Drive Around Dead Cats and Dogs on the Roads

A crime has been committed—a fight, an automobile hit—resulting in one person dead and another seriously wounded. The accused immediately confessed and repented of what he had done. To Investigator Vereshchagin, buoyed by his promotion, it seemed that the investigation was finished, because everything was in plain sight, and the new investigator, Subbotin, only had to formalize the documents and write the indictment. But Subbotin, having studied the case materials and grasped the essence of the matter, understands that everything is not as simple as his colleague thought. He doesn’t believe the accused’s confessions; he doesn’t believe the victims; what worries him is the incoherence of the witnesses’ statements and small inconsistencies in the testimony of the accused that Vereshchagin either didn’t notice or didn’t want to notice. The investigation continues.