shadow of crime

Xingyuan Community is located on the side of the First Ring Road in Ning'an City. It is located in a bustling area, surrounded by countless large and small shopping malls. It is also a road section with frequent traffic accidents. Surveillance cameras are connected into a tight network.

however……

"Okay, I see," Lin An hung up the phone, squeezed his head between the front seats, and said to Jiang Bei who was sitting in the driver's seat, "Boss, the bureau called just now, saying that they finished watching Xingyuan All the monitoring around the community has not found any suspicious persons or vehicles for the time being."

Jiang Bei turned the steering wheel with one hand, and held a cigarette in his left hand. The light blue smoke filled the creases between his brows. At the same time, he glanced at Cheng Ye, who was sleeping next to him: "Where is the Technical Detective?" Due to the heavy rain that night, the possibility of damage to the surveillance camera cannot be ruled out."

"No," the car was driving fast, and Lin An felt that the two steamed buns he ate in the morning were about to gush out, rubbing his stomach and said, "Although the little guys in the Technical Detective usually go out of their way to sing and play in bars, But the critical moment is still very reliable, the damaged monitor was repaired overnight, there is nothing special... vomit ~ no special discovery, my brother, can we drive slowly, vomit..."

The speed of the car did not slow down, and it galloped towards the Xingyuan community.The security guards in this community are all young, unlike other communities, the security guards are all handsome guys in their 20s when the house is handed over, and they will all be replaced by uncles in a few years.

The security guards in the cold weather didn't enter the security room to stay, they just stood in the sentry box and came to salute someone.They were all in uniform, and Lin An felt a sense of sympathy, so he got out of the car and handed the security guard a cigarette.

"Brother, thank you for your hard work. I'm from the Criminal Police Detachment of the Municipal Bureau. I met you two days ago. You said you stood here every day. On the 17th, you really didn't see any suspicious people coming in?"

The Xingyuan community is all bungalows, with a total height of 11 floors and two households per elevator. There are only 22 households in one building, and the total number of residents in the entire community is no more than a thousand.The security guards are familiar with the owner, and even if they don't know the full name, they recognize the face.

At this moment, the security guard took the cigarettes in a serious manner and put them in his trouser pocket, and then said: "The entry and exit of foreign personnel have been registered. How about I show you the entry and exit records of that day?"

Lin An has seen that thing countless times, and asked people to check everything that needs to be checked, and also watched the surveillance of the community, especially the surveillance of Building 6 of the unit where the crime occurred.

The only outsiders who entered Building 6 that day were employees of the moving company, who entered and left during the daytime, which did not match the time when the case occurred.

Lin An put his hands in his hands and got into the security room: "Okay, show me again, I don't believe I can't find that brat."

in the car.

Jiang Bei put out the cigarette in the cigarette case, and the rising smoke woke Cheng Ye up.He raised his thin eyelids, his eyes still bored with laziness, as if he had just had a sweet dream, and he was still indulging in it.

"Sorry, why didn't you wake me up?" Cheng Ye undid the safety buckle and was about to open the door to get out of the car when the person beside him said:

"I don't think you are a qualified police graduate, but I didn't think you would sleep on the way to the scene of the crime."

Jiang Bei bit the last two words very hard.

"I'm sorry," Cheng Ye looked at him sideways, "because my dog ​​barked all night last night, which seriously affected my sleep. I will pay attention next time, but if the chief is tired and wants to rest, not only will I not wake him up You, and I'll cover you with a blanket."

After that, he opened the door and got out of the car, and walked straight to the door of the security room.

Lin An's eyes turned green when he saw the entry and exit records and surveillance, and finally asked the security guard, "Are you sure that's all there is?"

The security guard nodded: "It's all. There are only so many people in this community. Even if they can escape the monitoring, they can't escape the eyes of our security team. Otherwise, I'm sorry for the property fee of 5 yuan per square meter."

"Okay," Lin An picked up an orange, "Your security team will continue to watch. Generally speaking, the murderer will return to the scene. Like that kind of psychopath, he will basically come back to relive the thrill of committing the crime. In short Keep an eye on it, and catch anyone who looks like a pervert!"

The security company said "yes".

Lin An walked out of the security room, and subconsciously wanted to grab the shoulders of the junior brother. The glistening white carcass flickered in his mind, so he put down his hands in embarrassment: "Cough! Where's the boss, why didn't you see him?"

Cheng Ye raised his chin, and Jiang Bei was walking towards him with big strides, followed by a few young men from the trace inspection department, who were so imposing that they almost blinded Lin An's 24k titanium alloy dog ​​eyes.

He always felt that his boss couldn't find a wife because his aura was too strong, ordinary women couldn't be stunned, and unusual women were hard to find, so he spent all his energy on torturing his subordinates.

Lin An joined the team with his hands in his hands, and the elite team instantly became a demolition team.

The scene of the crime was in Room 6, Building 502, Xingyuan Community.

Lin An handed out shoe covers and gloves to everyone, and Jiang Bei moved swiftly, and followed the trace into the house.The house still remained as it was at the time of the crime, but the body was carried away, and there were only human outlines drawn with marker pens on the sofa.

He said to the group of younger brothers: "Don't destroy the layout of the house. Even if you need to collect evidence on the items, you must put the items back in their original place after the incident."

Manslaughter is different from deliberate homicide, especially in serial homicide cases. Most of these murderers have a psychological endurance beyond ordinary people. To him, killing is not just "killing", but more like creating a "work". ".The victim is the protagonist of the "work". In order to make this "work" more perfect, the murderer often uses small objects at the scene of the crime to "decorate", and the placement and direction will reveal the murderer's inner thoughts.

There was still a large amount of blood on the floor tiles of the living room, which had dried up to dark red. The trace inspectors picked it up and walked away, and began to collect evidence on the items in the house lightly.

Cheng Ye put on his gloves and shoe covers, stood at the door and frowned at the big pool of blood.

"What?" Lin An asked him, "Afraid? I understand that you interns didn't go to the scene of the crime when you were in school, but since you have arrived at the Municipal Bureau, you have to overcome psychological difficulties. From now on... Eh... where are you going?"

Cheng Ye pulled up the police line and slipped past.It rained heavily on the night of the crime, and the windows in the house were closed tightly. The smell of blood mixed with the humid air fermented a disgusting smell, which accumulated in every corner and lingered for a long time.

The victim was a 21-year-old girl, and pink decorations full of girls' hearts can be seen everywhere in the room.

Cheng Ye said: "The background of this 'work' is very beautiful, the murderer would not deliberately 'decorate'."

Jiang Bei squatted beside the sofa, staring at the knife on the ground—it was the murder weapon.Generally speaking, after committing a crime, whether out of caution or instinct, the murderer will take the murder weapon away from the scene, unless it is manslaughter, which will be forgotten in extreme panic, but the murderer of the serial case obviously does not panic.

He left the murder weapon on purpose, and also left the murder weapon in the first four cases.

Jiang Bei wanted to call Lin An, but when he looked up, he saw Cheng Ye.The other party also squatted down at some point, almost touching his forehead.Jiang Bei fixed his eyes on Cheng Ye's drooping eyelashes, and said, "You seem to understand the murderer's psychology very well."

Lifting the eyelashes, Jiang Bei instantly fell into those rippling eyes.He heard Cheng Ye say:

"Sir, you don't care too much about your subordinates. Haven't you read my profile? When I was in college, I majored in psychology. I can tell by the look in your eyes that you regard me as a suspect. I should be happy Are you happy or happy? Because you took a personal touch on me."

He didn't know the heights of the heavens and the earth, and he showed off in front of the criminal police who had worked for ten years, trying to seduce and seduce him, wanting to be more colorful.

Jiang Bei ignored him and called Lin An directly: "Give me the photos of the previous crime scene."

Most of the crime scenes of serial murders have similarities. For the murderer, this is like completing the same series of "works", and there is usually a certain connection between this series of "works".

Lin An took out a stack of photos, and he carried them with him. After following Jiang Bei for so many years, he had already figured out Jiang Bei's habits.As long as Jiang Bei is serious, let alone looking at the photos over and over again, he can even catch ants passing by the scene of the crime and ask them.

After finding an open space, Jiang Bei spread out the photos one by one, and fell into deep thought.Lin An fumbled for some clues, and asked, "Boss, did you find anything?"

"Knife." Cheng Ye picked up a photo, and the person on it was the fourth victim. After removing the blood on his body, his death was peaceful.The distorted face has been tidied up, yes, tidied up, arranged neatly like an object, and prayed with both hands, as if thanking the murderer for ending his mediocre life.

The five deceased were in the same state of death, lying quietly on the sofa.However, the victim will not obediently go to the sofa and wait for the murderer to kill him. The corpses are moved behind, and so is the knife that fell by the sofa.

Cheng Ye took out his mobile phone and took a photo according to the shooting angle on the photo.He said: "The body was not placed casually, and neither was the knife. The murderer was playing games with the police."

The photos on the scene were all taken by Jiang Bei himself, and the angle deviation is not too big.Right now he was picking out the photos of the deceased and arranging them in the order they were killed.

"Lin An, what did the psychological profiler say?"

The murderer placed the hands of all the dead in prayer, and the repetitive movements contained certain metaphors.People's hearts are hard to guess, let alone the mind of a murderer.

"He said the murderer wasn't human!" Lin An spat, because of this case he hadn't had a good night's sleep for several months, even if he fell asleep, he would dream of the murderer coming, which made his whole body exhausted, and he couldn't bear it. I can't stop complaining, "The profiler said that the murderer is likely to have an ego-type personality. He regarded himself as a priest and asked the deceased to pray to him. But it doesn't rule out that he is just playing around. The man's heart is a needle."

"He is himself," Jiang Bei shuffled the four photos, and rearranged them according to the knives on the photos, connecting them end to end.

He stared at the photo and said: "The ego-type personality lacks fairness to others and likes to exaggerate its own value. Simply put, it is to seek attention, otherwise the murderer will not play with the police."

The knives on the four photos connected into an angular line. Jiang Bei looked at Cheng Ye, and Cheng Ye immediately understood, and put the photo he just took on it.

Cheng Ye tilted his head, looking like a small animal.He put his palms on the ground, filling the gaps between the photos, and then said: "Look, this is a hexagon, which means that there is only one murderer left to complete his 'work'."

He met Jiang Bei's cold eyes, smiled, and added: "Sir, didn't you think of it a long time ago? Otherwise, why would you carry the photo with you? So, if I can think of this, are I a suspect?" It doesn't matter, it just shows that we are connected in heart."

Lin An was drinking health-preserving wolfberry and red date tea, when he heard this sentence, he almost spit out.He coughed twice, and secretly glanced at his boss's darkened face, thinking that finally someone could shock Jiang Bei, but it was a pity that the other party was a man.

Tightening the lid of the thermos cup, Lin An, who is comparable to the street women's director, took out his mobile phone, pulled out a screenshot of the map, and said, "Then what... we Aye are right, the murderer is only one person away from completing the 'work', young man Good comprehension! That’s why the boss of our Unknown Prophet asked me to record the details a long time ago!”

The two sides flattered each other, and the atmosphere eased, but Lin An felt very tired. He only wanted a boss who was sympathetic to his subordinates and a more normal colleague.

Jiang Bei stood up and held out his hand to Lin An: "Give me the phone."

"Good!" Lin An offered it with both hands.

Jiang Bei walked to the balcony and looked at the city full of tall buildings, his eyes were full of seriousness: "The first four cases occurred outside the third ring road, and only the fifth case occurred in a community within the first ring road."

He compared the red dots marked on the map: "The director of the Sun Welfare Institute said that there are nearly 20 children who have left the orphanage so far between the ages of 25 and 20," he clicked to edit the picture , using a striking blue brush to connect the landmarks on the map in the order of the time of the crime, and finally formed a circle, "The reason why the murderer chose Li Zhenzhen this time is probably to use the victim's address to circle a place that belongs to him. Your own area of ​​activity. The last target is the most special, and the person chosen by the murderer may be here."

Jiang Bei pointed to the center of the circle, which was the Second Ring Road, where there were stretches of residential areas.

"Where is there?" Lin An leaned up to look, "Here...wait a minute, this address has not been reported in the bureau, and there is no one guarding this place at all. I will call Lao Zhang and ask him what's going on."

Lin An took the phone and was about to dial a number when he suddenly turned his head and slapped his thigh: "I remembered, our interns live here. Ah Ye, come here!"

Cheng Ye was wandering around the house, as if he was attending an art exhibition, admiring everything.His eyes moved away from the withered platycodon flowers, and he turned to look at the balcony: "What's wrong?"

"Come here," Lin An greeted him, "Do you live in the East Second Ring Road, just in the Desa Plaza?"

"Yes," Cheng Ye asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin An's eyes were heavy: "You're done, you can eat whatever you want recently, the internship salary is not enough to find brother, and..." He felt the chill on the back of his neck, needless to say, his boss must be staring at him, So he changed his tune, "Come on!"

At this time, Lao Wang's capable generals rushed in, took off their masks, and said, "Captain Jiang, in this house..."