Criminal Investigation Chronicle

Chapter 18 Confronting the Serial Killer

After investigation, the motorcycle was found abandoned by the murderer, but no clues were found. The murderer stole the motorcycle temporarily.On the other hand, Zhao Lei was severely criticized by the bureau leaders. The case had already caused a stir in the whole city. The pressure from the superiors, the pressure from public opinion and the panic of the people made Zhao Lei a little out of breath.However, Zhao Lei wisely asked for support from his superiors. This time, the superiors attached great importance to it and coordinated 10 special police officers, 10 armed police officers, and 2 snipers to catch the murderer.

The atmosphere in the police station is tense, and the police have issued an announcement that if someone loses their mobile phone, they should call the police immediately.From the afternoon of November 11th to the 6th, more than 7 mobile phone theft cases were received. After investigation, more than 100 cases were lost by the owners themselves. After investigation, nothing special was found, but the matter was so important that no one dared to be careless. On the evening of the 70th, the criminal police officers who had been busy all day gathered at the police station to order takeaway food and study the case while eating. "Captain Zhao, do you think it's easy for us to do this? This day, many people lose their mobile phones, but how can we determine which one is the murderer's next target? You can't wait for the murderer to send a message, that's too passive .” Xiao Liu asked. "According to the personality of the murderer, this time he should not commit the crime quietly, but may provoke further. After all, we lost the last fight." Zhao Lei speculated.After the meal, all the police officers and the police station were on standby, and the reinforcements dispatched by the superior also took a nap in the police conference room, ready to be dispatched at any time. According to speculation, the murderer's next crime will be between 7 am and 8 am on the 5th.

Zhao Lei lit a cigarette. The knife wound on his body was not serious. He stretched his fists and feet and felt that the impact was not serious. He looked at Lin Chong who was pretending to be asleep, but didn't speak. He looked at his watch, and it was already past 11 o'clock at night.Just as Zhao Lei was about to lie down on the row of chairs to rest, the mobile phone rang. At a sensitive time, Zhao Lei took out his mobile phone in a jerk. It was still an unfamiliar number, a number "41". Zhao Lei immediately found a technician to find the source of the number, and wrote " 41" was ticked.Soon the technicians came to the news that the owner of this number was Feng Yudong, an ordinary civil servant, nothing special, but his wife was an acquaintance of everyone - the police forensic doctor He Xiaomei, who secretly pursued Zhao Lei back then, is now 41 age. "Contact Xiaomei immediately." Zhao Lei got so angry that he called Xiaomei's husband Feng Yudong to inform him that the phone was turned off. "Captain Zhao, Miss Xiaomei's phone is turned off, and I can't be contacted. I have notified the police from the nearby police station to rush to Miss Xiaomei's house."

He Xiaomei's home is a bit far from the police station, it takes nearly an hour to drive.Zhao Lei immediately called Lin Chong, and rushed to He Xiaomei's house with several criminal policemen, while the special police and armed police of the police station were on standby. According to the law, the murderer had to wait six hours to commit the crime. At 11:8 am on November 12, the criminal police arrived at He Xiaomei's home, but on the way, the police from the nearby police station had already contacted Zhao Lei and reported the situation: When the police arrived at Feng Yudong's home, Feng Yudong was alone at home, opened the door sleepily, and passed by. I understand, Feng Yudong received a text message from He Xiaomei in the afternoon, saying that the police station worked overtime and would not go back at night. Feng Yudong was alone in the whole family, and when Feng Yudong was about to take out his mobile phone to contact He Xiaomei, he realized that the mobile phone had been lost at some point.

Entering Feng Yudong's house, Feng Yudong sat on the sofa smoking a cigarette, blaming himself while smoking, "It's all my fault, if I had called Xiaomei at that time, it wouldn't have been like this..." Obviously, he had also heard about the recent serial murder case , Knowing that her mobile phone is lost, it means that Xiaomei will be in danger.

Zhao Lei walked up to Feng Yudong, patted Feng Yudong on the shoulder, and said, "Xiaomei has worked with me for more than ten years. Don't worry, I will definitely rescue Xiaomei and bring the murderer to justice."

Feng Yudong nodded indifferently and said nothing.

"Is there anything unusual about Xiaomei before she disappeared?" Zhao Lei asked again.

"No, it's the same as usual, including the tone of her text messages. There's nothing special about it, so I didn't think about it." Feng Yudong sighed remorsefully.

"Did the surveillance capture the last location of Xiaomei?" Zhao Lei contacted the technical personnel of the police station by phone.

"According to the monitoring, Miss Xiaomei last appeared near the vegetable market not far from her home. It was rush hour at that time, and no clues about Miss Mei's disappearance were found."

"It's less than five hours..." Zhao Lei looked at his watch and thought, but with the current scattered clues, it is impossible to trace He Xiaomei's whereabouts.When he was at a loss, Zhao Lei received a call, and the caller indicated that it was He Xiaomei. Zhao Lei hurriedly asked a technician to track down He Xiaomei's mobile phone, "Hey" "Officer Zhao, your time is running out, and you still have no clues." "Don't mess around." Come..." "Let me give you a hint, 81. Master is right, you are too weak." Before Zhao Lei could speak, the other party had already hung up. Zhao Lei dialed again and the phone was turned off. The technician said that the time was too short. The source of the signal could not be traced.

"81, 81, could it be..." Zhao Lei looked at Lin Chong, and Lin Chong nodded, indicating that the two had the same idea. Zhao Lei immediately drove to the famous haunted house - Chao Nei No. 81, and informed reinforcements to come soon. rushed to.

At 1:20 in the morning, Zhao Lei and the reinforcements arrived at No. 81 Chaonei at about the same time. This is a famous haunted house in Yanjing. It has been closed for a long time, but in the eyes of this group of soldiers and police, the so-called haunted house is nothing more than a legend fabricated by good people.

After Zhao Lei observed the terrain with the reinforcement snipers, the two snipers each took an armed police observer to ambush in the distance.There are ten special police officers and eight armed police officers, plus Zhao Lei, Lin Chong and seven other criminal police officers, a total of 27 people, including Lin Chong, all of them are equipped with guns. This formation seems to be more than enough to deal with two murderers, but Zhao Lei Knowing the fear of the opponent, he dare not relax at all.

Pushing open the closed gate, the perennially disrepaired gate made a "squeak" sound at midnight, and with the north wind in late autumn, there was a bit of a weird atmosphere.After entering the house, Zhao Lei took a photo of the ground, and there was a row of footprints clearly left on the dusty ground. From the footprints, it was the footprints of two people, one 41 yards and the other 42 yards, extending to the third floor on the east side of the house. small building.Zhao Lei divided people into three groups. Zhao Lei and Lin Chong led a group each, and a special police captain led a group. They were organized into groups one, two and three. East Building.Zhao Lei led a group to open the door and took a photo with a flashlight. After entering the door, the footprints of the two groups began to scatter and there was no pattern. Zhao Lei did not dare to be careless. There was nothing special on the second floor. After entering the third floor, Zhao Lei was attracted by the bright red in front of him. On the door of a room on the third floor, there was a maple leaf pinned. Under the light of the flashlight, he looked so alluring, Zhao Lei clenched his fists and said in his heart, "It's him?" But after careful investigation, he found no other suspicious things, so Zhao Lei took people out of the east building.After telling Lin Chong what he had found, a group led by Zhao Lei was responsible for guarding the West Building, and Lin Chong led people in to check.Twenty minutes later, Lin Chong came out of the west building with nothing. At this time, it was already past 9 o'clock in the morning, and the time was only a little over two hours (due to renovations, the corridors between the east and west buildings and the basement have been closed).Zhao Lei stared at the maple leaf in the evidence bag, looked at it for a while, slapped his forehead, and shouted, "I see, this is the information left by the murderer on purpose, 2 is the first clue, leading us to this haunted house, And left a second clue in this house, this clue should point to Xiangshan Park in the western suburbs of Yanjing, everyone, hurry to Xiangshan Park immediately."

Without time to say more, Zhao Lei immediately took people to Xiangshan Park, and it was already 3 o'clock in the morning when they arrived at Xiangshan Park.The park was not open yet, so Zhao Lei went to the guard room and found that the two security guards on duty had fallen asleep on the table.After careful inspection, Zhao Lei found a glass marble in a corner of the guard room. "Glass beads?" Zhao Lei asked in confusion.Lin Chong suddenly shouted, "It's the Liuli Pagoda, the Liuli Longevity Pagoda!"

The Liuli Wanshou Pagoda is located at the entrance of Xiangshan Park and turns right. Behind the Zhao Temple, it was built when the sixth emperor went to Beijing to meet Emperor Qianlong. The pagoda is seven stories high and about 30 meters high.Everyone rushed to the Liuli Longevity Pagoda and checked quickly, but they still didn't find any clues about Xiaomei and the murderer, and this time they didn't even find any clues.

Zhao Lei looked at his watch, it was already 3:[-], time was running out, but there was no progress. After thinking for a while, Zhao Lei squatted down in front of the Longevity Pagoda, fiddled with it, and then said to the crowd, "Let's go", regardless of everyone's reaction, he left first .Lin Chong lowered his head to look at the things Zhao Lei was playing with, and then shouted suddenly, "Brother Zhao, I understand..." He got up and caught up with Zhao Lei, and they left together.

Everyone came out of Xiangshan Park and drove away.Ten minutes later, Zhao Lei brought people back, but this time, they didn't drive, everyone kept silent, and returned to Xiangshan Park in the dark without turning on the flashlight. According to the plan just discussed, the two snipers took the two armed police observers to their positions first. , there were three groups of people left, three groups blocked the entrance of the park, and one group and two groups approached at the same time. At this time, it was close to 4 o'clock.It turned out that Zhao Lei had made up his mind just now and couldn't be led by the murderer all the time, so he fiddled with seven stones under the Longevity Pagoda, placed a map of the Big Dipper, and intentionally arranged the positions and proportions of the four big stars of the Big Dipper in a mess, which were originally similar The ratio between Tianshu star Tianxuan star and Tianji star Tianquan star is disturbed, Tianshu star is far away, Tianxuan star Tianji star is close, and the positions of Tianquan star and Tianji star are farther away. Among the three stars of Hengxing, Kaiyangxing and Yaoguangxing, Kaiyangxing is represented by the largest stone, and Yuhengxing is actually the brightest one. Leaving the direction of Xiangshan Park, Lin Chong took a look at it in a mysterious way, and shouted that he understood. According to Zhao Lei's calculation, since the other party is familiar with the heavenly stems and earthly branches, he should have studied the stars, especially when the murderer called and mentioned "Master". At that time, the image of an old man with fairy demeanor and bones and white beard appeared in Zhao Lei's mind, and the murderer was proud and conceited, so he gambled on the plan.

Sure enough, a few minutes after Zhao Lei and others drove away, Zhao Lei received another message from He Xiaomei's mobile phone: Greedy wolf giant Lu Cun Wen Qu Xuan Ji Piao Du Lian Zhen no light.This clearly means that among Zhao Lei's Big Dipper, the Greedy Wolf Star of Tianshu Star Palace should be close to the Jumen Star Lord of Tianxuan Star Palace, and the Lucun Star Lord of Tianji Star Palace should be close to the Tianquan Star Palace. Wenqu Xingjun approached, but Lianzhen Xingjun, who was the brightest in Yuheng Xinggong, was not bright enough.

So Zhao Lei concluded that the murderer was next to the Longevity Pagoda. In this way, Zhao Lei led the crowd to Xiangshan Park in the dark. Reversed, showing the enemy's clear and dark situation, entered Xiangshan Park, pressed his footsteps and leaned towards the Longevity Tower, and saw one of the murderers, the man in black who had fought against him, sitting on the ground, playing with the hand that made Zhao Lei and Lin Chong suffer. Not a small knife, but He Xiaomei fell to the side, probably in a coma... But the other murderer was missing, Zhao Lei and others silently observed the surroundings, time passed by, the man in black did not move, just like that. After half an hour, a sniper on the communicator sent a message, "Zhao team, found the target, in the direction of your three o'clock, about 800 meters away from the tree." Zhao Lei subconsciously looked in the direction of three o'clock, black Nothing was seen in the paint, "Are you sure you can kill or injure him?" Zhao Lei asked with a suppressed voice. "The opponent is very cunning. He hid most of his body, so he didn't find a chance for the time being." After speaking, the sniper fell into silence again.As time passed, it was getting closer and closer to 5 o'clock, until 4:58, the man in black stood up, gestured in one direction, and swung his arms back and fisted.

Zhao Lei knew that this was the sign language for "retreat", and the direction the man in black made the gesture was exactly the direction of Zhao Lei and others at three o'clock. "Don't let him run away," Zhao Lei said in his heart, and immediately gave an order to the communicator, " "Do it" While speaking, there was the sound of a sniper shooting not far away, Zhao Lei also fired a warning shot, a group of two groups of people got up one after another, turned on the flashlights, and formed a siege around the man in black, and at three o'clock they turned towards the other party. The ambush sniper remained silent. Zhao Lei ignored him and pointed his gun at the man in black, "Don't move, put down your weapon and squat down."

The man in black looked at Zhao Lei, slowly put down the knife, squatted up, and said jokingly, "Officer Zhao, you really think highly of me for mobilizing so many people."

Zhao Lei didn't talk nonsense with him, and asked people to check He Xiaomei's situation first. After inspection, He Xiaomei was only in a coma and was not injured. A sniper's voice came from the communicator, "Zhao team, let him run away, that kid died A piece of clothing, propped up with branches..." Zhao Lei said that he received it, and asked people to restrain the man in black, put him in handcuffs, and take him back to the police station. During the period, the man in black was very cooperative and did not resist. Zhao Lei looked at his watch, 5 10 points.Behind the tree where the men in black ambushed, they found a piece of clothing and a remodeled sniper gun, and a red maple leaf was attached to the trunk.

On the way back to the police station, He Xiaomei woke up faintly, but she didn't know anything about what happened to her. She only remembered buying vegetables at the vegetable market on the afternoon of the 7th, and then she didn't know anything. Wandering around the gate of hell.

Back at the police station, the man in black was immediately interrogated. However, the man in black had a tough mouth and didn't explain anything. He still had five ID cards on him, so his real identity has not been found out for the time being.

Zhao Lei came to the interrogation room in person and saw the young man who had changed into black. The young man in front of him was in his 20s and less than 30 years old. Pay attention to that, he leaned lazily on the chair and stared at Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei asked, "What's your name?"

He didn't answer, but instead said: "Officer Zhao, in all fairness, if I didn't leave clues on purpose, would you have caught me?"

Zhao Lei said categorically, "Skynet is extensive and sparse."

He smiled, and then said, "It's all about deceiving yourself and others, just because of your skills, plus that Professor Lin is not the master's opponent, haha..." He laughed wildly as he spoke.

Zhao Lei turned to ask, "Is that old thing Zhang Zhilin still alive? It's better not to die. Save my life and wait for me to collect it."

Hearing this sentence, he stopped laughing wildly, fixed his eyes on Zhao Lei, and said viciously, "It's up to you? You deserve it!"

Zhao Lei understood in his heart that the master in front of the young man was Zhang Zhilin. In fact, the first time he sent him a message, Zhao Lei felt that this person was so provocative to the police. And the master in his mouth is even more dismissive of himself, but keeps leaving clues for himself. This is a kind of provocation, and second, it shows that he enjoys the feeling of playing with the police. I thought of Zhang Zhilin, who deliberately insulted Zhang Zhilin just now and successfully aroused his anger, thus confirming the identity of the master he said.

Zhao Lei went on to say, "And that brat Zhao Feng, didn't he starve to death in America?"

He glared at Zhao Lei again, and said: "If you can't catch the younger brother, he and the master are both geniuses."

Zhao Lei couldn't hold back his smile after hearing this, and thought to himself, this silly boy is so easy to deceive, he sent a message to himself to accuse him of placing the Big Dipper wrongly, probably because of his own initiative, it's obviously a trick, and he still wants to take the bait, he is so brave , but no city mansion, compared to Zhang Zhilin and Zhao Feng, this person is really not on the stage.Zhao Lei said tentatively again, "Is that old guy Zhang Zhilin afraid that I will catch him and run away? Does Zhao Feng, that incompetent brat, think you're too stupid to run away and leave you alone?"

But this time he had grown up and stopped talking, no matter how much Zhao Lei provoked him, he just kept silent.

After leaving the interrogation room, Zhao Lei was a little worried. After all, Zhao Feng escaped and Zhang Zhilin's whereabouts were unknown, so he asked Lin Chong to analyze.Lin Chong thought for a while, and said: "According to Zhang Zhilin's previous performance, I think Zhang Zhilin may not commit crimes by himself again, and that Zhao Feng, we have too little dealings with him, so we are not sure, but I think he is likely to He has been hiding for a while, he is not the kind of gangster who confronts the police head-on, and he did not kill us when he sniped us last time in the Wen Jing case, which shows that he is not an indiscriminate killer, or that he only kills people he thinks he wants to kill, We don't have to be in panic all day long, soldiers will stop us, and water will cover us." Zhao Lei nodded in agreement, and then said, "What do you think is the motive for their serial killing this time?" "I haven't figured it out yet, but judging from the law of their killing , using the zodiac sign and time represented by the twelve earthly branches to commit the crime, with some religious overtones, is it a religious killing from a certain angle?" Lin Chong said uncertainly.Zhao Lei went on to say, "It is very possible, according to this rule, they are afraid that they will kill 12 people to gather enough twelve earthly branches to complete some kind of ceremony."

The interrogation of the man in black did not make any progress. The police even discovered that the identity of the man in black was very special, like a piece of white paper, and his information could not be found at all. He had stolen other people's ID cards for a long time, and his identity could not be found at all The origin, as if it appeared out of thin air.After comparing with the evidence left in the previous three homicide cases, it was proved that this person was the murderer of the serial murder case. Three cases of intentional homicide, one case of intentional homicide, and charges of assaulting the police and theft were transferred to the Procuratorate.

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