Wrongful Death Criminal Investigation

After arriving at the Yueshan branch, the first thing Jiang Yingjie did was to arrange an office for them.

Since the serious crime brigade and the criminal investigation detachment of the sub-bureau jointly solved the case, their office was transformed from a multimedia conference room.

The multimedia conference room is large enough to accommodate many people at the same time.Although Mingtang is the team leader of the special case team, the case cannot be handled by him alone, and the cooperation of the sub-bureau is still needed.

After Jiang Yingjie showed them the office, he said, "In the past few days, you have wronged you to live in the guest house next to the police station."

Ming Tang waved his hand, "There is nothing to be wronged, the case is the most important thing."

Jiang Yingjie smiled, and led them to the guest house to put their luggage. Later, when the Criminal Investigation Detachment of their sub-bureau was sorted out, the official case analysis meeting began.

Ming Tang and Lu Changfeng live in a double room, Xiao Ding, Lan Ning and Yang Meng live in a triple room, and Chen Yanjia lives in a single room because she is a girl.

After the accommodation problem was settled, all the members of the serious crime brigade returned to the temporary office of the special case team of the sub-bureau and began to carefully study the detailed report of the case so that they could keep up with the progress at the later case analysis conference.

According to the information they have, Sun Boyuan is the first victim of this case and died two months ago.

The second victim, Zhao Yi, died one and a half months ago. He was 34 years old, married with a daughter, and was the creative director of an advertising company. He died in his private apartment.

The third victim, Kong Zhihui, died 25 days ago. He was 28 years old, married, and a fashion designer for a fast-selling clothing company in this city. He died in a car.

The fourth victim was Qian Yin, 35 years old, married, with a son and a daughter, and the chief financial officer of a multinational company. He died in an express hotel.

Judging from the information of these victims alone, there is nothing special about them. Preliminary investigation results show that these few people do not know each other, and there is no intersection in their lives.

Sun Boyuan and Qian Yin died in Yueshan District, while Kong Zhihui died in Gudu District, and Zhao Yi died in Yongchuan District.Therefore, the case was not merged in the early stage. It was not until the second similar case occurred in Yueshan District that the investigation scope of the case was expanded to the whole city, and two other cases with the same modus operandi were discovered.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the first case analysis meeting of the task force was held in the multimedia conference room, led by Jiang Yingjie.

On the multimedia screen, photos of the victims of the four cases and photos of the death scene appeared.

Since the environment and location of the crime scene are different, the state of each corpse is different.

The victim of the third case, Kong Zhihui, died in the car. The outdoor temperature in Chuncheng can reach about 38 degrees recently. Stuffed in the car, the corpse decomposed very fast. When the corpse was found, it was already a giant. view.

Jiang Yingjie said: "Through the preliminary investigation, no obvious connection was found between the deceased. In the next step, we plan to start with the social relationship of the deceased. The four victims were all married men, and their conditions were very good. The victim’s genitals were stuffed into the victim’s anus. This is a very vengeful act. The murderer may have been hurt by these men. The murderer should be a woman who may have been forced to have sex/relationships with the victim. Or have been harassed by several victims."

Mingtang quietly waited for Jiang Yingjie to finish his opinion before speaking his own: "I apologize to Team Jiang first, I don't fully agree with your point of view."

Jiang Yingjie nodded, "Tell me your opinion."

Mingtang said: "I agree with what you said, this is a retaliatory serial murder case, but I cannot agree with your analysis of the murderer. First of all, the four victims did not overlap after your preliminary investigation, and the areas where they work and live They don’t overlap, so it’s hard to achieve what you call sexual/assault or sexual/harassment of the same woman. The places where the deceased died were private apartments, suburban fields, suburban cars, and a love hotel. It is a high-incidence location for irritating/sexual/behavior. The corpses of the victims we saw were all naked/naked. There is a high probability of sex/behavior between the murderer and the deceased, but there is also the possibility/attempted behavior. All four victims were Married, this is what they have in common. What we meet may not be a person who is simply hurt and wants to revenge for hurting him, but a scavenger who represents the so-called 'justice'."

With a pen in his hand, Jiang Yingjie tapped the table lightly, making a thumping sound, "Then according to what you mean, the murderer we're looking for is targeting men who cheated on marriage?"

Qiu Shaoyang's face suddenly flashed in Mingtang's mind. If it was him at this moment, what would he do?Thinking about it this way, it seems that they haven't been in touch for a long time, and they don't know how he is doing recently.

Seeing that he was distracted, Lu Changfeng kicked him under the table.

Mingtang came back to his senses and felt a little embarrassed: "I suggest that the soldiers be divided into two groups. Your Yueshan branch will conduct investigations according to your ideas, while our serious crime brigade will conduct investigations according to my ideas. Both sides will carry out the investigation at the same time, and maintain communication and exchanges. Now There is still too little evidence in the case, and we need more evidence to proceed to the next step of analysis."

Jiang Yingjie frowned slightly, not very satisfied with Mingtang's answer.

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Mingtang could probably guess the reason.But he didn't want to argue with Jiang Yingjie. Jiang Yingjie has been doing criminal investigation for many years, so he naturally has his own rhythm. Bring the murderer to justice.As long as this principle is not violated, nothing else matters.

What Jiang Yingjie struggles with is that he thinks that everyone is a task force and should act in unison. Don't hide anything. He can see that Ming Tang's analysis just now is very conservative, and he is in a state of reservation.

And he is not a stingy person. Since he can take the initiative to report the case to the Municipal Bureau, he must have thought that the serious crime team will accept the case, and he is ready to follow the rhythm of the serious crime team.

Ming Tang's generous courtesy made him a little uncomfortable, but in the end he didn't say anything.

It is not a good start to have a crisis of confidence on the first day of working with a partner.

Jiang Yingjie's criminal investigation detachment was given the job of going out to investigate social relations. After all, they had a lot of people.

Mingtang's Serious Case Squad is currently focusing on the network socialization and daily action routes of the deceased.

The places with the highest concentration of 419 are bars and nightclubs. Mingtang wants to see if he can find out the bars that the deceased often visited before his death.

Through the driving recorder of the last deceased, Qian Yin, they locked a bar called Passion.

The name is quite exciting.

Mingtang decided to go to the field with Lu Changfeng for a later visit, and the two of them also had something to say, it was really inconvenient to be in the Yueshan sub-bureau, and both of them felt aggrieved.

The time of Qian Yin's death was recent, which was a good breakthrough.

Through investigation, Chen Yanjia found that there were three mobile phone numbers under Qian Yin's name, one of which was currently in a state of no signal, and the other two were in normal use. The mobile phones were in their evidence bags.And five days before the accident, the number with no signal had an incoming call record.

In other words, Qian Yin should have another mobile phone missing.

Through the mobile phone location, Chen Yanjia found that the subsequent location display was about two kilometers away from where Qian Yin's accident occurred.

Mingtang decided to go with Lu Changfeng to see what was going on.

According to the address given by Chen Yanjia, Mingtang and the others found the place where they disappeared last, which was a second-hand mobile phone recycling shop.

Both Mingtang and Lu Changfeng had a bad feeling in their hearts.

Many sources of mobile phones in this kind of place are not clean, and they are directly flashed after receiving them, and then sold as second-hand mobile phones. It has been five days since Qian Yin's death, and this mobile phone has probably been cleaned up.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng got out of the car and walked in, stepping forward and backward into the second-hand shop.

There was only one child watching cartoons in the shop, Mingtang asked him, "Where are your adults?"

The child took a look and shouted at the top of his voice, "Dad, someone is looking for you."

"coming."

The sound came from inside.

Soon, a short, fat, bald man came out from the curtain hanging on half of the wall, looked at the two people in front of him, and was a little dazed, "Is there anything you two want from me?"

Lu Changfeng showed his police officer ID.

The chunky man was taken aback for a moment, and then he said in a panic, "All the sources of my mobile phone here are clean."

Mingtang naturally didn't believe it, the location signal of the mobile phone disappeared in his store, "Five days ago, did you receive a new mobile phone in your store?"

The man opened the drawer, took out a black X brand latest mobile phone and handed it to them, "This is the only one, and it was sold by a lady dressed as a hotel cleaner. I saw that the mobile phone was very new, so I suspected it might be theirs. I didn't want to accept the mobile phone left by the hotel guest, but the elder sister insisted on keeping it, so I bought it for 1500 yuan."

Lu Changfeng was almost speechless, "The market value of this mobile phone is at least 5000 now, and you bought it for [-]?"

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Lu Changfeng probably also guessed what the man was thinking.The 1500 charge for this mobile phone is definitely a profit, and it is not a problem to refurbish it and sell it for 3500.He was afraid that there was something wrong with the phone, and he didn't want to let go of the business, so he chose to put the phone away, wait for a while to see if anyone came, and if he didn't, he would just swipe the phone.

Unexpectedly, someone actually came, and it was the police.He felt that he might have caused a big trouble.

Mingtang took out the gloves he was carrying, put them on, took the phone and put it in the evidence bag, and asked, "You haven't swiped this phone, have you?"

The man immediately shook his head, "No, no, I was afraid that there might be something wrong with this phone, so I didn't reset it."

"That's good." Mingtang switched on the phone through the evidence bag.

Fortunately, the mobile phone was made in China, so Chen Yanjia should be able to unlock it easily after taking it back.

Lu Changfeng asked: "Do you remember what the person who came with the phone looked like?"

The man shook his head and said, "I don't remember." He immediately added, "But there are surveillance cameras in my store, so you can check."

With that said, the man walked to the desktop computer, opened the monitoring software, set the date back to five days ago, moved the progress bar to an approximate time period from memory, and chose to play at double speed.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng walked over one after another, and stood beside the man, one on the left and one on the right.

About 3 minutes later, an old lady appeared on the screen with short hair cut to the ear and wearing a cleaner's overalls.

Hesitating that the surveillance in the store is not clear enough to see the names of other badges on the old lady, but the old lady's face can still be seen clearly, Ming Tang took a picture of the old lady's face with his mobile phone, and prepared to wait If you go to the hotel where the accident happened, as long as you show the photo of the old lady to the staff there, they will agree to identify it.

After coming out of the second-hand mobile phone repair shop, Mingtang didn't understand to get in the car, but stood on the street and looked around.

Seeing him like this, Lu Changfeng asked him, "What's the matter? Is there any problem?"

Mingtang shook his head, "I'm looking at the surrounding environment."

This area belongs to the old city, the houses are generally short, and many equipments can’t keep up with it. When I came here, I passed a few crossroads and I noticed that the monitoring here is actually not so intensive. There are many dead spots. The suspect dares to be blatant. The killing in a hotel in the urban area shows that she is very familiar with the surrounding environment.

Now is the 21st century, an era of the Internet, with a very high surveillance coverage, no longer as many blind spots as there were more than ten years ago, so it is rare for someone to kill in a relatively open place.

Since the murderer dared to attack Qian Yin in the hotel and knew that there was a problem with the hotel's surveillance, it meant that she knew the hotel's environment very well.

So there are only three possibilities.

One: The murderer is the hotel employee.

Two: The murderer is a resident of the hotel.

Three: The murderer has stepped on the spot many times and is quite familiar with everything in the hotel.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain that the murderer could leave without leaving any evidence after killing someone in the hotel without being discovered.

The four victims belong to the middle and upper class in terms of appearance, figure, and work. Being able to attract these four kinds of people shows that the murderer has at least a very good appearance, which means that the murderer is very easy to impress people. impression.

For beautiful things, I can't help but look a few more times, so as long as I find out the trajectory of the four victims, and then investigate the people around them, it is not difficult to find people with such characteristics .

When he came to the hotel where the incident happened, Ming Tang and the receptionist revealed their identities, and then handed over the photo he took while repairing the phone to the receptionist for identification.

After looking at the front desk, he pointed behind them.

The two turned their heads together, and saw an old lady with her back on her back mopping the floor near the elevator entrance.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng exchanged a look, and walked towards the old man together.

"Auntie."

Lu Changfeng called out politely.

The cleaning aunt turned her head and looked at them with a puzzled expression.

This face was indeed the same as the one in the photo, and it was the person they were looking for.

Auntie Cleaning has her work badge pinned to her chest, which says Wang Cui.

Lu Changfeng had an accident and the police officer said: "Aunt Wang, we want to ask you to understand something."

Wang Cui was a little nervous, she clenched the mop in her hand, and asked falteringly, "What is it?"

Lu Changfeng said: "It's not suitable for talking because people come and go here, can we find a place to sit and chat?"

Seeing that Wang Cui is the kind of honest person, Lu Changfeng didn't want her to be too nervous.

Wang Cui thought for a moment, then nodded, "Then come with me."

Wang Cui took them to the cleaning room.

The cleaning room is where they clean their tools, facing all kinds of sundries.

Wang Cui was a little restrained towards them, still holding his mop in his hand, "I'm not familiar with other places."

"It's okay." Lu Changfeng expressed his understanding.

It’s just that there is no place to sit here. Mingtang is more than 1.9 meters tall, Lu Changfeng is a little bit taller, but still over 1.8 meters, and Wang Cui is less than 1.6 meters. It's a good performance for her not to be more nervous, not to mention relaxed.

When Mingtang came, he noticed that there was a safe passage next to the cleaning room, and suggested, "Why don't we go to the safe passage."

Wang Cui hesitated, but agreed after another thought.

The three came to the safe passage together, and Wang Cui was still holding her mop.

Mingtang touched the steps of the stairs, it wasn't particularly dirty, so he casually touched the ashes twice and sat down.

As he sat down, the pressure in Wang Cui's heart was not so strong.

Lu Changfeng also sat down, sitting next to Mingtang. He said to Wang Cui, "Auntie, please sit down too. Don't be nervous. We're looking for you to understand the situation."

Wang Cui hesitated and walked to the steps beside the stairs and sat down. Lu Zhang and the others sat on the last step down the stairs, while Wang Cui sat on the first step down the next floor, separated by a The revolving guardrail, and her hand is still holding her mop.

In terms of age, Wang Cui must be over 60 years old.

According to the current employment standards, hotels over 60 years old will not recruit.From the perspective of Wang Cui's shoes, they are the cheapest cloth shoes. In the wholesale market, this pair of shoes will not exceed 15 yuan.

Wang Cui sold Qian Yin's mobile phone, maybe she really needed the money.If it wasn't for the lack of money, maybe she wouldn't have come out to work at her age.

Ming Tang also had a father and a mother in his family, so he naturally sympathized with Wang Cui.

He took out the phone and asked Wang Cui, "Why did you sell the phone?"

When Wang Cui saw this phone, she immediately became very scared.

Lu Changfeng quickly comforted: "Auntie, you just need to tell the truth. We won't ask you for the money you paid for selling the phone, and we won't report you to the hotel. As long as you promise to answer our questions truthfully."

Perhaps it was Lu Changfeng's consolation that helped, Wang Cui seemed less nervous than before, but within a few seconds she cried.

Lu Changfeng hurried over to comfort her.

Seeing her, Lu Changfeng thought of his grandfather.

Lu Changfeng didn't know who his parents were. She was a child who was abandoned in the trash can. The cleaner found him when he was cleaning the trash can on the road, and then adopted him.

He lived in a shantytown before he was ten years old. He knew that he had to work hard since he was a child. He was always No.1 in the exam, because No.1 has a scholarship. Although it is not much, he can share some for his grandfather. , life can be easier.

In order to make him feel better, his grandfather did not go to the hospital when he was sick. At the age of ten, his grandfather died of a serious illness. He was sent to an orphanage. Later, he was admitted to the Public Security University with social support.

Seeing Wang Cui in front of him now, he could think of his deceased grandfather.

There is a disease in the world that really cannot be cured, and it is poverty.

He was too empathetic to be poor and miserable.

After crying, Wang Cui told them, "Comrade police, I know it's wrong to sell mobile phones, but I really need the money. My old man is seriously ill in the hospital. I can't afford his hospitalization fee, so I sold this mobile phone." .My son had a fever when he was a child and had no money for medical treatment. His brain was burnt out. I really have nothing to do..."

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng's eyes turned sore.

Lu Changfeng comforted: "Auntie, if you answer our questions seriously, it will be fine if you have made atonement."

Wang Cui wiped away tears, "I will answer seriously."

Lu Changfeng glanced at Mingtang, and Mingtang nodded to him to indicate that it was Lu Changfeng who would ask questions.

Lu Changfeng asked, "Auntie, how did you get this phone?"

Wang Cui said in a hoarse voice, "I found it when I entered the house to clean."

Lu Changfeng and the others read the file, and Wang Cui was the first person to find the victim Qian Yin. He asked in the most gentle tone possible: "Auntie, can you describe the situation at that time again?"

Wang Cui shuddered.

Lu Changfeng didn't dare to ask.For ordinary people, seeing a murder scene with their own eyes is a very terrifying thing, and for many people it may be a lifetime shadow.

Wang Cui clenched the mop tightly and didn't know how to speak. Those scenes were very shocking to her and made her very scared.

After about 2 minutes, Wang Cui said slowly, "I knocked on the door and no one answered, so I thought there was no one inside, so I swiped my card and went in. As soon as I went in, I saw him lying naked on the bed, covered with blankets. Blood, I was very scared at the time, and ran out of the room to find the manager. The manager called the police. I saw a mobile phone on the table when I entered the door, and another one on the bedside. I stole it while everyone was not paying attention. I bought my mobile phone and sold it, and I really couldn’t afford the hospital bill at the time, so I did something wrong in a moment of confusion.”

Ming Tang found out the photos of the scene at that time. There was indeed a table at the entrance, on which were placed many things such as charging treasures. The murderer may not have noticed that the victim had two mobile phones, and left the crime scene in a hurry after killing the person. on site.

That's why Mingtang and the others were able to find this phone smoothly. Although it's not clear what's in the phone now, they just hope that there are useful clues written in the phone.

Lu Changfeng comforted her, "Auntie, it's okay, we won't hold you accountable."

As long as they don't say this, no one will know.

Wang Cui cried again.

Lu Changfeng gently patted her on the back to comfort her.

For them, it is good news that the mobile phone has not been taken by the murderer, nor has it been formatted.

After comforting Wang Cui, Lu Changfeng and Mingtang gave Wang Cui all the change they had.

Now is the Internet age, and they don't have too much change with them, and it only adds up to a thousand yuan, which can help a little.

Then the two decided to go to the scene of the crime. For the criminal police, going to the scene of the crime is a very useful thing. The feeling of being there is different from that in the photos or other people's descriptions.