"Let's summarize the current situation." Dick took the lead.
It was the morning of June 22. Dick, Setzer, George, and Paper Man were sitting together in the police station, discussing the latest developments in the intimidation case.
Generally speaking, Dick will be the first to speak in this situation. His experience and case-handling abilities are second to none in the Paris Police Department. By letting him lead the reasoning, many detours can be avoided, and everyone's thinking will be clearer.
"The morning before yesterday, Mr. Dadan found a letter from the intimidator in the mailbox. This intimidator may be a person or an organization. It is not yet certain. Let's call it a 'prisoner' for the time being.
There was no stamp or address on the envelope, which meant that the letter was not delivered by post, but was delivered by the prisoner himself, or that he sent some unrelated person to put the letter in.
According to Mr. Dadan's description, he checked the mailbox when he got off work on the 19th, and there was no letter in it at that time. Therefore, the time when the threatening letter was sent should be from after 7 pm on the 19th to the morning of the next day.
There is a camera in the lobby on the ground floor of the apartment, but the footage captured is not very clear. According to a preliminary investigation of the video, there were only three people who had access to Mr. Dadan's mailbox during the time period I just mentioned. The first guy showed up around nine o'clock in the evening. He sneaked into the building with other residents and stuffed advertising flyers in the mailboxes of every household. At first, I wondered whether this person was using the advertisements as a cover to secretly put them in. But later, the second person showed up, and this guy had serious suspicions... He showed up in the early morning. Judging from the surveillance video, he entered the apartment door using the normal method, that is, using the one hanging on the key. Magnetic strip hanging. Of course, it is not difficult to get this thing. As far as I know, the magnetic stripe scanning locks of electronic doors in this type of apartment buildings are very simple, and are not even as safe as traditional locks. Find a few fake phone cards on the street. A card dealer can handle that kind of door.
This second man walked into the apartment lobby wearing a dark hooded hoodie, covering half of his face with the hood. Due to the dim light, only his height and gender could be determined from the camera footage. This person seemed to know the location of the surveillance camera, and tried his best to cover the mailbox and his hands with his body. He stayed in the picture for a short time, but he was standing in front of Mr. Dadan's mailbox. The threatening letter was The number sent by this person may be more than 90%.
As for the third person, he was the postman who came in early in the morning to deliver the letter, so he can basically be ruled out. "
George added at this time: "By the way, judging from the video, the second man's figure is very similar to the man I met opposite the police station the evening before yesterday."
Dick continued: "I guess it is very likely that the two are the same person. The probes on the street tracked the route of the three people mentioned above. Only the second person could not be traced back. He walked backwards from the street in front of the apartment. Looking further, we can see that the man came out of an alley. There is no surveillance camera in the alley, but there is one on the street at the other end of the alley, but there is no picture of him walking into the alley, so we cannot continue. Push his course backwards.”
"Maybe he went up to the roof, climbed the fire escape, or the sewer, or maybe he just picked the blind spot of the camera and walked on the road without surveillance cameras." George said.
Dick said: "In short, what is certain is that the person who sent the threatening letter has very strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities and pays great attention to hiding his whereabouts. Generally, prisoners may only pay attention to this issue when they are escaping. When he went to the crime scene I noticed it on the way. Even if you find a policeman to handle this matter, you may not be better than him." He paused and then said: "Let's talk about the letter and the 'head'."
The "head" here does not refer to the head of a creature in the real sense, but refers to a wooden sculpture of a human head, which is the package that Galas received shortly after he went to work yesterday. He was frightened when he opened it. This time, he was no longer in the mood to do any tests in the unit, so he directly asked for leave and rushed to the police station with the box in his arms. At this point, the case was finally put on the line, and Dick, George and Paper Man also took the opportunity to officially intervene. The threatening letters, orange cores, and wood carvings were all taken to the evidence department for detailed examination.
Dick's statement continued: "The envelope is very ordinary, but the yellowed letter paper... According to identification, it is actually paper from the late nineteenth century; and the intimidator did not use methods such as printing or cutting out newspaper impurities. He chose to write the content of the letter by hand with a pen.
This prisoner likes to use old methods. Every step he takes is imitating the Ku Klux Klan, an organization established more than two hundred years ago, and he is imitating the oldest set of things. Paper, handwriting, and orange cores are all the information he gave us, as if he had traveled directly from the 19th century to the 22nd century. "
"But what's the point of doing this?" George lit another cigarette.
"Good question." Dick said: "In my opinion, the 'terrorist' in this case is not an organization, and they are far from the scale of the Ku Klux Klan in the past. There is probably only one person in the dark. That's it, there can't be more than five people at most. There may be one smart guy among them, but he's not too smart either.
These intimidators are probably just a group of ordinary people who live a poor life, are full of grievances, and have certain racial discrimination tendencies. They are not the Ku Klux Klan at all, but they are just trying to pretend to be like that. Hmm... They are doing it very badly. Not an anti-dog.
The Ku Klux Klan in the 19th century was not an extreme racist massacre. That was the impression others had of them after evolution. From the current perspective, they were a group of southern diehards who were unwilling to fail after the war. They used violent means to impose their political views on others. They wanted to restrict the civil rights of liberated blacks and drive away those who moved south. Northerners and Republicans looked forward to restoring their old lives through gangster politics. "
Zhi Xia sneered: "It sounds like they want to be nobles."
Dick also laughed: "This is too far-fetched. What I mean is that the prisoner in this case only imitated his own form and cannot be called very clever. He thought he was looking for an old book at a second-hand book stall. Book, tear out a piece of white paper from the 19th century, write something on the handwriting, put some orange cores in the envelope, it looks like that. In fact, this is just superfluous, judging from the content of the letter Look, this kind of racist approach is more like what the Ku Klux Klan would do from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. He simply used ordinary letter paper and pasted some words cut from newspapers to make an ordinary Don't put any orange seeds in the threatening letter, just sign it with three K's. That will really look like a member of the later Ku Klux Klan.
Well... let's go back to George's question. What's the point of him doing this
There are generally two types of prisoners who design and lay out clever plots, do a lot of obscure detail work, and proactively provide evidence to the police. The first type is just for fame. Obviously, the case before us was committed by the first type of person.
We have already analyzed and seen that this person has very strong operational and counter-reconnaissance capabilities. He can do almost every detail and put all the information and evidence he wants to convey in front of our police, even in unexpected situations. Even if he was discovered by the police, he could successfully escape.
Would it be difficult to kill Galas for such a person? The answer is definitely no. He didn't need to send any threatening letter at all. The letter was also very funny. The real Klan, I mean the kind of 19th century Klan he tried so hard to imitate, would have made demands in the letter to make the other party change their views or change their views. Leave, but the prisoner did not say anything similar. He just said, 'You nigger has violated the bottom line of our tolerance. This letter means death.' This is not a threat, it is a death declaration. According to the content of the letter, He didn't want anything from Mr. Dadan... except his life.
But why didn't he just do it? Why did he have to confirm personally across from the police station that Mr. Dadan came to us to report the crime
It's very simple. He wants us to intervene, to play games with the police, and to be reported and chased by the media like those famous criminals in history. He even wants to be mentioned by others many years later, and even written in textbooks. "
"Wait a minute..." Sizer finally couldn't help but interjected: "I only have one question. Suppose this person just wants to be famous, but generally guys like this who play games with the police for the sake of fame, don't they all come from... Did the murders begin
But he hasn't killed anyone yet, just threatened. Even if this prisoner is arrested and imprisoned tomorrow, what does threats mean? Even if the court assigns a rookie lawyer to him, it's impossible for the case to be upgraded to attempted murder, right? How many years can he be sentenced for the crime of intimidation? Three years? Five years? If the prisoner has no criminal record, he may be able to receive probation and parole. "
"It's very contradictory. I feel that if we take the case seriously, it will be in line with his wishes." George puffed out a smoke ring and said half-jokingly: "But using conventional means to deal with it also seems that we are too disrespectful to the Galas Dadan couple. His life is taken seriously."
Zhi Xia said at this time: "Just pay attention to the investigation and keep a low profile externally, just like our attitude on the serial murder case. I haven't seen how much the media has hyped that case."
Dick said: "Yes, ensuring the safety of citizens is the first priority. It is definitely wrong to sacrifice civilians just to prevent prisoners from getting what they want."
George shrugged and asked noncommittally: "I'm curious, what is the situation of the second person you just mentioned?"
Dick replied: "It's the kind of person who regards crime as a life goal or an art form. In order to complete his ideal case, it doesn't matter even if he dies. This kind of person is a madman. Of course, this second type of person is generally They all started with a murder case, followed by serial killings, and then started a game with the police. In the end, there were those who committed suicide, surrendered, were shot to death, and those who escaped justice. Basically, everyone became a notorious figure. Anyway, the intimidator we have on hand It shouldn’t fall into this second category.”
Zhi Xia said: "Let's continue talking about the evidence."
Dick nodded and collected his thoughts: "No residual saliva of the prisoner was found on the orange core, and there were no fingerprints on the letter. At present, the other party did not leave any useful evidence.
As for that head... I watched all the surveillance videos in the building where Mr. Dardan's office is located at the entrance of the Louvre. I can basically confirm that the man pretending to be a courier, the person who delivered the letter early the morning before yesterday, and George at the police station the evening before yesterday The people I met on the opposite side were all the same guy. This also supports my inference that the other party is probably only one person.
He was very bold and dared to appear in a place with many surveillance cameras like the Louvre during the day. In addition, I have to say that pretending to be a courier is probably one of the easiest disguises. Most people now have a mindset, as if a person only needs to wear a dark suit and a cap with a similar color to the clothes. It doesn’t matter what kind of logo it is on. If you hold a parcel with a label in your hand and dress it like this, it is definitely a courier. No one will ask the courier for ID. Even the doorman at the Louvre was no exception. He just signed the scrawled list and accepted the parcel.
So our intimidator arrogantly went to Mr. Dadan's workplace to deliver the parcel in person, and he succeeded.
He probably put on simple makeup, lowered the brim of his hat, and put on gloves, but he still didn't leave any facial features or fingerprints on us. "When he said this, he picked up a stack of files at hand, looked at the photos and text, and said: "The head in the package is carved from wood. It is a handmade product. It has a face similar to Dadan's and is painted with Painted with black paint, the wooden sculpture's eyes were chiseled out, and it was also covered with a white pointed hood, the kind that the Ku Klux Klan used to put on its head. There were two holes in the triangle and at the eyes. The hood just revealed the rotten eyes of the wooden sculpture. "
Putting down the information, Dick continued: "It seems that our prisoner is also good at carving. Judging from the current situation, this can be regarded as an important clue to find out his identity."
Sizer asked: "Could the prisoner be a street performer, or a down-and-out artist whose talent is not appreciated, and who can't stand academics like Dadan who receive high salaries?"
George stood up and stretched the leg he sprained yesterday: "Then we need to investigate. The origin of the orange core, the origin of the letter, and the whereabouts of the prisoner are all broken clues." He put out the cigarette butt: "I think we should follow the clues in the carvings... Wood, paint, and the clothes he wore when he was pretending to be a courier. Everything must have a source. There are still places where you can buy it."
Paper Man said: "By the way, where is Garas Dadan now?"
"He has taken a long leave, and he should be driving his wife back to her parents' home now. His wife's parents live outside the city. Mr. Dadan insisted on seeing his wife off in person. He was relieved after seeing her enter the house." Sizer said : "Don't worry, I sent a police officer to follow them in a car. He will report to me if there is any situation. After sending his wife off, Mr. Dadan will come back to cooperate with all our actions."
Before he finished speaking, Sezer's cell phone rang. He picked it up, but before he answered it, his expression changed when he saw the number...
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