The place where Li Xiaonuan was found was a garbage dump. Unlike the messy scene in the photo, the place was completely unrecognizable from its previous appearance.
It is now a large shopping mall, about three blocks away from the training center. It takes less than five minutes by car. If you ride an electric three-wheeler, you can get there in ten minutes.
Walk south along this street, then turn a corner, and you will arrive at the agency where you took the Wuhonglin bus. The tricycle ride took about ten minutes, and the time of eight-fifty was very consistent with the dynamics of the murder.
Back to the training center, the boss is back.
A middle-aged man with a big belly, he didn’t expect anyone to ask about what happened more than ten years ago.
However, the visitor was a beauty or a celebrity, and the boss received her warmly.
"Teacher Jian, I've read your book. Are you taking some information from it?" He thought he had grasped the truth and said in surprise, "I didn't expect that all your cases have prototypes."
This is true.
Jian Jing smiled: "Do you still remember what happened back then?"
"Remember, after all, she is someone I know? How can I forget." The boss was indeed deeply impressed by Li Xiaonuan, "The name of the girl who died was... her name was Li Xiaonuan, right? She was thin and good-looking. Very beautiful, with two dimples on her face when she smiles.”
He fell into memories: "In 2007, I just raised money and decided to open a cram school for primary school students. I wanted to make the classroom more beautiful, so I hired someone to paint the background wall of the classroom. Then The girl is from the Academy of Fine Arts. She showed me her practice drawings. She painted well and the charge was cheap, so I decided.
"In those days, I was busy decorating and gave her the key. I would come over occasionally to take a look. Not to mention, the little girl was very serious about her work. She only had two bites of biscuits at noon and didn't even eat rice. I Feeling really sorry, I put some snacks in the store and told her not to be polite. She was embarrassed, saying that she often did this, so her stomach was very bad, and she was used to it... You said, her parents How heartbroken it is to know that children don’t care about their bodies so much... Sigh...
"To be honest, I still regret it when I think about it. I didn't expect that she would be so harmed. If I had known, I would have told her to go back to school early. She is only a twenty-year-old girl."
The boss was full of emotions and started sighing after only a few words.
Jian Jing interrupted her: "Can you tell me about the places around you before?"
"This area was just built in 2007. Our shops on this street were the first to come out. They were very cheap. I bought three of them at once for only a few hundred thousand. Now one storefront costs more than a hundred. Wan, the location is not good.”
But every man has a bad habit: he loves to show off in front of beautiful girls.
The boss was no exception and kept emphasizing his foresight: "I pretended to be early. There were not many shops on the street at that time. I remember that an Internet cafe that played games was the most popular, and then there were There’s a movie theater, a burger restaurant, and there’s a wholesale clothing store on the corner where girls come to buy clothes on weekends, and the rest are for rent.”
He showed a proud look: "These people are not very discerning. How many years will it take to make back their money when they buy a shop and wait to rent it out? Like me, I can make back my money in three years."
Jian Jing asked: "At night, there won't be many people on the street, right?"
The boss nodded slowly and said: "It gets dark early in winter. At seven or eight o'clock, there are only a few lights on this street. It's dark everywhere else. There aren't many buses, and the streets are dark." Tie Geng? It doesn’t work.”
She nodded and asked again: "What was Li Xiaonuan wearing on the last day you saw her?"
The boss didn't even think about it: "The red coat looks really nice." He paused and sighed, "I heard that he was burned? His clothes were also burned. What a sin. I don't know who has no sex. brute."
She knew it in her heart.
"Thank you for bothering me."
Coming out of the training center, Jian Jing was filled with doubts.
Li Xiaonuan's behavior is too strange.
Just think about it, in a deserted new district, there are only a few shops on the road with lights on, how could a girl get into a black car without any precautions
The roommate's confession was very clear. On the days when she was painting, Li Xiaonuan went out at 1 o'clock and came back at 6 or 7 o'clock. It was obvious that she wanted to catch the last train back.
Assuming that Li Xiaonuan really lost track of time, the first thing she would do would be to go shopping at a burger shop.
Besides, the time to buy hamburgers is 17:30.
There is a bus timetable copied by Ji Liming in the document bag. The last bus to the west of the city is at 17:50. Although it does not go to the Academy of Fine Arts, it will pass through the city center.
Jian Jing said for herself? She would definitely choose to take the bus first and then buy something to fill her stomach when she transfers to the city center.
In particular, the prices of hamburger restaurants are not cheap. The copied cashier receipt shows that a hamburger, a fried fish, and a Coke cost 28 yuan.
28 yuan in 2007.
Li Xiaonuan's family is not wealthy, otherwise he wouldn't be able to take orders part-time.
How much does it cost to buy a hamburger and then take a black car? Therefore, when Li Xiaonuan was about to pass the last train, he did not rush to catch the train but instead bought a hamburger. There is only one other explanation.
She doesn't have to worry about going back to school.
Someone?will give it to her.
who? The biggest suspect is the boss.
When he was killed, Li Xiaonuan had been painting for a week and was relatively familiar with his boss. The boss also said that he would bring her snacks, which shows that there is a foundation of trust between the two parties.
If he says it goes well, Li Xiaonuan is very likely to get in his car.
However, the police did not miss this possibility.
To be precise, he was the first person to investigate after Li Xiaonuan was killed.
But did the boss prove that he was present? He went to have dinner with people from the educational institution. The meal started at 18:00 and the meal ended after 21:00. The owner and waiter of the restaurant, as well as other people at the dinner can all testify.
This is what Ji Liming’s notes say:
A remote place, alone?, willing to get in the car, an acquaintance? (?)
Boss (xx restaurant, no? Proof of presence)
Classmate (? I haven’t heard of it)
Other acquaintances?(?)
Zhang Peiru confessed, chartered a car
Yes, the police believed at that time that although the possibility of Li Xiaonuan riding in a black car in that environment was not high, assuming it was a familiar driver, she might not relax her vigilance.
It's about a twenty-minute drive (by tricycle) from the training center to the subway station.
It was entirely possible that Li Xiaonuan wanted to take a black car to the subway station. It happened that he had taken Wu Honglin's car before and recognized him, so he got on the car.
This conjecture is reasonable and well-founded, and Jian Jing cannot find any loopholes.
But she did not have the professional standards of Ji's father and son, and she had to have evidence to prove that Wu Honglin was not the murderer.
Her current investigation is based on one principle: Is Wu Honglin the murderer? What will happen
First of all, it can be determined that the real murderer deliberately framed him. After all, no matter how unlucky a person is, it is impossible to memorize it like this. The characteristics of several cases have been encountered.
Why did he do this? He had clearly escaped the law in 2003, why did he commit the crime again in 2007? Because you can't bear it anymore? In order not to be caught by the police, he planned to find someone to take the blame when he took action
But once Wu Honglin is caught as a murderer, the murderer must not commit another crime, otherwise the blame will be self-defeating.
The scapegoat is a disposable? consumable, why are you so anxious
From 2002 to 2003, the murderer killed four people in one breath before stopping. In 2007, he couldn't hold himself back. Is killing one person enough
Jian Jing has had many dealings with serial murderers. They are naturally antisocial, like Wang Shi, who is an ordinary person, and people who get satisfaction and become addicted after killing people, like Zhu Guoliang (the murderer of the Snow Woman Corpse Case), they all have them. a characteristic.
The more you kill, the more addictive you become.
The pleasure derived from depriving others of their lives may exceed power and aphrodisiacs.
Could it be a copycat crime
No?. The size 40 shoe prints have never been made public. All news reports have the same caliber, saying only that the footprints were found.
So why does Li Xiaonuan appear like a flash in the pan
Was she silenced because she discovered the identity of the murderer? But she was 20 years old when she was killed and 15 years old in 2002. Not only was she a local of Heping City, but there was no one around her who was suspected of being the murderer.
At this moment, Jian Jing truly realized the embarrassment of this case.
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As soon as the business hall opened, Ji Feng immediately replenished his phone card and bought a new mobile phone.
After inserting the card, there are dozens of missed call text messages clogging the information channel. Most of them belong to Ji Yunyun, then Lao Gao, and also Liang Yi and Zhu Yanan.
He gasped.
Teacher Jian went to find out about his old classmates.
He hesitated for a moment and decided to call his sister first.
Ji Yunyun almost cried: "Brother!"
"Shit, I was on a business trip and my phone fell." Ji Feng said, "I made so many calls. Do I need to pay for the phone bill?"
Ji Yunyun said with a strong nasal voice: "Who told you not to call? Make a call."
"What are you thinking about?" He said in his usual mocking tone, "I'm going to do some personal things. Don't worry, if something happens to me, it's also work. If anything happens, your Uncle Gao will definitely inform you."
After a pause, he added: "You are nineteen and a college student. Don't think that you are still a child. If you have anything to do, come to me."
Ji Yunyun was angry: "You are my brother, can't I find you? OK?"
"It's annoying." Ji Feng said, "In the future, just make a phone call once a month. I won't bother to ask you for the final exam. You can figure it out yourself. If you have no money, just work by yourself. Don't ask me."
Ji Yunyun almost stopped crying: "If you don't want to be beaten, then you won't be beaten. Do you think I care about you?"
Ji Feng: "Dead."
He hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.
The next one is Lao Gao. He didn’t call and sent a WeChat message: [The phone is broken]
Lao Gao replied: [Teacher Jian has been here]
He is good]
Teacher Jian’s phone number must be called no matter what.
The first one was connected and hung up.
As expected, Ji Feng immediately hit the second one.
Still hung up.
Ji Feng sent a text message instead: [Are you busy? Then I’ll call you back]
Still no response.
That's for sure. Teacher Jian is not the one who just calls you if you say you don't want to.
So he immediately made a third call.
received.
He said angrily: "Aren't you going to turn around and hit me again?"
"Don't you think I can get through this time?" He was amused.
Then... "Beep-", she hung up.
Monsoon: Such a temper.
Hit it a fourth time.
"No? Let's play, let's be serious..."
Before he finished speaking, he stopped again.
Ji Feng sighed and resigned to his fate for the fifth time: "Don't you? Want to know the identity of the third deceased?"
"I don't think so." She said coldly, "I don't understand what the third deceased is."
Ji Fengcai didn't believe it: "The third deceased was named Liu Meng. One of her cousins was arrested some time ago. The DNA was sent to the library and matched with her sample. The purpose of my business trip this time was to check her identity. ”
She continued to pretend: "You don't have to report to me, I'm not your leader."
"Liu Meng is a magazine model. She is not pretty, but has a good figure. I have her magazine photos here and will send them to you later. She is not a local in Heping City either. Although she is a model, she is famous. It’s not that big, and the economic conditions are average.”
"uh-huh?"
"Two days ago, I found out that she had an ex-boyfriend, so I wanted to ask him about it, but what happened?" He said helplessly, "This guy is engaged in telecommunications fraud. As soon as I came to the door, his accomplices recognized me. When I came out, they attacked me immediately when the incident happened. My phone was destroyed by them. When the kid heard the news, he jumped out of the window and ran away. I was in a hurry to keep an eye on people and didn't have time to buy anything. New phone, delayed for a few days.”
"Are you done?" she asked gently, "I'm hanging up."
Ji Feng: "Okay."