Criminal Investigation Chronicle

On January 2017, 1, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Lei, Xiao Liu, and Lin Chong flew to Haikou by plane. The flight took more than three hours. Xiao Liu felt bored and asked Zhao Lei to tell him about the cases he had solved.Just after Zhao Lei finished speaking, Xiao Liu suddenly asked, "Brother Zhao, why haven't you mentioned sister-in-law?"

Lin Chong kept telling Xiao Liu to shut up, and then Xiao Liu realized that he had said the wrong thing.Zhao Lei bowed his head and said nothing, took out a cigarette from his pocket, touched it, and found that the lighter had been lost when he went through the security check, and he kept holding the cigarette without lighting it, silent.

After a long silence, Zhao Lei slowly opened his mouth: "It was August 2002, midsummer..."

On August 2002, 8, Zhao Lei had just had dinner at the police station when his cell phone rang. Zhao Lei checked the time. At 12:7 p.m., the caller was from an unknown number. I called the police, and there was a robbery in a certain gold store in Yanjing, and two men with guns robbed many valuables from the store." Zhao Lei wanted to ask for details, but the other party had already hung up.Judging from the location, the gold store mentioned by the reporter is not far from the police station, less than 55 minutes by car.Because there were two people on the other side, both armed with guns, Zhao Lei didn't dare to be careless, and took the police officers to get the guns from the warehouse and quickly went to the scene of the incident.

When Zhao Lei and others drove to the gold store, they saw two men driving away on a motorcycle at the door. Zhao Lei fired a warning shot, but the two ignored them, hit the gas pedal and ran away.Zhao Lei looked at the route and immediately called his colleagues to set up a card in front to intercept him, and then drove after him.

After a short chase, the two riders were quickly surrounded. Seeing that they could not escape, they abandoned their motorcycles and ran into a flower shop. At night, there was no one in the flower shop, so the two kidnapped the owner of the flower shop—a young women.

Seeing this, Zhao Lei called a negotiator and led people slowly approaching the flower shop and surrounded them, because the criminals had hostages in their hands and could not act rashly.Zhao Lei started shouting after approaching the flower shop, trying to stabilize the criminal.

But the two gangsters were emotional. Through the glass door, Zhao Lei saw that one of the two gangsters held a gun against the back of the flower shop owner's head, and the other was moving things to block the door, shouting loudly: "Don't come in, come in and I'll shoot you!" Kill her."

Zhao Lei knew that he couldn't provoke the criminal at this time, so he agreed to answer: "Don't act recklessly, you won't get sentenced for robbery for a few years, don't do stupid things."The two gangsters were not very old, one was tall and thin, the other was shorter and fatter, and it was the tall and thin man who held the gun against the hostage.

The gangster shouted again: "You all go away, prepare a car with full gas for me."

Zhao Lei continued to delay: "Okay, no problem, give me a few minutes, and get ready right away."

The gangster stopped talking, and his body was always hidden behind the hostages. Another gangster also blocked the flower shop's table at the door as a cover.

A few minutes later, Zhao Lei's colleague drove a car and stopped in front of the flower shop. Zhao Lei shouted, "The car you want is ready."

At this time, the sniper said in the communicator: "Zhao, leave the tall and thin one to me, and you keep an eye on the other one." Zhao Lei replied that there is no problem.

When the criminal saw the car parked at the door, the tall and thin man pulled the hostage up and asked Zhao Lei to back off. Zhao Lei did so, and the other criminal opened the door of the flower shop and slowly moved out.

At this time, news came from the sniper that they could do it.With a gunshot, the tall and thin man who had just stood up and pushed the hostage forward fell to the ground in response. Zhao Lei shot at the same time, hitting the right wrist of the other criminal, knocking out the gun in the criminal's hand, and the tall and thin man was shot in the eyebrow. After falling to the ground, there was no movement. After the right wrist was injured, the other short and fat gangster quickly picked up the gun with his left hand. Zhao Lei shot him in the left hand again. Zhao Lei sprinted in front of him, trying to control him.Seeing that the tall and thin man was dead, the short and fat gangster showed no cowardice, and became ruthless. Although his hands were severely injured, he still captured him without restraint. Zhao Lei decisively disconnected the gun, and the chunky gangster fell down.

The florist was overly frightened and cried bitterly.Zhao Lei looked at the two corpses in front of him. Judging from their appearance, neither of them were more than 30 years old.The tall and thin man had a black bag on his back, which should be stolen from a robbery.The police came forward to clean up the scene and transported the bodies of the two gangsters back to the police station.Zhao Lei put on his gloves, picked up the bag on the tall and thin man, and returned to the gold shop with his colleague Xiao Wang.Back at the gold store, after identification, the gold and silver jewelry in the bag was the one that was robbed from the gold store.

Zhao Lei asked the stunned staff of the gold store about the robbery, and the staff of the gold store slowly said: "I originally got off work at 8 o'clock in the evening, but there happened to be a customer today. After the customer finished shopping and left, I checked the time and it was already 8 o'clock." It's 10:[-], and I was about to pack up and get off work when I heard the sound of a motorcycle coming from outside. Then two people came in, one tall and thin and the other short and fat. He said he didn’t want to kill people, and asked me to hand over all the valuables. I had no choice but to do so. I gave them the gold and silver jewelry, and they packed them in their bags and left. When I got to the door, I heard the siren. Then they ran away on a bicycle..."

Zhao Lei was recording while listening, and suddenly said: "What time do you think the gangsters robbed?"

The clerk replied: "8:10."

Zhao Lei asked again: "Are you sure?"

The clerk nodded, pointed to the wall clock on the wall and said, "I'm sure, because it was past the closing time, and I complained."

Zhao Lei took out his mobile phone, and checked the time on the mobile phone and the wall clock, exactly.Zhao Lei thought it was wrong, and immediately asked someone to check the phone number he had called earlier, and found that the phone had been turned off, and the black card could not be traced.Zhao Lei calculated the time and found that he received the call at 7:55. Then he took the gun and led people to the police. When he came out of the police station, it should be close to 8:8, but the clerk said the robbery was at 10:15, and the robbery process lasted for a few minutes. , The gangster was about to leave, and he blew the siren all the way to rush over. It took at most 8 minutes, and the time should be before 15:110. This happened to encounter the robber. In addition, the person who called the police called Zhao Lei's mobile phone, not [-].Zhao Lei quickly thought, if this is the case, then it means that there must be something else behind this seemingly simple robbery.

Zhao Lei returned to the police station, the flower shop owner, the young girl was still in the police station, crying all the time, asked her and said nothing, Zhao Lei made her a cup of coffee and asked her to drink it, after she drank the coffee, she felt a little emotional Relieved, Zhao Lei asked the forensic medical officer Hua Xiaomei to come over for questioning. After a brief questioning, Xiao Wang drove her away.Zhao Lei picked up the inquiry record sent by Xiaomei, looked at it for a while, and found that there was no problem.I was about to write a report, but felt that something was wrong, so I asked the technician to continue to track the alarm call, and notify him immediately if there is any news.Zhao Lei lit a cigarette, took out a piece of paper and wrote: Time premeditates the informant.

Not long after, the technicians brought another news. The guns used by the two gangsters were all guns. Undead.There is no clue about the source of the gun, this kind of gun can be produced in any workshop.

The identities of the two gangsters were also found out. They were from the same village. The tall and thin one was named Zhang Wu, and the short and fat one was named Hu Fei. They came to Yanjing to work together at the beginning of the year. , After that, no news of the two was found.The time when the two left the construction site was at the end of June.