Wrongful Death Criminal Investigation

It was already early morning when the two returned to Qiu Shaoyang's house.

Qiu Shaoyang yawned, "I'm going to take a shower first, there should be hot water in the guest room, if not, just wait for me."

Mingtang nodded, "You go, I'll put things away."

Mingtang enters the guest bedroom, and Qiu Shaoyang's bathroom uses an instant water heater, which can be used whenever it is turned on, so there is no such thing as running out of hot water.

After Qiu Shaoyang finished washing, he knocked on Mingtang's door.

Mingtang: "Come in."

Qiu Shaoyang pushed the door open and went in. Ming Tang just came out of the bathroom. The weather is so cold that it's impossible.

"I brought you a quilt so that you won't be cold at night, and my house here has long been out of heating."

Ming Tang wiped his head with a towel, and said, "The weather is not bad, it's not cold, thank you."

Qiu Shaoyang smiled, "Then you go to bed early, and I will go back to sleep too."

"Good night."

"Good night."

Qiu Shaoyang went back to his room, Ming Tang sat down and unfolded the quilt that Qiu Shaoyang sent him, he couldn't help being a little happy.

He really didn't expect that Qiu Shaoyang would take the initiative to find him at the police station today.His intuition told him that Qiu Shaoyang must not be looking for him today just to get his birthday present.

So, is it true that Qiu Shaoyang likes him a little bit as Lu Changfeng said?

Otherwise, why would he easily agree to live in his house tonight, and didn't refute the spare clothes he said, and also tacitly agreed that he would come to live here in the future.

A good night's dream.

Mingtang's biological clock is six o'clock, and every time this time comes, he will wake up and go for a morning run, or do a simple morning exercise in the dormitory before going to the police station.

But today I don't know if it's because the dream was so beautiful, he didn't wake up until seven o'clock.

Qiu Shaoyang woke up and saw Mingtang's car keys were still on the shoe cabinet, he was a little puzzled, doesn't Mingtang have to go to work today?Why haven't you gone out yet?

It takes about an hour to drive from his home to the Municipal Bureau. If there is a traffic jam, he will definitely be late for work.

He knocked on the door, but he didn't hear anyone responding. He tried the lock and it could be unlocked, so he pushed the door open and went in.

"Mingtang?" Qiu Shaoyang walked to the bed, saw that Mingtang was still soundly asleep, and gently shook him: "It's seven twenty, don't you go to work today?"

Is it uncomfortable?

The temperature did drop last night, could it be that I caught a cold?

Qiu Shaoyang raised his hand to touch Ming Tang's forehead, but before he touched it, Ming Tang grabbed his wrist.

Mingtang looked at him sleepily, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, I don't think you woke up, I thought you were sick." Qiu Shaoyang reminded him: "It's already seven twenty."

Mingtang's drowsiness disappeared immediately, and he sat up and rolled over to get out of bed.

Qiu Shaoyang smiled lightly and shook his head, "It's okay if I cook an egg for you, it's too late for complicated things."

Ming Tang agreed.

Qiu Shaoyang turned around and went to the kitchen, started a pan to heat up oil, took milk from the refrigerator and put it in the microwave to heat it.

When Mingtang finished, Qiu Shaoyang had already put it on the table, "I don't know if you like ketchup, you can add it yourself."

Mingtang sat down, the eggs fried by Qiu Shaoyang tasted good, and it could be seen that Qiu Shaoyang made this often.

"It tastes good, thank you."

Qiu Shaoyang smiled slightly: "Will you have time later?"

Mingtang looked at the time: "Almost, if you go to work at 08:30, you can take a shortcut without traffic jams."

Mingtang said again: "It's okay, if you are late, you will be late, anyway, there is not much money for full attendance."

Qiu Shaoyang hummed.

Ming Tang got up after drinking the milk: "Then I'll go first."

Walking to the door, he asked again, "How do you go to work?"

Qiu Shaoyang said: "I still have a car downstairs, you can go first."

Ming Tang didn't hesitate anymore.

Hurriedly, I was still late to the police station.

Lu Changfeng glanced at him meaningfully, then leaned over gossip and asked him, "How is it? Did you make any new progress last night?"

Ming Tang shook his head: "No."

"No?" Lu Changfeng couldn't believe it: "You are wasting such a great opportunity?"

Mingtang rubbed his nose: "The horoscope hasn't been written yet."

Lu Changfeng chuckled: "Bet or not, if Qiu Shaoyang is interested in you, you can give me 500 yuan. If not, I will give you [-] yuan."

Mingtang rolled his eyes: "You're always bored, you just stare at my feelings every day."

"I'm sympathetic to my colleagues and caring about my teammates." Lu Changfeng found a perfect reason for his gossip.

Mingtang gave him two words: "Hehe."

Lu Changfeng stopped making trouble with him, "Come back to business, I went to the forensic room early in the morning, and it was basically confirmed that the female corpse found in the artificial lake was Qin Zhao, who died half a month ago, and the cause of death was oxidation. Death by suffocation due to carbon retention is drowning."

"It's been half a month, which is long enough." Ming Tang asked, "Any other discoveries?"

Lu Changfeng said: "No other findings have been found so far. The location of the victim's mobile phone was last displayed in the artificial lake. Her mobile phone was not found at the scene. It is probably in the lake. The physical evidence has brought people to fish it. I don't know if it can be found. It cannot be fished out, but even if it is fished out, it is probably useless. There is no abnormality in the communication records. This is mainly due to the increase in the frequency of WeChat calls by modern people, so basically it is difficult for us to call A breakthrough on record."

"Where's the surveillance video?" Ming Tang asked.

Lu Changfeng said: "They are still watching, but there are too many dead spots near the artificial lake, and the monitoring is only a symbolic installation at the entrance and exit. There is no monitoring at all on the path to the artificial lake. I guess it is difficult to find out from the monitoring. What useful information. The 300 meters before and after the discovery of the body, we have carried out a net-type investigation of the railing + buffer zone, and found no traces, mainly because the railing is too old and it is difficult to leave evidence. "

Lu Changfeng sighed, this case is far from as simple as they imagined.

Mingtang said: "Well, let's go to Qin Zhao's parents' house and see if they have any clues to provide."

"Right on my mind."

So the two hit it off and went to Qin Zhao's parents' house.

Both Qin Zhao's parents are retired employees of state-owned enterprises, and they live on pensions every month, and their family conditions are quite good.

In order to appease the emotions of the two elders, Mingtang and the others specially brought along the only lesbian in the team, Chen Yanjia.

After all, both Mingtang and Lu Changfeng are big men, so comforting people is not as effective as girls.

When they told the second elder that their daughter was dead, the second elder's emotions collapsed as expected.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng could only try their best to comfort the two old people, lest they be overly sad and cause their own physical damage.

But when a loved one dies, it's impossible for you to say that it doesn't make him feel bad at all.If that's the case, the problem is probably even bigger.

Fortunately, Chen Yanjia is very talented in comforting people, and the two old people's emotions stabilized fairly quickly.

After waiting for a while, after confirming that the two old men were able to communicate normally, Mingtang and the others began to ask questions.

"Uncle, aunt, as far as you know, what is Qin Zhao's personality? Has he ever thought of suicide?"

Qin Zhao's mother covered her mouth with one hand, and waved the other hand: "No, our family Qin Zhao will not commit suicide. Although she has a bit of an arrogant personality, she is still very resistant to pressure. They are all optimistic people and will not commit suicide.”

Qin Zhao's father also said: "Yes, our daughter will not commit suicide easily. We called her before she disappeared, and everything was normal at that time."

"Then do you know about her breaking up with Ye Quan?" Ming Tang asked.

Qin Zhao's mother nodded: "Yes, she told us."

"Then what was her reaction then?" Ming Tang asked.

Qin Zhao's mother said: "It's true that the mood is not very good, but it is not enough to commit suicide. It is not the first time that they have separated and reunited."

"If I knew she was going to have an accident, I would have let her go home for a while, no matter what I said at the time."

"Don't blame yourself too much." Chen Yanjia comforted.

Qin Zhao's mother said: "Comrade police, I hope you can find out the truth as soon as possible. My daughter can't die without knowing it."

Ming Tang nodded: "Then don't worry, we will find out the truth as soon as possible."

Lu Changfeng asked: "Has your daughter mentioned the artificial lake in Fenghuang District to you?"

Qin Zhao's mother shook her head: "Never heard of it. I don't know if she has been with others, but Zhao Zhao likes to share her own dynamics in Moments. I have never seen her share in Moments. Regarding the content of the artificial lake."

"Can you show us the content of Moments?" Mingtang said, "We didn't find Qin Zhao's phone."

Qin Zhao's mother gave him her mobile phone: "Look at it."

The content of Qin Zhao’s last circle of friends is a selfie of himself, and the accompanying picture was taken by others when he was dancing. 】

The posting time of Moments was 15 days ago in the morning.

The time of her death was after the update of Moments. The forensic doctor had no way of judging the exact time of death and could only be accurate to the day.

However, according to the content of Qin Zhao's parents and Qin Zhao's circle of friends, Qin Zhao should not commit suicide.

Then their next main investigation direction will be adjusted.

Mingtang asked: "Auntie, based on what you know about Qin Zhao, has she offended anyone?"

Qin Zhao's mother said: "I can't say that. Zhao Zhao is very good. There are many people who are jealous of her. There are many people who are unfriendly to her since she was a child. If you ask me who might be offended by her, I really don't." I can give you the exact character. But isn’t the chief of the Zhaozhao Dance Troupe missing? Zhaozhao may become the new chief, and there should be many people staring at her.”

"Why do you think so?" Ming Tang asked.

Qin Zhao's mother said: "I heard from Zhaozhao that the dance troupe wanted to promote her. Even in terms of strength, she won so many international awards, but domestic awards are also soft. Our Zhaozhao is also qualified to be the chief. Yes."

Ming Tang felt that her guess was reasonable, it was not impossible that this possibility existed.

After all, their chief Yu Wanwan had disappeared three months ago.

In the era of universal network coverage, it is impossible for a person to disappear completely, so there is a high probability that he was killed like Qin Zhao.

Within three months, two top-level dancers from the same ballet company had accidents one after another. It is indeed possible that someone is targeting them.

According to this line of thinking, the murderer is most likely someone inside the dance troupe.

Qin Zhao disappeared, and the next one to become the chief will be Mino. If the murderer is not Mino, then the one who is in danger is Mino himself.

After leaving Qin Zhao's parents' house, several people returned to the police station and began to investigate Yu Wanwan's case together.

Lu Changfeng said: "Yu Wanwan, a living person, may disappear out of thin air. I think she must be in danger."

Mingtang said: "I also have the same opinion."

However, Yu Wanwan has been missing for three months, and many clues have disappeared, so it is very difficult to investigate now.

Mingtang instructed Chen Yanjia: "Check to see where Yu Wanwan's last mobile phone signal was located."

"it is good."

Chen Yanjia immediately started investigating.

Mingtang called YangMeng and asked him: "Did you find any results when you went to salvage the mobile phone?"

YangMeng was on the artificial lake at this time, and the salvage was still going on. He said, "Ming team, we have searched around the place where the body was found. We didn't find the mobile phone, but we found a bunch of broken copper and rotten iron."

Mingtang said: "Then you guys should expand the scope of your search and fish again. If it still doesn't work, then come back."

"Yes."

After hanging up the phone, Mingtang and Lu Changfeng said: "I think it can be inferred that Qin Zhao did not enter the water by himself. YangMeng said that no mobile phone was found in the surrounding waters. The artificial lake is stagnant water. The shore is too far away, which can also be seen from the distance from Qin Zhao's body to the shore, so it is impossible for her to throw her mobile phone out by herself, so it is very likely that his mobile phone was thrown by the murderer. It's also possible the phone was taken."

Lu Changfeng nodded in agreement: "Then, the person who can go to the reservoir with Qin Zhao should be someone Qin Zhao knows and has a good relationship with Qin Zhao."

"And Qin Zhao himself doesn't have many good friends, only Minuo." Ming Tang looked at Lu Changfeng.

Both of them saw the same meaning in each other's eyes.

Based on the above analysis, after Qin Zhao and Yu Wanwan disappear, Mino will become the next chief. She will benefit the most from the absence of these two.

Ouyang Zheng also said that Mino worked hard, but her talent is not enough, far inferior to Qin Zhao and Yu Wanwan.

So when she got rid of Yu Wanwan, she found that Ouyang Zheng and the others chose Qin Zhao, so she became murderous towards Qin Zhao, and after killing Qin Zhao, she took the position herself.

Ji Yuxi, a member of the troupe, knows throughout the book that Qin Zhao often does not come to the troupe. Even if she disappears for a week or two, no one will find it strange. This is why, Qin Zhao has disappeared for half a month, but No one called the police, and no one even thought of Yu Wanwan's disappearance.

And their match will be next month, as long as Qin Zhao can't show up, Mino will naturally become the chief.

I thought that in the troupe, except for Mino, no one could be the chief.

And Qin Zhao, of course, will not appear, because she is already dead.

Mingtang couldn't help but get chills down his back when he thought of it, remembering Mino's unbelievable appearance last night, begging them to bring justice for Qin Zhao, but under that innocent and harmless skin, there might be a devil hiding.

Of course, Mingtang didn't lose his head, this was just their guess, everything needs evidence, and only evidence can prove everything.

Therefore, what they have to do now is to find out Mino's whereabouts that night.

Was she the last person Qin Zhao met.

"Chen Yanjia, immediately check Mino's whereabouts on the day Qin Zhao died."

"it is good."

There are not so many Sky Eyes in the old city, so they can't completely rely on surveillance, Ming Tang decided to take people to the scene to conduct a visit and investigation in person.

Although the location of the artificial lake is remote and not many people go there, there are not many ways to get in and out of the artificial lake. It is impossible for them to fly over to the artificial lake, so they can circle around the few roads that must be passed. Visit and investigate.

Except for one main road, the other roads are all connected to nearby residential buildings. The main road is monitored. Although the small roads of residential buildings are not monitored, there are many residents nearby.

If two people and girls are going to the artificial lake, the people nearby should have some impressions. If they are lucky, they may find useful monitoring along the way.

Mingtang and the others found Director Liu again and asked him to show a detailed map near the artificial lake.

As for how many roads there are to reach the artificial lake, Mingtang and the others are not sure, this requires the assistance of someone familiar with the situation.

Director Liu, as a local police officer, must be his forte.

Through Director Liu's annotations, they found that there are more than ten roads leading to the artificial lake, far more than they imagined.

And the map they got in their hands only showed half of it.

Excluding a few intersections that were particularly far from the crime scene, there were only four intersections that fit their delineated range.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng decided that everyone would divide into four groups, with Lan Ning and Xiao Ding each leading the way, visiting along the way to check the surveillance video, keeping in touch with each other at all times, and notifying them as soon as they found something.

Mingtang analyzed that since he was going to take a small path, it meant that Mino knew the surrounding situation very well.

If a person appears in a certain place with a very high frequency, even if the nearby people don't know who she is, they will definitely have some influence on her.

If it was really Mino, it shouldn't be too difficult to find evidence.

Among the four roads, the furthest from the place where Yang Zhao fell into the water was three kilometers, and the closest one was more than 500 meters.

One is a cement road, cars can't get in, but it's very convenient for bicycles and motorcycles to get in.

Next to the cement road, there is a small road leading to an alley in a nearby residential area. It should be made by people who come here for morning exercises for the convenience of painting.

The one Mingtang chose was completely a small path, one that people walked out, without any concrete or stone steps.

But going down this road, it didn't lead to the residential area, but went directly to a park below, and the location was quite different from the residential area.

Probably because the road is not obvious, almost no one walks.The place where Qin Zhao drowned was very remote. Usually, no one went to the artificial lake. Even if they did, they would not be on the side where they were. Most people would choose the side with more people like the old man and the others. It can explain why Qin Zhao was soaked in the water for fifteen days before anyone discovered it.

Going down to the square of the park, Ming Tang carefully looked at the surrounding environment, because this is an open place, extending in all directions, it is even more difficult to find clues from them, but there are still surveillance cameras in the square.

There is a toilet not far from the intersection of the path down to the park, and there are two cameras at the door of the toilet.

If the camera is normal, it should be able to find clues.

Mingtang immediately took people to the management office of the park.

A total of dozens of cameras were installed in the park. According to the route of the park, Ming Tang made an exclusion, copied all the monitoring videos of the cameras that he thought might be useful for the past month, and planned to take them back to the bureau to watch slowly.

In addition, Mingtang also noticed that there was a sign at the exit of the path, which read: there are snakes infested, it is recommended to take a detour.

After all, it is not a big road, which greatly reduces the possibility of others going back to take this road.

And people who are not familiar with the nearby road conditions are even less likely to take this road to the artificial lake behind.

Mingtang did some calculations. From the artificial lake to the park, there is only one road in the whole journey without forks. It took him 15 minutes to walk out at his speed, that is to say, it was about 1500 meters. If it was a girl, It should be two 10 minutes.

Walking during the day is already so scary, if it is changed to night, it will only be more scary.

Lu Changfeng and the others were also asking questions while walking along the way, and what was surprising was that they showed Mino's photos to people along the way, and many of them directly said they hadn't seen them.

It was Lanning who made some discoveries. The proprietress of a breakfast shop said that she had some impressions of Mino.

Mino often goes to their house to buy breakfast, because she is very familiar with Mino.

The breakfast shop has surveillance cameras, and Lanning retrieved the surveillance cameras from their home.

They adjusted all the surveillance cameras along the way and prepared to bring them back to the City Bureau for investigation.

Through the information given by Lan Ning, Ming Tang asked Chen Yanjia to check Mino's records, and found that Mino's family lived in a community near the park a few years ago.

And the largest vegetable market nearby is in the area where Lanning and the others are located, and it takes only 15 minutes to walk there.

In this way, it is not unusual for Mino to know all the roads to the artificial lake in this vicinity.

If you don't know this path, it is indeed a long distance from Mino's house to the artificial lake.

But with this shortcut it's different.

Mingtang is almost certain that this matter has something to do with Mino.

Mingtang went to Mino's community by the way, and retrieved the monitoring records of entering and leaving the community for a few days before and after the incident, so that he could go back and sort out the timeline.

As for YangMeng's side, they almost scooped up the bottom of the nearby water, but they still didn't find the phone, so they had no choice but to do it manually.

The fact that he couldn't find it after searching all over the place shows that the possibility of Qin Zhao jumping into the lake by himself is very low.