Criminal Investigation Notes

In the dark night, after hastily handing over to his colleagues, Lu Junchi ran into the alleyway, and the current time is already [-]:[-].

He knew it might be too late this time, and he didn't like the result of trying his best but failing to save people, but he had to accept it.There are not only wins in life, but also losses. He must face up to this situation. They can't save everyone.

Only by catching the murderer can the lost life be comforted.

Xia Mingxi's voice came from the headset: "Team Lu... This live broadcast is over, and the next live broadcast will be an hour later."

It's time for a live break.

As the night grew darker, Lu Junchi stopped while panting. The strenuous exercise made him feel like his lungs were about to explode when he breathed, his heart was beating fast, and the sweat left on his forehead was dripping down his hair.

Even a person like him who has been exercising feels that his limbs have begun to feel weak at this time, his muscles are sore, and he feels that he is about to reach his limit.

Lu Junchi wiped his sweat and looked up. In the dark night, the surrounding area was extremely quiet. There were already few residents in the vicinity. These were a few isolated houses awaiting demolition, which looked like haunted houses.

A light on the second floor suddenly turned on, emitting a faint light, like a firefly in the dark night.

Qi Zhengyang poked his head out from the second floor of the built building, and shouted to him in a muffled voice: "Captain Lu, we found it."

Lu Junchi expected the answer in his heart, but he still raised his head and asked, "What is it?"

Qi Zhengyang said in a muffled voice: "The corpse was hanged, so the death can be confirmed." He paused and asked again, "Should we wait for the forensic doctor to come or should we take a look first?"

"Let me take a look first. Didn't you see the murderer?"

"When we found this place, the lights were turned off, no one was there, and there was only one dead body in the house."

Qi Zhengyang took Wang Xunan to check each room. As soon as he entered this building, he heard a sound upstairs. After entering, he found that it was much colder than the outside. After taking a closer look, he found that the window hanging in front of the inner room dead body.

Since the house is self-built, although it has two floors, it is very low, and each room is very small, basically only a double bed can be placed.Lu Jun walked up the stairs three steps later: "The next live broadcast will be an hour later."

Unfinished buildings, demolished houses, and Wanhu City are so big, they don't know where the next live broadcast will be. Once the live broadcast starts, it will be a new chase.

Qi Zhengyang led Lu Junchi into the house and showed him.

As soon as Lu Junchi entered that room, he felt a gust of cold wind rushing towards his face. There was an old cheap air conditioner in this crappy room that could only cool down, making a loud noise that was hard to ignore.

Perhaps because it is too old, the air conditioner has not been disassembled.It's a little strange that the air conditioner is on now, and the cooling effect is not bad.

Lu Junchi glanced at the air conditioner on the wall, the number on it showed 18°C, the air conditioner was obviously turned on extremely low.

He turned his head and asked Qi Zhengyang again: "Is this how you came in?"

Qi Zhengyang said: "It didn't move at all. The door was closed when we first came in, and the temperature in the room was lower than it is now. We didn't see the remote control either."

Wang Xunan was also in the room. When he saw Lu Junchi coming in, he hurriedly stepped aside. He had seen too few corpses, so he dared not go forward from afar.

This is an empty residential house with a narrow interior and poor lighting. It was probably rented by a group in the past, or a family lived here, and graffiti left by children with pencils can be seen on the wall.

Almost all the furniture in the house was emptied, only some sundries were left in the corner, but luckily the electricity was still on.

Under the dim light, the indoor environment is very similar to the live broadcast room in the video just now.

At this time, on the curtain rod in the room, hung the corpse of a young male. He was wearing the high school uniform of Wanhu No. [-] Middle School, a white shirt, black trousers, and was blindfolded with a black cloth. hanging.It looks exactly like the video.

The body was hanged, and there was a thick climbing rope around the neck. Even though the air conditioner was turned on, the smell of the dead was mixed with the musty smell left by the previous owner.

Lu Jun had been running for too long, and he was exercising vigorously just now. At this time, he felt a little bit exhausted, and was blown by the cold wind. He felt a little sick when he smelled this smell. He suppressed the feeling hard, and asked with a frown, "Can you confirm the identity of the deceased?" ?”

Qi Zhengyang shook the flashlight in his hand on the young man's head again: "I compared the photos, it should be Tao Yingxu, and the rest will have to wait for the forensic examination to confirm the identity."

Lu Junchi frowned: "I just asked the gangsters at the entrance of the alley that someone asked them to guard here. Guess who it is?"

Qi Zhengyang froze for a moment, he tried his best to guess unexpectedly, and pointed his flashlight upwards: "No...is it him?"

Lu Junchi nodded his head.

Qi Zhengyang frowned tightly, did the victim find someone to block the entrance of the alley to prevent the police from coming in to save him?This matter is too weird: "Is it possible to make a mistake?"

Lu Junchi had guessed many possibilities before. Is the little gangster lying, or is the live broadcast killing tonight directed and acted by himself?But it seems that these answers are still not coherent, and some details are somewhat contradictory.

"The yellow hair said that it was Tao Yingxu who communicated with him on the Internet, maybe... someone used his account?" Lu Junchi stretched out his hand to touch the ankle of the corpse, but he froze for a moment.

Qi Zhengyang saw that his expression was wrong, so he also reached out to touch it.

The body was cool and stiff.

Without a forensic doctor, they can make a preliminary conclusion that such a corpse obviously cannot be left behind by the live broadcast that ended a few minutes ago.The stiffness of the corpse is at least several hours after death.

Lu Junchi quickly took a few photos of the scene and saved them in his mobile phone. Qi Zhengyang said, "Call the forensic doctor and the material appraisal." Then he ignored Su Hui's number to report to Bureau Tan. Confirm this information.

Su Hui was about to come out of the office when he answered the call from Lu Junchi.

"I found something here."

"I have something to tell you..."

The two of them spoke in unison.

Su Hui said, "You speak first."

Only then did Lu Junchi recount the process of discovering the body in the house to be demolished just now, and then said: "I think this thing is a bit strange now. What is the murderer's purpose for doing this?"

Su thought about it for a moment and said, "Maybe the golden cicada escaped its shell."

Lu Junchi asked, "How?"

Su Hui analyzed: "Compared to burning to death or drowning, hanging himself is easier to disguise. In the live video just now, the murderer may have done some tricks. He wants you to think that the person who died in the live broadcast just now was Tao Yingxu."

"How did the murderer do it?" Lu Junchi frowned. He had been on his way just now and didn't see the complete video.

"Tao Yingxu may have died here a few hours ago, and in the live broadcast just now, someone pretended to be Tao Yingxu. In the third live broadcast, the victim was blindfolded and his mouth was pressed. At that time, we It is easy to identify him as Tao Yingxu based on his hairstyle and the birthmark on his forehead. But birthmarks are easy to disguise. Find a boy with similar age, height, body shape and hairstyle, and draw a birthmark on his forehead is enough to confuse people.”

The video is broadcast live and cannot be edited or recorded.

The problematic one may be the black screen of less than 1 minute at the end.

This means that in the short period of time just now, someone took advantage of the blind spot in the shooting to cheat.

Lu Junchi looked carefully at the forehead of the deceased. There was a red birthmark on it. They first identified Tao Yingxu's identity based on the birthmark on his forehead during the live broadcast.

If this corpse is Tao Yingxu, who was the person in the live broadcast just now?

Lu Junchi suddenly understood why there were people guarding outside to prevent them from entering, the purpose was for the smooth progress of the live broadcast.

Once the delay is longer, the later the police discover this, it will be misleading because of such information.

Then contacting the air conditioner that has been turned on all the time, it is very likely that the forensic doctor will misjudge the death time of the corpse.

The killer wanted to confuse them and hide the truth.

Su Hui analyzed: "During the later stage of execution, the murderer turned to the real corpse with the help of the black screen and camera transition. He may not have thought that you would find the live broadcast location so early and discover Tao Yingxu's corpse."

He coughed twice and continued: "If the police hadn't been so quick and dragged on until tonight, with the video and the air conditioner on to delay the decay of the corpse, they might have misjudged the time and mistook it for the third case." At the scene of the crime, this is probably one of the murderer's goals."

Lu Junchi finally figured it out: "That said, it can be explained by the murderer having to pretend to kill Tao Yingxu in the video just now, because he needs to let everyone think that Tao Yingxu also died in the live broadcast. Pretending to be Tao Yingxu at the beginning of the live broadcast Man, may not be dead!"

It turned out that this time, they didn't fail in time, but the case had already happened.Thinking of this, Lu Junchi suddenly felt a lot less frustrated in his heart.

The case was too complicated, and he felt like facing an onion, peeling the truth layer by layer. Up to now, it is still unknown what the murderer's criminal motive is.

"Is the forensic doctor here yet?" Su Hui suddenly remembered something, and asked again.

Lu Junchi said: "It will take a while before I can come over. Today is a tight schedule. Tell me. I'll see if I can take a look first."

Su Hui followed Qiao Ze downstairs, and said on the phone, "Okay, then describe the corpse to me."

Lu Junchi looked at the corpse hanging in mid-air: "The corpse is male, hanged to death, there are strangle marks on his neck, and he has become cold and stiff."

Su Hui sorted out the truth intently: "According to the time, he is not the deceased in the third live broadcast, he is the first victim."

Lu Junchi nodded: "Yes, the timeline has been reset by blindfolding."

Su coughed a few times: "Help me see if there are any rope marks on the corpse's shoulders, chest, abdomen, and waist." Many inferences can only be made after seeing the corpse.

Lu Junchi climbed onto the window sill, and carefully unbuttoned the victim's body, revealing the victim's pale skin.

Lu Junchi examined it carefully, and there were indeed some small dark red marks on the body as Su Hui said.He replied to Su: "There are some traces, what do these traces represent?"

Su Hui explained: "That's the trace of the rope being strangled. There is a hanging method that can make people look like hanging, but in fact, the load-bearing part is at the waist. They have practiced this process repeatedly."

The amount of information is a bit large, Lu Junchi frowned and thought about Su Hui's words: "I seem to have seen this method in film and television dramas before. In other words, the murderer deceived him at first, making him think that this hanging method is safe, Changed the way the ropes were loaded during the experiment and hanged him?"

"The murderer took advantage of this to finally paralyze him and let him be hanged." Having said this, Su Hui coughed a few times and continued, "I suspect that those students were deceived. In conjunction with acting, that is to say, in the original plan, tonight may be a prank. At the beginning, they didn't know that they would be killed for real."

Lu Junchi stood on the window sill and observed carefully again: "There are some traces of dust on the curtain rod, and it can be seen that the rope has been moved."

The clues were immediately matched. During the 1 minute of the black screen, the murderer used the rope to switch positions.

Su replied: "The murderer may have promised the teenagers that this is an act of justice, everything in the live broadcast is fake, and their lives will not be in danger, so those children will willingly accompany him to perform. The kidnappers may not exist, and the children had already come to those rooms in advance, waiting for the anchor to appear. They cooperated with the performance, so before they died, they did not suffer, nor did they show any frightened expressions."

Lu Junchi sighed, and jumped down from the window sill: "Unfortunately, the murderer has already killed Tao Yingxu, and secretly replaced the props. The flames are real, and the flooding is also real. They will not let them die until the moment of death." Discover the truth, but by then, it was already too late."

Su Hui added: "But some of them are just our reasoning, you still need to find evidence."

Lu Junchi said: "I understand..."

He clearly understood that although the story Su Hui told was cruel and bizarre, it was very likely to be the truth.

He reasoned along the train of thought, "There are various indications that Tao Yingxu may be the original planner of this webcast. Kill Tao Yingxu in advance so that the murderer can carry out the plan according to his ideas. Turn all illusions into Fact. This case is according to the murderer’s plan. The police may find that Tao Yingxu is the mastermind at the end of the investigation, and Tao Yingxu is also dead. The murderer wants to escape the responsibility of the chief criminal..."

At the gate of Wanhu No. [-] Middle School, the police car to pick them up finally arrived. Su Hui and Lu Junchi said, "I'll go to the hospital to meet Mo Xiuxiu first, and ask her about her actual situation."