Mike, who learned the truth, was furious, so he packed his bags, grabbed his gun, and headed to Alaska. He wants to avenge his grandparents.
He dreamed of many ways to torture his enemies.
It was also intended to tie the enemy to the back of the cart, drag them on the ground, and sprinkle salt on their wounds to see them bleed to death in pain.
What happened to Mike that made him so vicious?
This begins with the murder of Mike's grandparents in 1985. At the time, Mike was just a teenager under 20 years old.
Sudden tragedy
At 8:30 p.m. on December 19, 1985, Mike was getting ready to go to bed when he suddenly received a phone call asking him to go to his grandparents' house. He inexplicably had an ominous premonition and was dizzy on the way there.
Sure enough, in the distance, he saw the police car parked in the courtyard, and his heart was about to jump out - his grandparents in their 80s were missing.
There were no signs (details) of forced entry into the house, but the house had a bank statement thrown to the ground and Grandma's purse was placed on a chair.
Mike knew that their bank statements were always in a shoebox, and Grandma would take her wallet with her when she went out.
Both the police and Mike's family believe that the grandparents have been kidnapped, and the other party must have rushed to the money.
Mike's father and grandparents
Because the old couple had a large Christmas woods, Mike's father, Dennis, opened a logging company, which was the largest logging company in the northwest at that time, covering more than 4500 kilometers.
But there are few lumberjacks who have not worked in their homes.
Mike's family is a veritable rich man in Lewis County (the name of the small county), and his grandparents are kind and respected, and no one in the small county is unknown.
Mike's grandparents
The next morning, employees of the Small Town Courtyard Bird Mall reported that they had seen the old couple's car.
It was very cold, the thin snow on the window made it impossible to see inside, in order to avoid leaving fingerprints to destroy the scene, the police looked at the window and then ran to the side to vomit.
There was a lot of blood in the car, the seats were stained red, the dashboard was shattered, and Grandpa's hat and a shoe lay on the foot cushions. The police opened the trunk, which was empty.
Where are they? What is the situation now? The old couple is in a worrying condition.
And the tragic life of Mike's family also began.
The suspect turned out to be two grandchildren
Mike's family and search and rescue personnel, hundreds of people marched into the forest to search and rescue. Someone found the old two in the grass.
Grandma was shot in the left shoulder and neck, and the bullet in the back penetrated the body, and the grandfather was also shot in the back, and there were drag marks at the scene. Someone threw them out of the car here.
This news made people angry, and everyone was very concerned, who was so cruel as to kill such an unarmed old man?
But the case was difficult to detect because the murder weapon could not be found, the killer did not leave any fingerprints, and there was no DNA at that time.
They only found cigarette butts in the car, but the old couple did not smoke, and found the most effective evidence, only a cash slip in Grandpa's pocket.
It was an $8500 withdrawal slip.
First of all, the possibility that the suspect is a stranger is ruled out, because the old couple has only disclosed the financial situation (details) to the family.
So, who would have known they had this deposit?
Two suspects appeared, one was mike, the grandson of the old couple, and the other was also the grandson of the old couple, named Rodney.
Mike was only a teenager at the time, a problem teenager, hot tempered, drunk, fighting, smoking, always causing trouble, and was nosy, so his family didn't like him very much.
Moreover, Mike, who has always cared about appearance, actually dressed himself up on the day of his grandparents' funeral.
Mike as a teenager
Rodney is very close to his grandparents, and he probably knows the savings of the old couple.
But the two refused to admit it.
12 days after the incident, someone provided an important clue, they were in the courtyard bird mall, they saw a man with a gun from the parking lot, panicked and ran into the woods next to the road.
Curiously, the gun was wrapped in cloth. The man had dark brown hair, a thin beard, a top flannel hat, and a green coat.
The police photographed all those who matched the characteristics, including the forestry workers, for a total of 8 people. Unfortunately, none of the witnesses recognized which was the suspect.
(You can think, why is that?) ）
The investigation has reached a dead end.
At this time, they did not know that 4 years later, their son-in-law would stage an absurd farce.
The family's 4-year nightmare life
Fast forward 4 years, and the time came to 1990.
These 4 years were a nightmare for Mike's family.
Everyone believes that mike, who has a bad track record, is the murderer, and many people blame him.
Unable to prove his innocence, he became mean and his relationship with his family plummeted.
Mike often had nightmares, and in his dreams there were many shadows, he was flustered, angry, sad, lonely. Life is even more messy.
Lonely Mike
He drank heavily and fought, as if that was the only way to vent his pain. When the police arrested him, he angrily asked: Shouldn't you go and catch my grandmother's murderer?
In these 4 years, Mike had only one thought, to find the murderer, kill him, and avenge his grandmother.
He wanted to fight tooth for tat, tie the murderer to the ground and drag them to the ground, sprinkle salt on their wounds, and continue to drag, watching them bleed to death in pain.
He had dreamed of many ways of torturing murderers.
Mike
His father, Dennis, was even more serious, screaming and struggling in his dreams every night, wrestling from bed with his arms waved.
Until 20 years later, my father still had seizures from time to time.
Mike's mom
The younger sister, Dennis, was just 5 months pregnant at the time and was a pair of twins. When my sister thought about the pain she had suffered before her grandparents were killed, she couldn't calm down.
She was born prematurely in just over 5 months, and worse, both children died prematurely.
Mike's sister
Mike's brother Rodney, when he mentioned his grandparents, burst into tears and his lips tightened. He said he left a small hole in his heart that would never go away.
Even after 27 years, the killer was brought to justice, he still can't let go.
Rodney
The family is suffering on this side, and someone over there is putting on a farce.
And the person who staged the farce turned out to be Mike's brother-in-law Scott.
The granddaughter-in-law claimed to be the murderer and staged a ridiculous farce
In April 1990, the killers of the elderly couple were reported. He reported it to his own brother, named Scott.
The whistleblower said Scott was the granddaughter-in-law of the old couple, and he tortured his wife so badly that he killed her grandparents and got all their savings.
Scott is really not a good bird, burglary, violent crime, selling D, and on the day of the incident, he also appeared near the car of the old couple.
It is absolutely impossible for such a person to honestly confess the facts of the crime. So, the police made a plan to catch turtles in an urn.
Whistleblower's words
But the beginning of the absurdity is doomed to an unusually absurd ending, and it is really a strange criminal who encounters a strange plan.
After police officers approach Scott disguised as gangsters and gain trust on the pretext of making money, they meet at the airport on November 14.
Want to go into the gang to make money? Well, honestly confess the bad facts of the crime, we can sit in the same boat, and we can also ensure that the boat of friendship will not be overturned casually.
The police told him that there was definite information that he was involved in the death of the elderly couple, and that trust could be built if he admitted it.
Unexpectedly, Scott admitted very happily, but this proved that he was not the murderer.
Airport connectors
Because the murder weapon was a shotgun, not a pistol as Scott said, the place of murder was not right, and even the people who read the newspaper knew more than he did.
He wanted to make a lot of money as the murderer, but the preparation was not at all careless.
Everything is back to square one.
When everything seemed to settle and there was no result, a little boy who was only 10 years old at the time played a pivotal role 19 years later.
Christmas Woods Yard
The 10-year-old boy at that time became a master of solving cases
Another flash, 19 years have passed, and the time has come to 2004.
In May 2004, at the age of 29, Bruce joined the Lewis County Police Department as a local police officer.
Bruce was only 10 years old at the time of the crime, and he had the same respect for the old couple as the angry people.
Bruce wants to solve the unsolved case, but his boss advises him to focus on general cases, such as stealing from a house.
Because he wasn't the first person to try to solve the case, but none of them did, but Bruce stuck to his ideas.
Bruce's insistence
If you want to solve the case, you have to do something different from those people in the past.
The first thing he did was to read the massive files of that year and resolve to solve the case, because its nature was too bad.
He then investigated all the witnesses and, based on the information they provided, drew a map of the killer's course of action.
It's a small city where everyone knows the old couple, and Bruce believes that someone must have seen what the murderer looked like (in detail).
Mike has always been believed to be the murderer, bruce doesn't think so, and he speculates that he may be a worker in the Christmas woods.
Because the forest farm is close to the old couple's home, the workers are easy to contact the old couple, and the Christmas tree workers are highly mobile.
Bruce pulled out a photo of a suspect that was only two inches in 1985, and for technical reasons that year, the photos they showed to witnesses were like copies of copies of copies.
Photographs used to testify to witnesses
He scanned the black-and-white photographs, repaired them with software, and turned them into color, so clear that he could see the suspect's pupils and hair color, and printed out large photographs.
Soon, witnesses recognized the suspect with the gun. Do you think the dawn of victory is ahead? No, because looking for someone is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Bruce used technology to restore the photo
Bruce was relentlessly investigating, and Mike never stopped taking revenge, but he found nothing.
The turning point came a year later, when high school classmates finally told Mike the truth.
20 years later, high school classmates have to tell the truth
The time came to mid-November 2005, 20 years after the crime.
One night, on his way to oregon to hunt deer, Mike was stopped by a man who turned out to be his high school classmate Jack who had been following him in his car.
Jack told him an astonishing truth.
When the old couple was killed, Jack knew all the truth, but had to hide it for 20 years.
It turned out that on December 19, 1985, my mother took Jack, who was only 17 years old at the time, on the road, and the old couple's car passed them, and my mother quickly followed them.
It was foggy all around, but up close Jack could see the people in the car, the old couple sitting in the front and two people sitting in the back, the workers of the Christmas woods, Rick and Greg brothers.
A few days after the incident, the brothers came to Jack's house (Mike's high school classmate) and threatened Jack to kill his mother, father, brother, and him if he dared to go.
Jack
Jack, 17, was terrified because the murderous couple passed by his house every day on work. These two brothers are definitely devils, they are the famous D-suckers and criminals in that area, and they are fierce.
Since then, Jack has developed a habit of carrying a gun with him. If he forgot one day, he would go back immediately, and the gun must be within one arm, even if it was not in his hand.
This became Jack's nightmare, and he did not dare to tell Mike that every time he passed by Mike's house, his heart was extremely heavy, guilty, painful, and afraid.
On the one hand, the life of his family, on the other hand, the truth of the murder of his friends and grandparents has suppressed him for 20 years, and now he is desperate to tell these things.
Mike and the police have both received important clues, and the case seems to be not far from being solved.
Mike, who has hated for 20 years, found out that the murderer lives in Alaska, immediately packed his bags, took a gun, and embarked on the road to revenge.
A tortuous path of revenge and a great reversal of reality
Mike was furious and rushed to Alaska with his bag. He intended to kill them and then throw the bodies into the sea. Avenging grandma also frees the family from nightmares.
He got a job in Alaska, investigating the exact location of Rick and Greg while working, however, things didn't go well.
He worked during the day and wandered into the bar at night, trying to find out where the two brothers were, but no one wanted to tell him. Because the two brothers are notorious and vicious.
Mike is in a hurry here, and Bruce over there has also cleared up the crime, and also began to look for a needle in a haystack, looking for the murderer.
(Bruce: Indigenous to the scene of the crime, lived here since childhood, joined the local police station at the age of 29)
By this time, another 7 years had passed, and the time came to 2012.
At this point, Xiaobian is very distressed about Mike, thinking about what kind of life he has lived in thisnother 7 years.
Mike's exact words
In the end, the kung fu paid off, bruce found out where the two brothers were, so he applied for an arrest warrant and booked a ticket to Alaska.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. However, then the dramatic scene came again. (I really can't help but explode)
Bruce discovers that Greg is dead! (One of the murderers)
What a heavy blow, many times the investigation was fruitless, 20 years later finally the truth came out, 27 years later finally found out where the murderer is, the murderer actually disappeared one step ahead!
But thankfully, Rick is still alive. (Another murderer)
Bruce of Justice
Bruce rushed to Alaska to arrest him.
Mike gets a call from his father, who advises him to go home. His father told him that his grandparents must not want him to do this.
Eventually, Mike leaves with a furious heart.
Unexpected arrests, lamentable endings
July 8, 2012, 27 years after the incident.
On this day, Bruce and his party arrive at Rick's house, which is dilapidated and messy, throwing a pile of beer cans and an axe.
Bruce felt very unreal, he spent 10 years chasing the murder and solving the case, and one day the goal was achieved, he felt like a dream.
He didn't know what was going to happen, guessing that the most likely thing was to be shot by Rick.
They held up their guns, crept closer, and when they knocked on the door, the door opened. They carefully pushed the door in.
However, everything was unexpected.
The man behind the chair stood up with an oxygen tube in his nose, dragging an oxygen tank in one hand and a burning cigarette in the other, and the table next to him was piled with drugs.
When he heard of his arrest, Rick said calmly, it seems that he has to take my medication.
It turned out that Rick had already been mentally prepared, or perhaps, he had been waiting for this day.
In 2013, Rick was sentenced to 103 years.
This is excellent news for the Mike family, and the shadow that has hung over the family for more than 20 years can finally slowly dissipate.
Since the death of the old couple, the family has never been together again. Now, they are finally reunited and beginning to meet a new life.
However, this verdict has caused resentment among netizens, who say that it is too cheap for Rick and give him too ideal a home.
What do you think?