In a snowy, dark, cold night of December 1949 in a little town of Scotland, a young girl appeared in front of the Central Hospital. She was wearing a loden coat and a scarf on her head. After a short hesitation, she eventually decided to go inside. As soon as she came in, she felt frightened because of the bustle and hustle. However she asked a nurse and all she could remember was waking up in a cold, white and sterile room having a horrible pain in her belly and feeling really sore. Yet she managed to get up and escaped as fast as she could because she felt really ashamed of what she just had done.
Nowadays, the same girl is 29 years old; her name is Jude and she is working in a big firm as one of the most important CEO. Since this awful day she has been running from her past but today it is catching up with her.
Indeed, in a beautiful morning of autumn, at the first rays of sun, policemen knocked at her door to accuse her of murder. Her reaction was surprisingly calm. This single woman was fridge and manic-depressive; so all her life was focused on her work. Everything was clean and tidy in her home as in her life nobody could understand her. She was hostile to any kind of relationship except the one with her little cat Solo.
So that day, she just came out and followed the policemen to the police station. There she learned what she was accused of; and who she was supposed to have killed: the big boss, her own boss that had refused her a promotion a week ago. Her personality only helped the inspectors to make her even guiltier as she did not have any normal reaction: she never dined or even spoke; she just listened to the inspectors’ interrogations. Anyway, the inspectors did not have any material evidence to keep her, so she was released. Back to her place, her life continued as everything was fine but suddenly, memories popped up and her belly started to hurt her as the first day after her surgery, she started crying and sat on the floor: her past rebounded, and after years her pain was as vivid as the first time.
Nevertheless one of the inspectors, who believed that this kind of woman was not capable of doing such a crime, called “The Fox”, a private detective because he was smart and all his cases were successfully resolved. He started his researches on her and her past without finding any notable information expect that her life seemed to start when she was 18 years old. A few days after, and a lot of phone calls, he found that she had changed her name as soon as she had turned 18 and used to be called Marie Moore. In her original case he discovered that she had run away at 16 and that she had been through a surgery in the same time. Then there was nothing until she changed her name. This findings were not clear for the inspector so he decided to go see her himself with “The Fox”, hoping that she would be able to help him in his investigation.
“The Fox” went to see her a Monday morning, she was not working and the door was opened. He found her sitting on her sofa with a glass of wine in her hand; he supposed that she probably drunk a lot. The inspector sat in front of her and started his interrogation. Then seeing that she won’t give any further information she had already giver to the police, he called her by her original name. Finally a reaction appeared on her face, she was completely frightened, he knew who she was! After a few minutes of silence, she started asking him and ended up panicking. After a while she just started crying and revealed everything about her, the pain was getting more and more powerful. “The Fox” was a good listener and an excellent analyzer, he put every pieces of the puzzle together and when she had finished he took her to do a DNA test because he knew that the police had found an unidentify DNA on the murder scene. The next day the test results arrived and according to the DNA that was in her case: she was definitely the murderer. Two officers went to her place to arrest her: as she was officially accused of the murder. However, as soon as they arrived they find her little cat meowing, the door wide open. The first one came in and went straight to the kitchen and to the living room: everything seemed normal, the second one went upstairs and found her lying in her bed, smiling surrounded by many empty pills’ limps. He started calling his team-mate while verifying her pulse: she was dead, she committed suicide.
He found out a few days later that the DNA in her case was wrong and that she faked it for her new name and her new life. So an innocent was dead and the murderer was still free. When “The Fox” knew about her suicide he felt disappointed because he just had the DNA result that she made and which proved her innocence but in the same time he was not surprised and he was even happy for her, she had finally be released of the burden of her secrets and her regrets.
Although the DNA result found that the murderer was one of Jude’s relatives even if everyone knew that she had no family even by her real name: all her family was dead. But here “The Fox” showed all his findings and explained to his superiors Jude story. He actually explained that when she was young she had an out of marriage relationship and had gotten pregnant, unfortunately when she found out about it, it was already too late to get an abortion, so she had to give the baby away. She left him in the hospital hoping that a good family would save him and take good care of him. Her life changed at this time and she became another girl. After his story “The Fox” concluded that the murderer was Jude’s child.
Kenza El KHADIR, Karim KARCHAFI, Aïda KHALIDI, Kenza MEJJAT ALAMI
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