The unexpected truth

What actually happened

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

I was all alone, my brother was not home, it was around 12:30 I got a call from Karl. He said he was heading towards my home, for he has something important to tell.
He was panting, his heavy breathes, anyone could have heard it from the phone.

"What happened? Is everything okay? "

"I will explain everything in details, but this isn't the correct time..."

That was our last conversation.
I waited and waited from him, but he didn't arrived.

Now, this was the matter of a week ago. Next morning, police reported him under the bridge, dead, shot three times, one in head, another in chest, and other in left leg.

No clues found, no primary suspect, nothing...

Hi this is Emily Louis, 24 and being Karl's close friend and a renowned detective in Boston, the case is now in my hands.

Clearly, this isn't a murder for his property, money or  his $9700 worth watch, that was around his wrist, when his body was discovered.

The tension increased with my brother's sudden disappearance, yesterday.

He left house for no reason but to pick up Ralph from the veterinarian, where he was dropped for his routine check-up.

I thought it was just a delay until it was an hour later, there was a call from the Vet. Hospital that nobody came to pick up Ralph. The Vet. Hospital is 15 minutes away from our apartment and why the heck is it taking so long to him?

I tried him at least 15 times but could not connect; they said the number doesn't exist.

That's when my brother disappeared.

But today's event changed everything.

While cleaning the backyard, I found a dark brown briefcase, behind the blue berry bush. The lock was open. Nothing except a bunch of photos pinned in the briefcase along with a diary.

A closer look to picture and I was shocked!

It had picture of Karl and my brother!!!

There were pictures of some other people (I later came to know about, died due to unnatural cause).
I realised, one of them was our old neighbour Sasha, who died last year in a car accident.

And for the dairy - it had a lock, but was open.

I just took all of the stuffs to my room.