In the Dark

Chapter 7: Seeing each other with extra red eyes (1)

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Cong Ying's mobile phone was not found at the scene, Tao Longyue asked around among the neighbors to find out about the man in the photo. The doorman on duty said that he remembered that a silver-gray BMW drove Cong Ying into the community yesterday afternoon. This car had been to the community several times, and it was probably Cong Ying's boyfriend who drove the car. After his identification, it was the man in the photo.

The silver-gray BMW was not found in the underground garage that could directly enter the house. Tao Longyue asked the guard: "When did this car leave?"

"At three or four in the morning. It was opened from the main gate of the community."

"Are you sure?" Captain Tao suddenly became suspicious. Cong's family was killed in the early hours of the morning. Why did Cong Ying's boyfriend stay together for so long in the house where the murder happened.

"Okay," the doorman was quite confident. "The monitoring room was set on fire at more than two o'clock, so the brothers are all hanging on their nerves. I dare not be careful."

Ask other neighbors, let alone the man in the group photo, not even Cong Ying from the same community.

I also met the neighbor who is at the front door of Cong Ying's house and opposite to the back door. Because I met with Cong's family occasionally, I recognized Cong Ying and her boyfriend. He said, at 11:45 last night, I looked out of the window. , when I saw the two of them quarreling at the gate, the louder the louder, the more excited the quarrel, the girl covered her face and cried so badly, I had a hunch that something was going to happen...

Tao Longyue asked back: "11:45? How do you remember it so clearly?"

The man was wearing pajamas, flipping slippers, messy hair, and a tired face: "Premier League, Arsenal vs Chelsea, kick-off at eleven o'clock, and they quarreled right after the first half."

"The distance between your villas is not close. It's so late, can you really see clearly?" Tao Longyue felt that the neighbor was unreliable, and looked up at the street lamps by the courtyard of the villa. The decorative function is greater than the lighting function. The light is obviously poor.

"Yes, why not? That girl wore bright yellow clothes yesterday, which is more eye-catching than a 200W light bulb."

Tao Longyue thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you know the name of the man who quarreled with the dead woman, and where does he work?"

"Once the flower shop got the wrong address and sent the roses to my house. It seems that the name above is what is Shen... Shen Liufei!" I don't know what he is doing, anyway, when I look at his face, I feel that it is gloomy, and he will do things like murder..."

After the man finished speaking, he tutted several times, turned his head and left. He stayed up late last night to watch two games, and he wanted to catch up on sleep. But the people around were still unwilling to leave, and they all regretted saying, what a wonderful family, why did they die like this...

"This is a rich man." Tao Longyue instructed the criminal investigators to keep the cordon, not to allow this group of curious onlookers to cross the line, and turned to Xie Lanshan and said, "If it weren't for a murder case, I'm afraid I would never know it for the rest of my life. I have such a neighbor."

Xie Lanshan didn't take it seriously: "When you were still us, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Someone will rescue you when there is an earthquake."

Xie Lanshan said the words casually, but Tao Longyue listened with a heart, clenched his fists and came towards Xie Lanshan's shoulders.

There was a heavy rain at two o'clock in the morning yesterday. The rain was rare for more than ten years, and almost all the evidence outside Cong Ying's house was washed away. Fortunately, the demon was one foot tall, the road was ten feet tall, the murderer was meticulous, and the investigators at the scene were even more meticulous. After taking pictures and taking fingerprints, they still found clues - a shoe print appeared on the mud floor in the back garden, 36 yards, with a cool heel. Leather shoe prints, from the point of view of the clarity of the shoe prints, must have been left after the rainstorm.

The words "Murder cases must be solved" are no longer popular now, but such a bad criminal case has not happened in Hanhai for a long time. The general idea is that the leaders attach great importance to the case and hope that they will pay full attention and gather human and material resources to solve the case as soon as possible.

On the way back, Tao Longyue asked Xie Lanshan to drive the car. He sat in the passenger seat and reported to the leader with his mobile phone: "There are already suspects, so we must step up the investigation. It is the old Liang of the original city bureau who has retired. We may need someone here. Mock portrait artist, can the expert who came back from the United States be hired in advance?"

But the answer was no.

"Lao Mei is really unorganized and undisciplined." After hanging up the phone, Tao Longyue complained, "It's a matter of human life, the expert is very leisurely, saying that he has to enjoy his vacation before joining the job."

"Maybe it's because the embroidered pillow is afraid of showing timidity, so I don't dare to enter the job." Xie Lanshan didn't have time to argue with people at the moment, so he thought about it and said, "Assuming the murderer is the man in the photo, I still don't quite understand how he placed the body. With the intention of that kind of shape, after the murder, you should clear the evidence and leave the scene as soon as possible, whether it is a love murder or a vendetta, it seems that there is no need to spend so much trouble."

"I can't figure it out either, is the murderer's suspicions disturbing our police's sight, or does it really have some special meaning?" Tao Long jumped his head and looked thoughtful, "In addition, the woman's shoe print in the back garden of the villa is obviously rain. She left it later. It had been almost two hours since the murder. What was her identity? Was it an accomplice or something else? Did she also set the fire in the monitoring room?"

Ding Li was still sitting in the back row, and suddenly interrupted without thinking: "I always feel like I've seen the pattern on the corpse at the scene."

"It's the end of the world again?" Xie Lanshan laughed, seemingly not believing what she said.

"Really, it's not the end of the world, I just saw it somewhere..."

"Okay," Xie Lanshan said to Ding Li behind him, the headache finally eased, "Senior brother doesn't have time to invite you to dinner today, so I'll make it up for another day."

"Why?"

"Why are you still asking?" Tao Longyue pouted and roared before Xie Lanshan answered, "Today, all staff work overtime and eat in the cafeteria!"

In order to reward the police officers who worked overtime to solve the case, the cafeteria specially added a dish, stewed tofu with yellow thorn fish, which can be smelled from afar, and the umami taste is very overbearing.

Whenever there is a big case and a hot case, the canteen of the Hanhai Municipal Bureau is always extraordinarily lively.

"Hot case" is a term used for criminal investigation, which refers specifically to the golden period for the detection of cases in the first three days. Therefore, all the serious crime teams of the Hanhai Municipal Bureau became "desperate Saburos", and only Xie Lanshan was excluded.

Although he was allowed to investigate the scene of the murder, Tao Jun did not allow him to participate in further investigations.

Tao Jun handed over a business card of the Municipal Psychological Rehabilitation Hospital, saying that the Psychological Rehabilitation Hospital and the Municipal Bureau are in a cooperative relationship, and that they are not allowed to participate in the detection of the case without seeing a psychological counseling expert.

Xie Lanshan himself didn't expect Tao Jun to come out like this, holding the business card of the mental rehabilitation hospital, he was dazed. The old man has long been familiar with his temperament, knowing that nothing can make his blood boil more than the detection of a murder case, so he deliberately took the bait, let him get involved in the case first, and forbid him to continue the investigation, in order to force him to He took the bait.

Tao Jun fixedly looked at him: "How to choose, it's up to you."

Xie Lanshan was silent, playing with the business card in his hand, as if he was thinking about it. After a long while, his haze was gone, and he grinned: "I will report to the traffic police force tomorrow."

"Just be stubborn and see who can be stubborn!"

Tao Jun couldn't understand Xie Lanshan's reason for not going to see a psychiatrist, so he left angrily, leaving his son to continue to chatter in people's ears.

Tao Longyue knew that persuasion was useless, so he could only irritate him. He deliberately said with a serious face, "You are a traffic policeman now. After all, it is our criminal police's job to solve cases and hunt down murderers. It is you who maintain traffic order and correct illegal behaviors. Our own jobs. As police officers, we must each perform our duties so that the entire social machine can function effectively.”

Xie Lanshan finally looked at the Song-style characters on the business card that read "Protecting the mental health of police officers", kneaded it into a ball, and spit out, "Shit."

"Don't worry, this case is handed over to the brothers, and it will be solved in a short time, so as to comfort your spirit in the traffic police force." Tao Longyue didn't know whether to encourage Xie Lanshan or made up his mind to tease him to the end, saying, " The province has recently launched a 'net hunting operation', requiring the public security of all cities to cooperate fully, you should know."

"Operation Net Hunting" is a special operation carried out by the Provincial Public Security Bureau. Many criminal cases were limited by the limited criminal investigation technology at that time, so that they were unresolved and became cold cases and backlogs. Now the province is carrying out the "Hunting Net", the purpose is to restart many old cases, use big data and the latest criminal investigation technology to break them one by one.

Tao Longyue patted Xie Lanshan on the shoulder and said flatly, so you traffic police won't have nothing to do, help check those black cars that move across regions, maybe they will solve a big case.

Heroes are useless, Xie Lanshan was thrown away with a stack of old case materials, and spent late at night in the archives alone.

What about the "Hushan Park Murder Case in 1998" and the "Shunde Community Extermination Case in 2001", the earliest cases were all thirty years ago. The victims were the hostess of a family and her 11-year-old daughter. He was stabbed 30 times in total, and there was almost no evidence left at the scene, just a bloody footprint.

In the end, it was determined that it was a robbery and murder. The cash in the home was looted, and an antique silver jewelry box of the hostess was also taken away.

The murderers were not caught. As the saying goes, good and evil are rewarded, but crime statistics show that the detection rate of criminal cases in various countries is less than 50%.

Tired of looking through those old files, looking at the time, it was almost midnight, colleagues were still working overtime, Xie Lanshan walked out of the city bureau slowly with his hands in his pockets.

At the end of May, it was still cool at night a few days ago, but now it's not raining, the weather is very stuffy, and the air seems to stick to people's bodies, which is not refreshing.

Xie Lanshan thought, if the rain falls again, the sky will be really hot.