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Legacy

Par CELINA ALEGRIA FLORES, publié le vendredi 2 février 2018 22:51 - Mis à jour le vendredi 2 février 2018 22:52

LEGACY

 

         I had nothing to do, this Tuesday, when Mary Johnson, an old and nice lady, one of my friends, entered the office. She explained why she had come. Two people, Dany and Eliana Johnson, her nephew and niece, had been killed, and I had to find the murderer.

 

         First, I went to talk to the forensic. He explained Eliana had been asphyxiated and Dany had been poisoned. I asked the circumstances to Mrs. Johnson, who explained: «There was a family meeting with friends. That lasted all the night, but that was stopped when Dany fell on the floor dead. A few seconds later, the corpse of Eliana was found in the toilets, lying on the floor”

“Was there a reason?”

“I don’t know, but M. Johnson my brother and their father, is now old, and he’ll die soon…”

“Was he rich?”

“Yes. So rich.”

“Ok. That could be for legacy… Thank you, Mary, I’ll do what I can.”

         The legacy. A very classic reason to kill. But Dany and Eliana are both dead… and no one else could receive this legacy… I didn’t understand the whole situation.

 

         I questioned all members of the party. There were two strange guys… a friend of the family, Samuel Esyny, who talked with an awful accent. He’s a geek, someone who spends his time playing on computers, and who is good at programming and building electronics. The second weird guy was Mark. He had been in prison, because he had killed people who he didn’t like. He was mad. A psychopath. A FREE psychopath. He used to kill with gas and poison, or drugs. This « for-no-reason-killer » was frightful.

        

         At 3p.m., the forensic came and gave me something that was in Eliana’s pocket. Something like an electronic card… a microchip! I ran to the hall where the fest was. In the mixed toilets. In the pharmacy box, there was a little device. I wasn’t surprised discovering it. I brought it to my office. I’ve been geek too, when I was younger… I’m not old, but when I was a kid, I played with electronics…

 

         After a few minutes of exploration, all was clear in my mind, now. I had to convene everybody.

 

         The family and Samuel were waiting in the room which I reserve for solving investigations. Everybody was sat on armchairs. I began this way: “The killer is in this room.” Everyone exchanged a glance with their neighbors. “I found this in the toilets (at that moment, I held the mysterious device). This device permits to release a gas. And the only one who could build this, is YOU, Samuel!”

“Why would I do that?!”

“The answer is in your coat pocket…”

At this precise moment, Samuel blushed.

“I… I…”

“Yes. You.”

“I was in love with her, but that was a one-way love…”

He took a letter that was in his pocket. I grabbed it. That was a love letter.

“He wanted to give it to Eliana, but he saw she already had a boyfriend. So he decided to spend a last moment in her company, and to kill her. He slipped in her pocket this microchip! (Taking out the microchip.) That microchip activated this device when she entered the toilets. So he made her drink in order to make her go to the toilets.”

“Y… Yes…”

Someone in the room spoke:

“But he had no reason to kill Dany!”

“I didn’t kill him!”

I calmed down the situation:

“No, he didn’t. Not him. Who could be interested by his death? (No one talked.) Eliana! She wanted the whole legacy and she poisoned her brother. After giving him a beer, she had been killed by Samuel. The killer killed.”

Everybody was impressed. The police came to take Samuel, and the Johnson family thanked me.

 

         That strange story is one of my many investigations, but I remember this one like it was yesterday.

 

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