Chapter 5 1. Three bullets

As dusk approached, everyone was still immersed in the cheerful atmosphere of the party, and some were even drunk.Shortly after Tucker left, several shots broke the summer silence.Tucker fell in a pool of blood, did he commit suicide?Where is the Grim Reaper? In a cemetery in Michigan, the young Tucker could not kneel, no matter how his friends persuaded him, he still knelt there motionless.Suddenly, thunder and lightning, strong winds, and a storm came.However, Tucker remained unmoved.The funeral friends didn't know what to do. If this continued, not only Tucker would get sick, but everyone would also be ruined by the rain.Mentally handicapped youth Tucker Tucker is a mentally handicapped person who lost his parents since he was a child.He has always lived with his grandfather, and it is his dependent grandfather who lies in the cemetery.Grandpa is gone, and Tucker has no way to live alone.He knelt in front of his grandpa's grave, crying heartbreakingly over and over again: "Grandpa, grandpa, come back, don't leave me behind, I will be obedient in the future...Grandpa..." Tucker's cries affected The hearts of everyone who came to the funeral, but no one could figure out a way.Those who came to the funeral were poor neighbors who usually helped Tucker and his father. They couldn't even maintain their own lives, so how could they be able to take care of Tucker?Although Tucker's grandfather had a good relationship with these neighbors when he was alive, it is unrealistic for any family to adopt Tucker.In addition to the limited economic conditions of these neighbors, a more important reason is that Tucker is mentally retarded, often hangs out with a bunch of dubious people, and is always deceived. Everyone is afraid of those rogues that Tucker often brings back. friend.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there is no sign of stopping. It is not an option to accompany Tucker to get wet here.So, the old men decided to get Tucker home first.However, several old people couldn't move him even with tugging and tugging. Instead, they were overthrown by Tucker in the rain.Finally, an old lady came up with an idea and said: "I have a distant niece who is a doctor. She has always been kind and generous, and she has no children. I will lead the way to see if she can adopt Tucker. In this way, Tucker can have a better life." Housing, food and clothing, and medical treatment; secondly, my niece is getting old, and she is alone, and Tucker is with her, so I can have a companion."

After hearing the old lady's proposal, everyone applauded.At first, Tucker was not happy, he kept calling for his grandpa.Later, when he heard people say that they helped him find his mother, and that his mother's house was better than his grandfather's, that there were delicious food, drinks, and fun, he followed the old lady home with a smile. Although Tucker is mentally retarded and easy to coax, he is also a stubborn master who only accepts death.After he came back with the old lady, he was clamoring for his mother every day.But the old lady's niece was on a business trip, so she couldn't take care of Tucker's affairs for a short time.Seeing that the days passed and her mother hadn't come yet, Tucker ran to her grandfather's grave and knelt down, saying that the neighbors were lying to her.Every time, it took a lot of effort for everyone to coax Tucker back to the old lady's house.

After tossing and tossing like this a few times, Tucker finally calmed down, and he stopped making noise.However, everyone discovered Tucker's secret—it turned out that he wanted to commit suicide.Seeing the seriousness of the situation, the old lady tremblingly ran to the city where her niece was on a business trip, and when she came back, she brought good news - she found a home for Tucker.Indeed, this is good news, and the old neighbors specially made a big dinner for Tucker to celebrate. Knowing that Tucker had a new home and was leaving, a group of his young friends also came to see him off and had a carnival with Tucker in a mobile home.As dusk approached, everyone was still immersed in the cheerful atmosphere of the party, and some were even drunk.Drunk-eyed and farewell to Tucker, a few guys said brazenly: "Tuck, you're gone, we won't have a place to hang out in the future, so think about us."

"That's a natural thing, don't worry." Tucker also replied in a daze. After drinking the last glass of wine, Tucker said goodbye to his friends and left.Shortly after Tucker left, three gunshots broke the summer silence.The others ran out of the RV in horror and found Tucker lying in a pool of blood.Everyone's first thought was: Tucker committed suicide.They then hurriedly called the police. Homicide detectives from a Michigan division rushed to the scene after receiving the call.There was a pool of blood on the ground, and Tucker was lying on the open space behind the RV. His body was already cold and stiff, and a fatal bullet had passed through his body.Did he really commit suicide?You don't have to worry about life problems anymore. With a home, you can also treat illnesses. How could Tucker commit suicide?As soon as he got out of the RV, Tucker fell into a pool of blood. Why is it such a coincidence?Why do these friends of his agree that he committed suicide?Is there another mystery in this?

After arriving at the scene of the incident, the police immediately sealed off the scene and questioned everyone present in detail. The young woman who called the police told the police that Tucker himself was a troubled youth, and his grandfather had just passed away, so he was in a very bad mood and kept saying he was going to commit suicide, and the neighbors who accompanied him in the cemetery that day found him Ever wanted to commit suicide.Therefore, when they saw Tucker lying in a pool of blood, their first reaction was that he committed suicide. Tucker's friends also echoed the young woman's words, saying that he committed suicide.Why did everyone at the party think Tucker committed suicide?But at the scene of the crime, there was no pistol...

In order to find clues, Tucker's body was sent to the forensic office for examination.Forensic pathologist Dr. Canu Villani told police the death was fatal with a single shot so it was likely a suicide.However, after carefully inspecting the wounds of the deceased, he found that the bullet entered from the chest of the deceased and exited from the left side of the back.It didn't look like a wound from a short-range shot at all, so Dr. Canu Villani considered it very suspicious.In suicides, there are usually contact wounds, where the muzzle of the gun touches the skin, but he found no such wounds on the dead.

Tucker and his grandpa had been on relief and had just been taken in by a local family.This mentally handicapped person had to accept government relief with his elderly grandpa just because he couldn't support himself.Plus, Tucker was a heavy drinker, as were many of his friends. How could such a person be murdered, and what was the murderer's plan? There were no witnesses at the scene, only a few people claimed to have heard 3 gunshots.Therefore, it is really difficult to solve the case.Although clueless, investigators found clues.Homicide investigators used metal detectors to learn that bullets and shell casings were likely near the scene.

Police conducted a detailed inspection of the RV and found a bullet hole inside the RV, with a bullet passing through the mattress and into the door.The bullet hole attracted the attention of the police mainly because its height and angle coincided with the position where the deceased was standing.Therefore, they took the metal detector to the scene of the incident for inspection, and the detector showed a positive value; in addition, the police also inspected the small woods near the scene, and the result was consistent with the value they measured inside the RV and on the spot. the same. Based on the three bullets and where they were located, investigators are trying to determine where the bullets were fired.Hours later, it became clear where the shooter was standing.

Dr. Canu Villani, a forensic pathologist, said all he did was help police reconstruct where the gunman stood.The bullet hit the deceased from front to rear, slightly below.The deceased fell to the ground after the gunshot, and the murderer had no time to move his body. Therefore, the direction in which the deceased fell to the ground and the shooter should be the same direction.According to Dr. Canu Villani, the police recreated the scene and then went back to see where the bullets and shell casings fell. The property near the scene of the crime was owned by a man named Greer, and it happened to coincide with where the bullet came from.After a brief search, police found three bullet casings near the location of the suspected shooting, the exact same caliber of the bullet that hit the deceased.

Does all this have something to do with Greer? After finding out that the incident had something to do with Greer, the police decided to search his residence. There must be a basis for handling the case. How could the police suspect Greer because the location of the incident was related to Greer, and even made a decision to search? In fact, according to the investigation, the deceased had lived in Greer's house. This clue made the investigators decide not to let go of any suspicious things, so they decided to search Greer's house.Police's suspicions were heightened by the search, which found thousands of empty ammunition casings at Greer's home and revealed that he himself was an avid firearms fanatic. All this, it seems, had to allow the police to confirm their suspicions. Subsequently, the police found a large number of equipment after a thorough search.Although the weapon used by the murderer was not found, the police found many of the same bullet casings found at the scene of the crime, and more importantly, the structure and caliber of the bullet casings were also exactly the same. Could the murderer really be Greer?Why did he kill such a mentally handicapped young man as Tucker? Although a large number of bullet casings, weapons, etc. were found in Greer's home, the police still had no way to prove that the murderer was him.Just when the police were at a loss, an old man named Moses walked into the police station and told the police what happened between Greer and Tucker in detail. The old man Moses told the police that the reason why he did not come to the police station before was because at first he also thought that Tucker had committed suicide, because he was also one of the people who accompanied Tucker in the cemetery in the rain that day, and he believed that Tucker had committed suicide.Later, it turned out that Tucker did not commit suicide but was killed, and the police found a lot of suspicious physical evidence, so he decided to tell everything.Perhaps his words will help the police. Greer is actually a vagrant. He has no stable job and only lives by doing odd jobs.He's not very bright, and he's got a drinking problem.During his time at home, Tucker handed over all of his Social Security benefits to Greer for room and board.He was very angry that Tucker moved out, because Tucker's social assistance fund was an important source of funds for him and his grandmother.With Tucker gone, and Greer's lazy life, their lives would become very tense.So, one day he and Tucker had a quarrel because of this matter, and Greer also threatened that he would not make Tucker feel better, and asked Tucker to repay the debt owed by his parents. Tucker lost his parents since he was a child, so where should Greer start to talk about repaying his father's debt? Old Man Moses told the police a secret that few knew.It turned out that all of this was caused by the word "money". Tucker's parents joined Greer's parents in the lumber business more than 20 years ago.Once, four of them went to pick up the goods at the same time, but they didn't even come back with the goods.There are rumors that the four of them fell into the sea at the same time and drowned in a storm; others say that Tucker's father molested Greer's mother and fell into the sea during a duel with Greer's father. The mother also fell into the sea because of persuasion; some people said that Tucker's parents killed Greer's parents and then went away with money... In short, the four members of the two families disappeared mysteriously like this, and there has been no news of them.In fact, the truth of the matter is that their parents were cheated in this business. Greer's parents were in danger to save Tucker's parents, but in the end, none of the four escaped from the flood and were buried in the sea.Greer has long believed in the third type of rumor.And Tucker’s grandfather has always been accommodating to the Greer family because of their kindness to him. Tucker had to swallow his humiliation when he was bullied by Greer since he was a child, and even handed over the meager relief food for himself and his grandson to Greer. Lear takes care of it.In this way, Greer even thought that the Tucker family owed them, and did so with a disturbed conscience. However, this is not the case. Only the old man Moses and Tucker's grandfather know the truth of the matter, but the old man Moses swore to Tucker's grandfather not to tell anyone about it.This time, if it wasn't because of the matter of human life, old man Moses would not reveal any news. For so many years, Greer has always had resentment in his heart, and he still wants revenge.After listening to the story of the old man Moses, the police felt that the murderer who killed Tucker was most likely him.As a result, homicide investigators immediately conducted a comprehensive search of all of Greer's residences. This time, the police accidentally discovered that Greer had a penchant for collecting pistols, and there was also a gun storage. There were Nazi symbols on the outside of his weapons storage, and there were pictures related to the Nazis and some ammunition reloaders inside. There are many posters and diagrams.Police also took 14kg of shell casings from Greer's home, which were identical to those at the scene.Experimenters looked at them under a microscope to look for common features.Although the police did not find the whereabouts of the murder weapon, as long as the shell casings match, it is still very strong circumstantial evidence. Police later recovered the firearm in a secret passageway in Greer's home.As a result, homicide investigators immediately monitored Greer, and at the same time sent the gun found in Greer's room and the shell casings found at the scene to the laboratory for ballistic testing.If the two dovetail with each other, then Greer will be inextricably linked.At this time, homicide investigators were also on standby at any time. As long as the test results matched, they would immediately arrest Greer. For 20 years, Tucker and Grandpa have been treating Greer kindly, even the ice will melt, let alone the hearts of the people?Could it be that Greer is really ruthless, is he really the murderer who killed Tucker? The test results came out, and Greer was the murderer! The motive and means of the suspect Greer's crime are very obvious: he has received shooting training and has time to commit the crime.Even if the crime time was reduced to one hour, he could still walk through the woods, choose a sniper position, shoot and escape during this time. In the face of the hard facts, Greer was still quibbling, and he categorically denied that it had anything to do with Tucker's death.He also said that although he didn't like the Tucker family and even said he hated them, if he did it, he would tell the police honestly. In order to make Greer completely give up, the police brought in a key witness-his elderly grandma.Greer once told his grandmother that he was going to kill Tucker.The reason why Greer's grandma was willing to accuse her grandson at the critical moment was because she knew that the past had nothing to do with Tucker, and she saw the sincerity of the Tucker family. They were sincerely repenting and grateful . The day before Greer's arrest, her grandmother pulled out a letter Tucker's dying grandfather had left her—a letter for him in an emergency.It turned out that Tucker's grandfather knew Greer's character, and knew that he would kill his grandson one day, but he would still hurt himself if he hurt others.So, he left a letter, a letter exonerating Greer.It was this letter that allowed the dying old woman to see her sincerity, and at the same time, it also made her realize that it was her own connivance and self-willedness that ruined other people's grandsons, as well as her own grandson... In the police station, Greer's grandma tearfully told the police about the grievances between the two families and how they bullied the Tucker family over the years... Although Greer's grandma said that she was responsible and hoped that she would take the responsibility to mitigate the crime of her grandson; although Tucker's grandpa left a last word to excuse Greer, the law will not show mercy.Greer's trial lasted for four weeks, and the jury unanimously found Greer guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutor Joseph McCarthy said Greer didn't have much skill or talent per se, but he could move goods, clean up or plant trees.He also does odd jobs, just to get some cash, of course.He was able to share in Tucker's relief money every month, but unfortunately his cronies always took advantage of him.They often go to the bar to drink and then ask him for money, so his life is very unhappy and the end is very tragic...