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The officer gripping Badawi’s arm squinted his eyes into a slit, dizzy from the cara flash.
Their arrest of Badawi hadn’t been ostentatious; on the contrary, they tried to be as discreet as possible.
However, Badawi was a public figure, and he was participating in a golf tournant.
The police couldn’t wait until the end of the ga, as there would be too many variables.
Ni Cha himself wasn’t even confident in keeping the secret that long.
By the ti Badawi was brought to the police station, there were already dozens of reporters outside.
The son-in-law of the late mber of Parliant was now taken back to the police station, and there were rumors that the “mber of Parliant Renne drowning case” had been reopened.
The various connections easily led to a series of speculations, and spawned a large amount of viewership and readership.
As for where the “rumors” ca from, that goes without saying.
“Captain Jiang, the suspect has been taken to the interrogation room, and he’s requesting a lawyer.
Besides that, he hasn’t said a word,” Ni Cha said solemnly, but not anxiously.
This was an anticipated situation.
Under the Europe and Arica style judicial system, remaining silent is almost the option every suspect chooses.
The difference lies in whether so people actually have a lawyer, while others not only lack legal help but can’t even afford a lawyer, which ans a long and aningless wait in the interrogation room.
Badawi certainly had a lawyer, so all he needed to do was to remain silent and wait for his lawyer to act.
In this model, wealthy cri suspects initially have an advantage during interrogations.
However, Ni Cha found Badawi’s level of resistance to be sowhat unusual.
Shouldn’t a normal person’s first reaction be to challenge the police with “why are you arresting ?”
But questioning ans talking, and dialogue could be used by the police, so Badawi’s behavior seed more like it was preditated and practiced.
Of course, this alone couldn’t be considered evidence, not even speculation.
It’s no big deal for wealthy people to receive interrogation training; it’s even less so if Badawi was prepared.
Nevertheless, Ni Cha’s emotions gradually stabilized.
“Theoretically, we can now collect various biological features from Badawi,” Ni Cha looked expectantly at Jiang Yuan.
“For now, footprints are what we can use, but they might not hold up as evidence in court,” Jiang Yuan paused before continuing, “Let’s leave direct evidence aside for the mont.
I think we can take a look at Badawi’s previous statents.
If he is the murderer, then there would be issues with his past statents.”
Since the mber of Parliant Renne’s death case was a major one, despite the chaos, the police had recorded statents from everyone.
Ni Cha slapped his thigh: “I also think this could be a breakthrough.”
Now, the new evidence pointed to Badawi; revisiting the previous statents, if there are discrepancies, they could be thoroughly investigated.
Zhong Renlong fetched Badawi’s statent and presented it for everyone to assess.
As Jiang Yuan had read before, Badawi stated that in the latter half of the party, he was drinking whiskey in the room with his friend Sulaiman.
Without waiting for Ni Cha to say more, soone imdiately pulled up Sulaiman’s statent, printed it, and distributed it to everyone.
anwhile, other officers started searching the surveillance video for Sulaiman.
Sulaiman’s account was similar to Badawi’s, and he also appeared very cautious on the surveillance.
However, according to the tiline, in the latter half of the party, Sulaiman was spotted several tis on the other end of the hall.
In other words, it was at least impossible for Sulaiman himself to be with Badawi the entire ti, and his testimony was obviously a lie.
“Such an obvious issue, how co it wasn’t discovered before?
Bring Sulaiman back!” Ni Cha feigned anger.
Only the dia really treated the “mber of Parliant Renne drowning case” like the Kennedy assassination case, taking it seriously but not to the extent of ticulously investigating everyone’s tiline.
If the son-in-law Badawi was sowhat under scrutiny, Sulaiman was completely off the police’s radar.
He was just one of the guests attending the party and was quite distant from mber of Parliant Renne.
It was now 5 pm.
Hardworking dia reporters had no intention of knocking off; instead, their numbers only grew.
So TV station reporters even appeared with their broadcast vans, starting live coverage on the scene.
Sulaiman sat in the back seat of the car, flanked by two police officers.
The anger in his eyes dissipated gradually with the sound of reporters banging on the police car windows.
“Why exactly are you arresting ?” Sulaiman asked for the nth ti.
His reaction was typical for a person under arrest, but it also, from another angle, illustrated how his status as a fallen aristocrat had beco no different from that of an ordinary citizen.
The officer sitting next to him looked at him with eyes that seed to gaze upon a commoner, saying nothing.
By the ti Sulaiman was brought into the interrogation room, Ni Cha and the others had sorted through most of the video footage involving Sulaiman.
Those accustod to investigating individuals’ movents through video surveillance know well that tracking the sa target through multiple caras can be quite a ntally taxing task.
People under surveillance are already sowhat distorted, and it’s manageable if you are familiar with the subject.
But if the subject is new, and the video is played too fast, it’s very easy to overlook them.
Moreover, surveillance footage is not always continuous.
Controlling the transition from one point to another isn’t that easy either.
Operating a computer is one thing; dealing with real-life video footage is another.
Many surveillance systems are not connected to the internet—Ningtai County has spent the budget of several districts in succession to connect the video surveillance in a brief period, and new problems will continue to erge.
The surveillance inside and outside the Lunen household obviously had worse conditions.
The original setup was not built all at once, and added surveillance equipnt was often neither standardized nor interconnected.
You have to retrieve them separately and adjust the format for use.
As for tracking the movent of people between points, problems often arise.
For instance, what should be a 30-second walk from one point to another can beco baffling if the subject stops to smoke a cigarette in the middle.
Investigating Sulaiman naturally posed various problems, but with enough people watching the surveillance, smoking a few cigarettes wouldn’t help.
This is one of the advantages proposed by the Cold Case Squad.
Because the case is important enough, there are sufficient resources, and that’s how leads beco evidence.
Otherwise, allocating just a group of four or five officers to watch the footage, make arrests, drive, and write reports, it wouldn’t just be difficult to conduct a thorough investigation, but even to clear up a single direction would be very challenging.
“This guy must have been cheating,” a cop cursed fiercely after watching less than half an hour of footage.
Ni Cha imdiately ca over and saw, from a parking lot cara angle, Sulaiman kissing a woman in a yellow garnt before each walking to their respective cars.
The surveillance angle was from afar, and from this video alone, their faces weren’t clear, but with other videos as corroboration, the man could be confird as Sulaiman.
“This guy really deserves to die,” Ni Cha understood the situation at a glance and asked, “Do we know who the woman is?
Are we certain?”
“We’re checking backward; she’s probably soone’s wife too,” replied the officer.
Ni Cha sighed, “Sulaiman is married, right?”
“Yeah, his partner’s family is quite wealthy, wealthier than us at least,” the officer said enviously, “and she’s pretty too.
This guy really deserves to die for ssing up our case.”
“I saw Sulaiman on the third floor earlier; the third floor is all bedrooms, right?” another officer ntioned.
“Check and see if this woman has appeared on the third floor,” Ni Cha paused before continuing, “Get familiar with the guest list, find a clear frontal photo to compare.
A woman that beautiful, how can we not rember?
Once we confirm her identity, bring her in.
He really deserves to die!”
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