While the manhunt is in progress

Chapter 686 Under the Surface
Trying to make yourself commit a crime?
Song He's words made many people puzzled, but apart from Zhou Kai who could fully comprehend the meaning of Song He's words, there were a few more or less stunned faces, including Liu Xuejun who was in charge of explaining the case .

"In this case, there is no possibility of seeking money or killing, it can only be about love and hatred." Song He explained: "But we have investigated the interpersonal relationships of the deceased and eliminated relevant suspicious persons."

"Therefore, we can be sure that the murderer and the deceased are strangers who have never met before. The reason why we chose to attack the deceased first is entirely because it is easy to succeed."

"But there is no hatred or emotional entanglement. He still gritted his teeth and endured the nausea to complete the whole process. There must be reasons behind it that are excluded from the three major motives."

After Song He triggered a new round of thinking for everyone, he put the materials he had prepared on the projection.

What appeared on the projection this time were the textual materials of some cases, and sharp-eyed people immediately discovered that these were the comparison materials between some imitation crimes and original cases that happened in the past all over the world.

"As far as most of the current imitation crimes are concerned." Song He zoomed in on the details in the comparative data and analyzed: "Almost all murderers will study the details of the original case before committing the crime for the first time, and strive to be the first to commit the crime. Fit the original case as closely as possible."

"The reason for this situation is that the murderer who committed the imitation recognized and worshiped the murderer of the original case at a psychological level, and thus completed a ceremony by means that fit the original case as much as possible."

"We all know that the original case of the Black Dahlia is because the murderer has a special emotion for the deceased, and that emotion supports the murderer's extremely cruel killing of the deceased."

"However, looking back at this imitation crime, the murderer had no emotional support in this regard, and at the same time he was unable to do what he wanted, so the massacre became a parody of making up a few more strokes after the murder."

"But in this way, there is a contradiction that cannot be explained clearly."

Song He paused as he spoke, drawing everyone's attention to himself, and then changed a few projections.

Everyone looked up, but found that it was a comparison of some traces of the crime scene in the two cases.

"Because the victim's death in the Black Dahlia case was too horrifying, we can easily ignore some other details." Song He pointed to the comparison photos of the traces in the two cases:
"Despite the differences in the deceased in the two cases, we can see that in some other aspects of the two cases, the murderer has achieved an almost perfect imitation."

As soon as Song He finished speaking, Li Xuejun, who was listening carefully, suddenly remembered that the victim's wallet and shoes were indeed found in a trash can a few kilometers away from the crime scene!
Thinking of this, Li Xuejun unconsciously began to compare the details of the two cases, and suddenly found that the facts were indeed as Song He said!
The others also thought of this one after another and looked at Song He with different expressions, waiting for his explanation.

"It seems that everyone is aware of it." Song He turned off the projector, and analyzed in a persuasive way: "From these details, this murderer is familiar with the Black Dahlia case and recognizes the murderer of the original case."

"But in this case, although he has done in-depth research on the original case and tried his best to imitate the Black Dahlia, he did not have the most critical killing process in the original case."

"This is an obvious contradiction, because without this emotional ceremony, the whole case is not so much a parody as a dress rehearsal without real emotion."

dress rehearsal?

dress rehearsal!

Those two simple words exploded in everyone's hearts like a depth bomb, causing their faces to change dramatically!

"Officer Song!" A middle-aged police officer from the Juncheng Police Station suddenly stood up, and asked in an unbelievably deep voice, "You mean the murderer will commit crimes again?"

"Very likely." Song He nodded and said, "Behind any imitation of the crime, there is actually a kind of recognition of the murderer's consciousness in the original case. People carry out imitation crimes."

"According to previous research, the probability of this opportunity is that the imitator himself encountered something similar to the murderer in the original case. In this case, it is very likely that the murderer thought his girlfriend or wife had done something similar to the murderer in the original case. act of treachery."

Police officer Juncheng's face darkened when he heard the words: "Officer Song, can you confirm the identity of the suspect as soon as possible?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next." Song He nodded to the police officer in Juncheng to sit down, and then opened the autopsy report and the photos of the deceased on the projection: "I have to say that the traces left by the murderer at the scene and around Very few, it is not convenient for us to track down."

"But after committing a crime, not all the traces can be erased, especially the deceased who was killed by him, there are clues that he can't erase anyway."

"The autopsy report mentioned that the wounds on the deceased's body were caused by hammers and saws, and there were no puncture wounds or cutting wounds caused by knives. But why are there no knife wounds?"

"Compared to hammers and saws, knives are more convenient for handling corpses, and the murderer in the original case used knives, so the murderer in this case must have his reasons for giving up tools that are more convenient than saws and hammers. "

"We must know that ordinary people cannot cook without kitchen knives, and even if there are no kitchen knives, there will always be some fruit knives and other knives in our homes."

As he spoke, Song He opened another investigation report: "This is a visit and investigation conducted by everyone on the murder weapon after the forensic doctor deduced the murder weapon based on the wounds on the deceased's body."

"Although the investigation and visits were fruitless, they searched all the hardware stores that sell tools similar to the murder weapon, and concluded that the murder weapon was purchased by the murderer a long time ago."

"That is to say, before the incident, the murderer did not specially prepare the tools for the crime out of caution and rehearsal, but just used the tools at hand to imitate the crime."

"Therefore, we can also draw a conclusion that it is not that the murderer does not want to use a knife, but that he does not have a knife."

Doubts arose in everyone's hearts again. It was obviously hard to imagine a person with a hammer and saw but no knives.

"Actually, this situation is not impossible, but we don't pay much attention to it." Song He saw what everyone was thinking and explained: "First of all, if a person owns his own house, even if he never cooks, There will also be a set of kitchen knives at home.”

"Secondly, those who rent a house and bring their families with them will most likely prepare a kitchen knife, because they don't eat out as often as they cook for themselves, and a kitchen knife is just needed for cooking."

"In the end, we can also exclude some people who are often in contact with kitchen knives and various knives. After all, these people are very comfortable with knives, and it is difficult to completely abandon the extremely convenient knives for them under the inertia of thinking."

"Therefore, only people who live in local rented houses, live alone, do not cook, and do not have much contact with knives should be the focus of our investigation."

(End of this chapter)