Murderer

CHAPTER 23 - About The Fearless (Revised)

This morning — slaughterhouse owned by Mr. Freddy uproar with a corpse of the girl hanging in the cooler room. One of the employees of the slaughterhouse also directly contacted the authorities. Officers who arrived first on the scene were Citra and Banyu Aji because Faisal was being allowed to rest briefly in his apartment after he finished meeting Bara.

Seeing the body, Citra's body was a bit limp and almost he fell, if only Banyu Aji did not support it.

"I—it's Bella, the girl we've been looking for all this time ...." The image blurred with drowning. He did not understand why Bella had to die as well.

Did the killer feel threatened by the news written in the Mentari Daily? Means Bella really knew the guy, somehow this poor girl got involved with the psychopath. The situation is enough to make Citra feel pity, the look of the face clearly implies fear and pain.

"Why could ..." Faisal's voice suddenly sounded from behind them. Citra and Banyu Aji turned around at the same time.

"We think you're on a break?" banyu Aji asked Faisal who also came to TKP, but had asked permission to rest for several hours.

"Ready! I happened to hear a call for Bara in the forensic lab, Ndan!"

"Again?" This time Bara appeared in their midst. He pointed at the two of them and shook his head while clucking bitterly.

"Once again you're dealing with a dead girl! Can you guys occasionally bring me a sweet, still-breathing girl of course?" It still grumbled and clucked. Even so, he always completed the reports of the victims' visas according to the deadline he had promised even faster.

"This girl is beautiful. It's a shame he's got to die young." He muttered to himself while taking some pictures of the body before it was taken down. Some of its members were busy combing every corner of the cooling room.

Bara hangs his camera around the neck, he then helps some officers remove Bella's body carefully. Due to the cold temperature, Bella's body froze a little.

The three police officers scattered while Bara seemed to squint, he caught something glittering under the floor where Bella's body was hanging. He approached the object, it turned out to be a unique cufflink — if it did not come from a suit, he would have come from a leather jacket or canvas. Rarely do cotton jackets use buttons like that.

"Cit ... The image!" call Bara calling Citra. This female inspector turned his head and went to Bara, he saw the forensic doctor — was holding a fairly small object. At first glance he knew it was a cuff button.

"Maybe this button was accidentally stuck and separated from the perpetrator's shirt" Bara said.

"I've seen buttons like this, but where is it." The image tapped his forehead with a finger. He tried to remember, because buttons like this were no stranger to him.

They were again busy with their respective tasks, and Citra let her mind drift. He was trying to dive into the killer's mind, if only he could position himself as the perpetrator, perhaps he could quickly understand his modus operandi. The image closed the eyes trying to concentrate.

"What are you doing?" banyu Aji's reprimand made Citra almost jump in shock and she did not answer. He only glared at his colleague, where maybe he said that he was imagining being the killer.

"Partner!" I called for another image.

"This scratch — you know? After dealing so often with the victims of the Hand of God, I can guess the cryptic tool he used, but ...." Eyebrow Citra rose waiting for Bara to continue his speech, but this doctor only rubbed his chin which began to be overgrown with a fine beard.

"Give me, your appearance is so pitiful!" image Ejek chuckled.

Bara. "Indeed because of who my handsome appearance is so unkempt — should I take leave yesterday!" she glanced at Citra who was still chuckling and tried to stop her laughter.

"But what? You have not continued your explanation earlier," continued Citra. He crossed his hands on his chest and his feet tapped on the floor.

"I'm not sure yet, it's possible that the culprit used a scalpel, to make the scratch," Bara finally continued.

"Surgical knife? Does that mean he's a doctor?" ask Citra more asking for opinions to him.

The man beside him was silent and sniffing, Bara's reaction made Citra immediately think if the culprit was Andrian. However, at the time of Angelica's abduction, the doctor had a powerful alibi? Was his fiancee purposely working with Andrian?

Every now and then he seemed to be ruffling his short hair that started to lengthen, Banyu Aji silently watched Citra, he stared at Citra with a meaningful gaze from a distance in silence.

Today was the same as yesterday, they only found bodies, with minimal clues and evidence. However, Bara's explanation of the tool used by the killer to make scratches on the body, making Citra lock Andrian as a potential suspect.

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Bara's hypothesis about the tool used by the killer to slash and form a cross upside down and the verse Al-Kit quotes is a scalpel, making Citra increasingly suspicious of the anesthesi from Hospital S.

"I'm not going to talk anymore, where have you been these past two days?" image toilet without intro when he met Andrian at the hospital.

"Wow .. wow.. wait a minute, am I being interrogated in an open space?" andrian asked as he swung his hand.

"Please answer my question!" firm Image again. Andrian seemed to stare at Citra with a ketus, he then gave a small agenda containing the schedule of the doctor's activities.

"You can see for yourself, two days of my surgery schedule was tight and last night I was still in the hospital until this moment!" obviously Andrian is cold. "If you don't believe .. please ask the ICU nurse and some of the doctors I helped with the operation!" this time with a annoyed voice.

Since yesterday Citra interrogated him indirectly as if he was the suspect, Andrian was very offended, only thought he was the orphanage child, then he was considered involved?

"The orphanage children who are the same age as us are many out there, yes, I was adopted from Orphanage but not Benedict orphanage, but Mother Love Orphanage, Mother Orphanage, which is still in operation today. If you are not sure of my explanation, please meet the caretaker there! I also became a regular donor at that parlor!" challenge Andrian.

"Why should your name be on Benedict's orphanage?!" cecar Citra with a high tone of voice.

Andrian took a long breath. "Try to take a good look at the data! I was transferred to the Mother's Orphanage for no apparent reason by the priest Ebenaizer!" Andrian persisted. "What's the reason you interrogate me like this as if I'm the suspect?" andrian's Urge to Citra.

"The "scratches that make up the cross are inverted and the verse quotes are from the scalpel. You're an expert doctor coming in and out of the operating room!" image is still hard with his stance.

Unexpectedly Andrian even laughed out loud, he held his stomach. While wiping his tears he looked at Citra with a serious look. His brown eyes were fixedly staring at this female inspector.

"Please listen to me, your reason for accusing me is very vague! First I'm an anesthesiologist not a surgeon and anesthesia doesn't need a scalpel, secondly find the scalpel first, the knife has a serial number if it does belong to a doctor!" andrian resolute.

The image furrowed his brows, he suddenly felt very stupid and he did not think clearly when he was going to meet Andrian. After a heated debate, Citra left Andrian who sneered at her disappearance, this man then returned to his room.

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That night, heavy rain suddenly flushed the city of Manggala, Angelica was still lying in the same condition, she just kept staring blankly at the ceiling of her room.

A person opens the door to the hospital room where he is being treated and then locks it from the inside. Angelica's eyes widened when she saw the person walking closer to the bed where she was lying.

Help u! Help-please! Angelica was only able to shout inwardly, while the person was getting closer to her.

Finally, the man stood at the side of Angelica's bed. The woman's lips were still stiff, but when she realized who came to her, she became a little relieved. A wide grin on the person's face makes Angelica fully aware if she is the one who makes her condition like this.

This man took the pillow Angelica was wearing and smothered the girl without mercy. Angelica's legs kicked and tried to rebel, until finally the movement of this woman became weak, and she stopped moving, also stopped breathing.

After making sure Angelica was killed, he then took a stainless knife in his jacket pocket. He scratched an upside-down cross in Angelica's palm and a verse from the Bible, just like his previous victims.

Revelation 21:8 (NB) But the timid, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderous, the prostitutes, the sorcerers, the idolaters and all the liars, they shall have their share in the sea blazing with fire and brimstone; this is the second death."

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