A KIDNAPPING IN MUNICH

 A KIDNAPPING IN MUNICH

Ansgar Wolfgang von Beltz, who was known as Ansgar W. von Beltz, or simply Ansgar von Beltz, was a nineteen year-old teenager borned in Munich the 31st of December 2000; a junior bundespolizei inspector who was investigating a kidnapping in the capital city of the Freistaat Bayern which had happened at eight o’clock on the last day of Summer 2020.

He was tall and thin. He had long dark brown courly hair, dark brown moustache and beard also, brown chestnut eyes, a big aquiline nose and a sharp featured face… He was living in Augsburg with his parents Jürgen and Lieselotte and his cat named Elske in a castle on the top of a hill situated in the western zone of Westliche Wälder natural reserve where Jürgen’s ancestors had built their property in the medieval epoch.

He went out of his room and went downstairs to the garage where his grey BMW car was parked with his white motorbike, his blue bicycle and his green skateboard. He came into his vehicle and he went out of his house heading for the police station where his friends Patrick Schlager —the probationary bundespolizei inspector— and Johann Moritz —the senior bundespolizei chief inspector— were waiting for him.

Closed to Bayern, in the main city of the State of Salzburg, a twenty-three years old young woman whose name was Astrid Schwarz and who was born in Salzburg also the 1st of June 1997, as one of the Austrian bundespolizei constables, was investigating a murder in Linz which had happened the same evening of the kidnapping that had taken place in Munich some hours before.

Astrid Schwarz was the youngest of two marriage Schwarz children. Her mother died two days after giving birth her daughter at the hospital because of some unforeseeable difficulties at the last minute and her father had to get married again with another woman —who seemed to be one of the children of the President of Schleswig-Holstein with his first wife— with whom he had twins afterwards one year of meeting her in a restaurant of Berlin. 

She went out of her flat and she took her white Smart two-seater to set off for the headquarters where her boss Martin Müller —the senior Austrian bundespolizei chief inspector in Salzburg— and her friend Karl Steiner —who was working in that base of operations as one of the Austrian bundespolizei probationary constables— were waiting for her to give her some new piece of news about the murder.

When Astrid arrived Martin began to tell her what the chief surgeon had told him after carrying out the autopsy of the corpse: the German guy, who maybe was thirty years old, had fighted with his killer but the guilty had shot him on his heart and stabbed on his chest before his death which was brief and that had happened in the blink of an eye.

At the same time that Astrid arrived at her police station, Ansgar came into Johann Moritz office, who was commanding to Patrick to find the car used by the kidnapper to commit the kidnapping and while the senior chief inspector was talking with him about the alleged identity of the main suspect, Schlager was in contact with Karl Steiner to order him to look for the black Wolkswagen Transporter utilised by the kidnapper to kidnap the victim and to go out of the country towards Austria; Patrick suspected that after mistaken the kidnap, the guilty had planned to kill his victim the same day in another state to avoid a possible suspicion of the bundespolizei.

Some weeks after making the phone call, Astrid sent a letter to Johann telling him that one of her policemen had found a van with the same description in a ditch situated in the middle of the border between Germany and Austria. Moritz ordered Ansgar to meet with Astrid Schwarz that Friday morning at ten o’clock at the place where they had found the German vehicle abandoned because the judge, when he had known the event, he decided to order to be in charge of the case the Austrian bundespolizei also, suspecting that the murder and the kidnapping were realised by the same person in two different places in the same day.

The first time that Ansgar met with Astrid was arousing for him: he had not ever met someone whose beauty were gratifying and esoteric as hers. The most gorgeous portions of her oval face for him were her golden straight hair and her two flawed blue eyes together with her red and thick lips; she had a trim body with a perfectly round buttock and a pair of smooth thighs so that he must to fall in love of the most goddess person he have ever seen.

“Hi! Wie heißen Sie?” he asked her in German self-consciously when he got to the borderland among Germany and Austria and he saw her waiting for him uniformed beside her police car. “Mein Name ist Ansgar von Beltz und Ich bin der Polizeikommissar von München!” he added whilst he was waiting for her answer.

“Ich heiße Astrid Schwarz und Ich bin die Inspektor von Salzburg. Freut mich, dich kennenzulernen!” she answered him in German also and she began to talk with him about the crime which had happened in Linz a week before. 

When she articulated that phrase Ansgar thought that her voice was sweeter than he  expected. However he had to give up thinking about it and leaving it for another occasion to pay attention to what she was talking about because he was there because of the case —and not to fall in love of her as he was doing it at that moment—.

They decided to go to a pub in the city centre to discuss it there while they would were drinking a glass of beer and some chips to eat it with the drink; Astrid ordered to Karl to watch the assumed scene of the murder and she leaved her car with him whilst she was getting on Ansgar’s car. During the journey, talking with Mr. von Beltz Jr. about their lives, Astrid began to feel the same feeling for him but she did not kiss Ansgar because they were in the middle of a judicial investigation and they were forbidden any type of relationship if it weren’t a labour relation.

Just after they arrived at the coffee shop, whereas Astrid sat on the table, Ansgar requested a waiter two glasses of malt liquor and one dish of french chips for them. He sat also on the table in front of Ms. Schwarz and then, they continued to talk about the investigation they were carrying out.

“And so have the forensic surgeon or the scientific police any type of fingerprint of the murderer? Did you find anything in the abandoned van?” Ansgar urged her to know. Astrid thought the answer for some minutes and she answered him affirmatively.

“We’ve found around his neck and his wrists some marks of fight and in his chest and his heart some scars that indicate that the killer used a bladed weapon and a handgun!” it was her answer. “And we’ve also found the bullet shot by the assailant. The ballistic analysis have shown us that the guilty commited the crime with an out of the ordinary pistol!” she added.

At twelve o’clock they went out of the restaurant and came back to the scene of the murder where Karl and Martin had found the knife of the crime which did not contain any fingerprint of the killer to do the fingerprinting. They had thought that the murderer had used gloves to carry out it and Martin ordered Astrid and Ansgar to find its gloves whilst they went back to the base of operations where a woman had asked a sergeant for their services.

The lady was crying on a bench of the police station when Martin and Karl went into the place where the sergeant was offering her a cup of coffee and taking her statement. He saw them and he went out of the room to keep Martin informed about the interrogation realised by him.

“She have told me that her husband reported a man who have sent him some threatening letters in order to pay his debt with him. The policeman who talked with her husband paid no attention to what he was telling him and he chased him out of the police station with bad manners!” the sergeant told Martin who was watching his mobile phone. “Did you hear what I have explained to you?” he added.

He said yes and he urged to know who was the sergeant who had talked with the victim. They discovered that the police officer who had paid him attention was an undercover agent; the broad was the leader of a criminal group which had a friendly relation with him. However, when the victim began to lose his money with the races wager and football matches, he asked for a loan to the leader and he began to be the killer’s debtor who ordered to someone to murder him if he did not pay the debt.

Nevertheless, when Ansgar came into the office to tell Martin that Astrid had discovered another corpse inside the boot of the van, he thought that the hit man refused to do the crime and the mobster had killed him also to show him his strength and leadership.

Martin and Ansgar came back to the place where Astrid was and they leaved Karl in the police station interviewing the victim’s wife also to get moore information from her. Astrid had vanished from the scene of the murder when the two policemen arrived there and Ansgar began to search her by the forest situated beside the road.

He walked some minutes through the woodland and he saw two types of footprints on the road. Ansgar identified the first one as the sole of Astrid’s shoes so that he followed it arriving at the end of the forest; in which place he discovered a trail of blood that continued to an abandoned cottage.

Then, he knocked on the door, but anyone opened it. Ansgar prepared himself to knock down the entrance while he was taking his handgun; he came into the dark and silent building and some minutes later, he saw a corpse on the floor of the kitchen beside the murder weapon —a rifle of hunting that smelt as if it was been shooted by the killer some minutes before because of the odour of burnt powder—. 

The junior bundespolizei inspector yelled Astrid’s name but he did not get her answer. He listened some steps and a man —who maybe was thirty-five year-old— went into the room closing the door behind him. He began to laugh malevolently and he said that he had closed Astrid in the basement and that he had buried the victim in the garden.

Afterwards the guilty hit him with a vase and before to close him with Astrid, he stole his mobile phone to avoid a possible call to ask the police for their help. He took his suitcase and with his stepbrother, by his car, they evaded their house beforehand their prisoners woke up and tried to escape from the basement.

“Have you taken the money from the robbery?” asked the leader of the criminal group when they were driving to Vaduz by the motorway where Martin was waiting in his police car for Ansgar and Astrid. “Please, tell me, because if you have not taken the loot, we have to come back to the house to take it; if not, they will discover our plans!” he added and saw his stepbrother who was chatting with their accomplices.

That afternoon Ansgar woke up and saw Astrid in the same room as he was closed in. He cut the rope that tied him and his chair in a wooden column of the room and he free his friend also; then, they planned how to go out of the basement and they decided to wait the kidnappers, thinking that they will went in, and to attack them by surprise with the chairs where they were sitting on.

While the two police officers were waiting for it Ansgar confessed to Astrid his feelings for her and she told him that she was in love with him also. Astrid kissed Ansgar expressing her gratitude to him for release her and they made the love; Ansgar jerked off himself thinking on it when they listened a voice of man talking with other person in the living room so that he had to stop what he was making and they feigned to be bound in the column sitting on their chairs respectively.

But the voice disappeared and they wished that Martin and their mates were trying to find and free them, so that Astrid thought to use the mobile phone to send Martin a message and to free her and her boyfriend that night. However, the kidnappers had stolen their phones and they couldn’t do anything to evade from the basement. 

Seeing that Ansgar and Astird did not come back to the place where he was waiting for them, he came back to the police station and ordered to Karl Steiner to talk with Patrick Schlager and Johann Moritz to tell them what had happened and to prepare a police operation to free them and try to find the guilties of the mystery.

Johann and Patrick travelled to Salzburg the following day to meet with Martin and Karl who were eating their breakfast in the base of operations. They said hello to Martin and their friend, and they urged to know how Ansgar and Astrid had disappeared… 

Martin answered them that while Ansgar and him were in the police station talking with Karl and the victim’s spouse, Astrid had disappeared; they had come back to the scene of the crime and Ansgar began to find her but whilst he was doing it, he had vanished also.

Patrick decided that Martin and he would go to the scene of the crime and look for them in the forest whereas Karl and Johann were waiting for his call of rescue if they needed their help. He catched one gun for himself and while he was putting his jacket Martin did the same; then, they went out of the police station and Martin drove his police car to the place where Mr. von Beltz and Mrs. Schwarz had vanished.

When they arrived at the scene of the murder Martin ordered to Patrick to wait for him while he was searching for them and he went out of the vehicle. Patrick took advantage of that to do the autopsy of the second corpse and to look for the identity of the victim; he discovered that he was a thief who had collaborated with three more people in a robbery in Berlin some weeks before the first crime.

Mr. Müller found Ansgar’s footprints and he followed it. Some minutes later he reached the dwelling where Ansgar and Astrid were closed in the basement and he came into the building; he also found the corpse that Ansgar had seen the day before and he phoned Patrick who arrived there right away too.

While Patrick was making the autopsy and the identification of the third cadaver, Martin yelled Astrid’s name and she answered his call. He knocked down the door and Ansgar and Astrid came out of the room; they gave thanks to Martin and later on, they asked him if the police had detained the suspects.

Then, Patrick appeared and told them his suspicions: the three murders were connected with a robbery that had happened the 31st of July 2020 in Berlin where six young guys had robbed the fifty percent of gold of the Deutsche Bundesbank. He demonstrated his theory with the identities of the three victims and their corresponding criminal record.

“And how do you explain the crimes?” asked Ansgar, who believed his friend from the beginning. “Did you find something else to prove your thesis?” he added and also he urged to know the relation of the two thieves with the man who had a debt with the mobster who ordered someone to commit the first crime.

Patrick showed to Ansgar and their mates the whatsapp messages of the criminal group and he told them that one of the thieves was the hit man who was employed by the mobster and who rejected his proposal in order not to be convicted for the murder and the other was killed by the mobster because he wanted to report to the police his plans if he not paid him the fifty percent of the loot robbed by them; the third one was the debtor who reported the mobster in order to the threatening letters and he was murdered by him due to he had not paid his debts with him.

“So, we have to find the three other people of the mob, correct?” Martin asked afterwards “Because we still lack the third one who maybe is the associate of the mobster and who was the undercovered agent who did not pay attention to the debtor when he wanted to report the leader of the criminal group because of the letters!” he added also while Ansgar kissed Astrid again.

She suggested that Ansgar and herself will come back to the police station to find in the database the name of the undercovered agent and his associates whereas Patrick and Martin were waiting in the house for them finding some fingerprints of the three other components of the group of thieves.

However, when they arrived at the police base of operations, they discovered a killing: Johann, Karl and the lady had vanished from it and also some policemen had been murdered by someone who was in the police station yet. They phoned Martin to tell him what had happened but he did not answer the call.

In the dwelling Martin and Patrick had found, by surprise, the fingerprints of the third component: the lady who was crying when Ansgar and Martin came back to the police station where Karl was talking with the woman had participated on it; she was the wife of the debtor who divorced of him after knowing that he was going out with his British  sister-in-law —the mobster’s spouse—. 

“Patrick, I think I know what happened on the 31st of August 2020!” Martin yelled. “The first victim’s wife wished to kill her husband because he was going out with his sister-in-law, who was the mobster’s spouse. They decided to kidnap him in Germany and killing him in Austria; the lady was living in Salzburg with her husband and the mobster was living in München with his wife, so that when the woman knew her husband’s debt she suggested him to report the letters sent by the leader of the criminal group and to move to the Freistaat Bayern to avoid a possible murder. Nevertheless he never thought that his wife had sent him the threatening letters as she agreed it on the mobster.” Martin narrated to Patrick.

“And then, when the first victim arrived at the main city of Bayern, as they had agreed some days before, the mobster kidnapped him —that was one of his brothers (the other, the undercovered agent, was his stepbrother)— and his wife murdered him in Linz. They did not thought that one of their associates in the robbery of the Deutsche Bundesbank wished to be paid with the fifty percent of the plunder robbed; that was the mobster’s stepbrother who was employed by him as an undercover agent when some weeks before the first crime he was informed by the lady that she had suggested to her husband to report him to the police because of the threatening messages written by herself. The mobster killed his stepbrother and hid him in the van. Afterwards he abandoned the vehicle where our policemen found it but how do you explain the cadaver of the dwelling?” Patrick urged him to know.

But when he finished to say it, he listened to some steps and Astrid and Ansgar came into the house. The last one answered Patrick’s question: “We’ve thought that the third cadaver was involved in also; Astird have discovered that the undercover agent blackmailed another policeman to participate in the robbery and when the leader of the group discovered that the undercover agent wished to be paid with the fifty percent of the loot to not to report him as the main guilty of the robbery, he employed the other policeman as a hit man to get rid of him but the boy in blue did not want to do it and wished also to free Astrid, so that the mobster had to murder him also!” exclaimed Ansgar, making Martin react and he asked him if the three guilties were going out of the country.

Later on, Astrid saw a laptop on the dining room table. She told Ansgar what she had discovered and Ansgar went to the place where it was to try to find the answer of Martin’s request; he found something to show to the judge and ask if he allowed them to act in Switzerland.

When Martin know that the three guys wished to go out of the country he notified to Vorarlberg bundespolizei and Tirol bundespolizei also about the three thieves who wanted to escape to Vaduz and he describe their car to stop them if they saw the guilties that Ansgar and their friends were looking for. 

The evening of the second day the mobster and his two associates were arrested after crossing the border from Austria to Switzerland. They were extradited to Salzburg by plane where Ansgar and Astrid interrogated them to know why they had to take the fifty percent of gold of the Deutsche Bundesbank and why they had to kill their three other associates. 

The mobster affirmed that he had killed one of his brother because he wished to have a part of the loot robbed and because he was going out with his sister-in-law; the debt and the kidnap were fake because it were a part of the plan, so that the three murders and the robbery were connected and the motive was the plunder of the hold-up.

They were convicted a month after Astrid and Ansgar wedding who were married in Augsburg and they moved to München to live there in a house of the ancient city where they would set up their family and they would take care of their children. Johann and Karl were free by them some days after the police operation in Vaduz.

A BUSINESSMAN LOST IN DONEGAL

A BUSINESSMAN LOST IN DONEGAL

Alan Baker, who was nineteen years old and the most important sergeant of the Garda Síochána, was investigating a murder which had happened in Donegal the night before the last day of the summer while he was coming back his house by train: he watched a man, who was wearing gloves, shooting a gun in the heart of another who was sitting next to him; the subway stopped at the final railway station and the killer went out of the carriage quickly running away.

Sergeant Baker’s brother, a man who was twenty years older than him whose name was Gareth and who was living in Cardiff, was investigating the disappearance of a Scottish businessman in Donegal also with his associate Ansgar Bach —the last one was helping him from his house of Newport— who set up with Gareth a private investigation firm in Swansea a day before Alan’s birth, the 29th of December 2000. He arrived at Belfast by ferry and he rented a car to go to the city where the sergeant was involved in the mystery trying to solve it.

Gareth met with Alan at a pub of the city centre where they have eaten their dinner whilst they were talking about the two cases. When the oldest of the two brothers knew the murder which Alan was investigating, he thought that the disappearance of the Scottish businessman and the crime were connected because the victim of the homicide which his brother was trying to solve had the same physical description as the stepbrother of the Scottish businessman who had disappeared at the same town where the businessman’s wife had seen him for the last time.

They finished to eat their meal and Alan, whereas he came into his white Smart two-seater and was switching on the engine, said goodbye to his brother Gareth and they arranged to meet at the police station the next morning at eight o’clock. Gareth set off for his hotel and Alan came back to his house where their parents George and Diana —the owners of a hotel in Limerick named Baker’s Hotel— were waiting for him watching the television and eating some popcoms; however, when he arrived and parked his car in the garage he got a phone call that he had to answer straight away…

… It was from one of his friends, Peter O’Shea, who was a Garda inspector, the main responsible of the investigation, the person who began the case with Alan’s help. He told him that an agent had discovered the corpse of a businessman floating in the river and when the surgeon had made the autopsy, she had discovered that was been killed with a handgun three or four hours before in another part and that the murderer had moved the body to the place where the agent had seen it; the killer was the same man as Alan had watched how he had murdered the other who was sitting next to him in the train.

Sergeant Baker phoned his male sibling and narrated to him what had happened. Gareth decided to go to the scene of the crime to see the cadaver and photograph the place where the police was searching for some clues and fingerprints that the killer may had had misplaced it whilst he was discussing with the victim before committing his death. After that, he got into his car again and he headed for the setting in which the law enforcement was.

Just after he arrived, inspector O’Shea told him that, at last, they had known the place where the victim had been murdered; it had been committed at the same carriage of the subway where the other had happened. He added that the name of the dead person was Martin McCarthy and was the businessman which Gareth was looking for… He had a debt with his stepbrother Simon, nevertheless the economic reason had to be driven out of the list because Simon had been killed also and he couldn’t do it.

“As we can see in the corpse the killer had used a handgun to commit the murder. However, if you come and see closer than now, you will find some scars surrounding his neck that shows you that they had fighted before Martin’s death!” exclaimed the forensic surgeon.

“So, the killer strangled him before shooting the handgun in Martin’s heart?” asked the sergeant to the surgeon whilst he was getting close to the victim to see better what her friend had told him some minutes before.

“Yes, but I will prove it later on after doing the autopsy!” she answered and leaved him alone searching something as the murder weapon, the murderer’s fingerprints, his gloves in case he had used, … However he couldn’t find it and he had to come back to the police station with the inspector O’Shea who was wondering himself why the murderer had killed the second victim.

Some minutes later, when they arrived at the office, Alan —who was intuiting what his chief was thinking— suggested him a possible answer for his question; he told him his thoughts: Mr. McCarthy maybe had had an extramarital affair with another woman and as his wife knew that, she had decided to kill him as revenge for his betrayal.

Peter O’Shea agreed with the sergeant. Notwithstanding, pursuant to the interview that he held with McCarthy’s bride, she denied any type of extramarital relationship of his husband but she asserted that Martin had financial troubles with his business and he had had to request a loan to the crime syndicate because the bank did not want to give him some money when he asked them for it.

Inspector O’Shea ordered to Alan to look over Mrs. McCarthy’s bank account to check if she was in Donegal when the crime had happened and if she had done any transfer as the purchasing of a boarding pass from Scotland to Ireland by plane and the arrival had taken place a day before the first or the second murder… But the sergeant negated it; nonetheless a payment from Martin’s bank account to his possible mistress seemed a little odd: he had paid her with the amount of two thousand pounds and, as Martin’s wife had told them, he had economic problems with his enterprise.

Alan hinted at Peter to go to visit the woman and interrogate her. Peter searched for her address in the police database and he discovered that the lady was been killed three years before in her house but anyone could not arrest the guilty because all of the suspects had an alibi that were verified by the superintendent of the case as reliable alibis according to the clues of the homicide.

Then, when they had the knowledge of that murder, Alan wanted to know who was been the leader and Peter told him that when that crime had occurred, he was a policeman who was working in a police station of Dublin but when the leader of the case requested for his services he moved to Donegal and met with John Murray, the main responsible at that moment that nowadays worked in Galway as chief superintedent although he was living in the city.

Moreover they discovered also that he had had a little holydays when the first murder had passed and that he had came back to Donegal with the same train where Alan was and where he saw how the murderer had killed the man who was sitting close to him… The sergeant called him but the chief superintendent of Galway did not answer the phone call.

He put on his coat and leaved the base of operations to go to the village where, maybe, he was, to query him about the case shelved due to lack of evidence. Nonetheless, he was not in his office and when he asked Peter if he was in his house, inspector O’Shea kept him informed that John had bought a boarding pass from Dublin to New York with the same quantity of money that Martin had paid to his lover.

Peter O’Shea searched in the police database if John Murray had any criminal record and he found out that he was been arrested considering that he was a member of the mafia but when the judge ordered to free him, foreseeing a possible jailing, he changed his name and enrolled himself into the public examination to be an agent of Garda that he passed and become superintendent two years before the unsolvable homicide; the leader of the crime syndicate ordered him to murder the woman because she had told to the police that she had seen him trafficating with two Islamic terrorists, selling them some weapons. John did it and, when he had to open the case, hindered the investigation to prevent to be arrested again.

The sergeant arrived at Dublin’s airport and arrested him with the help of two police officers who were waiting for him as he requested to the superintendent of Dublin. When the inspector and the sergeant asked John why he had murdered Mr. McCarthy and his stepbrother, he answered that he was not guilty because he did not meet them and he wanted to know what was his offence.

Alan talked with the scientific police force and asked if Martin’s body had any fingerprint from the killer in the marks that were surrounding his neck and the forensic surgeon answered him affirmatively with the identity of the person who caused his death: it was the son who choked him.

Peter had to free Mr. Murray due to lack of evidence and he phoned Mrs. McCarthy to know if her son Arthur was with her. When she knew where he was, he went out of the station and went to their house to interrogate Arthur McCarthy who was sitting on the bench of his garden; the young McCarthy, who must not would surpassed the fifteen years old, when he saw the inspector, he began to run and eluded him firstly but the inspector shoot him in his right leg and arrested Arthur who came into the police car obeying his enemy.

“We have evidence that you killed your father Martin. Which was your reason to do it?” sergeant Baker asked, showing him also the references which the forensic surgeon had given to him about the fingerprints of Martin’s neck. “Of course, if you do not collaborate with us, we will arrest you as one of the guilties! Your suffocating did not cause your father’s death but you tryed to kill him!” added Alan.

“I will not answer your questions without the presence of my lawyer!” he answered and hit on the table very angry.

Two hours and a half took the interview. The room was quiet but some minutes later a policeman came into the office and told to Alan that Mrs. McCarthy had been killed by someone in her residence; Arthur cried whilst the sergeant put on his jacket and went out again of his workplace to go to the scene of the crime.

There, the forensic surgeon already was, who kept him informed about the cause and the time of the death, showing him what he had found: at last they had the murder weapon which the ballistic analysis validated his thoughts because the calibre was the tipical of the police sidearms… John had used gloves to commit the three murders and the same method to carry out it also: firstly he had stifled his victims and in the end he had shot his firearm to wrap up their lives.

He came back to the boys in blue base of operations to free Arthur McCarthy and to get John Murray’s confession after three policemen would have arrested him again. The guy owned up his guilty and claimed that he had had to homicide Martin’s stepbrother, to kidnap and to kill Martin McCarthy and to murder McCarthy’s wife because Martin’s stepbrother —whose name was Simon Walsh— had seen him how he had killed the victim of the unsolvable case and he had threatened him that if he not paid him with two thousand of pounds, he would report the crime to the police giving them the photographs he had made of it.

Then, when John rejected his offer, Simon had talked with Martin about the threat and, as John was spying on their conversations, he decided to commit the first crime and to kidnap and homicide his stepbrother to avoid suspicions and, to prevent any type of problem with the police, got the number of Martin’s visa card and he made the financial operation transferring his two thousand pounds to the Martin’s lover bank account leaving it for some days in Martin’s bank account.

“And why did you kill Martin’s wife” wished to know Peter O’Shea who was watching the interrogation in another room opaque and safely by his security if the murderer would lost his control and then he would have attacked them.

“Because she saw someone kidnapping her husband and I thought that maybe he would have seen me doing it. She requested Ansgar, the famous German private detective established in Wales, and his associate Gareth Baker for their help and when I met it, I went to her mansion of Donegal and I killed her after Martin’s death.” he answered and put his hands on the table so that Alan would be able to put him the handcuffs while the sergeant was reading him his bill of rights.

Finally, two policemen protected by the inspector and the sergeant, locked him in a cell of the police station once he handed over his badge to the officers who arrested him after the inquisition; Alan gave Gareth the information who express his gratitude to his brother for his help and he came back to Cardiff where Ansgar was waiting for him at the airport.

A KIDNAPPING FOR BISMARCK MARRIAGE

A KIDNAPPING FOR BISMARCK MARRIAGE

Two months after solving Windrive marriage murder Adolf von Bismarck and his wife Anne signed their divorce and Adolf married with Bianka Hoffman, his new associate in his private investigation company. Nine months later after their wedding they had a baby boy who they baptised as Karl Ernst Adam von Bismarck and they designated the Kent Police chief constable named Harry Barclay as his godfather.

The contract of Adolf and Anne's divorce gave her their house of Maldon, their BMW and all of the safe-keeping of their children also only up to their children eighth birthday where the safe-keeping would become into joint custody. So, Adolf and Bianka had to buy a grey Audi R8 car for them, a new house in Maldon and had to begin from the beginning again with their savings keeped in their bank from London.

That day of April Adolf had prepared the breakfast to Bianka who was breastfeeding Karl watching the television. Suddenly they received a phone call from Frankfurt. It was an old woman who had a granddaughter named Sara and was kidnapped by someone when he was coming back to her house after school.

She wanted to meet with Adolf to talk about it in his office that evening and Adolf and Bianka decided to call Harry and ordered him to take care of Karl whilst they would were in London talking with their first client.

Their lunch was very quiet. They listened to the radio to know what had happened the day before and at the tea time Adolf wanted to make the love with his wife Bianka whilst he was talking her about the morning phone call.

At four o'clock post meridiem, Harry arrived with his spouse and their children Diana and Gareth who were one year old approximately as his children with Anne Hatherwood who were named Mary and Ansgar. Adolf and Bianka gave thanks to Harry and they went out of their house.

Bianka had to drive their new car because his husband had a high short sightedness that was hampering him to drive. In fact, Adolf never did not drove when he was living with his first wife because of that and, for this reason, his BMW was given to Anne.

The traffic jam was very full: the outskirts of London were full of cars, buses, lorries and motorbikes that wanted to go to the main city of UK to do orders or were coming back to their houses after a long and busy working day.

While they were arriving at their office, the Deutsche Bahn ICE 3 finished to cross the English Channel and arrived at half past five at St. Pancrass International Railway Station. Mrs. Kirchner went out of her locker and some minutes later, went out also of the railway station. She took a taxi and at six o'clock she arrived at the boulevard where Bismarck's firm was.

She knocked the door and Bianka opened it. Mrs. Bismarck asked her her name and when she met the name of their client Adolf wanted to welcomed her too. They sat in a comfortable but small meeting room and he began to ask her what had happened the day of the kidnapping and if Sara had someone that wished her death.

"No, but I know someone who is wishing my death!" answered Mrs. Kirchner.

"Who is wishing your death?" asked Bianka offering her a cup of tea with milk which was accepted by their client who was a bit nervous.

"My younger son named Paul Kirchner!" she begun to explain. "Paul Kirchner is a businessman who have illegal business with the Minister of Economy, my ex-husband Martin Moritz. I have a debt with him and he threaten my husband to not give him a hand and solve his financial problems if he don't get a million and a half of my fortune to pay it!" she finished.

"And do you tell it to your older son?" asked Adolf who was being interested in that issue and being wished to solve it.

"No; I think my older son named Albert Kirchner is involved in too!" Mrs. Kirchner yelled.

"Ok. We know it. We will try to help you. We accept the case!" Adolf and Bianka exclaimed.

When she finished to answer his questions he ordered to Bianka to buy two round trip boarding passes to Frankfurt and while Mrs. Kirchner and his wife were remaining in London waiting for him, he came back to their house by train to prepare the luggage and to order to Harry to take care of Karl for two weeks and a half, the time that they would spend investigating the kidnapping in Frankfurt.

At 21:00 p.m. the Deutsche Bahn ICE 3 came back to Germany carrying them inside the train. The train arrived at Frankfurt at 2:00 a.m. and Mrs. Kirchner said goodbye to Bismarck marriage who went to their hotel to rest after a long and exhausted travel and to sleep some hours before beginning the first day of the investigation.

They woke up at eight o'clock ante meridiem and they went to eat something for breakfast. After that, they went to visit their client.

Her house was at the outskirts of Frankfurt; Bianka rent a car, a blue Volkswagen to use it in Germany while they were solving the mystery: their parents were living there, at the same city they were; so, at the ending of the case, she would visit them with him, but before that, they had to solve the kidnapping.

Bianka and Adolf arrived in Mrs. Kirchner's manor house at half past ten. She was reading a letter which was written by the kidnapper: the guilty had threatened her that would kill her granddaughter if she did not gave to it one million and a half of euros of her fortune.

As she was a forensic surgeon before being the new associate of her husband, when she could read it, she discovered that the kidnapper had write the note by computer. However its type of signature was from a man and not from a woman.

They asked to Mrs. Kirchner if they could to see her granddaughter's bedroom and the old woman accepted it.

She had the keys in her bedroom, so, she went to take it and to open Sara's door... When she arrived, she had find a corpse in her room: it was her butler! Some minutes later, she yelled and Adolf went to see what had happened.

When Adolf had find the victim ordered to his wife to do the autopsy to know the time of its death: "Approximately it was an hour ago, who have been killed by the same person who have kidnapped Mrs. Kirchner's granddaughter!" Mrs. Bismarck said him.

They went out of the mansion without saying goodbye to their client. Before arriving at the motorway, they found a black car parked near a forest. Adolf went out of their newest vehicle and investigated that suspicious van.

Whilst Adolf and Bianka were searching some clues in the van, someone who had been killed Kirchner's butler while she was talking with Bismarck marriage, went out of Kirchner's bedroom, took a sword and murdered Mrs. Kirchner too.

The murderer, after doing that, went to the side where it had been leaved its car. However, as Adolf von Bismarck was investigating its vehicle, the guy decided to go to the forest and wait some minutes there before marriage Bismarck leaved the scene of the crime. As he was tired, he began to sleep some hours.

Near the forest, inside of the van, Adolf saw a young girl body. The girl had been killed with a knive by someone. He wanted to come back to Mrs. Kirchner's house but before, he wrote down the number plate of the van in a piece of paper.

Mrs. Bismarck took some photographs of the body and of the suspicious car to use it as a proof and to show to the police their discovery. After that, Adolf and Bianka came into their rent car and decided to go to visit again Mrs. Kirchner to tell it their feat and to eat something before to ask for help to bundespolizei.

The marriage Bismarck arrived at Kirchner's residence and knocked the door. As Sara's grandmother did not opened it, Mr. Bismarck took his gun and he shoot some minutes to open the door. After three hours of doing it, they came into to Kirchner's mansion and had find her corpse: she had been killed by someone with a sword; the killer had forgotten the gloves. They took it and went to the police station.

Nevertheless, as three hours before, before arriving at the motorway they found the black suspicious van; however, Adolf when he went to see its inside, he did not found the young girl corpse. He decided to remain there while his wife would go to the police station to give the proofs and analyze the gloves.

While Bianka was in the police station talking about the case with a young police officer, the chief constable of Frankfurt and its German State, sent a bundespolizei police car with two agents to the scene of the crime and to protect Mr. Bismarck.

They saw him fighting with the suspicious of the killing. They arrested him and they took Adolf and the kidnapper to the police station to ask to the man some questions about the killing and his relation with it.

Bianka and Adolf listened the conversation some hours and before finishing to ask him the questions, Adolf wished to ask him some more issues to try to know all the truth. However, the guilty did not want to answer him his wishes.

"Please, I want to help you!" said Adolf. "So, answer me this issue: any member of Kirchner's family ordered you to do it?" Adolf asked him and offered him the last cup of coffee to drink and the last biscuits to eat before the dinner.

"Yes. Sara's uncle wished to kill his mother because he needed some money for his firm. However, his mother Elisabeth Kirchner did not want to give him the amount of money that her younger son wished because she knew that his business was not legal. Sara knew his plan to kill his mother and she try to prevent it. Sara's uncle decided to kidnap his niece and try to convince her not to do it. As Sara Kirchner did not want to chance her point of view, ordered me to threaten to his mother to get the money. Elisa did not want it and in the end I had to kill Elisabeth and Sara. I buried Sara in the forest and I try to go out with the van; however you try to stop me fighting against me. You got your wishes and bundespolizei have arrested me!" he answered and later on, a policeman closed him in a police station cell.

The forensic bundespolizei discovered some fingerprints in the gloves. When Bianka met the results, told to Adolf the latest news: Sara's father was involved in! They decided to ask to their only main suspicious if he knew that. However, he did not had meet it.

Sara's father was living in Berlin and Sara's uncle in Dortmund. The commissioner ordered to Adolf to go to Dortmund by train to visit Sara's uncle with two police officers and also ordered to Bianka to go to Berlin to ask some questions to Sara's father by their rent car with two bundespolizei policemen.

As Adolf couldn't visit Sara's uncle called the chief constable and the commissioner ordered to Bianka to come back to Frankfurt and rest there while her husband was trying to know what had happened with him.

Some days after it, Dortmund bundespolizei agents found Paul Kirchner corpse floating in the waters of the Ruhr river in the south of the city. Moreover, they knew that Albert Kirchner was been killed by someone also and that one was the suspicious who Frankfurt bundespolizei chief constable had arrested with Adolf's help.

One of the guilties was in the cell that days and had confessed a part of the guilty; Adolf came back to Frankfurt and the hit man told them the rest of the truth: "I was employed as a hit man as Albert and Paul Kirchner to commit the murders by the minister of economy named Martin Moritz. He threatened us not to help us economically if we were not have killed Mrs. Kirchner to get the one million and a half of euros of the debt who had her with him knowing that Elisabeth Kirchner did not want to pay the debt. As Sara tryed to prevent the murder, we decided to simulate a kidnap to mislead the police and we would get it if Paul did not have threatened us to tell it all to the police if we did not gave him a part of the robbery; Albert killed his brother and I killed him after killing his daughter to prevent an eventual Albert's confession!" said to Adolf.

"And why you killed Mrs. Kirchner's butler?" wanted to know Bianka.

Firstly he did not wished to answer it; he hit on the table and began to cry. However, Adolf insisted in and in the end that guy answered the question very angry and tired: "Because when you arrived at Mr.s Kirchner's house, I was in. I listened your conversation with her and I tryed to take the keys to prevent you to know or to have any proof which would be demonstrating that I was involved int too. The butler tryed to stop me with the sword that I used to murder Elisabeth Kirchner but I took the sword and I killed him too. When you went out of the house, I murdered Mrs. Kirchner and I came back to the forest to finish y work and scape. The rest of the story is known by you!" he finished.

The proofs demonstrated that it was certainly and in the end, Adolf, Bianka and the German police officer, arrested the other guilty, the Minister of Economy Martin Moritz, who was trying to escape by plane to Iceland with his family and the one million and a half of euros which was inside his luggage: this suitcase was the last clue of the mystery.

They got his confession and in the evening TV news showed how he was been arrested by them and how the Prime Minister of Germany gave thanks to Adolf and Bianka for solving it brilliantly and help to restore the pace in the country.

Bismarck marriage went to visit Bianka's family who was waiting for their visit and some weeks later, they came back to the U.K. where Harry Barclay was taking care of Karl... At last, their first case was solved!

TWO MURDERS BY CORRUPTION IN LONDON

TWO MURDERS BY CORRUPTION IN LONDON

Adolf von Bismarck was a twenty five years old man who was from Dortmund and was living in a city of the coast of the United Kingdom. He was borned the 28th of December 1991 and he had met his best friend and associate in Glasgow two years before when he was investigating a killing which had occurred in the city centre of that scottish village, the main town of the nation. The inspector of the case was named Harry Barclay, a twenty three years old boy who was borned in Edinbourgh the 23rd of December 1993, his best friends were and are Peter Smith and John McWilde and nowadays was a private detective as him.

Mr. Bismarck had married with Anne Hatherwood and he had a twin babies; one boy and one girl: the boy was named Ansgar as a german colonel who was one of the most important secret agents in the second world war who had worked by MI 6, the british intelligent service. The girl was named Mary as one of Adolf's girlfriends who had his father when he was eighteen years old. Adolf had a dark brown chestnut wavy hair and a dark brown eyes too; he was tall and thin, he had a black moustache and beard and he weared green glasses. Bismarck weared also a white shirt, a blue tie, a grey jacket and jeans, a black top hat and a handgun in the pocket of his overcat in case he would live a danger in one of the cases that he had to solve. He was driving a grey BMW which he had bought a year before of his 30st birthday; they were living in a cottage near the city of Maldon in the county of Essex.

Mr. Barclay was a scottish Police Service of Scotland inspector who resigned of his rank when he finished to solve the killing with Adolf's help and had become a private detective, founding a private investigation firm with his german friend in London. He was married two days after of the foundation with a scottish novelist named Elisabeth McFloyd. Nine months later Barclay marriage had a baby girl who they baptised as Diana Olivia Barclay and a baby boy who they named Gareth William Barclay. They decided to designate Adolf von Bismarck as her godfather. Harry had a brown straight hair and a black eyes also; he was a medium-sized height man, he weared a black french moustache and a bit of beard. He weared too a green jacket, a blue jeans, a white shirt and a black bow tie. He spokes English and German and a bit of French also. He was driving a brown Citroën C3 which he had bought one day after of his daughter's birth; they were living in a comfortable house in the ancient part of Ashford in the county of Kent. In his free time he wrote poetry and short stories.

That day of June they met in the office at eight o'clock because a woman wanted their services: her husband had been killed by someone the night before when he was coming back to his house with a valise where a million and a half of pounds of the British Bank were inside of it and the killer had robbed it after killing him. The woman, an odd and dubious lady who was named Sara Winedrive, had received a note from the guilty threatening her that if she would tell something to the police, he would kill her too.

As they hadn't eat anything since the beginning of the morning, they offered her a cup of coffee and some fruit to eat with them whilst they were talking with her about the murder. When they finished to ask her about it, Mr. Bismarck went with Mr. Barclay and Mrs. Winedrive by his BMW to the street where the killing had happened. They saw the authorities were analysing the body of the victim and searching some clues or something like that to help them to incriminate to someone the murder.

As Harry Barclay recognised the commissioner who had the case wanted to ask her some questions about it. He urged to know who had seen the victim and roughly the hour of the crime. The police officer answered him all the questions and gave him the address of an alleged testimony who had told them that he had seen it all: the testimony was living in Doncaster, a village of South Yorkshire county.

While Harry Barclay had went to the railway station of London St. Pancrass-King's Cross to buy the tickets for the train, Adolf von Bismarck saw Sara Windrive to her house and called his old friend Arthur Martinson to protect her just in case (he did not want to let him to kill her and was for their fault). After that, they met again in the tenth platform of the station and they took the Master Cutler train of the East Midlands line which departed from London at 17:02 of that afternoon and arrived at Doncaster at 18:45 approximately.

They leaved the compartment and the carriage and they went out of the station of Doncaster. In the end, they took a taxi and ordered to the taxi driver to see them to the inn of the village. They booked two bedrooms, they ate a dish of fish and chips and whilst Adolf von Bismarck was in his bedroom calling Arthur Hatherwood to know how was Mrs. Winedrive, Harry Barclay located the testimony and asked him to visit him that night or the next morning. The man answered him that for him, it was better to meet the next morning because he was with his wife and his children in his home, eating the dinner and watching a film in the television.

When Mr. Bismarck finished to talk with Mr. Hatherwood and met the worst had happened in Mrs. Winedrive's house from London, he talked with Harry and they decided that Harry would talk with the testimony the following day and Adolf would go to London to know how she was been killed and why.

The next morning, Adolf took the Master Cutler in Sheffield at 7:25 to come back to London and his associate Harry Barclay went to visit the man who the commissioner recommended him to talk about the mystery. Mr. Bismarck arrived in London at 9:25 and by a taxi, he went Mrs. Winedrive's house to see Arthur and asked him some questions about the crime.

As it was a weekly day, the traffic jam of London was become a difficult for him and they arrived at Winedrive's mansion at half past ten. The taxi driver parked hist taxi opposite Winedrive's residence, Adolf ordered him to wait for his going out and he rang the bell of the house. Arthur opened it saying him hello and asking him what had gone, the night before, for them.

Mr. Martinson guided Adolf to the living room while he said him hello and answered him how was him. "Do you know the roughly time of the murder?" Adolf asked him also while he was putting his jacket in the coat stand and he was sitting on the sofa between the table and the armchair in the biggest and the most comfortable room he has ever been since his birth.

"I think it was 9 o'clock post meridiem when I listened the gunshots in her bedroom. I was in mine and I went to see Sara... I found her corpse. I called Scotland Yard and when they arrived they arrested me as the main suspicious of the crime. They found my fingerprints in the handgun, the murder weapon. Nevertheless, I think the killer used gloves to do it. Do you think the same, Mr. Bismarck?" he asked him.

"I think so!" answered Adolf. "Mr. Martinson, where the handgun was when the killing occurred and you was in your bedroom?" asked Adolf when Harry Barclay called him to tell him what the testimony said. However, Adolf von Bismarck didn't take the phone call; he wanted to know all the things of the murder.

"My handgun it was on the table in her bedroom as a precaution. I think it was there!" Arthur answered nervously.

"And where the police found the murder weapon?" asked Adolf again while he was going to the kitchen with Arthur to prepare a cup of tea to drink thinking that that questioning would last all the morning.

"Near Winedrive's bed. I think it was there too!" answered Arthur again.

They went to Sara's bedroom and Adolf began to find the gloves. He found the evidence beneath the bed and with Arthur, he went to the police station to see the forensic surgeon and analyze the clue. The forensic surgeon was a young woman who had the most wonderful blonde straight hair that Adolf has ever seen; more beautiful than his wife's hair... And the most beautiful blue eyes he has ever seen... He fell in love of her immediately.

"Good job!" the forensic surgeon said when she finished the task. Adolf saw her badge: her name was Bianka Hoffman; she was german too. "I find some fingerprints. I introduce the datum in the Scotland Yard database and I find someone who has the same fingerprints: the someone is a thirty years old man who was lanky and slim, he has a blonde unswerving hair, a green eyes, a potato nose and some beard. He is living in Doncaster. I think I can give you his address!" she said with a sweetie soprano voice and a bit of german accent.

Before leaving the police station Adolf gave her thanks for her help and asked her in German which was her name, where did she live and he asked her also for his age.

Bianka thought the answers for some minutes and answered in German his questions and, in the end, she asked him the same queries self-consciously: "Ich heiße Bianka Hoffman. Ich bin 28 jahre alt und Ich wohne in London. Wie heißen Sie? Wie alt sind Sie? Wo wohnen Sie?" she asked him also.

"Ich heiße Adolf von Bismarck, Ich bin 28 jahre alt und Ich wohne in Maldon." he answered before Bianka, who fell in love of him too because he was a german guy as her, kissed him and begun their extramarital affair.

When they said goodbye, Adolf saw Arthur Martinson to his house and he bought a 1st class ticket for the evening Master Cutler and he came back to Sheffield by train.

During the travel, he phoned Harry and he told him what had happened in London. Harry explained him what the testimony told him: as the commissioner said, he knew the truth about it and saw how the killer killed Mr. Winedrive near Oxford Street. The testimony recognised the killer because the murderer was one of his village neighbours and of course, the description was the same as Bianka gave him also.

The train arrived at the Doncaster station at the same hour as the afternoon before. He took his jacket and his hat and when he went out of the train he had a gratifying surprise: Harry Barclay was in the station waiting for him with a taxi driver who drove them to the inn of the village.

The taxi driver was tall and skinny, he had a blonde uncrooked hair, an emerald eyes, a tattie front end and several stubble. Adolf thought for a moment that was the killer however, when he began to talk with him, he met that he had an identical twin who was living in his daddy's castle in the outskirts of that hospitable village of South Yorkshire district.

After the dinner with his friend Harry, a waiter gave some good news to Adolf: the killer wanted to see them the next day in his house at 11:00 a.m. to tell them how and why he killed Winedrive marriage but in exchange he wanted to go out of the country at the same night.

Adolf told to Harry what had happened and they decided to accept the offer. After all, it was the only thing they had at the moment. Surely he would not to be the killer but he would tell them who was the man or the woman had taken him as a hit man.

They woke up at six o'clock and they saw the television. Mrs. Emily O'Donnell, the police officer who was investigating the Winedrive marriage murder, with the help of the investigating judge of that case, had arrested and jailed Arthur Martinson as Winedrive marriage killer.

At half past ten, they went out of the hotel and they went to visit their main suspicious. He was living in a castle near the town where they had spend the two nights before the search of the man who organised all the killing. They arrived at eleven o'clock and Harry knocked the door. A man opened it and he invited them to drink with him a cup of coffee and to confess a part of his guilty. He began to talk with them in his living room.

The castle was his father's property, one of the richest english gentlemens who lived nad was borned in the United Kingdom during the first world war and nowadays, the most important prime minister of the U. K. It lived some pillagings during the civil (and religion) wars, the most important plundering had happened during the Rising of the North.

"I am going to confess you my guilty!" he began to talk. "Nevertheless, before doing it, I want to tell you that I have an identical twin in this town who is the only taxi driver; the same that Adolf confused the night before when you were coming back to the guesthouse and he persuaded me to do this declaration: it was a cold and windy night of november, two years before Windrive marriage murder. I met with the president with the British Bank who was Mr. Winedrive's most enemy. James Winedrive it was a banker from the same bank as the person who hired me to kill them which one day he met the financial bleaching and the corruption plot of the British Bank which would made run short of their houses two thousand of british people to benefit the govern. My father, the british Prime Minister, wanted it too!" told to Harry and Adolf who were recording the conversation with a voice and film recorder which was inside their luggage.

"Continue please, talking about it, what the president of the British Bank wanted to do with you and the plan to make it!" said Harry Barclay.

"Of course, James Winedrive, when he met that, he went to tell the police what had happened in the British Bank. Some of the main police officers of Scotland Yard and from all the British Police were inside of this corruptions conspiracy hired by the Prime Minister and the president of the British Bank!" he continued. "However, he couldn't do anything because  the commissioner who paid him attention, Mrs. Emily O'Donnell, was involved in. I suppose that the investigating judge who condemned today Mr. Martinson is involved in too!" he added. "And when Mrs. O'Donnell told it to the president of the British Bank, the president wanted to meet with me in a pub of Greenwich to hire me as a hit man and plan the murder." finished the hit man who took the cup of coffee and finished to drink it also.

"Thank you!" answered Adolf. We are going to tell it to the newspaper THE GUARDIAN and publish the information. After that, the British Police will arrest the guilties and you will go out of the country as a hero.

They said goodbye and they took the train to come back to London. That evening newspaper published the news with their help and BBC interviewed the hit man.

Bianka talked with the chief superintendent and this, with the help of some police officers and police agents who were not involved in the crime and with Adolf and Harry's help, thye arrested the investigating judge of the case, Emily O'Donnell and her henchmen's, the president of the British Bank and the Prime Minister also.

As a bounty for solving the case, Harry Barclay was appointed as the new chief constable of the Kent Police and the commissioner of the south of Kent county —his predecessor was involved in— and Adolf von Bismarck had to employ Bianka Hoffman as his associate in his private investigation firm owing to the vacancy which was leaved by his friend Harry.