In Today's Case: Missing Kids Case

Tess laid there in the middle of the night. She looked over at Rachel to see her sound asleep. She flipped her blankets off of her to see she was fully dressed. She sat up and then picked up her bag that laid next to her bed. She tip-toed out of the room and closed the door quietly. She turned to see someone sitting in Richard's chair, but it was only Richard. She sighed in relief. She made her way to the door. She quietly opened it and then closed it making sure she didn't wake up anyone.

That morning around 10:00; Tess came through the door yawning and looking tired. Conan, as usual on Saturday was the only one home since Richard always took Rachel out when Conan was asleep.

"Where were you?" He asked. Tess gave him a tired smile and placed the bag onto the floor below the coat hanger.

"Out." Tess answered as she rubbed her eyes. She walked over to one of the couches and fell onto it closing her eyes.

"Out where?" Conan asked. Tess laid down flat onto the couch. She rolled to her side and yawned.

"For an early morning walk…" soon Tess had fallen asleep. Conan looked at her funny.

'You never go for early morning walks Tess.' Conan thought to himself. He watched Tess sleep on the couch for a little bit.

Then Richard and Rachel came through the door. Conan turned and looked at them.

"Hi Conan!" Rachel said walking into the room. Conan smiled back at her.

"Hi Rachel." He said. Richard walked over to Tess and looked down at her. He stuck his hands into his pockets then turned and looked at Conan.

"When did she come home?" Richard asked. Conan looked over at the clock then back at him.

"Maybe 20 minutes ago." Conan answered.

"And she's been sleeping ever since?" Rachel asked. Conan nodded his head. "That's funny." Rachel stated. "I wonder where she went."

"What do you mean?" Richard asked.

"Well, when I got up this morning she wasn't in bed." Rachel answered.

"Well, she told me when she got home that she went for an early morning walk." Conan stated. Richard shrugged his shoulders.

"Oh well, we should let her sleep then." Richard stated as he sat down at his desk.

Later that day; Tess woke up. She sat up and looked around. Richard wasn't at his desk and no one was around. She fixed her hair and stood up. She looked down onto his desk to see that there was a note.

Tess,

Dad and I went out and Conan is with his friends. He should be back shortly if not see you when I get home!

You're Cousin,

Rachel

Tess smiled and shook her head. "That girl is always dragging him somewhere." Tess stated as she turned around. She walked toward her bag that she was surprised was untouched. Usually if there was something weird going on with her Conan would've gone through her bag, but this time he must've believed her.

She got down onto her knees and opened it. She searched through it and smiled. She stood upright holding a bag in her hands. She walked over to the phone on Richard's desk and turned it facing her. She picked it up the phoneand started dialing.

"Hi it's me… I still have it. No, my bag was still zipped closed when I got up so he must've believed me. See you tonight." Tess hung up the phone and turned it back around. She walked to her bag and placed the baggie back into it and zipped it up. She lifted her bag off of the floor and placed it back in her and Rachel's room pushing it underneath her bed.

Tess left her room closing the door when she heard the door open. She looked over to see Conan entering. She smiled at him as she took a seat on the couch.

"You're up." He stated. Tess nodded her head.

"Yeah, I just got up. Thank god Rachel left me that note I would've thought something happened to you all." Tess stated. Conan smiled.

"Well nothing did happen." Conan stated.

"So Jimmy… did you have fun with your friends?" Tess asked. Conan rolled his eyes.

"Yeah you can say that." Conan stated. On the other side of the door was Rachel. She opened it looking at Tess and Conan.

"Did you just call him Jimmy?" Rachel asked as she pointed down at Conan. Tess jumped off of the couch.

"He's not Jimmy… if that's what your thinking." Tess stated. Rachel looked at her funny. "You know I call every kid I know Jimmy, except for the girls." Tess added. Conan looked at Tess.

'Great cover up.' He thought to himself. Rachel nodded her head as Richard came into the room.

"Your up Tess finally." He stated.

"Hey could've woken me up you know." Tess stated as she crossed her arms.

"Well Conan told us that you went for an early morning walk so we let you sleep." Rachel stated as she shut the door after Richard had came in.

"You didn't have to." She said.

"But we did anyways." Conan stated looking up at her. Tess smiled back down at him.

The day came and went. Tess was in her bed and again she looked over at Rachel to make sure she was sleeping. She flipped the blankets off of her and walked to the window fully dressed.

"It's raining out tonight." Tess whispered to herself. She got onto her hands and knees reached underneath her bed. She grabbed the strap of her bag and pulled it out. She held onto it as she stood upright walking very quietly out of her room. She looked at Richard's desk to see no one there. She walked to the door grabbing her leather jacket off of the coat hanger and walking outside of the room. Conan came from around the corner rubbing his eyes when he heard the door shut. He looked around and saw nothing. He walked to the windows behind Richard's desk and looked out to see Tess standing there putting on her jacket picking up her bag and walking off down the street.

"Tess?" he said confused. "So much for morning walks." He stated.

The night passed and Tess entered the door hanging up her jacket. It was early morning and no one was up yet.

"Where did you go last night?" a voice came. Tess looked over to see Conan standing there. She placed her bag on the floor.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I saw you last night. You were gone all night." Conan answered. Water made its way out of her bangs and down the bridge of her nose.

"I wasn't out last night." Tess stated. Conan crossed his arms as he walked forward.

"You're lying. It was down pouring last night and you seem to be wet. There's no way that you went for an early morning walk and it was raining because it stopped around 3 this morning and now it's…" Conan looked over at the clock then back at Tess, "5. Two hours ago it stopped raining."

"Just because my hair is wet doesn't mean anything." Tess told Conan.

"It means a lot when you're leaving in the middle of the night and coming back during the morning and lying to everyone." Conan stated. Tess crossed her arms.

"I didn't go anywhere last night; I went for a morning walk." Tess stated.

"Leaving the house around 12 at night when everyone else is sleeping?" Conan asked her.

"12 is still morning Jimmy." Tess stated rudely. Conan looked at the bag that rested on the floor.

"And what's in you're bag?" Conan asked. Tess looked down picking it up.

"Nothing you need to know." Tess stated as she placed the strap on her shoulder. "It's for me and not you." Tess stated as she walked into her room. Conan watched as the door shut quietly not trying to wake anyone up.

'What are you hiding this time Tess?' He asked himself.

Now everyone was awake. Richard was sitting at his desk; Tess, Rachel, and Conan were on the floor trying to put a puzzle together. Tess and Conan said nothing to each other as they worked on it with Rachel.

Rachel glanced at the two then back at the huge puzzle. "Why are you guys so quiet?" Rachel asked them. Tess looked up glancing at Conan then at Rachel.

"I'm just trying to figure out which piece goes where." Tess stated holding three pieces of the puzzle in her hand. Rachel smiled.

"You can solve murder crimes but you can't put a puzzle together." Rachel stated smiling. Tess laughed a little agreeing with her.

"Yeah you're right." Tess stated. Conan didn't even look up at her. He wanted to know what Tess was doing in the middle of the night with her bag. He knew it must've been something, and this was just another secret to crack out of Tess.

Breaking the silence, Richard's phone begun to ring. Rachel, Tess, and Conan looked up at him as he jumped and answered it.

"Richard Moore's Office. Oh! Inspector Maguire how are you this morning… I'm good, what can I do for you?" Richard was silent, "yes I remember those kids that went missing… you found them… oh… we'll be right there Inspector." Richard hung up the phone.

"What about some kids?" Tess asked a little confused. Richard looked at her.

"About 3 years ago there were six kids that went missing and the only suspects we had were their parents but they were proven not guilty and now those kids were found." Richard stated.

"Are they dead?" Rachel asked. Richard nodded his head.

"Yeah… come on Inspector Maguire wants us there." Richard stated. Rachel, Tess and Conan left their puzzle and walked out the door with Richard behind them.

As usual Tess and Conan in the back and Richard and Rachel in the front. Conan wanted to know what business Tess had in the middle of the night. Could she being seeing that guy who she thinks is her parents' murderer? Or is she doing something else? But why would she carry her bag with her? Nothing made sense now that Conan thought about for the whole ride there.

The murder scene was out of Tokyo and in the woods by Tokyo's highways. Police car squads parked with their lights on. Do not cross signs have been laid out and they blocked off one exit.

Richard parked the car and they all got out and crossed the sign greeting cops on their way toward Inspector Maguire. Inspector Maguire turned and shook Richard's hand.

"I'm glad you can make it Richard." He stated.

"Glad to be here Inspector." Richard replied. Inspector Maguire led them to the murder scene which was off of the road. They walked on down the hill to see six kids lined up together with their arms and legs cut off and slashes in their throats.

Rachel placed her hand on her mouth, "Oh my…" Rachel looked away unable to keep her eyes on them. Conan's mouth was dropped open and Tess just looked at the bodies disgusted.

"Who would do this?" Tess asked as she bent down near one of the kids looking at their arms.

"That's why we called you here." Inspector Maguire stated. Tess placed her hand on one of the kid's arm. It was cold and not yet stiff.

"The arm is cold and not yet stiff." She stated as she stood upright. "Looks like they were just killed." She added.

"What about the murder weapon?" Richard asked as he looked at Inspector Maguire.

"Nothing. There are no finger prints on them."

"There's more then one weapon?" Conan asked. Inspector Maguire looked down at him and nodded his head.

"Yes. One was an axe and the other was a knife." Inspector Maguire stated.

"The axe was most likely used to cut off the arms and legs of the children and the knife was most likely used to slash throats." Conan said looking at the bodies.

"Your right Conan." Inspector Maguire stated. Rachel, Richard, and Inspector Maguire walked back up the hill onto the blocked off exit leaving Conan and Tess behind.

"Who would do this?" Tess asked as she looked at each and every child.

"A sick twisted freak." Conan stated.

"Or… freaks." Tess stated as she looked closely at a child.

"What?" Conan asked as he walked over to her.

"Look right there." She stated as she pointed to the kid's arm. "His arm was hacked off in an angle and the other one of there." She pointed to the last one on the left. "His arm was hacked of straight."

"But the murderer could've done each child differently." Conan stated. Tess nodded her head.

"Agreed but this one right here, the arm was hacked off looks like a 30 degree angle. My guess is that there were two murderers one just hacking away and the other hacking them off straight." Tess stated.

"You're right." Conan stated. "There could be two murderers."

"Hey!" Tess and Conan looked up to see Rachel at the top of the hill. "Come on! Inspector Maguire has some clues and the suspects for kidnapping these children!" Tess and Conan made their way up the hill and back onto the concrete of the street. They walked over to Inspector Maguire who was holding a baggie.

"Here are some rings we found that one of the child were holding in their hands." He stated. Conan looked at them weirdly.

'Wedding Rings? So the murderers must be a married couple.' Conan thought.

"Those are wedding rings." Richard stated. Then a man and a woman walked over. The woman was dressed in a pink dress with red flowers on it and the man was wearing simple pair of jeans and a t-shirt.

"Here is Mr. and Mrs. Hobweg, there suspects of the murdered children." Inspector Maguire stated.

"We didn't not murderer our own children!" Mrs. Hobweg shouted. Tess looked down at their hands.

"You two are married right?" Tess asked still looking at their hands.

"Yes why?" Mr. Hobweg asked.

"Where are your wedding rings?" Tess asked him as she looked up. "Unless those are it." Tess stated nudging her head toward the baggie that Inspector Maguire held in his hands. Mr. and Mrs. Hobweg said nothing to her.

"Are you saying that we're the murderers?" Mr. Hobweg asked. Tess nodded her head.

"Yes. Its' every odd that a married couple aren't wearing their rings. Unless while you guys kidnapped your kids one of them took your wedding rings off to give us a clue to who are their murderers or one of them grabbed onto your hands and the rings slipped right off." Tess stated. "All their arms are cut off in different angles. Three of them were cut in angles and the other three were cut off straight. Showing that there could be two murderers and I'm guessing that you were the two."

"Okay! All right! You don't have to say anymore." Mrs. Hobweg said to Tess. Mr. Hobweg backed away from his wife.

"Don't!" he shouted.

"We did kill them."

That was that. Mr. and Mrs. Hobweg we're dragged down to the police station and Richard, Tess, Rachel, and Conan went home.

That night Tess was up again and leaving the house. Little did she know that Conan was awake watching her leave.

'Where are you going?' Conan asked himself as he followed Tess.

Tess made her way down town toward Dr Agasa's lab. Conan stopped as she entered the lab. "Why did she come here?" he asked himself another question following her inside.

"Dr Agasa?" Tess called out.

"Ah Tess you're here." He stated as he was sitting in his computer chair working on a cure for Conan.

"Sorry, I would've been here earlier but I waited because Jimmy was catching on." Tess stated as she placed her bag onto a table and opened it.

"That Jimmy." Dr Agasa stated. Tess smiled and nodded her head.

"You got that right." Tess pulled out the baggie. "Here." Conan spotted two pills.

'Are those the pills I was given?! But… how did she get a hold of those?!' Conan asked himself in shock. He didn't know if those were the pills but he wanted to know how Tess got a hold of them.

Next Time on Case Closed: "Jimmy?" Conan is caught at Dr Agasa's lab by Tess. He thinks that the pills Tess has are the ones he was given about a year ago. But he can't think about that when a case happens… again. This time a teenager about Tess's age has ran away from home, or that's what the parents think but it's been one year. Where did she go too?

Next Time: Run Away Teen

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