone who stabbed her on her back! The blood should not be like spray. I think Braeden’s judgment is right. Sammy Champs is the most likely one!”
Braeden Walls interrupted, “From what I know of Mathew Gill, he’s merciless, but not so merciless as Sammy Champs. Mathew Gill is a playboy, and what he wants are just girls, so he is reluctant to kill a young beautiful girl! It’s not reasonable for a playboy to kill ladies, but it’s reasonable for an evil demon! You guys don’t know much about Sammy Champs, but I do. She’s a real desperado!”
According to the analysis from the Material Evidence Section, the clothes stained with blood were indeed Mathew Gill’s clothes, but the spray-like blood on them also showed that Mathew Gill was not the direct murderer!
This evidence made all of those guys here drop into silence.
What Braeden said was consistent with Marcel’s reasoning. The only clue they got was that Braeden thought the murderer was Sammy Champs, not Mathew Gill, but he had no evidence.
They left the interrogation room and went back to the office. It was almost three in the morning. The sun will rise soon, so they were bound to be sleepless this night.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...