Criminal Investigation Notes

In the dark night, after hurriedly handing over to his colleagues, Lu Junchi ran into the alleyway, and it was already 10:05.

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

Only by catching the murderer can we console the lost lives.

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

It's time for the live broadcast again.

The night was getting darker, Lu Junchi gasped and stopped, the vigorous exercise made him feel like his lungs were about to explode when he was breathing, his heart was beating fast, and the sweat on his forehead dripped down his hair.

Even someone like him who has been exercising all the time feels that his limbs are starting to become weak, his muscles are sore, and he feels that he is approaching the limit.

Lu Junchi wiped his sweat and looked up. In the dark night, the surroundings were extremely quiet. There were already few residents nearby. These were a few isolated houses to be demolished, which looked like haunted houses.

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

Qi Zhengyang stuck his head out from the second floor of the building, and shouted to him in a dull voice, "Team Lu, found it."

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

Qi Zhengyang muttered: "The corpse was hanged, so it can be confirmed as dead." He paused and asked again, "Wait for the forensic doctor to come or should we take a look first?"

"I'll take a look first. Didn't you see the murderer?"

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

Qi Zhengyang took Wang Xunan to check them one by one. As soon as he entered the building, he heard a voice upstairs. After entering, he found that it was much colder than the outside. Then he took a few more glances and found that the back room was hanging in front of the window. corpse.

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

Unfinished buildings, demolished houses, Wanhu City is 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 room and pointed it out to him.

As soon as Lu Junchi entered the room, he felt a cold wind blowing towards his face. There was an old cheap air conditioner that could only cool down in this dilapidated room. It made such a loud noise that it was hard to ignore.

Maybe because it is too old, the air conditioner has not been disassembled. Somewhat strangely, 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 running extremely low.

He turned his head and asked Qi Zhengyang again: "Is this what you were like when 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, and when he saw Lu Junchi come in, he hurriedly moved away. He had seen too few corpses, so he didn't dare to go forward when he saw it from a distance.

This is an empty residential house, the interior is narrow and the lighting is not good. It was probably rented by a group, or a family lived here. On the wall, you can see the graffiti left by the children with pencils.

Almost all the furniture in the house was emptied, except for some sundries left in the corners. Fortunately, the electricity has not been stopped.

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 house, the body of a young man was hanging. He was wearing a high school uniform of Wanhu No. 1 Middle School, a white shirt, black trousers, blindfolded by a black cloth, taped to his mouth, and his limbs hanging. It looks the same as in the video.

The corpse was hanged, with a thick climbing rope around its neck. Although the air conditioner was turned on, the smell of the dead and the musty smell left by the previous owner were still mixed together.

Lu Jun had been running for a long time late, and was exercising vigorously just now. At this time, he felt a little out of strength. He was blown by the cold wind and felt a little disgusted by the smell. He suppressed the feeling and asked with a frown, "Can you confirm the identity of the deceased? ?"

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

Lu Junchi frowned: "I just asked the gangster who stopped at the entrance of the alley. Someone asked them to stay here. Guess who?"

Qi Zhengyang was stunned for a moment, he tried to guess unexpectedly, and pointed the flashlight up: "No...is it him?"

Lu Jun nodded late.

Qi Zhengyang's brows also wrinkled tightly. The victim asked someone to block the entrance of the alley and prevent the police from coming in to save the person? This thing is too weird: "Is it possible that I made a mistake?"

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

"That Huang Mao said that Tao Yingxu communicated with him on the Internet, maybe... someone used his account?" Lu Junchi spoke and reached out to touch the ankle of the corpse, but he was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Qi Zhengyang reached out and touched it.

The corpse was cool and stiff.

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

Lu Junchi quickly took a few pictures of the scene and stored them in his mobile phone, and Qi Zhengyang said, "Call the forensic doctor and the forensic evidence." Confirm this information.

Su Hui was about to come out of the office when he picked up a 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 retell the story of the discovery of the body in the house to be demolished just now, and then said, "I think this is a bit strange now, what is the purpose of the murderer doing this."

Su recalled for a moment and said, "Maybe Jin Chan escaped."

Lu Jun asked lately, "How do you say it?"

Su Hui analyzed: "Compared to burning and drowning, hanging 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 had not seen the full 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 stuck his mouth. We were at that time. It was 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 of the same age, height, body type and hairstyle, and put a birthmark on his forehead, it is enough to confuse people."

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

The problem may be the black screen for less than a minute at the end.

This means that in the short period of time just now, someone took advantage of the blind spot for stealing.

Lu Junchi looked carefully at the deceased's forehead, and there was a red birthmark on it. They initially determined Tao Yingxu's identity based on the birthmark on the forehead during the live broadcast.

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

Lu Junchi suddenly understood why some people were standing outside to prevent them from entering, in order to make the live broadcast go smoothly.

The longer it drags on, the later the police find out about it, and it will be misleading because of such information.

Contacting the air conditioner that has been on all the time is very likely to cause the forensic doctor to misjudge the time of death of the body.

The murderer wanted to confuse them and hide the truth.

Su Hui's analysis: "In the later execution process, the murderer turned to the real corpse with the help of the black screen and the switch of the camera. He may not have thought that you would find the live broadcast location so early and found Tao Yingxu's body."

He coughed twice and continued: "If the police hadn't been so quick and delayed until tonight, there was a video, and the air conditioner was on to delay the decomposing of the body, it would probably have misjudged the time and mistaken it for the third case. At the scene of the crime, this is probably one of the murderer's goals."

Lu Junchi finally clarified: "Then, the murderer must pretend to kill Tao Yingxu in the video just now, because he needs to make everyone think that Tao Yingxu also died in the live broadcast. At the beginning of the live broadcast, pretending to be Tao Yingxu People may not be dead!"

It turned out that this time, it was not that they could not make it in time, but that the case had already happened. Thinking of this, Lu Junchi suddenly felt much less frustration in his heart.

This case is too complicated. He feels like facing an onion, peeling off the truth layer by layer. Until now, it is still unknown what the murderer's motive was.

"Has the forensic doctor come yet?" Su Hui suddenly remembered something and asked again.

Lu Jun said lately, "It will take a while before I can rush over. Today is very short, tell me, I'll see if I can take a look first."

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

Lu Junchi looked at the corpse hanging in the air: "The corpse was a male, hanged to death, there are streaks on the neck, and it has become cold and stiff."

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

Lu Jun nodded slowly: "Yes, the timeline has been reset by a trick."

Su Hui coughed a few times: "Help me see if the shoulders of the corpse, as well as the chest, abdomen, and waist, have some streaks on the ropes." A lot of reasoning requires seeing the corpse to proceed.

Lu Junchi climbed up to the windowsill, and he carefully unbuttoned the victim's body, revealing the victim's pale skin.

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

Su Hui explained: "That is the trace of the rope. There is a way of hanging that can make people look like they are hanging, but in fact, the part that bears the force is at the waist. They have practiced this process repeatedly."

The amount of information is a bit large, and Lu Junchi frowned and thought about Su Hui's words: "I seem to have seen this method in a movie and TV drama before. That is to say, the murderer deceived him at first, making him think that this way of hanging is safe, Did you change the way the rope was stressed during the test and hang him?"

"The murderer took advantage of this and finally paralyzed him and made him hang." Having said that, Su Hui coughed a few times and continued, "I suspect that those students were deceived. In conjunction with the acting, which is to say, in the original plan, it might have been a prank tonight. At the beginning, they didn't know they were going to be killed for real."

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

The clues were right at once. In the minute when the screen was black, the murderer used the push rope to steal the pillars.

Su Hui said: "The murderer may have promised the teenagers, this is a just act, everything in the live broadcast is fake, they will not be in danger of life, so those children will willingly accompany him to perform. The kidnappers may not exist, and the children had come to those rooms in advance, waiting for the anchor to show up. The performance was performed together, so before dying, they did not suffer or show panic."

Lu Junchi sighed and jumped off the window sill: "Unfortunately, the murderer had already killed Tao Yingxu and changed the props secretly. The truth was discovered, but by then, it was too late."

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

Lu Jun said lately, "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 line of thought, "All indications now show that Tao Yingxu may be the original planner of this live webcast. Only by killing Tao Yingxu in advance can the murderer implement the plan according to his ideas. Turn all illusions into Fact. This case is according to the murderer's plan. The police finally find out that Tao Yingxu is in charge, and Tao Yingxu is already dead. The murderer wants to escape the responsibility of the main culprit..."

At the gate of Wanhu No. 1 Middle School, the police car to pick them up finally arrived. Su Hui and Lu Jun said lately, "I'll rush to the hospital to see Mo Xiuxiu first and ask her about her actual situation."