In modern criminal investigation, tangible evidence is far more important than confession. When Niu Tianlan was passively responding to the police's interrogation, the technical team had already mastered key physical evidence, including the murder weapon—
Niu Tianlan's home not only has a lot of bloodstains in the locked bedroom, but also in the kitchen. It's just that the blood in the kitchen is not as obvious as that in the living room, and the floor has been cleaned with the disinfectant of the funeral home, and there is no bloodstain reaction even in the cracks of the floor.
This disinfectant was also used at the scene of Meng Shan's killing.
Niu Tianlan once used disinfectant in the kitchen, and judging from the remaining conditions, the use time will not exceed four months, and Wen Xi disappeared in September, just during this time.
Could she be killed by Niu Tianlan here
With this inference, Xiao Man searched every inch of the kitchen, and finally found blood in a pinky-wide groove under the sink facing the ground.
After comparison, it was confirmed that it belonged to Wen Xi.
Serious crime team, interrogation room.
After the rounds of interrogation, Niu Tianlan's original arrogance no longer exists. Mingshu pulled away the chair opposite, but did not speak immediately after sitting down, but stared at Niu Tianlan's face coldly.
Ten minutes later, Niu Tianlan said weakly, "What do you want to ask me?"
"Let's chat today." Mingshu said, "Don't you like to talk about cases? Okay, let's not talk about cases, talk about you and your sister Niu Lanlan."
Niu Tianlan's back suddenly straightened, and his neck visibly stiffened.
"I've seen your grades when you were studying. From childhood to high school, your grades were better than your sister's, not just a little bit, but a lot better." Mingshu spoke in a relaxed tone, as if he was chatting, "At the age of 18, You take the college entrance examination. In fact, with your scores at that time, you can apply to a better school, such as several universities in Luocheng, the capital of Han Province, but you finally chose Xicheng University of Technology. "
Niu Tianlan pursed the corners of his lips slightly—this seemed to be his habitual action when he felt unpleasant.
"Is it because your sister's grades can only be applied to Xicheng University for Nationalities?" Mingshu said, "Do you want to stay in the same city with her and take care of each other?"
"No, no..." Niu Tianlan shook his head with indignation in his eyes.
Mingshu said, "Don't you want to take care of each other?"
"Her grades can't only be taken by Xicheng National University." As if being pricked into a sore spot in his heart, Niu Tianlan clenched his hands on the table tightly, "Los Angeles also has a university that suits her, but she dislikes competition in the provincial capital. Big, high pressure, insisting to fill Xicheng with a big ethnic group.”
"So you can only give up Luocheng and choose Xicheng?"
"Since childhood... she's been like this!"
Mingshu asked, "What is it?"
"Being self-centered and selfish, the whole world has to revolve around her!" Niu Tianlan's voice gradually trembled, "I have to take care of her, give her all the good things, and I will do everything she wants for her. Do it!"
Fang Yuanhang watched the surveillance outside, and raised an eyebrow, "Hey, this is different from what I imagined."
Mingshu saw that Niu Tianlan was already in the mood, so he did not interrupt.
"In our family, she is the princess, and I am like a burden my parents picked up." Niu Tianlan smiled bitterly, "We are obviously twins, but just because she is a daughter and I am a son, I have to let her and spoil her. She. My parents said that if the daughter wants to be rich, the son should endure hardship. Our family is not rich, so they gave her all the good things, and I can only pick up what she has left."
Mingshu said, "Some families prefer sons to daughters, but your family prefers women to men?"
Niu Tianlan's shoulders shook twice, as if smiling, but there was no smile on the corners of his lips, "I don't know since when, I got used to taking care of her, maybe after my parents died. Xicheng And Luocheng in the two directions of Han Province, she applied for Xicheng Nationalities University, if I go to Luocheng University, I can't take care of her. I can only apply to Xicheng's best university, which is Xicheng Institute of Technology Big."
Mingshu paused for a few seconds, "Then you met Zhao Wen after joining the student union in your freshman year."
Hearing this name, Niu Tianlan's expression almost froze.
"You have long understood that you like men." Mingshu said: "Before the college entrance examination, you could only suppress yourself, but when you go to college, you meet someone who makes you fall in love at first sight, and you decide to face yourself calmly."
Niu Tianlan's complexion gradually turned pale, and he shook his head slightly, "I, I..."
"But Zhao Wen rejected you. After meeting your sister Niu Lanlan, she developed a relationship with her as a couple." Mingshu said, "You guys..."
"What are you talking about?" Niu Tianlan interrupted excitedly, "It's not like that at all!"
Mingshu followed: "No? What's the truth?"
"Brother Wen, he didn't reject me!" Niu Tianlan clasped his fingers on the interrogation table, his knuckles so white that they were about to pierce out, "He's my boyfriend! We've been together! It was Niu Lanlan who robbed him from me. gone!"
Fang Yuanhang said softly, "I... rely on..."
Mingshu's tone remained unchanged, "You mean that Zhao Wen likes both men and women. He originally chose you, but later abandoned you because of Niu Lanlan? Niu Lanlan is the third person in your relationship. ?"
"She forced me! She forced me!" Niu Tianlan hugged his head in pain, tears welling up in his eyes, "She clearly knows that Brother Wen loves me, but she wants to take Brother Wen away from me..."
19 years old—
"You've been pampering me since you were a child. Wouldn't it be better to pamper me again?" Niu Lanlan wore a dress she just bought with a charming expression, "You are both men, what future can two men have together?"
"Impossible! I can rely on you for everything else, but this one doesn't work!" Niu Tianlan has never spoken harshly to Niu Lanlan, this is the first time, "Lanlan, you and Brother Wen have only met twice. I don’t know each other at all. Don’t be silly, I like Brother Wen, he likes me too, and we all like men!”
"Are you sure?" Niu Lanlan said with a smile, "Is it only you who likes men? Because you are a little 0, brother Wen is different from you."
Niu Tianlan said in surprise: "What do you mean?"
"Do you want me to explain it? Well then, Tian Lan, don't be sad when you hear it. I heard that only Xiao 0 - like you - likes men with all his heart, but brother Wen is 1, he is not only I like men." Niu Lanlan adjusted her skirt and looked at Niu Tianlan with her chin raised, "We have..."
The latter words were said by Niu Lanlan leaning into Niu Tianlan's ear.
Niu Tian was struck by a thunderstorm, "You lied! Impossible!"
Niu Lanlan said, "Impossible, you can just ask Brother Wen and find out?"
"Sorry, Tian Lan." Zhao Wen smiled awkwardly, "You are very good, but you are a man after all. Even if we are together now, we will graduate in the future, and we will step into the society. What should we do? The society will not accept us, And my family won't accept you either."
Tears fell from Niu Tianlan's eyes, and he kept shaking his head, "Brother Wen, but you said you liked me!"
"I like you now, too." Zhao Wen reassured: "But Tianlan, you are not a woman, please understand my difficulties. You are very similar to Lanlan, I am with your sister, aren't we family? A relationship can't last long, but if I stay with your sister, we can be a family for a long time."
The interrogation room was filled with sobbing, and Mingshu said, "So you gave up Zhao Wen to Niu Lanlan? But you never let go of Zhao Wen?"
Niu Tianlan nodded solemnly.
After half a minute, Mingshu said, "You haven't finished."
Niu Tianlan burst into tears, "What?"
"Zhao Wen has said too much to you, and it is precisely because of these words that you can't let go." Mingshu's eyes were sharp, "He has commented on your appearance, especially your lips."
Niu Tianlan's eyes were wide open, full of anger.
Mingshu lowered his voice, "Answer me."
20 years old-
Unable to believe that his first love ended hastily in this way, Niu Tianlan neither accepts Zhao Wen's apology nor wants to meet Niu Lanlan again. He realized that he had fallen into a quagmire, but no matter how he struggled, he couldn't get out, and no one ever helped him. He can no longer concentrate on his studies, and the only thing he can't do every day is to follow Zhao Wen.
And Zhao Wen and Niu Lanlan have become public lovers.
"I don't want to expose you because you are my only relative." Niu Lanlan finally tore off her simple disguise, "If you harass us like this again, I will tell your student council, your classmates, and your teacher! "
Niu Tianlan was not afraid of Niu Lanlan's threat, but Zhao Wen's words made him throw away his armor.
"You ask me why I chose Lan Lan instead of you." Zhao Wen's tone was even gentle when he said this, "Because Lan Lan is a woman, and a woman has beauty that you can never have. Sky Lan, you don't have it. Did you find it? Although you and Lanlan are twins, she is much prettier than you. Her M-shaped lips are full and soft, and yours... heh, Tian Lan, you better look in the mirror."
Niu Tianlan wanted to stand up from the interrogation chair, but his body was stuck. He wiped his tears and said to himself, "They ruined me..."
Mingshu changed his listening attitude, "You killed those innocent women because you envy their M-shaped lips similar to Niu Lanlan."
Niu Tianlan suddenly pulled away from his memory, and a gloomy look quickly spread on his face.
Fang Yuanhang pressed hard on his forehead and murmured, "The victim may never have imagined that he would be targeted by a murderer for ridiculous reasons."
"So what!" Niu Tianlan grinned like an enraged wolf, "Women are the most disgusting thing in this world!"
The recorder was a woman, and her face became very ugly.
"They have human appearances, and their hearts are no different from livestock!" Niu Tianlan almost lost control, and slapped the table with both hands, "Do you know how cheap Tang Qian is? She is a woman herself, but she looks down on women more than anyone else! When I was at the bar, I was wearing women's clothes, and she was dismissive of me, then I let her hear my voice, and when she found out I was a man, she immediately turned into a begging dog! Stick to me, beg me , I called her cheap, guess how she answered? She said that women should be cheap in front of men!"
The recorder said, "Watch your words."
Mingshu whispered to the recorder, "Sorry for letting you hear this. Take a break and change to Yuanhang or Xu Chun to come in."
"Am I right?" Niu Tianlan sneered, "Meng Shan is not a good person either. Her father is gone. I asked her to buy her father a paper fireworks in the end. She didn't want to, and she lost control on the spot. That's how women are. , at every turn, the mood collapses, and it is ugly."
"And Wen Xi, hahaha, she's dead too!" Niu Tianlan said, "that's also a bitch, just like Tang Qian, she thinks men are superior to others. Isn't this the best way? I kill them, eat them, It's their honor!"
Mingshu is not surprised that Wen Xi has been killed, and the blood in the kitchen is evidence of the crime, "You asked Tang Qian to go to Fengsheng Town in person, and suggested that she quit her job. On October 26, you killed him on the wasteland behind Zhou Changyou's house. Tang Qian, you chose Fengsheng Town because you have been there before and are familiar with it. What about Wen Xi? Where did you hide her? "
Niu Tianlan was stunned for a while, and laughed out of his throat, "I burned her. You will never find her again."
"How is this possible?" Fang Yuanhang had already sat down in the interrogation room, "Where is it burning? Funeral home?"
"It's easy." Niu Tianlan raised his right hand and made a slashing motion, "I chop her up into pieces, and I take a piece with me to work every day. When I throw it into the stove, it will come out with a pile of ashes. Those family members are so stupid, who can tell whose ashes are?"
Mingshu said, "that's how you dealt with Wen Xi's body?"
Niu Tianlan suddenly muttered, "If I can take advantage of the funeral home's management, maybe others will take advantage of it. Maybe... Maybe I'm not the only one who killed people? Those incinerators are actually not forbidden places at all."
Fang Yuanhang felt a chill rise from his tailbone.
Niu Tianlan is an extremely perverted murderer. The words just came out of his mouth, and it is hard not to evoke reverie.
"Xiyue" funeral home management standards, there is a complete set of staff rules. Where it can be managed and regulated, there are inevitably loopholes. If a loophole can be exploited by one person, it can be exploited by another.
Is Niu Tianlan really the only murderer hidden in the "West Moon" funeral home
For those disappearance cases that have never been solved, have the victims been turned into ashes in the funeral home
"Thank you for reminding me." Mingshu said, "the funeral parlor should be put aside in advance, or you. Your first crime was in September this year, and the victim was Wen Xi?"
Niu Tianlan nodded.
Mingshu stared into his eyes and remained motionless for half a minute.
Niu Tianlan shrugged, "You don't have to look at me like that anymore, I killed three people in total, Wen Xi, in my house, Tang Qian, in Fengsheng Town, Meng Shan, in her house. Nothing else. The three are also death sentences, and more are also death sentences, I will not embarrass you, police officer."
Mingshu said, "What about Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen?"
Niu Tianlan was tense again, "They committed suicide."
"Why did they kill themselves?"
"I have no idea."
Mingshu said: "Then you should know, why don't you take Niu Lanlan's ashes for burial? Niu Tianlan, I boldly speculate, if there is anything wrong, you can interrupt me at any time, the set that your parents left you. The house, only one bedroom has iron fences, and those iron fences have been installed in the last 2 years. Compared with the living room and the other room, it is gloomy and eerie, with your blood on the walls and the bed. You don't To bury Niu Lanlan, but to put her in such a room, I want to punish her, take revenge on her, and let her die without peace."
Niu Tianlan chuckled and said, "Aren't you a policeman? The police are also superstitious?"
"Of course I'm not superstitious." Mingshu nodded his chest, "What I said was your inner thoughts."
Niu Tianlan frowned tightly and did not speak.
Mingshu said again: "Where did you find out about this sorcery?"
Niu Tianlan still didn't answer.
"The death of Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen has something to do with the sorcery you came into contact with?"
"They committed suicide." Niu Tianlan insisted, "The police have already investigated and it has nothing to do with me."
When Mingshu came out of the interrogation room, it was already 5 in the morning.
Niu Tianlan admitted to killing Meng Shan and other three people, and there is sufficient physical evidence. At present, there are no clues to prove that there is a fourth victim. The investigation of this series of cases has come to an end.
But the deaths of Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen were definitely not easy.
At that time, the police station was in charge of investigating the case. The lack of police force and lack of ability made it easy to treat the death of the two as suicide. Now two years have passed, the remains have been cremated, and there are no traces of the scene, and it is a case that happened in another province. It will be very difficult to investigate further.
Mingshu leaned against the wall of the corridor for a while, and saw the door diagonally opposite open.
Xiao Yuan came out from inside.
Mingshu's frowning brows quietly unfolded, "Xiao Ju, you are here too."
"Well, I watched the interrogation surveillance for a while." Xiao Yuan approached, "It's hard work."
Mingshu shook his head, "This hard work is nothing. It's a blessing to be able to save people."
Xiao Yuan knew who he was talking about, the media person who returned home alone late at night, Wen Ling.
"By the way, how is she now?" Mingshu said, "She was so scared that she couldn't stand up."
"I went to the hospital for an examination, cooperated with the investigation, and rested for two days." Xiao Yu'an said, "I have returned to my post now."
Mingshu was surprised, "She... still got off work in the early morning? Isn't she afraid?"
"I was afraid, but I didn't run away, because that was her job. She was doing her duty. But now she's not going back alone. Her colleagues take turns to send her until the new year begins." Xiao Yuan felt a little emotional. , "Niu Tianlan's understanding of women is too narrow and extreme. Some of them are blindly 'men', but more are people like Wen Ling, ordinary but strong."
Mingshu took a deep breath and frowned, "The case from two years ago..."
"Treat them separately." Xiao Yu'an led Mingshu downstairs. "The case from two years ago does seem to be problematic now, but when investigating a case, don't combine cases that are not directly related."
Mingshu nodded, "I see."
Before dawn is the coldest time of the day. The SWAT team did not know what task was going on, and police cars roared out of the city bureau.
The police can't protect everyone in the dark, but they've been doing their best.
Opposite the city bureau, there is an all-night noodle shop. The owner is a retired traffic policeman, surnamed Liu. His teammates said that he was reluctant to cook noodles, so he ordered a shop that opened for several years.
Many police officers who have been busy all night will come to eat a bowl of noodles.
"Brother Wang, two three-taels of beef noodles." Mingshu said, "Add two fried eggs."
Brother Liu was taciturn and did not answer, but placed two hot soy milk on the table.
Free, every cop who comes late at night has it.
Soon, the hot noodles were cooked, and Mingshu was halfway through eating, and finally suppressed the empty feeling of doing the interrogation for a long time, "Brother, did you watch half of the interrogation monitoring, or did you watch it all?"
Xiao Yu'an said, "I've read it. Want to ask my opinion?"
Mingshu sucked the noodles, "Mmmm."
"There are no doubts about the three cases committed by Niu Tianlan." Xiao Yuan put down his chopsticks, "but I think there are many loopholes in what he described about his relationship with Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen. He just took advantage of 'the dead cannot justify'. ."
Mingshu said, "Do you think Niu Tianlan made up a story about Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen?"
"Niu Tianlan's mental state is very similar to delusional disorder." Xiao Yuan said: "People with persecution delusional disorder will think that they are in a huge malice, and everyone around them wants to hurt themselves. In order to highlight themselves Innocent, they will impose their own imagination on others, and believe that the other party really has such vicious thoughts. A small number of persecuted delusional people will rush to eliminate the dangers they think are before they are 'injured' Niu Tianlan himself said that he and Zhao Wen were in a same-sex relationship, and he was taken by Niu Lanlan, but in fact, neither his classmates nor Zhao Wen's classmates knew that they were once together."
"All of this is Niu Tianlan's fantasy?" Mingshu paused, "It is indeed possible."
"Hurry up." Xiao Yu'an said, "You don't care about Niu Lanlan's case for the time being. I will communicate with the Han province police first. It is true that Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen committed suicide, but their motives are not credible to me, and Niu Tianlan may be related to cult behavior. Involving cults must be handled with caution."
Mingshu ate the rest of the noodles in a few mouthfuls, "Then can I rest for a while?"
Xiao Yuan smiled warmly, "Go back and have a good sleep."
After all, they are lovers who have been together for many years, and Mingshu can hear a hint of meaning in these ordinary words.
"I can only get a good night's sleep?" Mingshu bit "Yi-sleep" very hard, "After charging, will I come back to work for you right away?"
Xiao Yu'an said, "Don't be so anxious."
"What the hell is going on?" Mingshu remembered after speaking, "The case of Huang Yan?"
"Come on, Team Ming, your eyelids are trembling. We'll discuss other cases when you're ready." Xiao Yu'an handed the napkin to Ming Shu, "Wipe your mouth."
When I came out of the noodle shop, the sky was already bright. Smoke from the surrounding breakfast shops woke up before the whole city.
"I want to buy some buns to go back." Mingshu said, "Brother, wait for me."
After a quarter of an hour, everyone in the serious crime team got freshly baked buns.
In Silin Town, far from Dongye City, at the same time, a blizzard flew in the air, making a sound like a baby crying.