Evil and punishment [criminal investigation]

On Thursday, December 12th, although the double-twelfth panic buying was not as fierce as the double-eleven, the eyes of the young people in the Rongguangli police station were still dark. In addition, it was the end of the year, and they had to be busy with the police and wrote various reports. It is indeed a bit big.

After answering a report call from a resident complaining about the stench in the corridor, Nie Cheng personally led someone to the police.

When they arrived at the downstairs of Building 13 in Fengzhao Community, the young policeman Deng Ting who went out with Nie Cheng called the caller, saying that they were downstairs and opened the door of the unit.

The person who called the police was Ms. Feng in her 50s. She originally lived in a single apartment for her son to get married. The old couple moved into a newly bought second-hand single apartment. It has only been half a year now.

"I've only moved here for a short time, and I don't know much about the family. It seems that a couple lives there." Ms. Feng pointed to 301 across the street.

"Have you communicated before?" Nie Cheng asked.

Ms. Feng shook her head and said: "It used to be fine, but these days suddenly I don't pay attention to hygiene. My husband rented it out to the public and didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening. It was too late at that time, so it's not easy to talk to others. During the day, As far as I am concerned, the men in his family are fat, so I am not easy to mess with, and I am afraid of conflicts. Comrade policemen, you are tall and strong, and you are here, so I have a backbone in my heart." After speaking, he revealed A gratified smile.

This is not random flattery, the two of them are actually over 180 cm in height, standing in front of the thin and yellow Ms Feng as strong as two Roman columns.

Nie Cheng nodded and signaled Deng Ting to knock on the door.

Deng Ting knocked for 2 minutes, but no one answered the door, "Is there no one at home?"

"No, no, his car is parked downstairs." Ms. Feng said hastily.

Waiting is not an option, and walking away is not an option. Ms. Feng is not making trouble for no reason. They have frowned several times at the smell of wafting in the 10 minutes since they came here.

Deng Ting ate a bowl of delicious tomato stewed noodles at noon, red tomatoes, golden eggs mixed with bits and pieces of meat sauce, now surrounded by this taste, he no longer wants to think about it.

Nie Cheng summed it up, wrote down the license plate number of Room 301, and called 114 to ask the customer service to contact him on his behalf. After a while, the customer service called back and said that the owner of the car did not answer the phone.

"Don't worry, maybe there is no one at home. How about it, we will send someone to come again after seven o'clock." Nie Cheng said.

Back at the office, Nie Cheng was not on duty today, so he handed over the matter to Deng Ting, and told him: "Check the system for the information of the head of the household, as well as his wife. I always feel that there is something wrong with the smell, so be prepared. "

After get off work in the evening, Nie Cheng finished dinner in the cafeteria. As soon as he entered the house and turned on the light switch in the living room, the phone rang.

"Brother Cheng, something really happened, come to Fengzhao Community." Deng Ting's anxious voice was mixed with the whistling wind and the surrounding noise.

Nie Cheng clicked his tongue, turned off the lights, turned and went downstairs, and went straight to Fengzhao Community.

Building 13, Building 301, is a couple living in this house. The husband is Lu Xiao, 34 years old, the deputy director of a public institution, and the wife is He Peiyi, 30 years old, a piano teacher.The two separated half a year ago, He Peiyi rented a house outside, and Lu Xiao still lived here.

At 6:50 in the evening, Deng Ting brought someone to knock on the door, but no one opened it.Fortunately, he listened to what Nie Cheng said, wrote down He Peiyi's number, and called her again. This time, He Peiyi apologized repeatedly. At 7:13, she took a taxi downstairs and opened the door for them.

As soon as the door was opened, the stuffy smell inside overflowed wildly, and Deng Ting knew that something was wrong.

After listening to a series of voice messages from Deng Ting, Nie Cheng parked his car and entered Building 13.

The smell in the morning was indeed the smell of corpses. He had worked in the Criminal Investigation Brigade for many years and had some experience.The corpses decompose relatively slowly in winter and are only now being discovered, probably a few days ago.

"Has the district bureau been notified?" Nie Cheng asked.

"It has been notified." The young policeman guarding the door turned pale, saluted him, and handed him gloves.

"Where is He Peiyi?"

"Rest at the neighborhood committee."

Nie Cheng put on his gloves, pulled off the warning tape attached to the door frame and bent down to enter Room 301.When you enter the door, you can see that the living room of about ten square meters is hung with curtains, and there are leftover takeaways on the coffee table. You can still smell the smell of snail noodles. With two moldy oranges, nothing out of the ordinary.

"Brother Cheng," Deng Ting came out of the bathroom and waved to him, "The dead is here."

In the bathroom, the deceased, Lu Xiao, was wearing a suit and leather shoes, half of his body was plunged into the bathtub, his hands were tied behind his back by white plastic straps, and he seemed to be curled up like chicken feet to untie the bondage.The water in the bathtub covered most of his back, exuding a strong stench.

Nie Cheng walked to the bathtub and saw the face and back of the corpse.Her lips were bruised and purple, her body was whitish, the bathroom was well-heated and the temperature was high, and her head was like a rotten tomato covered in frost, with a serious degree of corrosion.

He observed the deceased carefully, and said to Dun Ting, "Let's protect the scene first."

Both the criminal police and the forensic doctor are still on the way. All they can do is to keep it intact, and even close the windows. After the evidence collection is over, the body will be removed, and then they will go to battle to clean up the scene.

"This Lu Xiao died too badly, what's going on?" Deng Ting said.

Nie Cheng glanced at the corpse and sighed.

Deng Ting had heard for a long time that Nie Cheng used to be the captain of the criminal investigation team. He didn't want to miss the good opportunity, so he begged a bit: "Brother Cheng, it's just the two of us now. If you analyze it, I will learn a lot."

Nie Cheng couldn't hold back his pleading, so he had to say: "The deceased had no trauma, and most likely died of drowning. The water in the bathtub just filled the bathtub, so the murderer released the person first and then the water, at least he left after the water was full."

"That is, watching him die."

"Hmm. Judging from the remaining drops of water in the corner of the bathroom, the murderer probably put hot water." Nie Cheng said.

Deng Ting took a look at the water heater, and the water temperature was adjusted to the highest level, far exceeding the temperature required for daily use.

"The deceased watched the hot water rise little by little, and waited helplessly for death. The murderer's mentality is worth pondering, either he is a pervert or has a great hatred." Nie Cheng said lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was the sound of parking downstairs. They looked down from the side of the kitchen, and they saw the police car of the criminal investigation team with its lights on.

The two stopped discussing the case, and Nie Cheng briefed his colleagues on the criminal investigation team and watched them remove the body before leaving.Deng Ting thankfully wanted to send him downstairs, but Nie Cheng waved him to hurry up.

He turned up the collar of his windbreaker, went downstairs and let out a sigh, and was about to walk forward when the weak sobbing of a woman caught his attention.

Two aunts from the neighborhood committee around her were trying to persuade her, and took her to the property office for a while. It seemed that this was the wife of the deceased, He Peiyi.

He Peiyi wore her hair in a white wool coat, her eyes and nose were red from crying, she was not completely disrespectful after experiencing such a big change, she nodded in response to the comfort of others.

Such reservedness made Nie Cheng a little familiar, and he took a closer look, and he had seen this He Peiyi before.

Last Sunday, when he was waiting at Wei Yuan's psychological clinic, this lady came out first. She was Wei Yuan's last consultant.

Nie Cheng tightened his fingers in his pockets, turned his eyes abruptly, and walked away with his head buried.

Hu Xiaofei, He Peiyi, Jiang Zhun and himself were all connected by a psychiatrist!

An inexplicable fear ran down his spine to the back of his head. He kept being careful, but things got worse and worse.

What exactly is going on?

Hu Xiaofei will not mention it for the time being, it is impossible for him to interfere with Tang Jingyun's choice, and Tang Jingyun does not know that they used to be classmates, which is conducive to matchmaking. Rule her out for now.

What about Jiang Zhun, is he involved in these things? Zhang Jieming said before that he was not in a good condition, and he noticed it himself, so he went to this clinic to see a psychologist?Was it to avoid him by not going to the designated hospital?

What is the origin of this Wei Yuan?

Nie Cheng found that every time a new clue appeared, it not only failed to solve his previous doubts, but made the situation more complicated.No, maybe because he cares about it, there is no clear connection between the case on December 12 and this case.

He simply stopped the expansion of his thoughts and put aside his distracting thoughts. It was rare to get a good night's sleep that night.

On December 12, as soon as he arrived at the institute, he was surrounded by discussions.It's been a long time since there was a murder in their jurisdiction, and everyone in the office was busy with their work, talking about last night's case.

Nie Cheng knew most of the news, only a little new, and the time of death was roughly on Monday.

Is it a coincidence that He Peiyi, whom He Peiyi met at the psychological clinic on Sunday, happened the next day?

He picked up the receiver of the landline on the table, twirled it twice in his hand, and made up his mind to broadcast the landline number, "Captain Li, I'm Nie Cheng, are you at the bureau this afternoon? It's about the case yesterday..."

Li Mu of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of He'an District Bureau is Nie Cheng's current leader according to his position, and he can be regarded as half of his senior brother according to his relationship.Li Mu was ten years older than him, and when he first joined the job, he followed Tang Xuehai, who joined him a few years earlier, and Tang Xuehai was Nie Cheng's father's apprentice, and he also took Nie Cheng with him later, so the relationship between them is not far behind.

Ever since Nie Cheng came to He'an District, Li Mu has taken good care of him. He was not even afraid to refute Shao Qingyun's face in the city bureau, and wanted to pull him into the He'an District Criminal Investigation Team. Things froze.

"It's rare, it's been a long time, and he's willing to touch the case again." Li Mu deliberately came down to pick him up.

"Isn't this in the jurisdiction? We still need to cooperate with the visit."

Li Mu took him straight to the area in charge of the case, introduced Nie Cheng to the policeman who was sorting out the information, left a message of "give him whatever he wants", and hurried to the meeting.

Nie Cheng politely explained his reason for coming, got the video at the entrance of Fengzhao Community, the unpublished autopsy report and some transcripts, and then picked a computer in the corner to check quietly.

The autopsy results showed that the deceased died of suffocation after drowning. Except for the strangle mark on the wrist, there was no external injury. The estimated time was between 12:9 and 12:14 on December [-].

lunch break?Lu Xiao's unit is far away from home, and it's cold, so it's impossible to come back for a lunch break.According to his colleagues at the work unit, he usually stays at the work unit for lunch breaks, and finds restaurants to eat when he goes out to work, and almost never returns home at this time.

On the day of the incident, he left the office at 11:30, which was half an hour earlier than the scheduled lunch break, but no one would count the half hour, and if he didn't come back in the afternoon, it was only as if he had an outside job.Because his immediate leader was in a meeting in another place these days, his colleagues noticed that he hadn't come for a few days, and he didn't answer the phone calls. Although there were speculations, they didn't take it seriously.

Nie Cheng opened the video of the day, dragged the progress bar to 10 o'clock, and started viewing at 2x speed.

At 12:18, Lu Xiao's car drove into the community, and he could confirm that it was him through the front window, and neither the person nor the car came out again.

He kept seeing 17:17 in the video recording, which is also [-]:[-] in reality. The policeman who gave him the information before came to him, "We are going to get off work soon, is there anything else we need?"

"Is this the only entrance to Fengzhao Community?"

"Yes, there is also a fire exit, but the road leading to it is very remote, and no one usually comes in and out. There is also a video at the door, and I copied it in for you." The policeman pointed to a video that had not been renamed on the screen and said.

"Okay, you guys get off work at 05:30, I will definitely return the things to you before I get off work."

"Before six o'clock, I have to work overtime today." The policeman said with a smile.The materials were not in the warehouse, so he couldn't get off work, and Nie Cheng was brought by Team Li. He couldn't be too tough, so he came to talk to remind him of the time.

Nie Cheng raced against time to find the surveillance video of the fire escape. As the police said, there were very few people coming and going. He used the video software to open at 5 times the speed, and then paused when someone passed by.I was stuck returning the materials at six o'clock, but still got nothing.

He originally thought that he would see Wei Yuan. Maybe there was a problem with the direction of the investigation. It should be easier to follow Wei Yuan's behavior.

But how to reveal Wei Yuan to Li Mu?

Team Li and He Peiyi had undergone psychological counseling, and the counselor in charge of her was Wei Yuan, who may be related to the case.OK, important information, how do you know?Because I also saw a doctor in that psychological clinic.Why did you go there to see a psychiatrist? Don't we have a designated hospital?that is because……

No, he will arouse people's doubts, and the matter will not end here. Li Mu may find that Jiang Zhun has also been there.It was unclear, and if he had any luck, he would never be involved.

What should I do?

Better not to say a word.

Nie Cheng left the district office, bought a pack of cigarettes when he passed by the canteen at the door, unwrapped the pack and walked back a few steps before turning back to ask the shop owner for a fire.

The boss saw that he was wearing a police uniform under his coat, so he took a new lighter and stuffed it into his hand, and told him that the policemen who came to buy things had helped him catch thieves several times, so he told him not to be polite.He added the money when he scanned the QR code to pay, and his heart, which was busy from morning to evening, was inexplicably warmed up, as if these things were not so troublesome and tiring.

He was too lazy to squeeze the bus, and he didn't want to take a taxi, so he lightly exhaled a puff of smoke and walked all the way home in the blue night and orange street lights.