crime profiler in the dark

"The range of suspects is too large. If it is announced too early, it may cause unnecessary panic." Sergeant Chen said.

"The No. 1 victim, Li Mei, is very important to the murderer. He stayed at her house for several hours and had sex with her again. Moreover, Li Mei deliberately asked for leave to go home. He must have been instigated by the murderer." Bai Haolin explain.

"We've checked Li Mei's communication records. She only made occasional phone calls with her parents. There's nothing suspicious about it," Fang Xiang replied.

"Could the murderer be someone from her school? It's just not her teacher." Xiao Li guessed.

"That possibility is not ruled out."

But Li Mei's school is closed. If the murderer is a member of the school, would it be so easy to go to Shenzhen to kill Wang Hai again?Bai Haolin thought to himself, but he didn't express his thoughts.

"Doctor Bai, the two deceased were wearing red clothes, do you have any explanation?" Sergeant Chen asked.

"It should be the murderer's substitution, which is a kind of fetish. Li Mei's clothes belonged to her cousin, while Wang Hai was brought by the murderer, which shows that the murderer's sexual fantasies are gradually escalating, and he will commit further crimes." .”

"Old Sun, Xiao Li, you go and check the shops that sell this kind of clothes. Men who buy this kind of clothes will definitely attract people's attention." Sergeant Chen ordered.

"Yes."

"Sergeant Chen, the first case is the key, I want to go and look again."

"Okay, Fang Xiang, you can take Dr. Bai with you." The last time I went to Jixiang Village was Lao Sun and Xiao Li. The reason why Fang Xiang was allowed to go was because Sergeant Chen likes to let his subordinates exchange inquiries and verify. Look at the problem from a different angle, maybe there will be new discoveries.

"Okay." Fang Xiang agreed.

After determining the next action plan, everyone split up.

As soon as he left the Criminal Investigation Division [-], Bai Haolin's cell phone rang, and it was Lu Yaming's call. He picked up the phone, and Lu Yaming's weak voice came from the receiver:

"Hello, Mr. Bai, you mentioned before that if you receive an invitation letter from Xing Hongming, you will be informed."

"Ah."

"He's holding a charity ball tomorrow night, and I'll send you the address."

"Okay, thank you." Bai Haolin's gratitude was beyond words.

"I'll wait for you." Lu Yaming's voice became softer, but it's not hard to hear the joy in his tone.

The next day, Kang Town, Jixiang Village

It only takes two hours from TMX City to Kang Town. Jixiang Village is located five kilometers southeast of Kang Town. There are only about a hundred households. Because it is too small, there is no security office. Only Kang Town has three police officers who are in charge of Jixiang Village. The policeman's surname was Liu. He had been waiting at the entrance of the village early after receiving Fang Xiang's call. He and Fang Xiang had met before, and they exchanged a few words. He said he was a criminal profiler, but he only said that he was a colleague in the department who assisted in the investigation.

Li Mei's houseboat was docked at the harbor ten minutes away from the entrance of the village. Officer Liu took Fang Xiang and Bai Haolin to the village, saying as they walked:

"These days the voices of discussion in the village are much less. You don't know that on the night of Li Mei's first seven days, no family dared to go out. Every house posted a spell of invitation and set off firecrackers in front of every house. It’s still playing hard.”

"Why? Do you have any explanation?" Bai Haolin asked, who had never been interested in ghosts and ghosts.

"The old people in the village all said that Li Mei was killed in vain, and she was wearing a red dress before she died. This is a red-clothed ghost. Some old people said that this is to make the Li family die. The evil law that the dead will never be reincarnated, the soul will dissipate after death, and will not trouble the murderer, and some people say that the murderer is raising little ghosts, anyway, they can say anything." Officer Liu said.

Bai Haolin and Fang Xiang glanced at each other. Although they didn't believe in these ghosts and ghosts, they felt that maybe the murderer also had such thoughts.

"I heard that the Li family and his wife are remarried. Li Mei's mother and her ex-husband had a bad quarrel when they divorced. Could it be the other party's revenge?" Fang Xiang asked.

"Sister Li divorced her ex-husband [-] or [-] years ago. He has also been missing for a long time. He must have started a new life in another city. It can't be so long before he came back for revenge?" Police Officer Liu replied.

"Didn't two people see suspicious people wandering around Li's house?" Bai Haolin asked.

"Hey, the witnesses are all old people in their 70s and [-]s. Both of them glanced at them from a distance. One said they were tall, the other said they were short, one said they were wearing glasses, and the other said they were wearing a hat. You can’t tell the reason for your appearance.” Officer Liu sighed.

The three of them arrived at Li Dahai's house while talking.

Because of Li Mei's incident, Li Dahai and his wife lost their mind to go out to work, and Li Mei's mother was so sad that she lay in a hospital bed in Kangzhen Hospital for several days.

Knowing that the police officer from the town was coming, Li Dahai waited outside the boat house early. He was much thinner and emaciated than two weeks ago. Officer Liu introduced:

"Dahai, these two are senior police officers from the city. They are here to investigate about your Meimei. Answer whatever they ask you!"

Li Dahai nodded.

Bai Haolin looked at Li Dahai. He had dark skin, a thin body, a round cut, and his hair was almost gray. He was wearing a white vest that was washed yellow, and there were a few holes in the vest. He looked 70 According to the information, he had Li Mei at the age of 41. He should be less than 55 years old now, but Li Mei's tragic death made him mentally and physically exhausted, worrying all day long, and he aged more than ten years overnight.

Li Dahai led them to board the houseboat. Fang Xiang and Bai Haolin noticed that there were many red confetti on the boat, and yellow spells were pasted on the lintel of the cabin. A bit of trust and fear.

The hall in the lower cabin is very simple, with an old-fashioned wooden table and three benches randomly placed beside it. Because it is summer, there are more mosquitoes and flies. A plate of mosquito coils is lit in the corner, and the mosquito coils envelop the main hall in a strong smell of smoke. middle.

Fang Xiang and Bai Haolin sat down with Police Officer Liu, while Li Dahai habitually lit his cigarette and stood aside. Seeing this, Officer Liu said:

"Dahai, tell me again what you told me before." Officer Liu was the police officer who put down Li Mei's body with Li Dahai before, and he knew the case better, but he thought it would be better for the person involved to describe it.

Li Dahai took a deep breath, and told the story again, which was pretty much the same as what was written in the information.After listening to him, Fang Xiang began to ask Li Dahai's family relationship, Li Mei's usual behavior, etc. Li Dahai's answer did not give any clues. His expression is very sad, but his body language has always been very open, and he has not established a physical defense between himself and the police officer. It seems that he really doesn't know who killed his daughter, and he doesn't know who she usually had intimate with I don't even know why she looks so terrifying.

Fang Xiang still wrote down Li Dahai's words in detail, and then he proposed to visit the crime scene, Li Dahai nodded in agreement.

The bedroom where Li Mei was murdered was inside, and Bai Haolin noticed that there were spells and spell marks painted on the wall of the ship gallery, and he was a little surprised:

"What are these for?"

"Suppressing ghosts and exorcising evil spirits," Police Officer Liu replied in a low voice. "This was posted by the villagers forcibly by Dahai a week ago. They said that on the night of returning to the soul, the red-clothed ghosts and their relatives refused to recognize six animals and no animals. They even invited a Taoist priest to come to the village. I did a religious ceremony." Because Li Dahai didn't want these spells to cause his daughter to be out of his wits, and he didn't want to post them, the two sides still had a stiff fight, and it was Police Officer Liu who came forward to mediate.

"I heard that Li Mei was wearing her cousin's clothes? Does her cousin also live in the village?" Bai Haolin asked.

"Her cousin married to another city five years ago, and she is no longer here. I asked her, and she said that Meimei asked her for the clothes a month ago. She said that she looked good in her clothes when she was a child. I hope she Give it to yourself. Her cousin has always loved Meimei, so she sent it to her. We don't know about these things."

"Please give us her cousin's phone number, we have something to check with her," Fang Xiang said.

Li Dahai told Fang Xiang her phone number, and then led everyone into the inner bedroom: "Look slowly, I'll pour you some water first." Before they could speak, he backed out, as if not Willing to stay 1 minute longer in the house where his daughter was taken away.

"Oh, when I got the call from Dahai, he was so crying that he couldn't even speak. I could barely hear him saying that his daughter had hanged himself, so I told him not to move the body, and rushed over quickly. After taking pictures of the scene, we talked with him." He put down Li Mei's body together." Police Officer Liu sighed, "He actually believed in the saying of the ghost in red, and he insisted on taking off Li Mei's red dress. Let’s take pictures first.”

"You should have taken him out at that time. Nothing at the scene could be moved. How could you say 'you can't hold him back'?" Fang Xiang frowned.

"They're all from the village. The child died so badly... and I took photos and kept them according to the police manual. I explained it when Officer Sun and the others came over last time." Officer Liu muttered aggrievedly.

Bai Haolin did not participate in their dispute, he scanned Li Mei's room.