Chapter 3: Suspicion of the Ceiling Secret Room
Packed and sent to Li Jing, it was already noon on Monday when we met again, and seeing that the aunt opposite was gnawing on lettuce because of weight loss, I consciously went to Lord Li Jing with a boiled pork slice. It was too cold outside, so we had to stay in the cafeteria to eat, feel the baptism of crowd gossip, and know that it would not be good people to eat in the supermarket dining area. Li Jing didn't feel embarrassed at all, anyway, he wasn't a person who could read air. After eating as if fleeing, we began to study the materials we had compiled yesterday.
"These people are very ordinary, neither actors nor stunts." I pointed to a few documents that Li Jingshan picked up and asked.
"It's just a little doubtful, I asked Shi Hao to help me compare whether it coincides with the current staff in the cinema." Li Jing is getting fresh milk into black tea.
"The result?"
"There is no coincidence, but it is not excluded that the people of these troupes have changed their identity information." Li Jing sat opposite me with two cups of milk tea.
"Do you think it's because they're familiar with the situation in the screening room, so there's a possibility of committing a crime?" I took a sip of milk tea, probably because of the addition of roses in it, and it tasted very healing.
"Well, just suspicion. The cinema opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 11:30 p.m. every night. If according to common sense, from killing people to hiding the body, the time is only eight hours from 12 o'clock at night when the staff evacuates to 8 o'clock the next morning when the staff enters the venue, ordinary staff can do it, and the time to find the body will be late, in this case, all employees are suspicious. But we found the body at the time of the movie screening, the forensic department identified the death of the body at 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, the opening time of our movie was 1:35 pm, and the time when the body was found was 20 minutes after the opening, that is, 1:55, and less than four hours between the death of the body and the discovery of the body. We had a total of two films screened that day in the screening room, the first film was shown at 11:10 p.m., and the change time between the two films was only 20 minutes, and there were staff monitoring in the screening room, and the projectionists carried out daily inspections before the opening, so the whole time for the placement of the body was only 20 minutes when the projectionist went out to rest during the change time. And for 20 minutes, the only people who could lay the body unnoticed were those who had personally felt it. Li Jing explained.
"If so, isn't the projectionist's bigger now?"
"I checked the projectionist, and he worked from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the keys were like they were in the key box in the manager's office, and the projectionists didn't have time to do these things 15 minutes before the screening."
"And what about during the screening?"
"It's not possible, there's no door to the screening room and the screening room."
I thought for a moment: "Then why not those actors with stunts?" ”
"Those actors can continue to participate in the show and do stuntmen. On the contrary, these drama affairs, which are not particularly good at kung fu, will stay in the cinema and continue to serve. Whether there are any people left from the theater, we can ask the current theater manager. ”
"But the manager seems to shy away from these questions." Thinking of the attitude of the manager yesterday, I think the possibility of getting something out of his mouth is very low.
"But you can insert their personnel information, this kind of need to file records, just give it to the team. But you seem to be about to go to work, why don't you go back? ”
I raised my eyes and looked at the watch, it was over, it was over, and my aunt should say that I had no concept of time, so I quickly put down the cup in my hand and ran out.
Li Jing had a patient who came from out of town and had to arrive at the hospital very late, so after work, I sneaked into the TCM clinic and continued to discuss the noon issue with Li Jing. The medical examiner's report has all come out, the cause of death is excessive bleeding, the fatal wound is in the throat, the technique is clean and neat, one blow kills, the murderer may not be the first time to commit the crime.
"Is there any news about the identity of the deceased?" I asked Li Jing
"Nope. Team Xiao compared the missing people in the vicinity, and there was no overlap with the deceased. Now expand the comparison to see the latest missing person reports and out-of-town registered locals. ”
"It's cruel!" Putting down the report in my hand, I sighed.
Li Jing didn't answer me: "Mr. Lu examined the wounds of the deceased, and the knife wounds on the deceased's body were very similar to a case he had seen in the United States before, and the murderer was finally confirmed to be a retired military officer. When observing the knife, Mr. Lu wondered if the murderer would also be a retired soldier. ”
"Mr. Lu has already written a suspect profile?" I asked Li Jing.
"No, the information is not complete yet, so I can't give all the profiles. But there are preliminary suspicions of personnel with combat experience. ”
"If it's experience, it can also be a professional killer."
"You've watched too much TV, haven't you?" Li Jing knocked me on the head, "Would the killer put the body in such an obvious place as the movie theater?" ”
"So that the person who hired him can know if the killer has really completed the mission!" I said it with confidence.
Li Jing sighed: "Sure enough, the imagination is too rich, if it is a hired killer, then the employer should try to let the killer keep things secret, and it is best that no one knows, so that the employer can save unnecessary trouble and will not arouse the suspicion of the police." And the fact that the body was found so quickly shows that the murderer was not adequately prepared and lacked time to hide the body. Therefore, it can also be inferred that the murderer was a temporary initiative and disposed of the corpse in a panic. ”
"The biggest suspicion is the theater staff, now just find out if they have served in the past, or have received training in this area, right?"
"But none of the people who went to work that day had this experience." Li Jing frowned, looking distressed.
"Then our noon inference is overturned?" A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, "Li Jing, could it be that the murderer is in the audience?" It's the people who have served in the troupe before to watch the movie, and the people who kill when the movie starts again...... "But I stopped halfway through, because it didn't make sense at all, the time of death of the deceased was ten o'clock in the morning of the same day, and the earliest opening time of the movie was at a quarter past eleven, unless there was a spell, how could a dead person with a dead neck walk to the ticket gate to check the ticket and watch the movie an hour after death?"
However, Li Jing nodded appreciatively: "Although you can't make sense of this idea yourself, it's not impossible." ”
"But it doesn't make sense, not to mention how to enter the screening hall for the time being, just from the point of view that it is covered in blood, it is impossible not to attract the attention of the people around you, right?"
"Covered in blood?" Li Jing paused and made a phone call.