A murder occurred on New Year's Eve, and the new case was connected to the old case. The public security organs attached great importance to it. Under the order of Shen Hongyi, the Criminal Police Brigade set up a special task force to investigate the case.
At the Driving Training Center of the Transportation College, Kan Wanlin was bragging to a group of students while holding a boss cup, Zhonghua cigarettes in his ears, and a cigarette in his hand.
"That kid tried to hit me with a brick, but I ducked away, followed by a flying kick, and kicked him eight feet away. This guy is really discerning. He saw that I was a practitioner, so he got up and
Run, it’s dark and the ground is icy. If you’re not careful, you’ll fall into the pond and drown yourself.”
The student hurriedly stretched out his lighter to help Coach Kan light his cigarette, boasting: "Coach Kan's invincible mandarin duck kick is really domineering."
"That's necessary." Kan Wanlin lit the cigarette on fire, patted the student's hand, squinted his eyes and blew out a puff of smoke. It was really impressive, but the gauze wrapped around his head had blood oozing out, which was a bit off-putting.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Kan Wanlin took out a large-screen mobile phone with a leather cover from his pocket, shook it off and shouted: "Hey, where is it?" After saying a few words, he closed the phone with a snap and said: "Public Security Bureau."
Some friends came to me and asked me to help them with something. I’ll go over right away and you can practice on your own.”
Fifteen minutes later, Kan Wanlin arrived at the Huohua Police Station. A middle-aged plainclothes criminal policeman showed him his ID: "I am Hu Peng from the criminal police brigade. Please tell me more about what happened last night."
Kan Wanlin said: "I have said it several times, and I still say it." Complaints are complaints, so he still told the whole story. Hu Peng asked him what the homeless man looked like and what his characteristics were. Kan Wanlin thought for a while and said:
"She's about the same height as me, about 1.7 meters tall. She's skinny and has no features, but her eyes are very bright."
Hu Peng said: "What's special about having bright eyes? Think about it again."
Kan Wanlin scratched his head and scratched his head, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence: "That man has not spoken. He seems to be mute."
Hu Peng paid great attention to it: "This one is pretty much the same." He wrote it down carefully in his notebook and asked him again: "What is your relationship with Zhang Yan?"
Kan Wanlin sneered: "What kind of relationship can we have? We are just dating."
Hu Peng's expression changed: "You were the one who killed Li Qi, right?"
Kan Wanlin was frightened: "Comrade police, don't you dare say this nonsense. I was knocked unconscious by a brick and fell down on the spot. I don't know what happened next."
Hu Peng slapped the table: "Who can prove that by the time our public security personnel arrived at the scene, one person was already dead and the other seriously injured? How dare you say it was not you who did it!"
In fact, Hu Peng was deceiving him, and even the police were very suspicious. Although Guo Hui, an eyewitness, confirmed that there was indeed a homeless man, Hu Peng still felt that there was something fishy in it, because the homeless man had no reason to kill, but Kan Wanlin did.
For this kind of motive, the police have always put less emphasis on confessions and more on evidence. The best way to deal with this Rashomon-style mystery is to forcefully open a breakthrough.
Kan Wanlin panicked and kept explaining with a pale face. Hu Peng told him not to leave today and think about it carefully. He locked him in the room and walked away without handcuffs or confiscating his mobile phone. Kan Wanlin hurriedly called Liu Handong.
On the phone, Principal Liu is the most senior among his friends, and he is also the leader of the unit. Who else can he call if not him?
An hour later, Liu Handong rushed to the police station. He was a regular visitor to the station. The policemen greeted him warmly. Liu Handong took out his cigarette and spread it around. He asked about Kan Wanlin's case. Director Hu said that the case had been investigated by the city bureau.
To take over, the office is just lending them a place to work, so it's not easy to get involved. You'd better go directly to Hu Peng for this matter.
Hu Peng and Liu Handong were old acquaintances. He told Liu Handong that this case was very strange. Three murder cases were intertwined. The murderer of Zhang Qian actually ran into Zhang Yan's store to rob, and was seriously injured as a result. The case was solved, and Li Qi's death led to another murder case. The skull wrapped in a garbage bag, and the pond in the village seemed to be the second scene of the corpse's destruction." Although there is no inevitable causal relationship between these three cases, I always feel that There is God's will to catch the murderer, let the bad guys be punished, and let the injustice come to light." Hu Peng took a puff of cigarette and said seriously, "But our police are also under great pressure. Chief Shen issued a death order. The case must be solved before the Spring Festival, I think it will be a bit difficult."
Liu Handong said: "Then you can't detain Kan Wanlin. He is definitely not a murderer. Even though he looks fierce, he is actually a kind-hearted person with little courage. He may be able to beat people. Give him the courage to kill someone." Won't."
Hu Peng said: "You have to be considerate of us. The Spring Festival is only a few days away. I think that although Kan Wanlin is not the murderer, he must know something. Don't worry, I won't restrain him, I just put a little pressure on him."
Since Captain Hu said this, Liu Handong could only compromise, comfort Kan Wanlin with a few words and then go back.
Hu Peng brought an investigator and came to Zhang Yan's house again to inquire about the situation. He asked Zhang Yan: "Do you know Guo Hui?"
Zhang Yan was holding her nephew while breastfeeding. When she heard Guo Hui's name, she immediately gritted her teeth: "I know him, the murderer of my brother! What, is there any news?"
Hu Peng said: "The younger person who robbed your store yesterday was Guo Hui."
Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment, then became excited, talking incoherently, and then ran to burn incense in front of her brother's portrait, holding the child in her arms and crying. Hu Peng saw that she was not pretending to be like this, and it seemed that she really didn't know Guo Hui. Looks.
Hu Peng asked again about the homeless man. Zhang Yan's answer was the same as Kan Wanlin's. She didn't know this guy and couldn't tell him anything about him.
"Call me if you think of anything." Hu Peng left his business card and took the investigators to the hospital to interrogate Guo Hui.
Guo Hui was lying on the hospital bed and weakly said to Hu Peng: "Government, I want to report and expose, can I get some merit?"
Hu Peng said: "It depends on whether the matter you are reporting is serious or not. We will consider it. If you fool me, it will add insult to injury."
Guo Hui said: "Li Qi once boasted to me that he had killed someone, and he did it in a rental house."
Hu Peng's heart was moved, could it be another murder case? There are so many murder cases, why don't you let yourself celebrate the New Year!
"What are the specific circumstances? Who was killed, when, and what was the motive for the killing?" Hu Peng asked sternly.
Guo Hui faltered: "I don't know. Li Qi drank too much that day and said that he could earn 50,000 yuan by killing someone. He would take the job with me next time. Anyway, I have lives on my hands and I don't care about killing more." Myself, in fact, I didn’t want to kill Zhang Qian at all. It was him who hit my knife. He said that if you don’t kill me today, I will kill you. It’s really none of my business. Officer, this is considered meritorious service. , can the sentence be reduced by a few years? I will definitely be an honest person in the future, and I still want to join the army."
Hu Peng laughed angrily: "You killed people and still want to join the army. Do you think the army is a garbage dump?"
Guo Hui's confession was worthy of attention. Hu Peng immediately went to Huahuo Village to collect information. He found the house Li Qi rented, which had been sealed by the police station. When the landlord saw the police coming, he was full of complaints and chattered. Hu Peng glared and said: "Put it on." Are you still okay with renting your house to a murderer? I know it's okay to charge you with harboring the crime!" The landlord immediately stopped and walked away muttering.
Hu Peng walked around the room twice, sat on the bed, lit a cigarette and thought deeply.
He had read Li Qi's file. He was in his forties. His parents died young, he had no children and no wife. He had been living in society since the 1990s. He had been sent to a labor camp twice and sentenced once. He was a veteran of three years in the palace.
After he was released from prison, he didn’t have a formal job, so he just wandered around in the society. He did well for a time, but then he got hooked on drugs and fell into trouble again. He fell to renting in a place like Huahuo Village, and finally drowned in a pool. It can be said that this person
His life was extremely unsuccessful.
A gray-haired mouse poked its head in the corner. Hu Peng flicked the cigarette butt over. The mouse turned around and got into the hole. Hu Peng saw a hot water bottle on the table. He picked it up and wanted to fill the mouse hole with hot water, but found that there were several hot water bottles on the wall.
The brown radial spots were difficult to spot without squatting down and looking carefully. The detective's intuition made him realize that these might be blood stains, so he took out a knife to scrape off the wall covering and put it in a small plastic bag with him, and then went straight to the Municipal Bureau's Forensic Center.
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The director of the forensics center is Song Xinxin, who is both an administrative leader and a business leader. The skeleton that emerged from the pond in Huahuo Village was placed in front of her. It was a highly decomposed human head. Because it was wrapped in garbage bags and tape,
There is still hair left, but it is difficult to extract DNA.
Song Xinxin used an SD scanner to scan the human head, built a model in the computer, and restored the face. This is her latest research topic, and she has a cooperative project with the Department of History of Jiangxi University to use modern science to restore the appearance of ancient people.
The project also received support from the city, and Mayor Liu specially approved a scientific research fund.
Hu Peng came to ask for help, requesting to test the brown spots on the wall. This kind of trivial matter could be left to the technician below. Because Hu Peng's son and Song Xinxin's adopted daughter Mao Ya went to the same school, so they talked about some topics for a few times.
sentence, the conversation turned to the case without even realizing it.
"The case of Li Qi's murder is relatively simple, but it is quite difficult to solve. This kind of blind people commit crimes with a certain degree of randomness. Usually, they can only be found out after the murderer is arrested for other cases, and the body fished out from the pond is
It must be a murder case, and the nature is bad and the methods are cruel. This case must be solved. By the way, does Director Song have any clues?"
Song Xinxin said: "The work is still in progress. According to experience, it should be a female deceased. I suggest draining the water and continuing to search for the whereabouts of the body and limbs. I suspect they are also in the pond."
Hu Peng nodded and said: "That makes sense. I'll arrange for someone to do it right away. This woman is quite pitiful. She was cut into pieces and her traces were destroyed. I guess she was a receptionist or something, and this case was probably done by Li Qi."
Song Xinxin asked curiously: "Why do you have such an idea?"
Hu Peng said with a smile: "If I said it was the detective's sixth sense, would you believe it?"