In the 1980s, a bizarre murder occurred in the town of Neandick in Connecticut, USA. A pregnant woman died tragically in the bedroom of her home, which was also littered with various erotic underwear and sex toys. The police once characterized the case as a rape and murder case, but found that there were many doubts and it was difficult to find the murderer. Even Li Changyu, a Chinese detective, personally went out on the horse, and he could not figure it out for a while. But then the unexpected clues provided by a little girl became the key to solving the case. What kind of case is this? How did the truth come out in the end?
Let's start by learning about the town of Neandick, Connecticut, where the incident took place. Located in the southeast corner of Connecticut, this town has beautiful natural scenery, a suitable climate and temperature, and rich hot spring resources, making it a very famous health resort in Connecticut. Moreover, Connecticut itself is one of the oldest states in the United States, with a strong history and excellent educational and medical resources. Therefore, many elites in the United States choose to settle in Connecticut, and the neanderthal town naturally attracts many upper elites and becomes a well-known "elite town". The town has always had a very good security environment, and there have been no major criminal cases in many years. So the occurrence of this bizarre case once made the local police very nervous, vowing to find the murderer as soon as possible to solve the case, but they obviously underestimated the cunning of the criminals.
Let's look at the case. On the evening of August 4, 1985, the weather was clear and the afterglow of the setting sun cast the last rays of golden red light from the sea. As the townspeople bathed in the gentle sea breeze and strolled down the tree-lined avenue, a rush of sirens shattered the town's tranquility. Immediately, several police cars roared past and stopped in front of a small villa, which was owned by local resident Edward and his wife, Alan. As soon as the police got out of the car, they sealed off the scene, raised the cordon, and then fished into the villa. They received an alarm from Drurlow, a teacher at the School of Community Economics, and rushed to the scene of the incident.
It turned out that Edward was at sea that night and could not go home. So he invited his good friend Drurlow to visit his wife, Alan, who was 5 months pregnant. Druro took the food his wife had prepared for Alan and drove to Edward's house at the agreed time. But Druro noticed something strange when he got out of the car, and the door of Edward's house was closed, and even all the windows were closed, which was very different from when Druro had visited before. Generally, when there were people in Edward's family, they liked to open the doors and windows to let the air flow naturally into the house. And it's the middle of summer in August, and the weather is a little bit muggy, so closing the door doesn't seem reasonable. But Druro didn't think much of it, and he went straight to the door. He knocked on the door and waited at the door. But after a few minutes there was no movement in the house, and Druro felt something strange, knocked hard again, and shouted Alan's name, but there was still no reaction in the room.
At this time, Druro heard the sound of the air conditioner outside the house running. He wondered if since the air conditioner was turning, it should be someone in the house, and whether Alan's breathing was fainted because the doors and windows were closed. Thinking of this, Druro was very anxious, and hurried to the window to look inside. But it was a little dark, there were no lights in the house, and Druro couldn't see the situation inside the house. Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow on the bed, he realized that it must be Alan, he put down the food in his hand, desperately broke the glass, and rushed into Alan's bedroom.
When Druro entered the bedroom, a pungent smell of bad smell came to him, but he didn't have time to think much about it, and immediately turned on the bedroom light, but the scene in front of him shocked him. I saw Alan lying naked on the bed, his body had long since turned dark blue, without a trace of anger, and it was obvious that the bad smell came from Alan's body. Drurlow was frightened for a moment, but he was a university teacher after all, and slowly he eased up. He grabbed a blanket and draped it over Alan's body, then dialed the police station's phone. Subsequently, Druro also informed Edward, who was going to play at sea, and asked him to rush back immediately.
We went on to talk about what happened after the police arrived at the scene. After an initial investigation of the scene, the police suspected that it was a rape and murder case, but later found that there was no trace of a fight at the scene, and the placement of various items was regular, and the police suspected that this was an adult game passion killing. Ellen was strangled to death by a pair of bikini swim trunks next to her body, leaving a deep stranglehold on her body. It seems that the murderer left the scene calmly after killing Alan, and should be a person Alan knew well.
The police initially suspected that Druro had done it, after all, this kind of thief shouting to catch a thief is not uncommon. Druro entered the scene through a broken window and covered it with a blanket after finding the body, causing the scene to be severely damaged by him. And he is also a good friend of Edward and Ellen, which is in line with the previous murderer inference. But soon Druro was cleared of suspicions. According to the medical examiner's deduction, Allen's death was August 2, and Drurlow had a full day's alibi on that day. Subsequently, the police targeted the suspect on Alan's husband Edward, but after a round of investigation, it was found that Edward also had alibi.
As a result, the police began to expand the scope of the investigation, starting from edward and Alan's social network. The investigation found that the social relationship between the two is very complicated, the couple has multiple lovers at the same time, and the two often take their lovers home to have fun. Neighbors next to them can testify to this, they have seen the two take different partners home for the night more than once, and the couple's debauchery has also made the neighbors quite critical.
The police initially swore that they would find the ultimate murderer from their lovers. The town is not big, there are not many people, and it is not difficult to investigate. But after a round of investigation, the real culprit was still not found, and Edward and Allen's lovers actually had alibi. The case suddenly entered a dead end, and even rumors began to circulate that it was a perverted serial killer. For a time, the women in the town were all at risk, and they did not even dare to go out again at night. The town's elite also began to pressure the police to solve the case as soon as possible, and even made the case appear in the headlines of the national newspapers. At this time, not only did the Neandick town police feel pressured, but even the Connecticut state police could not sit still, and the case was not solved, and the Connecticut police would be disgraced.
Therefore, the Connecticut police came forward and invited Li Changyu, a Chinese detective known as the contemporary "Sherlock Holmes", to support. Li Changyu has been in the United States for many years, with exceptionally rich experience in criminal investigation, and has participated in famous cases such as the murder of President Kennedy, Nixon's "Watergate Incident", and the wife murder of American football star Simpson, and has long been famous in the United States.
When Li Changyu arrived in Neandick Town, Alan's body had already been sent to the morgue, and many of the evidence had long been sealed and kept. This undoubtedly added a lot of difficulty to Li Changyu's cracking case, and he could only restore the first scene again through photos of the scene and sealed evidence. At the same time, he also did not forget to visit the surrounding neighbors and understand the usual living habits of the couple. After repeated deliberation, Li Changyu believes that this is not a passionate killing after a sexual game, but a premeditated and prepared murder. Although various traces of the scene point to passionate killings, the evidence looks so perfect that it looks like someone deliberately made it for the police. It is clear that the killer is trying to lead the police in the wrong direction.
Immediately, under the guidance of Li Changyu, the police began to solve the case from the direction of murder. However, evidence of the murder has never been found, and although Edward and his wife have a modest private life, they are warm and friendly and never resentful. Once again, the police's process of solving the case has encountered resistance.
Just when the police were at a loss, Li Changyu found clues from Edward. He was keenly aware that Edward did not seem to have the slightest trace of sadness about his wife's death, and that he could even feel a slight joy in the course of his conversation with Edward, which was completely unreasonable. Lee began to focus his investigation on Edward. During a conversation with Edward's friend Druro, Li Changyu learns that Edward had a lover named Gulis, who had recently given birth to a daughter for Edward. And not long after Allen's death, Edward moved in to live with Gulith, could it be Gulis buying murder?
But the ensuing investigation also found no evidence of Gullis buying the homicide. Until the testimony of a little girl made the whole case turn around. It turned out that the day before Edward went to sea, he had gone to a friend's house to chat, and one of the daughters of the friend was called Jerry, who said that on the day of the crime, Uncle Edward had been occupying the phone at her house, and it turned out that the phone of Jerry's house could only be called by one person, and the extension in Jerry's own room could not be called because of Edward's occupation. Lee immediately realized that this was a key piece of evidence, and he speculated that Edward had actually killed Alan the day before the crime, On August 1, and then lowered the air conditioner to the lowest temperature so that the frozen body could confuse the forensic doctors in speculating on the time of death. On August 2, he quickly returned home to turn the air conditioner to normal temperature while on the phone at Jerry's house, and then went to sea to create a full day of alibi.
The police then followed this clue to begin an investigation, re-establishing the time of death on August 1 through the food scraps in the stomach of the deceased, overturning Edward's alibi. After Edward's arrest, his psychological endurance completely collapsed, and he confessed to the facts of the crime. He killed his wife in order to live with his lover Gulith, and Edward was eventually punished by the law and sentenced to 50 years in prison. As the saying goes: Skynet is restored, neglect is not leaked, and good and evil will eventually be rewarded.