The Blacklist

Chapter 451: Old Case Revealed: Innocent
On Monday, August 8, Reddington handed over a new blacklist case to SER. It can be said to be an old case, but it has been re-hyped by the media recently...

Over a period of more than a year starting in 2013, three female students at the University of Brockton in Massachusetts were killed one after another. Their bodies were arranged like frozen statues. The common point was that all three had had a relationship with Tobias Carlisle, a senior at the same school, and Carlisle's semen was found in the body of one of them.

Five years ago, Carlisle was arrested, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.

Since then, Kimberly Owens's podcast "The Thaw" has been speaking out for Carlisle, pointing out many suspicious points in the case, including that the police did not find the murder weapon or the crime scene, that one of the victims had complained about sexual harassment against Professor Adrian McCaffrey, but the school concealed the matter... and that the three victims were all students of this professor.

The “Thaw” series of content has had an increasingly greater impact on the Internet, and has even attracted the attention of the international community, creating a lot of public pressure. The Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts is already considering reviewing the case!

Coincidentally, at this time, another female student from Brockton University was killed and her body was frozen into a popsicle!
The incident became sensitive, and the wave of public opinion quickly spread across the country and even spread internationally...

Elizabeth said: "Reddington insists that Carlisle was the murderer who killed three female college students six years ago. The new case should be the work of an imitator, but there is no evidence to prove it.

"However, if this case is retried by the state court, if no imitator is caught, Carlisle's conviction will most likely be overturned by the jury and he will be acquitted!"

At this time, Aram said: "Liz, I have also followed the podcast video of "The Thaw" and I think Reddington's view is a little wrong. I think the real murderer should be Professor Adrian mentioned in the podcast..."

Nawabi and others felt that Alam's opinion made sense and believed that Professor Adrian was highly suspicious.

In this case, Elizabeth took the agents directly to Brockton, Massachusetts on the Gulfstream G650, and Jeffrey was left to look after the house again. After arriving, she and Dembe went to the police station to learn about the new case, Brian and O'Neill went to the prison to see Carlisle, and Duke and Rosa went to the university to find Professor Adrian.
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Carrie received a special report: Matt, who was previously arranged by him to control the Blue Sword Company, unexpectedly obtained news about Katerina Rostova during an overseas operation, but it was not about her, but her biological mother Virginia!
Carey took action personally and found in the Social Security Administration's database that Virginia had remarried in 1998 to an American citizen, Ted King, and had lived in Virginia ever since, but he died of cancer a few months ago.

Carrie did not tell Elizabeth about this. He took Gina to St. Charles, Illinois, and found Ted King, who lived alone. He learned from her that after he married Virginia, she never mentioned that she had any children. It was not until she was seriously ill and dying that she told him that she had a daughter named Catalina, but they had a bad relationship and had no contact.

Before she died, Virginia left a letter for her daughter, and asked Ted to help mail it to a post office box in upstate New York.

Later, Carrie rushed back to New York and found out that the person who had betrayed her was actually Elizabeth's grandfather Dom!
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In Brockton, Massachusetts, Elizabeth and Denby learned from the local police station that the cause of death of the deceased in the recent case was the same as the three victims five years ago, which was hypothermia. He was hit on the head with a wooden hammer, causing unconsciousness, and then immersed in liquid nitrogen at minus 160 degrees Celsius, causing his death!
On the surface, the same tools and methods of murder were used, and there was no difference from the previous three cases, but the case was described in detail in the "Thaw" podcast video, and everyone who watched it knew these details. In other words, if there were copycats, there was no need to see the convicted Carlisle or the police files.
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On the other hand, Bryan and O'Neal met Carlisle in the state prison. Carlisle insisted that he was innocent and said that he was forced to plead guilty under tremendous pressure from the police, prosecutors and public opinion.

Duke and Rosa rushed to Brockton University and met Professor Adrian. As soon as they revealed their identities, the other party became furious and reacted extremely violently. He claimed that Kimberly, who posted the "Thaw" video, had defamed him and he had filed a lawsuit against her... At this time, another Brockton University girl, Jenny Masnick, disappeared, and the local police began a large-scale search.

Kimberly, the producer of "The Thaw", immediately released a new podcast video, in which she pointed the finger at Professor Adrian and the university, based on the fact that the previous victim and Jenny, who disappeared this time, were still Professor Adrian's students, and Carlisle, who was convicted five years ago, was in prison!
The case was complicated and Elizabeth felt she had no clue, so she called Carrie for help that night...
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In Manhattan, New York, Carrie, who had just returned to the tenement building, received a call from Elizabeth. After listening to her introduction, he didn't even need to think and directly replied: "Go check on that Kimberly!"

Elizabeth was a little confused when she heard this, "Why are you checking her?"

"Because she knows too much!" said Carrie.

Carrey was serious, but Elizabeth felt like he was joking, so she decided to conduct a normal investigation. She arranged for Brian's team to investigate Carlisle's situation in prison, including visiting records, call records, spending records in prison, and even his family's bank transaction records. In addition, she asked Alam, who stayed in the tenement building, to investigate Professor Adrian's background information.

After investigation, it was found that there was nothing unusual about Carlisle in prison, but Alam found out that Adrian had been divorced and had a very hidden wooden house in the suburbs when distributing his property.

Elizabeth, along with agents and action team members, rushed to the cabin, broke in, and found a freezer with the missing college student Jenny, who was dying, inside. Several gallons of canned liquid nitrogen were also found at the scene.

Because of Jenny's rescue and the emergence of this new evidence, Professor Adrian was identified as a major suspect.

Soon, the state court appeals court ruled that Carlisle's charges were dropped and he was released immediately.

The dramatic reversal of the case has become a hot topic that all major media outlets are competing to follow.

When Carlisle left the court, Kimberly and the reporters greeted him with great fanfare.

(End of this chapter)