市长夫人（播客独家剧集）

2000年8月的一个晚上，一位市议会候选人站在阿拉巴马州一个小镇高中礼堂的讲台后。

One evening in August 2000, a city council candidate stood behind a podium at a high school in small town Alabama.

他正在解释自己为何参选，并说是为了获得一个平台，来讨论一件非常重要的事。

He was speaking about why he'd entered the race in the first place, and he said it was because he wanted a platform to discuss a very important issue.

这件事就是当地学区一名员工至今未破的谋杀案。

And that issue was the unsolved murder of a local school district employee.

就在那时，在所有摄像机和话筒前，这位候选人说他知道凶手是谁，因为凶手在梦中向他显灵了。

And then, right there, in front of all the news cameras and microphones, this candidate said he knew who committed that crime, because it had been revealed to him in a dream.

但在进入今天的故事之前，如果你喜欢听那些诡异、黑暗又神秘的故事，那你来对地方了——我们只做这一种。

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do.

如果你感兴趣，那就把关注按钮当成派对的嘉宾请来吧，不过别告诉它正确的地址。

So if that's of interest to you, please invite the follow button to your next big house party, but don't give them the right address.

好了，现在我们来讲今天的故事。

Okay, let's get into today's story.

1998年8月4日早上，49岁的夏洛特·韦茨在阿拉巴马州莱内特的家中厨房里匆忙奔走。

On the morning of 08/04/1998, a 49 year old woman named Charlotte Waits rushed around her kitchen in Lynette, Alabama.

她从正在水槽边洗碗的丈夫巴里身后伸过手，从橱柜里拿了一个咖啡杯。

She reached past her husband Barry who was washing the dishes at the sink and she grabbed a coffee mug from the cupboard.

那是周二早上，两人都在为忙碌的工作日做准备。

It was a Tuesday morning and they were both getting ready for busy days at work.

夏洛特是学校管理人员，巴里则是小镇林尼特的代理市长，这个小镇约有九千居民，关系非常紧密。

Charlotte was a school administrator and Barry was the acting mayor of the small town of Lynette, a very tight knit community of about 9,000 residents.

巴里从水槽边走开，去餐厅拿公文包时，夏洛特正给自己倒咖啡，提醒他说自己上午有个理发预约，下午还要见律师，回家会比平时晚。

And as Barry left the sink to go grab his briefcase from the dining room, Charlotte, who was pouring herself some coffee, reminded him that she had a hair appointment later that morning and also that she'd be home later than usual because she had a meeting with her attorneys that afternoon.

不幸的是，夏洛特正和表兄韦恩打一场关于她已故叔叔遗嘱的遗产官司。

So Charlotte was unfortunately in the middle of a legal battle with her cousin Wayne over the inheritance from her late uncle's will.

叔叔把一大片珍贵的土地留给了夏洛特，但韦恩觉得那片地他也该分一份。

The uncle had left a lot of valuable land to Charlotte, but Wayne thought that he deserved some of that land too.

简单说，他正在质疑遗嘱的有效性，而今天正是夏洛特、韦恩和双方律师碰面，试图协商解决的日子。

So basically, he was contesting the will, and today was the day that Charlotte, Wayne, and their attorneys were going to meet and attempt to hash it out.

巴里问夏洛特，她有没有想好在会议上要说些什么。

Barry asked Charlotte if she had decided what she was going to say at this meeting.

夏洛特摇了摇头，说还没想好，正在慢慢考虑。

And Charlotte shook her head and said no, and said she was still kind of thinking it over.

她知道不能轻易把土地让出去，但也不想为了钱把全家闹得四分五裂。

Now, she knew she didn't want to just give up the land, but she also knew that she didn't necessarily want to risk tearing her whole family apart over money.

巴里走过去，把手搭在她肩上，安慰她说不管结果怎样，家人总会挺过去的。

Barry walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder and reassured her that whatever happened, the family would get through it.

接着他亲了亲她的脸颊，就出门上班去了。

Then he gave her a kiss on the cheek and he left for work.

他一走，夏洛特就离开厨房，上楼敲了敲她17岁女儿卡拉的卧室门。

Once he was out the door, Charlotte left the kitchen and went upstairs and knocked on the bedroom door of her 17 year old daughter, Kara.

她刚敲完，就听见屋里传来一声呻吟。

And as soon as she did this, Charlotte heard a groan from inside the room.

夏洛特推开门，发现卡拉蜷缩在床上。

So Charlotte opened the door up and she found Kara curled up in bed.

卡拉看起来特别疲惫，脸色也苍白得吓人。

And Kara was looking very tired and very pale.

但夏洛特知道，这可不是普通 teenager 不想上学那种小事。

But Charlotte knew this was not just a teenager who didn't want to like go to school or something.

卡拉看起来这么憔悴、说话这么没精神，是因为她怀孕了，而且孕吐反应相当明显。

The reason that Kara looked the way she did and was sounding the way she did is because Kara was pregnant and she was dealing with pretty obvious morning sickness.

夏洛特当然不高兴女儿才十七岁就怀孕，但更让她受不了的是，她特别讨厌卡拉的男朋友戴夫·里德。

Now Charlotte was not thrilled about her 17 year old daughter being pregnant, But more than that, she was especially not thrilled because she absolutely hated Cara's boyfriend, Dave Reed.

戴夫喝酒，还总惹上法律麻烦，根本不是夏洛特希望女儿交往的那种人。

Dave drank and got into trouble with the law, and he just was not the kind of guy Charlotte wanted her daughter around.

在卡拉怀孕之前，夏洛特和巴里就明令禁止她再跟戴夫来往。

At one point, before Carol was pregnant, Charlotte and Barry had forbid her from seeing Dave.

他们明确说过：不准跟他约会。

They said you cannot date him.

可私下里，两人一直偷偷见面，现在卡拉居然怀孕了。

But in secret, the two had continued to see each other, and now Carol was pregnant.

所以夏洛特忍不住对女儿感到深深的失望。

And so Charlotte really couldn't help but feel deeply disappointed in her daughter.

但她也知道，女儿接下来需要她很多支持——不只是要完成高中学业，还要当一个 teenage 妈妈。

But she also knew her daughter was gonna need a lot of support from her, not just to finish high school, but also to to be a teen mom.

所以眼下，夏洛特只想着别闹矛盾。

And so for right now, Charlotte was just trying to keep the peace.

于是她走进卧室，问卡拉感觉怎么样。

So with that in mind, Charlotte stepped into the bedroom and asked Kara how she was feeling.

卡拉只是耸了耸肩，说还行，就是有点想吐。

And Kara just kinda shrugged and said she was okay, just a little nauseous.

夏洛特很理解，一边点头一边顺手帮她收拾了会儿房间。

Charlotte was sympathetic and nodded along and kinda helped straighten up her room for a second.

接着她提醒卡拉，姐姐希瑟今晚从大学回来，一家人一起吃个晚饭会很好。

And then she reminded Kara that her older sister, Heather, was coming home from college that night, so it would be nice if they all had dinner together as a family.

卡拉说她今天一整天都有 babysitting 的活儿，但她保证会赶回来吃晚饭。

And Kara said she did have a babysitting gig for basically the whole day, but she promised she would make it home for dinner.

夏洛特听了挺满意，说晚上再见，然后就去上班了。

Charlotte was pleased and told Kara she would see her later that night, and then she said she had to get to work.

夏洛特离开卧室，下楼拿了包，然后出门朝车库走去，准备开车去上班。

Charlotte left the bedroom, went downstairs, grabbed her purse, and then out the door she headed to the garage to go to her car.

同一天上午稍晚些时候，大约十一点半左右，

Later that same morning, around 11:30 a.

夏洛特开车沿着她那条安静的住宅街，往家的方向驶去。

M, Charlotte drove back down her quiet residential street toward her house.

她住在一个体面的中上阶层社区，邻居们大多彼此认识，历史上这里犯罪率一直很低。

She lived in a respectable upper middle class neighborhood where basically all the neighbors seemed to know each other and historically crime had been very low.

虽然最近这一带接连发生了几起入室盗窃案，让一些人有点紧张，但总体来说，夏洛特和家人还是觉得家里挺安全的。

Although recently there had been a string of robberies in the area, which had some people on edge, but you know, for the most part Charlotte and her family felt safe in their home.

夏洛特今天过得特别忙。

Charlotte was having a pretty hectic day.

早上工作特别紧凑，之后又去理发店剪了头发，接下来还得赶回办公室再处理几个小时的事务，才能去参加下午和表弟韦恩以及律师们的会议。

She'd had a very busy morning at work, and then she'd gone to the salon for a haircut, and pretty soon she had to get back to the office for a few more hours before her afternoon meeting with her cousin Wayne and all the lawyers.

不过夏洛特一向不太喜欢刚剪完头发那会儿的样子，所以她想先回家，自己重新打理一下发型，再回公司把一天的事情做完。

However, Charlotte never really liked how her hair looked right after leaving the salon, so first, she wanted to stop by her house and restyle it herself before heading back to work and finishing up her day.

于是她把车开进车库，冲进屋里，直奔楼上浴室。

So she pulled into her garage and ran inside the house and went straight upstairs right to the bathroom.

她正插上吹风机，突然听见楼下有门打开的声音。

As she was plugging in her blow dryer, she heard a door open downstairs.

这让她很意外，因为她以为卡拉去打工照看孩子了，丈夫巴里通常也不会在午餐时间回家，于是她放下吹风机，下去看看是谁来了。

And the sound surprised her because she thought that Kara was off at her babysitting gig, and Barry, her husband, usually didn't come home during his lunch break, so she set the blow dryer down and went to go see who it was.

几个小时后，大约下午四点半，夏洛特21岁的女儿希瑟开车回到了家。

A few hours later, around 04:30PM, Charlotte's 21 year old daughter, Heather, pulled up to the house.

她刚从几英里外的大学回来，满心期待今晚能见到父母和妹妹，大家下班后团聚。

She'd just arrived from college, which was located a few towns away, and she was excited to see her parents and sister when they all got home from work that night.

但当希瑟把车停在车道上时，她察觉到有些不对劲。

But as Heather parked her car in the driveway, she noticed something odd.

她发现车库门是开着的，妈妈的车就停在里面。

She saw the garage door was open and her mom's car was parked there.

这让她很惊讶，因为前一天她和妈妈通电话时，夏洛特还说她大概六点才能回家。

And this surprised her because when she had spoken to her mom on the phone the day before, Charlotte had said she probably wouldn't be home until around six.

但海瑟没多想，只是拎起洗衣篮，从车后座拿了几个装满东西的购物袋，走进车库准备进屋时，发现通往家里的门竟然只虚掩着一条缝，这有点奇怪，根本没理由让门这样开着。

But Heather didn't think much of it, so she just grabbed her laundry hamper and a couple of grocery bags filled with her stuff out of the backseat of the car, and then as she walked into the garage to make her way into the house, she saw the door that led into the house was actually already open, but just a crack, which was kind of odd, like there's no reason that door would be left open.

这时她感觉有点不对劲，便慢慢走上前，轻轻推开门，喊了一声妈妈，想看看她在做什么，但没人应答。

And so now sensing that maybe something was off here, Heather walked up and slowly pushed that door open and she just called out for her mother to see what she was doing, but there was no answer.

于是海瑟走进屋里，来到厨房，把洗衣篮和购物袋放下，接着开始在一层楼里四处寻找妈妈的踪影。

And so Heather stepped into the house, into the kitchen, and set down her hamper and the bags, and then she began walking around the 1st Floor of the house to just see where her mom was.

她没听到动静，也看不到人，正转悠着，拐过门厅的角落时，突然看见了妈妈。

She didn't hear her, she couldn't see her, she's just walking around and as she rounded the corner into the foyer, she saw her mom.

妈妈躺在楼梯脚下，一动不动。

But her mom was laying at the foot of the stairs, totally motionless.

海瑟立刻冲过去抱住妈妈，想确认她有没有事，可一碰妈妈的腿，冰得吓人。

Heather immediately ran to her mom and just grabbed her to see if she was okay, but when she touched her mom's leg, it was ice cold.

她赶紧跑进另一间屋，抓起电话拨了911。

And so she ran into the other room, picked up the phone, and called 911.

几分钟后，兰内特警局的里查德·卡特中尉开着警车，闪着警灯、鸣着警笛，疾驰到夏洛特家所在的住宅街上。

A few minutes later, lieutenant Richard Carter of the Lannett Police Department sped down Charlotte's residential street with his lights flashing and siren blaring.

他接到一通911报警，说有个女人失去意识了，可当他听到 dispatcher 说这女人是在谁家被发现的时，他简直不敢相信。

He was responding to a 911 call about a woman who had been found unresponsive, He'd been very surprised when the dispatcher told him whose house this woman had been found inside of.

那地方是镇长巴里·韦茨的家。

It was the home of the town's mayor, Barry Waits.

他把车开到门前时，看见一个年轻女孩冲了出来，情绪完全失控。

Now as he pulled up in front of the home, he saw this young woman come running out the door hysterically.

卡特中尉立刻停车下车，拦住那个女孩，她哭着求他进去帮帮她妈妈。

And so lieutenant Carter, he stopped his car, he got out, and he intercepted the young woman who begged him to come in and help her mom.

于是卡特和那女孩冲进屋子，他让她留在外面，自己进去查看情况。

And so Carter and this young woman rushed over to the house, and then he told her to stay outside while he went in and investigated.

她照做了。

And so she did.

她站在门口，默默流泪，而卡特中尉则跨进了前门。

She stayed out front and just quietly wept to herself while lieutenant Carter stepped through the front door.

一进门，他就看见一个中年女人仰面躺在楼梯底部，一动不动。

And right away, right inside, he saw what appeared to be a middle aged woman lying on her back at the bottom of a staircase, and she was totally motionless.

附近，一个手提包里的东西散落得满地都是。

Nearby, the contents of a purse were strewn all across the floor.

卡特立刻蹲下身，伸手去摸她的脉搏，但已经没有心跳了。

Carter immediately knelt down and felt for a pulse on this woman, but there was nothing.

于是卡特站起身，环顾了一下现场，发现这女人嘴角有泡沫。

And so Carter, he stood back up and just kind of assessed the scene, and what he noticed was there was foam at the corner of this woman's mouth.

他心想，也许她在楼梯顶端突发癫痫或过敏反应，失去平衡跌了下来，结果摔死了。

So he wondered if maybe she had had a seizure or some sort of allergic reaction at the top of the stairs and sort of had lost her balance and maybe fell down the stairs and the fall had killed her.

但他也注意到，她衬衫前襟上有几处血迹。

But then he also noticed there were definitely a few drops of blood on the front of her blouse.

当他更仔细地看她的脸时，发现下巴上有明显的抓痕，脖子上还有一圈红印。

And when he looked closer at her face, he noticed there were pretty obvious scratch marks on her chin and also a red mark around her neck.

他立刻意识到，这女人不是单纯摔下楼梯，而是被人袭击、殴打，甚至可能被勒死的。

And he realized this woman likely had not just fallen down the stairs, she'd been attacked, beaten, and potentially strangled.

当天晚些时候，大约五点。

Later that day, around five p.

M，理查德·卡特中尉在夏洛特·韦茨家的洗衣房里翻找地上的一堆脏衣服。

M, Lieutenant Richard Carter sorted through a pile of dirty laundry on the floor of Charlotte Waits' laundry room.

过去半小时，他一直在现场搜寻线索，现在手里拿着两条白色毛巾，上面散布着红褐色的斑点，像是刚开始干涸的血迹。

For the past half hour, he'd been scouring the crime scene for clues, and now he was holding two white towels that were dotted with reddish brown spots that looked like blood that had just begun to dry.

他招手叫来一名法医人员，让他把这两条毛巾作为证物收走。

He called over a forensics officer and told him to take the towels into evidence.

他还不能确定这些血迹是否来自夏洛特，但如果真是她的，那可能是个关键线索。

He couldn't be sure yet that the blood was even Charlotte's, but if it was, it could be a potential clue.

搜完整栋房子后，卡特对夏洛特遭遇了什么已经有了相当明确的推测。

After searching the whole house, Carter actually had a pretty strong theory about what had happened to Charlotte.

屋里没有强行闯入的痕迹，电视和其他贵重物品都还在，夏洛特的钱包被倒在地上，就在楼梯口附近几英尺的地方，但她的现金和信用卡都还在钱包里。

There were no signs of forced entry, and the TV and other valuables were still in the home, Charlotte's purse had been dumped out on the floor, just a few feet away from the stairs, but her cash and her credit cards were still in her wallet.

所以卡特不认为这是一起抢劫未遂的案件。

So Carter did not think this was a robbery gone wrong.

他觉得凶手可能是事后故意把钱包倒出来，假装是抢劫，但这招太拙劣了。

He thought maybe the killer just kind of dumped out the purse at the end to make it seem like a robbery, but it was a weak attempt.

这不像是抢劫。

This did not seem like a robbery.

至少在卡特看来，这件事更像是Charlotte被她认识的人故意杀害的。

What this seemed like, at least to Carter at this point, was that Charlotte had been intentionally killed by somebody that she knew.

就在这时，卡特听到前门传来一阵骚动，便过去查看，发现一个男人被两名法医人员死死拦在门廊外。

But just then, Carter heard commotion by the front door, and so he went to go see what was going on, and he saw there was a man out on the doorstep literally being physically held back by two forensics officers.

过了一会儿，卡特认出了那个人。

And then after a second, Carter recognized who it was.

是镇长巴里·韦茨，受害者的丈夫。

It was the town's mayor, Barry Waits, the victim's husband.

警员们想把他拦在外面，但巴里推开他们，一眼就看到了他们不让他看的东西——他妻子的尸体躺在地板上，明显已经死了。

The officers were trying to keep him outside, but Barry pushed past them, and right away he saw what they were kind of keeping him from, which was his wife's body laying there on the floor, obviously dead.

巴里看到这一幕，整个人瞬间僵住，开始急促地喘气。

And when Barry saw that, he just froze and began to hyperventilate.

这时，卡特没有强行把他赶出去，而是轻轻抓住他的手臂，带他进隔壁房间，让他坐在沙发上，努力让他平静下来，但他根本冷静不下来。

At this point, Carter didn't try to force Barry back outside, instead he gently grabbed Barry's arm and led him into the next room and sat him down on the couch and just tried to get him to calm down, but it was like he couldn't.

巴里喘得厉害，呼吸非常困难，接着突然弯下腰，紧紧捂住胸口。

Barry was gasping and like really was struggling to breathe and then he actually doubled over and clutched at his chest.

卡特心想他可能是心脏病发了，于是没再说话，直接大喊让人叫救护车。

Carter thought maybe he's having a heart attack, and so instead of trying to talk to him, he just yelled for somebody to call an ambulance.

就在同一天晚上八点左右，卡特警官走进了当地医院急诊科的大厅。

Later that same night, around 8PM, Lieutenant Carter stepped into the lobby of the local hospital's emergency department.

他向前台护士出示了证件，然后询问能否见一见巴里·韦茨。

He showed his badge to the nurse at the front desk and then asked to see Barry waits.

但护士说他得等着，因为巴里还在做检查，必须等确定病情稳定后才能探视。

But the nurse said he would have to wait, because they were still running tests on Barry and he couldn't have any visitors until they were sure he was stable.

听到这个消息，卡特感到很失望。

And Carter was pretty disappointed to hear this.

并不是因为他急着进去安慰市长，而是因为他必须跟市长谈一谈。

Not because he was desperate to get in there and console the mayor, it was actually because he needed to talk to the mayor.

他是潜在谋杀案受害者的配偶。

This is the spouse of a potential murder victim.

他得知道巴里知道些什么。

He needed to know what Barry knew.

于是他转身准备离开，但就在那时，他注意到等候区里坐着巴里和夏洛特的女儿希瑟——那天早些时候，正是希瑟跑出来迎他进屋，两人在房子里聊了几分钟。

And so he turned to leave, but before he did, he noticed sitting in the waiting room was Barry and Charlotte's daughter, Heather, who, you know, Carter and Heather, they had spoken for a few minutes back at the house earlier that day when, you know, Heather was the one who came running out and directed him in the house.

他们之前简单说过几句话，但卡特心想：既然见不到巴里，也许可以跟希瑟聊聊。

They had spoken a little bit, but Carter thought, you know what, if I can't talk to Barry, maybe I can talk to Heather.

也许她现在冷静下来了，能好好说说话了。

Maybe she's calmed down enough that we could have a real conversation right now.

于是他朝她走了过去。

And so he walked over to her.

卡特一走近，希瑟就抬起了头，立刻认出了他，从她的肢体语言来看，她并不排斥他过来坐下。

As Carter approached, Heather looked up and definitely recognized who he was and gave off body language that it was okay for him to come and sit down.

卡特走过去，在她旁边坐下，这才发现希瑟身边还坐着另一个十几岁的女孩。

And so Carter, he walked over, he sat down next to her, and he saw there was actually another girl, a teenager, who was sitting next to Heather.

希瑟立刻转过头，指着那女孩说，这是她妹妹卡拉。

And Heather quickly turned and pointed to her and said this was her younger sister, Kara.

卡特中尉点点头，向卡拉自我介绍，然后问两位女士，她们爸爸的情况怎么样。

Lieutenant Carter nodded and introduced himself to Kara, and then he asked both women, you know, how was their dad doing?

海瑟说，医生目前认为他不是心脏病发作，更像是恐慌发作，但为了稳妥起见，还是决定留院观察一晚。

And Heather said that the doctors so far believed he was not having a heart attack, that it was likely a panic attack, but they were going to monitor him overnight just to be sure.

两个女孩看起来都非常难过。

Both of the girls seemed very upset.

她们眼里含着泪水，神情恍惚，明显受到了惊吓，根本不像有什么可疑举动。

They had tears in their eyes, they both appeared to be in shock, they hadn't done anything suspicious, really.

卡特知道，现在还不能排除她们的嫌疑，必须得问一些关键的问题。

Carter knew he couldn't just rule them out as suspects yet, like he had to really ask them some pointed questions.

于是他拿出笔记本，尽量温和地开始向她们提问。

So he took out his notebook, and as delicately as he could, he began asking them some questions.

到这个时候，卡特的手下已经了解到，夏洛特是在上午十一点左右离开工作的。

So by this point, Carter's officers had already learned that Charlotte had left her work around eleven a.

M.

M.

那天早上，直到有同事给她家里打电话，发现她没去上班，而且没人接电话，这才引起注意。

That morning, and it was not until that one her coworkers called her house because she had not come back to work, and they said there was no answer.

所以谋杀很可能发生在上午11点到下午1点之间。

And so that meant the murder had likely taken place sometime between 11AM and 1PM.

考虑到这一点，卡特问希瑟和卡拉那天上午和下午都在哪儿，特别关注11点到1点这段时间。

So with that in mind, Carter asked Heather and Kara where they'd been that morning and afternoon with a focus on eleven to one.

卡拉说她一整天都在帮人带孩子，希瑟则说她一直在离家30英里外的大学，直到当天下午4点左右才开车回家看父母。

Kara told him she'd been babysitting all day, and Heather said she'd been at her school, her college, which was 30 miles away, until around 4PM that afternoon when she had left to drive to her parents' house.

后来，卡特问她们俩，有没有听说过谁对她们妈妈怀恨在心，或者想伤害她，又或者希望她出事的人。

At some point, Carter asked both of them if they had any idea if there was someone out there who might have had a grudge against their mother or who might have wanted to hurt their mom or who might have been happy if something happened to her.

两个女孩立刻摇头，斩钉截铁地说：绝对没有。

And the girls immediately shook their head and said, Absolutely not.

根本没人会这样。

There was no one.

她们妈妈人特别好。

I mean, their mom was awesome.

大家都很喜欢她，她们一家看起来也很幸福、很普通。

Everybody seemed to like her, and they were a happy, normal family.

他们没听说过任何问题。

There was no issues they knew of.

卡特把这些都记在了笔记本里，打算一回警局就去核实两个女儿的不在场证明。

Carter jotted all this down in his notebook, and his plan was to check out the daughter's alibis as soon as he got back to the station.

第二天，卡特中尉在警局向其他调查人员汇报夏洛特案的进展。

The next day, Lieutenant Carter was at the precinct debriefing with the other investigators on Charlotte's case.

那天早上他开车上班时听了本地广播，因为夏洛特是现任市长的妻子，她的遇害成了全城人热议的话题，卡特因此感到巨大的压力，必须尽快破案。

He'd listened to the local news on the radio while driving to work that morning, and since Charlotte was the acting mayor's wife, her murder was all anybody in town could talk about, So Carter was really feeling a lot of pressure to solve this case quickly.

到这时，他已经核实过希瑟和卡拉的不在场证明，两人都没问题。

Now, by this point, he had already followed up on Heather and Cara's alibis, and they had both checked out.

两个女儿都不可能在上午十一点到一点之间出现在家里。

Neither of the daughters could have been home between eleven and one.

所以卡特正式排除了她们的嫌疑。

So Carter had officially ruled them out as suspects.

于是，其他警员一个个轮流向卡特汇报昨晚各自做了些什么。

And so now the other officers were going around the room, basically updating Carter on what they had done the night before.

卡特心里有点沮丧，因为大家在案发现场一到就去问了夏洛特的邻居和同事，结果却没挖出任何新线索。

And Carter was admittedly a little frustrated to hear that after they had questioned Charlotte's neighbors and coworkers right after they got into the scene, that that had not led to any new suspects.

更让他头疼的是，眼下最有可能提供关键信息的人——也就是代理市长巴里，夏洛特的丈夫——却还在医院，根本没法接受询问。

And also, another point of frustration was the one person who likely would be able to help them the most, at least at this point in the investigation, was the acting mayor, Barry, Charlotte's husband, but he was still in the hospital and so was not being allowed to speak to them.

就在卡特和同事们正苦思冥想下一步该怎么做时，警局大门突然被推开，走进来的人是谁？

But just as Carter and the others were sort of scratching their heads wondering what they were going to do next, the front door of the precinct opened and who walked in?

但巴里先等一下。

But Barry waits.

几分钟后，卡特和巴里坐在了卡特的办公室里。

A few minutes later, Lieutenant Carter and Barry were sitting in Carter's office.

巴里说他刚从医院出来，医生检查过，心脏没问题，之前只是突发恐慌发作。

Barry said he had just been released from the hospital, and they had determined that his heart was fine, and he really had just had a panic attack.

所以一出院，他就立刻赶过来，想看看能为调查做点什么。

So as soon as he was out of the hospital, he'd come right over here to see what he could do to help with the investigation.

于是卡特请巴里详细说说昨天——也就是夏洛特遇害那天——他都做了些什么。

And so Carter asked Barry to walk him through what he had done the previous day, the day Charlotte was killed.

巴里说，他除了代理市长的身份，还是当地国民警卫队军械库的负责人，一整天都在军械库处理公务。

Barry said that on top of being the acting mayor, he was also the head of the local National Guard Armory, and he had been attending to business at the armory all day.

他提到中间确实离开过一会儿，想去剪个头发，大概是上午十点左右，但理发店关门了，他就直接回去了。

He did say he left at some point to get a haircut, maybe midmorning, but the barbershop was closed, so he went right back to work.

他一直待到凌晨四点半，突然接到女儿希瑟惊慌的电话，说妈妈在屋里失去意识了。

He had stayed there until around 04:30 when he got a panicked phone call from his daughter Heather telling him their mom was unresponsive in the house.

巴里说话时，卡特主要盯着他的手和胳膊看，想看看有没有抓痕、伤口或淤青，因为根据现场情况，大家推测夏洛特在遇害前曾激烈反抗过。

As Barry spoke, Carter actually primarily was just looking at Barry's hands and arms to see if there were any scratches or cuts or bruises, Because the running theory, based on what they saw at the crime scene, is that Charlotte put up a fight against her attacker before she was killed.

所以理论上，袭击者身上应该会留下一些伤痕，尤其是手上和胳膊上。

And so presumably, there should be wounds of some kind on the attacker and probably on their hands and arms.

但卡特仔细打量巴里，发现他身上一点外伤都没有。

But as Carter stared at Barry, there were no visible injuries at all.

而且说实话，巴里的说法很清晰、很直接，态度也特别真诚，急着想帮忙。

And also, I mean, Barry's story seemed very linear, very simple, and he seemed very earnest about it and eager to help.

所以呢，卡特当然不能贸然下结论，觉得巴里说的是实话、就不是嫌疑人，但他的第一感觉是，巴里确实没撒谎。

And so, you know, Carter couldn't just jump to conclusions and assume that Barry was telling the truth and that he was not a suspect here, but Carter's first impression was that Barry was telling the truth.

过了一会儿，卡特话锋一转，问巴里有没有想过谁可能想伤害他妻子。

At some point, Carter kind of shifted the conversation and asked Barry if he had any idea about who might have wanted to hurt his wife.

巴里说，有，他确实知道。

And Barry said, yes, he did.

有两个人，要是Charlotte死了，他们会直接从中得利。

There were actually two people who would definitely benefit from Charlotte being dead.

他说第一个是叫戴夫·里德的家伙，其实就是他们女儿卡拉的男朋友。

He said the first person was this guy named Dave Reed, who was actually their daughter Cara's boyfriend.

他和Charlotte曾经试图阻止卡拉和这人来往，因为这人品行不端，但年轻人偷偷约会，最后戴夫让卡拉怀孕了。

He said that he and Charlotte had tried to stop Cara from seeing this guy because he was kind of a bad guy, but the teens had kept sneaking around and eventually Dave had gotten Cara pregnant.

所以巴里怀疑，会不会是戴夫去找Charlotte对质，想要求见卡拉，结果事情失控了。

And so Barry wondered if maybe Dave had gone over to sort of confront Charlotte, to maybe demand to be able to see Cara, and things got out of hand.

卡特立刻拿笔把戴夫的全名记了下来。

Carter grabbed a pen and he wrote down Dave's full name.

接着，他又问起另一个跟夏洛特有矛盾的人。

Then he asked about the second person who had been a problem with Charlotte.

他解释说，他妻子和她表弟正在为一笔遗产争得不可开交。

He explained that his wife and her cousin were in the middle of this contentious dispute over an inheritance.

事实上，他说夏洛特被杀当天，本来约好了要和韦恩还有双方律师见面。

In fact, he said Charlotte had been scheduled to meet with Wayne and their attorneys the same day that she was killed.

听到这儿，卡特一下子坐直了身子，心想这时间点也太巧了，不可能是偶然。

And when he heard this, Carter sat up in his chair, because he thought to himself that the timing here could not be a coincidence.

表弟立刻成了他的头号嫌疑人。

The cousin was suddenly his top suspect.

第二天，卡特走进兰内特警局的审讯室，坐在了韦恩·莱斯和他律师的对面。

The following day, Carter walked into an interrogation room at the Lannett police station, and he sat down across the table from two people, Wayne Rice and his attorney.

卡特打电话约韦恩见面时，韦恩直接说，没有律师在场，他一个字都不会说。

When Carter had called Wayne to set up this meeting, Wayne had responded by saying he would not say a word without his lawyer present.

这让卡特特别怀疑，因为在这通短短的电话里，他根本没提过韦恩是嫌疑人。

And this made Carter pretty suspicious because during this very brief phone call, Carter had never even suggested to Wayne that he was a suspect in his cousin's murder.

所以卡特一坐下来，就直接凑近韦恩，开始步步紧逼。

So when Carter sat down with Wayne and his lawyer, he pretty much leaned right in and grilled Wayne.

他想知道这起遗产纠纷到底怎么回事。

He wanted to know what was going on with this inheritance.

韦恩说，他知道争抢叔叔的遗嘱已经让家里闹得鸡飞狗跳。

Wayne said he knew that his contesting their uncle's will had caused a lot of problems within the family.

但他强调，自己从没想过要伤害夏洛特。

But he said that he hadn't wished any harm on Charlotte.

事实上，在她去世时，夏洛特反而是他最坚定的支持者。

And in fact, she'd been his best ally at the time of her death.

卡特让他解释这句话是什么意思。

Carter asked him to explain what he meant by that.

韦恩说，他最后一次和夏洛特通话时，她表示愿意把叔叔留给她的那块地分一部分给他。

And Wayne said that the last time he spoke to Charlotte, she seemed to be in favor of giving him some of the land that their uncle had left to her.

据韦恩说，夏洛特当时很痛心家人为了钱闹得四分五裂，觉得独吞全部土地根本不值得。

According to Wayne, Charlotte had said she was really upset about the family being torn apart over money, and she felt like keeping all the land for herself was just not worth it.

卡特听到这些时很惊讶，因为巴里之前说夏洛特根本没打算把土地让给韦恩，连这种可能性都没有。

And when Carter heard this, he was pretty surprised, because Barry had made it sound like Charlotte had no intention of giving up the land to Wayne, like that wasn't even an option.

所以卡特开始怀疑，韦恩说的这些话到底是不是真的。

So Carter wondered if anything Wayne was saying here was even true.

他问韦恩当时在哪里，韦恩说他一整天都在镇外一家铝加工厂上班。

He asked Wayne for his alibi, and Wayne said he'd literally been at work all day at an aluminum processing plant just outside of town.

他说自己连午饭都没出去吃，这跟他平时的习惯不一样，可见他真的是整日都在公司。

He said he hadn't even left for lunch, something he typically did, like he was at work truly all day.

他还提供了几位同事的名字，说他们可以证明他的行踪。

And then he also gave Carter the names of several coworkers who could confirm his whereabouts.

在让韦恩离开之前，卡特问他能不能取一下指纹。

Before Carter let Wayne go, he asked him if he could take his fingerprints.

韦恩立刻看向他的律师，律师微微点了点头。

And Wayne immediately looked at his attorney, and his attorney kind of nodded at him.

于是韦恩看着卡特，说：‘好的。’

And so Wayne looked at Carter and said, Okay.

当天晚些时候，卡特找到了名单上的另一名嫌疑人——卡拉的男友戴夫。

Later that same day, Carter sat down with the other suspect on his list: Cara's boyfriend, Dave.

戴夫情绪很低落，态度冷淡，明显对被叫来警局感到不耐烦。

Dave was very moody and standoffish and just seemed kind of annoyed that he was even there.

当卡特问他为什么被叫到警局时，戴夫只是叹了口气，说：是的，我知道原因。

When Carter asked him if he knew why he'd been called to the station in the first place, Dave just kind of sighed and said, Yeah, I do.

他听说了卡拉母亲的事，也明白，以他和她父母之间紧张的关系，自己肯定会被当成嫌疑人——这在他看来简直荒谬。

He'd heard about what happened to Kara's mother, and he knew, you know, given his contentious relationship with her and her husband, that of course he was going to be viewed as a suspect, which to him was absurd.

于是卡特直接问戴夫，他和卡拉父母的关系到底怎么样。

And so Carter actually just asked Dave point blank about his relationship with Cara's parents.

戴夫承认，是的，他们确实不喜欢他。

And Dave would admit that, yeah, they definitely didn't like him.

但他坚持说，他绝不会伤害夏洛特，也不会伤害巴里，而且案发当天他根本没在镇上。

But Dave insisted he would never hurt Charlotte, or Barry for that matter, and he hadn't even been in town the day that she was killed.

他一整天都在城外好几英里外的园林公司上班。

He'd been at work all day at a landscaping job miles away.

卡特向戴夫要了几位同事的名字，想核实他的不在场证明，还让他提供指纹。

Carter asked for the names of some of Dave's coworkers to verify his alibi, and he also asked him to provide his fingerprints.

戴夫翻了个白眼，说：你这纯属白费劲。

To which Dave sort of rolled his eyes and said, you're wasting your time.

但他还是答应了，只想证明自己的清白。

But he said he would do it just because he wanted to clear his name.

几周后，八月里，卡特中尉坐在办公桌前，翻看着刚从法医那里收到的夏洛特的尸检报告。

A couple of weeks later, in the August, Lieutenant Carter sat at his desk flipping through Charlotte's autopsy report, which he had just received from the medical examiner.

他这才意识到，夏洛特的死比他想象的还要残忍。

And he realized that Charlotte's murder had been even more brutal than he had thought.

原来凶器竟是夏洛特自己的上衣。

It turned out the murder weapon had been Charlotte's own blouse.

凶手抓住她衣领上垂下的系带，用它们勒死了她。

Her killer had grabbed the strings dangling from her neckline and then used them strangle her to death.

她头部还受了严重的伤，光是这一处就足以致命，手腕也断了。

She'd also received a pretty serious head injury that could have been fatal on its own, and she also had a broken wrist.

这种程度的暴力让卡特更加确信，这起谋杀案肯定跟私人恩怨有关。

Now, this level of violence made Carter feel even more sure that this murder had to have been personal.

但随着他深入阅读报告，证据似乎描绘出了一幅不同的画面。

But as he read deeper into the report, the evidence seemed to paint a different picture.

现场发现了三组指纹，其中两组属于巴里和卡拉，这并不奇怪，因为他们就住在这所房子里。

There were three sets of fingerprints found at the crime scene, and two of them belonged to Barry and Kara, which was not a surprise because they lived in the house.

但第三组指纹是未知的，跟卡特关注的任何嫌疑人都对不上号，包括卡拉的男友戴夫和夏洛特的表弟韦恩。

But the third set of prints was actually unidentified, and it wasn't a match for any of the suspects on Carter's radar, including Cara's boyfriend Dave and Charlotte's cousin Wayne.

到了这个时候，卡特中尉

So at this point, Lt.

感觉案子完全卡住了。

Carter just felt kind of stuck.

另外，巴里、韦恩和戴夫的不在场证明都核实无误了，这么一来，他的嫌疑人名单真的是彻底清空了。

Also, Barry, Wayne, and Dave's alibis had all checked out as well, so truly his list of suspects was basically down to zero.

那最初的推测是说夏洛特是被熟人杀害的，要是这个推测成立，那卡特就得更深入地调查，才能找出凶手是谁。

So if Charlotte had been killed by someone she knew, which was the initial running theory, Carter was going to have to dig even harder to find out who it was.

1998年10月，也就是夏洛特·韦茨遇害几个月后，卡特警官走进兰内特警局时，正好碰上值班警员挂断电话。

In October 1998, so a couple of months after Charlotte Waits was killed, Lieutenant Carter walked into the Lannett Police Precinct right as the desk sergeant was hanging up the phone.

警员拦住卡特，告诉他刚接到一个关于夏洛特·韦茨案的举报电话。

The sergeant stopped Carter and told him they had just gotten yet another call on the Charlotte Wade's tip line.

还没等警员说完电话里说了什么，卡特心里就涌上一股不祥的预感。

And before the sergeant even explained what the caller had said, Carter felt dread building in the pit of his stomach.

自从警方设立这条举报热线以来，几乎每天都有大量来电。

Ever since the police had set up this tip line for information on Charlotte's murder, it had been flooded with calls basically every day.

但这些线索非但没帮上忙，反而拖慢了调查进度——卡特和团队得花时间去逐一核实每一条信息，可大多数都只是谣言和阴谋论。

But rather than all these tips helping with the case, the tip line had actually just slowed the investigation down because Carter and his team had to take time to follow-up on every single one of these leads, even though most of them were just rumors and conspiracy theories.

到目前为止，他们已经调查过一个住在夏洛特家附近、有入室盗窃前科的年轻人，但他有完美的不在场证明。

By this point, from all these tips, they'd looked into a young man who lived on the same street as Charlotte and who had a history of robbing houses, but he had an airtight alibi.

他们还查过另一个本地男子，他曾用类似手法勒死过女友，可他也同样有不在场证明。

They'd also investigated another local man who'd strangled his girlfriend in similar way to how Charlotte was attacked, but he also had an alibi.

卡特甚至专程开车赶到佐治亚州，调查一条举报：有个小混混在派对上吹嘘自己杀了人，结果发现这人也有不在场证明，而举报者纯粹是编造故事想陷害他。

Carter had even driven all the way to Georgia to investigate a tip that a small time criminal had bragged at a party killing only to find out this small time criminal had an alibi too, and that the tipster had made the whole story up just to get him in trouble.

另外，除了这些新嫌疑人都有不在场证明之外，他们的指纹也不匹配现场发现的那第三组指纹。

Also, in addition to these new suspects having alibis, their prints didn't match the prints found at the crime scene, that third set of prints.

更让人困惑的是，有位专家告诉卡特，那第三组指纹看起来可能属于一个孩子，所以也许这跟谋杀案完全没关系。

But sort of adding more confusion to this was an expert told Carter that actually it seems like those third prints could belong to a child, and so maybe we're totally unrelated to the murder.

于是，当卡特看向正准备告诉他刚才接到什么电话的值班警官时，他做好了听到更多坏消息的准备，因为这些线索电话基本上都没什么好消息。

And so now, as Carter looked over at this desk sergeant who was getting ready to tell him about whatever call he had just had, Carter just braced for more bad news, because all these tip calls were basically bad news.

而当值班警官开口时，果然如此。

And when the desk sergeant spoke, it was.

又是坏消息。

It was more bad news.

警官说，这通电话根本不算什么线索。

The sergeant said, this call wasn't even a tip at all.

是一位当地女士打进来投诉案件毫无进展。

A local woman had just called in to complain about the lack of progress.

对卡特来说，听到这话已经够难受了，再加上他本身压力就大，结果当地人居然往热线里疯狂打电话投诉他，这情况真是糟透了。

And as difficult as it was for Carter to hear that now, in addition to the pressure he was feeling, that locals were literally spamming the hotline just to complain about him, like that was bad.

但卡特也理解他们的沮丧，因为他自己也和城里其他人一样感到无比失落。

But Carter also understood their frustration because he was actually feeling just as upset as everybody else in town.

但在这儿一路碰壁之后，他已经想不出任何办法了。

But after running into nothing but dead ends here, he was out of ideas.

他心里有种预感，除非很快出现重大突破，否则这个案子恐怕就要变成冷案了。

And he had a feeling in his gut that unless something major changed soon, this case unfortunately was going to go cold.

时间快进到三年后的2001年某天早上。

Fast forward about three years to one morning in 2001.

那天，卡特中尉正在桌前工作，突然听到一个熟悉的声音。

On this day, Lieutenant Carter was working at his desk when he heard a familiar sound.

警局的举报热线又响了。

The precinct's tip line was ringing yet again.

在夏洛特·韦茨案最初的那波线索之后，案子已经停滞了整整两年。

After that initial wave of tips on the Charlotte Waits case, the case had completely stalled out for a couple of years.

基本上已经成了悬案。

It was basically cold.

卡特最终被调去处理其他案子，而夏洛特的家人也只能无奈地继续生活，得不到任何交代。

Carter had ultimately been reassigned to other cases and Charlotte's family had just sort of been forced to move on without any sort of closure.

卡拉生了孩子，希瑟也大学毕业了，找到了正经工作。

Kara had her baby and Heather graduated college and was working a real job.

巴里也差不多重新开始了他的生活。

And Barry had also basically moved on with his life.

他再婚了，依然活跃在政界。

He had gotten remarried and was still very much in politics.

事实上，就在前一年，他还竞选过市议员。

And in fact, just the previous year, he'd run for a term on city council.

但在那次选举中，巴里的对手公开指控他杀害了妻子夏洛特。

However, during that election cycle, Berry's opponent had publicly accused him of killing his wife Charlotte.

尽管他根本拿不出任何实质证据，除了说自己做过这样的梦，但这些指控引发了巨大关注，案件也因此重新被翻了出来，举报电话再次源源不断地打进来。

And even though he had no actual evidence to support his accusation aside from the fact that he had a dream about it all the attention from these accusations had totally reinvigorated the case, and calls had once again begun flowing to this tip line.

不过，和以前一样，这些来电绝大多数都是毫无根据的猜测和流言蜚语。

However, just like before, the vast majority of these tips were just wild theories and gossip.

但那天，负责接热线的值班警员打开卡特的办公室时，卡特抬头一看，发现他明显兴奋不已——显然，热线里传来的信息非同小可。

But that particular day, when the desk sergeant who manned the tip line opened up Carter's office, Carter looked up and saw he was visibly excited, like whatever he had just heard on the tip line actually mattered.

卡特还没来得及问对方‘你听到什么了？’

And before Carter could even ask him like, what'd you hear?

值班警员说，他刚接到两个举报人的电话，他们掌握的线索非常关键，足以彻底揭开这起案件的真相。

The desk sergeant said he had just spoken to two tipsters who clearly had some real information that they wanted to share that was gonna blow this case wide open.

根据这条关键线索，结合物证和目击证词，警方还原了1998年8月4日夏洛特·韦茨遭遇的经过。

Based on that crucial tip, forensic evidence and witness testimony, this is what police believe happened to Charlotte Waits on 08/04/1998.

上午11点半左右，凶手开车停在夏洛特家门外，一眼就认出了停在车库里她的车。

Around 11:30AM, the killer pulled up outside of Charlotte's house and right away recognized Charlotte's car in the garage.

看到那辆车，凶手顿时心跳加速——他原本并不确定她当天会不会在家。

And when they saw it, their heart raced with excitement because they hadn't been sure that she'd even be home.

但显然，凶手赶得正是时候。

But clearly, the killer had gotten here right at the right time.

于是他把车停在车道尽头，走进车库，朝通往屋内的那扇门走去。

So they parked at the end of the driveway and they walked up into the garage and they walked over to the door that led into the house.

他们试了试门把手，发现没锁，就直接推门进去了。

And they tried the handle and found it was unlocked, so they opened it up.

凶手走进厨房，立刻听到二楼有脚步声，心里明白，肯定是夏洛特，家里没别人。

The killer stepped inside the kitchen, and right away they heard footsteps on the 2nd Floor, and they knew it, it had to be Charlotte, there was nobody else home.

于是凶手关上门，绕到通向二楼的楼梯，一步步上了楼。

So the killer closed the door, they went around to the stairs that led to the 2nd Floor, and up they went.

就在凶手刚走到二楼走廊时，夏洛特从浴室走出来，看见了他，显然被吓了一跳。

And right as the killer reached the 2nd Floor hallway, Charlotte came out of the bathroom and saw them, and Charlotte was definitely very surprised to see them standing there.

但凶手立刻直截了当地问了她一个问题。

But the killer immediately just asked her a question, point blank.

她回答的答案，完全不是凶手想听的。

And when she answered the question, it was not what the killer wanted to hear.

凶手试图让她改变主意，换个说法，可对话很快升级成激烈的争吵。

And so the killer tried to get her to change her mind, to answer this question differently, but the conversation quickly escalated into a full blown argument.

最后凶手彻底失控，一巴掌打在了夏洛特脸上。

And then the killer just totally lost their temper and hit Charlotte across the face.

鲜血立刻从夏洛特的鼻子涌出来，她被这一下打懵了，后退几步，回到浴室拿毛巾按住脸。

Blood immediately began pouring out of Charlotte's nose and kind of stunned, she just kind of stepped back and went back into the bathroom to grab a towel to blot her face with it.

这时候，凶手意识到自己已经越界了。

Now at this point, the killer knew they had crossed a line.

再想说服夏洛特听自己的，根本不可能了。

And so persuading Charlotte at this point to do what they wanted was clearly out of the question.

这已经是个无法回头的时刻了。

Like this was a no going back moment.

夏洛特拿着毛巾、满脸是血地从浴室出来，整个人都吓坏了，凶手走上前，从背后一把抱住她，抓住她衬衫领口的系带，死死勒住她的脖子。

So as Charlotte came out of the bathroom with this towel on her face looking totally shaken up, the killer walked up and grabbed her from behind and they clutched the strings that were hanging from the neckline of her blouse and they pulled them tight around her neck.

夏洛特顿时喘不上气，拼命挣扎，但凶手的勒颈动作完全制住了她。

And so Charlotte began gasping for breath and trying to fight them off, but the killer absolutely had her in this choke hold.

直到夏洛特因缺氧停止了挣扎，凶手才松开系带，一脚把她踹下了楼梯。

And then finally, when Charlotte had lost enough oxygen that she stopped struggling, the killer let go of the strings and then kicked her down the staircase.

当凶手看到夏洛特倒在楼梯底部、一动不动，明显已经没了气息，才猛然意识到自己刚刚做了什么。

And when the killer saw what they had done, when they saw Charlotte at the base of the stairs, obviously motionless, very likely dead, the reality of what they had just done, it hit them.

于是他慌乱中抓起了夏洛特掉在地上的那条沾血的毛巾。

And so in a panic they grabbed the bloody towel that Charlotte had dropped.

她原本用它来按住鼻子，但已经掉在地上了。

She was using to blot her nose, but she had dropped it on the ground.

他拿着毛巾冲下楼梯，擦掉了夏洛特脸上剩下的血迹，然后把毛巾扔进了洗衣房。

They grabbed that and they rushed down the stairs and kind of cleaned up the rest of the blood on Charlotte's face and then dumped the towels in the laundry room.

接着他从桌上拿走夏洛特的钱包，把里面的东西全撒在她尸体旁边，想让警察以为这是一起抢劫不成的命案。

Then they grabbed Charlotte's purse off the table and kind of scattered its contents on the floor near her body, hoping the police would think this was a robbery gone wrong.

之后，他逃离了房子，回到车上，赶在任何人发现他失踪之前，匆匆回到了国民警卫队军械库上班。

And then after that, they fled the house, got back in their car, and hurried back to work at the National Guard Armory before anyone even noticed they were gone.

凶手是琳内特，阿拉巴马州的市长，也是夏洛特自己的丈夫巴里·韦茨。

The killer was Lynette, Alabama's mayor, and Charlotte's own husband, Barry Waits.

巴里私下欠了一大笔债，急需夏洛特叔叔留下的全部遗产来还清。

Barry had secretly gotten into a lot of debt, and he needed the full inheritance from Charlotte's uncle to pay it off.

所以那天中午，巴里回到家里，直接面对夏洛特，问她：你打算怎么处理和韦恩的这次会面？

And so when Barry went to his own home in the middle of the day and basically confronted Charlotte and asked her, what do you plan to do with this meeting with Wayne?

你打算分给他一部分遗产吗？

Are you going to give him some of this inheritance?

她告诉他，没错，她的计划是平分这笔遗产。

And she told him that, yes, her plan was to settle and split the inheritance.

巴里一听这话，立刻失控，杀死了自己的妻子。

Well, when Barry heard that, he snapped and he killed his wife.

这不只是因为生气她做这个决定，更是因为他急需更多钱。

Not just because he was mad at her for her decision, but also because he needed more money.

他想：反正她要把一半给韦恩，那我至少能拿一半；但如果我杀了她，就能拿到她的寿险赔偿，加起来就足够还清债务了。

He's thinking, okay, I'm gonna get half of this inheritance because she's given the other half to Wayne, but if I kill her, I'll get her life insurance policy and then together, I'll have enough to pay off my debts.

然而，保险公司调查后发现，巴里从一开始就明显是嫌疑人，因此拒绝向他支付赔偿金。

However, when the insurance company went to pay out the claim, because Barry early on in the investigation was clearly a suspect in his wife's murder, the company would not pay him the money.

相反，他们把保险金直接给了两个女儿。

Instead, they paid the insurance money to their daughters.

但几年后，巴里还是想方设法骗女儿们签字，把钱转到自己名下。

But a couple years later, Berry still tried to get his hands on that money by tricking his own daughters into signing it over to him.

但当希瑟和卡拉意识到他在做什么时，终于看清了父亲的真面目。

But when Heather and Kara realized what he was doing, they finally saw their father for what he was.

于是，正是这两个女儿提供了关键线索，让整个案件有了突破。

And so it was the daughters who were the tipsters who broke this case wide open.

她们向卡特警官详细讲述了父亲种种可疑的行为，以及他谋杀妻子明显的经济动机。

They told Lieutenant Carter everything they knew about their dad's very suspicious behavior, along with his clear financial motives for the murder.

她们还说，父亲曾威胁她们隐瞒信息，甚至故意拨打假举报电话，想把警方的注意力从自己身上引开。

They also said that their father had intimidated them into hiding information from the police and had even called in fake tips to redirect attention away from himself.

巴里·韦茨于2006年2月被捕，九个月后被裁定犯有一级谋杀罪。

Barry Waits was arrested in February 2006, and nine months later, he was found guilty of first degree murder.

他被判处四十年监禁。

He was sentenced to forty years in prison.

顺便提一下，我们讲的这些故事都基于真实事件。

A quick note about our stories: they are all based on true events.

不过为了保护相关人员，我们有时会使用化名，部分细节也做了艺术加工，以增强戏剧效果。

But we sometimes use pseudonyms to protect the people involved, and some details are fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

《MrBallen播客》——那些离奇、黑暗又神秘的故事，由我本人MrBallen主持并担任执行制片。

The MrBallen podcast, Strange, Dark, and Mysterious Stories, is hosted and executive produced by me, MrBallen.

我们的主笔是埃文·艾伦，制作人是杰里米·博恩。

Our head of writing is Evan Allen, produced by Jeremy Bone.

本集剧本由凯特·加拉格尔撰写。

This episode was written by Kate Gallagher.

调研与事实核查由谢莉·徐、萨曼莎·范休斯、埃文·比默、阿比盖尔·舒姆韦和卡米尔·卡拉汉共同完成。

Research and fact checking by Shelly Hsu, Samantha Van Hoos, Evan Beamer, Abigail Shumway, and Camille Callahan.

调研与事实核查的监督由斯蒂芬·艾尔负责。

Research and fact checking supervision by Stephen Eir.

音频剪辑与后期制作由惠特·拉卡西奥和科尔·拉卡西奥完成，额外音频剪辑由乔丹·斯蒂德汉姆负责，制作协调由萨曼莎·柯林斯执行，制作支持由安东尼奥·莫纳塔和德兰娜·科利提供，封面设计由杰西卡·克罗格斯顿·基纳完成，主题曲《Something Wicked》由罗斯·巴格登创作。

Audio editing and post produced by Whit Lacascio and Cole Lacascio additional audio editing by Jordan Stidham production coordination by Samantha Collins production support by Antonio Monata and Delana Corley artwork by Jessica Clogston Kiner Theme song called Something Wicked by Ross Bugden.

感谢收听《MrBallen播客》。

Thank you for listening to the MrBallen Podcast.

顺便提醒一下，我们每期新推出的独家内容，当天就能在MrBallen的YouTube频道上同步观看。

And just a reminder, every new and exclusive episode we put out on the MrBallen Podcast, you can also now watch on the MrBallen YouTube channel that very same day.

相信我，这些故事中有些你非得亲眼看到才能相信。

And trust me, some of these stories you truly have to see to believe.

再说一遍，我的YouTube频道就叫MrBallen。

Again, my YouTube channel is just called MrBallen.

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If you want to listen to episodes one week early and ad free, you can subscribe to SiriusXM Podcast Plus on Apple Podcasts or visit siriusxm.com/podcastplus to listen with Spotify or another app of your choice.

今天就到这里了。

So that's gonna do it.

非常感谢你们的支持。

I really appreciate your support.

我们下期再见。

Until next time, see you.