Chapter 215: Surveillance
"How is the surveillance?" Arlen asked as he sat down. Draco closed the first two buttons of his shirt like he was about to do a presentation for the president.
"Captain, the first store we went to, directly opposite the sidewalk, one of the witnesses had no surveillance. No, they have a surveillance system but the front camera has been dead for over a week. The second store had a large cart dropped over yesterday and it directly blocks the crime scene. We could not see anything worthwhile. We checked a lot of surveillance but the victim did not appear on the frame at any time." Draco bit his lips like he was enduring some extra kind of torture, "But Officer West noticed that the street signboard had an old camera. We checked it. It is the old black-and-white type. Even when we zoomed it, it was very hard to make out the figures but we happened to get this."
He tapped the button and the projector lit up, it was a very poor resolution but they could see a gray Honda Civic drive by, stopping for barely two seconds before it moved. The surveillance was from an angle so they could not see the entire sidewalk, Draco paused it and zoomed in, it was a woman’s head.
"She was alive." Arlen drummed his fingers, the sidewalk was not the primary crime scene, she had been stabbed somewhere else and transported there.
"This does not seem random at all," Sarah noted and Arlen nodded his head.
"Her finances?"Arlen asked Lisa. He had asked her to check on the victim’s finances after they had returned from the apartment.
"She is debt-free. She has two accounts, one has 300 dollars and the other one, a fixed saving account has 2400 dollars in it. Her accounts have not been flagged for any suspicious activities. They are both clean." She reported.
"So we should rule out money as a motive?" Draco asked.
"Can you check if she has applied for a student loan?"