MSS24-Solomon Chann

The case of the murdered wife
1. She was showering in the middle of the night, in a hotel waiting for a guest.
2. “Ding Dong!” The doorbell rang.
3. “Hold on! I’m coming!” She said as she put on her bathrobe.
4. He entered the room and smiled ominously: “Could you come out to the balcony with me? I have to tell you something important,” she followed him out into the dim moonlight, curious what was going to happen.
5. He pushed her off the balcony, the fingertips barley holding on to her weight. He punched her fingers with brute force, causing her to plummet down 20 floors to her doom…
6. During the period of the murder, a famous private consultant for the police, Herman Cress, went out to see a play at the community center featuring his assistant’s daughter in a play. They sat down in their seats, getting ready for the play to start. While waiting for the play to start, the detective’s assistant saw someone in the V.I.P. area: “Hey! That’s Areola Comuston, that famous critic! Oh my god I hope he gives Julie a good review!” Herman decided to go to use the bathroom to kill some time before to show started. He went into the bathroom and a man in a suit was standing there greeting him. “Who are you?” “Me? I am the men’s bathroom assistant.” The detective stared in amazement and was very pleased with his work.
7. He returned to his seat and by then, the show had already started and his assistant’s daughter was singing on stage. In dim light, he glanced at Areola and he was staring at his watch. “He doesn’t seem too interested…” “I hope he doesn’t go too hard on Julie.”
8. The next day, the police came to investigate on the case and Herman came too. It was room that was a usual one, there was a chocolate strawberry on the table half-bitten, and two potted plants with leaves dropping, and a suicide note with newspaper words. The captain briefed them on what happened,: “Suicide, Female Caucasian 5’7’” “Hold on, I don’t think she killed herself, you can see those plants, one of them has an over excessive drop of leaves and you can see traces of soil in the carpet if you strain your eyes closely, there was a struggle.” “So she was murdered, but how?” Herman’s assistant asked. “I don’t know…”
9. When they left they building, Herman’s assistant, Natalie bought a copy of the newspaper and she was shocked beyond words. The newspaper read: ‘A completely forgettable voice that kept me bored and a song that seemed like forever sung by Julie Teeger.’ “What? How could he say that? Hold on, I’m going somewhere. Meet me at home!”
10. She stormed into his office, made an immediate complaint to Areola, and had a word with him.
11. When she went home, she said: “He’s the guy, I know it, the hotel was only two blocks away, he could have run out back and murdered him. He also had a paper bag for his lunch; it was from the same place as the bag at the hotel.”
12. “Natalie, I know he wrote a horrible article about your daughter, but really? Do you have any proof that he did it?”
13. “And you know that bathroom assistant, he also works for Areola, an inside job, there has to be a connection. That is why you’re here.”
14. “Fine, if you feel so strongly about it, we’ll go talk to him.”
15. They brought him into the interrogation room and started questioning him: “ Where were you during the period of the concert?” “Well, as you know, I was in the V.I.P. area, I’m sure that there were many witnesses that saw that I never left.” The detective silenced for a period of time and thought deeply. Areola sighed and said while staring at his pocket watch: “Well, if that is all, I really have to go now. I’m late for a meeting. “I guess there is no evidence or even a lead to whether a murder even happened.” His assistant said: “Well, then we’re going to the theater to find out how he escaped.”
16. They went to the theater and looked around with the theater manager, Herman looked around and said: “Excuse me, your light switch in the V.I.P. section is broken.” “Sorry, we’ll fix that as soon as possible.” The detective thought for a while and said: “I think I know how he did it, it’s a theory, but I can get evidence.”
17. On the very same night, the bathroom assistant was helping Areola carry some boxes down to the office when all of a sudden, ‘Bang!’ a piece of lead piping hit him at the back of the cranium.
18. The next morning, they went to investigate on this case. “What? Two murders in two days? This is definitely not coincidence and I think I can arrest Areola not just for one, but two murder cases.” said the detective.
19. They all went to the office of Areola and Herman explained what happened: “For some reason, you were having affairs with your wife and we probably will never know what and why, you wanted to murder her, but you needed an alibi. So you bought a room in a nearby hotel so you and your wife could ‘have sex’. But somewhere in the middle of the process, you realized that there would be too many eyewitnesses, wouldn’t they notice if you left? So during the performance, you asked if the bathroom assistant could take your place for a few minutes. No one would know you left or even swapped places with another guy because the light was broken, no one could see who it was. But when the police started interrogating you, you got nervous; they would eventually figure it out and ask the bathroom assistant? So you murdered him.” “Hold on. How can you prove any of this?” “One, during the performance at some point, you were wearing a watch. But during interrogation, you took out a pocket watch and there was nothing on your wrists.” “True, but so? This doesn’t prove anything, I am a very rich man, I have many watches.” When Herman heard this, he stepped aside and showed him a girl; she was dress elegantly, as if in moonlight. “This girl is the evidence to you murdering that woman. I want you to take a good look at her and tell me what you think.” “What do you mean? I am a 100% sure that I have never seen her in my life!” “Are you sure?” “Yes. Yes I am.” “Well, we have a lot of witnesses here, because this is the girl that was on stage that you wrote your review on that had a solo on stage, you weren’t there, were you?” He was sent to jail for life and 400 hours of hard labour. (1149)