When she saw Luther's surprised expression, Joyce explained, "That afternoon, I had received a strange threatening phone call, the phone number is quite strange. The other end sounded like a man, using a voice processor. He said I should go back to the Warner residence immediately and alone. If I dare to call the police, Stephanie would be dead."
"I was not sure what had happened, and was afraid that something had really happened to Grandma, so I rushed downstairs and took a taxi back home."
She said while setting up the video and pressing the play button.
In the video, she sat down in the back of the cab, panting, and said to the driver, "No. 1 Sophora Street, please."
Then, she looked at her watch over and over again.
"Please hurry up." She urged the driver.
"Miss, there's a lot of traffic on the road at this hour. I have exceeded the speed limit!" In the video, although the driver's face could not be seen, the driver's voice came clearly.
Immediately after it, she took out two five hundred dollar bills from her wallet and stuffed them into the driver’s pocket, "It's really a hundred thousand dollars, please."
"Got it." The driver replied.
Then, the sound of the driver stepping on the gas and accelerating could be faintly heard.
After a while.
They saw her pick up the phone, hesitate for a moment, and finally dial a number.
"I'm too late to explain to you, I'm at the Warner residence, No. 1 Sophora Street. I brought you here the last time. Juanita, listen, twenty minutes from now, if I call you within twenty minutes, it means everything’s okay. If it’s over 20 minutes and I don't call you, you call the police."
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