Who Killed Tunde? Part 4 - by Emilia's Pen

Part 4: Tangled Lies Detective Aisha Bello sat in her office, the case files spread before her like a puzzle with missing pieces. Tunde’s phone, now unlocked by the tech team, revealed the unknown number belonged to a burner phone, untraceable but active near the mansion during the party. The cryptic text—“Meet me now. We need to end this”—gnawed at her. Whoever received it likely stood in the study with Tunde when he died. Aisha decided to press the suspects harder, setting up interviews at the station to rattle them. First up was Kemi, whose lawyerly poise cracked under scrutiny. Aisha revealed the text she’d sent Tunde about “owing” her. Kemi’s eyes widened. “It was about our friendship, not murder!” she snapped. But Aisha had new evidence: a security camera from the mansion’s back entrance showed Kemi entering the house near the study 10 minutes before the scream, not at the pool as claimed. Kemi stammered, saying she’d gone to grab a drink, but her story felt flimsy. Chinedu was next, his arrogance masking unease. Aisha confronted him with the email about Tunde’s plan to cut him from the company sale. “You stood to lose millions,” she said. Chinedu admitted to arguing with Tunde in the study earlier but swore he left afterward. Aisha dropped a bombshell: a guest’s phone video caught Chinedu slipping back toward the study just before the murder, his face tense. “I was looking for Tunde to talk, not kill!” he insisted, but his alibi was crumbling. Amara’s interview was tense. Her diary’s bitter entries about Tunde painted a picture of obsession. When Aisha mentioned the burner phone, Amara paled. “I don’t have one,” she said, but her trembling hands betrayed her. Aisha revealed a witness who saw Amara texting furiously near the bar, minutes before the scream, on a cheap phone she later tucked away. Amara claimed it was her work phone, but she couldn’t produce it. Her bathroom alibi now seemed like a convenient lie. Malik remained stoic, even when Aisha showed him the palm oil-stained cloth from his van. “I cater. Oil’s everywhere,” he said coolly. But a new clue tightened the noose: a delivery log showed Malik had stepped away from the kitchen for 20 minutes during the party, unaccounted for. When pressed about his grudge against Tunde, Malik’s calm broke. “He ruined my reputation, but I’m not a killer,” he muttered. Aisha noticed his hands clench when she mentioned the burner phone. As the interviews ended, Aisha got a breakthrough: the burner phone’s signal had pinged a tower near the mansion, and its only other activity was a call to one of the suspects’ numbers that night. She cross-checked the call logs and felt a chill. The pieces were falling into place, but a final confrontation was needed to unmask Tunde’s killer.

Who Killed Tunde?

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