Chapter 15 - The Case Brief
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The security guards have long been gone, she had also ensured the locks of her house, but Mandy cannot still bring herself back to sleep. The image of the man on the picture has been lingering on her head. She has already been turning on the bed a lot but she was still unable to go back to sleep.
She looked at her wall clock. It’s five in the morning. I’d better get up and start studying the case, she thought. She got down from her bed and straightaway went to the kitchen. As usual, she brewed her coffee and headed to the library. She got the case files given by Mr. Dawson that was nearly stolen earlier.
Case file number 105: Morris Parker, et al. vs Grande and Martini, it read. Mandy went through the documents. Case brief. She slowly read the background and the story of the case.
Twenty-five years ago, Vice-President Morris Parker and his family was brutally murdered in the middle of the night. Everybody was sound asleep when the neighbours heard succeeding gunshots coming from the house of the Vice-President. One neighbour dialled 911. Soon, the police came. However, they were too late as the killers already escaped leaving their victims dead except for the missing body of Vice-President Parker’s daughter.
The suspected killers are Vice-President Parker’s rivals in the seat for Presidency that year. Two rivals named Carlos Grande and Isabelo Martini are the accused in the case filed in court. That year, Vice-President Morris Parker was leading the polls in the Presidential seat followed by Carlos Grande. The fight is so close and Vice-President Parker eventually won the election. However, before he was sworn to office, he died an untimely death. All evidence point to his close rival Carlos Grande. Isabelo Martini, on the other hand, is the person he is in line up with as the Vice-President that year. He was associated in the murder case as an accomplice.
Mandy blinked. This case is really complicated. Just going through the case brief already revealed a lot of mysteries to answer. How about the newspaper cut out about the lady reporter? She let out the article with Clara Kaspersqy’s corpse. She read it in toto. The lady reporter personally handled the Vice-President’s case. She spent weeks on it until she died. The news article says that she was r***d on her way to a site to cover a new event. No, she wasn’t just r***d, she was abused. Ignominy may not be too much for a word. She was r***d not by c**************e but physical assault. The r****t did not insert his organs on her, rather he inserted liquor bottles on her private part. This was revealed by the autopsy conducted after she was murdered.
Mandy shivered. What a beast! Her teeth gritted. I will put you in jail. But wait, how can she be sure that this newspaper cut out is related with the case? She wondered. She has no solid evidence. I must ask Mr. Dawson why he placed this in the case file, she resolved.
She took her laptop out. She clicked the search engine and typed the words “Vice-President Morris Parker.”
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