Los Angeles Legendary Sleuth
Chapter 1112 - 489: Causes and Consequences (Part 3)
Luke changed the question, "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Yes."
"What's her name?"
"Colin Lopez."
"How is your relationship?"
"Pretty good, she's a very thoughtful woman, and we get along well."
"If that's the case, then why did you kidnap her?"
"We didn't kidnap her."
"Then where is she?"
"I don't know."
"When was the last time you saw each other?"
"On the night of March 10th, on the yacht."
"What exactly happened on the yacht that night? Describe it, don't lie."
Mohan Wald shook his head, "I drank a lot that night, I can't remember clearly."
"Lift your head, you're not very good at lying. I can sense your panic, even if you don't say it, the FBI will still find out.
You don't think an excuse for her disappearance will fool us, do you?
This won't be over so easily."
Mohan Wald shrunk his neck back a bit, seemingly in fear, "OK, I'll tell you.
The kidnapping case was indeed orchestrated by us, there was no real kidnapper, the ransom call was made by Little Gary Sane himself, just using a voice changer.
That's why his father didn't notice."
"Where did the voice changer come from?"
"We bought it before, sometimes we play pranks or games, just for fun."
"Why stage a kidnapping?"
"Because of money.
Little Gary Sane's father is a real estate tycoon, very wealthy. But he's quite strict with Little Gary Sane, only giving him a few tens of thousands of US Dollars of pocket money each month, which is definitely not enough.
So, he wanted to extort some money from his father.
It's that simple."
Luke laughed after hearing this, "I can't believe a well-educated rich kid would use such a low-level method."
Mohan Wald nodded, "You're right.
If he were sober, Little Gary Sane definitely wouldn't have done this, and I wouldn't have let him do it, but that night we drank a lot, made the ransom call in a muddled state, and couldn't turn back, just kept making mistakes."
Luke stared at the other, "Can I believe you?"
"Yes."
Luke kept observing the other's expression, feeling that he was still hiding the truth.
One obvious point, he avoided Luke's question, refusing to reveal the whereabouts of his girlfriend.
"Where's Colin Lopez?"
Mohan Wald's face changed slightly, shaking his head, "I don't know."
"Wasn't she with you?"
"No."
"When was the last time you saw her?"
"It should have been at the yacht party."
"Did she leave the yacht then?"
"I can't remember, I was drunk at the time." Mohan Wald's forehead started to sweat.
This made Luke even more suspicious, the issue of Colin Lopez could be dug deeper into, he probed, "Do you know why we were able to find you?"
Mohan Wald shook his head.
"We found the body of Colin Lopez."
Mohan Wald trembled slightly, his head involuntarily lowered.
Sure enough, Luke guessed right, this case is not as simple as a self-orchestrated kidnapping, there should be other hidden facts.
He continued to bluff, "Why did you kill Colin Lopez?"
"No, I didn't kill her."
"According to our investigation, there was more than one person at the crime scene, even if you don't speak, Little Gary Sane will. If he confesses first, we will be more inclined to adopt his testimony," Luke advised,
"I can sense that you are a smart person.
You should be very clear, if Little Gary Sane accuses you of being the murderer, then you might spend the rest of your life in prison.
Someone like you, a handsome young man, is very popular in prison, kindly remind you that when your family visits, tell them to bring more soap."
Mohan Wald shouted, "It really wasn't me who killed her."
Luke said, "After the party ended, you and your girlfriend disappeared together. Now you're alive and well, but your girlfriend ended up as a corpse.
Do you think the jury would believe you?"
Mohan Wald gritted his teeth, his cheeks quivering slightly, still refusing to give in.
Luke glanced at his watch, "So much time has passed, maybe Little Gary Sane has already confessed.
He might have even detailed the specifics of how you killed..." With that, Luke stood up, pretending to leave.
"Hey, this really has nothing to do with me..." Mohan Wald gritted his teeth, clenching his fists tightly, "It was Little Gary Sane, he killed my girlfriend."
Luke turned around and asked, "Why did he kill Colin Lopez?"
Mohan Wald grabbed his hair hard, his voice hoarse, "That day, Colin Lopez was wearing a red swimsuit, Little Gary Sane thought she looked sexy, so he suggested playing poker with her.
Little Gary Sane isn't as good-looking as me, he was worried Colin Lopez wouldn't agree, so he got her drunk and took her to the room on the yacht.
Later... Colin Lopez woke up, she started to resist, even bit Little Gary Sane, and the two started to fight.
Little Gary Sane was very angry then, and he picked up the lamp on the bed and smashed it onto Colin Lopez's head hard.
By the time I got to the room, Colin Lopez was already dead. The situation was beyond salvaging.
Little Gary Sane had become a murderer.
He didn't want to turn himself in, nor did he want to go to jail, and was worried about being hunted by the police if he ran, so he came up with the idea of a kidnapping.
He wanted to use the kidnapping excuse to temporarily evade police tracking, and could also extort some money from his dad.
Once his dad paid the ransom, we'd reappear as victims. By then, even if the police found out Colin Lopez was killed, we could say it was the kidnapper who killed her.
And we were always imprisoned, unaware of the details of Colin Lopez's death, thus clearing ourselves of murder suspicion."