Friends who kill often should know: killing is easy, disposing of the body is hard. But actually, while disposing of a body was difficult, cleaning up the crime scene was the hardest part.
Humans were carbon-based organisms, after all, and their bodies were not very durable. Even among adult men, few weighed a hundred kilograms. Something weighing less than two hundred jin altogether was not that difficult to hide, dismember, burn, or dissolve.
But cleaning up a crime scene was troublesome.
If the victim died in one blow, it was manageable at least. At most, it would contaminate a few square meters around them. But if they did not die right away and managed to run, the area needing cleanup could range from a living room spanning dozens of square meters to a shopping mall spanning tens of thousands.
Blood could splatter into any unexpected corner, and no cleaning method could guarantee the complete elimination of every trace of the crime.
Therefore, modern Criminal Investigation placed great importance on the primary crime scene, because it could preserve more evidence and clearly reconstruct the entire course of events.
Schiller had now encountered precisely such a situation. The traces and bloodstains in the rehearsal room showed that a chase had taken place here.
The rehearsal room had front and back doors. About two meters in from the back door was the restroom door, and a large amount of blood extended outward from the restroom. That was clearly where Harley had struck.
The blood trailed all the way from the restroom to the front door, leaving many bloody handprints on it, then continued to the window opposite the front door. The blood was heaviest there—not only inside the room, but in the window seams and across the exterior wall as well.
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