Reaching the address of Mary's ex-husband Ian on the message, Moulton rang the doorbell.
A series of footsteps came from inside the house.
"Who?" As he opened the door, a strong smell of alcohol hit his face, and Ahes subconsciously covered his nose.
A middle-aged man stood in the room, it seemed that he was Ian. Looking at the police uniforms worn by the two of them, he showed a puzzled expression.
"Police? What's the matter?"
"We have something to ask you. Is Mary Kelly your ex-wife?" Moulton asked.
"Yes, what happened to that woman? Haha, she must have been caught selling herself." He snorted disdainfully.
"She was killed," Ahers said from behind Moulton.
Ian's eyes changed slightly.
"Killed? By whom and how?"
"Can we go in and talk."
"........come in."
Ian pushed the door open completely, and the room was in a mess, with empty wine bottles and unwashed dishes everywhere.
Throwing some clothes aside on the sofa, Ian motioned for the two of them to sit there.
"The person who killed Mary, according to our speculation, was Jack the Ripper." Moulton sat down and said.
"Jack the Ripper? Is that the serial murderer?"
"Exactly."
"Haha, that's it." Ian sneered twice, as if he didn't care about the death of his ex-wife.
Moulton and Ahers looked at each other.
"We are here to ask you why you divorced Mary." Ahs asked.
"Does this have anything to do with solving the case?"
"Of course, Mr. Ian, Mary's case is our only chance to catch Jack the Ripper. We hope you will cooperate." Moulton added on the side.
"...That woman couldn't stand me anymore, so she naturally got divorced."
"Can't stand it? Can you be more specific?"
"Can't you tell?" Ian glanced around the room and said, "She disliked me for not making much money, and all I did was drink every day and didn't know how to clean, so naturally she got divorced. Haha, she wasn't much better either.
I go to the bar every day to work and sleep with men every day.”
"Do you have any proof?"
"The lip prints and the smell of cigarette smoke on her body are the best proof. Haha, maybe Jack the Ripper was the man who slept with her. He killed her because he thought she was not good at skills." As he said, Ian started.
I took out a can of beer from under the coffee table, opened it and started drinking.
"After she divorced you, she lived in a hotel for a while. Do you know this?"
"of course I know."
"What's the reason?"
"Her house was left to her by her father. The relationship between him and her father has always been bad. I guess her father found out about her divorce and me living there and went to find her. Anyway, she didn't live there for long.
After a long time, she moved away."
"I see. Then, the last question is, if Mary left the message 678, what would you know?" Ahs asked.
"678? I don't know." Moulton thought for a moment and shook his head.
"Well, it's getting late. In that case, we'll leave first. If anything happens, we'll come back to you." Ahes and Moulton stood up and said.
When he was about to go out, Ahes saw a large box placed in the corner of the room.
"That's inside..."
"It's a piano. The woman left it behind. She used to like playing the piano, but she didn't take it away when she left. I plan to sell it during this time. Keeping it takes up space anyway," Ian said.
After walking out of the door, Ahes noticed a little boy staring at him on the second floor of the room.
"That's Mary's son, he must be unlucky to be with that drunkard." Moulton glanced at the little boy and said.
"What do you think is the possibility that Ian is Jack the Ripper?" Moulton asked after getting in the car.
"It's not big, but it's not nothing. Anyway, let's go back and read the autopsy report first, and then ask him about it after confirming the time of death." Ahs said.
Back at the police station, the autopsy report has come out.
"The deceased Mary died at 1:15 yesterday morning. The cause of death was excessive blood loss from the left carotid artery. No traces of sex were detected in her body. She should not have been sexually assaulted," Moulton said while looking at the report.
"The cause of death was excessive blood loss from the left carotid artery. Does this mean that the caesarean section was performed after the deceased's death?"
"Not necessarily. It is also possible that the deceased was not completely dead when the caesarean section was performed. However, every time the corpse was so severely damaged, the murderer's psychological quality was really extraordinary." Moulton took a sip of coffee and said.
"Tomorrow, we will go to Ian's house again, and then we will also find Mary's father." Ahs said.
"Um."
The second day.
Ahers and Moulton rushed to Ian's house. As soon as they entered the yard, Ahers saw Ian's son playing in the yard.
"Son, where is your father?" Ahs stepped forward and asked.
"Dad is out."
"Going out? What are you doing?"
"I don't know, I think I went to play with my friends." The little boy shook his head and said.
"I see, by the way, was your father at home in the early morning of yesterday?" Ahs asked.
"at home."
"So sure? Weren't you sleeping at that time?" Moulton asked.
"Dad was playing cards with friends at home at that time. The noise was so loud that I couldn't sleep," the little boy said.
"Now we can rule out Ian. He was playing cards at home at that time and has a sufficient alibi." Moulton looked at Ahs and said.
"Well, let's go to Mary's father."
Just as he was about to leave, the little boy grabbed the corner of Ahes' clothes.
"Mom is not a bad person, he did not sleep with other men." The little boy looked at Ahs and said.
"...I understand." Ahes was silent for a moment and nodded.
"Do the people that Jack the Ripper killed before have any common characteristics?" Ahes asked on the way. In the original history, Jack the Ripper killed women who were married and had children.
Many are still prostitutes.
"They are all women, but the younger ones are in their twenties and the older ones are in their fifties. Some live alone and some have their own families," Moulton said.
It's different from the original history.
Arriving at the door of Mary's father, Mary Loumen's house, it was Ahes who knocked on the door this time.
A man with a beard and a hat came out of the house.
"What's the matter, two officers?" he asked.
"Your daughter was killed the day before yesterday. We are here to investigate and collect evidence," Moulton said.
"What are you talking about? Kelly was killed!?" Lu Men was shocked and almost fell to the ground when he lost his balance. Moulton quickly supported him.
"Please grief."
"I, I know, I'm sorry to be rude." His lips trembled and he wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Kelly, she is..."
"We currently suspect that she was killed by Jack the Ripper."
"Jack the Ripper...that serial murderer, God, why is that?" Lu Men couldn't help but shed a tear when he heard the name Jack the Ripper.
After entering the room, Lu Men wiped his tears with a handkerchief.
"That, Ms. Kelly's mother..."
"She has some mental problems and is very fragile. If I can hope that you won't tell her about Kelly's murder, I'm worried that she won't be able to think about it. Just ask me about everything," Lumen said.
"Okay, we want to know why Kelly moved from home to the hotel. We asked her ex-husband Ian, and he said that she moved from home because of the bad relationship between you and Kelly."
"There is indeed some estrangement between our father and daughter." Lu Men sighed and said, "At first, I knew that after she divorced Ian without telling me, I was indeed a little angry and went to her house to look for her, but
The two of us didn't have any major conflicts, but I don't know why, but she moved away from home, and I don't know which hotel she went to."
"Is that so?" Ahes didn't believe it. After all, this was just Lumen's one-sided statement.
"Then, what were you doing at one o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday?"
"I'm sleeping at home."
"Can anyone prove it?"
"Of course, my wife." He called Kelly's mother out of the room.
"These two are..." Kelly's mother looked very haggard.
"These two are my friends." Lu Men said quickly.
It seemed that she did have quite a mental problem, and she didn't even notice the police uniforms worn by Ahes and Moulton.
"Flynn, was I at home the night before yesterday?" Lumen asked, "The two of them insisted on saying they saw me in the bar the day before yesterday. Don't you think this is nonsense?"
"Ah, yes, Lumen was at home the day before yesterday and didn't go out at night. I was in a bad state of mind so I had very little sleep. I would feel it if he went out." Flynn nodded.
Moulton and Ahers looked at each other.
"Hey, it's over now, there's still no clue at all."
"Let's go to Kelly's house one last time. She probably won't move out of there for no reason." Ahs said with a sigh.
Arriving at Kelly's house, Moulton opened the door of her house in three clicks.
"Do you still have this skill?"
"This is a must-have lockpicking skill for police officers, Ahs." Moulton said, putting on his gloves and walked into the house.
The room was very clean and seemed to have been carefully cleaned, which was in sharp contrast to Kelly's ex-husband Ian's room.
As soon as he entered the house, Ahes saw a piano in the living room with several music books on it.
"It seems she really likes playing the piano." Moulton glanced at the piano and said.
"If she can afford a piano, it seems she is not very poor anymore." Ahes said, casually looking through the music scores, including a book of digital music scores.
While Ahers was looking through it, Moulton called Ahers, and Ahers walked over and found many empty bottles in the kitchen.
"This seems to be milk, right?" Moulton sniffed the empty bottle and said, "It seems that she ordered milk, but why didn't she throw away the empty bottle?"
"I guess they are saving it and selling it, you see there are some paper shells there." Ahes pointed to the corner of the kitchen and said.
After walking out of the room, Ahes glanced at the neighbor's house. There was a bottle of milk in front of the neighbor's door. It seemed that it had just been delivered not long ago.