The police invited a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy and came to an even more shocking conclusion - the deceased was actually three months pregnant.
While the police were still investigating the case, the news was revealed by newspapers and immediately caused a sensation throughout the city.
Not long after, new developments in the case were reported.
Although the female body was swollen from being soaked in seawater, the efforts of forensic doctors and police were able to restore her face during life, and they were convinced that she was Mrs. Rebecca Wenders, who disappeared at sea alone on a boat two months ago.
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Mr. Wenders received a notification from the police and went to identify the body and personally admitted that it was indeed his missing ex-wife.
However, just when Mr. Wenders was about to take his deceased wife's body home for burial, a tall man in military uniform suddenly broke into the morgue, angrily accused Mr. Wenders of murdering Rebecca, and asked the police to stop him.
He took the body away to prevent this cold-blooded murderer from destroying his wife!
The man who accused Mr. Wenders was actually a frequent visitor to Manderley Manor.
His name was Jack Favre, an active-duty cavalry lieutenant colonel nicknamed "Sledgehammer" and Rebecca Wenders' cousin.
Lieutenant Colonel Favre showed the police officer a handwritten letter written by his cousin more than two months ago.
In this letter, Rebecca revealed that she was pregnant, was very happy that Manderley Manor had an heir, and invited her cousin to the manor as a guest.
However, not long after Lieutenant Colonel Favre received this letter, he learned that his cousin had disappeared while sailing alone at night. In addition to his grief, he also became suspicious.
As we all know, Rebecca was an excellent sailing athlete during her lifetime.
It is true that she loves adventure, but she also pays great attention to taking care of her body. She would never take the risk of sailing alone on the sea when she has already experienced pregnancy reactions.
This is not only a joke on one's own health, but also brings huge risks to the unborn baby in the belly. No sane woman will do such a stupid thing.
What's more, Rebecca also confessed in a letter to her cousin that because she was pregnant, she would have to spend most of the next six months raising her baby. For this reason, she had to miss this year's sailing championship, which was a pity.
Now that you have decided not to participate in the competition, why is there any need to take the risk of sailing out to sea alone in the middle of the night for training?
From this, Lieutenant Colonel Favre inferred a conclusion: Mr. Wenders was lying, and there was another hidden reason behind his cousin’s death!
Although he had already become suspicious, there was no basis for it and he could not publicly accuse Mr. Wenders, so he could only investigate secretly.
Until he read the report about his cousin's body in the newspaper, and learned that her sailboat had been tampered with and that her body had fatal injuries, Lieutenant Colonel Favre finally couldn't help it anymore and hurried to the police station to report the crime and ask for help.
My cousin filed a complaint.
Lieutenant Colonel Favre's accusation turned Rebecca's death into a public event.
Under pressure from public opinion, the police refused to allow Mr. Wenders to take away his wife's body and reopened the investigation.
The impulsive Lieutenant Colonel Favre could no longer wait for the law to deliver justice, so he decided to personally seek justice for his cousin, so he submitted an application to the court, requesting a judicial duel with Mr. Wenders.
At the dining table of the Legal Club, Musk sat next to Judge Colt and listened intently to his colleagues' discussion of the case.
At this time, a lawyer turned and asked Judge Colt: "Sir, I heard that Lieutenant Colonel Favre's application for a judicial duel has been submitted to the court. Will you approve this duel?"
"Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Cunningham, I have to study it carefully with my colleagues. It's hard to say yet." Judge Colt prevaricated skillfully.
Cunningham shrugged disappointedly and suddenly turned to look at young Musk: "Mr. Justice, what do you think of Rebecca's death? Do you think it was an accident or murder?"
Musk knew very well that as a newcomer, he should be cautious in his words and actions on such occasions, but affected by the heated atmosphere of the discussion at the dinner table, he finally couldn't hold it back.
"Mr. Cunningham, based on the current clues, I am more inclined to believe that Rebecca died of a murder."
"Great, Mr. Justice, I think so too!"
Mr. Cunningham laughed happily, seeming to be deeply relieved to have found a soulmate.
"Mr. Justice, have you noticed that Maxim Wenders remarried a young and beautiful female college student just two months after his wife disappeared? This is a man who is immersed in the pain of losing his wife.
Does the husband behave as he should? Obviously not!"
"I also think Mr. Wenders is a little too impatient to find a new love. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility of love at first sight." Musk replied cautiously.
"Compared with falling in love at first sight, I suspect that Mr. Wenders and his new love have been in contact for a long time. Only because his wife found out that he was cheating on her and having an underground affair, he brutally murdered his wife, faked the murder scene, and lied that she went missing on a boat at night alone.
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"It is indeed possible, Mr. Cunningham, and your reasoning is very convincing."
Musk agrees with Cunningham's lawyer's speculation, but there is currently no conclusive evidence to accuse Mr. Wenders of killing his wife.
"Think about poor Rebecca, carrying a little baby in her belly, one dead and two lives! What a crime!" Cunningham sighed, "Mr. Custis, do you think there is such a thing?"
Perhaps, when Mr. Wenders's little lover learned that Rebecca was pregnant and was about to give birth to a little master for Manderley Manor, even if she gave birth to a son for Mr. Wenders in the future, he would only be an illegitimate child without inheritance rights.
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"In order to reverse this unfavorable situation and replace Rebecca as the legal mistress of Manderley Manor, she had every motive to instigate her lover to murder his pregnant wife, and even she herself might be involved in the murder."
"The adulterer and the adulterer have blood on their hands, and they are holding each other's hands tightly, so they must get married in a flash!"
Attorney Cunningham laughed.
Musk also forced a smile. The more he thought about this case, the more he felt a chill running down his spine and a sense of indignation rising from the bottom of his heart.
"Mr. Justice, as far as I know, our respectable Mr. Wenders is a thin lame, and his opponent, Jack Favre, is a famous duelist. If Judge Colt
Approval of Favre's application for a duel, and Mr. Wenders intends to ask you to be his dueling agent, are you willing to accept this commission?" Lawyer Cunningham asked with great interest.
"Honestly, I don't want to get involved..." Before Musk could finish his words, Judge Colt's cough suddenly came to his ears. He suddenly felt a chill in his heart and quickly changed his tone, "Well, let's look at the situation.
