Luke: "... As expected, he is rich and willful."
Elsa couldn't agree more: "The residents here are basically like this, few are easy to talk to. Wait, try not to say anything."
Luke nodded. It was nothing more than the golden saying for newcomers: "Watch more, listen more, talk less, and do less." Of course he understood it.
While talking, the two arrived at the door of a villa.
Luke looked at it and secretly compared it with the house prices he had casually looked at in the past few days. He knew that the price of this villa should not be too high.
Because the location is not the best and the area is not large, I don’t know how the villa is decorated, but it should be around two to three million US dollars, which is the starting price of a villa in Bive Hills.
This small villa is definitely not one of the Beverly mansions that most people talk about. Those mansions almost all start at tens of millions of US dollars, and thirty or fifty million are the top grade.
After pressing the doorbell, a woman's voice came from the intercom doorbell next to her. She said a few words to Elsa, and Elsa showed her police badge to the camera.
Then I waited, but no one came for several minutes.
Luke was puzzled: "What does this mean? Will it take a few minutes to call that Katie?"
Elsa didn't care: "Don't worry, the first time I came, she made me wait for forty minutes. After I went in, she told me she was putting on makeup."
Luke: “… She’s ugly?” He wasn’t kidding, many celebrities are really ugly without makeup.
Elsa laughed: "No, when she appeared in front of me, it was as if she was going to a press conference, with meticulous makeup."
Luke: “…Love of beauty is a woman’s nature.”
Suddenly, a middle-aged woman ran over, shouting in panic: "Ah, come in quickly, come in quickly, two detectives. Something happened, something big happened."
When she came over, the door was already open, and the two of them went in and looked at the middle-aged woman with confusion on their faces.
Elsa quickly explained, "This is Katie's nanny, Sally."
Sally came running over, still shouting those words.
Elsa had to yell, "Stop."
Sally was startled and finally stopped shouting.
Elsa: "What happened?"
Sally was suddenly panicked again: "She's dead, Miss Katie is dead."
Elsa: "What?"
Luke: “…”
After a while, the two were taken to the swimming pool at the back by Sally. Looking at the body floating in the pool, they looked at each other in surprise.
Soon, Elsa began to contact the police station and asked people to come for support, and people from the forensic department were also expected to come.
Of course there was no need to save Miss Katie. Just by looking at the floating body, the two knew that the big star was already dead.
Not long after, people from the forensic department arrived and started collecting evidence.
Luke lowered his voice and asked Elsa beside him: "Katie has the habit of swimming naked?"
Elsa: "Never heard of such news, at least she went to Santa Monica beach wearing a bikini."
Luke nodded thoughtfully.
Yes, Miss Winchester-Katie was floating naked, face down in the small swimming pool in her backyard, which was only about one meter deep.
But two people have died in this small swimming pool which is only one meter deep.
What’s even more bizarre is that both the anonymous person and Miss Katie died naked in there, and even the postures they were lying in were almost the same.
This case has a weird feeling.
However, Luke was not in a hurry.
This is a case led by Elsa. If he is not absolutely sure, he'd better not say anything, otherwise Elsa will only think he is too rough.
Elsa didn't even bother asking for his opinion and just kept busy.
This included conducting preliminary on-site inspections with the forensic department and questioning the two nannies and a security guard in the villa.
Luke just followed silently, paying attention to how Elsa communicated with these people.
In comparison, what I learned in the small town at first can only be considered the basics, and what Elsa learned can be considered advanced operations.
The forensic department here is much more professional, with several forensics personnel busy inside and outside the house.
They checked the beds, the floor, around the pool, and even took a small bottle of the pool water.
However, faced with the naked body of the superstar Katie, the conversation between the two forensic officers was a bit creepy.
"Oh, I quite like her movie 'Don't Move'. Well, I still remember that she had a red mole on her chest."
"She gained weight? Look here, there's definitely cellulite."
"It's okay. She doesn't have to worry about her weight anymore."
"She claimed on her blog that she was 1.70 meters tall, but she is only 1.64 meters tall. She really lied about her height."
"Haha, everyone lies a little about their height. Feel here."
"Oh, needle holes. She had her breasts augmented with autologous fat. No wonder she suddenly went from 34b to 36d."
Luke: “…”
These two people, facing the corpse of a beautiful superstar, treated it as material for anatomy class in medical school. They said they were fans of this superstar, but their hands moved as if they were touching dead pork, cold and emotionless.
Finally, a forensic officer told Elsa about the preliminary examination results: "The time of death is estimated to be between 3 and 4 o'clock last night. However, since the body was submerged in water, this time may not be accurate and further examination is needed. The preliminary examination showed that there was water in her lungs, so it is very likely that she drowned. No obvious external injuries have been found on her body, except for a broken toenail."
Elsa listened and asked some other questions.
Luke took this opportunity to walk into the house. After entering Katie's bedroom, he nodded slightly to the forensic officer who was checking and looked around.
The forensic officer was busy at first, and when he saw his behavior, he was a little curious, and of course he was more curious about the young detective: "What are you looking for?"
"Inspiration!" Luke closed his eyes and walked around the room, but he didn't touch any furniture. The forensic officer was stunned.
Then Luke smiled at him and walked out.
The forensic officer was a young white girl who had obviously just started working. She was a little stunned by the smile, and her cheeks felt a little hot after a moment: "Oh, why do I suddenly think he is a little handsome? No, work, work, I must work overtime on this case."
After working on her hands for a while, the girl stopped again: "But, he is really handsome, especially when he smiles. Why did he smile at me like that? Did he want to ask me out? No, no, he didn't even ask my name..."
Luke had no idea that there would come a day when he would be able to pick up girls with his looks. He walked out of the bedroom and went to the swimming pool.
(This book begins to formally enter the detective segment.
However, anyone who has watched American TV series such as CSI or Major Crimes knows that many cases are not that complicated. Detective cases are more about showing the work and life of the characters, so the detective cases in this book will not deliberately pursue brain-burning, such as Sherlock Holmes and Conan.
They are a bunch of screenwriters who work on a few cases a month and earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
As for me… if I had this level of ability, I wouldn’t be so poor now. Therefore, the case is just to show the protagonist’s life and work status, don’t complain that the case is not brain-burning. This paragraph is not counted in the main text)