Chapter 275 Perfu and Cara
Then what about the evidence?
Luke thought for a mont, before he led Elizabeth into the house.
On his way, he asked, “Elizabeth, how’s the other case coming along?”
Walking behind him, Elizabeth said in a low voice, “It’s really weird. That body... really is the mother.”
Luke hadn’t expected that answer, and paused for a mont. “Let’s not be hasty. We’ll finish this case first before we think about that body that’s still fresh even after being dead for a
year.”
Elizabeth nodded, and had absolutely no doubt that Luke would be able to solve this case today.
As they walked, Luke asked, “What would you do to find evidence that it was Thomson who did it?”
Elizabeth knew that Luke was using this case to teach her. She imdiately frowned and mulled it over.
She had just read Thomson’s file. The man was quite suspicious, but there was no evidence to link him to the assault on Millis.
No fingerprints, no bloodstains, no eyewitnesses, no surveillance footage – nothing at all.
Even though he was lying, that wasn’t proof that he had committed the cri.
Thinking for a mont, Elizabeth suggested, “The cri scene – Millis was found in the living room, but from what I saw in the report, the living room was too clean and tidy to be the cri scene.”
Luke nodded. “Go on.”
Elizabeth said, “Could she have been attacked in her room?”
Luke nodded, but then shook his head. “We checked her room, but we didn’t find anything.”
Elizabeth frowned. “Is it possible that we missed sothing?”
Luke said, “It’s possible. Do you have any other thoughts?”
By then, they had reached the hallway which separated the maids’ rooms.
Looking to the left and right, Elizabeth was suddenly struck by an idea. “Could it have happened in Manny’s room?”
Luke smiled. “Yes, that’s a possibility. Let’s go in and take a look.”
They pushed open the door and entered, and looked around Manny’s room.
After her conversation with Luke, Elizabeth imdiately found it odd. “Wait, why do I feel that...”
Luke finished the thought: “This place has been reorganized.”
This room wasn’t exactly tidy, but the items in the room were all in place, as if they had just been put back.
Luke and Elizabeth observed the room.
Manny was a woman, and didn’t have OCD. There were a lot of things in her room.
The room wasn’t exactly dirty or ssy, but there was perfu, makeup, and accessories everywhere in the room.
Elizabeth was amazed. “Do maids really make so much money? She can afford Dior perfu? Let see. This one is from last year, designed for youthful won. Well, these two are from this year, one for mature won, and the other for... girls?”
Slowly surveying the room, Luke asked, “She’s only twenty-four. She’s still a girl, isn’t she?”
Elizabeth was silent for a mont, before she said, “But this perfu is only designed for those around twenty. Judging from her other bottles of perfu, she doesn’t look like soone who would choose the wrong perfu.”
Luke said, “What if she suddenly wanted to feel young instead of mature?”
Elizabeth said, “...Well, that’s indeed a possibility.”
Luke asked, “Find anything else?” He thought that Manny might’ve indeed felt threatened by Millis.
Millis was only twenty. She was much younger than Manny
The perfu for girls was clearly more suitable for Millis, but Manny had still bought it; it was obvious what she had been thinking.
Wait! Sothing wasn’t right!
Sensing sothing, Luke went over to the perfu and sniffed it.
With his Sharp Nose, Luke sensed Thomson’s and Millis’s scents on the perfu bottle, but not Manny’s.
That was interesting. To put it simply, Manny had never touched the perfu that was on her dresser, but Millis and Thomson had.
Also, the perfu slled familiar. Luke rembered it from Jennifer’s room, but mixed as it was with the other perfus, he hadn’t paid much attention to it.
Now that an entire bottle was in front of him, Luke imdiately sensed that sothing was wrong with this perfu.
Carefully slling the perfu for a while, he said, “Elizabeth, take another look around the room. Are there any other items here that don’t match Manny’s style?”
Elizabeth looked around and saw sothing. “I don’t think Manny would like this art piece, would she? Also, it doesn’t fit here, right?”
She was referring to an elegant, abstract statue on the top of a black, square pedestal. It sat on a box to one side of the mirror.
Luke looked at it and then rembered that there was a similar statue in Jennifer’s bedroom.
He didn’t touch it, and rely activated his Sharp Nose.
Sa as the perfu bottle, it only had Millis’s and Thomson’s scents on it, though the latter’s scent was faint, which clearly indicated that he had only touched it briefly. In the anti, Luke slled sothing else inside the statue that was out of place.
Luke put on a pair of gloves and observed it for a mont. Then, he pressed a particular area, and part of the pedestal fell open. Elizabeth exclaid, “Wow! A hidden cara?” She was taken aback.
The pedestal turned out to be hollow, and a tiny cara had been installed inside.
Luke took out the cara, only to find that its battery had run out.
“Elizabeth, see if you can find the charger for this cara in Millis’s room,” said Luke.
Elizabeth imdiately went to Millis’s room, and soon returned with a charger.
Luke plugged in the charger and pressed the playback function on the cara.
Then, they heard Millis’s voice. “Haha. Manny, you’re screwed! Haha, with these videotapes, Jennifer will do anything I tell her. All her money will be mine! Haha!”
Elizabeth was dumbfounded. Two maids were fighting over Jennifer’s money?
Several seconds later, however, Millis disappeared off cara after a dull thump.
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