My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 28 Another case

Human nature has a greedy side.

Since it can be done by one person and two people just to be on the safe side, why does it take four people to do it?

Thirty million yen seems like a large amount of money, but if it is divided among four people, it only amounts to 7.5 million yen per person, which is not enough.

According to the living price level in Tokyo, if you live a normal life and are not extravagant at all, this amount of money is enough to live for three years, and you have to smoke many cigarettes.

Now that you say it, 7.5 million yen is not much.

If you are really kidnapping a victim for ransom, you will definitely investigate the financial situation of the other person's family in advance and whether they are able to pay the ransom.

If you don't have the financial strength to pay a ransom, no matter how much you threaten, the other person's parents won't be able to pay it.

Obviously, the circumstances of this case did not meet this requirement. The kidnappers did not know much about the financial situation of the Inoue family.

so……

After listening to Aoki Song's words, Megure Police Department showed a thoughtful expression on his face, "You mean, the victim may have accidentally encountered the kidnapper committing another crime, and was discovered by the prisoner, so he kidnapped her.

After kidnapping the victim, they learned from her mouth that her family had money, so they started to blackmail them. But because the victims saw their faces, the kidnappers were not prepared to keep the victims alive from the beginning."

Miwako Sato frowned when she heard this and said: "This situation is not impossible. Under normal circumstances, kidnappers will not commit murder and silence. The crime of kidnapping and extortion is far less serious than the crime of murder. The victim was strangled to death with a rope.

It was obviously not an accident."

When a kidnapper kidnaps a victim, if an accident occurs, the victim may die accidentally.

But this case is clearly not the case.

Although Aoki Song often complains in his heart that people in this world will kill people if they disagree with each other, but in fact many people kill people out of anger, just a momentary impulse.

After calming down, many people still feel regretful.

There are not many people who actually kill people in a planned way when they are calm.

And this is the contradiction presented in this case.

Deliberate targeting, ransom payments and the number of kidnappers are problematic.

And the vast majority of kidnappers do not intentionally kill people.

But considering the age of the victim, Kari Inoue, this seemingly contradictory thing may have been done by someone of her own age. Some middle school boys can do anything, and sometimes they are more cruel than adults.

There is simply no way to prevent bullying on campus, and it happens everywhere.

After thinking about it, the Memu Police Department stood up with a solemn expression and held an emergency meeting to search the first section and the third department. He told everyone present what Aoki Song and the two had just said, and then issued his order.

The chief police officer led people to visit and investigate to see if anyone accidentally saw or heard anything on the road from the cram school to Inoue's house, and if there were any clues left on that road.

Sato Miwako and others were responsible for investigating the victim's interpersonal relationships and asking several of the victim's friends if they had any clues.

The possibility that a teenager in middle school may have committed the crime cannot yet be ruled out.

Although the Inoue couple said that the victim was very well-behaved, criminals would not just believe the other side's words after taking on many cases.

Aoki Song is responsible for checking the files to see if there are any cases that meet the conditions for the four prisoners to commit murder.

There is no way, the Metropolitan Police Department has just computerized its office, and a lot of previous information has not been recorded. If you want to check it, you can only look it up one by one.

They are all big projects.

However, as a senior scientist, Aoki Song still has a clever trick to reduce the workload, and that is to find the case of Yoneka Town first.

There is no scientific basis, it is just scientists’ intuition.

Sure enough, after flipping through a few files, Qingmusong found what he was looking for.

Picked it up and quickly went to the Memu Police Department.

"Police Department, look at this case." As he spoke, Aokisong unfolded the file and placed it in front of Memu Police Department.

The Mu Mu Police Department took a closer look, "This is a missing case at the Mihua Police Station the day before yesterday. A lady called the police and said that her daughter did not come home the day before and did not go to school the next day. Relatives and friends have asked about it.

No one was found."

"Well, the police department, the time and approximate location of the other party's disappearance are consistent with the time and location of Inoue Kari's kidnapping," Aoki Song said.

If we follow Aokimatsu's previous reasoning, then it is very likely that this person was killed at that time, and he happened to be bumped into by Inoue Kari, so the prisoner simply stopped doing it...

Thinking of this, the expression on Mumu Police Department's face became much more solemn.

For criminal purposes, killing two criminals is naturally more difficult than killing one criminal.

Because killing the first person may be an excessive killing, but it is not actually bad. After killing two people, the prisoner's mentality will change drastically, and some will even continue to murder the third and fourth people.

indivual……

"You and Ida go investigate this case." Megure Police Department issued the order.

"Yes!" Qingmu Song responded.

Then he and Ida Criminal walked out of the Metropolitan Police Department and rushed to Mihua Police Station to inquire about the case.

I learned about the girl named Nozawa Yumiko. It was around 11 o'clock the day before yesterday when her mother, Mrs. Nozawa, came to report the case.

According to Mrs. Nozawa, Yumiko Nozawa went shopping with her friends after school three days ago. Her friend Mrs. Nozawa and the police officers from the Mihua Police Department also asked each other. They played until about six o'clock, and then

After it was over, everyone went back to their homes to find their respective mothers.

There is a small overlap between Nozawa Yumiko's journey home from shopping and Inoue Kari's journey home from cram school.

And judging from the distance, Nozawa Yumiko is closer to that distance.

In other words, if you walk in the direction of home at the same time, Nozawa Yumiko will reach the overlapping road earlier than Inoue Kari.

Assuming that she was really murdered, taking into account the time of her murder, Inoue Kari would have happened to be passing by.

Because this assumption was established, the Megure Police Department asked Aoki Song to investigate this case.

If there is no trace at all, this kind of investigation is the responsibility of the police station below, and the first and third departments of the Search Section are not responsible for this kind of thing.

After all, not every disappearance case results in a fatality.

In an economic downturn like Neon's now, too many disappearance cases are caused by people who don't want to take on some responsibilities and liabilities, and then disappear.

But assumptions are just assumptions, and the truth of the case may not be the same.

What the police have to do is to make bold assumptions and then carefully verify them.

(End of chapter)