Next»»The USB drive contained security footage from a small camera Samuel had installed inside the workshop office. It did not show the murder, but it showed Oscar arguing violently with Samuel two days before his death, shouting that “Lucía will take the fall before I lose that shop.”
That sentence became the crack that split the old case wide open.
Within forty-eight hours, investigators began reviewing everything that had been ignored. The original police work had been sloppy, rushed, and poisoned by assumptions. The bloody knife had been found under Lucía’s bed, and that had been enough for people who wanted an easy ending. Her fingerprints were on the handle because it was a kitchen knife from her own home. Prosecutors had painted her as an angry wife. Neighbors had repeated rumors. Oscar had cried on camera. The story was simple, dramatic, and wrong.
The new evidence made the simple story collapse.
