Hello Everyone Welcome to the latest episode, I'm Obuchi. Today Obuchi tells you about another very famous case in Australia, the story begins with the fuse of a man who buys a lottery ticket and wins the lottery, to the police who catch the murderer with an inconspicuous plant seed on the corpse.
The process of solving the case is very exciting, it is a textbook case, let's find out below.
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The story begins in Australia in 1960, when the NSW government was going to build a landmark building for Sydney, the Sydney Opera House we later saw, but halfway through the drafting of the plan, the authorities encountered a headache:
Not enough money.
To this end, the state government came up with a genius way to publicize the sydney opera house construction plan and raise funds directly from the public, as long as the people donate to the plan, then they can participate in the Sydney Opera House lottery.
The first prize was as high as 100,000 pounds, in 1960 100,000 pounds, this purchasing power is equivalent to more than 10 million yuan today, if anyone can win the lottery, then who can marry Bai Fumei and embark on the peak of life.
There may be viewers will ask Obuchi, the local government is not short of money, how can it still pay for the lottery, in fact, this is the cleverness of the plan, with the temptation of the huge bonus of the first place, the number of participants in the activity far exceeded expectations, the authorities received money far more than the bonus set for the first place.
I have to say that after the financial thing is played to a certain extent, it is completely imaginative.
On June 1, again the familiar recipe, the local government held its 10th raffle, and when the host announced the winning numbers, everyone in the venue held their breath until a few seconds later, a man named Bessol Thorne shouted:
"It's me, it's me, I'm winning the lottery."
He raised his right hand, which seemed to shatter the frozen tension of the venue like a hammer of Thor, and brought a sea of applause and cheers.
Because Besol won the first prize worth 100,000 pounds, he instantly became the most beautiful boy in the whole field, and the newspapers and television and other media immediately broadcast the man, and Besol was exposed to the public eye with the image of the lottery winner.
In less than a day, almost the entire Australian people knew him, including Stephen Bradley, the man who made Bessol, who was extremely excited in front of the TV station one moment, bow his head and plead bitterly the next.
Until now, if a person buys a lottery ticket and wins the jackpot, he will definitely wrap himself very tightly when he receives the prize, you know, but in Australia in 1960, people did not have this concern at all.
On the contrary, the authorities also need to raise more construction funds through media coverage of the winning deeds, which is what led to today's tragedy.
A month later, on July 7, the whole city was still repeating the rhythm of yesterday, the only difference being that morning, at the corner of Wellington And Francis Street, a Ford sedan was temporarily parked, and in it sat Stephen, a middle-aged man looking east and west, who looked at the watch in his hand from time to time.
At about 8:25, Graeme, an 8-year-old boy carrying a school bag, the son of our winner in the previous article, appeared in the rearview mirror, and Stephen immediately got out of his seat and walked to the trunk of the car, stopping Graeme, who wanted to take a detour, and after just a few words, the two disappeared with the car in the street with few pedestrians.
According to Graeme's usual habits, he would take his mother's friend's car to school after going out, but that morning his mother's friend Maryton waited for several minutes at the designated place, and Graeme did not appear, and Maryton thought that maybe Graeme was sick, so he did not go to school.
But when passing by Graeme's house, Graeme's mother said that the child had left the house very early. But on the other hand, Graeme did not appear at school for a long time, at which time Graeme's mother began to worry about where the child had gone today, and how there had been no news.
After receiving the alarm, the police visited the neighbors around Graeme's residence and asked if there was anything unusual that morning, but nothing was gained, because many shops were not yet open, and most people were half asleep and half awake at home, not paying attention to the road situation.
At 9:30, police officer Lawrence rushed to Graeme's house, as soon as he entered the house, he felt the tension in the air, according to Graeme's mother, because her husband Bessol had just recently traveled on business, plus his own work reasons, so these mornings he asked friends to send the children to a nearby school.
As she was about to describe to the police officer what her son Graeme had been dressed up for the day, the telephone in the living room suddenly rang, and Graeme's mother, thinking that it was news from school, immediately picked up the microphone, but the phone was a man's voice.
The other side said her son Graeme was in his hands, ordered police officers pretending to be Graeme's father, prepared £25,000 by 5pm, and threatened him to throw his son into the sea to feed the sharks if he did not.
Well, yes, Australian people have always been so direct and rude, don't listen to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will feed you sharks.
After Graeme's father learned that his son had been kidnapped, he quickly returned home from the field and once again appeared in major newspapers and television cameras, only this time he had a heavy expression and tears several times, and begged the kidnappers to release his son in front of the camera, as long as the kidnappers did not hurt his son, he could take out all the money he won.
When the news spread, the whole of Australia silently lamented for this father, and the feeling of falling from heaven to hell can be imagined.
In the next two days, the kidnappers did not continue to call Graeme's family, but the police in a garbage heap, stumbled upon Graeme's clothes, saw the son's clothes, Bessol and his wife Frida are mixed, the kidnappers lost their son's clothes, may be deliberately to evade the police tracking, which shows that the son is still alive, there is still a glimmer of hope.
But a few days later that glimmer of hope was completely dashed, and reality threw Graeme's parents into a deeper hell.
On August 15, the body of his son was found in a clearing 16 kilometres from Bessor's residence, when Graeme was wrapped in a carpet, his mouth gagged with a towel, his ankles tightly tied with ropes, and his socks and shoes had begun to mold.
Seeing the tragic death of their 8-year-old son, Bessol and his wife Frida were so sad that they held their son in their arms and cried bitterly, God, why are you doing this to us, you just ignited the hope of our lives, and a few days later took us of everything.
The police officers and forensic doctors next to them saw this scene and silently turned to wipe away the tears from the corners of their eyes, they clenched their fists and secretly swore that you damn guy, Lao Tzu must catch you.
After transporting the carpet and the body back to the police station, the forensic doctor found 3 important clues:
One of the several hairs found on the carpet belonged to three people and a Beijing dog.
The second is that Graeme's moldy place contains 4 different strains that began growing five weeks ago, indicating that Graeme was torn apart within two or three days of being kidnapped.
Finally, the pink crusty substance on Graeme's clothing is the mortar used to paint the house.
Of the three clues, the most special is a seed found on Graeme's clothing, which comes from the Cypress plant, but the plant does not exist in the area where the body was found. This case is different from our previous london naked female corpse, the victim at least directly provided the police with a lot of clues, so the unlucky Graeme is also lucky.
With these clues, the police immediately sent a radio broadcast to surrounding residents to collect clues, centering on the location where the body was found, asking citizens whether they had seen pink walls or had houses painted with pink paint. At the same time, the police also contacted the local natural bureau to find vegetation planting records and investigate cypress plants near the crime site.
A few days later, a postman called the police, saying that he had actually seen a pink house on Moore Street on the outskirts of Krontarf, and that there were two plants in the garden of the house, but he did not know whether the police were looking for it.
On October 3, Bondi Police Quietly sent officers to surround the house, but when they arrived, they found that the house was empty, registered by Bradley and his second wife, Magda, who had left Australia for London with their three children on September 26.
Neighbors confirmed that Bradley did indeed have a Peking dog, and after entering the house, the police found a photo of Bradley's picnic, which was exactly the same as the carpet wrapped Graeme's body, and the police immediately issued a wanted warrant to intercept Bradley in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before he flew to London, England.
At first, Bradley had been protesting the police's arrest of him, and when the police revealed the evidence on Graeme,Bradley admitted that he had indeed kidnapped Graeme, but lied that Graeme had died of accidental suffocation, so he had at best missed manslaughter.
What made the police even more angry was that Bradley also liked to make a splash in front of the camera, and seeing that innocent and mischievous face, Bessol was eager to go directly to him and give him a few punches.
During the trial, the prosecution's forensic doctor attached the breathing mask to the inside of the boot and breathed from the boot for 7 hours, but this showed that Graeme did not die of suffocation, coupled with the scars on his head, he was directly killed by Bradley, and the unique plant seeds and paint fragments on Graeme's body showed that the murderer was Bradley.
During the 9-day trial, the forensic doctor presented one ironclad evidence after another, from clothing colonies pink paint to plant seeds, before and after can be called a textbook case of trace science, and finally the court convicted Bradley and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
According to the data, Bradley had previously worked as an insurance salesman or an electroplating worker, had been married twice, and opened a small hotel in 1957.
But two years later, the fire in the hotel led to a sharp decline in income, and what hit Bradley even more was that in this fire, the insurance company compensated him for much less than his losses, which made Bradley have extreme ideas about society.
The following year, in 1960, Bradley learned of Bessol's winning from television and began plotting to kidnap his 8-year-old son, Graeme.
Before committing the crime, Bradley found out the surrounding environment of Graeme's residence, and he used the park opposite Graeme's residence as a barrier to secretly observe Graeme's school route and time, and finally chose the location of the crime at the corner where Graeme often passed.
On the day of the crime, he stopped Graeme and told him that the girl who had taken you to school was sick, and your mother sent me to pick you up and another boy from school. Since Bradley managed to name his parents, Graeme got into his car without much hesitation, leaving behind his parents' previous instructions never to get on the stranger's train.
The strange driver then kept chatting with Grame about his favorite sports and school life, but when the car pulled into the park, Graeme felt that something was wrong because he didn't know any of his classmates who lived in the park.
As soon as he reached the park, Bradley pounced on Graeme with both hands and took out a rag soaked in anesthetic to cover his face, and in less than 30 seconds Graeme's memory came to a standstill. Bradley then placed Graeme on a park bench, scanned around to make sure no one was there, rolled it up in the carpet, and put it in the trunk of the sedan and drove away.
To prevent Graeme from waking up and knocking on the carriage to attract the attention of passers-by, Bradley tied his limbs tightly and covered his mouth with a towel before calling the Graemes at a public telephone booth on Sput Road to demand ransom.
But not long after the phone call, he found that Graeme had no vital signs, so he threw him into a roadside open space and immediately returned home with his family to fly to London until the police intercepted him at the transit station Sri Lanka.
If it weren't for the plant seed and paint fragments on Graeme's body, in 1960 this case would probably have become another unsolved case, and justice may never have appeared, but fortunately, with the efforts of countless forensic doctors, the law that every contact must leave traces has become more and more perfect.
From plant seeds as seen with the naked eye to today's bacterial communities, the blades of trace traces have become sharper, for example, in some rape cases, although the offender can use condoms to reduce his contact with the victim, he can never erase the bacteria in the lower body.
Australian forensic science professor Sylvana pointed out that there are about 73 kinds of bacteria on male pubic hair and 76 kinds of women, and each person carries different types of bacteria, just like fingerprints, so as long as someone commits a crime, the two pubic hair bacteria will tend to be consistent, because the two pubic hair has been in close contact.
Although this trace science technology is still in the laboratory stage, it is believed that it will not be long before we can see it appear in the latest season of "CSI". I'm Obuchi, we'll see you next time!