Chapter 688: 226: Sentenced to death!
 

Sylvia Thompson was completely distraught.

After a long while, she squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth, “I, I want a lawyer. I have the right not to answer any questions until my lawyer arrives.”

She couldn’t accept it.

Sylvia couldn’t accept it.

She couldn’t accept that her carefully planned scheme had been exposed to daylight like this.

Ling closed up the file in front of her and continued softly, “You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say may be used as evidence in court.”

In the interrogation room next door.

Maureen Fitzell sat at the interrogation table and looked at Oliver Andrews. “Officer Oliver, you guys believe me, everything I said before is true. Sylvia didn’t kill anyone. We were together all the time, I’m sure you guys misunderstood her.”

Oliver Andrews nodded his head and then said, “I believe you’re telling the truth. However, I’d like you to watch a video.”

As he finished speaking, he played the video.

Seeing the images in the video, Maureen Fitzell exclaimed in surprise, “This is my house!”

“Yes, it’s your house,” Oliver replied. “Our department’s top Great Master has restored the surveillance storage card from your living room.”

“That’s incredible!” Maureen stared wide-eyed.

All the talents are indeed in the state!

It’s really amazing!

In the video, Sylvia brought Maureen a cup of fruit juice to drink.

Seeing herself falling unconscious after drinking the juice, then watching Sylvia in a strange disguise emerging from the room, Maureen was even more astonished. “How could this be? Sylvia, she…”

Maureen was so shocked that she couldn’t form a coherent sentence.

She couldn’t have imagined that things would turn out like this.

If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, Maureen would have never believed that Sylvia had left the room, or even that she had been unconscious at all.

Oh my god!

“What, what did she give me to drink!” Maureen suppressed the shock in her heart. “No wonder I felt there was something wrong the taste when I drank it, but I didn’t realize what was going on!”

Thinking back, Maureen felt extremely fearful.

Oliver Andrews looked at Maureen and said, “Do you remember the bottles of medicine we found in Sylvia’s room?”

Maureen frowned, “Are there any tranquilizers in those medicines?”

Oliver shook his head, “Those bottles only contained some ordinary vitamins and antacids.”

“Then why did I fall unconscious?” Maureen asked.

Oliver explained, “When vitamin C and antacids are mixed together and consumed, it can cause a person to lose consciousness and lapse into a coma.”

Hearing this, Maureen covered her mouth with her hand, her face full of shock.

She could never have imagined that Sylvia would do something like this.

A moment later, she asked, “Are there any other side effects from these drugs?”

Oliver replied, “I’m not very clear about the specific side effects, but I suggest you get checked out at a hospital.”

Maureen nodded, “Then… is Sylvia really the murderer?”

She still had a hard time believing it.

The words ‘murderer’ had always seemed distant to her, only appearing in the news.

But today, she had involuntarily become an essential part of a murder case!

Maureen simply couldn’t accept it!

“Based on our investigation, Sophie Cooper is indeed the murderer.”

Hearing Oliver’s words, Maureen was even more shocked. It took her a long while before she regained her composure, “Then… I almost became an accomplice?”

“You could see it that way.”

Maureen furrowed her brow tightly, her legs becoming weak, almost collapsing to the ground.

Having not experienced much turbulence in her life, she was genuinely afraid, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead.

Seeing her like this, Oliver comforted her, “But don’t feel too guilty. You weren’t aware of what was going on, and you were being used by Sophie Cooper.”

Maureen looked at Oliver and asked, “Then, what about Emperor Thompson? Is he an accomplice?”

Oliver shook his head, “From the surveillance footage we have so far, Edward Thompson is just a pawn of Sylvia’s, and everything is under her control.”

If Sylvia hadn’t been caught in the end, Edward Thompson wouldn’t have been able to clear his name even if he had jumped into the Yellow River.

“She’s terrifying…” Maureen had known Sylvia for two years. In her eyes, Sylvia had always been a sunny, positive girl with a kind heart. If she saw a beggar on the street, she would give them all the cash she had on hand.

Maureen could never have dreamed that Sylvia would turn out to be the real murderer.