Chapter 38 Section 13

Nathan and Richard first went to Roy's house and burned Bobby Fanks' clothes and so on in the basement fireplace.They had intended to burn the blanket too, but it was too big to fit in the fireplace, and fearing the smell would be too strong, they temporarily hid it in the bushes behind the greenhouse in the garden.The two suspects gave the car another rough wash of blood with soap and water before driving to Riope's house.Nathan drove out of the garage the red Willy Cavalier that Swan Englund had packed up, and took his aunt and uncle home.Come back and join Mr. Leop and Richard in the living room.When it was almost twelve o'clock, Mr. Leop went to rest by himself.The two young men played poker for a while, guessing that the old man was fast asleep, and then drove out again, dropping the chisel at Greenwood Road and Forty-ninth Street.

Nathan and Richard were sitting in their respective classrooms the next day when Jacob Fanks received the ransom demand letter by Special Mail.They had lunch on campus, and Richard went home first to fetch a pair of glasses, a coat, and his father's hat, before the two of them went to the Leops' car wash.The driver, Swan Englund, saw them busy with soap and brushes, and asked what was the matter?They said they drank too much last night and vomited a carload.Shi Wan wanted to help, but the two said no, and it was almost over.Shiwan found it strange, because he had never seen these children doing housework, let alone washing a car.

After Nathan went upstairs to his bedroom to fetch all kinds of letters that had been prepared, the criminals drove to the planned trash can.But what they didn't expect was that the surface of the trash can was so greasy that the tape couldn't stick to it at all.In the end, they had to give up the idea, decided to skip the trash can, and instructed Mr. Fankers in a call to the pharmacy to go directly to the train station to stand by. The next location they were headed to was the Illinois Central Railroad station in downtown.Richard disguised himself before getting out of the car.He put on glasses and a coat, buttoned his father's hat low on his head, and went to the ticket booth to buy a train ticket for the "next trip to Michigan City, Indiana."The conductor told him that the driving time was 4:00 p.m., and there was still more than an hour. Richard nodded and said he knew.He also knew that since the departure station of this train was Chicago, the train had already stopped on the platform.Richard checks the ticket and enters the station, boards the empty train, takes an envelope from the pocket of his coat, and puts it in the signal box of the last car.

Nathan had just hung up the phone when Richard returned to the waiting hall and met his friend at the phone booth he had agreed upon.He said he had notified Mr. Fanks to take the ransom and take a taxi to the pharmacy on 63rd Street to await further instructions. Now, according to the plan, they were supposed to go to a store on 67th Street and call the pharmacy.When they passed a newsstand on the way, they saw a not-so-small news headline, "The Unidentified Boy's Body Was Found by Wolf Lake."Richard said in his confession that his first reaction was: The game was over (no play)!But Nathan disagreed, arguing that it was always okay to call the pharmacy and ask.The first call was made, and the other party said that there was no such Mr. Fankers.They switched stores again, a second call came, still nothing.At this point, the two criminals gave up their minds and admitted that they had done a "bad job" (not authentic work), and then returned the dark blue Willie Knight car to the car rental agency to return it.

What they are upset about is that they cannot get the ransom, but they are not worried that the police will track them down and find them.Nathan Leop attended classes as usual, read as usual, and studied for exams as usual.On the fifth day after the murder, on Monday, May 26, he easily passed his law exam and asked the school to forward the score to Harvard Law School.The only difference is that Nathan now reads the newspaper every day and never misses any news about Bobby Fanks' kidnapping and ticket tearing case. Richard Lowe was originally a social animal (social animal, or social expert), and now he is even more active.He actively participated in the discussion of the case among people around him, and often took the initiative to stir up topics.The accuracy and uniqueness of his interpretation, speculation and analysis of the case often impress and amaze people.He quickly made friends with several journalists covering the case, eager to advise them, provide clues, or just follow their asses here and there.

At this point when Richard was talking, Attorney General Corot interrupted him to ask a question that the police have always cared about: What did you do with that typewriter? Richard said that on the Saturday night after the incident, he, Nathan and another friend took their girlfriends on a group date until after midnight.He and Nathan met again at a restaurant at 2 a.m. to deal with the last and most difficult two pieces of physical evidence: the blood-soaked blanket and the Ondewu portable typewriter.Richard brought a pair of pliers with him, and they first clamped off the letter keys on the typewriter one by one, randomly scattered them into the creek in Jackson Park, and then went around to the south of the park, from a bridge connecting the creek and Michigan. He threw the typewriter into the water on the highway bridge at Lake Harbor Bay, then drove south to 73rd Street and buried the blanket in the rubble beneath a bridge pier.

What really made the two criminals nervous and felt the imminent danger was that Richard heard from his reporter friends that Assistant Attorney General Joseph Savage was visiting various businesses in his tortoise-rimmed glasses, including Oakland. Mon Key Optics.After a heated argument about who actually lifted the coat from the floor and lost the glasses, they began to make up alibi for themselves.However, due to their respective interests, the two accomplices had a huge disagreement on this point.And it was this difference that aroused the police's suspicion of them. Nathan Leop believes that the version of the two whores is the most convincing and unassailable.Richard Lowe didn't take it seriously, he didn't want to be involved, because the glasses belonged to Nathan, and the police might never track him down, so he was more inclined to the story of the two breaking up after dinner.As a result of the argument, they came to an internal agreement.The two hookers version is used if the police find them within a week or seven days.If it was more than a week, they just told the police that they broke up soon on the grounds that they "can't remember clearly".