Chapter 473
Luke said, “Marcus’s analysis makes some sense; both of Ivoni David’s girlfriends died.
However, one of them doesn’t make sense.
Danielle Winter was the one who ran over Kaya Ray, and the current girlfriend ran over her ex-girlfriend, a relationship that could be traced by the police, which increases the chances of exposure.
If I were Ivoni David, I’d definitely avoid that kind of relationship when choosing a target.”
The lieutenant nodded, it was good to know that there was someone else with a functioning brain, and to prevent his blood pressure from spiking again, daring the others to guess, he began to speak for himself.
“Putting Marcus’s analysis to one side for the moment, here are my thoughts.
From this photo, it seems that Ivoni David and Kaya Ray should have dated each other and had a sweet time, it’s just that Kaya Ray’s parents don’t agree with the two of them being together, and Kaya Ray hasn’t talked about Ivoni David any more, and Kaya Ray’s father doesn’t have a very clear idea about the relationship between the two of them.
However, judging from Kaya Ray’s behavior of hiding the photo in her photo folder, she has not forgotten Ivoni David.
This shows that there is a foundation of affection between the two.
So will Ivoni David take revenge when he learns that his girlfriend has been run over and killed?
I think it is entirely possible.”
Luke pondered for a moment, “If Ivoni David and Kaya Ray are still together, then why didn’t Ivoni David go to the scene after Kaya Ray was involved in a car accident?
If Ivoni David went to the scene, he should have met Danielle Winter, and Danielle Winter should be too wary to get involved with him.”
Matthew’s gaze moved away from the computer screen, “I can explain this, at that time, Ivoni David was still serving his sentence in prison for burglary, and it was more than a month after the traffic accident that Ivoni David completed his sentence.
It’s not that he didn’t want to go, but he couldn’t.”
“Well done.” The vice squad gave Matthew a thumbs up and continued, “This matches my suspicion that after Kaya Ray was involved in a car accident, Ivoni David couldn’t make it to the scene because of irresistible forces.
When Ivoni David got out of jail only to find out that his girlfriend had been run over and killed, the helplessness and anger could make a person lose his mind.
So he decided to avenge his dead girlfriend, and perhaps that was his real purpose in approaching Danielle Winter.”
Black felt that Vice Squad’s analysis might not be much better than his own, and was a bit unconvinced, “Again, this is just speculation on your part, do you have any proof?”
The vice squad said, “Wouldn’t it be fine to just arraign Ivoni David? Didn’t the kid get busted for stealing Danielle Winter’s mother’s motor home?”
Luke said, “Because he pleaded guilty better and assisted the police in locating the suspect vehicle.
The police department granted his bail request and he left the station an hour ago.”
“Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and find him, track the car, credit card, cell phone location ……
Don’t care what way, don’t let this guy get away.”
Luke spread his hands, “Evidence!
We’re still missing the key evidence to convict him.
You weren’t here during the meeting just now, and the tech team’s identification report came back, and it’s safe to assume that William Moses Jr. strangled Danielle Winter to death with handcuffs.
Even if Ivoni David is suspected, there’s no way to prove that he had anything to do with Danielle Winter’s death.”
The lieutenant frowned, “Can it be established that William Moses Jr. strangled Danielle Winter? Wouldn’t that be too hasty.”
“It does look that way from the evidence available, there were no fingerprints or DNA of a third person on the handcuffs. new evidence will have to be found if we want to disprove that conclusion.”
The lieutenant thought for a moment, “Does Ivoni David have an alibi?”
“No.”
The lieutenant breathed a sigh of relief, “Then let’s find proof that he’s behind this.”
Luke nodded, “I’ll request a cell phone location, once we’ve established our bearings everyone split up and follow, we’d rather lose him than be discovered by the other side, understand?”
“Okay, sir.”
Soon, the technical team determined Ivoni David’s location through cell phone positioning.
Luke also brought his men to the neighborhood to follow him.
Luke arranged a total of three groups of people to take turns tracking to avoid being discovered by Ivoni David.
The ones responsible for tracking now were the three groups, Raymond and Jenny.
With her gaze fixed on the window, Jenny turned on her walkie-talkie and said, “Team three to team one, we’ve discovered Ivoni David’s whereabouts, he’s just walked out of a flower store with a bouquet of pink flowers in his hand.”
The lieutenant asked over the intercom, “What kind of flowers?”
Jenny pulled out her binoculars and took a closer look, “Jasmine.”
The vice squad sounded certain, “That’s Kaya Ray’s favorite flower, and sure enough, he still loves Kaya Ray.
This guy is definitely the murderer.”
The vice squad rubbed his chin with his hand and analyzed, “He just bought Kaya Ray’s favorite flowers, if I’m not wrong, he’s definitely going to meet Kaya Ray.”
Luke asked, “Do you know where Kaya Ray’s grave is?”
“I don’t know, but I have a pretty good conversation with Kaya Ray’s father, so I can ask him.”
An hour later.
A cab pulls up to Angel Cemetery.
A white man in his 30’s stepped out of the car with a bouquet of jasmine flowers.
The white man was none other than Ivoni David.
It was only a half hour’s drive from the flower store to the cemetery, but to avoid being followed, he changed two cabs and made a special detour to get to the cemetery.
He stepped on the steps and breezed over to a headstone on the east side with Kaya Ray’s picture and name on it.
Ivoni David’s eyes moistened and a touch of warmth appeared on his face, “Honey, I came to see you and brought your favorite flowers.”
Ivoni David sniffed the jasmine, “The flowers are very fragrant, they remind me of the smell on you. I’m sure you’ll like it.”
Ivoni David placed the jasmine flowers next to the headstone, “Baby, this is the 302nd day I’ve been apart.
I still remember clearly the last time we met.
You were wearing a white dress for a prison visit, like a white angel with a faint scent of jasmine ……
I I had thought I would see you soon, but I never thought it would be goodbye forever.”
Tears slid down Ivoni David’s cheeks, “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you.
I swore to avenge your death and I did.
I set up William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter to kill each other, William Moses Jr. strangled Danielle Winter with handcuffs and then I shot William Moses Jr. They both deserved their deaths and they didn’t deserve it at all.
That’s the only thing I can do for you ……”
Ivoni David stood by Kaya Ray’s tombstone and said a lot, his tone full of thoughts and dismay for Kaya Ray.
After a long time, Ivoni David gently touched the tombstone, said goodbye to Kaya Ray, and turned to leave.
His steps were much lighter, as if he had let go of a preoccupation.
Ivoni David stopped walking and twisted his head to look around, seeing several people walking in his direction.
Ivoni David’s expression changed slightly as he stood still, recognizing the men as detectives from the Robbery and Murder Division.
Luke walked up to Ivoni David and said, “You like to lie even more than I thought you did.”
Ivoni David hadn’t lied much when Luke first met him, and at the time, Luke had thought that he was trying to hide the theft of Danielle Winter’s mother’s car, but now it appeared that what he was really trying to hide was a plan to kill William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter.
Ivoni David asked rhetorically, “Why are you here?”
“That’s what I wanted to ask. What is your relationship with Kaya Ray?” Luke pointed to the tombstone behind him, “She’s right there listening, I don’t think you’re going to lie.”
“She’s my girlfriend, the love of my life.”
Luke raised an eyebrow, “What about Danielle Winter?”
Ivoni David laughed, “Don’t you dare try to put words in my mouth.”
“I’m afraid you’re not aware that we came to the cemetery before you did and had surveillance and listening devices installed near Kaya Ray’s headstone, we heard and recorded what you just said.
You yourself admitted that you set up William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter to kill each other, and, in addition, shot and killed William Moses Jr.
Do you need me to play it for you to hear?”
Ivoni David frowned, still a little disbelieving, “How could you guys get here before me? I didn’t tell anyone I was coming here.”
The lieutenant said, “We saw you buying jasmine flowers at the flower store, and jasmine flowers are Kaya Ray’s favorite, so I figured you might be coming to see Kaya Ray.”
Ivoni David slapped his face, “If you LAPD are so good, why didn’t you find out the truth about my girlfriend’s murder?”
Black said, “Because her case is out of our hands, I know it may sound uncomfortable to say that ……
But that’s just the way it is.
The Robbery and Murder Division is supposed to be the elite of the police department’s elite.”
Luke asked, “Do you want to talk about it here, or do you want to talk with us back at the station?”
Ivoni David looked toward Kaya Ray’s tombstone and after a long time slowly said, “I’m coming with you.”
Ivoni David was then handcuffed and escorted to the police car.
Luke asked, “Where is the body of William Moses Jr.?”
Ivoni David laughed, “Aren’t you guys good? Why don’t you take a guess?”
Luke pondered for a moment, thinking differently, if he was Ivoni David how would he deal with the body of William Moses Jr. The BMW that took William Moses Jr. away was abandoned in the abandoned factory, Danielle Winter’s body was also found in the abandoned factory, at that time, the police guessed that William Moses Jr. was the murderer of Danielle Winter, and it was very likely that William Moses Jr. had already escaped.
Now it seems that William Moses Jr. didn’t run away, and Ivoni David couldn’t have let him run away, so the place where William Moses Jr. was killed might also be near the abandoned factory building, and if it was Luke, he might have chosen to bury it on the spot.
“William Moses Jr.’s body was also near the abandoned car site?”
Ivoni David nodded, “Not bad for a captain of the robbery and murder division, impressive.”
That sounded more than a little ironic, the police had obviously been in that neighborhood but hadn’t found William Moses Jr.’s body.
Luke asked, “At the time, you weren’t worried about us finding William Moses Jr.’s body?”
Ivoni David explained, “The bodies of William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter, while both near the abandoned car site, were in different directions and separated by some distance.
So the odds are that you will find one body first, and whichever body you find, you will stop to investigate and suspect the other one as the killer.
The murderer cannot be dead.
Naturally, you will not continue to look for the body.”
Luke said, “The most dangerous place to look is also the safest.”
Ivoni David praised, “Wow …… that sums it up nicely and eloquently.”
Luke continued, “You used the clues the police found to deliberately set up William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter as the scene of a self-inflicted murder.
No matter which body we find, the other one will be suspected of being the killer.
And there will be someone to take the fall for you.
You can get away with it all by yourself.”
“Take the blame!” Ivoni David nodded, “That’s right, I don’t just want to kill them, I want them to take the blame for me.”
Luke sensed the change in the other party’s attitude and pressed, “What have you found out about the car crash last year?”
Ivoni David asked back, “Why should I tell you.”
Luke intoned, “It’s Kaya Ray’s father who wants to know, and I know things aren’t great between you two, but he loves Kaya Ray just as deeply.
If Kaya Ray knew, she certainly wouldn’t want her father to be blindsided, don’t you think?”
Vice Squad “……”
How do you know? It’s not like you’ve ever met him?
Why does it feel like you’re stealing my words!
Ivoni David let out a long sigh, “Like you said, Kaya’s father doesn’t like me and I don’t like him.
But I don’t want to break Kaya’s heart again ……
The person driving the car at the time was not Danielle Winter, but William Moses Jr.
Danielle Winter was taking the fall for him.”
Luke asked, “That’s why you approached Danielle Winter.”
“Yes.” Ivoni David gave a sad look, “I was still in prison when Kaya had her accident and didn’t even know about it at all.
She came to visit me every week but not once in the last month when I guessed something might have happened.
I thought of a lot of possibilities, Kaya was delayed with something, Kaya’s parents wouldn’t allow her to visit, or even suspected that Kaya was breaking up with me ……
Now that I think about it I was too much of an asshole to doubt Kaya’s love for me.
When I got out of jail, I inquired that Kaya was dead ……
I felt like my whole world had collapsed and everything had become meaningless.
I became disheveled and lived a life of living one day at a time.”
Ivoni David wiped his tears and continued, “Then I heard that Kaya’s mother had also died.
I didn’t really like her mother, but I attended her mother’s funeral anyway and I wanted to send her off for Kaya.
I also met Kaya’s father at the funeral, and he had aged so much and become so lifeless that he didn’t even recognize me.
Suddenly, he and I developed a sense of closeness, a feeling of empathy, and I even thought of taking care of him instead of Kaya ……
But then I thought hard about it and it wasn’t what he would have wanted.
After leaving the funeral, I decided that I wanted justice, not just for Kaya alone, but also for me and Kaya’s parents.
That hit-and-run driver didn’t just kill Kaya, he killed us just as much.”
Ivoni David bit her fingernails with her teeth and said, “I found out about Danielle Winter through a friend, learned that she was incarcerated, and then wrote to her becoming her pen pal, and with my deliberate proximity, we became friends.
Then she and William Moses Jr. had a falling out and I became his replacement boyfriend.
I kept learning about that traffic accident from the side, and once Danielle Winter got drunk and said a lot of things complaining about William Moses Jr. I realized that it wasn’t Danielle Winter who was driving the car that night, but William Moses Jr.
It was William Moses Jr. who hit and killed Kaya, and he was the real killer.”
Luke pressed, “Why did Danielle Winter take the fall for William Moses Jr.?”
“Danielle Winter said that William Moses Jr. was on drugs at the time, his whole body was high, and he was driving under the influence of drugs.
If the police had caught him, the sentence would have been very heavy.
Danielle Winter, on the other hand, was not on drugs and was underage, so having her take the fall for the crime would be a very minor offense. William Moses Jr. also told her she didn’t have to go to jail at all, just do some community service.
Danielle Winter and William Moses Jr. were still in love at the time, and Danielle Winter agreed to it in a confused manner.
One drugged driving, one taking the fall!
They are really a natural pair, don’t you think they should die?”
Black was curious, “Why did the two of them fall out?”
Ivoni David sneered, “Danielle Winter felt aggrieved after her imprisonment, and demanded a lot from William Moses Jr. William Moses Jr. was able to accommodate her at first, but then he became a bit impatient.
A man who lets a woman take the blame, do you think he’s worth trusting?
I’m not a good person, but I would never let my woman suffer.”
Luke asked, “How did you set it up so that William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter would kill each other?”
Ivoni David replied, “Danielle Winter asked me to steal her mother’s car out of the house, and after seeing that car, I had an idea.
I attacked William Moses Jr. wearing a wig cover and women’s clothes.
But I was too nervous, and although I hit him, I didn’t kill him, and I regretted it for a long time.
After that, I devised a second plan to convince Danielle Winter to get revenge on William Moses Jr.
Have Danielle Winter bring William Moses Jr. to a remote location, and then I would ‘teach’ William Moses Jr. a lesson, so that he would give Danielle Winter some due compensation.
Danielle Winter had been so upset about taking the fall for her ex-boyfriend that this plan of mine was right up her alley.
She lured William Moses Jr. out of the hospital in my BMW, and I got in my car halfway across the street and took William Moses Jr. hostage with a revolver and handcuffed him.
When William Moses Jr. saw the revolver, he should have begun to suspect us.
I gagged him so that he couldn’t communicate with Danielle Winter and made him believe that Danielle Winter was trying to kill him.
Danielle Winter cooperated, complaining all the way to the road about taking the fall for William Moses Jr. and making a lot of threats and complaints.
When the car arrived at the abandoned plant, I excused myself to use the restroom and left, leaving William Moses Jr. and Danielle Winter in the car.
Then William Moses, Jr. saw his chance to escape and simply strangled Danielle Winter.
He got out of the car and tried to escape, and I shot and killed him.
I still remember that look of desperation in his eyes as I told him the truth, only the asshole broke off before I could finish ……
Afterward, I cleaned up the scene, buried their bodies separately, and also left different evidence next to the two bodies, no matter which body you find, the other one has evidence and suspicion of murder.
I thought this plan was perfect, but I didn’t expect that it was still found by you guys.”
The police car once again arrived at the location where the BMW had been abandoned, and at Ivoni David’s identification dug up the body of William Moses Jr. The body was so decomposed that the stench of the corpse wafted out for a long distance, and a revolver was found next to the body, with Danielle Winter’s fingerprints extracted from it.
As Ivoni David said, if the police had found the body first, they would have suspected just as much that Danielle Winter had killed William Moses, Jr. with the revolver and would have wanted Danielle Winter as a murderer.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Kaya Ray had hidden a picture of Ivoni David in a photo album compartment and let the Vice Squad learn of their relationship, the police wouldn’t have suspected Ivoni David of being the real culprit behind the crime, and Ivoni David’s plan would have probably succeeded, and William Moses Jr. would have been wanted as a wanted man for Ivoni David to take the fall for the crime.
The police could not find the body of William Moses Jr.
The case would become an unsolved crime.
Ivoni David killed because of his love for Kaya Ray and was caught because of Kaya Ray’s love for him.
Perhaps it was fate.