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Chapter 6 - hanging body

"How did this even happen!! Where were the guards!!" Isabella shouts nervously into the phone, the news must have hit her like a thunderbolt...

She stopped the car in the middle of traffic in front of a traffic light.. The red lights hit Elizabeth from the window, who listened without blinking, as if her eyes were fixed on the phone, trying to catch every word_____ 

"Believe it or not, he hanged himself with his shirt in the prison bathroom !!" Jack answers in a steady voice, and the voices of a policeman are all around him, whispering about the hideous scene in front of them, just a few inches away... There he is.. 

James's body hung perfectly still in a semi-dark, damp room with cracks in every corner, his face looking down in shame at the cold floor with empty eyes and the nerves in his neck nearly bursting a deep blue like a witness to his last battle.

"Are you kidding me!! He must have been killed by one of the prisoners!" Isabella's voice returns with incredulity that won't melt away. She completely forgot to even drive. Cars around her are moving and the sound of engines starts as soon as the traffic light changes color, while her car remains...

Jack takes a deep breath as if he is in deep thought to reply, "Maybe, but how really? There are no signs of resistance on his body." 

He mutters to himself, speaking in a doubtful voice wrapped in a calm voice, breaking his thoughts with himself, "any way, you will undertake the task of dissecting him, our dear doctor." With sarcasm dripping on Isabella's ear... She must be cursing him deep down.

"Sir!!! Sir!!" A distant voice approaches Jack calling out. Fortunately, before the spark of the argument and insults between Isabella and Jack escalates, Elizabeth approaches the phone with her aunt to hear more clearly... "Oh..it's Clara!!" Elizabeth muttered __ 

"What's the matter? Can't you see I'm thinking right now?!" Jack yells angrily at Clara. 

"I'm sorry, sir, but I thought you should know this important news," she says to him in a whisper, with her usual stuttering and nervousness. 

This must be falling on all three of them with complete curiosity. Elizabeth and her aunt leaned closer to the phone while Jack leaned closer to Clara. "What? I hope it's something important," he said sarcastically. 

"Yes, yes, of course, sir," Clara says, taking out a simple notebook .

To continue saying, "I found this in Mr. James's cell!! I think it's a diary." Suddenly, the sound of flipping pages appears. It seems that she is searching in the diary, pointing to some sentences to Jack. 

"Look, sir, it says here that he feels extremely guilty even though he doesn't remember anything, and...

 HERE that he was bullied by prisoners here to the point that some of them grabbed him and hung him upside down in the laundry room, and if it weren't for the guards, he would have stayed like that for God only knows how long," Clara says nervously.

"Really!!" Jack whispers and indeed he finally gets attention with the police officers around him, snatching the notebook from Clara's hand quickly trying to read the whole thing in a second...

On the other hand, Elizabeth asks her aunt in the car, "Is this really enough evidence that someone killed him?" But it seems that her aunt is in deep thought as well. Although it is evidence that James is weak in prison, it is not evidence that he did not commit suicide. "I don't know, either. His autopsy will definitely reveal the truth." 

* Knock * * Knock * The sound of loud knocks on the window glass makes them both jump in fright. "Aaaah WHAT TH!" they both scream almost at the same time, raising their faces towards the source of the sound. It's just a traffic policeman, it must be because their car has been parked in the middle of the road for a while now. 

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