The Mistery of Belicena Villca
The portraits showed two faces of undoubted oriental aspect : round , high cheekbones , sparse eyebrows , slightly slanted eyes , thick lips . They were neatly shaven and apparently hairless . The latter could not be assured with certainty because , unusually , the criminals wore " bowler " hats , very tightly packed .
– There are things that make no sense , that are not in accordance with the general patterns of Criminology – commented the Commissioner of Cerrillos with annoyance-- . We are looking for two ferocious murderers , authors of the massacre of a harmless family . Two witnesses see them , at the time of the crime , enter the house . So far everything is correct , everything " normal ". We then ask the witnesses to describe the alleged criminals to us . They agree to ; and there ends the typological normality : the case escapes any general framework ; nor the criminological casuistry , nor the antecedents , nor the accumulated experience , serve to understand the incident . Witnesses were initially suspected , but later it was verified their capacity to testify : they are blameless people , who never drink a drop of alcohol , since they must exercise a guard post , and on top of it , they are expolicemen , that is , retired policemen , trained to observe facts and used to providing details . But their story was just too unbelievable . --Look at that image , where the companion has descended to open the gate and the driver is sitting behind the wheel of the impressive black car-- What have the witnesses seen ? Not two " normal " criminals , who are going to furtively murder a family , but to two elegantly dressed gentlemen , who enter as if they were visiting the Siegnagel ' s Farm . In fact , the Judge made them be examined by psychiatrists , yesterday afternoon , but the report is positive : they are in perfect mental conditions . They even lent themselves to an interrogatory under hypnosis , which also yielded positive results : concretely , they say the truth ; whatever they have seen , they believe in what they say .
I cast a sidelong glance at Commissioner Maidana , for from all that was coming off the whiff familiar during the murder of Belicena Villca . But he was unperturbed ; evidently he also had a rational explanation for the curious attire of the " Mossad agents ".
--Look at this , Gentlemen ! --insisted the Commissioner of Cerrillos-- Could there be something more ridiculous than murderers dressed in black three-piece suits , black shoes , black hat , black bowler hat !, black tie and white shirt ? Yes , I know there can be killers like this : in Hong Kong , in Istanbul , London , New York , and a thousand other places in the world . But here , in Cerrillos ? In the case of other types of people it would even be possible to accept their presence in the area : for example , if they were executives of a transnational company that come for business , to loot some of our raw materials . Such criminals can be imagined effortlessly . But in the present case , they easily escape the general pattern of the murderers of farmers .
The Commissioner consulted the watch and said goodbye : – I must go now . Bye , Arturo ; I ' m very sorry about all this . I ' ll see you this afternoon at the cemetery . Sorry for the talk but it was Maidana who came to stir the hornet ' s nest ; I would not have bothered you until after the funeral . Naturally , the Judge also wishes to talk to you and it won ' t take long to summon you ; when this tragic moment passes , naturally .
The last words of the Commissioner of Cerrillos caused me deep concern . What would the police want ? My family was murdered and the interrogated would be me ?
– Easy , Dr ., it ' s nothing , --Maidana assured-- . Simple routine . The Police is clueless and will want to know your opinion . The same happens to the Judge ; that is why he was reluctant to hand over the bodies . I could give you many hypotheses about what the Commissioner did not say and what has probably happened : for example , it is almost certain that they have broadcast the description of the black car and did not get to find out its whereabouts ; they won ' t even know if it left the Province . That puzzles them ; it ' s a rare car and they suppose someone should have seen it . But they do not advance because they investigate professionally . You and I know that , contrary to what the Commissioner and the Judge affirm , this is in effect a classic case : a classic case within the Intelligence and the International Counterintelligence . Maidana was convinced of his theory and I would have to give him a reply without delay .
Chapter VIII
8:30 in the morning . I was in the kitchen of the Farm of Cerrillos , having breakfast with Uncle Kurt and Commissioner Maidana . I remembered with sadness that in that environment I had seen my parents together for the last time : last image of a reality that would no longer be repeated ; as a product of the trip that I undertook that morning , my parents now layed in the room next , inside two coffins . The memory hurt , but according to Uncle Kurt that was the weakness : the Hyperborean Initiates , the SS Knights , he told me in Santa María , they couldn ' t have a family ; much less love it :
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