Criminal Psychology

"She begged us not to let anyone know that she had come to the police. If her parents knew, they would kill her." Lao Bian narrated the incident that happened many years ago in a clear and normal tone.

"Because you listened to her, you didn't put this record in the final big file?"

"Lao Xing, this is not a formal report, and..." Lao Bian shook his head, "There are loopholes in her narrative, but we still conducted an investigation."

"What's the problem?" Dynasty asked.

"Death time." Xing Conglian narrowed his eyes.

The forensic report on the file showed that the time of death of the old homeless man was around 4 o'clock in the morning.

However, according to Shen Lian, she witnessed Chen Jianguo pushing down the homeless man when she returned home from the cram school. This time point should be between 18:00 and 22:00, which does not match the real time of death of the deceased.

The old side nodded: "Although the girl's testimony was questionable, we did four investigations, and there was no doubt. Finally, we investigated the identity of the junior high school student."

"Is it Shen Lian?"

The old man nodded: "In this matter, although she kept secret who she was, we must investigate her identity and background, and we easily found out that she is the daughter of the Shen family at No. 4 Xiaolin Lane. Later, we found The director of the local neighborhood committee made insinuations, of course he didn't mention the girl's name, but the director also guessed that it was Shen Lian."

"Chen Lian..." Lin Chen said softly, "How could the director guess it was her?"

The old man tapped his head with his fingers and said: "The director said that they guessed that Shen Lian would go to the police again for the death of the homeless man. Shen Lian had already had many quarrels at home before, and the relationship between the Shen family and the Chen family was also very serious. It was very stiff. She said that the little girl's brain is not good, there is something wrong."

The old policeman's so-called bad brain, of course, refers to mental problems.

"But Shen Lian has no medical record of mental illness." Lin Chen said.

"No, but in those days, if a child's mind was abnormal, many parents would hide it, and Shen Lian's mental problem was not that serious, so her parents didn't send their daughter to the hospital." Old Bian explain.

Lin Chen was keenly aware of the problem in the old saying: "How do you know that her parents didn't send her to the hospital because her mental problems are not serious?"

Lin Chen emphasized the word "parents".

"We talked to her parents about it," said Old Bian.

Inside the room, Wang Chao gasped: "Didn't she beg you not to let her parents know? Why are you still talking about it?"

Xing Conglian said, "It should have been leaked by the director of the street office?"

The old man was helpless and wanted to touch a cigarette, so Xing Conglian took one out of his pocket and passed it. While the old man was biting the cigarette, Xing Conglian lit the lighter and moved over.

The old police officer said: "There are no secrets among the neighbors in the small streets and alleys. The director of the street talked to Shen Lian's parents. The two couples came to the police station one day and explained the daughter's problem. What the couple meant was that the daughter When I went to school in the morning and saw someone died on the road, I was very excited by the stimulation. Shen Lian always felt that the death of the old homeless man had something to do with me, and changed many reasons. At that time, they took their daughter to the countryside to keep her away from the source of stimulation. Shen Lian Lovers parents finally begged us not to let their daughter leave a criminal record." The old man puffed out a cigarette, "How can this be called a criminal record, it is just a simple investigation."

"So, you simply believed what Shen Lian's parents said?" Xing Conglian said sharply, "Leaving after the incident, the daughter became mentally abnormal again. No matter how you look at it, there are problems for the parents."

"Her parents were not at home that night and were working overtime. The alibi was very accurate, so there were no two of them in the confession. And it was basically the same as what Shen Lian's parents said, because Chen Jianguo was not arrested, and Shen Lian came to us. This time, the little girl’s testimony has changed again.”

Because the old police officer smoked, the second floor was filled with smoke, and the top floor was exposed to the sun, making the room as hot as a steamer.

But that night, it was bitterly cold.

The parents didn't go home because of the night shift, and Shen Lian, a junior high school student, was used to the occasional nights when she lived alone.But because of the cold wave that day, freezing rain fell, and the temperature outside the house had dropped to below zero. Of course, the house was not much better.She did witness the dispute between the old homeless man and Chen Jianguo, but the time was not when she came back from cram school, but at 12 o'clock in the evening.She finished her homework and was about to go to bed, when she heard a woman's cry outside the house, the voice was very soft, but the whining sound of sexual desire was very clear in the drizzling winter night.

She struggled for a while, and finally summoned up the courage to quietly draw the curtains and open the window a little.With the extremely weak light of the street lamp, I saw an extremely disgusting and dirty scene.

She saw Chen Jianguo under the eaves, with his pants half off, having sex with Aunt Li Wanru next door.

Teenage girl spies midnight adultery, and she's been watching from the window.But neither she nor Li Jianguo, nor even Li Wanru expected that a fourth person would appear in the cold winter night.

The old homeless man came back from picking up leftovers from the hotel at night, and accidentally walked into the hidden alley that should have been deserted.In the dark night, the old man was wearing a ragged cotton padded jacket, but he descended like a god, leaving the two people in the alley with nowhere to hide.Li Wanru fled in a hurry, and Chen Jianguo killed the old homeless man in order to silence him.

This is the second version of the story, which has more detailed plots than the simple structure of the first version.

After listening, Wang Chao just turned over his phone and said, "I checked the historical weather records of that day, it was -1~4°, and it was still raining lightly. Isn't Chen Jianguo afraid of freezing his jj?"

Xing Conglian slapped Wang Chao as usual: "As far as you know? The words are still so uncivilized."

After he finished speaking, no one continued.The room was eerily quiet, as if the shadow of the dead was floating gently in the winter night.

Lin Chen sat in the corner, frowning and thinking.When Xing Conglian cast his gaze over, Lin Chen just raised his eyes and asked, "This is the second version, is there a third version of the story?"

Because he was completely guessed what happened, Lao Bian raised his head suddenly, stared at Lin Chen in astonishment, then rubbed his face, and continued talking.

After the midnight cheating version, Shen Lian went to the police for the third time and changed her witness testimony again.

This time, she told the police that it was not Li Wanru who actually had an affair with Chen Jianguo. Chen Jian intended to sexually assault a little girl that night, and the girl was saved by an old beggar from being killed.However, Chen Jianguo was so angry that he secretly went to trouble the old beggar very late and killed him by the side of the bridge.

Probably this case also left a deep mark in Lao Bian's mind, so the old policeman was not at all confused when talking about the details.

Lin Chen was sitting on the back of the chair with his legs crossed, looking down at the shadow somewhere on the wooden floor, wondering what he was thinking.

Finally, Lin Chen said: "Should there be a final version of the story?"

Lin Chen asked.

However, for the first time, Lin Chen guessed wrong this time, Lao Bian didn't nod, but very flatly denied: "No, this is the last version of the story that Shen Lian told."

Lin Chen raised his head suddenly: "What happened?"

"What do you mean?" Old Bian asked Lin Chen inexplicably, after talking for so long, and his emotions were not quite right.

"It shouldn't be. After that, did Shen Lian really not look for you again?" Lin Chen asked again.

The old man put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and said, "My old man can't understand what Consultant Lin wants to say."

Lin Chen said very clearly: "What I mean is, I think Shen Lian didn't tell the truth about the matter, and she should come to you again."

"She did come." Old Bian said.

"the last time?"

"the last time."

"What happened made her leave without changing her witness statement."

The old man sighed, "Because my partner finally couldn't bear it, and exposed the little girl's lies to her face."

Old Bian said that his partner was different from him, he was born with a bad temper.

His partner was already very dissatisfied with being deceived by a little girl with lies again and again, which wasted manpower and material resources of the police.

When Shen Lian found them for the fourth time, his partner told Shen Lian directly to let her study hard, and finding the police was no fun.All her made-up stories about the time of the old tramp's death did not match the time of the deceased's real death.

"And then?" Lin Chen asked.

"Then Shen Lian left."

Lin Chen frowned: "Can you please recall carefully, what happened at that time so that Shen Lian never looked for you after leaving."

Lao Bian scratched his eyebrows, lost in painful memories.

"It must be your partner's words that caused her to have violent emotional fluctuations. Her reaction should be obvious."

"That's when it's time for the homeless man to die!" The old man patted his leg, "My partner said that the old homeless man didn't die in the middle of the night, but when the next day was about to dawn, the little girl said several things in succession. "Impossible", very excited, a half-grown girl almost attacked my partner."

"Attack?" Wang Chao was taken aback.

"Strangle the neck, but my partner blocked it." Lao Bian shook his head again and again, "After that, we really believed that she was abnormal. A normal little girl who came to make up stories with the police again and again is too paranoid."

The old man was still babbling, and the old policeman was forced to retell the story of more than ten years ago. In the end, after the story was told, the old man seemed unable to stop the car and began to recall the past.

Xing Cong even said a few words to the other party, but he kept paying attention to Lin Chen's expression.

From the moment he heard that Shen Lian was excited because of the real time of the old homeless man's death, Lin Chen kept a thoughtful expression. In the end, Xing Conglian clearly saw a sad look on Lin Chen's face.

Lin Chen's expression flickered, and he slowly blinked his lower eyelids, as if he had completed the puzzle and everything became clear.

Lin Chen stood up and said goodbye to Lao Bian.