Forensics

In the interrogation room, the interrogation is still going on.

During the investigation by the police, Zhao Chuanwen’s reputation was not good. He is an old man with a weird temper and no friends. He is rich but stingy. Occupying public equipment and facilities as his own, he will get angry because of a little unsatisfactory thing.

Although Wei Sen's reputation is better than his, it's not the same.

They collectively went to the supermarket to collect the wool, because they insisted on some trivial matters, which made many people dislike them.

But this Zhang Lijie is a "good man" in people's mouth.

Faced with Gu Yanchen's questioning, Zhang Lijie's chest heaved and he sat on the interrogation chair with a strange expression on his face.

He seemed to want to say something, but finally kept silent.

After a few seconds of silence, he smiled wryly: "Officer, you are still too young. People change. Maybe I was a good person in the past, but I am not now."

Gu Yanchen asked back: "So you killed the two old people? You know it's against the law!"

With tears in his eyes, Zhang Lijie said, "In the middle of the night, I suffered from insomnia. I was lying on the small crowded bed in my house. I heard my wife's snoring next to me, and I heard my son and daughter-in-law crying next door. And my grandson because Having a heart attack, being unable to breathe, and coughing non-stop, on such a night, I suddenly felt that it was meaningless for me to be a good person..."

With tears in his eyes, his face gradually turned grim: "The idea of ​​killing someone came up at that moment, I don't want to be a good person anymore!"

Gu Yanchen stood up, pressed his hands on the table and shook his head lightly: "No, this is definitely not your motive for killing! What else are you not telling the truth."

Gu Yanchen has interrogated so many prisoners, but never has an interrogation been so tiring. This kind of tiring is not on the surface, but in the heart. He clearly feels that the person in front of him is hiding something, but he just can't find out.

None of his previous interrogation strategies and interrogation methods were suitable for the person in front of him.

Gu Yanchen felt a sense of powerlessness, and he realized that he might not be able to ask the truth.

The motive for killing is not sufficient, which is the biggest flaw.

Zhao Chuanwen's negative review was made two months ago.After that bad review, they had a few more exchanges.There was nothing unusual about Zhang Lijie at that time.

Zhang Lijie had already carried a hanging rope with him. He wandered around the subway station, waiting for Zhao Chuanwen to appear. This was not a murder of passion, but a premeditated murder.

He continued to put pressure on Zhang Lijie.

Gu Yanchen asked: "Are you killing people because of money? Someone promised you that after killing them, they will give you money?"

When this question was mentioned, Zhang Lijie leaned back on the interrogation chair and burst into tears: "Officer, please let me go. I have confessed my crime, why don't you believe me?"

Gu Yanchen asked: "Have you been instigated by others, or have you listened to something? If you have a reason, you must tell the police. Only in this way can you apply for a commutation of sentence. According to your current criminal facts and confession, You will be sentenced to death."

In the past, the death penalty was enough to deter prisoners.

But Zhang Lijie shook his head with a pale face, and he gritted his teeth: "I didn't lie, there is no inside story about this matter. I killed someone, and I accept the death penalty!"

Gu Yanchen said: "Don't you think about your family? What will your wife think when he hears the news of your death sentence? What about your grandson? Don't you want to see him again?!"

When taking Zhang Lijie away, he felt that Zhang Lijie had feelings for the child.

Under the heavy pressure, Zhang Lijie collapsed. He covered his face and burst into tears. This middle-aged man was crying so embarrassingly that he couldn't make a sound.

But he still bit to death and did not let go.

In the end, he simply gave up his defense: "Officer, in short, I have already said what I should say. I will explain the specific circumstances of my murder in my statement. As for the rest, I have nothing to say. Please let me go." ,I am tired."

This scene is too weird. The police officers are desperately trying to save the prisoner in front of them, but the prisoner is eager to plead guilty and ask for sentencing.

After Zhang Lijie signed the statement, Gu Yanchen walked out of the interrogation room and came to the observation room on the side.

Shen Junci was sitting on a chair, leaning on his waist, drinking tea silently with a teacup in his hand.

Gu Yanchen sighed, and threw the file on the table beside him: "This is the result again, I still haven't found the knot behind it."

Shen Jun resigned: "You have tried your best."

Gu Yanchen felt a sense of frustration.

He sat across from Shen Junci, put his long legs on the side table, and pressed his fingers between his eyebrows.

He felt tired.

This is not the first recent case.

They have come into contact with at least three such cases.

It wasn't such a complicated and weird crime process. The prisoner had no criminal record in the past and was a first-time offender, but he used very bad killing methods to kill the old man who lived alone.

Among the murderers, there is a mother who just gave birth to her second child, a laid-off accountant who is helpful, and now Zhang Lijie, an ordinary delivery man.

These are people who would not kill under normal circumstances, but they committed cruel crimes.

It seems that at a certain moment, they were possessed by the devil.

Once they were caught, they confessed obediently and confessed to the crime, but they couldn't justify the murder motive.

It was not an impulsive killing, but a long-planned one. The murderer was calm, like the hatred that piled up bit by bit, gradually accumulated, until it reached a critical value, and after it suddenly swelled and exploded, he committed a crime.

There may be a strange monster in the hearts of the murderers, but he can't draw the psychological portrait of these murderers.

Shen Junci comforted him: "Let's go over the whole thing again and think about whether there is any missing information."

At first they remembered to investigate these cases because of what Mu Xin had said to them when he went to them that night.

According to Mu Xin, there may be deaths in Penang that people don't know about.

After Gu Yanchen reported this incident to Bureau Ding, they summarized the statistical results of the death toll in Penang in the past few years.

In those few days, Gu Yanchen immersed himself in those numbers.

People often write various numbers in their pens, but the numbers in front of him are different, because behind each number are human lives.

Gu Yanchen feels that the change of human beings is like the metabolism of cells.

Newborn babies are born and old people die. Tens of thousands of people die of natural causes in this city every year, and nearly ten million people die in the whole country. This is a huge number.

Then, he discovered something strange.

In the past few years, the number of deaths has been increasing year by year.

It was not until Director Ding took office that the growth trend began to slow down.

Then, he noticed a very unusual indicator.

That is, the number of deaths of people over the age of 70, whether it is murder, accident, or natural death, the death rate has increased by 50.00%, while the number of deaths of people aged 80 to [-] has increased by [-]%.

He began to think that this increase was due to the aging population.

But later, they compared the number of deaths of the elderly in several cities with a population similar to that of Penang, and the death rate of the elderly in these cities did not increase significantly.

People may lie, but numbers don't.

In other words, someone in the city where they lived was really murdering these old people on purpose.

Recently, Bureau D has also begun to require each sub-bureau to thoroughly investigate, register, and visit the widows and orphans in their subordinate areas.

I don't usually think about it, but after this investigation, people discovered that many of these lonely elderly people are in the blind spots of the community.Checked it out and found many problems.

It is different from those old people who have children or go to nursing homes.Many elderly people who live alone at home and have no children are living unknowingly.

One person buys vegetables, one person cooks.

When I was sick, I had few people to accompany me, so I went to the hospital alone.

Maybe before the age of 60, these things are nothing, but as the age increases, the health becomes worse and worse, and the memory becomes worse and worse.

Maybe one sleep and never wake up, maybe one fall and lose life.

They have been busy all their lives, and at the end of their death, they are like a fluffy feather.

Then the General Administration began to request each branch to track and trace the cases of these elderly deaths.

After this period of time, there were already several cases in their hands, and the more they investigated, the more weird they felt.

Looking at the several files in front of him, Gu Yanchen began to think.

Could this be the truth that Jin Yuewen discovered?

Jin Yuewen's death, the foundation, the dead old man, the murderer...

These seem to be one by one points, which can gradually be connected into a line. Someone is plotting these old people's assets?

But this is just his reasoning, without any evidence, and it seems that an important link is missing in it.

How to convince people to willingly kill for them.

Gu Yanchen was also not sure, could the key to that point be Master Meng?

Is this abetting crime?

He still remembered that in the last case, Zhao Mengan committed the unforgivable crime after being instigated, but Zhao Mengan had an evil side in his heart.

The murderers in these cases are different. Even if these murderers are not absolutely good people, they are at least ordinary people.

Even with the temptation of money, normal people know that there is a price to pay for killing people.

Instigate, brainwash, and manipulate people's hearts, these words are very simple to say, but it is very difficult to do it, especially to wash the brains of so many people.

Killing people is different from pyramid schemes. After all, pyramid schemes are just for money. People have their own moral values, so it is difficult to commit murder.

It's like someone said, "I can make you kill someone willingly."

Most people will definitely scoff when they hear such words, thinking it is a fantasy.

So, what kind of power is it that can make a normal person lose his mind and become a devil?What made them become dead men who kill people without batting an eyelid, and face the death penalty calmly after killing people, and still keep secrets tight-lipped?

Gu Yanchen frowned and thought.

If they don't know the facts behind these cases and the motives behind these people's murders, they will not be able to learn the truth, let alone prevent more murders from happening.

During the period of Gu Yanchen's thinking, Shen Junci sat quietly at the side. He lowered his head and took another sip of tea, then raised his head and said, "I have some ideas..."

Gu Yanchen listened attentively to what he said, when he felt that he had reached a dead end, listening to other people's thoughts might help him open his mind.

Shen Junci rubbed the rim of the cup with his slender fingers.

"First of all, I think that the idea of ​​these people to kill comes from their hearts. So this should not be ordinary hiring murder or buying murder. In other words, these people are all willing to kill."

Gu Yanchen nodded in agreement.

During the interrogation of these murderers, he could draw conclusions.

Suspects have initiative, the deceased is their selected target, the method of crime and the time of crime are all decided by themselves. For the deceased, they have obvious guilt, and they also know that killing is the price to pay.

"I feel that they have been brainwashed. After brainwashing, they regard killing as one of their missions, as a solution to problems, or even..."

Shen Junci paused at this point, he desperately searched for words in his mind to describe that weird feeling.

He was silent for a moment and said: "Take it as the work they should complete, just like an employee, completing his own KPI."

After saying these sensational words, Shen Junci's handsome face was calm.

Gu Yanchen pondered, and he also noticed this. When he mentioned whether someone hired murderers for money, those people neither refuted nor agreed.

This is different from the reaction given by those murderers hired by money to kill.

Those hired killers will show an emotion even inadvertently: so what if the murder breaks the law?At least I got paid extra.

But there was nothing like this in the reactions of these murderers.

That is to say, in their words, there is no sense of predatory killing for money.

So this is by no means simply hiring murderers.

Gu Yanchen also couldn't describe the strange feeling, as if, even if money was generated from their murder, it was also their labor income, which was logical and as it should be.

Shen Junci probably felt the same way, that's why he used the term "killing KPI".

Shen Junci continued: "From the information we have so far, the murderers are ordinary people who are not rich. I think they will want to do something to improve their lives."

Gu Yanchen followed his train of thought and analyzed: "Then they may go to some parties, participate in some activities, or... find a part-time job because of friends' introductions."

Shen Junci nodded and said: "You are right. I don't think these people became murderers by accident. They must have experienced something, became what they are now, and did these things, so we have A method can be verified..."

When Gu Yanchen heard this, he reacted, his brows stretched, and his eyes were deep.

"We can go through what they went through."

Shen Junci nodded.

That's the best way to figure out what's going on.