Luke: "Tell me about the problems in this case." He took the file from Elizabeth and started looking through it.
Black man Billy was also standing aside. He was a relatively silent man, but Luke was quite satisfied with him. He was calm, not arrogant or impatient, and was very patient.
Elizabeth was very attentive. Even though she had helped with two cases involving Jennifer Perry's family yesterday, there was still a lot of new information in this file.
Elizabeth: "The biggest problem is that the female corpse was confirmed by the forensic department to be Vivian Violet who was buried a year ago."
Luke nodded: "Well, what's the situation with the missing little girl?"
Elizabeth: "This story begins with the Remus family moving to the Weaver community..."
After listening to the introduction for a few minutes, Luke and Selina had a basic impression of the case.
The Remus family, a couple and their young son Gary, just bought a house in the Weaver community.
On the night they moved in, the family of three ran out of the house in a panic, honking the horn frantically for help.
When the police arrived, they all said that there was a ghost in the house who wanted to kill their entire family.
When the police went in to search, they found nothing.
The Remus family was so scared that they never dared to enter the house again and said they wanted to leave this haunted place.
They asked the police to come in and help them get their belongings, and then they were about to leave.
But during the questioning, the police found that the whole family mentioned two people.
One was Harry Violet, the father of the previous resident who committed suicide because he couldn't find his daughter, and the other was Tessa Violet, the daughter who had been missing and was only five years old at the time.
They said that among the ghosts they encountered, there were this father and daughter.
As for why they knew the ghosts were the father and daughter, it was because their photo was left in the living room of the room, and they recognized them at a glance.
If it was just the father Harry, the police would at most treat it as a joke and let the family go.
But the little girl, Tessa, was only five years old and was a registered missing minor, so this couldn't be treated as a simple joke.
Therefore, the family was temporarily placed in a hotel by the police, waiting for Luke and others to come for further questioning.
Luke thought for a moment before saying, "Let's go. Let's go ask the Remus family about the situation first, and then go see the body of Ms. Vianne Violet."
The four of them set out and soon arrived at a motel.
The Remus family was found basking in the sun on the porch of the hotel. They were in a very bad mood, with faces full of fatigue and fear.
Even under the warm sunshine of Los Angeles, the family members' bodies were still trembling slightly, as if they were very cold.
Luke and his four companions arrived, showed their police IDs, and started talking to the family.
Half an hour later, Luke and his three companions left and went to the morgue of the Forensic Department.
On the way into the morgue, Elizabeth asked, "Luke, did you find anything?"
Luke: "Although many times, people can deceive themselves and make things seem real. But today this family didn't seem to be lying. Many key points in their words were surprisingly consistent, such as the appearance of the father and daughter. And the words they used were slightly different each time, which didn't seem like they had memorized the lines in advance."
Selina: "You don't really think that house is haunted?"
Luke said nothing, but muttered in his heart: That's not necessarily true.
After seeing the female corpse in the morgue and listening to the forensic doctor's examination results, even Selena remained silent.
The body of a person who had been dead for a year looked like someone who had only been dead for two days, and the body of Ms. Vivian was delivered yesterday.
Fingerprints, DNA, and dental records all indicate that this is Vivian Violet.
Elizabeth and her team investigated the lady's grave and found no signs of excavation. To excavate the grave, the judge would need to obtain the consent of her family members.
All of Violet's family members had died, and the relatives who could agree to open the coffin could not be contacted.
In three days, the FBI will take over the case. It will not be their turn to investigate the case then, and it will be meaningless whether the coffin is opened or not.
Luke also personally examined Vian's body and confirmed that she was not fake.
Mainly because Selena didn't dare to touch it.
She was not afraid of touching corpses. She had touched many bloody bodies in her long job, but she really didn't dare to confirm such a strange case with her own hands.
After coming out, Luke just said, "Go take a look at that house."
Half an hour later, the four arrived at 1120 Westchester Road.
Looking at the house, Selina sighed again: "This is also a mansion, right?"
Luke chuckled: "The house is about 1,000 square meters, with three floors, six bedrooms and two bathrooms, and a ground area of nearly 3,000 square meters. Poor people can't afford to buy a house like this. I'm not even going to say that. We can't even afford to live in it. Our salary is not enough to cover the maintenance costs of this house."
The gate to the courtyard was ajar, and the four people walked into the yard without any hindrance.
Luke: "Lisa, Billy, both of you look around the house."
Naturally, the two had no objection.
Although the crime occurred inside the villa, investigations often involve discovering problems from the surrounding areas.
Luke and the other man walked to the door of the villa and pushed it casually, but the door was also ajar.
He shook his head helplessly: "How terrifying! This mansion doesn't even have a closed door." As he said that, he stepped inside.
The moment he stepped in, his expression changed and he suddenly stepped back, bumping into Selina who was about to follow him in.
Selena sighed, "It hurts! You didn't mean it, did you?" She rubbed her chest with her hands as she spoke.
She wasn't being pretentious, it was just that Luke had retreated so violently that her well-developed pectoral muscles couldn't bear it.
Luke grabbed her and turned to walk away, taking out his phone: "Lisa, is Billy with you? Tell him to come back with you, and don't go into this house, including any basement, garage, or tool room."
A few minutes later, Elizabeth and the others came back, looking puzzled. "What's wrong? Luke."
Luke just asked everyone to get in the car and go all the way back to the police station. When they got to the desk, he said, "We're not going to follow this case anymore. I'll go talk to the boss."
Elizabeth hesitated and asked, "Luke, can I ask why you didn't follow?"
Luke hesitated for a moment before lowering his voice: "For this case, it's better to hire a psychic than to hire us."
Elizabeth and Billy looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
If you say that Luke is a coward, they definitely don't believe it.
This man is a tough guy who can fight fifty people at the same time and is rumored to be the most capable detective in the Los Angeles Police Department.
Could it be... he is afraid of ghosts
Luke looked at their expressions and asked helplessly, "Let's put it this way, if it's a supernatural incident, how do you want to solve it?"
Elizabeth and Billy looked at each other again and shook their heads silently: Who knows how to solve supernatural incidents! They are detectives, not exorcists.