Chapter 971 Case Progress

"Master, Madam, it's time to go downstairs to entertain the guests." Mrs. Danvers said coldly to Mr. and Mrs. Wenders, "You left the guests downstairs and ignored them. It's really rude. If Rebecca were still alive, she would never tolerate such a shameful thing!"

"Danvers, you are so shameless! The ball tonight has become such a mess, isn't it all because of your ill intentions, trying to provoke the relationship between me and Daphne?" Mr. Wenders scolded the housekeeper, "Insidious old bitch, I will drive you out of Manderley Manor!"

"Hehe... Master, you'd better not be so impulsive." Mrs. Danvers was fearless in front of her master, and threatened blatantly: "Don't forget, I have the evidence of your murder of Rebecca in my hand, If you dare to fire me, I, a poor woman with nowhere to go, will have to go to the police station to report the case. Sir, you don't want to make it to that point, do you? "

"Don't threaten me with something I haven't done, you despicable snake, if you dare to be presumptuous again, I will--"

"You will shoot me to death, just like you did to Rebecca?"

Mrs. Danvers interrupted Mr. Wenders and laughed coldly.

"Sir, I have written a suicide note, writing everything I know in it, and giving it to a trustworthy person for safekeeping. If I die unclearly like Rebecca, that person will know that you are also the murderer!"

"No one will believe your lies, I am innocent!"

Mr. Wenders' rebuttal sounded so pale and weak.

Mrs. Danvers sneered and said indifferently: "Wait until I present the evidence and see who will believe your sophistry."

Mr. Wenders waved his hand like a deflated ball and said weakly: "Get out, I don't want to see you again!"

Mrs. Danvers turned and left, with her head held high, like a fighting cock returning from victory.

Soon after, the Wenders also walked out of the gallery and went downstairs with heavy hearts.

Musk and Lisa remained invisible, returned downstairs, found a secluded place to remove the invisible, pretended to be nothing, and mixed into the crowd in the living room.

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The masquerade at Manderley Manor ended in an unpleasant way.

Musk and Lisa returned home and reached a consensus on the views of the Wenders.

Based on the clues collected tonight, Daphne was obviously unrelated to the case and was passively involved in this storm, which was sympathetic.

Maxim Wenders, although he denied murdering his ex-wife in front of Daphne and Mrs. Danvers, his defense was unconvincing, evasive, and full of contradictions, and he could not get rid of the suspicion of murdering his wife.

Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper of Manderley Manor, is undoubtedly the most critical witness in this case.

From the tone revealed in her words, it seems that she had been to the crime scene in person and even witnessed Maxim murdering Rebecca.

But this old woman is not simple either.

Before Rebecca got married, she was a personal maid, and when Rebecca married Maxim, she was brought into Manderley Manor and promoted to housekeeper. It can be said that she was the most trusted servant around Rebecca.

Mrs. Danvers' words and deeds fully demonstrated her admiration for Rebecca. In this case, she should have gone to the police station to report the case and reported Maxim Wenders for murdering his wife.

But she didn't do that. She continued to stay in Manderley Manor as a housekeeper, serving the murderer she identified as his wife's murderer. She also used the evidence she had as a handle to blatantly threaten Maxim Wenders, which shows that she is also a greedy person.

On the scale in her heart, it is more important to protect her own interests than to seek justice for Rebecca.

Manderley Manor, shrouded in suspicion, became the stage for Maxim, Daphne and Danvers to play a game. On the surface, it maintained a peaceful state, but in fact, this fragile balance was easily broken, exposing the dirty inside stories hidden under the luxurious veil to the public.

Sure enough, just one week after the masquerade ball was held at Manderley Manor, there was a major progress in the murder case.

Lieutenant Colonel Jack Favre brought Mrs. Danvers, the former housekeeper of Manderley Manor who was fired by Mr. Wenders, to the court to submit new testimony.

On the night of the murder, Mrs. Danvers saw Mr. Wenders break into the dock at the seaside with a shotgun and have a fierce quarrel with Rebecca. Shortly afterwards, a gunshot was heard.

After that, Mr. Wenders dragged his wife's body into the sailboat, set sail, and rowed back alone in the famous lifeboat late at night.

Mrs. Danvers swore in court that her testimony was true word for word, and successfully passed all polygraph tests including "Guided Confession", "Realm of Honesty" and "Detecting Lies".

Faced with Mrs. Danvers' accusation, Mr. Wenders chose to remain silent, which meant that he had to stay in the detention center and wait for the formal trial as a suspect in the murder of his wife.

If his lawyer could not make a defense that satisfied the jury in court, he would be hanged.

On the afternoon when Mr. Wenders was taken away from Manderley Manor by the police, Musk's office welcomed an unexpected visitor.

"Daphne, what you should do now is to hire a good lawyer for your husband." Lisa poured a cup of coffee for Mrs. Wenders, who was in tears, and said sympathetically: "In the current situation, I am afraid that Musk and I can't help you."

"Mrs. Wenders, I have obtained a lawyer's license, but I have not attended a court debate so far. Frankly speaking, I am better at defending my clients in a duel, but the case your husband is involved in, with all due respect, does not meet the conditions for a judicial duel."

Only when neither the prosecution nor the defense can produce solid evidence and the case is difficult to determine, the court may close the case by judicial duel.

It's like the famous fable: How to quickly untie a tangled mess of hemp ropes?

The protagonist of the story, a legendary emperor in history, chose to cut the mess with a knife.

This approach is essentially a substitution of concepts and opportunism.

A judicial duel is like cutting the Gordian knot with a knife, using a private revenge in the guise of legality to resolve a public prosecution case.

This opportunistic way of closing a case can only be done occasionally and must not be abused, otherwise the legal provisions will become a decoration and the authority of the court will be replaced by naked violence.

Mr. Wenders is currently a suspect in the murder of his wife. There is both witnesses and evidence. Even if the judge is crazy, he will not allow him to escape prosecution by means of a judicial duel.