Panda Criminal Investigation Team

Did the murderer leave a record at the fast food restaurant,

Was it really just to prove that Cheng Longhai committed suicide?

If it is deliberate anti-reconnaissance,

Knowing that the police will enter the fast food restaurant to collect evidence,

Then the murderer must be very familiar with the usual investigative methods of the police,

He knew that the time of death could be inferred from the digestion of food in the stomach of the deceased,

But why make the stupid mistake of buying pork burgers again?

Or the killer didn't understand this forensic knowledge,

I don't know what the dead man ate,

Just guessing that the dead man would have breakfast on the way.But how could he be sure that the deceased would not have breakfast at home?What if the police didn't investigate this?

Unless he knows that the deceased will definitely not eat breakfast at home, and he can guide the police to pay attention to breakfast... There is only one person who can do these two things,

That is his wife, Zhou Jing.

Before Zhou Jing's suspicion was cleared, only one person believed her completely.

That person was naturally Hao Jinyang.Hao Jinyang was aggrieved for her: "How can you doubt Ms. Zhou? She cried so sad that day! No matter who is the murderer,

It can't be her! "When he said these words, he thought of Miss Lu in the previous sexual asphyxiation case.

The cause of the union of the two is love,

been in love so much,

How could he want to kill the other party?Instead, as long as you think about the other party's death,

it will be painful,

He thought so.

Cheng Bin and Yu Renjie didn't figure out why the toll gate on Yushan Road only left the record of the outgoing journey of the Audi A6.

but did not return,

Could it be that Cheng Longhai's car really arrived at the foot of the mountain on May 5 and never came back?

They began to think about more roundabout ways. Maybe the murderer didn't drive the car back directly after passing the toll gate.

Instead, park the car somewhere,

Turned back by other means of transportation and made an alibi.Later he returned to the Audi again and parked the car at the foot of the hill.But this is not so much the murderer's meticulous thinking, as it is far-fetched by the police to reach the conclusion. In fact, no one would do this. An Audi parked on the side of the road is likely to attract the attention of others.

But they are still determined to try in this direction, no matter how they go back and forth, the car will definitely leave evidence of passing.The second team began to investigate the surveillance video of the road leading to the foot of the mountain from May 5th to May 15th, especially the cameras at the fork and the parking lot, in an attempt to find the trace of the Audi A5.However, there are many vehicles, and the vehicles are concealed from each other, which is far less convenient than accessing the data of high-speed toll gates.After looking at it for several days, after leaving the toll gate, I was stunned to find no trace of the car.The black Audi with the license plate number A17 disappeared for no apparent reason, like a ghost car.

When you are in a stalemate, the best way is to sort out all the information and clues in your hands again to see if there are logical loopholes and blind spots.The second team found a conference room and started a brainstorming session. Everyone could express their opinions no matter whether what they said was reasonable or not.

Fat Stomach openly ate donuts in the conference room that day, and ate three of a whole box of donuts in less than 10 minutes.Cheng Bin scolded: "What else can your mouth do besides eating, tell me, what do you think?"

Fat Wei puffed his cheeks and shook his head: "No, I always listen to the captain."

Cheng Bin wanted to criticize him again, but before he opened his mouth, he froze for a moment: "Cheng Longhai died about an hour after eating, what if he didn't eat breakfast?"

Fat Stomach was the first to react: "His death time was from 11:9 pm to [-]:[-] am. It must not be dinner, so we always thought he had breakfast, but it might be supper! I also like supper, the day before yesterday I ate crayfish at night, I ate four catties at a time, it was delicious!"

The discovery was gratifying, but the excitement didn't last long—so what if it was a late-night snack?

Seeing the people at the table lowered their faces to think hard again, Yu Renjie raised his hand: "Well, I have an idea, do you want to listen?"

Cheng Bin agreed.Yu Renjie picked up a donut, and seeing that everyone in the room was looking at him, he put it back consciously: "If it was a late-night snack, it is possible that Cheng Longhai was killed on the night of May 5th, everyone Can you think of it? I was wondering, is it possible that Audi has already arrived at Yushan on the night of the 14th?"

Everyone looked at him in surprise and began to think about the feasibility of this statement.Cheng Bin first gave a negative answer: "If the Audi parked at the foot of the mountain near Yushan on the 14th, how did the record of the tollgate on the 15th come about?"

Yu Renjie said: "What if the license plate is removed on the night of the 14th?"

"Remove the license plate and replace it with your own car, pass through the toll gate again the next morning, and find another time to send the license plate back after completing the alibi... It is possible." Cheng Bin nodded with his chin in his hand: " The toll booths only record the license plate number, and we have indeed not checked the records of passing through the toll gates before May 5."

At this moment, Hao Jinyang said, "I don't think it's possible. I've watched the most surveillance videos in the past two days. The one with the license plate on the toll gate video is the Audi A6. It's black and the model is the same."

Everyone sighed again, but at this time Yu Renjie proposed another idea: "What if the murderer's car is the same model as the deceased's car?"

Cheng Bin pondered for a moment, and then said, "Zhou Peng didn't borrow money to buy a car, but the possibility of renting a car is not ruled out. We might as well follow this line of thought to check. Anyway, we have watched so many surveillance videos, and it is not far behind the time of the 14th." at night."

Hao Jinyang and others sighed with dark circles under their eyes, and continued to immerse themselves in the video and data.

I didn't have much hope for this idea at first, but the results of the investigation are very gratifying.Cheng Longhai's car registered another passing record at the toll gate connecting the urban area with Yushan—the time was 5:14 p.m. on May 11.

But what is strange is that there is a record of Cheng Longhai's license plate going to Yushan on the evening of the 14th and the morning of the 15th at the toll gate, and there is no return record between the two - that is, the same car went out on the only passage connecting the two places Twice, there was no return.

This is in line with Yu Renjie's conjecture about changing the license plate: the murderer killed Cheng Longhai on the evening of the 14th and threw him in the woods [-] kilometers away from Yushan Scenic Area with people and a car, and returned after removing the license plate.The next day, I drove out a car of the same color and model, replaced it with the license plate number of the deceased, and pretended to be the deceased to pass through the toll booth again to create an alibi for myself. After that, I only needed to change another license plate and go back to the city.

After 10:14 p.m., the bus service near Yushan was suspended, so it is speculated that the murderer returned to the city by car on the evening of the [-]th.Either he had an accomplice driving to pick him up, or he was already in the woods with another car ready to go back.However, Zhou Peng and Zhou Jing started the investigation, and found no relevant car rental records for the two.This will bring some trouble to the case, but there are still traces to follow.

If the above conjecture is true, then between May 5th and May 14th, there must be a black Audi traveling to and from this road, leaving a record at the toll gate.It is very difficult to investigate all the passing vehicles in the past few days, but if we only focus on the black Audi A5, the search range will be much smaller. What's more, the return record of this car will be at least one more than the outbound journey .

At the same time, the second team set a trap for Zhou Jing.She stated at the beginning of the investigation that Cheng Longhai was still alive before 5:15 am on May 6th, and Cheng Bin asked her where she and Cheng Longhai were on the night of May 30th.Not knowing the progress of the case, she insisted that both of them were resting at home, and the car keys at home were only held by her and her husband, which contradicted the passing records left at the toll booth.

In the follow-up investigation, Zhou Jing reluctantly overturned the previous testimony: "I fell asleep at night, so I can't guarantee whether my husband went out while I was sleeping. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide a long time ago, and he didn't implement it until the morning."

Furthermore, based on the food in the stomach of the deceased Cheng Longhai and the eating time, the second team boldly guessed that his last supper was eaten at the m fast food restaurant at the toll gate.Therefore, the second team extracted the monitoring records of the fast food restaurant in the early morning of the 14th. Unexpectedly, it was not Cheng Longhai who came in to buy the hamburger set around the early morning of the night, but Zhou Jing herself. A double-layer cheeseburger should be the source of the beef in the stomach of the deceased.

Now Zhou Jing can no longer explain why she appeared in the burger restaurant when she was supposed to be asleep.

The records of the highway toll gates had just been sorted out, and Zhou Jing had already confessed all of her accomplices.That person was the suspect closely watched by the police, Zhou Peng.

Zhou Jing quickly explained the crime process, roughly consistent with the police's speculation.She pointed out that the black Audi A6 used by Zhou Peng was indeed rented from a car rental company, but it was a friend's account, so no borrowing record was found from him.That friend often rents cars, and there are discounts for members. When Zhou Peng asked him to book a car for him, he didn't doubt it.

On the night of May 5, Zhou Jing pretended to receive a call from Zhou Peng, telling Cheng Longhai that Zhou Peng was making a suicide attempt, and asked Cheng Longhai to accompany her to stop it.Cheng Longhai thought of Zhou Peng's resolute appearance, believed it, hurriedly took the clothes that Zhou Jing handed him, and went out with her, driving that black Audi.

When passing by the toll gate, Cheng Longhai expressed that he wanted to eat something, and Zhou Jing agreed because he was afraid that he would doubt him.In order to avoid being seen by Cheng Longhai, Zhou Jing insisted that she should buy it.When ordering, she deliberately replaced the cola with black tea, and put sleeping pills in the tea to prevent the cola from affecting the properties of the medicine.After getting into the car, Zhou Jing was replaced by Zhou Jing on the pretext of letting her husband have dinner.Soon after, Cheng Longhai fell into a drowsiness and fell into the passenger seat.At this time, Zhou Jing had an idea. She thought that the next day, the witness of the fast food restaurant could be used as a "proof of presence" for the dead person, but unexpectedly, this became a superfluous stroke, and instead made the police find suspicious points .

After that, Zhou Jing drove the car to the woods beside Yu Mountain, where Zhou Peng had already been waiting.The two put the prepared hat on Cheng Longhai, put down the suicide note, cleaned up the scene, and lit the charcoal basin.Afterwards, they stopped by the car for a while, and after confirming that Cheng Longhai was not alive, they put on another arranged Audi and went back the same way.

The next morning, Zhou Peng changed into the same windbreaker that he had already prepared, and drove a rented car from Zhou Jing's home.He made a special stop on the road and left traces at the fast food restaurant, giving people the illusion that Cheng Longhai was still alive.After passing the toll gate, Zhou Peng changed the license plate in the blind spot of monitoring, returned the same way, and then drove to the train station and deliberately caused a commotion, completing his alibi.

The only discrepancy is that Zhou Peng did not remove Cheng Longhai's license plate, but directly forged a fake license plate with the same number.The license plate is made of plastic and paper, its appearance is the same as the real one, and it can even be recognized by the scanner at the toll gate. It was customized online for 200 yuan.So the rented Audi A6 itself had two license plates. Except for the fake license plate used when passing through the toll gate on the morning of the 15th, it was hung with its own license plate at other times, which caused Cheng Longhai's car to never return. illusion.

With the testimony of Zhou Jing and the neighbor's old lady, the police locked the time of the crime on the morning of May 5th and would not deliberately investigate the traffic records before that day. This is what Zhou Jing and Zhou Peng bet on.If it wasn't for the beef hamburger Cheng Longhai chose to give the police some guidance in the dark, maybe they could have successfully fooled them.

And Zhou Jing led the police to turn their attention to Zhou Peng at the beginning, which was also designed. What she expected was that the police would investigate Zhou Peng's alibi as soon as possible and use the police to exonerate herself.Who would have expected that the murderer would identify his own people?

Their original plan was that Cheng Longhai's body would not be discovered until much later, so it would be impossible to determine the time of death.Unexpectedly, the corpse was discovered in advance, and the decay of the corpse was delayed under the condition of being filled with carbon monoxide, and many suspicious points were found from the corpse.

As for the motive for the murder, Zhou Jing admitted frankly that it was because her husband cheated.

"I found out two years ago that he had a woman outside. He was very young and hadn't graduated from college for a few years. I had a few fights with him, and he promised me that I would never contact her again. I believed him and forgave him. But I accidentally found out that they were still together a few months ago. Cheng Longhai lied to me to go on a business trip, but actually went on vacation with this woman. When I confronted him this time, he insisted on divorcing me. "

Zhou Jing's eyes were red and bloodshot, and she couldn't tell whether it was sadness or anger: "He said that there was a gap with me, that he didn't have a common language—does he have a common language with college students? I know he doesn't like me, I feel that I am a rough person, not as educated as a college student, but I had the opportunity to go to college. In high school, my grades were better than his, and the teachers advised me to continue studying! Who did I give up the opportunity to study for? Who was it for? Away from home and come to the city to work hard? It’s because of someone who cooks and wipes the ground at home every day and becomes a yellow-faced woman! Why doesn’t he touch his conscience, who paid for his tuition back then! Now we have no common language with me, Why didn't you tell me when I was going through hardships with him before! At that time, he said he was good to me for the rest of his life, but now he is good to someone else!"

Speaking of this, she had already burst into tears: "I don't want to divorce him, and I really can't swallow this breath. I hate him so much, so I can only kill him before he leaves me."

The grief in her eyes was not fake, even though she killed him, all the tears she shed for him were real.

Zhou Jing said that the so-called suicide note was actually a letter her husband hid when he ran away from home.The phrase "I'm leaving" is not a farewell to death, but a preview of leaving the family, and the phrase "I'm sorry" is just an irresponsible apology from a man.

It was this letter that became the trigger for Zhou Jing to kill her husband, and Cheng Longhai's guilt towards his wife also became the reason for him to go out late at night for her.It's just that he never imagined that the farewell letter that hadn't been put on the table became his suicide note in a fake suicide scene.

As for the accomplice relationship, Zhou Jing said frankly: "My brother is a money-seeker. In fact, Cheng Longhai has already told me that the house will belong to me after the divorce. In addition, the money owed by my brother does not need to be repaid by him, so it should be treated as a debt to me. Compensation. But I told my brother that as long as my husband dies, he doesn't have to pay back the money, and he immediately agreed, haha, what a liar. Although I feel sorry for him, but he did it for money, right? ? He prepared the charcoal basin, and I lit the fire, so am I still the main culprit?"

What's interesting is that Zhou Peng's confession is completely different from Zhou Jing's: "I don't like Cheng Longhai's way of being dragged. What's so great about having a little money! You're so rich, why should I pay back this little money? And my sister treats him so well, but he plays with women outside! I killed him because I couldn't understand him. That day I lied about suicide and called my sister and brother-in-law out, gave my brother-in-law drinking water with sleeping pills, and then Killed me. My sister tried her best to stop me, but she couldn't stop me. After all, I am a man with great strength. After the bitch died, my sister had to clean up the scene with me and help me make false testimony. Who told me to be her What about brother? Cheng Longhai is a dead bastard, so damn it... My sister only protects a worthless brother, so she won't go to jail, right?"

The murderer was found, but the matter of who was the main criminal and who was the accessory made Hao Jinyang dizzy again. He pestered Yu Renjie and asked, "Which of the two people is telling the truth?"

Yu Renjie asked back: "What do you think?"

Hao Jinyang scratched his head and said, "At first I thought Zhou Jing must be innocent, but now I don't understand either."

Yu Renjie said: "Judging from the evidence, both are possible. The only thing we know now is that they killed someone together. The specifics depend on how the court decides. But judging from the level of logic and cunning in this case, it is also possible Guess who planned it. Cheng Bin and I have been to Zhou Jing's house, and there is a big wedding photo in her living room, and the frame is almost brand new, as if it was broken before and just replaced."

Hao Jinyang suddenly realized, how could Zhou Peng, a rough man, think of such a rigorous method of committing crimes?Zhou Jing was different. In order to pretend to be a loving couple in front of the police, she deliberately hung up the broken picture frame.It turns out that the senior brother didn't become suspicious when Zhou Jing intervened in the closing of the case, but from the very beginning.But when he thought that Zhou Jing, whom he trusted, was actually a murderer, he was inevitably a little discouraged and began to doubt life.

Yu Renjie patted him on the shoulder, and when Hao Jinyang looked up, he saw a very contrived face of compassion.Yu Renjie said in the same affected tone: "No matter who is the mastermind, judging from the fact that they are all vying to be the mastermind, you can still see the warmth in the world! Young people, be more sunny."

But Hao Jinyang just felt that he was in the sun-the police were too easy to trust others, which was also a fatal flaw in their work.I don't know when he will be able to become sophisticated and develop the piercing eyes like a senior brother.

The report on the case was finally filed shortly after.Cheng Bin said in the closing meeting: "If we were skeptical of Zhou Jing from the beginning, we would ask the neighbor's old lady what picture he saw, or even ask the gray-clothed man when he went to the fast food restaurant for the first time. The food will close the case much faster. I hope that everyone will abandon their preconceived ideas in the future and face clues and details with a more objective attitude.”

Finally solved the case but was accused of being wrong, even if he was right, it would be disappointing.

Cheng Bin looked at the dejected faces in the room, was a little surprised, then coughed and said: "Everyone still did a good job, keep working hard!"

Only then did the meeting end in embarrassment.

In addition, the forensic doctor Xiao Ma was also critical of the results. Since he knew that the breakthrough point of the case was the hamburger in the stomach of the deceased, he was in pain and kept pulling his hair to admit his mistakes: "I didn't find the point! A hamburger."

No matter how everyone comforted him, it was useless.Later, he straightened his hair, and even though he was no longer in the sight of the second team, he still called frequently.

"I'm Xiao Ma, let me tell you that I have a case in my hand recently. From the condition of the stomach of the deceased, I judged that he ate mutton sandwiches before the accident! After asking his relatives, he really ate Roujiamo!...Although it has nothing to do with the case, I can see from the tissue in his stomach that he ate Roujiamo!"

After Cheng Bin listened, he hung up his phone directly, turned his head and said, "Does anyone want to eat Roujiamo?" No one paid any attention to him, so he sighed and went to grab Yu Renjie's potato chips: "I'm hungry, you Just give me something to eat."

Yu Renjie was so scared that he crushed a handful of potato chips when he ran away.

Part Three