When we returned to the Blue Lake District, Captain Pan of the Serious Case Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Public Security Bureau seemed a little closer to him than last time. As expected, we are familiar with each other once and twice, and only by frequent visits can we build a stronger relationship.
Although Lu Beicen had a rough understanding of the case to be interviewed this time, after listening to Captain Pan's detailed introduction, he really had to say with emotion: There are no coincidences.
The place where the deceased was found was on a small street adjacent to a main road in Blue Lake District. The street was not wide and there were shops on both sides. The deceased was found by a couple who ran a breakfast shop. When they came to open the shop at around four o'clock in the morning,
The deceased fell at the door of the adjacent shop.
The adjacent store used to be a grocery store, but because the owner changed the location, it is currently empty.
It was around four o'clock in the morning, and even the cleaners hadn't come out on the street yet. The couple saw a person lying there. The street lights were not very bright. When they shined a flashlight, they saw a pool of blood underneath. They were immediately frightened and called the police immediately.
Called the police.
When the police arrived, they confirmed that the man was dead and that the body was already cold.
The deceased was a young man of about 20 years old, with a thin build. The fatal injury was in the abdomen. After a forensic autopsy, it was found that the knife pierced the spleen and caused massive bleeding.
The murder weapon was not at the scene of the crime. According to analysis, the murderer took the deceased away immediately after stabbing him.
The deceased had no ID card or anything to prove his identity, only a courier receipt and more than ten yuan in change.
To determine the identity of the deceased, the police could only first launch an investigation around this express delivery document. However, because this was a receipt kept by the sender, the writing on the document was very blurry, and the recipient could vaguely read the long writing.
, but I couldn’t see the specific name and address clearly. As for the sender, I just wrote a letter and left a phone number. The number was also very vague.
Soon, the police found the detailed information on this document from the express delivery site. The delivery address was a town under the jurisdiction of another county in Huxia City, not far from Lanhu District. The recipient's name was Zhang Dagui, and his phone number was also
I don’t know if I wrote it wrong or something happened, but when I called it, the number was empty.
The sender did not leave an address. The name Zhang should be the last name left by the sender. As for the sender's phone number, it is also an empty number.
The recipient's phone number may have been written incorrectly accidentally, but the sender's phone number was also written wrong, which made the police have to suspect that the sender did it intentionally.
In any case, the police first sent two investigators to the receiving address to investigate.
According to the picture, the police quickly found the recipient named Zhang Dagui, an old man over sixty years old.
Old man Zhang said that this express delivery was sent by his grandson Zhang Xiaolong. Due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, he has long needed to take a Chinese patent medicine made from ginkgo. It is not sold in their county and is only available in prescriptions in Huxia City.
It was only available for sale, and Zhang Xiaolong would send him a few bottles every once in a while.
According to what Zhang Laohan told, the police learned that Zhang Xiaolong is 19 years old this year and is the most typical left-behind child in rural areas. His parents have gone out to work together to earn money since he was very young. When he reached the age of ten, his parents divorced.
, he grew up with his grandparents. He was good at studying when he was a child. After reaching junior high school, he often played truant with some nearby children who were also left-behind children. After half a year in the third year of junior high school, he was expelled from school because of fighting.
Since then, Zhang Xiaolong has basically been homeless. At first, he said he was working outside, and later he said he was learning a craft outside. But what exactly he was doing, they couldn't understand, let alone control. There were four or five reasons why.
It's been 2 years, and although I haven't taken money from my family, I have never asked for money from my family.
Zhang Xiaolong may not be very good at other things, but he is still very filial to the two old men. Last time, old man Zhang always complained about a headache, but Zhang Xiaolong had to take him to a large hospital in Huxia for examination before he was diagnosed.
Later, Zhang Xiaolong usually sent him some medicine regularly, but the time between this time and the last time he sent medicine was relatively long. In the past, he would send him medicine once every two or three months, and this time it should have been more than half a year.
, the old people have not seen their grandson for more than half a year, that is, since the Spring Festival, nor have they received his medicine. They have not been able to get through the phone for a long time. This is recently, about a week or two ago, Zhang Xiaolong gave them
Made a phone call once.
As for the phone number Zhang Xiaolong filled in on the express delivery form, the old man confirmed that the recipient’s phone number was written with the last number 6 looking like a 0, which was a clerical error, and the sender’s phone number was Zhang Xiaolong’s in the city before.
A phone number I used at that time is now out of service.
The old man didn't know Zhang Xiaolong's new phone number. The last time he called, he used a landline. The police searched the old man's cell phone for a long time and found the number and called it. The other party said it was from a newsstand.
Telephone.
The old man looked nervously at the police officer who went to investigate and asked Zhang Xiaolong if he had caused any trouble. The police officer looked at the two old men with wrinkles on their faces, gray hair, and hands that had been deformed after doing heavy labor all their lives.
Do you know how to answer and ask them to identify the body? Firstly, I couldn't bear it, and secondly, I was worried that the two old people would not be able to bear the excitement anymore, so I just asked them for the phone number of Zhang Xiaolong's father, and after a few words of comfort, I returned to Lanzhou.
lake.
I contacted Zhang Xiaolong’s father, Zhang Lin, and the next day, he came back from the south and identified the body, confirming that it was his son Zhang Xiaolong. He was a somewhat dull middle-aged man. After the divorce, he remarried a factory worker who worked together.
There is only one son, Zhang Xiaolong.
Zhang Lin wiped his tears with a dull expression, no expression on his face.
On the day Lu Beicen went for the interview, it was the criminal police team that invited Zhang Lin to come over to handle some relevant procedures. Facing the camera, he still had a dull expression on his face, not knowing what he was thinking, but there was endless regret in his words: "Child
When he was a child, we parents were not around him and didn't take good care of him. He was always with some unscrupulous people in society. Later, when we got older, we couldn't take care of him anymore. I was always afraid that something would happen to him. I didn't expect..."
It can be seen that Zhang Lin still cares about Zhang Xiaolong's son, but he really doesn't know how to be a father. The communication between him and Zhang Xiaolong has been like this since a long time ago. It is rare to even make two or three phone calls a year. Father and son
The two of them had long formed the habit of not communicating or contacting each other. Therefore, Zhang Lin knew almost nothing about Zhang Xiaolong's situation.
Basically, investigating Zhang Xiaolong's surrounding relationships is no longer of much use. The police can only hope to find some useful clues by investigating Zhang Xiaolong's traces from surveillance cameras.
After confirmation by technical investigators, the place where Zhang Xiaolong was found was the crime scene. However, because there were relatively few people on that street, the street lights were not very bright at night, and there were no surveillance cameras nearby, so the area where the crime occurred was a surveillance blind spot. And nearby surveillance cameras
The pictures taken by the probe were not very clear, so the police from the Intelligence Research and Judgment Brigade tried their best to find a vague figure at the corner of the street.
The police followed this figure and began to chase where Zhang Xiaolong came from.
During this pursuit, we first discovered that Zhang Xiaolong had passed Binjiang Avenue on his way here.
One side of Binjiang Avenue is the river, and the other side is a dense residential area. There are parking spaces on both sides of the avenue for private cars to park.
I don’t know if Zhang Xiaolong has other professions, but there must be one profession that is commonly known as "pull a car door." The so-called "pull a car door" means walking along a road and pulling the car door casually. If there is a car door that is not closed due to negligence, he will open it conveniently.
Car doors and theft of property inside the car.
In those days, there was no such service as mobile phone payment. Most people would habitually put some change in the car to pay for parking fees and other emergencies. If someone got drunk and left their wallet in the car,
, they are equivalent to making a small fortune. Anyway, they can basically get dozens of dollars for a day's expenses in one night.
According to convention, such people are usually accustomed to hanging out in Internet cafes, and Zhang Xiaolong is no exception. Before sweeping the streets in the middle of the night, he stayed in an Internet cafe until about twelve o'clock at night.
By checking the records and surveillance of the Internet cafe, the police found that he entered the Internet cafe at 8:30 pm. No one in the Internet cafe noticed that he had been in contact with anyone. He was alone when he came and the same person when he left.
However, the network administrator said that he has been doing this for about the past week and I have never seen him before.
The police continued to track Zhang Xiaolong's whereabouts before entering the Internet cafe, and found that he came out of a machinery factory at about eight o'clock in the evening and walked to the Internet cafe.
After visiting and investigating the machinery factory, the police learned that Zhang Xiaolong rented a one-bedroom, one-living house in the factory's employee dormitory about a week ago. According to the information provided by the landlord, they learned that when Zhang Xiaolong rented the house
He casually mentioned that he was working in a coastal city in the south and had just returned.
As for the rest of the situation, I don't know anything about it.
Based on these circumstances, the police re-investigated Zhang Xiaolong's traces through surveillance and found that this was indeed the case. His life was relatively fixed this week. He slept at home during the day, went to an Internet cafe at night and stayed until early morning, and then started "going to work."
Because his class has to sweep the streets, it often takes a long time. Occasionally, he will meet other "colleagues". Basically, it is first come, first served, and there is no conflict. After all, what they are doing is illegal and criminal, and they don't want to
Make a scene and go to the police station.
At this point, the case has basically returned to the starting point. Apart from confirming the identity of the victim, almost nothing else has been found. The investigating police officers are very anxious, and no one knows what the next step will be.
In desperation, the police had no choice but to continue to expand the scope of surveillance investigations around the area where the crime occurred, looking for surveillance videos of the area during this time period, hoping to find something.
When the policemen's eyes became blurred and they almost punctured the screen, they finally made some discovery.