Suspense+-+The+Real+Murderer

=The Real Murderer=

(of the 8th Death)
There was once a detective who lived in a brilliant and quiet country village. His name was John. He was young, quiet, brave, and confident. One day, John received a letter from the city. He read the letter:

//Dear John:

My name is Lisa Osborn. In our apartment, something strange occurred. Seven young ladies were killed by someone with a gun in working order. I live on the 8th floor, but yesterday the 7th floor young lady died. I’m so scared. Please help me. I’ll go to your house tomorrow morning at 10 am.

Lisa Osborn//

The next day Lisa Osborn went to John’s house. Her face was pale and full of worry. John gave her some warm tea and they talked about the murder. Two hours later, Lisa went home.

The next day, John went to Lisa’s apartment and there he saw the man who was the owner of the apartment. He was standing right next to Lisa. Lisa looked so tired so John and the apartment owner brought her to her house. The owner took John back to his house. The owner’s house was the 3rd door on the 10th floor. John and the owner entered his house and they drank some coffee. They drank coffee and they heard woman’s high-pitched scream. They sped to where the sound came from and they looked at the first floor; they were shocked. On the first floor there was a woman’s dead body. Also, there was a strange man next to the dead body.

John and the apartment owner looked at the strange man. He sprinted away from the dead body. John rushed downstairs and the apartment owner followed him. John looked at the dead body and he was shocked because she was Lisa Osborn. The blood of Lisa was leaking out of her neck and her body like water trickling out of a hose. And her body was stiff and she was as white and pale as a ghost. Also, there was a deep and sharp mark on her neck. The owner and John ran to catch the strange man. After few minutes they caught him.

“I just looked at that woman and wanted to move her to the hospital, but upstairs, two men saw me and I was scared about the murder so I ran out of there,” the strange man alleged.

After that day, John stayed home for one week and didn't go out. He felt gloomy and sorry about Lisa. He was confused about how to find the murderer. One week later he went to the apartment where Lisa Osborne died. He wanted to find the witness to that situation and someone who was the strange man’s friend. Then he found a witness, who was also the strange man’s friend. The witness said, “Oh, my son saw the murder with me. I saw one woman who was killed by the man. And my son stated to me that some man choked her with a fishing line, and then she fell off the veranda,” the witness rejoined. John took the strange man’s picture and asked the witness.

“Did you see him before or did you see //this// man kill her?”

“I’m so sorry. I don’t know him,” the witness told him.

John met the strange man’s girl friend and his best friend. “He is kind, smart and he liked to help people. He is not a bad man!” they cried.

John went to the place where Lisa fell off the veranda. The blood stained that place. He looked up at the veranda and he thought for a minute. Then he went to the apartment owner’s house. The owner was on the phone with someone. John went inside the owner’s house and greeted him. The apartment owner seemed very surprised. And then he told John to sit down. John sat on the sofa, and he looked around his house. When he looked at the sofa, he found a gun. And he asked him, “Why was this gun under the sofa?”

“Oh! Did you find it?” the owner responded.

“Yes…..but why was the gun here?” John questioned him.

“Because, I wanted to protect myself.” the owner answered and he smiled. John smiled to him and he walked outside of the veranda. When he looked down at the veranda there was something shiny and bright. When he saw that, the owner called him. John went to the owner and the apartment owner gave him some coffee. Suddenly the owner cried, “I’m so woeful that Lisa died. She was so kind, and marvelous -- a lovely girl.”

“Yes… I’m so mournful about that happening, too.” John talked to him sadly. John felt better than the previous day but he felt curious about the shiny and bright thing that he saw in the owner’s house veranda, as well as the owner’s gun.

The next day John went to the owner’s house. And he went to the veranda and found the shiny and bright thing and he found something sparkly. He noticed that was a fishing line. He was amazed at the sparkling fishing line. "There is a blood mark on the fishing line....,” he whispered to himself.

He asked the apartment owner, “Who lived in downstairs?”

“Umm… Oh! There is a one man who is young, strong and handsome. But why?” the owner related to him.

“I think I will go downstairs,” John quickly answered and went downstairs. He rang the bell, but there was no answer. John rang again but there was no answer again. The apartment owner told him quietly, “Why are you looking for him? Is he a murderer?”

“I’m not sure but maybe…,”John whispered to him.

When they talked quietly a young man ambled to his house. And he noticed that two men were standing in front of his house. “Who are you?” the young handsome man asked John and the apartment owner.

The apartment owner muttered to the young man, “I already know that you killed Lisa!” the owner shrieked and wailed.

“Oh, hi! You are the owner of this apartment, but who is Lisa? And what are you talking about? I killed people?” the young man curiously asked John and the owner.

“I know that you're lying! I will make you go to jail! You are guilty!”

The young man’s face turned red. “I don’t know what you are talking about? Is there any evidence that I killed people? Show me!” The young man also screamed and shouted and got angry at the owner.

John took the owner to the owner’s house and he went to the young man’s house. The young man stared fixedly at John and said, “Find the evidence in my house if you want!” John entered the young and handsome man’s house and went to the veranda. He picked up the fishing line and showed to the young man.

The young man was shocked and his face turned pale. John stared at the fishing line and he scurried to the veranda. “The fishing line is broken… Where is the other piece?”

John found the other piece under young man’s house. It was shiny and bright also marked on the fishing line same as he found already. He went down in a hurry. And he opened the door. He was shocked because that house was same as the young man’s house. All of the furniture, wallpaper, and floor..

The apartment owner came in to that house. “John… I can explain all of this," the owner cried fearfully. “I was so angry with her so I killed her… The murderer is me! I killed her with the fishing line. I wanted to see Lisa die painfully. And the other seven dead ladies were just situations that I made to make Lisa’s feel nervous and scared. All of these situations were my plan,” the apartment owner smiled, talking scarily.

He continued to speak, "Two months ago I was fighting with Lisa because of money. I borrowed some money from Lisa, but I didn’t pay it back so Lisa told me if I didn’t pay it back she would call the police. I was angry at her so I made a plan to kill her. I killed the 7 young ladies and made Lisa feel nervous and scared. And I made my house same as the young man’s house. When you came to my house, I changed the elevator’s floor number from 8 to 9 with a black marker. Then my brother took Lisa to the elevator and took her to the 8th floor but she knew that was 9th floor. And my brother killed Lisa in my house that I made same as the young man’s house. After that situation my brother and I moved the fishing line that they used to kill her, to the young man’s house. And I begged the passer-by, (the first strange man in this story,) to go to the street where Lisa fell off.” The apartment owner told his story happily but his face seemed angry. And he said, “But when my brother killed Lisa, Lisa struggled so the fishing line was cut off and that was the clue for you to found the real murderer."

The apartment owner and his brother arrested. John prayed that Lisa would go to a good place.