Ji Feng was so bad-mouthed that he had to make the sixth, seventh, and eighth phone calls
Intermittently, the third case was finally explained.
Let’s review some knowledge points: The third corpse-burning case occurred in Heping City. It snowed lightly that day, and the murderer left tire marks on his car.
The body of the deceased was burned beyond recognition, but the forensic doctor still extracted DNA from the internal organs and preserved it. At the end of December this year, Liu Meng's cousin was arrested for negligent wounding. After collecting DNA, it was found that it matched the unknown female corpse No. 3 in the database.
Ji Feng first went to see her cousin and got some fragmentary news.
"My third uncle's daughter is indeed missing. We only heard about it later. Her mother died early. My third uncle is a gambler. He plays cards every day and never cares about the children. In 2008 During the Chinese New Year, my mother asked him where Xiaomeng was and why she didn’t go home. He said that she went to Taiwan to be the wife of a rich man and didn’t care about him. "
The cousin confessed: "My biological father didn't care, so of course we didn't take it seriously. Although I never saw her in the future, I thought she disliked us poor relatives and didn't want to have anything to do with her gambling father." "Comrade police, if you don't say she is dead, we still don't know."
Her family couldn't find out, so they had to go to her hometown to ask.
Liu Meng's father was still there, and Ji Feng went there by chance. This man was being detained for drunk driving, so he asked questions directly at the detention center.
"That girl? How do I know where she went to make a fortune." Father Liu spat with disdain on his face, "She has always been against me since she was a child. After her mother died, she has been making fun of me all day long. I'm her father! He told her to stay in her hometown and get married early. She had to go out and mess around, and she ran away with who knows what stinky man. She didn't even give me a penny. Damn it, I should go to France. The hospital accused her of being unfilial and refused to pay her alimony.”
Ji Feng: "Around 2007, what was Liu Meng doing? Do you know anyone familiar with him?"
Father Liu: "How could I know that? She didn't say anything to me anyway."
"Does anyone know more about her situation?"
Father Liu: "Did this girl commit a crime?"
Ji Feng: "Liu Meng was killed and burned at the end of December in 2007."
Father Liu was silent.
After a while, he said: "She has a cousin who seemed to have defected to her at the beginning. You should ask her."
Ji Feng went to find his cousin again.
My cousin was married and opened a nail salon. She was also surprised when the news about Liu Meng's murder came to her.
"I thought Xiaomeng and her boyfriend left, but actually..." Her eyes turned red, "Who did it?"
Ji Feng asked: "Did you and Liu Meng have close contacts at that time? Who did she usually associate with?"
His cousin told him that Liu Meng came to Heping City and had a hard time at first. She only has a junior high school education and can't find a good job. What she does most is handing out leaflets on the roadside and dressing up as dolls in amusement parks. She also lives in a group rented house with more than a dozen people, and her life is a mess.
Fortunately, she met an agent later. Although he was harsh and liked to take advantage of others, he found her a job as a model.
Liu Meng is tall, thin, handsome, and works hard. He quickly got some opportunities, his life gradually improved, and he even got a boyfriend.
"In 2007, she told me that her boyfriend wanted to go to Vietnam for development. He said there were many opportunities there and he wanted her to go with him. She was a little hesitant. Officer, my little one had a bad fate. My mother left early. Her father is a bastard. She really wants to have a family of her own. If the man is willing to marry her, she will be moved. "
My cousin sighed and lamented: "At the end of 2008, I went back to my hometown and wanted to ask her if she would reply, but the phone call couldn't be reached. I thought she had gone abroad and didn't contact us because she was afraid of being discovered by her father. Caught up and asked her for money."
Ji Feng asked her the identity of her boyfriend.
Go find your boyfriend again.
This man had indeed been to Vietnam, made a small fortune, and lost it all. He returned to China in 2018 and recruited people to engage in telecommunications fraud. When Ji Feng came to the door, the limelight was on the rise. When they saw him alone, they immediately acted cruelly.
Then he was served.
The remaining accomplices ran into the deep mountains and forests, hoping to hide from the limelight. Who knew that Ji Feng was coming for him, tracking them all the way into the mountains to arrest them.
Liu Meng's boyfriend was successfully arrested.
He said: "I don't know where Liu Meng has gone. I was with her a few years ago. It's almost twenty years ago. If you want to ask, you shouldn't ask me."
"Liu Meng is dead. He died at the end of 2007." Ji Feng frightened him with a single word, "Do you think I should ask you?"
Boyfriend: "It wasn't me! I didn't hurt her!! She dumped me."
Then, without waiting for Ji Feng to ask, the bamboo tube poured out all the information: "I asked her if she wanted to go to Vietnam to make a fortune, and she said no. If she doesn't go, I'll break up."
Ji Feng hehe: "Who knows whether you want to make a fortune or run away."
The boyfriend realized that he was taking the blame and continued to explain: "It's really not me. I made an agreement with a few friends and told them about this in October. If you don't believe me, just ask. I didn't run away. Besides, I will kill her." Picture what?"
"Don't you two have any conflicts?"
"No, Liu Meng is fine." This was an unexpected answer.
"He is capable and virtuous. During those years when I was working in an Internet cafe, he often came to see me and cooked for me. I couldn't bear to let her go, but a man has to do something. I can't be a network administrator for the rest of my life, right? It's just right. A classmate who was doing well in Vietnam asked me to come over and help him, and I was moved. "
Ji Feng thought to himself, your career is quite "special".
"I wanted her to go with me, but Liu Meng was very hesitant. Only then did she stand firm. Being a model is not easy. The agent always took advantage of her. She suffered a lot and didn't want to give up halfway. I understood her, and later she If they didn’t contact me, I just gave up and bought my own ticket and left.”
"Besides you, does Liu Meng have any familiar friends?"
"There is a cousin who treats her well and often invites her to eat at home. She doesn't have a good relationship with her roommate, and she always quarrels over trivial matters. There is also an agent. It must be him. He has taken a liking to Liu Meng. He wants to be strong. She refused and harmed people.”
In order to clear himself of suspicion, the boyfriend racked his brains and thought about it for a long time. He finally dug up Liu Meng's agency at that time in the depths of his memory. He also said that the agent's surname was Li, so he would definitely remember it correctly.
Monsoon notes.
He didn't actually suspect his boyfriend. First, judging from the visa, this person went to Vietnam in January 2008 and had no connection with the fourth case in February. Secondly, this person wears 43 shoes, and his driver’s license was taken only after he came back in 18 years.
In 2002?, he might not be able to drive at all.
Will the agent be suspicious
Ji Feng said: "This man is in Beijing. I will go over there and tell you the result."
After a pause, he said again: "Answer the phone? Ah, don't hang up on me."
"You don't have to call." Unable to see through the phone, Jian Jing's eyes almost rolled to the sky. When you asked him before, he wouldn't tell you, but now he says it so happily, but he refuses to listen, which makes you mad.
Ji Feng: "I know you're curious."
"I'm not curious."
"Five cases, three victims came out. What do you think? No?" He asked, without waiting for her answer, and said to himself, "I think the murderer was not a randomly selected victim. He must be related to these people." I have had contact with them and learned about their situation.”
Jian Jingqing couldn't help but added: "Li Xiaonuan is very strange."
Wang Zihui, Liu Meng, and Li Xiaonuan are not locals of Heping City, but Wang Zihui and Liu Meng both came to work. Although they are about the same age as the first two, their parents would not care even if they could not be contacted for a while.
Li Xiaonuan is a student. If she doesn't show up for a long time, her roommates will be surprised and the counselor will ask questions.
"After 5 years?, something must have happened." Ji Feng asked, "What do you think?"
Jian Jing looked down at her notes and said, "I care about one thing very much."
"Why did the murderer choose winter?" She said bluntly, "It's the twelfth lunar month of winter. Isn't it too cold to take off your pants? Several girls are not wearing revealing clothes. It's too far-fetched to say that they were motivated by sex."
Monsoon: "No trace of sexual assault has been found so far."
“It’s even more unreliable to ask for money,” she said. “They don’t have much money at first glance.”
Monsoon agrees.
In this case, the psychological motivation of the murderer has been difficult to define. Everyone has different opinions on whether the burning of the body was motivated by hatred or purely to destroy evidence.
He first ruled out robbery. The financial conditions of the deceased were not good, and they tended to hate women, but he was not sure.
"Actually, I didn't think much about the motive." Jian Jing pondered, "I just think the time in winter is weird. Is it appropriate to burn corpses in such a cold weather?"
Ji Feng pondered: "Indeed, although the weather is dry and the fire burns quickly, the clothes are all burned together... It is not easy to burn the coat, and there is still a smell."
Summer clothes are mostly made of cotton and linen and have less smell. Winter clothes are thicker, whether wool or chemical fiber, and the smell is definitely stronger.
Isn't the murderer afraid that the smell will attract passers-by and discover the body in advance
"The frequency of crimes is also wrong." He said, "The front is densely packed, but the distance behind is getting longer."
Jian Jing sighed.
Everything about this case is strange, but looking left and right, it looks like a tortoise shrinking into its shell, but I can't find any flaws.
bother.
Feeling annoyed and stubborn, she couldn't bear to fight with Ji Feng anymore: "I have to dig this guy out."
After cutting off the call, she walked to the window and looked at the gray sky in the distance.
All cases are like this on winter nights, why
Jian Jing was still thinking about this until she went to bed, and ended up having a messy dream all night. When she woke up, she felt exhausted, but she couldn't remember the content at all.
A fine drizzle of snow was falling outside.
The heater was on at home, so it was certainly warm, but Jian Jing couldn't stay any longer and decided to take the knight downstairs for a walk.
It's snowing, so you don't need to hold an umbrella and take a leisurely walk along the riverside path.
Thoughts were scattered again.
Winter in Heping City is usually around freezing, and occasionally it can drop to minus 7 or 8 degrees, which is so damp and cold that it is impossible to survive without turning on the heating.
There is not much rain, but it snows several times every two or three years. Occasionally, there is extremely strong cold air, and drifting snow is also common.
There is a big temperature difference between inside and outside, and whether the body is kept indoors or outdoors, the time of death detected will differ by several days.
No matter how she thought about it, Jian Jing felt that temperature was the most critical.
But burning the corpse took one more step.
She frowned.
"Chichi", the knight walked in front, stepping on the thin snow with his paws, leaving muddy footprints.
Rut marks.
Footprints.
snow.
Time of death.
Time... She stopped suddenly and immediately took out her mobile phone to make a call.
Beep, it will be connected in a moment.
Ji Feng asked: "I just wanted to call you? What's wrong?"
Jian Jing said: "I have a guess."
"you say."
"The murderer chose to attack in winter, probably to interfere with the time of death."
Ji Feng has also thought about this and is not surprised: "It's very possible."
"In addition to destroying corpses and eliminating traces, burning corpses also has another function." She said, "Creating an alibi."
He repeated: "Alibi?"
"Have you ever thought that maybe Li Xiaonuan didn't die in the evening." Jian Jing's thoughts suddenly opened up, "The time of her death was entirely determined by the contents of her stomach and the heavy snow."
On the other end of the phone, Ji Feng softly said "hmm" in his heart, and two words popped into his mind.
trick.