Chapter 6 fatal encounter

It was a day in August, and the Wernipic City Police Department in Canada received a report that a naked female body was found on the playground of a school in the Red Castle district. I drank the last sip of coffee and stood up from the office chair helplessly.It's depressing to be busy with a murder case on such a clear morning, but that's what I was made to do. When I arrived at the scene, other people in the police station had already started the preliminary investigation, and they were asking the reporter about the situation.The reporter, a staff member of a nearby high school, found the body while running on the playground early in the morning.Apparently the fit-looking man was terrified and trembling as he described what had happened to him.

"God, it's horrible, I shouldn't be here... I thought it was a dead dog or something." The man grunted. My duty is to collect evidence at the scene, so I started working without listening to the reporter.But when I entered the core of the scene, I understood why he was so scared. Even I, a forensic doctor who is used to bloody scenes, was taken aback by the sight in front of me. The death of the female deceased was horrific. She was curled up on the ground with obvious strangulation marks on her neck and multiple bite wounds on her body. The head had obviously been hit by a huge concrete hard object, and her face and facial features were all blurred. Qing, she couldn't see the original appearance at all, and there were obvious traces of sexual assault on her lower body.The contents of her purse were strewn around the playground, including some banknote identification and a checkbook.Of course, it helped us tremendously that at least we knew her name was Shirley Annlovik.

This case is a typical violent sexual assault. The criminal used violence and brutal means to treat a lady, which is really inhumane.Judging from the scene at the scene, I can infer that when the criminal threatened and hijacked the victim with a murder weapon, or threatened the victim with violence and words, the criminal must have been resisted by the victim at the same time.Otherwise, the scene would not be so messy.Prosecutor Terry McCann, who was also at the scene, told me that in his 23 years as a prosecutor, he had never seen the body of a deceased person so devastated. However, I think the bite on Shirley Annlovik should give us a clue to solve the case.According to relevant data, we have noticed that nearly 90% of the cases of biting people in the society are related to drinking.A research team at St. James's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, has done some research on human bites and found that among adults, males are 12 times more likely to be bitten than females.The research team analyzed the records of 92 patients who underwent plastic surgery at St James's Hospital for "artificial bites" over a two-year period and found that nearly 90 per cent of such bites were associated with alcohol consumption and 70 per cent The bites occurred on weekends or holidays; seven out of 10 bites were on the face; the majority of facial bites involved the upper edge of the ears; the other facial targets were the tip of the nose.At the same time, 5% to 20% of the bites treated in the emergency rooms of major cities in the United States are bitten by humans. Now "human bites" have become common "mammal bites" in the United States.

The bite wound on Shirley Annlovik showed that the criminal was completely like a wild animal when she was being abused. Maybe it was Shirley Annlovik's resistance that inspired his bestiality, maybe he was born Have a hobby in this area.But anyway, he left tooth marks, which will help us solve the case. The playground belongs to a high school in the Red Castle district of Wernipick.In Canada, all public places have no walls, except prisons.Canadian schools are equipped with psychologists from elementary school to university, and the summer vacation is also very long, from May to the end of August every year.The name of this high school is Grand Park High School, and it is currently on a student holiday.The Canadian government has regulations for students, for example, children under the age of 12 cannot stay at home alone.Regardless of the age of the child, parents are not allowed to spank their children, not even to slap their buttocks. It is illegal to slap their buttocks.If these phenomena happen and are reported by neighbors or discovered by children's support agencies, the parents will be deprived of custody of their children by the government, and the government will take the children away and place them in a foster family, and the government will pay for various expenses , since then, the child has been under the guardianship of the government, and even the child's parents have no right to visit.Therefore, in Canada, the problem of juvenile delinquency is not very prominent, and we have not concentrated the suspicious points of the case on the students of Grand Park High School.

Grand Park High School is currently repairing a building. The playground is surrounded by residential areas, with tall buildings and low bungalows, surrounded by green trees.The square of the school is very large and empty. It is sunny during the day and few people hang out on the playground. After Shirley Annlovik's identification, Inspector Bob, who was in charge of the case, and I planned to pay a visit to her home.After all, her husband, Ed Annlovik, needed to do something about it. It was Shirley's daughter who opened the door for us. She looked about thirteen or fourteen.After learning the purpose of our visit, she went upstairs to find her father, and then came downstairs to politely ask us to wait a while, saying that her father would be down soon.Then she took the two younger sisters to the room next to the living room.I thought she might know what we were going to talk to Ed Anlovik about. She stared at us with uneasy eyes, as if she wanted to cry, but she was trying to suppress it.

Bob and I looked at each other helplessly. In fact, every time I faced such a situation, I didn't know how to speak.Detective Bob is not much better than me, so when Ed Annlovic came down from the stairs and asked us to sit down, he only briefly talked about Shirley's situation, and then asked: " Do you want your daughters to know about this?" Ed Anlovik was a strong man, and he kept his head down, wondering what he was thinking, as we told the case.Hearing this, he hesitated for a moment, raised his head and remained silent for a while, then nodded in agreement. Ed called the three daughters out of the room, and said only one sentence: "These two policemen have something to tell you." Then, he choked up and couldn't continue.

"Children, listen to me, your mother was killed last night..." It was difficult for me to say this.Then my words were interrupted by the crying of the three daughters hugging each other.I looked at their sad appearance, and felt very sad, but the task now is to catch the murderer, otherwise similar cases will happen in this place. So we started asking Ed.It should be said that he is still very cooperative with me. Generally, he will answer whatever we ask.He started telling us his story with Shirley, and some of the circumstances leading up to the murder last night. Ed and Shirley have been married for 20 years.Ed was a construction worker who worked with concrete all day long, and they built the building at Grand Park High School, where he poured the concrete.Shirley is a housewife. They live with their three daughters in this two-story building in the Red Castle District of Wernipick City, and their lives are decent.

There is a bar not far from their home, and Shirley and Ed are regulars there.Last night, they went to that bar again.After a few drinks, Ed decided to leave first, and Shirley wanted to stay a little longer, so the two had a quarrel over a small issue, and Ed went home alone.He passed by the playground at Grand Park Middle School and said he found nothing on the way.But he didn't expect that this would be Shirley's last night on earth.He said that he drank a lot of alcohol in the bar that day, and beat Shirley at home. In the end, he couldn't remember what happened last night. After Ed briefly said the above content, he fell silent again.But these are obviously not what we need to know. He spoke too generally. We must know every detail of how he and Shirley got along last night, even including what wine he drank.

I thought for a while and said, "There are cognac and whiskey in the bar. It includes Scotch, American bourbon, Canadian and Irish whiskey. Others include gin, rum, including dark rum." Alcohol, colorless rum, and tequila, these are some strong alcoholic drinks, and you will definitely feel uncomfortable if you drink too much, so you want to go home first because you drank too much?" "Yeah, I drank a lot of tequila last night," Ed replied. "The raw material for the production of tequila is a precious plant called agave, which belongs to cactus and is a kind of succulent plant that is afraid of cold. It takes 10 years of cultivation to make wine. Unlike other distilled spirits..." I casually chatted with Ed about alcohol, which would put him off guard.According to my many years of experience, alcoholism is the most important factor that induces violent cases.

"The roots of agave are covered with leaves. After 10 years of cultivation, a large pineapple-shaped stem will form. The leaves are all cut off, and the stem with sweet juice is cut and put into a special mash pot for about 12 hours. The squeezed juice is poured into the fermenter, and yeast and part of the last fermented juice are added. After the fermentation is over, the fermented juice is distilled twice in a single still except for a part of the ingredients for the next fermentation. After the first distillation, a liquid with an alcohol content of about 25% will be obtained; while the second distillation, after removing the head and tail distillation, will obtain a liquid with an alcohol content of about 55%. Drink strong alcohol." Ed continued my words, "Although it has been distilled twice, the alcohol content of the final liquor is still relatively low, so it contains a lot of raw materials and many of the ingredients in the fermentation process. The ingredients are the same as vodka. After the distillation process of tequila, the liquor must be filtered through activated carbon. We can usually see that the colorless tequila is non-aged tequila, and the alcohol content of tequila Most of them are between 35% and 55%."

After Ed finished speaking, he seemed to be in a better mood than before. Of course, our purpose is not to discuss the Canadian wine culture with him. We need Ed to talk more. The more he talks, the more he will be able to help us investigate the case. help.I have collected some physical evidence at the scene of the incident, such as: there are torn papers on the ground.Of course, these evidences may also be divided into several parts and scattered around the victim. "So, can I take it this way, you were drunk last night? You don't remember what happened?" I slowly changed the topic to the case. "Maybe, Shirley didn't go, I came back by myself, drank some more tequila at home, and then waited for Shirley to come home. She left the bar around midnight and walked home. I heard When I heard the sound of her coming home, I don't know if she was drunk, but she must have been drinking, maybe tequila," Ed replied.Then, he said with some annoyance: "We had a quarrel, I... I regret it now, because at that time, I couldn't control myself, I hit her. Then she said she would go outside and calm down, Just like that, she never came back. It's all my fault!" The conversation couldn't go any further, but from this point of view, Ed should be the last person who came into contact with Shirley. Shirley ran away after arguing with him and never came back.And on the playground of that school, Shirley was killed, so Ed was the biggest suspect of committing the crime before he found out the truth. Based on this, we brought Ed back to the police station to continue the investigation.However, in the subsequent interrogation and Ed's written statement, he admitted that he had had a quarrel with Shirley on the night she was killed, but he knew nothing about what happened after Shirley left home.Even, Ed didn't know how he fell asleep after arguing with Shirley. That day, Ed was drinking with his friends at the bar and discussing some topics.They were talking about when the building of the Grand Park High School will be completed. Some said that it will be soon, just in time for early winter. Guaranteed, especially the quality of the concrete pouring. Later, Ed felt tired, and he asked Shirley to accompany him home.Normally, as soon as Ed said to go home, Shirley would go with him, but at that time, for some reason, the two had a dispute, and Ed left the bar alone.Shirley watched Ed's back gradually disappear. When he walked out of the bar, the door closed loudly, but everyone didn't take it seriously, because everyone worked very hard and needed to relax, so everyone didn't pay attention to Ed's expression when he went out . This is what we know after asking friends who drank with the Eds on the night of the crime.During the interrogation of Ed, when the investigators told Ed, his Adam's apple trembled, and we probably knew that Ed had something to say. Ed said: "I don't know why Shirley didn't agree to go home with me. So I drank some wine when I got home, at least it relieved my depression at the time. I don't know what happened that night. I just wanted to When Shirley came back, I was relieved to go to bed when I saw her back home. I really don’t understand why Shirley doesn’t listen to me more and more now, is there something I didn’t do well enough to make her feel unhappy?” Ed once fell into this kind of self-question and self-answer during the narration, but we still have a more detailed understanding of how Ed and Shirley got along on the night of the crime. Ed said that when he and Shirley went out from home that night, he was still very happy.Ed wanted to hold Shirley's hand, because at home with three children watching, their kind of intimacy was not easy to show. "It's all right now." Ed said to Shirley while walking on the road, "I can hold your hand and kiss you now." Shirley seemed to avoid Ed on purpose, she didn't take the initiative to pull Ed hands, but kept his face straight. Just like that, the two entered the bar and each found a seat to sit down.Ed said that Shirley was sitting on a seat by the bar, which was a swivel chair, the kind that people can move around when sitting on it. "Shirley turned her back to me, which made many of my friends look like a very embarrassing thing. But I didn't care at the time." Ed continued to recall. At that time, it seemed that the mood of both of them was not much better.The people in the bar also said, what happened to your husband and wife today, the two of you were both drunk when you came in. Ed didn't talk to Shirley much, he said he knew Shirley's temper.When he was at home, Shirley's temper was sometimes very strange. He thought maybe it was the burden of taking care of three children that spoiled her mood. The couple didn't say a word to each other in the bar, it would be embarrassing.Ed regretted it. If he had known that each of them would be in such a bad mood, he would not have gone to the bar. It would be better to choose a day when he was in a good mood and sit in the bar. At that time, the two seemed to be really angry.Ed didn't go to clink glasses with the friends he knew until later, but his eyes were always on Shirley, and he felt extremely depressed, so he said he had to go home first. Ed returned home, holding his breath while drinking and waiting for Shirley.After finally seeing his wife come home, the two started arguing, which woke up all three children. "The children looked at us with horrified eyes. We ended the argument. Then Shirley said she was going out for a walk. I ignored her. I don't know how I fell asleep. I had a headache. I am drunk……" After Ed finished speaking, he remained silent as usual.We didn't get any more valuable leads, but that's just the beginning.