Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 50

This is how she feels in her heart.  There’s no other meaning to it.  But to her surprise, Jungkook looks dumbfounded.

“Oh..” 

He gives a little sigh of disappointment. 

Lisa doesn’t understand why he gave such a response.  But there’s no time to ask.  The phone rings again.  She picks it up.

Jungkook is driving, but his heart is covered by a layer of melancholy.

She said it felt unreal.

His techniques are not good enough?

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His moods plunges after Lisa’s comments.  When the team leader gets a ‘more cold than usual’ reception from Jungkook, he more or less guessed what they were doing when he called them earlier.  He thought it would be wise to keep to the topic : “Let’s have a look at the crime scene.”

And Jungkook’s response is ….

He starts walking to the area fenced off the police.  A smile appears on his handsome face : “Well… come on then.”  He turns back to hurry them along.  

They are used to seeing a proud and not very friendly Jungkook, but they have never seen him behave like this before.  There’s like a layer of cold air around him. And there’s mockery and contempt in his tone.  

What’s up with him?

Lisa stands behind him.  She finds it amusing.  This murderer will be caught in record breaking time.  

There are ten villages in D District.  H Village is one of them. There’s nothing special or famous about this village compared to the other ones. Even though, it’s geographically part of S City, it’s a rural village that’s far away from town.  There is an unsealed road that leads to the house.  

There are not many street lamps in that area.  And the lightbulbs are low voltage bulbs. All the villagers are standing behind the cordon area to find out what happened. Lisa scans the neighbourhood.  The closest neighbour is approximately fifty metres away. 

The house at the crime scene is a farmhouse made with red bricks.  The entrance is just a wooden gate, it would have been easy for the murderer to access the house.  The interior looks old and shabby.

Lisa and Jungkook walks toward the gate.  A young officer rushes past them.  His face is sickeningly pale.  He leans over by the wall and starts to vomit.

Lisa’s heart twinges. Jungkook takes a quick look at the officer and walks on.

An older officer recognises Lisa.  He pauses and asks : “Lisa, are you sure you want to go inside?  It’s rather …chaotic.” Another older officer also adds : “Perhaps you should stay here.”

Lisa already knows the whole family had been brutally killed.  She stops and think for a while. Jungkook looks at her.

“I’ll go in.”

“She’ll go in.”

They said together.  

A smile appears on both of their faces.

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Once Lisa steps inside the house, she holds her breath. 

There is a strong smell of blood in the room, covering the original grassy scents from the countryside. Lying near Lisa is a man drenched in blood.  His head has been chopped off, and rolled to the side of a coffee table.  On the sofa, an elderly man lies motionless.  Between the bedroom door and the corridor, there’s the body of a naked woman.  Her clothes are taken off and dumped onto the floor next to her.  There are a lot of wounds on her body, more than any of the other bodies.  

The bodies of two children, the son and nephew of the owner lies in the bedroom.  They look like they have been stabbed to death. 

According to forensic results, all five victims died under the same knife.  Time of death is around four hours ago - 9pm.  Each body was stabbed more than ten times.  Besides the owner being beheaded, his wife’s body wounds shows that she was attacked the most times - even her breasts and private parts had knife wounds.

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From the evidence they have gathered so far, cases that involves the death of the whole family can be classified into the following types :

Conflict between family members -  Father kills the son’s family, husband kills the wife’s family, neighbours murdering the family that lives next door…Money issues - Thief or robbers killing the family when they tries to resist.Unsolved mysteries - where members mysteriously disappears or dies.  There’s no suspects or witnesses

Type 1 cases are the most common. 

The killer left behind a lot of evidence in this house.  There is a long knife, with visible fingerprints on it.  From the position of the prints, it is highly likely that they have found the weapon.

Next, a man’s jacket.  The jacket is black and dirty. It’s so dirty that you can’t tell what is its original colour.  And it’s soaked with blood.  

Then there are some bowls with leftover food that have bloody fingerprints on them.  

The closet in the room looks like it’s been searched. There are bloody fingerprints there too. 

Lastly, the police found a lot of bloody footprints that, after initial analysis, belong to the same person.  From the footprints, they can tell the shoes are worn out.  And it most possibly belongs to a male.  A young adult.

So, there are lots of clues for the police to follow up on.  

The Team leader says to Jungkook : “Professor Jeon, I have some questions about the case.  I’ve arranged for the following to be done : DNA matching, fingerprints analysis…”

Lisa knows these procedures take time.  It can be days or even up to a month before they will get the results. 

“Secondly, I’ve talked to all the neighbours.  They get on with everyone in the village.  At this point, we don’t think it’s done by one of the neighbours . Of course we will continue to talk to everyone in the village, and ask if anyone can recognise the weapon and the jacket we found.”

“Thirdly, I have requested for more officers from other stations to help us search the nearby area.  We have set up road blocks on the highways to check all incoming and outgoing vehicles in the area.”

Jungkook nods : “Good job.” Lisa is impressed too.  The Team Leader has considered all the different angles of the investigation.

Jungkook seldom gives praises to people.  The Team Leader smiles. 

Then he get to the point : “But there are a few things that are not right.  Why is the owner of the house beheaded?  And why did the killer mutilate his wife? And the bowls with the bloody finger nails…”

“You have made the correct decision.” Jungkook interrupts him “By the time you wait for the results from the DNA matching, it’s too late.  Get your men over here.  I will give you a criminal profile now.  Every minute counts.”