Murderer

CHAPTER 27 - Mysteries of Earth and the Bara (Revised)

Finally the Bara case file was submitted to the prosecutor's office and the day of the trial was set.

Today is the first trial for the serial murder case, Bara continues to be charged with accusing questions, although he has repeatedly denied, but the evidence still points to him.

The trial, which lasted long enough, finally ended as well, Bara was returned to the detention cell, his lawyer could not do anything. Inside the cell Bara kept thinking about how to prove his innocence.

"Bara, you have a visitor!" said the prison guard. Bara got up from where he was sitting, he followed the warden into the big room. It turned out that there was Faisal and Citra, they both looked at Bara with guilt for not being able to do anything about it.

Seeing the look on the faces of the two colleagues, Bara smiled bitterly. "I'm the one in custody, why are your faces suffering?"

"Basic. You still have time to joke!" cibir Citra was upset.

"We'll try to find evidence that you're innocent. Be patient!" pinta Faisal's.

"I know, you will definitely believe me" Bara said in a calm voice.

Faisal and Citra smiled faintly, although in their hearts they were worried about having to believe the evidence that was in sight or the friendship of the three of them since the first encounter with this case. But they want to uphold justice, if indeed Bara is slandered, then they must find the person before falling victim to another.

After talking for a long time, the two of them left Bara, who was then brought back into his cell.

"What if Bara was really the serial killer?" hiss Citra and Faisal could only remain silent. "What if we get it wrong too?"

They both came out of the parking lot with a black rush owned by Citra. The car did not go directly to the office, but to the apartment owned by Bara, Faisal and Citra hope there is little gap to prove Bara's innocence.

Citra still remembers, when the day of Angelica's abduction, Bara was in the autopsy room with her, but that can not be strong evidence, because he could have had people kidnap Angelica. Then at the death of Valentino — he was in the office alone and no one could testify for him.

They went back into Bara's apartment and searched every corner. Then they found a photo of three ten-year-old boys and one of them was Raka, the photo was taken at Benedict's orphanage.

Bara, Bumi, Raka, those three names are written on the back of the photo they found just now.

"Earth ... Earth ... isn—" The image opens a digital memo on her phone, she once recorded a description of Earth from the late Sister Grace.

"Earth is the boy whose sister died, his sister is named Dusk. The eight-year-old girl died of a fever caused by an infection" Citra said as she looked at Faisal.

"What's Bara's relationship with Benedict Orphanage?" Faisal asked in wonder.

The image shakes uncertainly. Is Bara also the orphanage's child? I have to reconfirm about this to Bara tomorrow. The photo he put in his pocket secretly, it is certain that tomorrow Bara must answer all the questions that are in the mind of Citra.

 

This morning, Citra was sitting waiting for Bara, her hands holding a piece of the photo they found yesterday in the doctor's apartment. This raises a big question mark on the head of Citra and Bara must answer everything.

When the door opened, Citra looked up at Bara without blinking, this man sitting face to face with her now. Imagery took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, he was compiling some questions that he should be able to answer right now.

He also put the photo they found in Bara's apartment on the table, Bara's forehead was contorted, the face of this man looks very surprised by the photo brought by Citra.

"Where did you get this photo?!" ask Bara roughly.

"That means you know about this photo?" The image flashed Bara, but she fell silent. It seemed like he was regretful because of his emotions that exploded suddenly earlier, when he saw that photo of memories with Raka and Earth. The photo was lost the day his father was found dead.

"If you want us to help you, you have to be honest. Tell me what your relationship is with the late Raka, my twin brother and Benedict's orphanage!" firmly Citra.

"I don't want to say anything!" Bara stood up and asked the warden to drive him back into the cell.

He left his own image in the room. Mysteries about Bara and Earth made him very confused, Citra wanted Bara to tell him what he knew. At least to prove if it was not Bara who committed the murder, but the Earth.

The image goes back to the office and reassembles the case files of sister Grace. Sure enough, he found the data Bara among the files of children orphanage, the doctor was brought to the orphanage when he was ten years old because both parents died in an accident, it is likely that the photo was taken when he had not been inside the parlour for long.

He then looked for data about Earth as well, not much written there — there are only a few information about when Earth and her younger sister entered the orphanage,as well as the date she was adopted by a couple of psychiatrists named Agustina and James. It also says that if Earth suffers a mental disorder after being shaken when she loses the only family she has, Dusk.

A couple of psychiatrists who adopt Earth are psychiatrists who also handle counseling Earth after the death of Dusk, they decide to adopt Earth after she also lost Raka, her best friend. James and Agustina were afraid that the Earth would be worse if it were left like that.

Citra's body is limb, it turns out the assumption is right, Bara has a connection with the parlour. Now the question is, is he being framed or is he really an accomplice?

So far what is suspicious is, the crime scene is very clean, without a trace. One more thing, if the scratch is done by a person who is an expert in using a scalpel, instead of every day Bara dissecting the bodies in the autopsy room?

The search for the image makes him find a fact that puts himself back in a dilemma, between the feeling that Bara is innocent and being framed, or Bara is indeed an accomplice in charge of clearing the scene of the case.

"Eh, it's okay. I was just checking something," Citra replied nervously. Banyu Aji's eyes narrowed, he was like suspicious of the movements of this colleague.

I must find this child named Earth to get a bright spot about Bara, Citra muttered in her heart. "I'll excuse you!" he told Banyu Aji.

Banyu Aji looked at Citra's back with a meaningful gaze, on her lips facing a line of mysterious smiles. He glanced at the file that Citra read and returned it to the shelf again.

The sound of a pen knock on the table disturbed Faisal's calm, he glanced at Citra who looked very riled up.

"Why, Ndan? Looks like the commander's been thinking?" The Image Hand beckoned for Faisal to approach.

"Please find out about the psychiatrists Agustina and James, who used to be child counselling at Benedict orphanage .." Citra whispered.

"For what, Ndan?" faisal asked not understanding.

"Just do! And please don't let this leak. Especially until Iptu Banyu Aji finds out!"

Faisal nodded and immediately carried out the command of his commander, so he went for an investigation, but when he was about to leave, Banyu Aji caught him. Faisal's steps stopped.

"Where are you going at work?" ask Banyu Aji.

"Sa—I want to go—"

"I asked Faisal to the pharmacy to buy me an aspirin, I'm not feeling well today" Citra explained. Then shaking his hand told Faisal to leave quickly. Although Banyu Aji was looking at the two of them with a suspicious look.

Faisal immediately left, he did not understand why Iptu Citra ordered him to search for people unrelated to the case. He was confused as to where to start looking for these two psychiatrists. Then he decided to start from the hospital and clinic together.

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Finally — after a week of searching, he found the home address of the psychiatrist couple. But unfortunately, when he visited the address, he only found a large house that had been overgrown with moss, the house seemed to have been empty for a long time.

Faisal was looking for someone to ask about the owner of this house. Then an old man came out of the house next to the empty house.

"I'm sorry, I'm a police officer, I want to find out about the owner of this house" Faisal said.

The old man looked at Faisal suspiciously and read his identification. After making sure the man before her was really a police officer, he then turned a little friendly.

"The psychiatrist's partner suddenly disappeared. Either they move where and no one sees or knows their move" explained the old man.

"You mean?" faisal asked not understanding.

"Yes, they suddenly just disappear." This old man's explanation did not help him at all.

"But, as far as we know, they had a son whom they adopted from an orphanage, I forgot the name of the child. Moreover, he has never been seen in this neighborhood because of lectures outside the city, if not wrong — rumors he also registered in the police. Whether he's a cop or not" the old man said again.

Faisal was surprised to hear that the psychiatrist couple's adopted son was a prospective police officer. Somehow he felt curious about the conditions in this old house — Faisal also decided to try to enter the house.

He became even more shocked when the gate of this house was unlocked, it seemed like this house was not left moved by its owner. His feet continued to tread carefully into the courtyard of the house, upon arrival in front of the entrance — he was surprised because the door of the house was opened with ease, the stuffy aroma pierced Faisal's sense of smell.

A lot of furniture in this house has been damaged. This house has been empty for years. Spider's nest was in every corner of the room, Faisal picked up a cell phone and turned on a flashlight.

Faisal's heart beat fast while inside, the flashlight hit every corner of the house that was filled with cobwebs. If the residents of this house moved, why did they not close their furniture? Is it because so hastily went to lock the door of the house they forgot, Faisal sat in his heart.

The room was quite dark and full of cobwebs, Faisal continued to enter while getting rid of the cobwebs that were blocking him, and, the creaking sound under his feet made him suspicious and he knocked on the floor he was stepping on. The sound was like he was knocking on a wooden door, which made Faisal suspicious.

He crouched down and lit the floor with a flashlight. Sure enough, a wooden door is covered with a shabby carpet with a padlock attached to the door lock. Faisal ventured to open the door, and saw the stairs leading to the basement.

Somehow, his curiosity continued to lead him to go inside, it turned out that — basement was darker than the warehouse above. When he arrived at the base of — Faisal swept the room with a flashlight, then he suddenly dropped his flashlight as he was shocked by what he saw inside that basement.

Outside the psychiatrist's house, the black SUV driver who was watching from a distance, this person had been following Faisal for a long time. His finger pressed down on the row of numbers on his phone and before long there was a continuous tone.

"Yes, this is me.. the target has entered the house .. The last plan will be implemented immediately." After disconnecting his phone, the man drove the black SUV away from James and Agustina's house.

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