Friday, 24th April
Sarah hung a map of the city on the wall, and began pinpoint the places her father had visited during his years in Thailand, through call logs from the eavesdropping phone.
She matched the call records with the voice recordings, and she was able to locate many places. After she finished, she stood in front of the map. He said to her: You were right. Your father didn't leave this city. He stayed in the capital, and most of the calls were in the province (Bang Na) here, and he received calls In Province (Bankh Khai) ... (mutated to himself): This is strange, he was getting many calls to where the police station is.
She sighed: My father lived here for five years, how no one recognized him? especially since he is a foreigner.
She turned towards the table and flipped through the papers looking for something specific. Then she said: Look, the last call he made was on the twenty-second of October 2019, and shortly before that, he called the travel office only once. Do you think he intended to travel and return?
He took the paper and said: We didn't find any voice call about him going to this office... (silence stared at her for a moment, then said): Travel office! suitcase!
She looked at him in astonishment, and he completed: The new case we are currently investigating is related to a travel agency. As for the suitcase, it is... (He thought to himself that, mentioning the bag would be harsh, she remembered something in turn and said to him): Oh, do you mean the case spread on the news channels! The man who was inside the suitcase and the police pulled him out of the river.
He replied: This case is already ubiquitous; however, this office has a big secret, and I am sure of it.
She nodded affirmatively: But what about the detective that Mr. Tan mentioned? Didn't you come up with anything?
He replied: No, it could be someone from the police station ... (He looked at the map where there are many dots near the police station and said, muttering): Is it possible that one of the employees was communicating with him?
She asked him: Detective Mark, what happened with that dead body we found in the house? Did you know who he was? Was he...
He turned towards her: No, it wasn't the body of a foreigner, but the autopsy report had disappeared, so I asked the doctor to send another report.
She turned towards the kitchen, saying: Objects disappear easily from you.
In the afternoon the Commander met with his team to discuss the latest developments in the new case, when Mark arrived at the police station the team had already started, he entered quietly and sat in his chair while Zhao talking: The forensic medicine found traces of car wheels, and after searching matched with Ford car, we are now in the process of counting who own this type of car in the city.
He continued, saying: We went to the restaurant that the couple went to, and the manager told me that the couple celebrated their wedding anniversary on the fourteenth of April on Tuesday, and nothing strange happened between them, on the contrary, they were very happy, and the husband was generous with the staff.
Kyle: As for the CCTV, most of the cameras are for decoration, only the cameras inside the restaurant that work. The kidnapping can't happen there because the restaurant overlooks the parking so if something happens outside the customers will be witnesses to the incident.
Mark: This contradicts what I heard from the maid in the hotel, she mentioned that he is nervous and quarrels a lot with his wife.
Kyle replied, "Maybe he wanted to present a celebration as an apology for what he had done."
Jan presented the report saying: According to the autopsy report, the killers put the husband in a suitcase after he was tied up, while he was still alive, and then threw him into a river, the cause of death is drowning. After the autopsy, the doctor discovered that all his internal organs were damaged due to his addiction to alcoholic beverages. He was found to have glaucoma and was on the verge of losing the ability to see due to diabetes.
The captain turned to Mark: What about you? What did you find out about this case?
He looked at him restlessly and then answered: The couple, accompanied by tourists, arrived in Thailand on Sunday, the fifteenth of last March, and the tourists left on Tuesday, the thirty-first of last March, while the couple decided to stay for a longer period, and they stayed in another hotel near the beach, and this was On Wednesday the first of April, according to the director, the last time he saw them was on the fourteenth of April, on Tuesday, the day they went to celebrate their anniversary.
Zhao: There is no trace of them from the 15th of April until the discovery of the body on the 22nd of April.
Then Mark and Jan added at the same time: Travel office!
They looked at each other in astonishment, then the commander said: You are now in agreement with each other.
Jan said: We are investigators, and we must have come to the same conclusion.
Mark agreed: Yes.
Kyle, asking: What is it?
Mark replied: They have disappeared because they have gone to a travel agency to go back to their country.
Zhao said, "Where are we going to look?" There are hundreds of tourist offices, it could be anyone.
Jan: The Jasmine Travel and Tourism Office is what is meant, we found the office number in the hotel room.
Kyle was amazed at his words, Zhao said, "That's good! I'm sure it will be the key to resolving this case.
Someone knocked on the door, "Sorry to interrupt, but there's a young lady asking to see Detective Mark."
He got up and said: I'll leave first Commander.
Jan turned his back and said: Now it becomes clear, why he is busy these days.
The commander looked at the watch, then gathered the papers, saying: Well, let's end the meeting here.
Mark came out thinking it was Sarah but was surprised to see another person: Miss Jane! What are you doing here?
She was a little hesitant, clutching her bag: There's something I want to tell you, Detective.
Paying attention to her uncomfortable expression, he said, "How about going somewhere quieter than here?"
She walked with him towards the street, the commander came out looking at them with strange looks. They sat in a café and then said: Well, go ahead and talk.
She held the cup of coffee hesitantly and confused, then said, "Actually, there's something I didn't tell you that day. I didn't give up the idea of finding Mary, but I was forced to."
He said: You were forced! What do you mean?
She continued: At first, an investigator helped me find my friend, then Mr. Max joined us, he helped us a lot and we got a lot of information, but everything ended in a blink of an eye when he revealed the truth about himself.
Mark: Do you mean the detective?
She nodded negatively: Mr. Max, I wish he didn't help us, he kidnapped me and tortured me for three days. He threatened me that he would kill my grandfather if I told anyone about what happened, and if I kept looking for Mary. I turned away from everything for my grandfather and for me. I didn't tell the detective what happened to me so nothing could happen to him, I don't know Mr. Max well, but I know he's a dangerous person and he can do anything.
He asked her: Do you know the name of the investigator who helped you?
She replied: No, unfortunately, I used to call him the Detective the whole time... but I remember that Mr. Max always called him Captain.
He thought about her words and then got up and left after they had talked a little, and sat in his car thinking: It has become certain that it must be someone who was or still works in the police station with the rank of captain, it will be difficult to search for someone who worked in those years and it will cause a lot of problems, But this isn't an ordinary case of disappearance, that is for sure.
His train of thought was cut short by his phone vibrating: It's Sarah...hello. I was about to call you.... (he was silent when he heard her heavy breathing until she said in a light voice): Help me... I was stabbed. Help please.
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