Wrongful Death Criminal Investigation

In the conference room at eight o'clock sharp, all members of the Serious Case Brigade were present.

Yesterday, Ming Tang made an agreement with Jiang Yingjie, and today Ming Tang will take the lead, and Ming Tang walked to the front multimedia screen and stood there without hesitation.

He looked around and saw that everyone who should be there was present.

"I want to make a brief report on what we investigated yesterday." Ming Tang said, "Let's start with myself."

"Vice Team Lu and I went to the scene of the crime together, and found the lost mobile phone of the deceased Yuxi. Through Chen Yanjia's technical means, we locked a bar called 'Passion' that the deceased Qian Yin used to go to before his death. I I went to the field with the deputy team to investigate at night, and found a friend of Qian Yin in the bar. Through his description, we can be sure that Qian Yin not only has extramarital affairs, but also that his cheating partners are all men. With his help, we got A portrait of a suspicious man."

On the big screen behind him appeared a simulated portrait of last night's feast with them.

The portraitist said: "Through the simulated portrait, I did a screening in the population information file, and I didn't find anyone whose characteristics were similar to the simulated portrait."

But this portrait is already very characteristic. If they walk on the street, they will definitely recognize this person.

Then others made work reports in turn.

Ming Tang recounted the analysis he and Jiang Yingjie made yesterday, "In this area, there are 21 bars in total, the focus is on those gay bars, everyone will visit and investigate these 21 bars in pairs. "

Although the criminal investigation detachment has a large number of people, it is impossible for the whole team to investigate this case. The actual number of people involved in the investigation is less than twenty, so each team is responsible for two bars.

Mingtang is still in the same group as Lu Changfeng.

The bar is open until 02:30am so it doesn't open that early.Mingtang decided to follow the clues provided by Chen Yanjia, first go to the owner of the mobile phone number they locked to Qian Yin to call to see the situation.

It is said that the owner of the machine is the proprietress of a convenience store, and they found the convenience store.

The owner of the machine is indeed not young. When they went, the owner was cleaning the shelves.

Mingtang took the initiative to introduce himself to the owner of the machine.

The owner's name is Chen Fengjiao, who has a junior high school education. This convenience store belongs to her family. She uses it during the day, and her husband mainly uses it at night.

Ming Tang noticed that there was no surveillance system installed in the convenience store, so it was impossible for them to find out who moved Chen Fengjiao's mobile phone and called Qian Yin that day.

Although this street is not remote, it is an old street.

Lu Changfeng observed the surrounding situation, and asked Mingtang: "Do you think the other party used Chen Fengjiao's mobile phone to call Qian Yin, is it a temporary intention or a long-planned plan?"

Mingtang thought about this question carefully, and his eyes lit up instantly.

Now is the era of intelligence. Everyone uses smart phones. Young people like to unlock with their faces or fingerprints. If the other party just wants to take Chen Fengjiao's mobile phone temporarily, how can he guarantee that he will be able to unlock Chen Fengjiao's mobile phone? Woolen cloth?

Unless the other party knows that Chen Fengjiao's phone does not have a password.

How did the other party know that Chen Fengjiao's cell phone didn't have a password?

Mingtang asked Chen Fengjiao: "Have you ever told others that your phone doesn't have a password?"

Chen Fengjiao nodded.

Mingtang handed the suspect's portrait to Chen Fengjiao: "See if this person has been to your place recently."

Chen Fengjiao took too many good sketches and portraits, looked left and right, looked up and down, and after a lot of tossing, He Mingtang shook his head, "I haven't seen it before."

Chen Fengjiao said again, "If this is a photo of yours, I may still have an impression after seeing it. I really can't see it in such a picture."

Mingtang sighed, put the photos away, and asked: "Then is there any kind of particularly good-looking person who often comes to your place to buy things, and can never forget them after seeing them?"

"Male and female?" Chen Fengjiao asked.

Mingtang said: "Men."

Chen Fengjiao shook her head: "There are no men, but there are many beautiful girls. There is a beauty center next to the back door, and girls often come out to sell small things. If you want to talk about a particularly good-looking man, then your colleague. "

Chen Fengjiao was talking about Lu Changfeng.

Lu Changfeng proudly challenged Mingtang.

Mingtang didn't bother to talk to him, so he would be brilliant if he gave some color, "Okay, then thank you for your cooperation, if you think of something, just call this number."

Mingtang wrote down his phone number on a piece of paper and left it to Chen Fengjiao.

Lu Changfeng bought two bottles of water and followed him out, and handed one to Mingtang, "Where are we going next?"

The bar usually only opens in the afternoon, and there is no one in the bar when Mingtang goes there in the morning, so the time is indeed free now.

From the first place of death in the suburbs to the last hotel together, this means that the murderer’s behavior is gradually bold, which means that his entire killing process is becoming more and more mature, which can also be seen from the time interval between his crimes .

Although the results of the investigation have not yet come out, Mingtang is almost sure that the other suspects should be gay like Qian Yin.

The wives of several victims said that they did not know that their husbands had cheated. What they have in common is that they are married, have children, and like men.

What is the reason why the murderer chose the victim as the target of the murder?

Mingtang couldn't figure it out.

Inexplicably, he thought of Qiu Shaoyang at this moment.

Qiu Shaoyang seemed to know everything, everything.

However, Qiu Shaoyang was not involved in this case, so he couldn't ask Qiu Shaoyang for help.

Mingtang didn't know what was wrong, he kept thinking of Qiu Shaoyang these days.It seems that every time I encounter difficulties, I will habitually think of Qiu Shaoyang.

Are you too dependent on him?

Ming Tang shook his head.

Seeing him shaking his head while driving, Lu Changfeng asked him suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Mingtang said: "It's fine."

Lu Changfeng didn't ask anymore, he was holding his mobile phone, waiting for Jing Jue to reply to him.

Jing Jue still hasn't responded to the news from last night, so Lu Changfeng couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

As for Qiu Shaoyang, after the case, Qiu Shaoyang was not idle at all. Every day he went home tired and fell asleep, and had no time to chat with Mingtang at all.

The two made appointments with the owners of several bars in advance. In order not to affect their business at night, they made appointments to visit in the afternoon.

They went to a bar called Time first, it was a clear bar, the door was already open when they went, and there were not many people in the bar.

Mingtang felt that there was little hope for such a place, as expected, none of the staff in the shop said they had seen the photos and portraits they provided.

The two moved to the next bar called Fengqing. This bar is relatively large, and it is said that the number of people can reach several thousand at night.

There are more than 40 staff members in the bar. When they arrived, the bar was not open and the waiters were already cleaning.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng pushed the door open, but someone stepped forward to stop him: "Sir, we haven't opened yet."

Mingtang directly showed his ID, "The police, I came to your place to investigate some things, and I would like to ask for your cooperation."

Mingtang asked: "Is your manager here?"

The man said: "The manager hasn't arrived yet, but the foreman has already arrived. I went to get the wine in the warehouse. I'll call for you. You should sit and wait for a while."

Lu Changfeng nodded to the man: "Then I will trouble you."

The man said no trouble, and then went to find the foreman.

Someone brought them two glasses of lemonade.

Lu Changfeng sorted out all the materials they were going to use later, and after waiting for about 5 minutes, the foreman came.

The foreman was a young man in his 20s, and the other party came up to him quickly, "Hello, two police officers, I am Fang Ye, the foreman of the bar."

"Hello, Mr. Fang."

Fang Ye: "I wonder what the two police officers are here to investigate?"

Mingtang said: "Mr. Fang, sit down and let's chat together."

Fang also sat down.

Lu Changfeng briefly explained the purpose of his visit: "That's how it is. The police are investigating a case. There are a few people who want you to help identify them and see if they have appeared in your bar recently."

Fang also nodded: "Yes, I am in charge of the lobby, and I can remember regular customers."

"That couldn't be better." Ming Tang displayed the portraits of the four victims and the suspect one by one.

Fang Ye picked up the photos one by one to identify them, always looking dazed, and finally shook his head, "I can't say whether they have been to our bar or not, but they are definitely not regular customers, I can let others Do you want to identify them together?"

Mingtang nodded.

Fang also took out the walkie-talkie and said, "Everyone gather in the front hall."

Soon, everyone gathered in the front hall.Fang also sent the photo and said, "You all look carefully, has anyone seen the person in the photo."

Ming Tang saw that everyone was shaking their heads when they got the photos, so he had a better idea.

After 5 minutes, the photos were sent back to Fang Ye, and no one said they had seen them.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng left the Style Bar and went to the next one.

It's called One Zero Paradise, and it's a gay bar that you can tell from the name.

Mingtang and the others were delayed on the road, and it was already 05:30 in the afternoon when they arrived, and the bar was already open for business, but there were no people in the afternoon session, and the master usually came after 06:30.

Walking into the bar, someone greeted him and asked, "What do you two want to drink?"

Lu Changfeng showed his police officer ID, "We are from the Criminal Investigation Team of the City Bureau, is your person in charge here?"

The man was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly said, "Yes, yes."

A fat man walked towards them and introduced himself: "I am the manager of this bar, my surname is Wang. I wonder what you two want from me?"

Compared with the foreman of the previous family, the manager of this family is much more mature and stable, so please invite them to sit in the office for a while.

Mingtang rejected Manager Wang's invitation: "No need, let's stay here. We're just here for a survey. There are a few people I want to ask you to help identify."

"Okay." Manager Wang didn't force him, and invited them to find an inconspicuous place to sit down.

Lu Changfeng listed the photos and portraits one by one, and said to Manager Wang, "Please help us identify the people in the photos and see if any of them are familiar to you or if you think they look familiar."

"Okay." Manager Wang took a look at the photos and picked out the photo of Kong Zhihui, "This is a regular visitor to our place, but he hasn't been here for the past month, and he still has two bottles of wine that we didn't drink. "

Lu Changfeng and Mingtang looked at each other, and both saw the meaning in each other's eyes.

Kong Zhihui is a frequent visitor to gay bars, and there is a high probability that he is also gay. This is what he and Qian Yin have in common.

Lu Changfeng picked out the simulated portrait, "Manager Wang, take a closer look at this portrait. In your memory, is there such a person who has been with Kong Zhihui, or he hasn't come since Kong Zhihui didn't come to you."

Kong Zhihui looked at the portrait carefully, and shook his head, "I have no impression, it's been almost a month, our bar has a lot of traffic, and there are many people who come here just because of the name, and they leave after a few days, not regular customers really I can't remember, sorry."

Lu Changfeng said: "It's okay, then can you ask your staff to help identify it?"

Manager Wang agreed very happily, "No problem, I'll ask them to help identify it."

"sorry to bother you."

Manager Wang waved his hand, "No trouble."

Soon the photo was circulating among the bar staff.

But after identification, everyone recognized Kong Zhihui.

Someone provided a clue, though.

Several of Kong Zhihui’s friends are also frequent customers here, and they often sit at the same table when they come here. Since their bar provides membership top-up service, they all have the basic information of Kong Zhihui’s friends.

Mingtang took down the contact information of several people, and thanked the bar manager.

After coming out of the bar, it was almost dark, and it was time for dinner. The two found a restaurant for dinner. During the period, they contacted Kong Zhihui’s friend and got three contact information from the manager. One of them failed to get through, and the remaining two Both agreed to interview them and arranged to meet at a coffee shop near the bar.

At 07:30, Mingtang and the others arrived at the coffee shop.

Front and rear feet, those two people arrived.

One is Cao Zhixian and the other is Sun Miao.

Before they came, Mingtang and the others had asked Chen Yanjia to find out their basic information.

Cao Zhixian is 33 years old, a sales manager of a real estate company, divorced.

Sun Miao is 31 years old, a freelance painter, unmarried.

After saying hello, a few people sat down.

Cao Zhixian asked: "You said on the phone that you wanted to ask me something about Kong Zhihui. I don't know what you want to know? What happened to Kong Zhihui?"

Mingtang nodded, "Yes, he was murdered."

Both Cao Zhixian and Sun Miao were shocked.

Sun Miao: "Murder..."

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, both of them took it seriously.

Cao Zhixian asked: "Then what do you seek us to understand?"

Ming Tang handed the portrait to them, "Please take a closer look and see if you have seen this person before."

Cao Zhixian picked up the portrait, and the two looked at it separately.

"Do you have any impression?" Cao Zhixian asked Sun Miao.

Sun Miao shook her head, "I don't think I've seen it before."

After some discussion, the two of them determined that they had never seen the person in the portrait.

Ming Tang put away the portrait and said: "The portrait may be a little off. Before Kong Zhihui disappeared, did he date that kind of handsome boy who is unforgettable?"

Both Cao Zhixian and Sun Miao are working hard to search for their own memories.

Suddenly, Cao Zhixian clapped his hands and said, "Yes."

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng's eyes lit up.

Sun Miao was still at a loss.

Cao Zhixian reminded: "Just the one with long hair wearing glasses, who seems to be playing the violin. The one that fits Kong Zhihui's aesthetics, remember?"

As soon as he said this, Sun Miao remembered, "Yes, yes, it is him, and he is indeed handsome, but it seems that Kong Zhihui didn't seduce him."

"I got it." Cao Zhixian said, "You weren't there that night, it was just me and him, and he said he asked that person to go fishing with him in a suburban reservoir."

Mingtang immediately opened the map to search for the place where Kong Zhihui died, and found a reservoir nearby.

The reservoir is relatively remote, so not many people go there, most of them are some donkey friends who go hiking and fishing, and there is a bus passing by the reservoir nearby.

It was about two kilometers from the place where Kong Zhihui died to the bus platform, and it took less than half an hour to walk. It would not be too difficult for the murderer to leave the reservoir.

Moreover, Kong Zhihui's car was parked very far away, in a grove, just to have something to do with the murderer, so his body was not found until several days later.

However, the person described by Cao Zhixian and Sun Miao is different from the person described by Shengyan except for their good looks.

However, the murderer's modus operandi in the two cases was the same.

Therefore, it can be confirmed that the murderer made a certain disguise, so the portraits made by Sheng Yan should be real, but it is just the murderer's disguised appearance.

Nowadays, some makeup techniques are comparable to plastic surgery. It is not their fault that these two people can't recognize the simulated portrait described by Sheng Yan.

Mingtang asked the two: "Can I trouble you to go with us to the bureau to help us make a portrait?"

"I'm fine." Sun Miao said, "I've known Kong Zhihui for several years, and the relationship has always been good. This should be the most important thing I can do for him."

Cao Zhixian also nodded and said, "I'm fine, I can do it anytime."

Of course, it is better to hit the day than to choose the day. A few people can go back to the branch office and ask a portrait artist to help complete the portrait.

Fortunately, Sun Miao is a freelance painter himself. Combining his memory and the artist's skills, he restored the portrait of the suspect in their eyes to a relatively high degree.

Comparing the suspect described by Sheng Yan with the portrait of the suspect made by Sun Miao and the others, you will find that there are actually similarities.

No matter how people change, the bone phase changes a lot. Based on the information in the two pictures, the technical investigators made a virtual face puzzle and presented it in 3D. Both Sun Miao and Cao Zhixian said they were very similar.

That means they are already very close.

The technical investigators began to compare and analyze the 3D faces with the people inside their system.

Lu Changfeng took a 3D image they had just made and sent it to Shengyan for him to identify.

Soon I got a reply from Feast: [[-]% similar. 】

Lu Changfeng: [Thank you. 】

When Lu Changfeng told Ming Tang the news, both of them were very happy, which showed that they were getting closer to the murderer's true face.

The other investigation teams that were sent out also returned to the Municipal Bureau one after another.

It was confirmed that both Sun Boyuan and Zhao Yi were regulars of the gay bar.

So far, the whole line has been very clear.

The murderer is targeting men who are gay, married and cheating men.

In other words, the murderer's choice of the target of the crime is not random, but looking for targets among specific groups of people.

The conditions of the four victims are all good, and their families are good, belonging to the middle and high income groups in society.

So what is the murderer's motive?

At the moment when the case was investigated, Ming Tang still hadn't figured out the murderer's motive for committing the crime.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was in the bureau, Mingtang held another case analysis and discussion meeting to brainstorm and discuss this issue together.

Lanning was the first to express his opinion, "The victims were all dominant in the same-sex relationship. He cut off the victim's reproductive organs and stuffed them into the anorum. This is an insult to the deceased, but it can be done to the murderer Produce pleasure. So I think this murderer should have had the experience of being hurt by the same sex. For example, his other half abandoned him and married a woman, and his other half concealed the fact of marriage from him, causing him to become three, or Said that his object married him and gave birth to a man, etc."

A police officer from the criminal investigation branch questioned, "The third point you said cannot be established, the murderer is a man, how did they get married?"

Lan Ning smiled politely, "Our country does not recognize the same-sex marriage law, but foreign countries do. There are also many homosexuals in China who register for marriage abroad. This is not a conflict. Marriage between men does not exist. What you said is not valid. The marriage certificate is A kind of guarantee, but it does not represent the uniqueness of marriage. Marriage certificate is only a contract between the two parties in the marriage relationship, proof, not all. Marriage ≠ marriage certificate, and some countries do not have a marriage certificate. You It cannot be said that their marriage did not exist."

After the man was refuted by Lanning, he stopped talking.

Lu Changfeng nodded towards Lanning.

Lanning continued: "Looking at several cases, I am more inclined to the point that Team Ming said at the beginning. We need to find the murderer not a person who revenges for emotional injuries, but a 'scavenger'. From the murderer From the perspective of the time interval, it has been gradually shortened. It has been six days since the last victim passed away. We cannot guarantee that the next victim will appear in the future, but I can be sure that the murderer must be the murderer now. Red eyes, every minute of time, the next victim is more dangerous. So we have to catch him before he does anything to the next victim."

Jiang Yingjie said, "We all know this, but what better way do you have?"

Neither Ming Tang nor Lu Changfeng interrupted, they intended to train Lan Ning, and this time was officially the time for Lan Ning to show himself.

Lanning paused, straightened his waist and said confidently: "The murderer's next target will still appear in a gay bar. Among the 21 bars we investigated, 7 are gay bars, and four of them are gay bars. Someone has already died, if I were the murderer, I would not take the risk of choosing a target from these four houses, then there must be the murderer's next target in the remaining three gay bars."

"So what are you going to do?" another officer asked.

Lanning said neither humble nor overbearing, "According to the information we have so far, the murderer's target is married men with middle and high income levels. We just need to find out all the qualified people, monitor them, and see if they have come into contact with them. Who, who was actively contacted, and then compared with the portrait of the murderer, it should not be difficult to find the murderer."

Lu Changfeng raised an eyebrow at Mingtang, and said in a low voice, "Let me just say, Lan Ning is a good seed."

Mingtang nodded in agreement.