After being forced to confront the cruelty of child sexual abuse, Batman is emotionally distraught. He is then provided with an "investigator's journal" from Alfred. Alfred had kept the journal for years, locked away and hidden; it was Martha Wayne's. As it turns out, underneath the happy homemaker disguise, Mrs. Wayne was an investigative sociologist studying an international ring of pedophiles. Her research had produced names of everyone involved in the making of child pornography. She was, as Alfred described, "the first to link child molestation with organized crime."
Batman began to question the "robbery gone bad" that led to his parents' deaths. He checked to see who had inquired about the case outside of their assignment. Lieutenant Alexander Horton, GPD Sex Crimes Unite, had made one. Immediately suspicious, Batman checked the name of the Lieutenant against his mother's journal. He had met with a woman named Barbara Jane Slocum a total of seven times.
Barbara Jane Slocum had committed suicide, according to the Batcomputer, and the investigating officer had been (guess who) Lieutenant Alexander Horton. Batman proceeded to check Slocum's bank records and found that money had been transferred on many different occasions from Udon Khai (a country in which there is no age of consent and, therefore, child pornography and prostitution literally made up the country's backbone) to Slocum just before she met with Horton. The transfers were reported as gifts from her uncle, who just so happened to be one of Martha Wayne's known offenders.
It became evident, as the search continued, that Horton was being paid to shut up the Human Rights activists and other people trying to shut down the "child sex industry". He was also paid to keep the offenders out of trouble.
Batman visits the Lieutenant, accusing him of murdering Joe Chill. Horton admits, saying that he was hired by Slocum. Slocum wanted Chill murdered because she feared that he would tell the cops what had really happened on the night Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed. Bruce's parents were not killed for their money; rather, Martha Wayne was a risk to the child porn organizations operating in or with Gotham.
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