Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

trial room.

Even if the existing evidence is enough to prove that Nancy has committed the felony of murdering dozens of children in the orphanage, she looks like she has a clear conscience and doesn't care who is going to interrogate her.

"good afternoon."

Nancy could still greet with a smile, "Mr. Holmes, what kind of advice do you bring this time, let me admit that I killed my mother."

"Nancy Owen, you should want to see it."

Sherlock ignored Nancy's implicitly provocative question and directly threw out a photo of an orphanage in Newcastle.

"The orphanage that belongs to you is about to be completed. It is only two kilometers away from your mother's home, and it takes half an hour to walk. If your mother has a spirit after death, she will do something when she sees this orphanage." How do you feel?"

When Nancy saw the photo, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but widen. It was a pleasure that couldn't be disguised. "There is no doubt that my mother will be proud of me."

"Yes. In your mother-daughter logic, it's a thrill to have an orphanage where you call the shots."

Sherlock said regretfully, "But I'm afraid your mother can't be proud of you. Her dead spirit was trapped by you in the Velic home."

Nancy was about to refute, but was interrupted by Sherlock.

"Sorry, I made a slip of the tongue. Sleepy, this word doesn't fit your philosophy, just like you don't think you killed Ms. Meghan."

Sherlock showed a look of understanding:

"Ms. Megan will definitely agree with you. The reason is very simple. She once taught you to 'lead by example'. When you were young, you were stabbed with needles when you moved, so you were taught to have the courage to bear the pain of life. No matter how painful it is, you must be happy and smile to face it. , If you do well, you will be rewarded with candy. The result is very good, the neighbors and neighbors praise you like a little angel, and Ms. Megan is even more of a loving mother."

Lestrade, who was late, almost took a step back when he entered the door.His XX, this is the power of love? !

God, forgive his naivety.He misunderstood the devil again. The love in the devil's mouth is really different from ordinary people.

Nancy kept smiling, not admitting it, but not denying it either.

Sherlock continued, "At the age of 16, you have reached the age where you can share your mother's worries. After being loved on one side for many years, you decided to repay your mother. How can you make your mother accept it with peace of mind, and how can you let her experience the deep love of her daughter? Surrounded?"

Lestrade didn't want to hear the answer anymore, but he noticed that Nancy's eyes were shining, and he couldn't help but be proud of what she had done.

Sherlock gave the answer, "It's very simple. If Ms. Megan is sick and unable to speak at the bedside, then the only person who takes care of her and understands her needs is one and only one—you, Ms. Megan, who loves you the most. Her one and only daughter."

As for how to achieve this condition?

Too much time has passed, and the rented house where Nancy and Megan lived has been sublet several times. There is no physical evidence to prove that Nancy deliberately pushed Megan downstairs.

Nancy obviously knew this very well, and she plausibly said, "Is there anything wrong with taking care of my mother?"

"Of course you don't think it's wrong, and people who see you give praise your filial piety and Megan's education. The mother who raised her daughter alone has cultivated a daughter who will never leave her sick mother."

Sherlock clicked on some photos of the orphanage:

"Undoubtedly, this is regarded as a model, and you will carry out this concept of love. Let the children in the Unicorn Orphanage thank you until their death, and plan to build their own orphanage."

"That's good."

Nancy laughed happily, and then said distressedly, "You want to stop me from spreading love."

Lestrade was absolutely right that Nancy thought she was being jealous.

Nancy considered herself to be an angel, and her virtues were highly praised.Some people are jealous of her great achievements and put her in jail.

"Say we're holding you back from spreading love? It's not the first time this has happened. Four and a half years ago, you also had feelings of jealousy."

Kelsey first threw out the fact that Nancy wrote and directed herself:

"You met Vance by accident. He was crazy about your gentleness and kindness, and forced you to accept the antique gemstone necklace. Later, Vance even made a disappearance because he was jealous that Ms. Megan could get your selfless love. case. You, who are desperate and do not know the truth, can only ask Vance to find your mother."

Nancy nodded repeatedly when she heard the words, "It seems that you have finally come to your senses. This is the truth. I have nothing to do with my mother's death."

Does it matter?

Kelsey was not in a hurry to poke Nancy, "Vance, who doesn't understand love, only knows how to give money. After you agreed to be his mistress, he soon forced you to accept a gold bar of [-] pounds.

Perhaps in his view, after receiving the money, you are his.At this time, Vance is planning to find a house to cut you off from the outside world.On the way to Nottingham to look at the house, you met Mrs. Martin. Her appearance like Mrs. Willich reminded you of your childhood. "

Sherlock continued, "Vance is jealous again. Your compliments to the neighbor's wife made him want to kill. It just so happens that Mrs. Martin is similar in size to your mother. Kill Mrs. Martin and ruin her appearance, and she can disguise herself as Megan." Ms. Throw away the body. In this way, you will end your persistent search for your mother, and you will only love him from now on."

"Yes. I found 'Mother''s body and planned to leave Vance."

Nancy spontaneously added, "Although I don't know about Vance's kidnapping of his mother and killing of Mrs. Martin, I know that he is a dangerous person, and I can only break up with him step by step. First, I moved out of his territory and had a relationship with him. Committee. When he gave me the house in Nottingham, in order not to arouse his vigilance, I had no choice but to accept it first."

Kelsey asked: "So, you don't know why Ms. Meghan was dismembered. Is this Vance's extreme approach?"

Nancy nodded, "Yes, I don't know. Judging from your autopsy results, my mother was kidnapped for half a year before she was killed. Maybe Vance didn't intend to kill her at first, but made a fake corpse to make me give up. But My love for my mother never diminished and he was so jealous that he eventually tore her to pieces."

Lestrade tightly pursed his lips, fearing that a sneer would come.

Abnormal thinking is really different from ordinary people.Assuming that Nancy had not tortured the children in the orphanage, the argument that she was forced by Vance would still be valid, and now she continues to pretend to be innocent.

Now, who still believes that Nancy is kind?

Perhaps only Vance, who died on the street, thought that everything he did was to save his beloved.

After hearing this, Lestrade also figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

Megan abused and beat Nancy since she was a child, shaping it into an education of love, and gave some candy to Nancy whenever she was obedient.

As time passed, Nancy grew from a little girl to a young girl who could live independently, and the roles of Nancy and Megan were reversed.The drug-dumb and paralyzed Megan tortured her repeatedly for more than ten years, forcing her to fall again and again, and her legs got worse.

Nancy has never been bored to the outside world, and she doesn't care about her mother's constant tossing. Her care for Megan has been highly praised.

Just as Megan once enjoyed being praised for her excellent teaching of her daughter, Nancy also enjoyed being praised for her meticulous care of her mother.

Outsiders don't know the abuse and violence that the mother and daughter have inflicted on each other.

Vance met Nancy, who was like an angel, and felt sorry for her difficult life, and the source was Megan's burden.Thus, triggering Vance to rob Megan.

As for why Mrs. Martin was killed and disfigured to pretend to be Megan's body?

There is some incomprehension here, and Wan Si can obviously drag on and say that Megan was not found.

Lestrade speculates that the imprisoned Megan disappeared.Vance could only make a fake corpse, and he chose the target of Mrs. Martin who met halfway and lived alone.

Then who took Megan?It must be Nancy who has figured out Vance's power.

Nancy couldn't easily let Megan, who abused her, take her to another place for detention halfway.

At the moment, Nancy completely denied that she was involved in it, and she did not induce Vance to act radically, and did not deliberately stimulate Vance to commit murder.

I heard Nancy say, "God bless, Vance died unjustly at the gun of his opponent. I finally regained my freedom and set out to sell everything he gave. I don't want the black money at all. After I can distribute it freely, I will use it Is it not good to use this money to build orphanages and do better charity?"

"Prick the legs of the children in the orphanage with steel needles every now and then? Give them a sedative when they are disobedient?"

Lestrade finally couldn't hold back, and questioned Nancy, "The former has a high probability of causing lameness, and the latter is fatal if overdose. Is this your charity?!"

Nancy smiled and spread her hands, "Detective L, don't shout. We just have a different understanding of love. You have your way, and I have mine. Look at me, I have received such an education since I was a child, isn't it good? ?"

Lestrade laughed angrily.

He told himself many times not to reason with perverts, but he still couldn't hold back his failure.Come to think of it now, what was he arguing with a man who was doomed to death?

Up to now, the two crimes of orphans being abused and hastening their death are enough to send Nancy to the gallows.

It's just that Nancy's insistence on denying that she induced Vance to rob Megan and kill Mrs. Martin would prevent the case from being completely solved at some point.

What Lestrade doesn't quite understand is why Nancy insists on denying that she killed Meghan?Is it to shape her perfect image?

That is, although the way of love is distorted, Nancy always loves her mother, and this theory of love has never been wrong.

At this time, Sherlock calmed down, "Nancy Owen, are you sure you are fine? Indeed, only by denying that you have anything to do with Ms. Meghan's death can you insist on that theory of 'love' and you can deny it. desire to expand."

"The desire is expanding?"

Nancy wondered, "What desire, why don't I know? I have dedicated my life to charity."

"Your desire is to make more people feel what you call 'love', and thus get more compliments. Five years ago, you were no longer satisfied with the compliments you got for taking care of Meghan. That was so little, so little that only the people around you people know."

Sherlock pointed out Nancy's plan, "It takes money to expand your influence, and money allows you to start your own orphanage. Rather than saying that Vance met you, it is better to say that you chose Vance."

Perhaps, the encounter between Nancy and Vance was a coincidence, but when Vance generously gave her a necklace worth [-] pounds, a plan was formed.

If Nancy used the excuse that she had a paralyzed mother to take care of, so she couldn't have further development with Vance, what would Vance do?To treat people with sincerity and accompany Nancy to take care of Megan; or simply rob Megan to remove this obstacle?

Vance, who is nearly 20 years old, is a middleman in black market human trafficking. For more than [-] years, he has been accustomed to the law of the jungle and has long been used to ignoring the preciousness of human life.

Even if he is infatuated with a woman, it is difficult to change his nature in his forties.What's more, the Nancy he met was not really a kind person.

With Nancy's help, Vance quickly made a simple choice, just take Megan away.But it won't kill her immediately, after all Megan is Nancy's loving mother.

Stealing Megan and hiding it is qualitatively different from killing Megan.

A person like Vance is also quite confident in himself. As long as he and Nancy are officially together, it is fine to find Megan again in the future.

Sherlock said Nancy's step by step, "Things are as you expected, using the excuse of finding your mother, you maintained the filial and kind setting and naturally came to Vance's side."

"Wait a minute, according to what you said, everything was not caused by Vance's jealousy. Why was Mrs. Martin killed and Vance faked it as my mother's body?"

Nancy sneered, "There is only one possibility. I stole my mother from Vance's territory first."

As she said that, Nancy shook her head, "Tsk tsk tsk! Isn't your reasoning about my motive for committing the crime inconsistent? If I want to plan for Vance's money, I should stay with him for a while, why worry about it? Taking Mother away after two months of disappearance. It was a huge risk of Vance finding out."

"Aren't you a conflicted person, Nancy Owen? And you're confusing timelines."

Sherlock pointed out the correct chronological sequence, "You and Vance went to Nottingham to look at the house and met Mrs. Martin. After returning to London, you chose to take the risk of robbing Ms. Megan. Vance found that Megan was missing, and you mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally. The resemblance of Mrs. Martin to Ms. Meghan prompted him to replace the corpse."

Under the torture of Nancy for more than ten years, Megan had no strength to hold a pen when she was robbed, so she could not resist the robbers at all.

Megan can only lie on the bed, and can only convey emotions with his eyes, but there are a few masters of eye reading in the world.

Megan disappeared, and Vance wasn't too worried about what she would reveal on her own initiative, she didn't have the ability.

Not only that, but Vance didn't think he was exposed in front of Nancy. The two robbers who robbed Megan before were his subordinates.

There was only one thing wrong with this accident.

Vance lost the initiative to hold Megan in his hands, so he might as well create a corpse, so as not to give others the opportunity to spread rumors and destroy his relationship with Nancy.

It's not difficult to forge Megan's body, just make similar injuries and destroy the skin and appearance of the substitute.

This resulted in the steel needle wound on Mrs. Martin's leg, and those traces of beatings were to prove that she met a perverted buyer after being robbed to the black market.

Nancy laughed even more exaggeratedly, "It's so complicated, and is it good for me? According to the timeline you corrected, it sounds like I took the risk of stealing my mother to kill Mrs. Martin. Hehe Hehe, why should I do this?"

"Because of jealousy."

Sherlock pierced the secret that Nancy has always had in her heart, "From the beginning to the end, it is not Vance who is jealous of not being favored, but you, Nancy Owen."

Nancy's smile suddenly froze, "I'm jealous? Are you kidding me, am I jealous of Mrs. Martin?"

"No, what you envy are the twin brothers who are loved by Mrs. Willich. Even though they died of illness early, they got the pure and unchanging maternal love from Mrs. Willich as a mother."

Sherlock said mercilessly, "You are very close to the Velics, and you will never have that kind of maternal love."

Kelsey added another knife to Nancy, "Mrs. Willich, who is indifferent to everyone else, only showed a friendly attitude towards you, which means that your yearning for Mrs. Willich's motherly love is not one-sided. of.

Mrs. Willich admires you. What if you were her daughter?You fantasize, but it's impossible, and the demolition moves you to the other side of London.Your hatred is even deeper, twisted to the point where when you see Mrs. Martin, because she has a similar appearance to your sister, you are about to kill her. "

Lestrade's eyes widened.

good!This can explain why it is complicated to come up with a corpse.

Nancy looked sullen, but still denied it. "This is just your wild guess."

"A wild guess, no, it has a basis."

Sherlock points to the hint at Meghan's burial site.

The body is divided, the head and the body are in the attic and the other is in the soil, which means that the dead spirit will never be fully formed and will stay in the world forever.

Ms. Megan's ghost is mutilated in pieces, and she will forever linger at the Willichs.

Why let Ms. Megan's undead linger in the Velic home?

Because Nancy was educating Megan, educating her mother that there was another way of loving, as Mrs. Velich had done.

"Beside the head in the attic, there is a candy wrapper but no candy. That is your mockery of Ms. Meghan. She can't learn it in one day, and can only look at the candy wrapper in one day. There will never be a candy reward."

Sherlock then points out another reason for Nancy to kill Mrs. Martin:

"It is said that twins have telepathy, you have to let Mrs. Martin's ghost tell Mrs. Willich's ghost that she did something wrong—she should love you more and be your godmother.

Mrs. Velic did not save you, you missed the opportunity to kill her, so you chose to kill her sister with a knife. "

Is such a reason ridiculous?

Very ridiculous.But Nancy Owen grew up under the care of the twisted Megan, and she eventually became even more twisted than Megan.

Up to this point, Nancy hadn't said a word.

She is like a statue with an expressionless face, even if she is accused of all the crimes, she refuses to admit it.

So what if Nancy didn't admit it, her expression said it all.

Now, even if she does not admit to participating in the murder of Meghan and Mrs. Martin, the result of her trial will only be the death penalty.

Sherlock figured out the whole case and was unwilling to stay in the same room with Nancy.Not wanting to say a word to her, he got up and walked towards the door.

Kelsey also stood up, and when she was about to go out, she turned her head and said to Nancy:

"I will go to the relatives of the late Mr. Owen. Close relatives or distant relatives, there will always be someone who can apply to the court to remove you from the Owen family. You can no longer be called Mrs. Owen. As for your surname Anything else is up to you."

After the words fell, Nancy stood up abruptly, trying to break free from the shackles. "Why! Why are you doing this!"

"Why?"

Kelsey blinked innocently, "Isn't it possible? It's just that my attitude towards things is different from yours. Why are you yelling?"

Lestrade: The words sound familiar. Just after entering the door, Nancy scolded him like this.Could the devil be avenging him?

Kelsey said unhurriedly, "Mr. Owen is different from you, Ms. Meghan, and Vance. He is a diligent and honest man. Do you want him to have a bad name? Let others spread it by word of mouth, Mrs. Owen is a brutal murderer.

I don't think it's necessary. His only mistake was marrying you.Even if he died, it should be corrected. "

"No, don't do it! I plead guilty. I admit that I killed my mother and induced Vance to kill Mrs. Martin."

Nancy yelled. She distorted or denied many things, but she always insisted on being Mrs. Owen. "Please, you can't take away my only remaining good mark."

Since Megan was paralyzed, Nancy took her mother to change the residence every year to avoid others discovering the mistakes.

Nancy was taking a risk by marrying Owen.

Although Megan could no longer move his hands, the three of them were under the same roof, and Owen might find out doubts.

Nancy is still married, maybe at that time, she thought about letting go.

"It was God who was too cruel. He acquiesced in the mine accident and took Owen away from me. It was God who gave up on me first."

"Don't blame God for everything, he's busy and doesn't have time to trouble you."

Kelsey did not sympathize with Nancy at all, "You are not innocent. Unlike the children in the orphanage, they have no contact with the outside world, but you have long encountered kindness."

Kelsey said bluntly, "If you can't resist your mother when you meet Mrs. Velic, but in Lin's Medical Center, the doctors take good care of you. You know the difference between good and evil, and you also understand what is good. Love, but still choose evil.

Because it is too difficult to correct the hatred and distorted values ​​that have been in your heart since childhood, but it is much easier to let go of desire. "

Kelsey struck Nancy with a thunderbolt, and also left the interrogation room, leaving only one last question:

"Knowing that it's wrong, but I don't have the perseverance to change. Ms. Nancy, you don't deserve any praise. Admit it, you are not as good as ordinary people, but you are just a cowardly and ugly person. You think Owen will love you like this, Will you be allowed to continue being Mrs. Owen?"

'Kang——'

Nancy's feet gave way, and she fell to the floor as she slumped down.

Should!

Seeing this, Lestrade also left the interrogation room in a good mood.The devil is the devil, crushing the pervert until he is powerless to fight back.

The three left Scotland Yard silently.

Lestrade recalled the development of the case from the beginning to the present, and he couldn't help sighing.

"This case is really risky. If Nancy hadn't kept the last love, she wouldn't have killed Mrs. Martin, wouldn't have killed Megan and just sunk her in the sea. She probably hasn't been exposed yet. , not to mention the confession of the crime will be stimulated. Then Nancy will have her own orphanage, then become the director, and then..."

Lestrade didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"If you love someone, you have a weakness that inevitably puts you in danger."

"So with love, it is impossible to be absolutely rational, and sensibility will inevitably make people make mistakes and encounter danger."

Kelsey and Sherlock spoke at the same time, and after all, they looked at each other.

The eyes of the two were calm, and they seemed to be asking each other, "Having said that, do you dare to try to set foot in this dangerous field?"