Chapter 33 What is Sophistication?
I was speechless all night, and as soon as I got to work the next morning, Charlotte and Charlie drove to the first family.
"Hello, Ms. Theresa, we are Boston PD and want to know something with you."
Charlotte was in charge of knocking on the door, and a middle-aged Latino woman opened the door and looked at the two of them with some vigilance.
Charlotte is no longer surprised by this situation. She lifted the corner of her suit and exposed the police badge on the belt. Then the middle-aged woman opened the door.
"Please come in."
When I walked into the house, I saw the aisle and the living room was filled with moving boxes. It was obvious that the family planned to move out of this house that no longer belonged to them in the near future.
"Is there anything wrong with you here? The deadline is not yet reached?"
Theresa asked, only thinking Charlotte and the others were sent by the bank to collect the house.
"No, no, no, we are not responsible for these things. We are here today to learn something about Susanna."
Charlie shook his head and Teresa's expression changed significantly when she heard him mention Susanna's expression.
"Susanna? You need to understand what that vicious woman does, she took our house."
"Ms. Teresa, Susanna was beaten to death in her apartment yesterday."
"What? She's dead?"
The middle-aged woman was instantly excited when she heard the news of Susanna's death.
"She should have died long ago. As expected, God can't stand her actions. It's so good!"
Seeing Teresa drawing a cross on her body, Charlotte and Charlie looked at each other, not knowing what expression to do, but obviously the lady was not aware of it.
"Ms. Teresa, don't be excited, we want to know where your husband Carlos was yesterday morning?"
In his early years, Carlos participated in the U.S. military green card exchange program. After he was discharged from the army, he brought all the family and children in Mexico to Boston, and lived here for more than ten years.
Records show that both of his investments in the first half of this year were in trouble and he was unable to repay his mortgage. At this time, Susanna came to her house and recommended a trick loan for their family, which eventually pulled the immigrant family into the abyss.
So Carlos has the motive for murder and has the ability to do so.
"No, are you the ones who doubted Carlos killed? Carlos is the father of my two children. Even if he goes bankrupt, he will never do this. You must have made a mistake."
Theresa, who heard Charlotte, reacted instantly and quickly denied.
"Ms., I also hope we made a mistake, but Susanna was shot accurately by a gun. Carlos's enlistment experience was very unfavorable to him. We must help him eliminate the suspicion."
Charlie said, "It's worthy of being an old police detective, and he speaks very well, and directly comforts Theresa."
Charlotte must not be able to say these words, so he kept them in his heart. One day he would be as experienced as Charlie.
"Okay, I will definitely cooperate with you. Yesterday I asked me to think about it. Yesterday morning was no different from before. At 7 o'clock, I prepared breakfast, and Carlos ate with the children as usual, and then the school bus picked up the children at 7 o'clock, and Carlos drove to the construction site to work."
After hearing this, Charlotte and Charlie probably knew it. The murderer should not be Carlos.
The neighbor heard the gunshots and called the police at 7:05, so Carlos's suspicion was ruled out as long as Teresa didn't lie.
"Okay, we will contact you if there is any situation. Let's be here first today."
"Officer, Carlos will be fine, right?"
Teresa couldn't help asking again when she sent the two out of the house.
"Ms., as long as what you said is true, I promise Carlos is absolutely fine."
Charlie said solemnly, and Teresa then let go of her worries.
"What do you think of this family?"
Back in the car, Charlie asked Charlotte, who knew it was a test.
"There are only a few minor violations in the record, and only one old Remington is used for home defense. The money earned by people like him should be spent on his family. I guess he has never touched the pistol after coming out of the army. I believe Teresa said."
"Very good, I believe it, but to be on the safe side, you'd better check the surveillance of the second house next to him yesterday."
Charlie raised his brows out the window, and Charlotte looked at the protrusion at the door of the house that just enveloped Carlos's door.
"Okay, I'll go now."
Discovering all available probes nearby is also a must-have quality for a modern detective, even if this detective is an old antique who doesn't understand digital.
I learned another trick, but I didn’t expect that there are so many things to learn to be a police detective!
A quarter of an hour later, Charlotte returned to the car.
"How about it?"
"Tresa didn't lie. Carlos sent her child to the school bus at 7:30, and Susanna's apartment is more than twenty-five minutes away."
After hearing this, Charlie cut off Carlos' name from the notepad.
"Let's go to the second one."
The two people were very efficient in dealing with such a tendency to murder case. In the morning, the suspicion of the other two families was ruled out, and only the last family was left.
"Of course, if we get the wrong direction, the suspicion of the last family can be cleared, but you have eaten too much!"
In a Mexican restaurant, Charlie said to Charlotte, who was dealing with his fresh shrimp avocado salad, and he was also picking up a large Mexican sauna on his left hand.
"There is no way, you can grow your body."
Charlie complained about Charlotte and explained that he was just twenty-four, but he had some other body, and his words made Charlie roll his eyes.
However, Charlotte's appetite is indeed much greater now. Although his salary has increased from a second-level police officer to a first-level detective, he feels that if he continues to eat like this, he will go bankrupt one day.
In contrast, Charlotte's energy has become much more intense. He won't take a nap even if he doesn't drink coffee. I don't know if it's the reason for his mental improvement, but in short, it's quite in line with the conservation of energy.
"Charlie, I have a hunch that it will be the last one. Look at this Alfonso, although he himself has not served, his son was a member of the Marine Corps. For the father who lost the house, his son is likely to do impulsive things."
Putting down the fork of the salad, Charlotte freed up one hand to open the file next to him, revealing the files of Alfonso's son Andre.
In the photo, Andrei, wearing a Marine Corps uniform, was very energetic, but in the records after he was discharged from the army, he was very down-and-out.
The army is a melting pot, whether it is China, the United States, or other countries.
In his previous life, there were several children around Charlotte who could not discipline their parents. They were sent to the military camp for national education. They were all good guys who were reborn, but there were many who were abolished in the United States.
PTSD has troubled many U.S. veterans, and Charlotte believes that Andre is one of them.
"Look, he has had the experience of being dispatched and has a record of killing. He is no stranger to killing people, even if he leaves the war zone after he is discharged from the army."
Chapter completed!