Artificial Tears

Chapter 25

Reed and I went to watch the interrogation of the husband, but not much came out of it.

He was the one to call the police, he was indeed a handyman and had opened up the floor himself after finding the small stain on the ceiling.

When he had gone to the bathroom, he noticed that a couple of the tiles looked odd. Like they had just been placed there, that's strange because they hadn't done any repairs around the house recently.

When he opened it he found the bags and opened them, he found his wife in there of course. The reason he recognized her was because of a mole she had on her right wrist, it had a special shape, almost like that of a heart.

He freaked out and called the police immediately.

For the reason he had opened it up, he told the police that it was because he came late from work and when he entered he noticed the stain.

He believed his wife to be already asleep at the time he entered his house, because all the lights had been turned off and the doors were locked. She had a job where she worked at home and she usually was in bed when he returned.

To the man, nothing had seemed or felt wrong, it just happened.

His self-driving car was the one to give him his alibi, it showed us that he had taken his normal route and had been inside the vehicle.

But for the camera's by all the doors, all of the footage seemed to have been deleted.

When the lab had their results they could say for certain that the victim was the late Nicole Peper.

She had been cut in a total of fourteen parts, cut apart by the joints. It also showed that she had been alive for most of the part, but something was put in her mouth to keep her from screaming.

Just awful, the killer wanted their victim to suffer, but for what reason is still unknown.

The reaction of her husband seemed to be authentic. So the chance of him being the killer is very close to zero.

Miss Peper had no enemies that were known.

It is most likely that the killer had followed them for a longer while, this was shown by the reports, they must have known their habits and work in order to kill her that quickly. Though the way they had been followed is unknown.

I clearly remember saying to the others: "I don't think we have an ordinary killer here."

Where to Reed quickly shared: "Serial."

"Let's not jump to any conclusions for now." Xanders said.

Nicole's whole social circle got interrogated, but nothing came out of it.

When we checked the camera's in the neighborhood, they also had been wiped clean.

Also the murder weapon was most likely a knife, but how they caught her is still a mystery.

It wasn't long before we got to the second victim: Dan Cross.

A rather young man, in his early twenties. I had a bit of difficulties with this one.