English Entertainment - Novels - Aghast CH 32 One more twist

Detective Sam was sitting across from Detective Templeton, who had handled John’s death case.
Detective Templeton started to give information about the case, " His death has occurred due to bronchitis and over drinking."
" How did you recognize him?" Sam asked.
" The room in which his body was found, we found some documents too.. From which it was confirmed that he was John Carter... And one of his photographs circulated by Detective Baker to all police stations also came to us..." Detective Templeton removed a photograph from his drawer and kept it in front of Sam.
" This photograph and the information sent by Detective Baker made our job easy to find John's address and relatives" Templeton said.
" Had you contacted his parents?" Sam asked.
" Yes... we had called his parents ... Before taking the position of the body they had confirmed about his identity... Post-mortem also have identified him as John Carter, 22." Templeton said.
" When did he die? ... I mean how many days before you found him dead" Sam asked.
" According to post-mortem, it must have been early March. " The officer said.
"March. " Detective Sam pondered over and realized, " Shit, around the time the first murder was executed. ...That means he is not the killer."
" It seems. " Templeton confirmed.
Some time passed without any conversation.
It means the thing I doubted is going to be true...
When Sam had received information about John Carter from his partner, he was very delighted...
He had thought, at last, once for all the case was going to be solved, as the killer was going to be caught by them.
But when he reached here the case had taken one more twist.
Looking at the death time of John Carter, there was no chance at all of John Carter being the killer.
" If John Carter is not killer... Then who is ?" as if Sam asked to self.
All the people present in the cabin looked at each other with apprehensive silence as none of them knew the answer.
Detective Templeton removed one more photograph from his drawer and placed it in front of Sam. Sam picked it up, looked closely at it for a while. It was the photograph of John carter fallen on the ground and
there was something written with blood on the ground in front of the corps. It read, “ I am sorry Nancy, I could not save you. But you don’t worry I shall have revenge.”
Sam had got why Detective Templeton wanted to show him the photograph.
" I am just sick of listening that there is involvement of some ghostly powers in these murders... Did you wanted to say the same thing showing me the photograph? " Sam asked Templeton.
Detective looked at Sam and his partner's face alternatively.
" No ... I don't want to say anything... I Just wanted to bring in your notice how the message written on the floor and the incidences happening are matching exactly.. “Templeton said.

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