Lost Memories | A Liskook Adaptation

Chapter 52: Pure and Passionate Love

"The killer drove an SUV to the scene to abandon the body;

He dropped the body here so that the police could find it;

The one thing that's missing is the victim's purse."

After Jungkook finishes saying these three points, Namjoon and Lisa are both quiet.

Lisa stares at the side of his face. She understands the second and third points instantly. The black plastic bag contains many items, but there is no purse which white-collar office lady would not carry a purse?

When she was observing the landscape with Jungkook just now, they noticed that the location of the body was not far away from the road. The killer could have hidden the body deeper in the woods or behind the hill by walking a short distance. But the killer didn't. This means that he was hoping that the body would be found quickly.

But an SUV? There are no tire marks left at the scene, so how is he able to conclude this?

Jungkook once again shows off his attention to detail in investigating.

He says, "There are no blood stains or other markings. This means that the victim was killed at another location and then brought here. Her time of death was 9pm to 12am last night. There was rain around 5am this morning and the body had rain water on it. This means that the killer must have driven and abandoned her body here not long after killing her.

When a person has just died, his/her body is still flexible. But after a period of time, the body will stiffen. Once it has completely stiftened, it would be very hard to change the body's position in a short while. From observing the body, it is slightly crooked. It must have become this way during the transfer of the body. Therefore, it wouldn't have been a sedan because the trunk would be too small, causing the body to curl up even more. It wouldn't have been a van either because there would be enough space so that the body wouldn't need to be placed in this position, and especially lying down on the side.

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Jungkook's inferences are proven soon after.

In the afternoon, the Black Shield Team compares it with the two previous victims' information. They were all abandoned in locations near a road and were discovered by others. In the list of items, they were also missing their purses.

Due to the locations being a bit remote, there are no video camera footages that they can collect. However, after meeting with the third victim Park Hea's coworkers and office security guard, they know that she has been missing since last friday after work. A few days before she went missing, someone at a nearby office spotted her getting into a black SUV. But the witness did not take special note of the car model or license plate number. "It's a nice car nonetheless," the witness says, "Can it not be a nice car when it's driven around in CBD?"

Traffic is heavy in the CBD area, so they aren't able to pinpoint a suspicious vehicle from the surveillance cameras at this time. And based on the Black Shield Team's speculation, the killer might have taken side routes around the CBD area to avoid the surveillance cameras.

As for the two previous victims, since it's been one to two months ago, they aren't able to find any witnesses. According to their friends and family, the three victims did not know each other. After collecting this information, Jungkook and Namjoon decide to continue to focus on investigating the three victim's relationship with other people. They want to find more commonalities between them and if there is someone who has interacted with all three of them.

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In the evening.

Taehyung looks up from his desk and sees that the sky has already darkened outside of the window. The lights are sparse in the provincial station office. The scenery is different from the Jiangcheng station, yet it's just as quiet.