Chapter 3: The Missing Victims

The boss looked at me after hearing this, and said with a helpless expression: "I really let you say it." ”

I shrugged my shoulders, Zheng Min looked at the conversation between the two of us, and I guessed that she could guess the rough idea, and she put the newly brought materials on the coffee table: "The latest case did not happen in early February, but in mid-July, and it was a college student. Because she got a good job after graduation, she took advantage of her birthday to celebrate her, but she didn't expect to be found killed on the street on the third day of her 22nd birthday. The forensic examination, like the other thousands of words, showed that there were tear marks on the lower body after the victim's death, but no DNA remained. ”

"The deceased was pestered by a small man like everyone else?" I thought about the experiences of the previous deceased and wanted to confirm with Zheng Min.

But unexpectedly, Zheng Min just shook his head: "I shouldn't have been entangled, this victim is very pampered by his family, and his family picks up and sends him to and from work." On the day of the accident, her mother was supposed to pick her up by car, but she didn't see her come out for a long time, and she didn't answer the phone, thinking that it was a meeting or something, so she waited, but the victim didn't come out until late. Her mother tried to go upstairs to have a look, only to find that the victim's company was empty, and his mother realized that something was wrong. After that, the family helped to find it for a day, and 24 hours later, the case was filed for disappearance. Nearly 48 hours after the disappearance, police found a body that matched the victim's characteristics, and later identified the deceased as the victim. ”

"But unlike other victims' experiences of being pestered in their lifetimes, why do you think it's the same type as the other people who secretly merge with others?" There are no similar characteristics in the experience, and even if it does fit into the Cancer cycle, it cannot be rigidly applied.

Zheng Min flipped to the last page of the victim's profile and handed it to us: "I ignored this case at first because the girl didn't complain to anyone that she was being stalked and entangled, but when I was looking for this short suspect recently, I found another feature - the location of his crime. You see, suspects generally choose commercial areas as the scene of murder and the scene of body dumping. Another reason why the police did not merge these cases is that the murderers disposed of the bodies in different ways, the place where the two prostitutes and the other two deceased were found was the first crime scene, and the remaining victims, including the newly discovered deceased, did not belong to the first crime scene, to be precise, they were killed and discarded in the downtown area. ”

"But the particularity of the crime scene does not mean that the last case is related to the first nine cases." I knew we missed a victim, but hastily linking them together would have caused problems in the investigation. It will be troublesome to draw conclusions, and it is very necessary to sort out whether there is really a connection between the cases in the first place.

Zheng Min clicked on a few photos from his phone, which looked like their company's personnel file: "This victim was killed in the business district where our company is located. Today, when I went to the personnel to pick up something, I saw them sorting out the intern files, and I caught a glimpse of a photo of the intern and thought it was quite familiar. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, and when I went out, I heard our HR manager hold a resume-like document and say it's a pity. I eavesdropped on the door for a while, only to find out that they were unfortunately talking about the victims on the information in your hands. This girl applied to our company as an intern before, but after we received his resume, we decided to hire him temporarily, and the phone also called him, and a sister in the personnel department also said that the girl was very happy to receive our employment call, saying that she would report on Monday, but we received a call from her on Monday and said that she couldn't come. At the time, everyone thought that there was nothing, maybe they had found a better job, but then we hired a new person, but not long after, two weeks after she turned us down, she was found dead on the street. ”

Zheng Min read me for a moment and then continued: "I was just curious at the time, so I went to check on this girl's affairs, and found that his practice report was strikingly similar to the files of the deceased that we found before. But that's not the main reason why I put them together. ”

"What is it?" The Boss asked her.

"She didn't come to find a reason for the job. Because I was curious and felt familiar, I specially read her information. The company she chose to intern at was much smaller than our publishing house, and as far as I knew about her new company, the internship salary and other conditions offered would be much worse than ours. Moreover, when she did not come to work in our company at that time, she did not receive a job invitation from another company. I was supposed to reject the offer we got a week later, where would he go to work after that, and the position he was in was much worse than what our publishing house had arranged. It didn't seem like a normal mindset, and she was excited when she first got our call, and the fact that she knew about it just a weekend suggests that something must have happened that influenced her choice. ”

"Did you find out what influenced her choice?"

"In order to rule out her personal reasons, I went to the monitoring room to see if she had come to our company before joining the company, and changed her mind because of some bad influences. The surveillance footage confirmed my suspicion that the girl had indeed visited our company alone the weekend before she was hired, where she was going to work in the future. While speaking, Zheng Min called up the video in his mobile phone, "The girl was still very happy when she entered the company building, but she was very frightened when she went out, it should be said that she ran out." "I focused my eyes on the small mobile phone screen, although I couldn't see the girl's expression clearly, but I could see from her running posture that she was quite frightened at that time, and she ran out without looking back, and the speed was very fast, as if she was being chased by something, but then she left the monitoring range.

"There's only so much surveillance? Did your security guard see this surveillance and didn't react at the time? "I asked her after watching the surveillance, logically speaking, the girl was frightened, and she should have alarmed the security guards in the monitoring room at that time, at least she should have gone to the scene to see the situation.

"I secretly obtained the surveillance, so I didn't ask the security what happened that day, but I didn't see anyone else in the later surveillance, and I didn't see the security guard, I don't know if it was erased. However, if something incredible really happened in our company, it should have spread, but I didn't hear any rumors. I've sent the video to Jin Hao to check whether it has been trimmed, but it shouldn't be, if it is trimmed, the previous paragraph should also be cut out, but a special one has not been erased, indicating that the video should not have been moved. It may be that the girl ran away too fast, and there was no one behind the reason, and the security guard didn't care, after all, we sometimes ran out of the building to chase the news, so we didn't pay special attention. ”

"When was the footage?" I thought for a moment and added, "I mean, how long is it until the girl's death?" ”

Zheng Min glanced at the date on the video, which showed 3:20 p.m. on July 5 and the girl's date of death on July 21, with an interval of 15 days.

"Do you have any short men there?" The boss looked at the video and asked Zheng Min.

Zheng Min's expression was a little helpless when he replied: "There are really some." I looked at the clock-in that day, and if you judge by height, there were at least five suspects, and that doesn't include the security guards and cleaners, because they don't have to clock in. ”

According to Gu Nian's reaction, he was indeed very frightened, and later on, like the victims of several other cases, was physically assaulted after death. But there is still no direct proof that the factor that indicates her fear is the entanglement from a small man like the other victims, and it can only be said that it is suspected of the same case. If possible, I think we should try to get in touch with her family and friends first, if she is not willing to mention this matter to her family, she will also use other ways to relieve the panic in her heart, we still have to confirm again, if it is really a kind of case, I think the next victim's victimization time should be when the earth runs to the ninth house of the zodiac, Scorpio, that is, the fixed sign in the water constellation, then the time of the suspect should be from October 24 to November 22, And the victim should also be a person whose birthday is in this cycle, and the place of work or former place of work should be in the downtown area. We still have half a month to enter Scorpio in the ninth house of the zodiac, and the suspect is likely to do it at any time after entering the Scorpio house. Zheng Min, let's say, who got you involved in this series of cases? I put down the materials in my hand and dropped them on the coffee table in chronological order.

Zheng Min didn't expect me to ask such a question, blinking his eyes and not speaking, the boss got up and went to the kitchen, probably deliberately avoiding this question. I sat on the couch and looked at Zheng Min, who had been avoiding eye contact with me.

"Who commissioned it?" I still haven't let go of this question, I understand them, and they are not characters who will go after them whenever they find it strange. Someone should have paid them to investigate the case.

"Wei, Wei Kai took it." She turned her head sideways and didn't look at me.

"Which victim's family commissioned me?"

"The father of the third deceased, because the death of the third deceased was so tragic, and a boy was killed and did something excessive, but there were no clues at the scene, so the case has not been closed. He is the only child in the family. Zheng Min paused here when he said this, "In order to catch the murderer, his father spent a lot of money to go to the underground private detective agency to investigate, but there was still no result, and the private detective he found was a liar at all, so he ran away with the money." After the victim's father found out that he had been deceived, he went to the door to smash the store and happened to see Wei Kai. The shop was near the apartment that Wei Kai rented at the time, and he could always see the deceased's father before it opened, and probably found out what happened from the chats of the neighbors downstairs, and when the father left in frustration, he followed the man, and then saw the man sitting by the river, felt that something was wrong, and stopped the man when he was about to jump into the river. However, except for Wei Kai, the man savage used to be a big star after all. It is estimated that the father of the deceased was also desperate and kept trying to jump into the river. Before I opened it, I listened to the old lady downstairs chatting, and knew that the man gave the crook detective a lot of commission in order to find the murderer of his son. ”

Without waiting for Zheng Min to say something, I continued: "So, Wei Kai was greedy for that commission, so he boasted that Haikou Yu wanted to help a man find her son's murderer, and then swallow that commission?" ”

Zheng Min held his mouth and nodded.

I smiled bitterly: "After that, Wei Kai first found the liar detective and chased the money back with violence, the man saw that Wei Kai still had some ability, and regardless of whether he was wanted by the police or not, he handed over the matter of finding the murderer to Wei Kai." After that, you begin to explore the case like headless flies. ”

Zheng Min lost his temper at what I said, and lowered his head to acquiesce in my guess. I said a little helplessly: "You guys, just look at that little profit, and accept the commission indiscriminately." The father of the other family is really desperate, so he will lose his judgment and look for two knives like you. ”

Zheng Min pouted a little unhappily after hearing this: "It's not because our experience is distracted by you, otherwise." ”

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have been investigating for so long and missing a single case." I gently spread Zheng Min's head, "Yes, it's all my fault, let you two knives go out to investigate the case in person." Okay, I'm back, and I'll investigate the case with you. But you worked hard enough in the early stage to find so many related cases. But how did you notice the case of those two prostitutes? ”

"It was a social case that had been tracked before, at that time, it was the head snake who complained that someone had killed someone on his territory, at first I thought it was a festival between gangs, and then I learned that there was a girl who was murdered after ****. You know, this kind of girl is not just remembered that he is taken seriously as a victim, and public opinion is very cruel to them, and no one cares about their life or death. But they were also living beings who lived with us on this earth, so I wanted to do something for them. It just so happened that Wei Kai accepted the commission of that matter at that time, saying that when he signed the autopsy report, there was a lot of overlap with the forensic results in the case I was investigating. We all had a strong premonition that there should be more cases like this. The result was the same as we had guessed, so we summed up all the similar cases. (To be continued.) )