Criminal Investigation Chronicle

Zhao Lei looked at Xiao Liu who was listening intently, and said, "Okay, this is what I want to talk about, the cruelest murderer I have ever seen. Thinking about it, Xu Jiazhe is actually a poor man."

Xiao Liu asked: "Then what happened to Xu Jiazhe in the end, and how was Liu Chang'an sentenced?"

Zhao Lei said: "Xu Jiazhe was involved in three cases of intentional homicide and was sentenced to death immediately; Liu Changan was sentenced to 15 years in prison because he voluntarily confessed to the crime. Calculated, he should have been released from prison last year."

Xiao Liu asked again: "Brother Zhao, what happened to the bizarre kidnapping case you mentioned earlier? I've read the files and the records are very vague. Tell me about it."

Zhao Lei lit another cigarette, lost in memory...

That was 2002.

On March 2002, 3, the Yanjing Police Station received a report that it was a case of disappearance.

Originally, the disappearance case was not under Zhao Lei's control, but at the same time that he received the report, Zhao Lei received a text message from an unfamiliar number on his mobile phone: Officer Zhao, the game has started. In the next ten days, I will kidnap five people. Before 3 noon on the 27th, if you haven’t found the kidnapped people, I will execute them all. If you can find them, I will surrender myself. Don’t try to locate me. If you can’t find it, you can only rely on what I left Your clue, now, the game officially begins. The first one is Li Yong, the owner of a certain hardware market in Yanjing.

And in that missing case, the missing person was Li Yong from the hardware market.

Zhao Lei didn't dare to be careless, and while asking the technicians to trace the text message number, he rushed to the hardware market where Li Yong was.On the way, the bureau's technicians had already told Zhao Lei that the number that sent the text message came from an unregistered black card, and it was currently turned off, so there was no way to trace it. He had to wait until the phone was turned on again to try to locate it.Zhao Lei rushed to the hardware market, and Li Yong's store was in a prime location just after entering the market, and the reporter was Li Yong's wife, an ordinary middle-aged woman.

According to what Li Yong's wife said, Li Yong usually spends the night in the store, firstly to visit the store, and secondly to facilitate the opening of the store. This morning, Li Yong's wife came to deliver meals to Li Yong as usual, and found that her store was not open yet. There was no response to knocking on the door, so I opened the door with the spare key and found that Li Yong was not there, but found a note on the table: See the word call the police, life is at stake.Li Yong's wife immediately called the police when she saw it, suspecting that Li Yong had been kidnapped.

However, judging from the scene, no signs of struggle were found, the door was locked normally, and the windows were closed from the inside.It looked as if Li Yong went out temporarily and locked the door without any clues.According to the investigation, Li Yong, a foreigner, came to Yanjing six years ago to do business. He is 36 years old, 1.7 meters tall, 74 kilograms in weight, and strong. He usually unloads the goods in the store by himself. Such a man in his prime would not be kidnapped quietly without leaving any clues.Ask other shopkeepers in the market, and no one has seen Li Yong.Zhao Lei preliminarily judged that either Li Yong's acquaintance was the one who kidnapped Li Yong, and Li Yong left with him voluntarily, or someone came to subdue Li Yong quickly with drugs or other means, and then took Li Yong away.After checking Li Yong's interpersonal relationship and life rules, I found that Li Yong is a very good person, he is very generous in business, and he never haggles over every detail. Beijing primary school.

Zhao Lei began to analyze that this is not an ordinary kidnapping case, Li Yong is not a rich man, he can only be regarded as middle class, and the person who texted Zhao Lei claimed that he would kidnap five people and leave clues.Thinking of this, Zhao Lei checked the scene carefully again, and it was true that the doors and windows were intact, there was no trace of fighting, and nothing special was found except for the note. When he was at a loss, he heard Xiao Wang who was traveling with him say: "Brother Zhao, you Come and have a look at this chopstick." Zhao Lei followed the sound and saw Xiao Wang observing with a chopstick holder. Before Xiao Wang reminded him, Zhao Lei had already discovered the situation: there were 9 chopsticks in a box of chopstick holders, of which Eight chopsticks look the same in appearance, with obvious traces of use, while the other one is very new, with no traces of use, it is incompatible with other chopsticks, and the wood is not the same.Zhao Lei asked Li Yong's wife: "Is this chopstick also from your family?" Li Yong's wife imitated the criminal policeman, put on gloves and looked at it carefully, then shook her head and said, "No, this chopstick does not belong to our family. My family just keeps it. These four pairs of chopsticks, I usually eat with Li Yong, and sometimes my children also eat in the store, so I prepared four pairs, this one must not belong to our family." Zhao Lei asked Xiao Wang to put the chopsticks in the evidence bag, thinking , could this chopstick be the clue left by the suspect?

Back at the police station, the technicians studied the chopstick carefully, but found nothing. The chopsticks were very ordinary chopsticks, just new ones, and they were ordinary wooden chopsticks that could be bought in any store. No fingerprints.Zhao Lei couldn't think for a long time, so he called Lin Chong and informed Lin Chong of the text message he received and Li Yong's disappearance, emphasizing the new chopsticks found at the scene.

Zhao Lei took out a piece of paper and wrote on it: Li Yong, a 36-year-old hardware store owner with chopsticks.

Two days have passed, and the case of Li Yong's disappearance has not progressed. There are no kidnapping and extortion calls, and even the number that sent Zhao Lei the "challenge letter" has not sent any messages.

At noon on March 3, Zhao Lei's cell phone rang, and it was from that number, and the content was very short: the second.Twenty minutes later, the police station received another case of disappearance.Zhao Lei quickly went to the scene.

The one missing this time was a contractor named Lu Qiu.The reporter was Lu Qiu's wife. According to Lu Qiu's wife, Lu Qiu called her at noon and said that she had bought vegetables at home and asked her to go home for dinner.Lu Qiu's wife works as a nurse in a hospital. Today, after the night shift, when she came home at noon, she found that Lu Qiu was not there. After opening the door, she found that two dishes had already been fried on the table, and there was a note on the table: See the word call the police, and life is at stake. .That's why they called the police.Zhao Lei entered Lu Qiu's home and found that there were many similarities in the disappearance of Lu Qiu and Li Yong. Judging from the scene, there was no trace of a fight. The fried dishes on the table were still steaming, and the handwriting on the note It is exactly the same as what was found in Li Yong's store, even the paper is the same, it is the most common A4 paper.

"Officer, do you think our old Lu was kidnapped?" Lu Qiu's wife asked anxiously.

Zhao Lei didn't speak, let other colleagues deal with it first, and observed in the room by himself.Judging from the scene, Lu Qiu should have been cooking at the time. The food had just been cooked and brought to the table. Unknown, it should be the same as the method used to deal with Li Yong.The doors and windows in the room were intact, and there were no traces of fighting. Either they were acquaintances, or they subdued Lu Qiu in an instant.And the neighbors around did not see any suspicious person, nor did they find out when Lu Qiu left.After investigation, it was found that Lu Qiu is 35 years old, 1.7 meters six in height, and weighs 80 kilograms. He is a foreigner. He came to Yanjing eight years ago to engage in the construction industry. Not bad, but not really rich.Because he has always been willing to endure hardships and be able to work, he often does it by himself, and the workers under him are also very generous. The workers are very happy to work for Lu Qiu. They have no enemies. The husband and wife have a good relationship. One daughter is studying in elementary school in Yanjing.

Zhao Lei searched around the room carefully, but found nothing special, not even the so-called hints.He took out a piece of paper and continued writing on it: Lu Qiu, 35 years old, contractor XXX.Zhao Lei felt that the suspect would definitely leave clues, but he had missed it, but he hadn't thought of where he missed it.Then he asked his colleagues to check the scene carefully again. Zhao Lei asked Lu Qiu's wife, "Do you know Li Yong?" Lu Qiu's wife nodded, "Yes." He immediately asked: "How did you know him?" Lu Qiu's wife: "Watch TV, the host of CCTV, he looks pretty ugly, Li Yong who hosts Lucky 52." Zhao Lei smiled bitterly in embarrassment, found a pen and paper and wrote "Li Yong", and said, "It's not that Li Yong, I mean Li Yong who opened a store in Yanjing's hardware market." Then Lu Qiu's wife said, "Your early Tell me, I don’t know this one, I don’t know if Lao Lu recognizes the owner of the hardware store, he never mentioned it to me.”

Zhao Lei immediately arranged for someone to investigate the relationship between Li Yong and Lu Qiu, but the results soon came out. According to the investigation, the two had no intersection, and there was no information about Lu Qiu or their contracting team on Li Yong's delivery list. , Lu Qiu is a contractor, mainly doing civil engineering, while Li Yong's hardware store usually deals with decoration companies.Li Yong is from Hubei, and Lu Qiu is from Shandong, so there is no connection from experience.Looking at the map, Zhao Lei marked the location of Li Yong's hardware store and Lu Qiu's home. One was in the north of the city and the other was in the west of the city. The distance was nearly [-] kilometers, and there was no connection.

Zhao Lei called Lin Chong again to explain the disappearance of Lu Qiu. After hearing this, Lin Chong was helpless, so he made an appointment with Zhao Lei to come to the police station tomorrow to study the case.