Three people and one ghost solved 43 mysterious cases.

The area near Tianshui Bridge was originally very desolate, with only a few village houses inhabited by villagers.

15 years ago, it was approved as industrial land.

Several large factories have enclosed land here, mostly clothing manufacturing factories, recruiting nearby villagers as workers.

Ten years ago, with the economic development, the clothing industry was doing better and better.

Village houses were demolished one after another, and garment factories continued to expand, attracting a large number of migrant workers in addition to villagers.

The Tianshui Bridge, which spans the new city and the old city, is a hub for trucks, and the economy has developed.

Xiao Xi is a female worker in a factory called Meiwang Garment Factory.

Regarding Xiao Xi's death, it is impossible to determine whether it was suicide or murder.

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The factory implements a shift system, divided into three shifts: morning, afternoon and evening. On January 1990, 1, Xiao Xi happened to be assigned to the middle shift, which worked from 2 pm to 2 pm.

And because of overtime work, I was busy until early in the morning and didn't finish my work.

After that, Xiao Xi left the factory and walked home alone. At that time, it was very deserted here at night.

She was originally a villager in this area and did not live in a dormitory, so she could get an extra [-] yuan a month.

It takes about 20 minutes to walk from the factory to her home. But this 20-minute journey became the last stretch of her life.

On the morning of January 1, some villagers saw a female body floating in the river and hurriedly called the police.

After being salvaged, the deceased was quickly identified as Xiao Xi.

The cause of death was drowning. There were no other injuries on the body. Xiao Xi could not swim, so it was impossible to determine how she died.

suicide?

It is possible.

For love? no.

Xiao Xi is very simple. She has never been in love and has never heard of any extreme suitors.

However, the work in the factory was very intense and stressful. Xiao Xi might have been suddenly stimulated by something and couldn't think about it for a moment, so she jumped into the river.

Accident?

It is also possible.

The body was found in the river. There was a path beside the river with some stone piers on the path.

If you cross the river from the trail instead of the bridge, it will shorten Xiao Xi's return home and is a shortcut.

It was possible that when Xiao Xi was crossing the river on the stone piers, it was dark, her feet slipped and she fell into the river.

It was late at night, no one was around, and the river was fast. She had no way to seek help and drowned.

The stone piers rise and fade as the river water rises, leaving no shoe marks.

Could it be murder?

There are also suspects.

After police investigation at the time, it was discovered that there were actually four suspects.

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The first one is the department head of Xiaoxi Garment Factory.

At that time, several workers reported that Xiao Xi was at odds with the department leader and the two had a quarrel.

Some people say that the department head took the kickback and secretly replaced a batch of production materials.

Is there a possibility that Xiao Xi discovered this matter and Xiao Xi decided to report it.

The department head was afraid of losing his job, so he came up with the idea of ​​murdering Xiao Xi?

The department leader said that late at night on January 1, she had dinner and drinks with several people in the dormitory.

There was a break for a while, about 10 minutes.

If the calculation is accurate, the department leader had time to commit the crime, and she deliberately asked someone to be in the dormitory as a time witness.

Then he took the opportunity to leave, left the factory by a small road, and arrived at the river, where he saw Xiao Xi.

Push her into the river and run away.

However, there was no actual evidence. Further investigation revealed that the department head did not receive kickbacks.

She also said that she only had a quarrel with Xiao Xi over work matters, and it was impossible for her to kill someone for such a trivial matter.

The second suspect is Xiao Xi's adoptive father.

When Xiao Xi was very young, her parents divorced.

She lived with her mother, who later remarried, and her adoptive father was not doing his job properly. Xiao Xi said that she hated this adoptive father.

She also told a co-worker that she once found her adoptive father peeping on her when she was taking a shower at home.

Is there a possibility that the adoptive father has always had evil intentions towards Xiao Xi?

So at night, he secretly hid by the dark river, waited for Xiao Xi to appear, and suddenly pounced on Xiao Xi, intending to do evil.

Xiao Xi discovered that during the struggle, her adoptive father pushed Xiao Xi into the river?

Xiao Xi's adoptive father was brought back to the police station for questioning. The adoptive father shouted that he was wronged, "Officer, what evidence do you have? It's very hurtful for you to doubt me like this."

The police asked, where were you on the night of January 1?

The adoptive father hesitated in his answer. Sometimes he said he was in a bar, and sometimes he said he was at a friend's house.

After investigation, it was found that the adoptive father had lied and concealed his trip on January 1.

The police thought that the adoptive father was very suspicious and said, if you don't tell the truth, then we will prosecute you.

After hearing this, his adoptive father finally decided to recruit him. It turned out that he was gambling in an underground casino on the night of January 1.

I found that underground casino and asked, it was indeed the case.

But the underground casino was very close to the river, and there were many people in the casino at that time. Everyone was staring at the gambling board. No one could confirm whether the adoptive father had been in the casino all the time and what time he stayed there.

It is possible that he ran away to commit the crime and then returned to the casino.

But conjectures are just conjectures, and there is no actual evidence to prove that the adoptive father committed murder.

At this time, the third suspect appeared.

One day, the police were passing by the river and saw an unkempt man grinning, lighting a fire and burning something in a tin bucket.

The police took a look and found a woman's coat in the tin bucket.

The police were impressed by the red down jacket, and some workers reported that the last time they saw Xiao Xi, she was wearing this jacket.

This is also a suspicious point in this case.

When Xiao Xi's body was found in the river, she was wearing a piece of underwear. Logically speaking, it was cold this month, so she couldn't wear this thin piece.

Now I have found the coat and it is confirmed that it belongs to Xiao Xi.

This man was also found, how did he get this coat? Could he be the murderer of Xiao Xi?

I took this man back to the police station, but still couldn't find out anything.

This man kept giggling cheerfully. He was mentally ill and a mentally disturbed scavenger.

It's possible that he got sick and pushed Xiao Xi into the river.

It's also possible that he accidentally passed by the river, saw a coat, and picked it up.

Unable to prosecute.

There is also suspect No. 4, which is x.

If Xiao Xi was murdered, the fourth suspect would be a mysterious person.

The mysterious person may be an admirer, a voyeur, or a pervert. For some reason, he is lurking by the river and secretly following Xiao Xi.

He got entangled with her, pulled off Xiao Xi's coat during the entanglement, and pushed Xiao Xi into the river during the entanglement.

After seeing Xiao Xi's death, the mysterious man fled the scene in panic.

This case occurred in 1990 because there was very little evidence at the scene.

It is unclear where Xiao Xi fell into the river and how long she was drifted by the current.

It is uncertain whether Xiao Xi died of suicide, accident, or murder. There were no injuries on her body, and the cause of death was drowning.

The police seem to be trapped in a huge mystery, and they don't know how they died.

He wandered between suicide, accident, and homicide for ten years, and investigated repeatedly among several suspects.

Speaking of motives, there are motives.

When it comes to possible crimes, they are all possible.

But there were no fingerprints, no DNA, no evidence of actual pointing.

It is such a seemingly simple case, but it has been impossible to convict. Ten years have passed until now.