A Case of murder

I want to write about a case of murder which I experienced 5 years ago.

It was 5years ago when I was a detective in a police station of Metropolitan Police Department in Japan. The police station was right in the middle of a downtown area, Shibuya. That time, I lived in a dormitory where was on the 11th floor of the police station.

One winter day, I went to bed after the work as usual. I was sleeping well. Suddenly, my cell phone rang loudly. It was 2 o’clock a.m. I answered the phone. It was my subordinate and he shouted “Chief!! It is murder!!” It was the beginning of my long day.

I went to the room of the Criminal Investigation Section immediately. The room was thrown into an uproar. There were a lot of policemen and detectives in the room. I asked one of my subordinates the situation and he explained as the following.
* The victim was killed instantaneously.
* The victim was a woman whose age was 30 years old.
* Her job was a ballet dancer.
* The murderer was arrested after the criminal act immediately.
* The time of the crime was 9 o’clock p.m. a day before.
* The murderer was a man whose age was about 40 years old.
* His job was also a ballet dancer.
* The offensive weapon was a kitchen knife which the murderer had at the scene of the murder.
* The murderer was under interrogation and the victim was still at the scene.

I was so confused because that case was my first experience of dealing a case of murder. Then, my boss ordered me to go to the scene immediately. That’s because the detectives were not enough there.

The scene was on the second floor of a rental apartment building at a distance of a mile from the police station. The building was in an exclusive residential district, Daikanyama. The corridor of the apartment was covered with blood. It was a ghastly scene. The victim was a beautiful lady but she had never spoken. It became dawn while we were inspecting the scene. After that, I went back to the police station.

At the police station, much deskwork was waiting for us. We had to go to the court to seek some kinds of warrant. We had a lot of things to investigate. I asked one detective about the progress of the interrogation. He talked me that the suspect had spoken nothing and kept silence. It annoyed us and I trembled with rage.

After much deskwork, I went to the summary court to seek warrants. It took 4 hours and I was terribly tired. I also attended the postmortem of the victim. It made me so sad when I watched the dead body and the face looked like regretful. After all, the suspect spoke nothing.

Our investigation was going on 2 weeks. The suspect had begun to speak about the reason for killing, the method to kill and so on. The reason was the end of the one-sided love. The suspect loved her, but she always ignored him. Before he realized it, he wanted to kill her instead of love. His method to kill was very complicated. He researched her house and the time to go home beforehand. He clambered up to the veranda of her room from the backyard and broke the window with a shrewd trick. He trespassed to her room and lurked in the bathroom with gripping the prepared kitchen knife till her return. And then, she came back. He pushed her over and straddled. She was screaming and crying for forgiveness, but he mercilessly stabbed the kitchen knife in her chest over and over. This was the full account of the case.

I always think that why people murder. The murder is cruel and merciless. My task is to stop such a terrible case from this world and I have to make an effort for the purpose.