Chapter 139 The corpse in the snowman cannot have committed a crime
Several people came to Kaori Mitsuka's room. The window glass was smashed and a large amount of snow blew in from the gap. The bed closest to the window was covered with a thin layer of snow.
Letting Kuji Kaito and the others stay outside the door, Yuya and Shiratori Renzaburo entered the room to check the scene.
Kaori Mitsuka's body collapsed beside the bed, with a pool of black, coagulated blood at her feet. The appearance of the body was basically the same as what was seen in the hidden camera.
The body had not yet begun to stiffen due to the low temperature, so it was inferred that the time of death was no more than 1 hour. The time from the time Yuki Yasha killed Mitsuka Kaori to the time they arrived was about 45 minutes, which was basically consistent.
A rough look at the status of the items in the room is basically the same as what is seen from the hidden camera.
This means that what they saw at the time was indeed surveillance footage and not something like a video.
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After a while, Kuji Kaito brought the others to the main hall one by one.
Shiratori Jinzaburo contacted the Hokkaido Police Headquarters, but the other party said that the road into the mountain was buried by an avalanche, and the helicopter could not come in due to the snowy weather, so they could only wait until the weather cleared.
According to the weather forecast, the conservative estimate is that we will have to wait until the next afternoon.
Yuya counted the number of people gathered in the main building and found that one person was missing.
"Where is Mr. Minamikawa?" Youya asked the director.
The director said he didn’t know.
The photographer's assistant said quickly, "I haven't seen him since dinner time."
Yuya frowned slightly. Minamikawa Yosuke came to the annex with them at that time. After organizing the equipment, he said he was going out to smoke and take a walk, and then he disappeared.
And it was dinner time at that time.
Jiuji Hairen's face looked very ugly, and he shouted in panic: "Could it be that Nanchuan was the one who killed Kaori?"
A well-known actress was killed during the filming of a movie. Not only would she be in trouble with Kaori Mitsuka's agency, but it would also have a significant negative impact on her own crew.
If the murderer is a photographer in his own crew, then the problem will be even bigger. He may never get a script again and may not find actors willing to work with him.
After all, people make movies for fame and money. Who would be willing to risk their lives and work with a crew that has produced a murderer?
Yuya frowned and slowly analyzed it.
They arrived at the annex at 6:30 in the evening and started having dinner at around 7 o'clock. Minamikawa Yosuke also disappeared at that time.
After dinner, except for a few people who went back to their rooms to rest, most people were chatting in the restaurant.
At less than 10:, Mitsuka Kaori fell asleep, and it was at that time that Yuki Yasha suddenly appeared and killed her.
The time of the incident was fixed at 10:30.
Ten minutes later, Mari Tamura arrived by car and immediately turned back, arriving at the annex at 10:11.
At 11:25, Shiratori Jinsaburo arrived at the hotel by car.
At the time of the incident, the only people who were not in the annex were photographer Minamikawa Yosuke, daughter Tamura Mari, and painter Himuro Kazusei.
However, according to the testimony of multiple people, when Shiratori Jinsaburo and Yuya were driving to the main hotel, Himuro Kazusei appeared in the restaurant to pour coffee.
He was not wearing shoes and was wearing clean home clothes, showing no signs of having been outside.
Mari Tamura was on her way to the annex at the time, and according to the time calculation, she had only walked half the distance.
According to the simple map drawn by director Kuji Kaito, the road from the annex to the main building is full of ruins. Although the distance seems not far, it is impossible to jump over it directly by human power.
The only way to get there is by car, which takes 20 minutes, and at least 3 hours on foot. (Click to expand the map)
In other words, Mari Tamura and Kazusei Himuro did not have the time to commit the crime.
It's already past 12 o'clock, but there's still no sign of Minamikawa Yosuke.
If Yuki Yasha is really Minamikawa Yosuke, then from 7:10 to 30:, nearly three and a half hours, he would have enough time to get from the annex to the main building if he ran.
Shiratori Renzaburo pounded his fist on his palm and said, "So, the murderer is the photographer Minamikawa Yosuke?"
Yuya frowned slightly: "From the time of the crime, there is really no other possibility except him, but I always find it strange."
Because he was the one who set up the hidden cameras, he knew very well that there were cameras in Kaori Mitsuka's room, so the crime scene would definitely be seen by other people, and then the fact that he had been missing for so long would be exposed.
This is simply telling others that he is the murderer, and there is absolutely no need for him to do this.
Unless Minamikawa Yosuke is a pervert who enjoys killing people in front of others and has a bit of a cross-dressing fetish...
Shiratori Renzaburo pinched his chin and said, "What you said makes sense, but the information we know so far all points to him, so..."
"what!!!"
Suddenly, a terrified scream came from outside the house, scaring everyone.
Yuya and Shiratori Renzaburo rushed out at the same time without any hesitation.
Could it be that the Snow Yaksha appeared again?
When they came outside, they saw assistant Hiragaki Yuko lying on the ground with a terrified look on her face.
She saw Yuya and Shiratori Renzaburo coming over, pointing at the snowman in front of them, and said tremblingly: "There, over there!"
Yuya looked over and his pupils suddenly shrank: it was a snowman about half a person's height, with a large piece of its chest missing, revealing a face.
That face was none other than the long-missing Minamikawa Yosuke!
Hiragaki Yuko said tremblingly: "I saw this snowman when I just came out. I was curious so I touched it. I didn't expect that Nanchuan was inside. Ah ah ah ah..." As she spoke, she screamed again.
Mari Tamura was also scared to death, but she still went up to comfort her. The two of them hugged each other and trembled constantly. It took a while for them to calm down.
After taking Minamikawa Yosuke out of the snowman, they found that the body was completely frozen and there were corpse spots. Although low temperature will affect the judgment of the time of death, it is conservatively estimated that it has been more than 2 hours.
Youya and Shiratori Renzaburo looked at each other and saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.
The biggest suspect was actually killed, and the time of death had exceeded 2 hours.
Let's make a bold guess and maybe Minamikawa Yosuke disappeared not because he came to kill Mitsuka Kaori, but because he was killed!
This way, everyone either has an alibi or does not have the time to commit the crime.
This is an impossible crime!