What if, in that case in '88 and the ones that followed, it wasn't the same murderer?

The police must have thought about this issue back then, and they must have been cautious when making the decision to merge the cases for investigation. The reason why the last 88 case was merged with the later cases was because the blood fingerprints found at other crime scenes were identified in the same way as the fingerprints found at the scene in 88.

The coincidence of this strong physical evidence is the greatest driving force for the merger of cases. When DNA identification was not popular, fingerprints were often the decisive physical evidence, so when the police investigated for so many years, they never questioned whether these cases were committed by the same murderer, but today, Wen Mo wants to question it.

The reason why the serial rape and homicide case in Y City ran aground was caused by various reasons, including the backwardness of the original detection methods, the fact that some criminal suspects had a certain sense of anti-investigation, and the possibility that the general direction of the police investigation was incorrect.

In his notes, Li Jiefang recounted in detail the various efforts made by the police to solve the case at the peak of the murderer's crime in '98, and he highlighted two things.

The first thing has to do with fingerprinting. At the end of 98, the murderer's rampant and cruelty reached an unprecedented level, everyone in Y City was in danger, the police were facing huge pressure, and the people were also staring at them with fiery eyes, but the murderer was really cunning enough, and did not leave any clues for the police to investigate, they investigated and visited so many people, and the suspects also arrested a large number of people, but in the end they were all eliminated one by one.

In the end, the task force made a decision and collected all the people over the age of 18 in the city. Fingerprints of adult males under the age of 70. The workload was heavy and enormous, and the total population of Y at that time was about half a million, and excluding half of the women and men who were not in that age group, there were about 200,000 left.

Now I think that this number is actually quite small, and the workload is not as heavy as imagined, but at that time it was 98 years, the police force was insufficient, and the equipment for collecting fingerprints was far less advanced than today. Walking through the streets and alleys, they were collected one by one.

Often there are five or six police officers in a police station. Corresponding to the number of people who need to be collected, it will be in the thousands. It's a job that requires care and patience, but it also has to be both fast and efficient. Because no one knew at that time, such a large-scale crowd tactic. When I actually got down the net from the ocean and fished for a needle. Will it alarm the murderer.

There are two consequences for alarming him. One is that the murderer fled and left Y City from then on, if he really decided to go incognito. If the police want to find him again, it is not as simple as looking for a needle in a haystack, what will be in front of them will only be a vast ocean, and the needle will never be seen again; The other is that the murderer dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, and with the madness of his four crimes in a year, when he is cornered by the police, only God knows how many corpses he will leave behind.

What is in front of the police is a very huge workload. The facts of the case are orders, and every minute they delay gives the murderer one more minute to flee or commit the crime again, and everyone's heart is tense, and they can't wait for 48 hours a day, non-stop visiting and collecting fingerprints.

Xue Qianzhong is one of the police officers working at the grassroots level, and the tasks assigned to him are about 700 people, located in three different residential communities. Xue Qianzhong was fifty-seven years old at the time, three years before retirement, he had worked at the grassroots level all his life, and he really belonged to the kind of person who was unknown and selfless. There are no old residents in the jurisdiction who don't know him, and the resistance of the masses is relatively low when the work is carried out, so Xue Qianzhong took the initiative to take on such a large workload, riding his 28 bars every day, shuttling through the community, visiting and collecting evidence door-to-door, and the fingerprint collection card on his back has more than 20 catties. In the cold winter and the weather of more than 20 degrees below zero, he can sweat a few shirts every day.

At that time, the time given by the task force was 10 days, and Xue Qianzhong set an example, braved the wind and snow, worked overtime to complete the task ahead of schedule, and by the evening of the seventh day, all the fingerprints of the more than 700 people had been collected. At the age of 57, it is not light, he still has high blood pressure, because of the intensity of work, the reason why he has not been able to rest well, his blood pressure has been high, these days he is supported by taking blood pressure medicine, others have advised him to rest and rest, but he himself is not willing to leave everyone to run lazy when he is so busy, wave his hand and say that he is fine, and take the initiative to help colleagues who are slower to work overtime.

Finally, on the ninth day, there were only sporadic people left in the fingerprint collection work who had not been in the city for a short time, and the next step was to compare these fingerprints by a special person, and there was great hope that the murderer could be found. But Xue Qianzhong didn't wait for this day, after all this busyness, when he dragged his tired body back home, told his wife that she was a little tired, wanted to rest for a while, and after lying on the bed and sleeping in clothes, he never woke up.

When his wife made breakfast the next morning and wanted to ask him to eat, she found that his body was stiff, and the doctor said that he had died of a cerebral hemorrhage, purely from exhaustion.

At Xue Qianzhong's memorial service, the young policeman who had helped share part of the workload couldn't help but cry and slapped himself in the mouth. Since then, a young figure can often be seen on the route that Xue Qianzhong patrolled back then.

How much bitter sweat, and even blood and life are contained in this sentence, only those who have experienced it can understand the deep meaning. Because of this, even if negative reports about the police are often reported in the newspapers, the masses of the people can still think of them for the first time when they encounter danger and harm: the people's police, they are well-deserved defenders of the people.

Xue Qianzhong sacrificed himself at work, but his efforts did not reap the fruits of victory that he deserved, and the comparison results disappointed everyone, among the 200,000 people, none of them were the cruel murderer they were looking for. Everyone didn't want to believe in this result, and the hard work and sweat did not pay off in the second, and most importantly, they compared and excluded. It's an adult male in the entire city of Y, and it's all of their suspects. The case in Y City has no more drama to sing about.

After such a large-scale investigation, the murderer suddenly disappeared, 99 years passed peacefully, 2000 also came to the end of the year, two years passed, nothing happened, the task force announced its disbandment, and the men, women and children of Y City breathed a sigh of relief. I can't wait to set off firecrackers to celebrate. Because the nightmare is finally over. They suddenly found that the sky in Y City was still so blue, the water was still so clear, and it was still beautiful for them. Stability. Peaceful home.

Then it was November 20, 2000. This is another tragic day that is destined to be deeply remembered by the people of Y City. On this day, that madman killer is on the move again!

A 28-year-old female worker was killed in her own home, and the killer cut her trachea with a clean knife. A large amount of blood splattered and stained half of the roof red. The knife is fatal, which shows that the murderer never thought about keeping the victim alive.

The deceased was lying on his back on the floor in an extremely humiliating posture, his still beautiful face was open, and his eyes were wide open, and in the position where there should have been a pair of hands, only a blurred cut of flesh and blood remained.

Such a scene makes it easy for the police officers in charge of the investigation to think of the murderer who mysteriously disappeared two years ago, and when everyone in Y City was just feeling safe, he suddenly announced his return in such a high profile.

Everything that happened at the scene was shown by the murderer to the people of Y City, he was still sharp, still cruel, and still roamed the streets and alleys of Y City, looking for his next prey. Like a lone wolf, he continued the last journey of his life in frenzy and despair, as if killing was his instinct to melt into his blood.

All the personnel of the Y City Public Security Bureau once again felt extremely great pressure, and the task force was quickly formed again within 24 hours after the 001120 case occurred. This time, there were old acquaintances and new faces among the members of the task force, and everyone felt both nervous and excited, angry and happy. Nervous and angry, the murderer was bold enough to commit the crime again, and harvested a young and innocent life, excited and glad that they still have a chance, a chance to catch this notorious murderer, and give an explanation to the families of the previous victims, and to the fathers and villagers in Y City.

But everyone has a doubt in their hearts that they can't say, this time, they will really be luckier than the previous six times, can they really catch him? The law of one foot high and one foot high seems to be unable to be applied to him, he has already had a very successful experience of evading the police investigation, will it make a difference this time?

It must be admitted that the murderer has also left indelible scars on the police officers in the city, and in a small corner of each of them, whether they admit the existence of such a corner or not, they are somewhat timid.

However, they knew that they had no choice but to catch this vicious murderer, and they had no way out, because behind them stood innocent women who could be the next victims, perhaps their wives, sisters, and daughters.

In 2000, the economy of the whole country seemed to be invigorating, and the speed of population movement was unprecedentedly fast, even in a small third-tier city like Y City, which is located in the northwest, the daily floating population was a relatively large number, which brought great difficulties to the police's investigation work.

Therefore, some people are anxious. It was against this background that the two policemen, Yang Shulin and Bai Jun, made unforgivable mistakes.

They were all members of the 98 task force, and they remembered the troubled investigation time, staring at a large number of pictures of the bloody scenes created by the murderer every day, thinking about the case regardless of eating, sleeping, walking, and thinking, when the task force was disbanded, the two of them were particularly unwilling, and now they finally have one more chance to catch the murderer, and they are in a hurry.

As in the past, the 001120 case also fell into a fog and could not find a way out, when the two of them found a migrant worker who was a little deliberate, they suddenly found that this person's hometown was in G City, and G City also had several serial rape and murder cases similar to Y City during the years from 94 to 98 years!

The discovery made them excited, and their eagerness to solve the case became even more urgent, and they interrogated the person without saying anything. During the interrogation, because the other party kept shouting injustice and refused to confess, they resorted to the most effective method of torture to extract a confession, which eventually led to the innocent foreigner's three broken ribs, one of which was piercing into the heart, causing serious consequences of his death. Yang Bai and the two policemen also paid a heavy price for this, they were sentenced to three years and five years in prison respectively, dismissed from public office, and could not clear the charge of murder for the rest of their lives.

Wen Mo closed the note and bowed her head silently. All kinds of facts show that there is probably a big problem with the direction of the police's investigation at the beginning.

City B, a thousand kilometers away.

Luo Qin's first day back to work after taking marriage leave. She looked at the mountains of materials on the table and felt a little dizzy, and suddenly felt that she was going to be retributed for having too much fun before.

Wen Mo has been away on a business trip and has not come back, and the amount of information in this small half month is quite considerable, so she resigned herself to start sorting it out. plunged into the sea of information, and when she rubbed her slightly sore neck and raised her head, she found that it was past the end of work, and there was no one in the office for a long time.

Luo Qin felt a little hungry at this time, she just came back from the field by plane yesterday, after working for so many years, it was the first time that she had the opportunity to see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, so she had a little crazy, if it weren't for the time for marriage leave, she still wanted to rest at home for a few more days.

Looking at the information and seeing the dizziness, Luo Qin moved his stiff neck, took out his mobile phone, and prepared to call Xiang Chuan, they should go back to their mother-in-law's house for dinner tonight, they are busy with work and are late, I am afraid that I will be late, so I will say hello first, so as not to make my mother-in-law unhappy. After getting married, I realized that getting along with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is a science, but fortunately, her mother-in-law is not a cautious woman, and the time the two get along is not bad. Luo Qin has always believed that as long as there are no major problems in a person's character, other small frictions can be solved, which is nothing more than comparing heart to heart and paying sincerely. She can be regarded as touching the threshold of psychology, so that she can't even handle the old people in the family.

Familiarly dialing a string of numbers, Luo Qin patiently waited for Xiang Chuan to answer the phone. No one answered the ring for a long time, Luo Qin was a little disappointed, the two have been inseparable these days, like glue, at first separation, she is really a little unaccustomed, sometimes looking at the information, she will involuntarily think, she also thought that Xiang Chuan would think about her as much as her, and she would definitely pick up her call as soon as she saw it, but she didn't expect it to ring for a long time without seeing it.

Hmph, let that kid sleep on the couch today, so that he doesn't answer his own calls. Luo Qin snorted slightly, turned off the light, locked the door and left.

At six o'clock in the evening, the streets are bustling with people (to be continued.) )