A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 857 Criminal Site

The cordon has been set up outside the villa. Rae followed Marcel going in and saw Gustavo leading his colleagues were busy in the kitchen.

The criminal scene should be in the kitchen on the first floor of the villa. This text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.

They walked a few steps forward and saw the blood on the floor have spread to the door of the kitchen. The blood stains appeared dull and it could be seen that Joanna had been dead for a while.

They looked inside from the kitchen window and saw Joanna leaning at the edge of the kitchen bar. Her body was covered with blood and several stab wounds. It could be seen that she was died tragically.

The murder weapon was a sharp German-made kitchen knife and it stabbed into Joanna’s chest. There was a long wound on her neck and it seemed that even her trachea had been cut.

Rae saw Gustavo wearing a mask and a white gown to examine the corpse, and she became nervous.

At this moment, Marcel asked the informant and the housemaid. “Who was the last person that the deceased saw?”

Rae became more nervous.

The informant took a look at Rae and Marcel and said, “It’s Raphael!”

Marcel frowned slightly and looked at Rae.

Rae also looked at Marcel and there was a voice in her heart ¬–– It wasn’t Raphael!

Fifteen minutes was enough to kill people but Rae just didn’t believe that Raphael will do that! She had suspected Raphael before. But when it came to the real matter, she began to deny it again. It must not

Raphael!

Raphael was a gentleman. His economic and family condition was good, how could he do such a thing?

But, how to explain the fact that he was been together with Joanna last night?

Marcel looked at Gustavo then looked at the corpse on the floor. He asked for the protective equipment and examined the corpse himself.

Gustavo saw Marcel coming over and pointed to the wound on Joanna’s body and said, “There are three wounds in total. The wounds on the front chest and the neck are fatal injuries, and another wound is on the lower abdomen. The wound on the lower abdomen and the neck are clearly visible. The wound on the neck is up to 10 cm. The skin and the subcutaneous fat of the lower abdomen were cut off, but the internal organs are not exposed, so it is not a fatal injury. The fatal injury is caused by hemorrhagic shock with the rupture of the lower chest heart vein. According to the wound, it was a suicide and this cut was the last cut.”

“Can determine the time of death?” Marcel asked.

“From the corpse phenomenon, she has been dead for nine to ten hours. Her muscle delaying phenomenon also disappeared. The indoor temperature is now 16-18 degrees, while her body temperature is 20 degrees. Basing on the indoor temperature and the temperature of the corpse, her death time is also between nine to ten hours. The time of death can also be confirmed from the dryness of the blood stains, so there is no doubt about this.”

Marcel nodded. He put on the gloves and took a look at the wound on the neck of the corpse.

He then looked at the wound on the chest of the corpse.

Marcel said again, “The wounds on the chest and the neck are fatal injuries. Even without the cut of chest, she will also be suffocated quickly and die because her trachea was cut off. But how can there be two fatal injuries? She committed suicide stabbing herself three times? It is a bit unreasonable!”

“Gustavo, you are wrong!” Marcel pointed out suddenly.

Gustavo was stunned.

Marcel said again, “The last stab should be at the neck. Once a person’s trachea is cut off, he is unable to do any action. But from Joanna’s state of death, her body is covered with blood. It proves that her blood vessels in the neck were cut off. Her trachea was cut off and even if the neck arteries were not cut off, the blood and tissue fluid from other blood vessels will also block the trachea. This will cause suffocation and death. Therefore, this cut is also a fatal injury.”

Gustavo nodded, “This stab is the fatal injury.”

He seemed to have overlooked it!

“The stab on the chest is pierced deeply into the chest cavity. It is caused by hemorrhagic shock with the punctured vein. We must pay attention that the wound was pierced into it. That means the deceased took the initiative to look for her fatal injury place. The knife stabbed down diagonally from above, and it is not a cut. There should be someone standing behind Joanna and stabbing her in the most convenient position and direction. This wound should be the second wound before the neck! The wound of the lower abdomen is the first cut, and it is cut by herself! But she didn’t do it. The last two wounds were stabbed by others!”

Gustavo and Rae were shocked by Marcel’s inferences. Gustavo nodded.

Marcel said to Gustavo, “Bring the corpse for further dissection! Rae, you go to arrest Raphael immediately!”

Rae was stunned. He asked her to arrest Raphael, didn’t this break their relationship?

Rae wanted to refuse, but maybe Marcel knew what Rae was thinking. He said to her before she refused, “Rae, I hope that you can keep business and personal matters separated!”

Rae was stunned, but she still insisted and said, “Raphael is definitely not a murderer!”

“But he was the last person to see Joanna. Besides, we can still find out another murderer, or another murderer that you suspect. But before that, we need to interrogate Raphael! This is the procedure. Don’t you know?”

Rae lowered down her head. “I think that I should avoid it!”

Marcel became more serious when he saw her being like this. “I just ask you to bring him to the police station and you even refuse to do it? Let alone it is not a formal arresting order.

He said seriously.

Rae raised up her head quickly with a surprised expression. Her eyes looked sharp and she was scrutinizing Marcel’s motives. He did it on purpose. There were so many people in the police station, why did Marcel want her to bring Raphael here?

Rae felt that Marcel purposely wanted to break up Raphael and her relationship. It was better to bring Raphael by herself instead of other people to bring him. It was fine, she would go there to bring him.

Before leaving, Rae took a look again at the kitchen’s situation, such as the windows. There was no sign of fighting or struggling. Everything was handled perfectly and it really looked like the suicide scene. Maybe Marcel was right. This was the murder!

Rae believed in Marcel’s judgment, and also believed that the murder was not Raphael!

She had to come back to find evidence.

After leaving the villa, Rae went around the villa. After thinking about it, she left.

When she brought some people to Raphael’s company, they were blocked by the receptionist. Rae immediately shook her head to stop her colleague who wanted to show the ID. She said to the receptionist, “Please tell your president, I want to see him. My name is Rae!”

“I’m sorry, miss. The president will not see anyone without an appointment!” The receptionist was very polite, but her tone was obviously indifferent. It seemed like the receptionist didn’t like those pretty women coming to find the president.

“He will see me!” Rae said confidently. “Miss, if you don’t report, and delay the major event, your president will be really angry!”

“This is what the president said by himself today!” The receptionist lady said more confidently.

Rae thought that maybe Raphael was angry today, that was why he said that.

Rae had always been polite and didn’t want to show her ID because she was afraid of affecting Raphael’s reputation. After all, he was the president of the company. Once the employees knew that the president was taken away by the police, his reputation will be affected. Even if it was the preliminary interrogation, the media will still hype.

Now, she still didn’t take out her ID. She said to the receptionist lady word by word, “Raphael said that he didn’t want to see anyone without an appointment, but he didn’t say that the people who don’t have an appointment don’t need to report, right? Miss, can you take this responsibility?”

The receptionist lady was shocked when she heard Rae saying Raphael’s name directly. She was shocked because no one will say Raphael’s name directly.

However, the receptionist lady was very reluctant and rolled her eyes at Rae. Rae smiled coldly. “It seems that Raphael’s company needs to change employees because the receptionist even spoke on behalf of the president.”

Rae said sarcastically. The receptionist lady turned pale and she made the call reluctantly.

After the president’s office received the call to ask Raphael, his reply was, “He doesn’t want to see anyone!”

Rae was speechless, and finally couldn’t help showing her ID and patted it on the desk. “I’m the police came to perform official duties!”

After finishing her words, she led her colleagues walked into the office.

The receptionist lady was stunned and totally shocked.

They took the elevator to the top floor. She had been here once. It was four years ago and never come again after that. Raphael’s office should be on the top floor. So, she went directly to the top floor.

When reaching at the door, Raphael’s secretaries stood at there and waited. Raphael was behind them. He stood at a distance with no expression on his face. When Rae came in, she was looking at his eyes, which looked deadly peaceful. It was so deep that people couldn’t see through it.

Rae said to her colleagues standing behind her, “Give me a few minutes, I have something to talk to him!”

The colleagues nodded and waited there.

Rae looked at Raphael across several secretaries. Her face looked pale but her eyes had a sense of worry. “Raphael, I have something to talk to you!”

“I don’t think I need to see you if it is a personal matter!” Raphael answered coldly across several people.

Rae was still showing respect to Raphael. She ignored Raphael’s indifference and walked over to him. She saw his cold face and knew that they couldn’t talk here. She held Raphael’s wrist and walked to his office.

She thought that Raphael would shake her hand off, so she held his wrist tightly. But Raphael didn’t do so. She brought him to his office.

Once they went into the office, Raphael shook her hand off.

Rae turned back and looked at him without saying anything.

Raphael frowned slightly and also didn’t say anything.

Both of them looked at each other for a while and Raphael started the conversation. “You came here for what?”

“I am on duty!” Rae said.

Raphael’s face flicked a sense of sadness. “Duty? Is there anything that police looking for me?”

“Joanna is dead!” Rae told him directly without probing. She wanted to see Raphael’s reaction.

Raphael was shocked but his eyes looked clear and deadly peaceful. “Are you kidding me? She was fine last night!”

“But she really died last night! When you leaving her villa and it happened shortly!” Rae’s tone was a bit anxious.

Raphael suddenly fell silent and stopped talking.

“Raphael!” Rae was worried.

Raphael lowered his gaze slightly and asked blankly, “So, you suspect that I killed her?”

“No!” Rae shook head and said firmly, “I don’t think you killed her!”

Raphael was slightly shocked when he heard that. His deep eyes looked at Rae’s eyes and seemed to make sure whether Rae really trusted him.

Rae also looked at him without avoiding his gaze.

Raphael raised his gaze slightly and took a look at the sky after a while. He turned around his tall body and faced out the window. He said coldly, “If you believe me, why are you still looking for me?”