Chapter 2 2. Oven

Someone reported to the police that Patricia was missing.but.The missing man's husband said he knew nothing about the incident, and the police launched an investigation.Sensitive officers go by instinct.Walking towards the kitchen, a smell of burnt meat hits me head-on, could it be... In a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit, there is joy and unspeakable joy. This day is the golden wedding anniversary of the old John and his wife, and the sons and daughters who work outside have come back specially to celebrate the old man.They are usually busy with their own affairs, and the family seldom gets together.After finally coming back, they all bought generous gifts for their parents.Everyone rushed to say: "Parents, look at me, look at me, I bought you the best supplements..."

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll put away all your presents, and we'll keep them to eat and use slowly." Mrs. Old John answered the words of her children while looking outside the door casually, not knowing what to expect. what. Strangely, Mrs. Old John's face showed a hint of worry.It stands to reason that the old John and his wife should be happy that their children came back safely and brought rich gifts to celebrate, but there was a trace of unnoticed worry on the faces of the old couple. The whole family laughed and laughed. It was noon before the old John and his wife became more worried.Finally, the careful eldest daughter-in-law found out that something was wrong with her parents.She asked, "Mom, what happened? You and Dad seem to be worried about something since morning. Is something wrong?"

Mrs. Old John said: "No, it's all right. I'm too happy for you to come back. What happened?" "Do you think that Patricia is not here? She is the closest to you, and she comes home every day. If she comes here tonight, you will be worried. We all came back from a long way, and we haven't seen each other for a long time." , Mom, don't be biased!" The little girl said pretending to be angry. "My wife, tell the children, there is nothing to hide, I think we should go find it together." Old John said to his wife. "Wait a little longer," Mrs. Old John insisted.

"We don't understand what the two of you are talking about. What is the matter that you are talking about, whether you want to pay money or work, let's do it." The eldest son saw his parents not talking for a long time, and finally couldn't help talking . Mrs. Old John said slowly: "I didn't want to tell you, but Patricia hasn't come for a few days, and she hasn't come yet. I'm afraid something happened." "Can't go away?" The eldest son He spoke first without waiting for his mother to finish speaking. "That's not the case. The two of them have been arguing and quarreling for the past year. Patricia came back and told us a few days ago that she was going to go back and break up with Kevin. If we got married she didn't Come back, I’m afraid I’ll never come back again. When she said that, you and I were angry for her and said a few words to her, telling her to go back and have a good talk with Kevin, run the restaurant well, and focus on it Life. Who would have thought that after she left that day, she has not come back today. A few days ago, we went to the restaurant to see it because of concerns, but we didn’t see the couple because of the closure. We were worried that something really happened What is it? Before, she would come back every one or two days, and she would call us almost every day when she didn't come. If they are reconciled as before, they should come today. No matter how busy Kevin is, he should Let me tell you first..." Old John told the children about his second daughter.

The son didn't think the matter was serious. He thought it was because his parents were old, had a bad memory and thought too much.Before he could speak, the younger sister couldn't wait to interrupt her father, saying: "Then what are you waiting for, let's call the police first, and then go to her house to have a look." Before the family could recover, Old John's youngest daughter called the Detroit Suburban Police Department, saying that her sister Patricia was missing and hadn't contacted her family for four or five days.After receiving the police call from the old John's family, in order to understand the situation, a deputy police officer, Bissard, went to ask Patricia's husband, Kevin.To the surprise of the police, Kevin knew nothing about his wife's condition.

Patricia disappeared, her parents called the police, and her husband, who shared her bed with her day and night, said he didn't know what happened to his wife, which is so strange! Kevin and his wife Patricia co-operate a Mexican restaurant, but Kevin just had a brain tumor removal surgery a few weeks ago, so the restaurant is closed. Bissard asked Kevin some information, and checked the restaurant carefully, but he didn't find anything unusual.When he was about to leave, he suddenly thought that the kitchen hadn't been seen yet, so he asked Kevin to take him to the kitchen to have a look.When they were about to enter the kitchen, Kevin suddenly turned off all the lights, and quickly walked from one end of the kitchen to the other end, which was the back door of the kitchen, and then walked out.

Bizard followed Kevin closely and asked, "What happened just now?" Kevin had been prepared for a long time, so when Bizard asked him, he said perfunctorily: "Recently, we often have power outages like this here, it's okay, it will be fine in a while." Bissard is a police officer who has just started working and has no rich experience, so he didn't think much at the moment the power was cut off. Seeing what Kevin said, he believed it, and walked out of the kitchen with him. It was an obvious loophole, but Bissard didn't see through the tiniest of tricks.Despite this, Bissard still felt something was wrong, and felt that Kevin seemed to know something, but he didn't want to say it, and was deliberately concealing it.So, after returning to the police station, Bissard truthfully reported the situation to his boss, Philo.After discussion, ask Kevin again.

At around 4 p.m. that day, Bissard called Kevin and asked him to meet again.Perhaps, Kevin realized what would be discovered this time, so he told Bissard on the phone that he was outside and would not be able to get to the restaurant until 5:15 pm. At 5:00 p.m., Officers Bissard and Filo arrived at the restaurant.This was a full 15 minutes earlier than the agreed time.So, they decided to use this time to look around.Bissard inspected the garden surrounding the restaurant, while Philo went to the back of the house.On the other side of the house is the parking lot with its many trash cans.At first, the two police officers did not find anything unusual.

Suddenly, Bessard's eyes lit up, and he shouted very excitedly: "It's him, it's him, he came out." Constable Filo was bewildered by Bissard, not knowing what he was talking about, who was coming out.Later, Bissard explained to him what was going on.It turned out that he saw Kevin coming out from the side door of the restaurant, and went straight to the trash can with a white box in his hand. Before the time agreed with the police arrived, Kevin had already appeared in the restaurant.What exactly was he holding in his hand, what was this missing woman's husband trying to throw away?Soon, the police found a disgusting scene in the white box...

A large-scale search has been launched, but the whereabouts of the missing man's husband are very suspicious. At the agreed place, not the agreed time, Kevin suddenly appeared.The police officers felt that Kevin's behavior was very suspicious before, and this time they had to arouse their great attention.When Kevin was found, the distance between them was about 20 meters.When Kevin spotted Philo and Bissard too, he gave them a casual look, then another look, and then, as if taken aback, he walked quickly to the other end of the house.He didn't run, but he walked very fast. The two police officers quickly chased after them, but as soon as they turned the corner, they found Kevin walking towards them, but the white box in his hand was gone.In view of his behavior, Philo thought he was very suspicious, but Philo didn't immediately ask where the white box was, instead, he walked into the restaurant with him as if nothing had happened.When they had just approached the kitchen door, Philo suddenly smelled a smell of burnt meat.Philo has worked in law enforcement for 17 years, and the smell is all too familiar to him.He's smelled it in some residential arsons and house fires; in car accidents where someone was burned and he's smelled blood-stained sleeping bags; and while using a lawn mower Some accidents, someone might get burnt with petrol, and smell it too... That's exactly what Philo smelled at the kitchen door of Kevin's restaurant, it was a very specific smell, a kind of meat being burnt burnt smell.

Philo kept thinking about the white box as the two officers looked nonchalantly around the restaurant.While he asked Bissard to look for the white box outside, he stayed in the kitchen with Kevin and continued to look for clues.Soon, Philo noticed some charred meat and bone fragments left in the sink, blood was everywhere in the kitchen, and there was a smell of burnt meat in the air.Under the sink, Philo found a blood-stained sleeping bag, while Bissard found the white box. After opening the box, the contents stunned the two officers.There was a lot of charred meat inside, and what appeared to be a skull.From the appearance, the two police officers could tell that the bone was a skull, and that it was the top of the skull, and the part above the ears had disappeared.They also saw the eye sockets, the sinuses, and where the brain normally resides.To determine if it was a human or animal skull, Bissard turned the skull inside the box over.As a result, they saw the side of the skull, eyes in sockets, and a row of teeth.There is no doubt that this is a human skull, not an animal skull.The sudden appearance of human skulls made the police turn their attention to the missing man's husband, Kevin.The job search also suddenly turns into a murder investigation. The body has been burnt beyond recognition, could this be Patricia's body?Was it true, as Patricia said, that if she couldn't go back on her parents' golden wedding anniversary, she would never go back? Apparently, Kevin was implicated in his wife's disappearance.So, the police immediately questioned Kevin. Philo said: "We have found Patricia, and I think she is in the box you just held. Now, I need to know the truth, and I think you can tell us the answer." After hearing Philo's words, Kevin was very surprised. He sat down all of a sudden and became very nervous.However, after a while, Kevin said calmly: "These are discarded items from restaurants, animal offal, bones, etc." Subsequently, investigators also found charred cooked meat from many jars on the oven. Could these be human flesh?Are these things really animal like Kevin said?To be sure, investigators sent the box containing the skull and meat to the police department's forensic department. After a preliminary examination, Philo suspected that it was a human body.However, he was not yet able to make a final judgment.Corpse: Barely charred and charcoal-like in appearance, many parts are illegible.While examining the charred meat, Philo wondered if there was human flesh inside. Investigators compared the teeth of the deceased.But the problem is that after the meat is cooked, the dna molecules will decompose due to heat, so it is impossible to check the dna molecules inside.It's so indistinguishable at all, it's as if a cow and a deer are almost the same when roasted.Investigators later took x-rays of the mandible, which were then sent to a dentist, who compared them to previous x-rays Patricia had taken. show that the two are completely consistent.It appears that the deceased was Patricia. At the same time, forensic personnel inspected Kevin's residence.After they sprayed luminolin in the room, blood stains became visible everywhere in the room.Obviously, someone went to great lengths to try to cover up the blood at the scene.In addition, experts examined sleeping bags in the kitchen, using a sophisticated method to scrutinize each bloodstain.In the laboratory, experts conducted DNA comparisons on the bloodstains, and the results showed that it was indeed Patricia's blood.Obviously, she was killed in her own home, but the meat was charred and could not be analyzed at all... How did Patricia die?Was it really Kevin who killed her? Finally, facing the evidence, Kevin had to admit.He said that he often had hallucinations after the operation, and it often appeared that someone was chasing him.However, a psychiatrist confirmed he was not insane.To this end, the police decided to look for his past colleagues to learn more about the situation.His colleague said: "Kevin once said to a sailor that if he wanted to kill someone, he would definitely roast the victim's body after committing the crime, then use a method to remove the bones, and then destroy all the evidence. , dumping most of the meat into the restaurant’s trash can. He did this because he knew the police couldn’t tell the difference between human meat and other meat, not to mention that a lot of meat is often dumped when restaurants are open.” Kevin realized that continued denial was not the answer, so he came up with a new countermeasure.He said he has been feeling like he is being chased by the devil since his surgery.That day, when he was sleeping on the sofa, he suddenly saw the devil walking over.In a panic, he drove the devil away with an iron rod, and then went back to sleep.However, when he woke up, he found that his wife was lying in a pool of blood, at his feet, and she was dead.So, he began to think of ways to destroy the corpse. In court, Kevin is still lying to the police and continues to make up lies.He said: "At that time, I was really scared and made this decision. I didn't want to kill my wife. I was sick... I first put my wife's body in a sleeping bag, and then put it in a trash can. Arrived at the restaurant. Then, I was going to put the body in a big pan, I was going to put the body in the oven like a turkey. But the body was too big, so I had to pull the body out and put the arms and legs Cut off, then her head, and put it in. Then I baked the arms, legs and head, and put them in a jar over the oven..." Kevin's father-in-law and mother-in-law came out to testify: "For a year, Kevin and Patricia's marriage was on the verge of breaking up. Kevin beat Patricia many times, and every time Patricia came back, we saw her body was full of scars. .It’s this beastly guy who doesn’t want to live a good life, and doesn’t want to give Patricia her freedom, so before she was about to leave, we thought he had concocted this tragedy! Had we known this, we wouldn’t have let our daughter go back that day, I wouldn't persuade her like that..." Although Patricia's parents truthfully told the truth about the emotional discord between their daughter and son-in-law for a year, this is still not the most favorable evidence.Later, the police discovered that there were several fewer waiters in Patricia's restaurant after the incident.So, they started by looking for waiters, and maybe they could find some more favorable evidence.After open and unannounced visits, the police finally found a strong witness-witness Lucy. It turned out that Lucy witnessed Kevin's murder of the proprietress.Lucy said that that night, she heard the sound of scolding and scolding between the boss and the proprietress. She originally wanted to come out to persuade the fight, but as soon as she walked to the door, she saw the boss slashing at the proprietress with a knife, and hacked several times in a row.She was terrified and collapsed on the ground.Lucy knew that her boss had always been a violent person, even if he treated his wife like this, if he found out, he would definitely kill him.After calming down, she hurriedly packed her things and left the restaurant overnight. Now, Kevin's motive for the murder is apparent.It was the box containing Patricia's remains that revealed the secret, and it was it that revealed Kevin's guilt, followed by the powerful testimony of Lucy and Kevin's parents-in-law that confirmed Kevin's guilt.When everything surfaced, Kevin was still denying it. He roared in the courtroom: "We were going to get a divorce. I wanted to get together with Patricia, but she took a knife first. Mine, she wanted to put me to death..." Finally, the case was successfully closed.In retrospect, the case would not have gone so well if the officers had been a few minutes late.Obviously, Kevin is likely to destroy all evidence that can prove his involvement in the murder.However, the French Open has been extensive and thorough, and no murderer can escape justice.Kevin will end up in prison for the rest of his life without any chance of probation.Kevin will spend the rest of his life in prison.