Chapter 11 Disclosure of the Client's Identity
Today is not the day of the visitation, the whole window of the visit is only the man, when he sees us, the man leaks a very confused look, he does not know us, and no one tells him the purpose of our visit to him. As soon as we sat down in front of the glass window, the man immediately picked up the phone: "You guys? Who are you? ”
The boss had already discussed with me on the way here that I wouldn't startle the snake first. I picked up the phone and explained my intentions, which was also the reason that my boss and I made up on the way here: "We are reporters from R City, and we want to learn from you about the case at that time." We didn't directly mention the death of Wang Panjin's girlfriend, but first talked about the case of his arrest, and when the conversation was almost over, the boss turned up on the phone: "We heard that there was another case when you were arrested, can you tell us about that case, that is, the case of manslaughter with a keyboard." ”
The face of the man opposite changed suddenly, and hung up the phone decisively, he probably didn't expect that we would talk about it, the boss glanced at me, one is according to the pre-arranged by me to continue to ask, I showed that I apologized to the boss's strength and said sorry to him, and then began to talk to him about his childhood in a sympathetic tone. This man's father is a lazy man, the life of the family has always been very poor, after his mother left them to remarry, his father took him to beg for a living, his childhood was raised under the ridicule of others and the violence of his father, no relatives, no friends, no education, no morality, all of them are egoistic, as long as he is given money, he dares to do anything. Because he has not been cared for by the people around him since he was a child, he has no feelings for the people around him, and even for the things he has done that have caused harm to others, in addition to knowing that he has violated the law, he has not expressed any feelings for those victims, and the most we talk about is only the monetary transaction between him and his employer.
The topic slowly returned to the murder of Wang Panjin's girlfriend, and suddenly the man looked at me with an expression similar to emotion, I glanced at my watch, our conversation has been almost an hour, and it will soon exceed the visiting time, but I am not in a hurry, this is the first time he has shown an expression other than numbness in the conversation, I want to be more curious about the reason why she has such an expression. Is it because there is another hidden story in the murder of Wan Panjin's girlfriend, or is there some other reason?
I looked at him, he was a little silent, I didn't look anxious, even though I knew that the time for the visit was almost over. As the minutes ticked by, the man finally moved his lips, ready to say something.
"You're the second person to hear my story." These are the first words a man says after a silence.
"Haven't you been telling your story to other people?" I asked the man, and I don't think he was in prison either.
The man shook his head as I expected: "There is one more, he has been here before. ”
"Your friend?"
He hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Unlike you, he is in prison like me." ”
I immediately realized that the person he was talking about might be Wang Panjin, and I quietly continued to ask, "He is also in prison now?" ”
The man then shook his head: "He's not like me, he has money in his family, and he's already out of prison." ”
"Why did you tell him? Are you close to him? I pretended not to know and continued to ask him, it seems that the relationship between him and Wang Panjin in prison should be good, at least he is willing to share with Wang Panjin what happened when he was a child.
The man was stunned for a moment, as if he was thinking about the meaning of what I said, and then said, "Not close." ”
"Then why did you tell him?" The man's answer confused me.
The man bit his lip and thought for a while before he said, "He said that he was a doctor before he came in, and he was a doctor who showed people what was going on in his heart, so I asked him first if I was sick." ”
Psychiatrist, that's really Wang Panjin That's right, determined the answer in my heart, and I continued to chat with him: "What did he say? ”
The man winced, stared at the table and stopped looking at me: "He, he said I was fine. ”
I know that the man is lying, and I have a hunch that Wang Panjin must have said some ugly words to him, so that he is afraid that we will touch his heart again. I had a hunch that the man must have suffered a lot of blows at that time.
The prison guard behind Wang Panjin was ready to interrupt our conversation, I gave the boss a look, the boss walked out of the visiting room, and after a while, another prison guard came to the visiting room, and after saying something to the previous warning, the original warning looked at us suspiciously and didn't speak again, and continued to stand behind the man.
"You shouldn't be from the newspaper office in the small county town of R City, you should be from a more powerful place." The man noticed that it was past the visitation time, and we were still talking.
I nodded: "The newspaper in R City is just a branch. ”
The man no longer had any doubts, he just looked at me and waited for my question, and I was also waiting for him to continue, but the man just waved his hand: "I don't want to say it." ”
"Is it because of the psychiatrist?" I think it's time for me to take back the initiative.
The man didn't speak, but his silent attitude seemed to acquiesce to what I said, and finally he sighed: "It's still my problem, I haven't interacted with anyone else, so I should have offended him when I spoke." ”
"He's lost his temper with you?" I noticed that the man used the word offense, and it is estimated that the man said something to know, which made Wang Panjin's attitude towards her turn 180 degrees.
The man was silent again, and I knew he had confessed to it.
"Did you say anything to him at the time?" Afraid that the man would not speak, I added and explained, "I mean, did you say anything to make him angry?" ”
"I told you about the girl I killed by mistake." The man finally raised his head, looked into my eyes and said, "I just told him that I can't forget that girl's eyes, she was staring at me all the time, as if she had been seeing through to the bottom of my heart." ”
"That was my first killing." The man paused and continued, "I didn't want to kill that woman, I just took money from others, and someone saw that she was not pleasing to the eye and wanted me to teach her a lesson. She was beautiful, the prettiest girl I had ever seen, even prettier than the woman who hired me. Originally, I just wanted to scare her and leave, but she was so beautiful that I couldn't control myself. ”
The man lowered his head again.
It's just a brute, I scolded in my heart, but I tried my best to control my feelings not to attack, not to smash my fist against the glass, and tried to control my tone and asked, "Then why did you kill her?" ”
"I didn't kill her." After hearing this, the man suddenly roared, "She was still alive when I left"
It didn't look like he was lying, and I judged in my heart when I looked at the man who suddenly became excited, but the content of the closing report did not match the man's words at all. Because the man suddenly became excited, the prison guard standing behind him handed us side nervously, as if he was afraid that something would go wrong.
I decided to ask the man to tell what he had seen, so I guided him to recall the case: "I believe you, although the closing report is different from what you said, I still want to believe you." ”
The man seemed surprised by what I said, and suddenly collapsed as if he realized something, looked down at me vigilantly and asked, "You're just interested in the case like him, aren't you?" ”
I knew that the man was referring to Wang Panjin, but I quickly denied the man's idea: "I need to write a lot, I'm just fleshing out my interview materials, but if you tell me the truth, I want to help you." You know how much difference between what you did at the time and manslaughter if you hadn't killed someone, and manslaughter, I think you know better than I do. If the truth is as you say, then the truth of the case will be different. This is an opportunity for you to make amends, tell the truth, catch the real murderer, and let the clothes of the girl who was able to be in Shanghai by you rest in peace under Jiuquan. ”
"He said the same thing, he said he would help me, but after I said that, he suddenly started yelling and throwing a tantrum, and he was never seen again." The man's numb expression regained again, and I think Wang Panjin still gave him a big blow.
"But I won't, I'll write about what I heard today, as you just said, our newspaper is very powerful." I tried to communicate with her, hoping that he would trust me.
After repeated persuasion, the man's affection finally loosened, and he hesitated for a long time before telling me all the things he had experienced.
He said he was walking in front of a theater when he was stopped by a little girl who asked him if he wanted to do a big business. He knew that he didn't look like a good person, but he was not very happy to be treated as a bad person as soon as he came up, and he wanted to refuse, but the woman made a very attractive number, and promised to pay half of the price in advance, and after the fact, he would pay the back in front of him at a specific location. In fact, only half of the payment is also very tempting, and I said before that because I have not felt the warmth of the world, men only use money to measure everything.
Under the temptation of the previous one, the man decided to do something for the woman, and the woman said that he should scare the victim and not even limit the means he could use, so his first reaction after seeing her was not to beat her like he usually scares people, but to violate her as he said before. After that, he left the victim alone on the street, and it was the early hours of the morning, and he left the girl alone in a cul-de-sac near the business district and left alone, thinking that when it was dawn, someone would find the girl.
By the time I heard this, if it hadn't been for the boss pressing my hand, I think I would have come close to swinging my fist into the glass plate in the middle.
The man was still talking, and he swore that the girl was still alive when he left, because he heard the girl crying. I recalled the girl's autopsy report, and the cause of death was a heart attack, insufficient blood supply to the heart, and death due to heart rate failure. But if the man was really not lying, and the girl was still crying when he left, the girl must have experienced some kind of shock afterwards to cause a heart attack.
I glanced at the man and asked, "Do you remember what the guy who hired you looked like?" ”
The man shook his head: "He was wearing sunglasses and a hat when he talked to me, and the light was very dim when we were talking, I couldn't see her appearance at all, but she looked good where she was not covered, her long hair was very dark, and her skin was very white." ”
With fair skin and long black hair, he really bears some resemblance to the zodiac victims we investigated. I guide the man to continue to reminisce; "Aside from that, do you remember what the man was wearing?"
The man frowned and thought for a while: "It seems to be a very long kind of dress, different from the usual girl's dress, she wrapped herself tightly, it was very hot at that time, I wonder why he changed his clothes for such a long time." ”
Tightly wrapped? I pondered the description given by the man, as if the person who hired him was trying his best to hide his identity, wrapped it tightly, because there was something on his body or pattern that he didn't want him to see? I recalled the bodies of the ten victims found in the zodiac, none of which had any signs of tattoos on their bodies, and no particularly striking scars. It seems that it is not to hide the traces on the body, but to cover up the traces on the body? Suddenly, something came to my mind, and I asked into the microphone, "Is there anything strange about the woman who hired you at the time, was he giving you the money in cash at the time?" ”
The man nodded, "Yes." As if he suddenly thought of something, the man suddenly said: "Her hands are very big, and when I took the money, I was still thinking about how this girl's hands were the same as the man's." It seems that she also has low self-esteem, and after giving me the money, she immediately retracted her hand into the cuff. ”
No, it was not a woman who hired the man in front of her to scare the girl, but a man who pretended to be a woman and disguised his identity. In other words, the murderer of his girlfriend that Wang Panjin is looking for is a man who is very good at dressing up as a woman. I even had a bolder guess that perhaps this murderer had already become a victim at the hands of Wang Panjin.
Well, I've learned most of the things I want to know at this point. I took one last look at the man in front of me, who was still looking at me with a numb expression.
I was so embarrassed by him that I asked, "The psychiatrist, I mean, after he lost his temper, do you remember what the happened?" ”
The man looked at me blankly, shook his head, and nodded again; "I'm not sure, I've only heard a few words, as if he should have known what it was, he should have reminded him a long time ago, and just waited, waited for him or something."
The man's words startled me, and I asked, "Do you remember where you met your client?" ”
"Nature Star, where the second floor was being renovated at that time, I was working there as a worker." (To be continued.) )