Fatal Trouble | Y.Jw

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"So?" Jake called out, his hands shoved deep into his pant pockets as he stood a few meters behind Heeseung kneeling on the ground. Jungwon right beside Jake had crossed his arms across his chest as he quietly watched Heeseung.

"Not a single scratch," Heeseung shook his head and stood up, staring down at the dead body from the night before with a frown on his face, "I need an autopsy as fast as possible. Rigor mortis has already set in and I want an analysis of the stage it is in. Check the blood and heart for anything suspicious. Keep track of any tiny scratches or bruises," he sternly listed and looked over to Detective Ahn and the two medics he had taken with him to collect the body once Heeseung had checked the body.

"Anything else?" Detective Ahn nodded and let the two medics wrap up the corpse and carry it with them to the vehicle to get driven to the autopsy.

"No blood?" Heeseung arched a brow.

"Not a single drop," Detective Ahn.

"How can you be sure it's the same person?" Jungwon spoke up and looked over at Detective Ahn, "The method of murder is identical each time. No signs of a struggle or anything. The murals and weird circumstances are the only thing that makes us think it is murder."

"The murals," Heeseung reminded and pointed backwards.

"It's not a single person," Detective Ahn, "we have Defendant Jung arrested for suspicion. He might not have killed anyone, but he knows something about the case."

"We'll question him," Jake nodded with a determined look on his face, "get Miss Young scheduled on the questionings as well. I want it written down and I hear she is wonderfully fast on her typewriter."

"She is," Detective Ahn nodded, "I will check with her when it fits between her studying. In the meantime, check on the young lady across the street," Detective Ahn pointed out and extended a lap of paper towards Jake, "she was up late last night. Looking out her window when I left the scene. She might've seen something."

"I'll make contact with her," Jake nodded, sending a small glance towards Heeseung - who was incredibly focused on carefully picking up small fragments with his white-gloved hands and ordering the fragments into individual plastic bags.

"Get someone searching the place for fingerprints and register each and every one. Check it on the clothes of the victim as well," Heeseung decided as he finished his last bagging of a fragment, "has the family of the victim been notified?"

"We've only been able to get a hold of a cousin, living in town," Detective Ahn nodded, "all other family has been disinterested in the situation."

"Bad family ties?" Jake questioned and Detective Ahn shrugged.

"Always been keeping to himself," Detective Ahn murmured, "small community and not one person in town seems to know him."

"It's a small town you must have a lot of suspects," Jungwon pointed out and Detective Ahn shook his head, "no?" Jungwon raised both his eyebrows before snickering and whispering to Jake, "I think it was a good thing we got called."

"Anything else while we're here?" Detective Ahn sighed and looked over at Heeseung.

"Get me multiple pictures of the mural, multiple angles. Unlike the other mural pictures I've been provided," Heeseung remarked and glanced over at the mural, "I'll come back to the station and look through what I've collected and wait for the autopsy report."

"I want contact information on the victim's cousin," Jake hummed and looked down at the piece of paper he had been given with a name and an address, "I'll go talk to Miss Kirk in the meantime. Oh, and get me Miss Young on my questionings."

"Detective Yang?" Detective Ahn questioned and Jungwon finally looked away from the spot the dead body had been lying in. His eyes had mindlessly wandered back to the place and played over the day's events in his head. Searching for anywhere he might've missed something.

"Do you reckon your transcript writer might be free this noon?" Jungwon questioned and looked over at a surprised Detective Ahn.

"No attachments," Heeseung warned sternly and Jungwon waved him off.

"It's a student town, isn't it? She's a student," Jungwon pointed out and Detective Ahn nodded, "I'm curious of what the students see that you don't know. Their brains must be in constant overdrive, running on low sleep hours and high study hours. On top of that, she has a time-consuming job. She must've seen something that she didn't think twice about."

"You think she'd remember?" Jake questioned and Jungwon shrugged.

"If she'll be working with us during interrogations and in the court I suppose it'll be good to know exactly what change she noticed in the town in the last year," Jungwon excused with a small shrug, "does she prefer tea or coffee?"

"Tea... I believe," Detective Ahn replied and Jungwon nodded, turning on his heel to walk off.

"Where are you going?" Jake called out.

"I think it's about time I finally show up at university," Jungwon excused, not turning around or looking at the three men behind him, "what faculty?"

"Journalism," Detective Ahn called back and Jungwon nodded before calmly leaving the building and setting off down the street, "should I be worried about my employee."

"He's harmless," Heeseung shook his head and placed the last plastic bag into his small cardboard box, "he seems intimidating and dangerous, but he is quite observant and kindhearted."

"You should be happy Detective Park isn't here," Jake nodded, "no one interrogates like him. We might have to call him in if defendant Jung refuses to give any answers. I'll go talk to Miss Kirk."

At that Jake decided to leave as well, crossing the street to ring the doorbell of the apartment written on his paper. Heeseung sent Detective Ahn a small smile before joining him in the return to the car. Ready to get driven back to the station and go through the things he had picked up from the ground as he patiently awaited the autopsy report to return and the pictures of the mural to be returned to him.