Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 61 Time Dislocation
After looking at the marks on the victim's chest, Shiraishi carefully checked his clothes - the body of Yusuke Amano was wearing a suit and shirt, which was consistent with his occupation. Obviously, although today was Saturday, he was still doing business.

In addition...

Bai Shi then looked at the soles of his shoes, which were covered with a lot of mud.

After a moment's hesitation, Bai Shi said, "It rained before dark yesterday afternoon, right?"

"That's right, so Mr. Otani should have indeed seen the sunset." Although Yuan didn't know Otani before, but... he didn't want Otani, the stubborn old man who was cheated of his money, to be the murderer.

His partner, Yamada, was more aware of Shiraishi's intentions, and also looked at the mud on the body's shoes and said, "Indeed, the crime scene was still a bit muddy until morning... Hmm? I see!"

Yamada finally realized what Shiraishi wanted to say...

This is indeed what Shiraishi wanted to remind them - if the situation was not urgent, Shiraishi would have reminded them more subtly. After all, as the commissioner, training police officers is far more important than charging into the battle himself.

"Ah! Director, I... will call Makaka and ask if the deceased's clothes from last night are still there?" Yamada hurriedly confirmed with Shiraishi.

Seeing the director nod, Yamada quickly dialed Makio's number: "Makio, it's me... Are you still at Amano's house?"

"That's right, Section Chief Kunikida is with you? Fuji found the clothes the victim wore last night in the dirty laundry basket, which may change the main direction of the investigation!"

Makukao's voice came from the phone - Fuji seemed to have discovered the "solid evidence" that Shiraishi wanted first.

Because the case involves special people, Kunikida, as the head of the Criminal Division, naturally has to supervise the case. However, Makaka and the others don't know that Shiraishi is personally inquiring about it, so they only say that they will report to Section Chief Kunikida.

Soon the photos of the scene were sent back - the deceased's clothes yesterday also showed signs of falling and rolling, and... there was an obvious round mud mark on the chest of the white shirt, which was probably caused by a crutch!
"It seems that the push-down described by Mr. Otani happened last night when the sunset was visible. This is already physical evidence... But in this case..." Kunikida paused and continued, "Director, I will re-arrange the investigation later."

Now Shinjiro Otani's suspicion was mostly cleared - unless he really pushed it away again this morning, the murder case had nothing to do with him - but this brought the case to a standstill.

And because of Shinjiro Otani's previous confession and... his identity, we really can't let him go now!
Although there is already solid evidence to prove that his previous confession was time-distorted, but... if the real murderer is not caught and Shinjiro Otani, who confessed to murder, is released directly, there is no telling how many versions of rumors the reporters outside will make up.

"Do you have any ideas now?" Shiraishi confirmed with Kunikida.

"This... I think this matter is most likely related to a fraud case, especially since Teng just said that no illegal gains were found in the deceased's home, and his wife was not aware of it. They don't seem to be living a wealthy life, so in the fraud case, it is very likely that he has other accomplices or even another mastermind... And the whereabouts of the stolen money may be the breakthrough point!

"Continue to investigate the victims of the fraud, as well as the people he has come into contact with in his life who may be accomplices in the fraud... These two directions are consistent in the general direction, which is to investigate the fraud case first." Kunikida first gave the investigation ideas and then prepared to rearrange the investigation.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, the focus is different after all. Previously, we investigated other directions just "just in case", but now...

Seeing that Shinjiro Otani's suspicion has become very small, we must find a new direction of investigation!
Shiraishi saw that Kunikida had already made up his mind, so he didn't ask any more questions. Shiraishi certainly recognized Kunikida's ability. As long as he didn't let him handle it personally or talk too much to the front-line case handlers, there would be no problem with the decision-making. After that, Shiraishi changed his clothes again, and then went back to his office to handle some official business.

Even if he was going to take a break from get off work, Shiraishi would not feel at ease - because of the confused old man Otani's initial testimony. Now this is no longer a simple murder case. The suspect's own confession of the murder process must be overturned, and his identity as a former official...

Although there seems to be no public opinion storm now, it will explode if it is not handled properly!
If the case is not solved and the real murderer cannot be caught as soon as possible, whether Shinjiro Otani is detained or released, it will arouse doubts.

Therefore, Bai Shi simply stayed in the office, and since he was going to stay, he naturally had to handle some official business!
It was not until 4:30 in the evening that Kunikida came to report his work - a new suspect had been discovered.

One of them is Ms. Sakamoto, the victim of the fraud. Today, in addition to Shinjiro Otani, there was another old lady who received temporary care services in a nursing home near the crime scene. The investigation found that this old lady Sakamoto was also defrauded of 5 million by Yusuke Amano.

And unlike Shinjiro Otani...

These five million are even worse than before for the already poor Sakamoto family!
Mrs. Sakamoto lives with her single daughter. Because her lower limbs have basically lost their functions, her daughter quit her job three years ago to take care of her. The Sakamoto family's financial situation was not good to begin with, and after being cheated, their livelihood was affected. The daughter had to go out to find a job again and do odd jobs, and could no longer take care of her mother as before...

"Kuroki and Kanzaki went to investigate. Someone saw Amano Yusuke near Sakamoto's house two days ago. However, Ms. Sakamoto is now subjectively resistant to the police, so no more clues were obtained..." Kunikida said.

"Hmm? Ms. Sakamoto...is in a wheelchair?" Shiraishi confirmed again.

"That's right. If it was done by Ms. Sakamoto herself, it would not be easy. However, we did find traces of a wheelchair on the steps at the scene...but there were too many elderly people in wheelchairs at the time, and the wheel marks had no special features, so we cannot be sure that they were left by Ms. Sakamoto." Kunikida explained.

Kunikida would not speak without evidence, so he could only say that he had a "motive". However, Shiraishi could sense that... the subtext was that it was not easy for him to do what he did. In fact, he suspected that she was in cahoots with her daughter, or that she did not admit that she saw the crime scene in order to protect her daughter.

However, we can only wait and see the results of subsequent investigations to find out the truth.

Bai Shi nodded and asked, "Are there any other suspects?"

"Well, there is also Ms. Kobayashi from the company where the victim worked, who was Amano's boss. Some people witnessed that she had an argument with Amano before, but she explained that this was because she discovered that Amano was using the company's name to carry out fraudulent projects... The company knew about this because of Mr. Otani's complaint, and this has been confirmed with Mr. Otani." Kunikida continued.

"Okay, from now on I'll have to leave it to Section Chief Kunikida... I'll treat everyone to a midnight snack tonight!" Shiraishi took a special look at the time, suspecting that this guy wanted to go home after reporting to him, so he used the midnight snack tactic to force him to stay.

Kunikida:……

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Dongdong: I will still update at noon as usual.

(End of this chapter)