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Patty and Peter
The story takes place in Guilford, New York, USA in 2002. Patty is a nurse in a hospital and her husband Peter is the owner of a bar.
On April 3, after the husband drove his wife and three daughters to the nanny's house,
returned to the bar alone to open business, and his wife borrowed the nanny's car to go to work in the hospital.
That night Peter ended his business early and returned home.
At 11:40 pm, the nanny called Peter, and
asked if she knew where Patty was because she had never come to pick up the child home.
Peter said that his wife got off work at 11 o'clock and should be on the way now.
Not long after hanging up the phone, my wife returned home.
But unexpectedly, the wife did not pick up the child.
The two of them quarreled over who should be responsible for picking up the child, and then drove to the nanny's house together.
On the way Patty habitually lit a cigarette, and then sucked the clouds and blew the mist.
Seeing this look of his wife, her husband Peter said angrily,
Can’t you not smoke in the car?
Hearing her husband's complaint, Patty retorted,
So what, Who care! [And then, I don't mind anyway]
Then he flicked his fingers lightly.
It was a coincidence that the cigarette butt not only did not pop out of the window, but also hit the glass and bounced back into the car.
Just as both of them were attracted by cigarette butts, a wild deer suddenly appeared in front of the vehicle.
In order to avoid collision, my wife slammed the steering wheel.
But because the driving speed is too fast, the vehicle rushed directly into the lake next to it and then sank into it.
After some struggle, her husband Peter surfaced and swam to the shore, borrowing a telephone call from a resident near the lake to call the police.
After the rescue vehicle arrived at the scene, it fished out the vehicle and Patty from the water and sent it to the hospital as soon as possible.
The doctor in charge of rescue would never have imagined that
used to stand Patty next to the operating table, but this time she lay on the operating table.
What's even more unfortunate is that Patty has never been able to hand herself a knife since that night.
Hearing the doctor's apology, my husband Peter was very excited.
He pulled the doctor and kept saying, please save my wife,
I really don't know what to do without her.
But just the day after the car accident, her husband Peter called the insurance company and
asked his wife about the $300,000 insurance policy claim.
Due to professional habits and company requirements, the insurance company staff called the police,
asked for verification whether Patty's death was a traffic accident.
The police said that the couple's car did rush into the lake last night,
But as for whether it was an accident, it still depends on the specific investigation results.
The person in charge of the autopsy was Dr. James . He found many scratches and contusions on Patty, including both sides of the cheeks and shoulders. There is still a small amount of water in the lungs,
Maybe Patty lost consciousness due to the impact before entering the water.
Forensics also found that Patty had an alcohol content of 0.055GMS in his blood.
is not considered drunk driving according to the standards of the US transportation law.
She drank a little beer or alcohol-containing drinks about two hours before driving.
On the second day after the incident, the agent returned to the scene to investigate again.
In order to avoid traffic accidents, the town installed roadblocks on both sides of the road, except for one entrance to the lake, and that night, the Peter and his wife's car rushed to the entrance to the lake, and then sank into the lake. Following the tire traces and grass marks of the pickup truck, the
agent drew the vehicle's driving trajectory.
and then substituted the formula for circular motion to calculate, and the result was a confusing look. At the time of the incident, the couple's pickup truck was only 50 kilometers per hour.
According to normal driving habits, unless you are driving on highways or busy sections of the city, the average speed of
will be kept between 70 and 80.
Even if the incident occurred in the middle of the night, considering that the couple was going to pick up their children and come back to sleep,
should not be so low.
And according to my husband's description, the car should have been very fast at that time, otherwise I would not have rushed into the lake directly.
With questions, the agent returned to the bureau to check the couple's pickup truck. Although no obvious impact was found, in the back seat of the car, they found Patty's pager and a strand of hair.
These two things appear in the back seat can be understood, and may be caused by the salvage process.
But the other part is a bit strange. The grille on the front of the car is not damaged at all, and
cannot even find obvious signs of impact.
Could it be that the buoyancy of the car seats avoids the collision between the front of the car and the bottom of the lake?
In order to find out the answer, the town police found a number of vehicles of different models.
rushed into the lake at the scene of the incident along the trajectory of Peter and his wife's vehicles at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
results show that no matter whether the seat window is open or not, as long as the anti-collision rod is not installed, the grille on the front of the
will be deformed due to the impact.
At the same time, the agent also found that after
trucks or truck-sized vehicles rushed into the lake, they would not sink immediately.
instead had to wait until a large amount of water flooded into the cockpit before sinking. This process would take 1 to 4 minutes.
According to her husband Peter, after the vehicle fell into the water, he escaped from the passenger door of the passenger car.
At that time, he wanted to push his wife to the water, but his strength was not enough and his wife sank again.
After returning to the shore and asking for help from the neighbors, what happened next.
Even so, the agent remembered that after the vehicle was fished out, the right door of
was locked, but the window was halfway open.
Could it be that my husband climbed out of the car window? It seems possible,
But if so, Peter's time in the water will be at least two or three minutes.
But the resident who lent Peter the phone number reported that
He remembered that Peter was not soaked at that time, but his lower body was dripping water constantly.
After investigation, the police found that her husband Peter was full of suspicion from beginning to end, but in order to confirm his crime, more evidence is needed.
When checking the couple's bedroom, the agent found Patty's diary. The content on
really surprised the police. Patty recorded in the diary that
was unable to meet her husband's requirements in the life of her husband, so she invited her best friend,
, that is, the child's nanny Joyce, and entered the bedroom to perform three-person exercise together.
At first I saw these contents, the agent always thought that Peter had forged his diary,
, but after comparing the handwriting, he found that it was really written by Patty.
So what role does this nanny Joyce play in the whole case?
Did she also participate in Peter's murder of his wife?
Or is it Peter alone did the whole thing.
When the police investigated the nanny's suspicion, the new news from the appraisal department gave new progress in the case.
The forensic doctor told the agent that he found a plant shell belonging to burdock on Patty's hair ( burdock ).
This kind of plant shell is easy to stick to fluffy things.
is a bit like the kind of plant I encountered when walking a rural road. It is difficult to take off directly with my hands.
requires you to pull them out of your clothes one by one with your hands.
The plant shell not only appears on Katie's hair, but also on her coat.
The forensic doctor said that he didn't care much about them during the first autopsy, and
believes that this plant shell is a very common plant.
But then I thought that Patty fell into water more than 5 meters deep, and
It is said that this plant should not grow at such a deep bottom.
Moreover, after entering the water, Patty's hair has been completely soaked, and the viscosity with the shell of this plant becomes even smaller.
Could it be that Katie stuck when she was taken out of the water?
In order to find out the connection between this plant and Patty, the agent returned to the scene of the car accident.
can go from the anti-collision pole on the side of the road to the entrance of the lake, and they did not find this plant along the way.
This discovery is actually a normal thing for ordinary people.
But for agents with rich experience in handling cases, it is completely different.
Because sometimes the clues to solving cases may be the details that were ignored before.
According to the husband, the wife returned home after get off work from the hospital that day.
After a few quarrels, they went to the nanny's house to pick up the child together.
So how could the wife have burdock shells on her hair when she went to pick up the child.
So where did these burdock shells come from? Botanists told police that the plant burdock is mainly distributed in abandoned places, such as old houses or around old warehouses, etc., especially on grass that people do not take care of.
On a grassy field in the backyard of Peter and his wife, the agent actually discovered the plant burdock.
The stem of one of the pieces has been broken, and there is a cluster of brown hair hanging on it.
DNA test confirmed that the hair comes from his wife Patty.
What's more coincidental is that the police also found the burdock plant shell on the shoes that night when her husband Peter wore.
Fortunately, after the agent arrived at the scene that night, he asked Peter to take off his clothes and send them back to the police station for safekeeping.
Burdock clue, combined with Patti's mouth scar, there was blood in the lungs.
Forensic doctor modified the previous judgment of drowning.
Before the incident, Patti was likely to have a dispute with others and then died of suffocation due to covering her face.
All suspicious points and evidence point to Peter by the pillow. The things he recalled in the previous article were all fake.
Soon the police prosecuted Peter for second-degree murder.
Above the court Peter insisted that he did not kill his wife, but three hours later the jury found him guilty.
Four years later, in 2006, Peter appealed that
Due to procedural errors in the first trial, the court declared the first instance judgment invalid in the second instance.
In order to make Peter "lost" in prison for 25 years, the prosecutor also invited several witnesses based on the evidence of damage to the burdock plant shells and vehicles.
The first witness said that while drinking at Peter’s bar the year before the incident, he overheard Peter bragging about his murder plan.
I want to throw someone to Lake Guildford. The operation process is very simple.
is to throw a bucket of water from the lake, then press the head in the bucket, and finally throw it into the lake.
Regarding such a testimony, Peter's defense lawyer retorted,
How do you determine that someone in my client's mouth is his wife?
How do you make sure that my client is not talking angry?
Why didn't you call the police after hearing Peter say these words?
Then the prosecutor found a second witness.
witness said that in November before the incident, he heard Peter and his wife quarreling while hunting in a town.
Peter beat his wife at that time.
The third witness said that when he was preparing to go to bed that night,
did not hear any screams or sudden brakes, but only a bang of closing the car door.
And when Peter came to his home for help, he found that the other person's hair was not wet.
wife
After combining all the evidence and testimony, the prosecution restored Peter's crime process.
On the morning of the incident, Peter sent his child to the nanny's house and closed early in the evening.
When my wife came back, she tempted her to drink a few glasses of wine, and then covered her cheeks behind her back and suffocated her, so her wife fell to the ground and struggled.
It was at this time that the burdock shell in the backyard of
The plant shell of the backyard sticks to the wife's hair and clothes, as well as the husband Peter's shoes.
After confirming that his wife would not resist, Peter hid the body in the tool box of the pickup truck, and through the window of the driver's seat, pushed the vehicle from neutral to high-speed gear, and then watched his wife sink into the lake.
that day the water temperature in Lake Guildford was only 4 degrees Celsius, and
is colder than the lake water. It is a crime that a husband committed such a vicious crime to his wife.
In the face of the indirect evidence of the witnesses and the iron evidence of the burdock plant shell on the couple, the court once again convicted Peter of the second-degree murder, and he would need to spend the next 25 years in prison. After the incident, Patty's children left the town, leaving only the increasingly old houses,
and the burdock in the corner of the backyard.
Whenever the spring breeze hits, the burdock will change into a new green outfit again, and
resists sin with immortal reincarnation.
I am Xiaoyuan, see you next time!
