It was already dark, but the temporary office of the special task force was still busy.
“The victims in the video are all young women,” Wu Xiumin pointed at the whiteboard and introduced, “The oldest is 31 years old and the youngest is only 19 years old!
“When they disappeared, most of the victims were already working, except for Miao Xiaowen, who had just graduated from high school.
"They all disappeared in the areas where they lived. The years of disappearance vary. The longest one can be traced back to 19 years ago, and the latest one is 14 years ago. In other words..." Wu Xiumin pointed to a set of data on the whiteboard, "They all disappeared between 1999 and 2004, a span of five years."
"Killed 7 people in 5 years," Cui Lizhu gritted her teeth with hatred, "Another murderous demon! He brutally murdered innocent young girls. This murderer is even more hateful than Li Fei and Han Kuan!"
"Because none of the victims' bodies were found and they were far apart from each other," Wu Xiumin continued, "so these cases have never been connected!"
"So..." Zhao Yu asked, "Do the victims have any similar characteristics?"
"Well, the age is different, the status is different, the family environment is different, the appearance and body shape and the clothes worn when missing are also different," Wu Xiumin replied, "If there are any similarities, it is that they are young women and have cheerful personalities. It’s two o’clock!”
"Well..." Zhao Yu analyzed, "Just like Han Kuan in the Demon Case, the murderer's profession should be closely related to the place where these girls disappeared!
"The targets are likely to be selected temporarily..."
"However, the current information is still too little," Wu Xiumin said frankly. "I will check the detailed information of each victim and screen the persons related to the victim who appear on each file to see if there are any There are no common characters.
"Maybe the real murderer is hidden among these people!"
"Well! I'll leave it to you, Sister Wu." After Zhao Yu affirmed, he asked Zeng Ke, "By the way, how is the video analysis going? Can you determine the order of the videos?"
"According to preliminary information," Zeng Ke replied, "the publisher uploaded the videos not in chronological order, as if they were published randomly.
"The intervals between videos are not fixed. Some are posted one or two days apart, some are more than ten days apart, and there are even two videos posted consecutively, which look very random!
"Well..." Zeng Ke looked at his information, "The earliest video was posted four months ago, and the last video was Miao Xiaowen's video from two days ago!"
"So, from the video," Zhao Yu said, "can we tell the year when it was filmed?"
"Video experts are still studying," Zeng Ke replied. "There is no clear time display in the video. However, some portrait experts have passed preliminary identification and believe that the shooting time of each video should be shortly after the victim disappeared, not many Years later!”
"Oh... that is to say..." Cui Lizhu said, "The murderer killed those girls very quickly after kidnapping them! What a hateful cold-blooded killer!"
"Yes," Zeng Ke nodded, "the girls in the video are all very young. Compared with the photos from the same period, they are not much different!"
"Then..." Zhao Yu thought for a while and asked, "Can you tell what equipment was used to shoot? What type of camera? Are the seven videos shot by the same camera?"
"This... still needs time!" Zeng Ke said helplessly, "The video has obvious traces of transcoding, and the distortion is also very serious. I don't know if the publisher did it deliberately, or to reduce the file size for easier uploading.
"In short, it is difficult for us to find out the camera model and original bit rate based on the videos downloaded from the Internet. However, from the existing resources, the resolution of these seven videos is the same, and the image ratio and color brightness are also different. They are all exactly the same, so some experts believe... it might have been shot by the same camera!"
"The murderer is so emboldened..." Ran Tao frowned and said, "Could it be that this guy is already hiding abroad? Because he is poor and living in embarrassment, he sells the crimes he has committed in the past for money?"
"This kind of bastard, even if he hides on the moon, we still have to catch him!" Cui Lizhu was still itching with hatred.
Tsk tsk…
Looking at a lot of information, Zhao Yu always had a strange feeling for some reason. He felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this video murder case, which was a bit unexplainable...
I would like to ask what kind of mentality a serial murderer would have before making his murder video public
Is it just showing off
Or... what kind of terminal disease does this guy have? Before you die, want to challenge the police
"Team leader!" At this time, Miao Ying suddenly came to Zhao Yu and said, "We have encountered a non-technical problem!"
"What do you mean by non-technical problems?" Zhao Yu was puzzled.
"It's like this. After the police determined that the video of Miao Xiaowen's murder might be a real crime, they applied to block the website and forcibly blocked the murder video!
"But the local leaders believed that this website might be an important way to find the murderer, so they did not approve it." Miao Ying said awkwardly, "Now, this problem falls on us. Now that a new murder video has appeared, I'm afraid, we It’s even harder to make this decision…”
oh…
Zhao Yu immediately understood the significance of this non-technical problem. Video murder cases had appeared. If they ignored them, more people would see these murder videos, which would be very unfair to the deceased.
However, if the website is blocked and the dissemination of the video is stopped, it is likely to alert the snake and allow the publisher to escape, which is extremely detrimental to the investigation work.
This is indeed a problem!
As the saying goes, one move can move the whole body. This seemingly ordinary decision will seriously affect the direction of the case.
"Based on my experience," Wu Xiumin said suddenly, "the website must be blocked. It's not up to us to make the decision at all! That is a real murder video!
“Blocking it is not only to maintain the dignity of the deceased, but also to prevent malicious spread!
“Once people know the authenticity of the video, we cannot afford the negative consequences it will bring!
"Just watch, the higher ups will definitely put pressure on us!"
"But..." Miao Ying shook her head, "Websites and videos are the key to us solving the case, they cannot be blocked easily!"
"I think so," Cui Lizhu agreed, "If Miao Xiaowen's brother hadn't secretly discovered this video on the website and recognized his sister who had been missing for many years, then God knows when would someone report the crime
“Since it has been around for so long, why should we block the website and block our own way?”
"Xiao Cui, it's not as simple as you think," Wu Xiumin said sternly, "I don't know because I don't know, but if I don't do anything after knowing it, then it will be our problem!"
"I don't accept it," Cui Lizhu pouted, "We are not doing nothing, we want to catch the criminals!"
"Let's do this..." After the discussion, Zhao Yu finally made the decision and made the final decision, "Wait a few more days, wait a few more days!"
"In the next few days, we must find out the information about the publisher as soon as possible! Even if it is only a little bit, it can buy us time!"
"Well... that's the only way!" After Miao Ying agreed, a look of determination appeared on her face, "We need to speed up! We must solve the video murder case before the website is closed!!!"
(End of chapter)