Suspects: murder case

Chapter Three

CHAPTER THREE

“Okay Dr. Abby did not just bleed to death. From what we have here, he was stabbed with a short knife. He was stabbed around his abdomen but that was from his back. This knife is not the normal kitchen knife, see take a look at the stabbed area, what do you think?’

“Well I would say this knife is a butcher’s knife”.

“You are right! From our autopsy we discovered that the blade of this knife is a minimum of 10inches. The damage caused by the knife affected the kidney. So Mr. Abby died because of three things, the bleeding from stab, the kidney damage. Even if he did not die from the stab, he will be unable to use his kidney for a minimum of a year and six months. The last thing that caused his head is the breaking of his skull. I think when he was stabbed, he tried to fight, he even held the person and we are already carrying our a DNA test to trace a different gene on his palm and cross match it with everyone in the house. He was pushed forcefully and he his head so hard on the wall, then the wooden bed and lastly the ground. It was at this point that his skull broke. Whoever did this is evil! ”. 

“Thank you Jake. If I may ask, when will the DNA test be out?”

“48hours minimum. It is not like we are looking for the parenthood of someone, no. What we wre doing here is to crosscheck every fingerprint on his body that is not his neither will it be one of the guests’ but must be from his household. So yes! This is a complex experiment we are running here. If God is on our side 48hours of work will get us closer to knowing our murderer”.

“Thank you Jake”.

“See you later. I will have to go back to work”.

“Yes! Please and thank you for the motivation earlier”.

Inspector Susan and Inspector John went back into the investigation room where the met three other inspectors. On the board was Abby’s picture surrounded by Stella’s, Adamu’s, Daniel’s, Nkoli’s and pictures respectively. There were red line drawn to wards Abby’s picture which was pinned at the middle. There was also a picture of a face attached to their suspect list. There was also a picture of a butcher’s knife pinned to the white magnetic board. 

“There are five suspects in this picture. Stella his wife, Nkoli the house help, Daniel his son, Adamu the gate man. Let us start from Stella. Why will Stella want to kill her husband.

“maybe because he is Indian and she wanted to take over his possessions before he leaves. Maybe she was afraid of loosing him or maybe… ”

“He was having an affair with another woman”.

“Okay that leaves us with an open window. ” “Now let us go over to Nkoli. Why will a maid kill her boss?”

“There are so many reasons. One is she might want to marry him. Maybe they have had that discussion many times and she has grown out of patience. Then that morning they had an argument just immediately Stella left the house. Then somehow, an accident happened and it was Abby that was the victim. This will explain the reason why she was the first person to raised that alarm first”.

“Okay. Nkoli is a suspect then. Why will Daniel want to kill his father?”

“The same reason Stella will want to her husband. The man is Indian. In Nigeria here, young boys would want to get rich very faster than normal. This one already had the wealth. Probably he will be afraid when he thinks of the fact that his father who knows that he is a rascal can one day decide to share his wealth across orphanages and and other charitable platforms. To prevent that from happening the best thing to do was to kill!”

“What about Adamu?”

“Well, that one does not enter the main house. He is lesser of a suspect than others”. 

“So this leaves us with four suspects. Stella, Nkoli, Daniel; and an unknown person”

“Alright guys. Let us go back to work!”

The investigation had become so intense. As they awaited the test results from Jake and his team. They had Daniel, Stella and Nkoli as their primary target. They decided to use power of psychology to buy Jake time. They will just go to any of their prime suspect and confront the person openly and see what the person had to say. The first person they invited was Daniel. Daniel walked into the investigation room in jus baggy jeans and singlet.

“Have you found the murderer?” Daniel asked.

“Yes! Probably you!”

“And where is that s**t coming from?”

“It’s Danny-mighty. Tell us the truth. Why did you kill your father?”

“Really! And why do you think so?”

“You have seen the man’s life. You know he is from India and he could possible share his wealth among others and this will cause you to have no share in his wealth when he dies. You could not wait until he died a natural death so you had to take his life.”

“I did not know all these shits until y’all just mentioned it now. What makes y’all think that I will have this kinda s**t in my head? You think that me being rascal has gotten into my head? Y’all think my head is messed up? Y’all be kidding. I am not insane man. I know I do some rough stuffs but I am so sure I am no bad guy. Y’all do so many dirty shits all in the name of being cops but me and my boys are clean. We just cruising this life man! We just wanna be happy and that’s all! No one is killing nobody. You know what? I am leaving you guys here”.

“You do not walk out on the police”

“Wuh? If y’all wanna talk with me again, you can go through my lawyer”.

That moment, Inspector Susan and Inspector knew they had acted unwisely. As Daniel walked out on them they began to regret how they had approached him. The fact that he mentioned of them doing dirty things had weakened them also. But that is what they see while discharging their duties. They went further by driving down to the state to ask questions to Nkoli, this time in a manner that will be psychologically implicating.

“A Inspectors. Are you here again?”

“Yes we are”.

“My mistress is not here ooo…”

“We are not here for your mistress, we are here for you”. “Why did you kill him?”

“Kill who? And who are you even asking the question?”

“You were jealous of your mistress, you began to fall in love with your master. Probably he had promised you that he would divorce Stella and marry you. You grew so impatient that you had to enter into a fight with him and somehow you killed him”

“Wow! Is that all you have got?”. “I thought you guys were smarter than this? You have become so frustrated with this case on you and you feel like putting the blame on someone else. Well that could be so good but do not try that with me. My boss and I were never and will never be in a relationship. How will I fight my boss? How did you guys come up with such a dumb story? I told you guys that I fell asleep when everyone was going then when I woke up from I had to continue with my clean up exercise. By the time I got to my master’s room, I saw it open for the first time in a long while. So, I went inside to find my boss in the pool of his own blood. So me being the one to raise the alarm first has been translated to me being the murderer? So Pathetic! I am sorry but we cannot continue this discussion again...”