Chapter 9 1. Death is coming

She was lying on the floor in the back room of the bedroom.There was a knife next to it, and there was blood all over the floor, in big pools.in addition.Her bed was also a mess, blood was everywhere in the back room of the bedroom, and there were many wounds on her body.Obviously, she was dead... Such a horrible scene.It's chilling.Death really came?where is he? In 1926, the talk show appeared on the silver screen of the United States for the first time. Before the 1950s, due to the impact of the US War, talk shows had not really developed. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that talk shows became a household name and became one of the main TV programs. In 1955, the show's ratings rose from 0.02 percent in 1946 to 65 percent. With its light-hearted, witty, gossiping tone, the talk show is among the most-watched shows on television.Jay Lennon, Larry King, host of the ace program "The Tonight Show" of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the signature program "Larry King Live" of the CNN Network (CNN), and others are also with these programs— Become a well-known celebrity.With just one mouth, they have all become successful people with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and their own companies.As a result, many people joined the ranks one after another because of the strong ratings effect of TV talk shows and the economic interests of talk show hosts, even stars Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez Hereby also decided to enter the field.

Although the talk show made these hosts famous, some people died because of it. Hope Hall was brutally killed because of the talk show.Hope Hall, an NBC newscaster, has expressed strong support for the use of "genetic fingerprinting" to identify criminals on both TV talk shows and interviews.She believes that this is a tool to uphold justice and a very important tool to protect the society, so she has always been keen to promote this technology to the audience.However, Hope Hall went nowhere because of this... On Monday, July 11, 1994, Hope Hall did not appear on NBC News.Because time was too late, her leader asked someone to replace her to broadcast the program temporarily.Hope didn't show up all day, and the talk show she hosted was about to start in the evening. All the guests came, but she didn't show up yet.There was no phone call, and no one showed up. Only then did Hope's leaders and colleagues feel that something was wrong, so they rushed to her apartment.

Virginia, Hope's apartment. Through her bedroom window, her colleague saw the horrific sight - Hope lying in a pool of blood.When they entered Hope's apartment, they found her lying on the floor in the back room of the bedroom.There was a knife next to the corpse, and blood was everywhere on the floor, in large pools of blood.After examination, they found that Hope had a lot of trauma on his body, with a total of 15 stab wounds.In addition, her bed was also a mess, and the back room of the bedroom was full of blood. The scene felt very scary and bloody. By the time Hope's colleagues found her, her body was already decomposing.Horrified by what they saw, Hope's colleagues immediately called 911 to report the incident to the Petersburg Police Department.

How could a news anchor, a host of a talk show, die violently at home?Who did all of this, was it murder for love or murder for money? Officer Patrick J. Kelleher led investigators to the victim's home immediately after receiving a call from Hope's associates.Investigators took pictures of every item in the room and kept them for fingerprints.Soon, the work of the police made progress, and the first clues to the crime scene appeared.When they searched the apartment, they found a very important physical evidence.In the kitchen, officers recovered a knife with a bent blade.It seems that it should be the knife that Hope usually uses for cooking, and it is a knife for cutting meat.So, the police began to collect evidence from this knife.

Hope's body was sent to the coroner's office for examination.Test results showed that Hope had been raped before he was killed.The forensic doctor believes that the deceased was found 6 hours after the murder, so the murderer must have committed the crime at night. Medical examiner Deborah Kay was shocked by the brutality of the killer.He said Hope's body was already decomposing when it was brought to them and they found a lot of trauma on her body, with 15 stab wounds in all.There was a deep gash on her neck, one of its fatal wounds.In addition, she had stab wounds on her chest and back, which could lead to death.

The forensic doctor collected a sample of the stain on the body and immediately sent it to a laboratory for examination using state-of-the-art equipment.Investigators are desperate to find DNA evidence on the body.Meanwhile, the police began looking for witnesses.They asked residents of the complex if anything unusual had happened in the building in the past few days. Neighbors told police they saw a black man coming out of Hope's apartment late the night before police found the body, and that the man appeared in a hurry.The man had prominent tattoos, including one that resembled a college fraternity logo, according to witnesses.

Investigators later learned that the sign belonged to Franklin University, so they immediately rushed to Franklin University. During the questioning of the students, investigators found that one of the students behaved suspiciously and took him back to the police station.The student's facial features and the tattoos on his body were very consistent with the descriptions of eyewitnesses.Investigators immediately took a sample of his saliva to compare with a DNA sample found at the crime scene. However, the police did not find the right person this time.The test results showed that the DNA samples in the man's saliva did not match the blood stains in the kitchen, the blood stains on the knife and the semen on the bed, so the police could not determine whether he had been in the victim's room on the night of the crime, and he had been Denies any involvement in the case.

Investigators realized the man was not the killer they were looking for.Blood and semen samples from the crime scene did not match those from any of the offenders in the criminal database.Then, either the murderer has no criminal record, or the murderer's information has not been recorded.The clues that the police finally found were broken again, and they were at a loss. Hope's mother, Carol Sievers, lived 150 kilometers south of Hall's apartment in Virginia Beach.In order to understand some circumstances, the police came to Carol Seavers' residence and told her about Hope's murder.

After seeing Hope's parents, the police said straight to the point: "I have bad news for you. Your daughter Hope was hurt." When Carol Sievers listened to the police, she was completely unaware that something had happened to her daughter.After she asked the policeman to sit down, she asked, "Mr. Policeman, where is Hope now? Is she in the hospital?" Seeing that Hope's mother didn't understand, the police said directly: "You may not understand what I mean, I mean, this is a murder case, and your daughter was killed." Hearing the news, Hope's parents froze.Carol Sievers said in a daze: "This is just... God! How is this possible? Murder? Did I hear wrong? What did he just say? Who was murdered? Who died? Is it our Hope? How is this possible..."

Finally, the police said solemnly: "Your daughter has been murdered, and we are here to find out the situation." Just when the police were at a loss and found that the tattooed person was not the one they were looking for, a past event told by Hope's mother provided the police with important clues. A few years ago, Hope fell in love with a man named Vasya, who was 18 years older than Hope.While they were talking about marriage, Vasya called on the Halls.While speaking, Hope's mother found that Vasya was always evasive, and felt that things were a little strange. Later, after Hope and Vasya left, the old couple found a private investigator to investigate Vasya because they were worried.The results of the investigation shocked the Hall couple.It turned out that Vasya was married and had a teenage son.Hope, who was busy preparing for the wedding, didn't know all this. When she learned all this from her parents, she was dumbfounded.Later, Vasya explained that she was dealing with a divorce and begged Hope for forgiveness.Because Hope was pregnant with Vasya's child at this time, she decided to keep the child in her stomach in desperation, and decided to wait for Vasya.

There was nothing to hide, so Vasya simply moved to Hope's apartment to live with her.One morning, after drinking Vasya's milk, Hope suffered from abdominal pain and profuse bleeding.In this way, because of a glass of milk, Hope's child is gone.Hope was in pain because of this, and she had been more suspicious, but was later deceived by Vasya's rhetoric.Since then, the two of them have lived in peace, except that Vasya never mentioned the matter of marriage, and they are busy every day until late, and they go on business trips every now and then.Although Hope felt that something was wrong, and had a quarrel with Vasya, and had a fight over the marriage, she was still waiting patiently. It wasn't until one day that Hope met a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in a bar that she fully woke up.The boy was Sherman Johnson, and he had been following Hope for a long time.That day, because she had a bad fight with Vasya, Hope went to the bar they frequented alone. When she was drinking alone to relieve her sorrows, Sherman Johnson handed her a video.Before leaving, Heman Johnson said with a sinister smile: "It's something related to Vasya, go home and take a good look at it. If you don't like it, come to me, and I will make you comfortable..." Back When he arrived at the apartment, Hope couldn't wait to watch the tape.The videotape shows Vasya flirting with a woman, they seem to be in harmony with each other, so coordinated... Hope is about to collapse.However, it was Vasya's conversation with that woman that broke her down the most. Vasya said: "Honey, we won, wait for the money to be counted. Now, I can retreat completely, and let that stupid woman cry alone, hahahaha..." The woman said courteously: "I knew you could do it, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to stage this play..." Hope is a successful female anchor and talk show host. She has her own industry, school and company, but her love life has not been smooth.This time, Hope was deceived by this guy named Vasya again.Vasya's gang is a criminal gang, and their main task is to find young ladies or wives from rich families and stage emotional dramas to earn money.This group of people's methods of defrauding money are clever, and many people have been deceived by them, but the police have never caught this criminal gang. Before watching the video, Hope rushed to check the safe.Needless to say, all valuable and takeable things are gone.Since then, Vasya has never appeared again, and the Hall couple once again found a private detective to investigate, but there is no news.Perhaps, even the name Vasya is fake, and everything before that was arranged by Vasya's group, just waiting for the Hope family to get into it. For the sake of their daughter's future, the Hall family considered themselves unlucky, and they did not report the crime.Hope was exhausted physically and mentally because of this matter, so she took a long vacation to rest, and her colleagues thought she was broken in love. A year later, when Hope returned to television, her talk show featured an additional topic: support for the use of a "genetic fingerprinting system" to identify criminals.In addition, Hope tells her own story to a broad audience in someone else's voice, telling everyone to be careful.Since then, Hope has also been working hard for this, and also contributed part of the funds to this end. Hope said on TV talk shows and talk shows during his lifetime that he strongly supports the use of a "genetic fingerprinting system" to identify criminals.After Hope's murder, her mother, Carol Sievers, continued her daughter's unfinished work on a TV talk show, preaching to viewers the use of a "genetic fingerprinting system" to identify criminals. Carol Sievers said: "I knew this was a time when my voice was more important than anything else. I did this in honor of my daughter Hope, and all those in need like Hope. This technology is a tool for justice, a very important tool for protecting our society, so how important it is to find such an amazing tool." Now that the daughter is gone, there is nothing more important than catching the criminal.They felt that Hope's talk show had threatened Vasya's group, and perhaps Hope's death had something to do with these people.In this way, Hope's parents confessed everything to the police, telling the unbearable past a few years ago. Was it really the work of Vasya and his gang?This group of people was too rampant, and they ran into the muzzle of the gun themselves. The clues provided by Hope's parents were very important. After leaving their house, the police immediately formulated a new action plan: start with Vasya's gang.According to the information provided by Hope's parents, the police synthesized photos of Vasya and others, and wanted them all over the country. However, this group of people seems to have evaporated from the world.Months passed without any progress in solving the case, and investigators were at a loss.By 1995, the police finally found the first real lead on the case. DNA testing found that a semen sample from the crime scene matched a bodily fluid sample from a criminal in Virginia.The man's name was Sherman Johnson, the same boy who sent the videotape to Vasya.Although he was only 18, he was the backbone of Vasya's gang and a hardened sex offender who served time in a Virginia prison for raping multiple women. Herman Johnson was only 16 when he raped and killed Hope Hall!And before that, he had raped or sexually assaulted at least five women.During the investigation, the police found that he began to harass young women at the age of 14, and as he grew older, his crimes continued to escalate, and he often targeted people he knew well. Both blood and semen in Hope's apartment turned out to be Sherman Johnson's.When Carol Sievers watched on the TV news that her killer was finally brought to justice, thoughts of her daughter came flooding back. Carol Sievers said in tears: "We hugged and kissed her for the last time on Thursday, but we didn't know it was the last time. I keep saying to those around me: Go tell your loved ones and How much you love them my friend, thank them for being in your life, go hug them, kiss them. That's what we did. We hugged and kissed her for the last time, even though we didn't know it was the last time." The court sentenced Herman Johnson to death, and the jury was convinced that he was the murderer of Hope.Prior to this, he had already been sentenced to 100 years in prison for two other rape cases, so the court decided that his life should end here.