Chapter 590

September 2nd morning.

Robbery and Murder Division interrogation room.

Luke had just entered the interrogation room when he felt a sinister gaze.

Only to see that Annika Carmen was sitting in the interrogation chair glaring viciously at him, questioning, “Where is my Coco? What have you done with it?”

Black rolled his eyes, “Instead of caring about that dog, you should be caring about yourself.”

“Coco is my family, the daughter I raised from a young age, I won’t allow anyone to hurt it, including you guys.”

Blackie leaned close to Luke and whispered, “I think this woman is crazy, should we get her a psychiatric evaluation?”

Luke shook his head, through the previous exchanges, he felt that there was nothing wrong with this woman’s mind, simply put it was just a love of dogs.

It is good to have hobbies and interests, but everything has to have a degree, once excessive good things will also become bad things.

Luke said, “Since you want to talk about dogs, then I will talk about your dog first.” Luke pulled out a picture of Hedda Cartman, “Did your dog attack this woman in Mogaro Forest Park?”

“No, Coco doesn’t bite.” Annika Carmen denied it dryly, as if the answer had been in her head for a long time.

“We found Hedda Cartman’s remains, severed fingers in the body pit at Mogaro Forest Park, and according to the medical examiner’s identification, the deceased Hedda Cartman suffered bite wounds during her lifetime.

And the wounds were identified by teeth marks exactly like your family’s dog.

With this evidence, it’s useless for you to deny it even if you want to.”

Annika Carmen lowered her head and didn’t respond.

Luke continued, “In addition, we also dug up pieces of shredded clothes and dog tags with Hedda Cartman’s blood in your yard, which shows that you are also a knower and participant in the case, so don’t run away from it anymore.

You should know very well in your heart that there is no way you can walk out of this interrogation room without an explanation.”

Annika Carmen’s eyes were red and her voice choked, “It was just an accident, but it wasn’t intentional, please don’t kill it.”

Luke smoothly asked, “What accident and why did your dog tear into Hedda Cartman?”

Annika Carmen wiped her eyes as if she knew she couldn’t get away with it any longer and said slowly, “On the evening of August 24th, I took Coco for a walk.

At that time, I saw that there was no one else in Mogaro Forest Park, so I let go of Coco’s leash.

Coco was happy as a child and ran around the park.

At that time, a friend called me and we hadn’t seen each other for a while, so we talked.

Coco was running in front of me and I was following behind. He listened to me very well and would run back as soon as I called him, so I wasn’t worried about losing him.

I had just finished talking to my friend on the phone and was about to go look for Coco.

Suddenly, I heard a dog barking, followed by a woman yelling.

When I rushed over there I found that the woman was hitting Coco and Coco was enraged and biting the other.”

“I rushed over to yank Coco away, but Coco was too strong for me to yank him.

The woman still kept hitting Cocoa, and I told her to stop, but she wouldn’t listen at all.

The more she hit Coco, the more she would inspire Coco’s ferocity, and the harder Coco bit …… “Annika Carmen sighed and shook her head, “Things got worse and worse, Coco’s got a lot of fur clawed off, and the woman was bleeding a lot, and her injuries were also getting worse ……”

Black wrinkled his eyebrows and questioned, “So you just watched your dog bite someone to death?”

“I didn’t watch, I kept trying to separate them, but that woman kept hitting Coco, she was the one who kept provoking her.

And, I kept yanking on Coco as hard as I could, but Coco was too strong for me to yank.”

Blackie asked back, “If your dog is so dangerous? Then why did you let go of the leash?”

“Coco has never bitten anyone before, it’s not dangerous, and there were no other people around at the time.

Mogaro Forest Park belongs to everyone, not just one person.

Cocoa is a living being with the same right to enjoy freedom as a human being and should not be kept on a leash every day.”

“You are simply fallacious, your dog bit a man. How dare you defend the dog, why don’t you reflect on your mistake?”

“I know it’s not right for Coco to bite someone, but Coco doesn’t just bite people, and she must have provoked Coco first.

I also feel bad and regret letting go of the leash.

If I hadn’t done that at the time, none of this would have happened.”

Xiao Hei always felt that this woman didn’t have a proper attitude enough, treating human life as a child’s play, and questioned, “Listening to your description just now, you rushed to the scene when the dog first bit someone.

But in the end, you failed to save Hedda Cartman.

Did you really make any effort to separate them?”

“I did, but Coco was too strong, not to mention that he didn’t have a leash, and even if he did, I couldn’t tug him when he was enraged.”

Hearing this, Xiao Hei wanted to slap him, “If you can’t control it, why do you have such a big dog?”

“Coco is usually very gentle, it’s never been like that before, it’s really the first time ……”

Luke spoke up and corrected, “A dog’s gentleness is only for its owner, not everyone.”

Luke wasn’t against owning a dog, he was considering getting one after he changed to a bigger house, but only if you could control it, and at the same time, have a suitable environment for owning a dog.

It wasn’t the first time Luke had seen a similar situation, for example, a thin old man with gray hair and trembling walk, holding a golden hair in his hand, he did pull the leash, but as long as the golden hair tried to bite, the old man, not to mention tugging on the golden hair, would probably be pulled down by the golden hair.

That leash was just a decoration, he was not capable of controlling the dog at all.

If he were a strong man like Luke, he would have dragged the dog, dragged it home, and beat it up.

Dogs are very class conscious, you have to make it realize that you are higher and you are stronger before it will obey you.

If it thinks you’re weak and vulnerable, then you’ll only be beneath it, and instead of it obeying you, you’ll serve it.

Knowing that Annika Carmen was so poisoned that her mind would be hard to correct, Luke changed the subject and said, “What did you do when Hedda Cartman was bitten by your dog? Did you call 911?”

“No, it’s not that I didn’t want to save her, it was too late.

Coco accidentally bit an artery in her leg and she bled to death.”

Luke jotted down in his notebook, “What did you do after that?”

“I was scared and anxious, never having been in such a situation before, so I dug a hole and prepared to bury her.”

“Even if the person is dead, you should call the police, this is the right way to deal with it.”

“I didn’t dare …… I was afraid that you would kill Coco.

I was in a panic, it’s the first time I’ve encountered such a thing.”

Luke’s tone was stern, “You didn’t panic, you intentionally killed and buried the body.”

“No, I didn’t kill anyone, I just buried the body.”

Luke pointed to a document on the table, “But according to the forensic tests, the deceased was not bitten to death directly, nor did he die due to blood loss, but died due to asphyxiation.”

Annika Carmen frowned and shook her head, “What do you mean by that?”

“Hedda Cartman was alive when you dug the hole and buried the body, and you killed her.”

Annika Carmen’s eyes widened and her face twisted, “No No No, that’s impossible, how could she be alive after all that blood and not moving a muscle?”

“Maybe Hedda Cartman thought you were going to kill her and that’s why she pretended to be dead on purpose.

It’s also possible that Hedda Cartman lost too much blood and passed out.

Either way, she was buried alive and died, and you’re the real murderer.”

“Oooo……” cried Annika Carmen, “I didn’t know, I thought she was really dead. God, why did you do this to me? Why did you let this happen to me.”

Annika Carmen cried out in pain, seemingly unable to accept the fact that she had killed someone.

After a long time, Luke continued, “Why did you kill the homeless man, Teddy Collin?

Think before you answer and stop lying.

The police already have enough evidence to convict you even if you don’t admit it.”

The interrogation just now seemed to have dealt a big blow to Annika Carmen, and she hesitated for a while before saying, “Teddy Colin deserved to die! He’s been blackmailing me.”

“What do you have on him?”

“He saw Coco bite that day, and he used it to blackmail me for money.

On August 25th, the day we made our first deal, I gave him all the cash in the house.

He also promised that he would not threaten me with this matter, we do not owe.

But only two days later, that is, August 27th, he called again for money.

I refused.

I knew that once this happened a second time, it would happen a third or fourth time.

But Teddy Collin wasn’t willing, and on August 28th he called again with the threat that if he didn’t pay the money, he would call the police now.

By then not only would Coco be killed, but I would go to jail.

I agreed to raise money for him again.

But I knew in my heart that it was a bottomless pit, and as long as Hedda Cartman’s body was there, he would keep threatening me, and I couldn’t keep giving him money.

On the night of the 29th, I took my tools and prepared to exhume the body and destroy it completely.

Without that body, there was no way for him to keep threatening me, and no one would know that Coco had bitten the woman.” Annika Carmen sighed, not sure if it was from regret or helplessness, “I had just dug the body up when Teddy Collin found out.

He was furious, thought I was cheating on him, and threatened me with the police.

I warned him that he had already taken my money and if he dared to call the police, he would be arrested just the same.

But he said that I had no proof of this and would not admit to ever blackmailing me.

I was so angry that I had to compromise, and I promised to pay him another sum of money, but I had to get rid of the body today.”

Teddy Colin, however, laughed and told me not to waste my efforts, that setting the fire would only attract the attention of the police, and that it would be safer to bury the body back again.

I questioned him if he wanted to threaten me with this corpse for the rest of my life.

I remember very clearly that Teddy Collin was wearing a dismissive look and said it was for my own good.

He also took out his cell phone and said that he had already filmed me burying the body, and that even without the body, he could still call the police to arrest me.

I was particularly angry, because I knew that as long as I had this video, I would be blackmailed by him for the rest of my life ……

Then, I grabbed the cell phone while he wasn’t looking, and during the struggle, I accidentally knocked him out with a shovel and took his cell phone.

After that, I set fire to Hedda Cartman’s body and that cell phone so that no one could threaten me.

But what I didn’t expect was that just after I lit the fire, the wind picked up.

The fire got bigger and bigger, not only destroying the body, but also burning the surrounding trees, I was choking on the smoke and couldn’t open my eyes, so I left.

I thought Teddy Collin would run too, I didn’t realize he would burn.”

Luke listened and thought briefly, “Did you use an accelerant?”

“Yes.”

“Are you sure Teddy Collin wasn’t dead at the time?”

“Yes, he just passed out.”

“Liar, according to the medical examiner, Teddy Collin wasn’t killed by smoke or fire, but you cut his throat with a shovel.”

“I didn’t, you have no proof at all that I killed anyone.

That’s a false accusation.”

Luke pulled out another file, “The tech team found the same accelerant on both bodies. If you didn’t want to kill Teddy Collin, why did you spill the accelerant on him?”

Annika Carmen opened her mouth as if she wanted to defend herself, and for a moment she couldn’t find a good reason.

Luke continued, “The evidence is clear now, and your lies will only cause the jury and the judge to turn against you, and the charges will be heavier.”

Annika Carmen looked dismayed, clenched her fists tightly and slowly unclenched them, and was silent for a long time, with a hint of supplication.

“I want to see Coco again.”