Murderer

CHAPTER 13 - Blank (Revised)

Andre curled up in a cold cell, he never regretted being back in this stuffy narrow room. It's just — he doesn't know until when his lie will last.

"Andre, someone's visiting you!" reprimand one of the prison guards. The warden opened the cell door and escorted Andre out. It turns out that the one who visited was Jason, his co-worker.

"You're crazy!" it means meeting Andre. "Are you really the perpetrator of the murder?"

Andre gestured for Jason to shut up. "Never talk about this, okay! It's my decision!" emphatically. Jason thrust out a pouch filled with clothes, Andre's smile expanded.

"Lu is my friend" said Andre.

He returned to the cell after Jason returned home, his best friend slipped a frame containing a picture of Cecilia and himself while on vacation somewhere. Andre's heart again felt slashed, Valen's death was not enough to be a cure for his heart wound.

"Sandre ...." Faisal came to Andre's cell. It seems like there is something important he wants to ask.

"Yes. What's wrong, Mr. Faisal?" ask Andre. For a moment the look of Faisal's eyes felt compassion for the man before him, until so far the sacrifice of Andre to protect the serial killer.

"I just want to make sure of something. If you were the perpetrator of the murder of Valentio Arthasena ...." Faisal paused for a moment his words and looked straight at Andre's bead. There was no fear he found there.

"What's written on Valentino Arthasena's chest?" Faisal.

"Leviticus 24:20

broken replacements broken, eyes changed eyes, teeth changed; as he made others blameless, so must be made to him," replied Andre without the slightest hesitation. He looked at Faisal with a meaningful look.

Andre's answer made Faisal aghast, the media did report the existence of a quote from the Bible verse contained in the body of the victim. However, the police did not disclose the contents of the verse to the media and only the killer or his accomplices knew.

Andre looked at Faisal's distant back with a meaningful look. Hope you never get caught, let me take your place here.

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The Hospital S

The atmosphere of Angelica's room was in an uproar, because this woman had opened her eyes, although she could not speak, she could move her fingers. The image immediately sends his black Rush to the hospital, he must see Angelica as soon as possible.

"Sorry, while Miss Angelica is being intensively examined by a doctor." Image prevented entry by a nurse. He had to wait until the doctors finished checking Angelica's condition.

The image waited long enough for several doctors including Andrian to leave the room.

"How's Angelica doing?" ask the image to Andrian.

"He was conscious. But it still can't be bothered just yet, please don't interrogate him in this condition!" andrian's Pinta.

The image nodded in understanding. After they passed, he entered Angelica's room, and she fell asleep again. The image pulls up a bench and sits on Angelica's side.

The eyes of this model slowly opened again, she moved her finger when she saw Citra. As if to say something. "Can you hear me?" ask her Image.

Angelica's eyelids blink weakly.

"You can answer my question? If the answer is 'yes' blink once, if 'no' blink twice!"

Again, Angelica just blinked her eyes.

"Did you remember Valentino Arthasena?"

He blinked again.

"Before the accident, was there anything strange about Valentino?"

Angelica did not react for a moment, as if she was remembering something, she blinked again once more. Citra began to think that Valentino had been targeted like Kinanti.

"You know this picture?" The image shows a photo found in the warehouse. Angelica's reaction was unexpected, the woman suddenly convulsed, Citra pushed the emergency button and shouted to the doctor.

"I've warned you Iptu Citra. This patient is not stable!" hardik Andrian's.

The image regretted his carelessness. He should not rush to ask Angelica, the doctor gave her a medicine injection so that she went back to sleep.

"Please get out of this room!" drive Andrian. Regretfully, Citra left Angelica's room.

All You Can Eat Restaurant.

Bara sat opposite Faisal, the two of them became close since handling this crazy case. As of today, upon hearing the news that his commander had almost harmed Angelica, Faisal immediately contacted Bara.

"Unusually, Iptu Citra can do this kind of carelessness," Bara continued while putting meat on the grill. Faisal only sighed in response to Bara's carelessness.

"Maybe you already know the rumors if this case is related to Iptu Citra's past, so she should not handle this case anymore."

"Yes. But I only heard a glimpse." They flipped through the meat and mushrooms they roasted on the grill.

"What does Angelica have to do with the deaths of the four?" tanya Bara was curious. He wrapped the cooked meat in lettuce and put it in his mouth at once.

"Either to the two men, Cecil and Johan. But Kinanti and Valen apparently have something in common ...." Faisal hung up his explanation.

"meaning?"

"Yes, they both turned out to be both adopted children, that was his first fact. The second fact is that they are being treated in the same orphanage" Faisal said.

"So Angelica is ...?"

Faisal nodded. "He's one of Benedict's orphanages. He said he was among the five children who were given this cross," he explained, putting enoki mushrooms into his mouth.

"The info was obtained from one of the caretakers or the caretaker, named Sister Grace. Iptu Citra was very persistent in visiting the former head of Benedict Orphanage." Bara just nodded.

"Sudahv. Don't make me talk about the dead while eating, it's enough I see them on the cold surgical table!" grunts Bara.

Faisal chuckles — he has been working with this man since the beginning of his entry into the reskrim division, but only knows the other side of Bara now. This guy is known as a crazy corpse surgeon.

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July 27, 2021, residence of Sister Grace.

The old woman woke up hearing a crackling sound outside the room, she glanced at the ancient clock that was in the corner of the room. At two o'clock in the night, her mind.

"Are there robbers?" He got out of bed and put on his glasses and opened the door. Outside the dark room was a little difficult for this old sister.

He felt the wall of his living room, trying to find a light switch. However ....

"Hhkk!" Someone choked him from behind using a rope.

"Good night Sister Grace." The voices of his people, whispered in the ears of this helpless old woman. The legs of old sister Grace kicking in an uncertain direction because she could not breathe, the giggles loosened.

Sister Grace took a deep breath. "Who are you!?" snapped it.

"I am the hand of God who will punish people like you!" furious reply.

"What do you want?!"

"Confession and honesty!" firmly that guy.

"I don't understand what you mean!"

"The fire and the death of Raka ..." he said.

"A—I don't understand a—what are you talking about," Sister Grace stuttered.

"It turns out even former nuns are good at lying!" furious.

"You, Sister Sandra and also Reverend Ebenaizer. You are sinners to be punished, as are the children you have always protected!" the stranger shouted with anger.

"Hhhhk!" Check the rope back to harden. This time, it did not loosen at all, until the victim breathed his last.

...Matthew 5:21 "You have heard what was said to our fathers: Do not kill; whoever kills must be punished."...

A quotation of the Bible verse he scratched on the back of Sister Grace's body and made a distinctive upside-down cross on the victim's palm. Then leave the poor lifeless old woman.

28 July 2021, 09:00

Sister Grace's body was found by Iptu Citra who intended to seek information about the other children of the orphanage. The policewoman looked at the body in desperation and contacted Faisal.

"Damn!" The image curses itself.

She should have stayed in front of Sister Grace's house. Getting a little information already caught him off guard, he now felt very angry, disappointed, and regretted his carelessness, because he thought Angelica would be the next victim.

Only Angelica could answer the question that was still foggy in her head. As usual the forensic team worked carefully, Bara approached Citra. "Rest! Aren't you suspended from this case?" ask Bara.

The woman looked at him. "With or without the permission of the police chief .. I will still investigate this case!"

"When at risk of disciplinary sanctions?" the forensic doctor was cynical.

"Yes!"

Bara sniffed his shoulder. "Hell up!"

The image of going around the TKP looking for clues even though it may be thin. It is common knowledge that if the perpetrator understands the workings of the police, he also understands the workings of forensics, the killer never leaves a trace. He's very thorough and neat. Let alone fingerprints, not even a single hair.

"Sal, I'm going to the hospital first. I'm afraid Angelica will be the next target, we've been wrong to predict if the model is the target of the psychopath's next murder, but she's making Sister Grace her target." Faisal nodded.

"Ready! All developments will remain I report, commander!"

Soon after, Citra's Rush left the home of the late Sister Grace. He hopes Angelica can be invited to communicate about the case that befell Valentino Arthasena, because the woman is the last hope of the police to get a clue about this event.

The image parked the car in the hospital basement, at first glance he felt someone was following him. He circled his gaze around the basement with that minimal light.

"There's nobody. Maybe it's just my feelings ...." He muttered to himself and stepped into the elevator at the end of the basement. From a distance a pair of eyes were watching the steps of the Image in the darkness.

Once on the floor where Angelica was treated, two police officers were on guard, it turned out that she was detained and should not enter Angelica's room.

"Sorry, Mom! This is the division head's order. Ms. Citra can't see Miss Angelica!" said one officer.

"What policy can't I find him?" ask the image in a high tone.

"We're just following orders, Mom!" answer the officer again.

The image of snorting in annoyance and moving away from Angelica's room, she did not expect that she could not meet the woman. His description is very necessary to uncover the case, for the sake of him, Raka and also the victims who died at the hands of the crazy man.

The phone in the image pocket vibrated, Faisal's name appeared on the screen.

"Hello, yes, Sal," Faisal's heavy breathing sounded from across the street.

"There are old documents I found at Sister Grace's house, probably all related to this case. Some of the files were the mischief files of the orphanage children, it turns out that the five children — including Angelica, have often mengabundung other orphanage children who are weaker, not only the case of Raka. But they were always forgiven by the caretakers ...." Faisal still hung up his information.

"There's one more case, but it involves the caretaker, Pastor Benedict. Sexual abuse of one of the children of the home named Dusk, he has a brother, an older brother who was adopted by a family, but some of the documents about Dusk have been burned."

The image was astonished to hear him, he was still six years old when he was adopted first so he did not really understand life in the — parlour he only knew if Raka was often made fun of by some other orphanage children.

The case is so complicated, it seems like it's not just about the bullying or the death of Raka. There must have been so many ulcers of that orphanage caretaker that it gave birth to a cold-blooded murderous demon like this.

All the verses he wrote about vengeance, about sinners. Cecilia's case became a hindrance knot of investigation, because if she was killed by Valentino — why was there an inverted cross stroke on her palm? Then Johan, did he really recognize the murderer so that he was silenced by death?

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