The two police officers looked at each other for a split second.Then they burst out laughing.It started as a chuckle but quickly exploded into full blown hysterical laughter that bounced off the concrete walls of the interrogation room.“Make us millionaires in ten minutes?” one of them wheezed between laughs. “Did you just hear what this man said?”The second officer pointed directly at William with tears forming in the corners of his eyes.“You sit here chained to a table and you cannot even make yourself a millionaire first!” he said between gasps of laughter. “But you want to make us millionaires? What the hell are you even talking about?”The first officer slapped the table.“What a funny guy!”“What a funny looking guy!” the second one added.The first officer wiped his eyes and composed himself enough to speak properly.“Don't worry about us. When you get to prison, you can make all your friends millionaires. The prison warders too. Since you can apparently make everybody a m

The two officers fell silent after William spoke.For the first time since entering the room, neither man laughed.They looked at each other, and in that brief exchange, countless thoughts passed between them.What William had done was still only assault. Serious, yes, but not necessarily enough to bury him forever. Not on its own. With money involved, with the victim still in the hospital, they could certainly stack the charges higher. They could twist statements, stretch facts, press harder, and make sure William disappeared for a long time.That had been the plan, but now things were different.Everything William had said about Blue Cap had shaken them badly.If they ignored him and he turned out to be telling the truth, the consequences would be catastrophic.And if he was lying, that could be useful too.In fact, maybe even better.Because if they took him to the chief and William started spinning nonsense about the Blue Cap killer, the chief would not forgive it. Not even for a

The moment those words left William's mouth, the chief went still, Not physically.Physically, he remained standing exactly where he was.But something inside him jolted hard.For the first time since entering the room, real emotion broke through the practiced authority on his face.Shock.Deep, personal shock.Because William had not guessed.He had said the ages exactly right.Seven and five.The chief stared at him, and when he spoke, his voice came out harsher than before.“What the hell is wrong with you?”Immediately he took a sharp step forward, his eyes narrowing.“How do you know that? Have you been stalking me? Digging into my family? Who are you?”His anger rose with every question.“How did you know the exact ages of my daughters?”The room turned heavy.Even the two officers looked shaken now, Neither of them had expected this.In fact, neither of them even knew the girls' exact ages themselves.Yet this stranger, this man sitting in handcuffs in an interrogation room, ha

The words settled over the chief like a slow, creeping cold.A teacher.Blue Cap was a teacher at his daughters' school.He sat with that for a moment, turning it over, examining it from every angle.And the more he looked at it, the more impossible it felt.Not because it was outrageous.But because it was too neat.For nearly a year, the best officers under his command had chased this killer through shadows and silence. They had followed every lead until it crumbled. They had pulled apart every witness statement until it fell into dust. They had run down every theory, every suspect profile, every behavioral pattern, and every crime scene detail until their eyes burned.And every single time, they had ended up with nothing.A wall.A dead end.And now William was sitting here, calm and unbothered, handing him the answer like it was something he had found on the floor.Like it was obvious.Like it had always been obvious.The chief's jaw tightened.He cleared his throat and pushed hi

Two hours passed, Maybe a little more.The interrogation room had not changed. Same harsh light overhead. Same cold walls. Same silence that pressed against the ears after a while.But William seemed entirely unbothered by any of it.He sat with his legs crossed, leaning back in his chair as though he had chosen to be here. As though this were somewhere comfortable. Somewhere familiar.He waited the way a man waits when he already knows how the story ends.Then the door burst open.William straightened slightly as the chief came through first, moving with an energy that was entirely different from the composed, skeptical man who had walked out of this same room hours ago.Two new officers followed closely behind him, neither of them the corrupt pair from before.William took one look at the chief's face and felt the answer before a single word was spoken.The tension that had lived in the chief's jaw and shoulders earlier was gone.In its place was something rare on a man of his posit