None of them had heard of Liu Nanhe about this, maybe in the Mangcheng City Bureau, only the old policemen who had been in the Guo Brigade for more than five years knew about it. Xie Heping never mentioned it, anyway, he didn't care about other people's opinions, as long as he had a clear conscience.

Zhu Jianfeng didn't talk to them on this issue, and as soon as the conversation changed, he immediately returned to the case. "The case I just talked about, the provincial capital called it 'Snow Corpse Case'. When the first case happened, it was reported by a lot of media at the time, and I believe you all have some impressions. However, in the second and third cases, the police closely blocked the news, and the outside world did not know about it for the time being. Once these two cases are revealed by the media, the faces of the police in our province will be completely disgraced. ”

Liu Nanhe pondered for a moment and said, "I have indeed heard of this case. And at that time, I was an intern at the Baimiao Police Station in the provincial capital, and I also studied it carefully. Unfortunately, I don't know where to start. ”

Hearing Liu Nanhe say this, Chi Wei and Fang Yaya's expressions became serious. Not to mention anything else, since the formation of the second squadron, there is no case that cannot be solved when it comes to Liu Nanhe. But now that Liu Nanhe personally admitted that he was helpless about that case, they really realized in their hearts that it was a hard bone to gnaw.

There was nothing to say all the way, and everyone used their mobile phones in the car to check the details of the case that year. Typing the words "Snow Corpse Case" into the browser, an encyclopedia immediately appeared, talking about the bizarre murder that occurred in Zhengzhong City, Tuobin Province on December 26, 2015.

I don't know when Chinese teenagers began to celebrate Western festivals. Christmas is a major event for Westerners, and it has also become an opportunity for some Chinese teenagers to celebrate. The winter of 2015 was colder than usual, with the first snow falling just after December. Around Christmas, there was a second snow in Zhengzhong City, and this heavy snow fell for several hours in a row, and the deepest part was already enough to cover the knees of adults.

Affected by this weather, flights were suspended, railways were suspended, and all sections of highways were closed, and the municipal government sent a lot of manpower and material resources to urgently melt snow and remove snow. When a team of staff came to Tianhong Plaza, they found that there was still a huge Christmas tree standing at the gate of the most prosperous commercial plaza in Zhengzhong City. To accentuate the beauty of the Christmas tree, a white fence was placed around the tree. The snow piles up inside the fence and appears to be higher than the surrounding snow layer.

After communicating with the person in charge of the mall, the city staff tried to move the Christmas tree aside and return to its original position after the snow melted. But when they tear off the leaves of the Christmas tree, they find a snowman standing in the tree. The snowman was nearly two meters tall and looked very strange. The staff wondered what was the point of putting a snowman in a Christmas tree, saying that the Christmas tree had been placed half a month ago, and that there was no snowman at all.

The staff pushes the snowman, and the snowman falls, revealing a woman standing upright. The woman was about thirty years old, with short ear-length hair, wearing only close-fitting underwear, her face was blue, her eyes were round, she had been stabbed by a sharp object and had more than a dozen wounds on her body, her blood was clotting, and she was already dead.

The city staff sat on the ground in fright and hurriedly called the police. When the police arrived, they immediately launched an investigation. But this is a bustling commercial plaza, and it is a place where a large number of teenagers gather around to spend Christmas, and everyone has approached the police blockade to take pictures, and half an hour later, the news of the female corpse found in the Christmas tree detonated the entire Internet.

According to the statistics of the shopping mall, there were at least 3,000 teenagers who gathered at Tianhong Plaza yesterday for Christmas. There are countless people who take photos in front of the Christmas tree. The snow around the tree was trampled in a mess, and it was impossible to extract any valuable footprints. The Christmas tree is so big that no one runs under the tree to check on it, so no one knows when the snowman came out, let alone what happened to the corpse.

Because this case caused a sensation among netizens across the country, after the autopsy, the forensic doctor not only submitted the autopsy report to the Jinhuo District Criminal Police Brigade of the Zhengzhong Municipal Public Security Bureau, but also reported to the Zhengzhong City Criminal Police Detachment and the Provincial Criminal Investigation Corps. It is worth mentioning that the previous captain of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Tuobin Provincial Public Security Department is sitting next to Liu Nanhe at this moment, and it is Qin Yiyan's little uncle Zhu Jianfeng.

The deceased's name is Lin Yurong, 33 years old, a native of Xinzhong District, Zhengzhong City, who just came to the main city to buy a house a year ago. Her husband's name is Shi Yimu, and he is a deputy section leader in the education department of Zhengzhong City. The two have been married for eight years and have only a five-year-old son. After the incident, Shi Yimu ran around, asking the police to find out the truth about his wife's murder and arrest the murderer. But after three years, the murderer is still at large. At the beginning of 2018, Shi Yimu was disheartened, quit his job at the Education Bureau, rented out the house, and then returned to his hometown in the countryside of Xinzhong District with his son.

Due to the ineffective handling of the case by the Zhengzhong City Police, two leaders of the criminal police detachment of the City Bureau, who have been criticized by the public and the media, resigned and left the police department completely. Although Zhu Jianfeng was promoted again a year later, he always remembered this case in his heart.

Liu Nanhe didn't ask anything, because the police in the provincial capital must have checked countless times because of the methods of investigation and monitoring, collecting clues from the public, and looking for suspects around Lin Yurong's social relationships. Since the police at all levels have not found useful information, it is enough to show that the murderer in this case is too clean.

It is clean, which does not mean that there are no clues at all, but the police have not found it for the time being. The murderer dared to choose to commit a crime in a commercial plaza with such a large flow of people, which shows that he is very familiar with the environment and the flow of people there, and he is more aware of the surrounding surveillance camera layout. Moreover, he chose to put the corpse in the Christmas tree, and even had time to build a snowman, which fully proved that he had plenty of time to commit the crime. It seems that only the staff of the mall can do such a person.

Liu Nanhe rubbed his chin, what he could think of, the police in the provincial city could also think of. According to the information disclosed by the Zhengzhong City police, they have questioned the mall staff four times, but still found nothing. For some staff who are not very disciplined in their usual habits, they even use polygraphs, but the results are always unsatisfactory.

Liu Nanhe was silent for a long time before turning his head and asking Zhu Jianfeng: "The first case, let's take a closer look at the file and the investigation records of colleagues in the provincial capital." In the second and third cases, where did the cases take place, what were the circumstances, and why were they decided to be consolidated at the first time?"

Zhu Jianfeng said solemnly: "I'll tell you about the simple situation, if it's more detailed, you can check it yourself when you go to the city bureau." The second case occurred in Lianhuashan Village, Gucheng Township, Xinzhong District. Lotus Mountain is the highest mountain in Zhengzhong City, and when the temperature is still very high in the city, there is a possibility of snowfall there. On the morning of October 7, an old man went up the mountain to pick mountain goods and found that someone had built a snowman on the mountain road. Since there was not much snow and not much snow, the snowman only piled up a thin layer. The old man took a closer look and found that there was still a man hidden in the snowman. After receiving the report, the Gucheng Township Police Station found that the deceased's name was Zhao Cuilan, 59 years old, and she was a native of Lianhuashan Village. Her daughter is Lin Yurong, who was killed three years ago. ”

"Who is the third deceased?" Liu Nanhe asked directly. With intuition, he felt that the third victim was still related to Lin Yurong.

However, Zhu Jianfeng's answer surprised Liu Nanhe, because the deceased had nothing to do with Lin Yurong, but with her husband. "The third deceased's name is Shi Wanying, and she is Shi Yimu's own sister. Zhu Jianfeng replied quietly.

The three deceased are all related to Shi Yimu, which is enough to prove that the murderer has a grudge against the Shi family. Otherwise, why did he focus on people related to the Shi family to commit crimes, and why did the murderer make the deceased look like a snowman, is there any internal hint that his revenge is related to the snowman?

Liu Nanhe's heart was suddenly full of suspicions, but before he saw Shi Yimu, he didn't know how to open the doubts in his stomach, so he could only bury them all in his heart. Zhu Jianfeng seemed to see through Liu Nanhe's mood, and said with a wry smile: "Don't get too hopeful. Because of the case three years ago, Shi Yimu was very resistant to the police, and he didn't know anything he asked, and he only believed in himself, and he wanted to catch the murderer with his own hands and break his body into thousands of pieces. ”

Liu Nanhe's heart moved, and he said with a cold expression: "In this way, he must have some clues." ”

Zhu Jianfeng nodded and said, "Yes, we think so too." However, he is a relative of several victims, and he is not willing to cooperate with the police, and we have no choice. The Zhengzhong Municipal Bureau arranged for the Gucheng Township Police Station to send two police officers to stay in Lianhuashan Village temporarily, while asking the villagers who the Shi family had any grievances with, while protecting their father and son. ”

Liu Nanhe frowned: "Staying in Lianhua Mountain Village?, are Shi Yimu and his father-in-law and mother-in-law in the same village?"

Zhu Jianfeng said: "Although the name of the village is the same, it is a mountain village, and the villagers do not live close to each other. The Shi family lives at the back of the mountain, while his father-in-law and mother-in-law live at the foot of the mountain, a few minutes' walk from the main road to the city. ”

Liu Nanhe said: "In addition to the three victims, what other direct relatives does the Shi family have?"

Zhu Jianfeng said: "Shi Yimu's father-in-law has been taken by his brother-in-law to live in the city of Xinzhong District. The funeral was completed last month, and I heard that I would not go back to the mountains in the future. The police also questioned them, but there were no clues. ”

Liu Nanhe didn't speak again, and all the way to Zhengzhong City, the provincial capital, he was closing his eyes and recuperating. Although there are no clear clues, he knows in his heart that the key to solving the case is still on Shi Yimu. According to common sense, when his wife is killed, he should care more about his son. It is understandable to sell the house and go elsewhere, but it is too unreasonable to run back to the mountains with a child who is about to go to school.

The reason why he did this was either to suspect that the murderer was in Lianhuashan Village, or to avoid his son being victimized. But whatever the reason, he must have important clues to hide from the police.