The real reason for dumping the body

　　 the Body Benjamin said, "Let's see what Ethan has to say." "Okay," James said, and then thought for a moment, "Just don't interrupt me like earlier!" Benjamin didn't say anything.

　　He knew that as a company boss, Ethan dealt with more people and things on a regular basis than the small security guard, William.

　　He wouldn't be easily scared like William was by a few intimidating remarks from James.

　　James had Ethan brought in, and applied pressure similar to what he did to William, not waiting for Ethan to settle, he slammed the table and exclaimed, "Ethan, aren't you going to confess?" "Didn't I already confess?"

　　"Ethan looked at James with confusion, thinking that he must have amnesia.

　　'So you're admitting that you killed Sophia?' James said.

　　Ethan's eyes widened in disbelief, never expecting to be accused of murder.

　　He would definitely not admit to that.

　　'No.

　　I admit that I tampered with the crime scene and disposed of the body, but I never said I killed Sophia.' 'If it wasn't you who killed her, then why did you tamper with the crime scene and dispose of the body?' 'I've already answered that question.

　　Sophia and I were in a romantic relationship, and I was planning to end it.

　　At that moment, there was only the two of us at the scene, and anyone who saw would suspect me of killing her.

　　I admit that was my mistake.

　　It was because I was afraid of someone suspecting me that I tampered with the scene and disposed of the body.

　　If you want to charge me with that, I will not deny it.' 'Ethan, let me ask you, why did you want to end your relationship with Sophia?' 'I've already explained that too.

　　Someone took intimate photos of Sophia and me and threatened me.

　　At first, I thought it was Sophia's husband, but it turned out to be a security guard.

　　This security guard kept pushing boundaries and demanding more and more until I couldn't satisfy his demands anymore.

　　That's when I decided to break up with Sophia.' 'Just because of that?' 'Yes.' 'Has it nothing to do with your wife, Olivia?' Ethan suddenly looked at James warily.

　　'What does my wife have to do with this?' 'Your wife found out about you and Sophia, so she took control of your finances and threatened you to kill Sophia.' James said, believing this to be the most reasonable explanation.

　　'What?' Ethan exclaimed in astonishment.

　　'Officer, this has nothing to do with my wife.

　　She has no knowledge of me and Sophia, so how could she threaten me to kill her?' 'In fact, she does know.' James said.

　　'No, she doesn't!' Ethan repeated.

　　'You may not know yet.

　　We found some skin flakes under the victim's nails that are suspected to belong to the killer.

　　The DNA matches completely with your wife Olivia's, and Olivia herself admitted to having an argument with Sophia and accidentally pushing her down, causing her to hit the coffee table.

　　That's how Sophia got a wound on the back of her head.' After hearing these words, Ethan suddenly fell silent, sitting there with no spirit left.

　　After a moment, he said in a low voice, 'I don't even know why this happened.

　　My wife is notorious for being a tiger mother.

　　If she finds out I have problems with other women, she usually threatens me with finances to make me break up with them.

　　I've never had any entanglement with those women.

　　Honestly, I never expected her to confront Sophia this time.' He paused slightly, as if reminiscing about the whole incident.

　　'That day, when I went to meet Sophia, as soon as I parked my car, my wife hurriedly came down from upstairs.'"

　　At that time, I was very scared and didn't know what had happened upstairs.

　　I didn't dare to go up.

　　I followed her from a distance, and she seemed a bit absent-minded.

　　After I made sure she got into a taxi and left, I went back to look for Sophia.

　　But when I opened the door, I saw Sophia lying motionless in a pool of blood.

　　I was terrified and stood there for a full two minutes before realizing that my wife had killed her.

　　Although I had been with many other women outside, I loved my wife very much and was afraid of losing her because of this.

　　So I cleaned up the scene and dragged the body to the outskirts, throwing it into the river.

　　I thought the matter would end there, but the next day the body was found by someone fishing in the river, and then you found me." Faced with Ethan's confession, James was very annoyed.

　　According to this, he didn't kill Sophia, and Olivia was not the murderer either.

　　The real culprit was still a mystery.

　　This was not the result he wanted, so he shouted again, "It's not like that! The fact is, Olivia pushed Sophia down and she hit the coffee table.

　　Thinking that Sophia was dead, she hurriedly left.

　　Then she ran into you on the way and used money as leverage to make you go and clean up the scene.

　　When you arrived at the scene, you found that Sophia was not dead.

　　She argued with you again about your wife.

　　In the midst of the argument, you suffocated her to death on the ground, and then cleaned up the scene and disposed of the body!" "Wait a minute." Ethan suddenly became alert and stared at James.

　　"Are you saying that my wife didn't kill Sophia, but she was killed later?" James realized that he had slipped up and had to continue, "Yes, at that time, she just pushed Sophia down and hit her head on the coffee table.

　　Sophia only passed out." "That's great!" Ethan became more and more excited and his spirits lifted.

　　"Why are you so happy?" James frowned at Ethan.

　　Ethan cleared his throat, adjusted his posture, and then said, "Officer, since my wife is not the murderer, I don't need to hide anything from you anymore.

　　That's right, at first I did think my wife killed Sophia, so in order to protect her, I cleaned up the crime scene and disposed of the body.

　　If you want to charge me with tampering with the scene and disposing of a body, I plead guilty.

　　But if you want to charge me with murder, I'm sorry, I will never plead guilty!" "Ethan!" James stood up and slammed the table.

　　Ethan was indeed not easily intimidated by James like William, and at this moment, he calmly said, "Officer, as you said, Sophia was not dead when my wife left.

　　There was nearly ten minutes between my wife leaving and my arrival at the scene.

　　During this time, it's possible that someone went up and killed Sophia.

　　You should be looking for the culprit who was at the scene during that time, instead of continuing to interrogate me here." Benjamin knew Ethan's words would completely make James lose control, so he interrupted their conversation before things got worse, "May I ask a few questions?"

　　"James managed to control his emotions despite Benjamin's interruption and nodded, saying, 'Go ahead and ask.' Benjamin walked up to Ethan and said, 'Can we talk?' 'It depends on what you want to talk about,' Ethan replied with hostility.

　　This man in front of him was more terrifying than the police.

　　'I've heard Olivia say that she can't have children, and that must be one of the reasons you went out to find other women,' Benjamin asked a seemingly unrelated question to the case.

　　Ethan was taken aback, thought for a moment, and admitted, 'Yes, that is indeed a very important reason.

　　I've said it before, I love my wife very much, and if she could have children, maybe I wouldn't go out looking for other women.' 'I believe you.

　　You do love her very much, otherwise you wouldn't have cleaned up the crime scene and disposed of the body for her,' Benjamin said.

　　'Yes, if I had known that she didn't kill anyone, but only injured the other person by accident, I wouldn't have done such a foolish thing.' In just two sentences, Benjamin eliminated Ethan's hostility towards him.

　　He continued, 'During the time you arrived at the crime scene, besides your wife, did you notice any other suspicious persons?' 'You mean the killer?' Ethan asked.

　　'Yes, maybe you saw the killer,' Benjamin said.

　　'I hope you can carefully recall, you might have seen him, but just didn't pay attention to it.' Ethan thought carefully and shook his head in the end, 'Unfortunately, my attention was completely focused on my wife at that time, besides her, I didn't see any suspicious persons.' 'Then during the time from when you cleaned up the scene to when you left, did anything strange happen, like suspicious sounds?' Benjamin asked further.

　　'Now that you mention it, there were indeed some strange sounds at that time,' Ethan looked at Benjamin with wide eyes.

　　If it wasn't for this man bringing it up, he would never have thought to mention it.

　　'What kind of sound?' James eagerly exclaimed from the side.

　　Any suspicious detail could become a key to solving the case, that's what he learned from Benjamin.

　　Benjamin glared at James and said to Ethan, 'Can you describe in detail what the situation was like at that time?' Ethan said, 'While I was cleaning the bloodstains on the floor, I heard a slight noise coming from the bedroom.' 'A slight noise, can you describe what kind of sound it was?' 'It was like the sound of a matchstick being snapped, very light.

　　If I wasn't extremely nervous and highly concentrated at that time, I definitely wouldn't have heard that sound.' 'Was there any other sound afterwards?' 'Later, it sounded like someone walking inside the house.' 'Are you sure you didn't mishear?' 'If you were in that environment, with a dead body lying next to you, no sound would escape your ears.

　　I've said it before, I was highly concentrated and very nervous at that time.

　　When I heard such sounds, even goosebumps appeared on my body.' 'Did you go check it out?'

　　"I have checked it out, but unfortunately found nothing, only felt a cold wind blowing." "A cold wind?" Benjamin caught another detail.

　　"Yes, the window was open at the time, and I closed it." "Is there anything else?" Ethan shook his head and said, "Only this, nothing else." Benjamin nodded satisfactorily, turned to James, and said, "I have no more questions." James glanced at Ethan, still frustrated by the mystery of the killer's identity, and gruffly had Ethan taken away.

　　Then, he shouted at Benjamin, "Damn unlucky, no progress at all!"