Who killed Helen

— On a stormy night, there is a murder in the town: Helen, a resident, is killed at the workbench in front of her garage. Sheriff Steve rushes to the scene with the officers and sees a blood-stained iron pipe next to Helen's body, but finds no trace of anything else.

In desperation, Sheriff Steve was preparing to leave Helen's house with the officers when he suddenly saw Edgar and his wife, who lived not far from Helen's house, walking here with their dogs.

Upon learning that Helen had been killed, Edgar exclaimed, "This is terrible, she is a great beauty!" ”

Mrs. Edgar glanced at her husband unhappily, snorted in her nose, and said, "What a great beauty, a troublemaker!" Hmmm, I see that as long as she is in the town, no man is innocent. After saying that, the ass twisted and walked away angrily.

Edgar immediately followed closely.

Looking at the backs of the couple one after the other, Sheriff Steve fell into deep thought.

At this time, a police officer came to report that a boy named Hubert and his mother had been taken to the police station to be investigated, and Sheriff Steve ordered a retreat.

Hubert was a mentally retarded patient, because he often went to Helen's house to play, so he was taken to the police station for investigation, and his mother was not at ease and insisted on following.

Sheriff Steve met with Hubert and asked him in a particularly gentle tone, "Do you know Helen?" ”

Hubert immediately had a childish smile on his face, nodded, and said, "Recognize, she used to let me play in her garage and sometimes drink chocolate tea together, and I liked her." ”

"Do you go to her garage at night?" Maybe you went last night? ”

"I don't remember."

"Hubert," Sheriff Steve suddenly noticed the bruises on his hands, "when did you break your hand?" ”

Hubert suddenly tensed his face: "I don't know, maybe I did it while climbing a tree." ”

"Listen," said Sheriff Steve softly but firmly, "listen carefully to me, Helen was hurt last night. You liked her, so you didn't hurt her, did you? ”

Hubert rolled his eyes and said boyishly, "I'm going home." ”

When Sheriff Steve saw that Hubert was unwilling to cooperate, he decided to talk to his mother: "Can you tell me about your son?" ”

"Hubert is nineteen years old, but his intelligence is only the level of a five- or six-year-old child," said Hubert's mother wearily, "but he is very kind, has no bad intentions, and can never do anything harmful." ”

"Did Hubert go out last night?"

Mother Hubert sighed, tears rolling down her cheeks, and said, "I can't stop him, he was going out in the heavy rain late last night, and I don't know where he went." ”

Sheriff Steve stood up and said, "I know you believe in your son, but I have to leave him here for the time being, find a suitable doctor to talk to him, we will take good care of him, and you can see him at any time." All right? ”

Mother Hubert nodded reluctantly.

The next day, Sheriff Steve was not satisfied, and drove to Helen's residence, wanting to continue the investigation. Unexpectedly, he met Edgar and his puppy again at the door. As they nodded to each other in greeting, Edgar's puppy suddenly tugged desperately on the leash to rush to the driveway of Helen's house, and Edgar pulled hard.

Sheriff Steve immediately asked warily, "Your puppy seems to want to run to the driveway, is that the route it takes?" He said, taking the leash of the dog from Edgar's hand, "We might as well try." He casually followed the puppy, who did not hesitate to run straight to the workbench in front of the garage. When it ran to the workbench, it kicked its hind legs and extended its front paws straight to the workbench. Sheriff Steve carried the puppy to the workbench, only to see it immediately curled up in a complacent position. Sheriff Steve looked up and saw that Helen's bedroom could be seen from here.

Edgar wanted to say something, and Sheriff Steve gestured at him, "I'll let you know your wife, if you have anything to say, please come to the police station and say it again!" ”

In the interrogation room, Sheriff Steve asked Edgar bluntly, "What is your relationship with Helen?" ”

"There's no relationship between us," Edgar almost screamed, "I don't know the woman. ”

Sheriff Steve looked at him coldly and said, "Now, I can tell you what I think. Every night when you take your puppy for a walk, you have to come here quietly and peek into her actions in the bedroom from here, and you said that she is a great beauty. But this time she happened to come to the garage while you were peeping, and she was surprised to find out what you were doing, so you killed her and killed her. ”

Edgar's face turned white and he whispered, "Sheriff, I admit that I do come here a lot to peek, but I didn't kill her, absolutely not." I swear, I never even touched her. "

Edgar was talking when his wife suddenly dragged her shoes in and shouted, "What have you done to my husband?" ”

Sheriff Steve said, "We are summoning your husband, please wait outside. The woman immediately screamed, "He didn't do anything, you shouldn't treat him like this!" At this time, Hubert's mother also came, crying and asking to take her son home.

Sheriff Steve nodded, "Well, you can bring him back first, and we'll find him later when we need to." ”

Upon hearing this, Hubert's mother immediately went to pick up his son with pleasure. After a while, Hubert followed his mother to greet Sheriff Steve: "Goodbye, Sheriff Steve, Mom said I can go home now." ”

He saw Mrs. Edgar standing next to the sheriff and said friendly, "Mrs. Edgar, are you here too?" Hello! I wish Mr. Edgar's cold was better. ”

Edgar said in a gruff voice, "I don't have a cold, kid. ”

"Mrs. Edgar said you had a cold," Hubert said with a kind look on his face, "I just wanted to ask if you were better." ”

"Mr. Sheriff, please let this child go away, or I'll have to find a lawyer." Mrs. Edgar suddenly seemed a little impulsive.

Sheriff Steve said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Edgar. ”

He walked over and patiently asked Hubert, "Think about it, Hubert, when did Mrs. Edgar tell you that her husband had a cold?" ”

Hubert touched his head and thought for a moment and said, "She came out of The Helen's garage that night it was raining heavily, and I happened to be there too." She said that Mr. Edgar had a cold and could not come out to walk the dog in the heavy rain, so she had to come by herself. I also saw that her hand had also been bruised by something, and it must have been that she had gone to climb the tree that day. ”

When Sheriff Steve heard that, he understood everything. He glanced at Mrs. Edgar, and that was it, causing Mrs. Edgar to bow her head. She confessed that it was indeed she who killed Helen, because she could no longer bear her husband's daily peeping at the woman.

(Guo Rongli)