slip through the net [criminal investigation]

: "Yes, no matter how I play this little trick, I may not be able to break through you, a great psychologist, but... there is one thing that can.

That is the "3.07 Extraordinary Arson Case". Xie Lin is on his way to investigate. I think... When he comes back, our case will be over. "

"What did you say? Xie Lin went to investigate the arson case?" Jiang Huan stood up suddenly, his eyes widened in horror, "Call him back! Hurry up!"

"what……"

He was pushed back on the chair, and he struggled and screamed——

"He's going to die!"

99. Old case

Xie Lin didn't run away this time.A piece of jujube grove was harvested, so Fang Weimin didn't continue to soak in the mountains, but he couldn't stay idle. He set up a whole row of foam boxes on his balcony and planted a row of small green vegetables. When he rushed to someone's house, People are watering carefully on the balcony.

"I've made my house full of mud every day, and I don't know how many bugs are attracted to the balcony. I can't even dry my clothes."

Fang Weimin's wife is also retired, but she is slightly fat and energetic. She is the kind of old lady who makes people feel close at first glance.

She let Xie Lin into the living room and said with a warm smile, "Sit down and I'll make you a cup of tea. Old Fang! Old Fang! Don't be too busy and come out quickly, someone is looking for you at the police station!"

Fang Weimin obviously heard her complaint: "What kind of insects are attracted by green vegetables, you just think I don't like it."

"I told you that our family is not short of food."

"There is no shortage of sweaters to wear!"

Before she finished making a cup of tea, she rolled up her sleeves and was about to fight. Xie Lin quickly stood up, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and smoothed things over: "Okay, okay, I, an outsider, is still here."

Fang Weimin smiled "hehe", greeted his wife to go back to make tea, and said "I don't have the same knowledge as you", and then said: "Why are you here, and there is a new case?"

Xie Lin let out a foul breath, and said with a serious face: "Yes. Uncle Fang, when I came to see you last time, did you mention a "3.07 extraordinarily large arson case"? "

He frowned and stood up suddenly: "What's wrong with this case?"

As soon as Xie Lin raised his head, he was startled by the seriousness and seriousness in his eyes, so he hesitated for a moment before saying: "Uh...it's like this, we are investigating a murder case now, the deceased and the former The first suspects are all orphans from the Love Welfare Institute, so..."

"Love Welfare Institute..." He murmured and repeated, sat down again with a "boom", and then slowly took out the cigarette case from his pocket.

His wife just brewed two cups of tea, and frowned when she saw this: "What kind of cigarettes do you smoke at home?"

Hearing this, he had no choice but to stuff the cigarette back into his pocket silently, and sighed again.Xie Lin was so startled by his performance that his hairs stood on end, and he asked, "Uncle Fang, what's going on? Why does this case make you so obsessed with it? I remember it should have been closed long ago, right?"

"Some cases are closed, so people will never forget them."

"why?"

He let out a sigh of relief before he calmed down, and fell into his own memories and said slowly: "The fire brigade reported this case to us back then, and the address was very remote. When we arrived, the fire was almost extinguished.

I still remember that there was a young man in the fire brigade who cried when he saw us suddenly knelt down, crying so hard that he couldn't speak, which scared us all.

But as soon as we move forward, we will understand.There are more than 30 children alone!

Even an old criminal policeman like me couldn't sleep for several days after watching that scene. Who can not cry?

Moreover, when we counted the number of victims based on the dead bodies, we missed two people.

Do you know why?Because those two were babies under one year old, the fire was so big that there were not even ashes left!

Miserable, too miserable.The children hugged each other tightly, and the forensic doctor couldn't even tell which piece belonged to which child. In the end, they had to bury all the children together, and everyone pooled the money for the burial.I have been a policeman all my life, and this is the most tragic case. "

Shocked by his imagination, Xie Lin clenched his fists tightly.Just thinking about it makes my heart gripped. It is hard to imagine the feelings of these "participants" who experienced such a tragic situation.

"What happened later? Uncle Fang, can you tell me about your case-solving process in detail?"

He nodded: "Actually, our case is difficult to solve, because there is an eyewitness, but the difficulty is that the eyewitness is a child."

"But, I heard that the surviving child is the murderer? Or are there two children?"

"It's our speculation that the murderer was a child. At that time, the orphanage had two courtyards, the front and the back. The fire brigade first concentrated on putting out the fire in the front yard. In addition, the child was so frightened that he didn't make a sound at all, so the initial At the time, no one found him tied to a tree in the backyard.

Fortunately, the building was relatively independent, and the fire did not spread to the backyard.I still remember that Yingju personally untied the child. At that time, the child was bound with a wire. The child struggled so badly that the wire was strangled into his arm, and his body was covered in blood.

The place and direction where he was bound happened to be able to see the room where the children called out when the fire started, so..."

The first thing Xie Lin thought of was Jiang's hallucinations about flames when he was still sick, and... Cao Ming's photo of the bound wound on his arm.

At that time, Cao Ming himself said that those new wounds were covered with old wounds that were difficult to distinguish.

He murmured, "So, the kid is freaking out."

Fang Weimin said "hmm": "It's not just that he was frightened. He was so frightened that he couldn't speak, as if he was deaf. He stared straight ahead, didn't answer questions, didn't eat, even He didn’t drink any water, and no one in the police station could do anything to him. I still remember the look in his eyes. You can guess who was the one who got him in the end.”

"Should the director?"

"His son."

"Should submit? But at the time of application..." Eight years old!

"Why don't you talk about Yingju, and that boy Acheng is also talented. The kid didn't eat or drink all day and night. Yingju thought that his kid was about the same age as that kid, so he took Acheng to the city. When the police came, he was locked up with the child in the interrogation room for half an hour, and he didn't know how Ah Cheng coaxed him. After a while, he heard the child crying, crying heartbreakingly, crying until he passed out.

When he woke up, he said he was hungry and wanted to eat, but we were so happy.Afterwards, we asked questions and answered questions, the specific number of victims, the time of the fire, etc. He basically told us many details of the case. "

"What about the murderer?"

He shook his head: "Only this, he didn't say anything."

"But the murderer should have tied him to the tree at that time, so he must have seen the murderer, how could..."

"Why did he just let him go without saying anything? That's why the difficulty of this case is that the eyewitness is a child. Many interrogation methods cannot be used on a child, and the child was frightened again. , Later, the question became fierce, and the child started to go crazy, and he had no choice but to let him go. If this is an adult, how could we not be able to ask anything? "

"Can't you try again if you haven't found an application form?"

"This case is too tragic. How dare you let a child fall into such a deep situation? At first, I found a peer, just to appease the child, to open the child's heart, to let him eat and drink, and to make him speak. Speaking would have been a windfall for us.”

"It's true... I'm used to Ying Cheng, and I always forget that he was just a child. However, if Ying Cheng could ask Ying Cheng at that time, he might be able to find out the murderer."

He still shook his head: "No, he won't say it."

"why?"

"According to our investigation, I am afraid that the child who set the fire has a special relationship with him."

"Special relationship? What special relationship?"

"After the forensic autopsy, several doubts were found. The first is the location of the corpses. Although most of the corpses were concentrated in a locked room, only one corpse was in another room. After identification, the age of the deceased Between fifty and fifty-five, the cause of death was a fractured skull, and the whole head was smashed to pieces after a fatal blow. The murder weapon was next to the corpse. Although the wooden handle was burnt, it was recognizable as a hammer. Even more strange Interestingly, the time of death was two o'clock in the morning and the time of fire was nine o'clock in the morning."

"Time difference?"

"Yes, there was a time difference of almost seven hours. The second was sleeping pills. Sleeping pill residues were found in the stomach contents of adults other than the first corpse, as well as in older children, but not in younger children, which is also Our reason for judging the perpetrator of the arson was a child.

Although he succeeded in killing the first person out of anger, he didn't have the ability to control so many other adults and children older than himself, so he chose the method of taking sleeping pills for some and doing nothing for the other, assuming an adult , There is no need to give sleeping pills to the children at all. "

"But...it's not that the children's bodies were..."

"That is to say, but according to the distribution of the children, some corpses are relatively lightly damaged and their internal organs are relatively intact, which supports the autopsy.

It should be identifiable that the older children were given sleeping pills and the younger children were not.

Later, after investigation, it was found that the first deceased was the director of the Love Welfare Institute. According to the family statement, the sleeping pills should also belong to him.

Most importantly...in that bastard's house...sorry, I have a hard time sympathizing with him, although he is indeed the victim.

Because... in the basement of his home, a large number of sexual assaults were found