Murderer
CHAPTER 5 - First Instructions (Revised)
The half-century man laughed cynically in front of Faisal, yes, he was visiting the person who once made a fuss in Kinanti's office. The father of the lawyer's client's opponent.
The man threated when he knew the intention of the police coming to his house. “It was a punishment from God for a cold-blooded witch woman like her!”
The burly hand continued to mow the weeds in his courtyard, he did not turn his gaze at Faisal at all.
“Sorry Mr Johan, where is your position on December 27 at ten to eleven nights?” Faisal tried to calmly face the cynical attitude of the man with the rogue stature.
His body is tall, mature and slightly dark brown skin sunburned and his face filled with bewok. This man's voice sounded rude, he looked like a typical person who could do anything while being in an emotional state.
“You suspect me!?” Johan could not accept Faisal's question. He was very upset because the tone of the police officer seemed to accuse him of killing Kinanti the Witch of Law.
“Although I wish he died in my own hands, but in the date and time that you mentioned it I was dropping off an online customer order on Tiger Road!” He showed his alibi to Faisal.
Faisal reviewed the line of smiles, he was still trying to be patient and asked again. “There are witnesses who can strengthen your alibi, Mr Johan?”
Johan's face this time really looks unhappy with Faisal's question just now. It is certain, he was on the list of suspects in the death of the woman's lawyer. The woman he coincidentally wanted to die.
“You can check my delivery history and ask my customer!” Roughly he slammed his grass scissors and then grabbed Faisal by the collar.
Faisal brushed off Johan's hand, staring intently at the man. The look in Faisal's eyes made Johan let go of his grip.
After recording all the information from Johan, he said goodbye. Looking at his temperament, it was not impossible if he could do horrible things like killing others. Moreover, Johan had a deep grudge against that lawyer.
Elsewhere, Citra was examining the testimony of Kinanti's client family and it turned out that Gerald was the son of a head of one of the banks in the city of Manggala, he said he was threatened with death by a man named Johan. The man claimed to be the father of his late ex-girlfriend.
The rape case began when Gerald held a birthday party at one of the hotels owned by his sister's friend's family, the Artha hotel. The party goes on quite wild and chaotic, until finally he and Vania do something out of bounds. Perhaps out of fear that she was pregnant and that Gerald was not responsible, she decided to report the case as rape.
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Avanza Silver Faisal glides over the asphalt of Manggala city. The sun this afternoon is so hot. Faisal glanced at the clock needle that had pointed at two o'clock that afternoon, he pulled his car over at Richeese one of the fast food restaurants near Tiger road, his stomach was no longer able to compromise.
Who would have thought in the restaurant he met Bara, a forensic doctor who is famous for his workaholic.
“After you?” Faisal greeted Bara with food on the tray. The forensic doctor was surprised to see his colleague appear suddenly like a ghost.
“Who are you, Sal? Same frozen bodies in the hospital morgue freezer?” Bara answered Faisal's greeting with a joke. He smiled so widely that he showed off his white teeth with his shakes that made Bara's face more handsome.
“Search girls. Until when do you keep going. Later you marry the corpse.” Faisal mocked Bara without feeling.
Bara laughed hard enough that some people turned their heads, Faisal's eyes glaring at his old friend. The two single men engaged in a random conversation during lunch, until they finally alluded to the Kinanti case.
“By the way, how did the lawyer's corpse case progress?” Bara wiped his mouth after finishing the last mouthful of his food.
Faisal let out a heavy sigh, this man sounded a little complaining. “The killer is like a ghost. Leaving no trace at all. It's very shrewd.”
“Maybe he is a person who understands forensic and police performance,” joked Bara.
But the joke made sense to Faisal's mind. What if the killer is a person who understands the law? Or is it a psychopath from the police?
They both split up in the parking lot. Faisal immediately visited the address given by Johan earlier, he wanted to ascertain the man's alibi. It turned out that the owner of the house was leaving, according to his neighbor — the person did often use the services of an online motorcycle taxi to order goods and food.
That means Johan can be honest or take advantage of this customer habit.
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The crazy jokes from Bara yesterday afternoon made Faisal look for evidence of Kinanti's murder, several times he returned to the scene of the discovery of the corpse. Re-watch footage from CCTV installed along the pine forest highway.
Seeing Faisal who was already in the office early in the morning, Citra was surprised. “You came in the morning once, Sal.”
The commander's voice made Faisal reflexively look back. “Ready! I haven't come home yet, Ndan!”
His eyes were swollen from last night watching CCTV footage and there was not a single answer he got. Vehicles that pass by are vehicles that usually pass there. Not a stolen vehicle.
“It looks like the Kinanti case made you obsessed,” Citra said to her subordinate.
Faisal smiled wryly, perhaps his commander's words were true. He is obsessed with solving this case.
A stack of photos inside the brown envelope was presented to Faisal, the photos were pieces of images from CCTV along Lily's path to Kinanti's house. These few days indeed the commander was rarely seen, it turns out this is what Citra is working on.
The image of pulling a chair beside Faisal. He pointed to the photos he had just shown to his subordinates. “The victim had been targeted since two weeks before he was killed.”
“That means, Kinanti's murder was planned? So, about who's after him, Ndan?”
“I've done an investigation about that SUV car.” The image draws a piece of HVS paper from inside the envelope.
“The car is a rental car, the owner lives around the Rante Karua Cloud pine forest. I've investigated the car and there are indeed faint blood stains on the trunk.”
Faisal jerks. He again played the CCTV video he saw since last night, indeed several times the same black SUV was recorded there.
“I've asked Bara to check the bloodstains. If indeed it matches Kinanti—'s blood then it is likely 0.0001 percent it could happen,” continued Citra.
A few days later
“I want to meet Iptu Citra.” Bara appeared in the office of the Manggala Police.
The image waved at the forensic doctor. The man held up a brown envelope in his hand with a big smile he handed the envelope to Citra.
He proudly displays the results of his examination. “Take a guess, the bloodstains in the car matched Kinanti's blood!”
“Nice job!” Citra gave a thumbs up, this time just looking for a black SUV tenant. After Bara returned to the hospital, Citra invited Faisal to visit the SUV owner.
Chill's music echoes inside Faisal's car, hoping to find clues to the case. The silver avanza entered the gate of a spacious courtyard, before finally stopping in front of a stage house.
A signboard that reads Rante Karua Cloud Rental, installed in front of the gate. Beneath the stilt house were several cars of different types, including the black SUV the suspect used.
“Happy day!” Faisal greeted a girl who was sitting on the porch of the stage house.
The girl stood up and smiled, letting them in. “There can I help?”
“We're from police.” Faisal showed me his police badge and identification.
“I know, Ibu Citra has been here a few days ago,” said the girl smiled kindly at Citra. “Please sit! I call my dad first.”
Not long after a man who could be said to be elderly met them, the name of the rental owner was Daeng Aso. After a bit of pleasantry, Citra started a serious conversation.
Without further ado, Citra revealed the results of the bloodstain examination found on the Suzuki XL7 belonging to Daeng Aso. “The bloodstains that are on your car carpet, match the dead body of the woman found in that pine forest.”
Daeng Aso was surprised, he seemed to already know the direction of this police officer's conversation.
“We want to see the list of tenants of the black SUV car.”
“Actually we have a rule not to open the identity of our tenant ...” Daeng Aso hung up his words.
He sighed. Then continue saying, “But—that will make one of us here a suspect right?”
Image and Faisal exchanged glances. Faisal tried to explain, “Maybe it is not that easy that you will become a suspect. However.There is a possibility that your employees or family or even you yourself can be suspected as an accomplice.”
The old man sighed. He then called the girl sitting on the porch and asked her to take the tenant's ledger. He put on his reading glasses. Research the date of the car rental.
“This is the tenant's note on the twelveth to twenty-seventh of December,” Daeng Aso said while showing the note to Faisal.
The image looks at the note while matching the date of the CCTV footage he obtained. The car was rented by the same man for two weeks.
“This person rented a car for two weeks without a driver?” faisal asked the rental owner.
Daeng Aso nodded. “Actually it pays for two weeks rental. But he used the car only four times during the rental period,”.
Faisal's eyes glanced at the commander who seemed to think hard, Citra bit the tip of her pen. It's true that Faisal said just now, this case drove the police officer crazy.
“Just note the name and address of this tenant, we will investigate this car renter!” Citra orders Faisal to record the tenant's identity.
“If he only used this car four times, even though the car was rented for two weeks, it means he got an order from someone when he should bring the car,” Faisal added.
They hope this clue can open the veil of the case of the death of the lawyer.
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