Criminal Investigation Files

"That... man... is about half a head taller than me. His chin is short, like he has a double chin, and his cheekbones are high. He wears an all-black hat, which is just an ordinary baseball cap. Huh, I... I can't remember."

"Don't be afraid, think about it slowly, what do you remember about his appearance?"

"...The eyes are fierce, the complexion is a bit dark, I...I really don't remember, I was so scared and stupid at the time...There was a lot of blood..."

"What other physical characteristics does he have?"

"His neck seems to be a little short and thick, a little hunchbacked..."

"Do you have a beard?"

"Ugh...beard...it seems that there is still a beard, and it seems that there is no beard, I can't remember...I really can't remember."

The eyewitness is a 15-year-old girl with big watery eyes. She has just entered the city, and she has not yet grown up. She has no formal employment contract. She is working in a hair salon opened by a fellow villager. child labor.She had long been terrified by what she had encountered before, and she was crying, relying on the comfort of the police to finish her speech intermittently.

The entire murder process took place in the early hours of yesterday, and the whole process took only 5 minutes. She was hiding under the hair-washing pool and was frightened by the blood and dead people. She only remembered that the assailant had a disgusting face.From the beginning of the case, that face was imprinted in her mind, lingering, all the features were clearly there, but when she thought about it carefully, there were only fragments.

"If you draw it, can you recognize it?"

The girl nodded hesitantly, while wiping her tears, she looked at the person who was drawing the picture opposite.The man sitting in the interrogation room crossed his legs and drew with a pencil on the sketch paper.

It was a young man in his 20s, with his head down and his expression focused. From this angle, he had deep features, a straight nose, and a clean face.Even though he is sitting, it can still be seen that he is tall and has slender legs.The hand holding the paintbrush has distinct joints, and the movement is very fast. It looks wanton and indulgent, but in fact, it has a strong control over the brush.The second joint of the little finger occasionally strokes the pencil, as a proper smudge, and after a while, the outline of a character is outlined...

Just seven hours ago, at twelve o'clock in the morning, a vicious murder occurred in a small hair salon in the west of Nancheng, which was about to close. A short and fat man suddenly rushed in and stabbed the owner of the hair salon to death.

The suspect took away the murder weapon, leaving no hair, only half a bloody footprint, and the rain washed away the other traces.The hair-washing girl in the hair salon was an eyewitness, but the little girl was terrified, and the information she could provide was very limited.The autopsy found that several knives were stabbed into the abdomen, the liver was injured, and he died immediately due to excessive blood loss. Apart from this, there is not much information.

The suspect was not asking for money, and all the cash in the store had not been touched. The victim's social relationship seemed simple, but it was very complicated to sort it out carefully, and it took a lot of time to figure it out.The effective evidence that can be relied on is the little girl who can't speak clearly, and a video captured by the camera in front of the hair salon.

But this video is too blurry, there is only a blurred side face of a man wearing a hat, the murderer turned his head in the camera, turned to the front, still a moving black and white light and shadow.

Tian Ming, as the captain of the criminal police responsible for solving this case, had to take these materials as a living doctor.He immediately went to Wang Rui, the person in charge of the imaging department of the police station. This person was specially recruited into the police station and was good at simulating portraits.

Wang Rui's independent office is as quiet as a studio, but the walls are covered with sketch heads or 3D models up to the shoulders—men, women, old people, and even children. Or the vicious murderer, or the key person in the case, or the long-lost person.Those graphics made the whole room airtight, and Tian Ming felt like he was going crazy just by being watched by these countless pairs of eyes.He hurriedly lowered his eyelids, and told Wang Rui the basic situation.

Wang Rui looked at the things he handed over and was at a loss: "Tian team, isn't it difficult for you to be strong? With these things alone, I can't simulate it even if I kill me."

Tian Ming knew that his information was really lacking, but he said stiffly: "Why can't it be simulated, with surveillance and witness descriptions, isn't that enough?"

"Three-dimensional simulation, I have to give me the data on the front side, and the witnesses have to give detailed descriptions." Wang Rui spread his hands, expressing that he is really helpless: "There is too little information, and a clever woman can't cook without rice. I am not strong enough, and I can't imagine I’m going to mess around with you. If you can’t catch anyone later, you should come back and blame me.”

Just when the detection reached an impasse.Gu Ju, who came to see the progress, gave Tian Ming advice, and said lightly: "Song Wen just handed in the closing report of the last case, and he is free now. Why don't you ask him for help?"

Then Wang Rui didn't think it was a big deal: "That's right, Team Song will definitely do it, he's much better than me."

help? !Tian Ming only felt a bad breath rising in his chest, and he glared at Wang Rui: "Little brother, then what is the use of our city bureau, you can simply merge with Song Wen's salary."

Wang Rui said aggrievedly: "Tian team, I sit here eight hours a day full-time, Song team is a busy man, can he do it? Sigh, if you despise me, don't come to me next time."

Well, each of them is an uncle, and I can't afford to offend, Tian Ming walked out of the door with a notebook in his hand helplessly.

When the name Song Wen was mentioned, he became furious.

There are three teams under the criminal police detachment of the Nancheng Bureau, the first leader Song Wen, the second leader Tian Ming, and the third leader Cheng Mo.The three teams are said to be colleagues and teammates, but there is fierce competition internally. The reason is that there is currently a vacancy for the team leader above. Whoever does a good job may take this position.Among the three, the third captain was smooth and Buddhist, and he was older, so he didn't seem to be too aggressive on the surface.The main competition took place between Tian Ming, the second captain, and Song Wen, the first captain.

Tian Ming has a characteristic, that is, he is eager to win, and he likes to be top-notch in everything. His name is taken from the blockbuster, and he has lived up to expectations since he was a child.When Song Wen was just promoted to captain, Tian Ming couldn't help but compare himself with him——Tian Ming, 32 years old, has worked for ten years, is in his prime, has rich experience, has repeatedly solved major cases, received two awards, and has been awarded by the Municipal Bureau for three consecutive years. The rate of solving crimes is the first; Song Wen is 25 years old and has been working for two and a half years.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows who is better, right?

Tian Ming originally thought that he was more than enough to crush a young man.Unexpectedly, the results of last year's appraisal were rubbed against the ground by Song Wen. Not only was the detection rate [-] higher than him, but he was also far behind Song Wen in the year-end personal assessment.

What's even more exasperating is that Song Wen was worse than him in the preparatory test, and he didn't know how to practice. In the formal assessment, both shooting and fighting physical fitness scored higher than him. Moreover, Song Wen still has a skill The stunt of the suspect's portrait.Wang Rui, a technician specially kept in the police station, couldn't draw pictures, but he was able to capture them easily.

In this regard, Tian Ming can only express his feelings for both Shengyu and He Shengliang.

It's fine to get angry on weekdays. Now, ask him to ask Song Wen for help?Unless his last name is written backwards!

After half an hour, Tian Ming obediently went to Song Wen's desk, smiled calmly and said, "Team Song, please help me, our team encountered a problem, please help us draw a portrait. "

The memories of witnesses and the clues at the scene will become more and more difficult to restore as time goes by. Tian Ming knows in his heart that Gu Ju's suggestion is correct. Confirming the portrait of the criminal as soon as possible will be of great help to solve the case. .As long as the case is for the sake of the case, the man can bend and stretch, and bear the burden of humiliation.

So, there are now three people sitting in the interrogation room, one eyewitness, two captains of the criminal police, the little girl has said everything that should be said, sobbing silently there, Tian Ming is also quiet for a while, in the small interrogation room, All I could hear was the rustling of the pen and paper in Song Wen's hand.

Tian Ming sat nervously in front of the table, watching Song Wenyun's pen flying, stopping from time to time to look at the monitoring screen on the notebook beside him before continuing to draw.

Tian Ming rubbed his eyes, trying to see some useful information, but the screen was full of mosaics, and he couldn't even see where the eyes were, let alone recognize facial features.Looking at Song Wen painted on the side, Tian Ming thought to himself, this person is not going to trick me into drawing blindly, right?

Thinking of this, Tian Ming felt a little regretful, he shouldn't have listened to Gu Ju so much, what if this person surnamed Song tripped him up, made him even more difficult to catch, or made useless efforts? manage?Just thinking about it, Song Wen stopped writing, flicked the pencil shavings on the drawing, picked it up and asked the girl, "What else is different?"

The pencil portrait was a bit wanton, not as careful as the one drawn by an art student. It doesn't look like a master's work of art, nor does it look like an academic with a professional background, but if you look closely, it has distinct features. There are not many pens, but the characteristics of the characters are outlined in one stroke, the facial features are more vivid, and the eyes are a little cold, as if they are staring directly at the people outside the painting.

The girl glanced at it, cried again, pointed at the painting and said, "Like, it's so similar, it's Sister Yun who was killed by this man." The bloody disaster that happened hours ago was this face, her nightmare.

Song Wen put down the painting and got up and said, "Then I have nothing to do here." The light in the interrogation room was dim, and when he raised his head, the little girl could see his eyebrows clearly. Big, but young and heroic, with a unique juvenile publicity, he is even more handsome than when he looked down just now, and couldn't help but stop crying and look a few more times.

Only then did Tian Ming feel relieved, he felt ashamed of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. He looked at the painting, then at the surveillance, and then thought about the witness's description before, and couldn't help but be amazed: "Thank you Team Song, but how...how did you draw this?"

"Talent." Song Wen raised his eyebrows and spit out two words briefly, without any modesty in his words.

Tian Ming's face couldn't hold back for an instant, and he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. At this moment, he really wanted to give himself a mouthful.

Fortunately, Song Wen didn't mind whether he came down the steps, turned around and went out as soon as the door was closed.

The human face is made up of bones, flesh, and skin. Each bone grows with age, and the movement of muscles changes due to various external and internal factors. These changes are not irregular.This is the reason why some experienced old criminal police can recognize grown-up people from the crowd based on a childhood photo.

In modern criminal investigations, the police rely more and more on ever-changing science and technology, such as DNA testing and various surveillance videos. These traditional skills are no longer valued as much as in the past. Just like Wang Rui, although he is in charge of portrait tracing, More work is in charge of the imaging department, using computers instead of brushes, electronic databases, and [-]D modeling to form eyebrows, eyes, and facial features that can be replaced at any time.The simulated portraits produced in this way save a lot of time.

However, Song Wen felt that, as a criminal police captain, he needed a certain skill. He didn't think that criminal investigation simulation portraits would become obsolete, and he liked the feeling of probing people's hearts from facial features.Although the [-]D image is fast, it lacks soul and can only be used as a reference.

Song Wen likes to study human faces, thousands of people have thousands of faces, just like no two leaves are exactly the same, even twins with the same egg will have different looks, the appearance of people , just like human fingerprints and DNA, is the unique information of each person.Moreover, his appearance is also inseparable from his growth experience and living habits. It can be said that it contains all the joys, anger, sorrows, joys, sorrows and joys of the years.

Just now, although the little girl’s words were unclear, she mentioned important features. The protruding chin may be caused by mouth breathing for many years. Correspondingly, the nose will increase, the nasolabial folds will deepen, the palatal surface is underdeveloped, and the cheekbones are enlarged. It will obviously lead to the deformation of the eyes, and the hunched body will produce rich bags and wretched necks... This series of features is like dominoes, which amplifies the characteristics of the five sense organs and influences each other.Although the video is blurry, it provides a very important point, that is, the light and shadow changes of the face. Those mosaics contain a lot of information.

Although Song Wen did not come from a major, he had observation skills that were unmatched by ordinary people. In his mind, all the bones were moved and put together like a puzzle, and finally he was able to draw a similar portrait of the suspect.Everything that seems magical is actually the result of intelligence, experience, and repeated practice and observation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a talent, but these Song Wen are too lazy to explain to outsiders.

After about half an hour, a small policeman from the second team came over and said, "Captain Song, Team Tian thanked you for letting me come again. After we showed the portrait of the deceased's mother, the other party recognized that she was engaged to the victim before." Later, the victim insisted on retiring the engagement, dated her own boyfriend, blocked the suspect's contact information, and that's why..."

Song Wen nodded: "Just find it."