Chapter 8: Traces

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The house is not big, and there are not many furnishings and furniture in the house, so there is not much to rummage through, the advantage is clear at a glance, and the disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, it is not easy to judge what kind of identity and role the deceased was through the personal belongings in the house.

The living room was really lackluster, except for the trail of footprints at the door, Fang Yuan walked into the small kitchen opposite the entrance door, wanting to see if there was anything worth noting there.

The space of the kitchen is very small, the shape is relatively narrow and long, if you really fry and fry in it, show your cooking skills, one person may still be able to show it, and both people will seem more crowded, but judging from the situation in the kitchen, an honest gas stove that looks like no one has used for a long time, a wok that has been crawling with rust, and a dry vegetable washbasin, it is obvious that the person who lives here is not a person who is keen on cooking, and the function of the kitchen is not fully utilized. And in this small kitchen that has not been fully utilized, in a dirty plastic trash can in the corner, Fang Yuan found an electric heating rod commonly known as "hot fast", Fang Yuan carefully wore gloves to pick out the electric heating rod from the trash can, found a socket in the kitchen, plugged in the electricity and tried it, and soon the electric heating rod had a little temperature, indicating that this is a good electric heating rod that can still be used normally.

So why is a usable electric heating rod so casually thrown in the trash? I looked at the size of the heating rod. Fang Yuan already had a rough conclusion in his heart.

"It seems that this is the tool that the murderer used to heat the pool water in the bathtub!" She handed the electric heating rod to Dai Xu and told him what she thought. "When I was in college, because sometimes I didn't have time to go to the hot water room to get hot water, and the boys' dormitory building was far away from the hot water room, the boys in our class often committed crimes against the wind, knowing that the school prohibits the use of electric heating rods, and secretly hid one in the dormitory, and occasionally the girls borrowed it to use. I don't have this much power, and it won't take two or three minutes to plug it into the mouth of the kettle. A pot of water was boiled, and although it was not very safe, it was heated very quickly. Suppose the murderer put the body of the deceased in a bathtub filled with water. Then use such a large electric heating rod to heat it. It probably won't take long to do that. ”

Dai Xu nodded, took out a evidence bag, and packed the heating rod that had dissipated the temperature, ready to take it back to the bureau as evidence for reference. When Fang Yuan went to the kitchen to check, he was chatting with a colleague of criminal skills, asking about the evidence collected in the house.

"So, except for the body of the deceased in the bathroom. No traces of blood were found anywhere else in the house? Cleaned so thoroughly? After Dai Xu put away the heating rod, he continued the topic that he had just left unfinished. It seemed that the situation inside the house surprised him a little, "So there is nothing else but the footprint at the door?" ”

The colleague of the criminal technique nodded, and replied a little helplessly: "Yes, we are also very surprised, when we first came to the scene, we saw a string of footprints in the living room as soon as we opened the door, and I felt very happy, I felt that this was simply God's eyes, leaving such a complete footprint for us, but the result was still too naΓ―ve, in addition to the string of footprints that everyone can see, until now we have not even found a valid fingerprint, and the blood stains are even gone, it should be washed very clean, Otherwise, looking at the deceased's face being smashed into that appearance, it is unlikely that there is no blood. What's even more exaggerated is that including the bathroom, there are no other footprints in the house except for the series of footprints, and the murderer should have wiped all the locations where he may have left fingerprints before leaving the scene, or simply avoided fingerprints with something like gloves, and then cleaned from the inside to the outside while retreating to the outside, ensuring that no footprints were left in the room. I have been doing this for a long time, and many things can be judged at a glance, and this person we met this time is not ordinary, it is not just a matter of being careful or careless, I think this person has a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance. ”

"You mean, this man is a veteran?" After hearing this, Fang Yuan asked with a little worry.

"It's really hard to say whether it's a veteran, it may be someone who has dealt with the police and is more experienced, or it may be because of the perpetrator's own occupation or professional characteristics, so he has the awareness or knowledge of this aspect, anyway, it's definitely not just a simple careful carelessness!" The colleague of the criminal technology replied.

"Then in this way, that string of footprints that have not been erased, especially bright and dangling," Fang Yuan pointed to the string of black shoe prints on the floor of the living room, "It must have been left by the informant, the informant entered the door, went straight into the house, walked into the living room, and when he passed the bathroom, he saw the deceased in the bathtub, so he was frightened, turned his head and ran out." But who is the informant? Why was he able to come in without breaking the door, and after finding that someone had been killed in the house, he had to go out of his way to find an IC card payphone to report the crime? If you can enter the door without picking the lock, it means that the person who reported the crime should have the key to the house in his hand, is it ...... The person who reported the crime was the owner of the house, and the deceased was not? ”

Dai Xu shook his head, feeling that Fang Yuan's assumption was a bit untenable: "What would you do if it were your house, and after opening the door and entering the house, you found that there was an inexplicable dead person in the bathtub, and it shouldn't have appeared in your house at all?" Definitely call the police, right? But would you go to great lengths to report the crime in such a stealthy way, trying to cover up your identity? ”

"Probably not, although it is true that such an inexplicable unfortunate thing happened to my family will make people feel very uncomfortable in their hearts, but after all, it is not a shameful thing. Something happened in his house, even if he wanted to keep a low profile and didn't want to make a public announcement. As soon as the police come to the door, the neighbors will still know, and it is impossible to hide it. Fang Yuan was asked by Dai Xu like this, and she also realized that there was a lot of boredom in the problem she was thinking about just now, but she didn't feel embarrassed and faceless because of this, she still honestly said her thoughts, "And if it has nothing to do with herself." Then it is even more necessary to clarify, making it so mysterious and mysterious, but there is a feeling that it is unclear. It is not necessary to increase suspicion, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"Yes, that's why. So I think. It is possible that the informant entered the house for some reason that is not very visible, or not very legitimate, so if we know the identity of the informant, it may be more troublesome for the informant. Dai Xu nodded.

Fang Yuan thought about his words for a moment, and the most likely answer popped up in his mind: "Could that reporter be a burglar thief?" That's why you only dare to call the police and don't dare to show up? ”

"Not necessarily, if it's an experienced thief. First of all, you may not be able to focus on the houses around here," Dai Xu shook his head. After looking around at the simple furnishings inside this room, needless to say, Fang Yuan should still have an impression of the situation outside the house, if such a building, including such a residential community, can be targeted by more expert thieves, then this thief's vision is inevitably a little too low, "Secondly, even if for some reason, if you happen to be eyeing this household, you may not be so careless not to pay attention to how much muddy water is under your feet, and you can actually leave such a clear shoe print." This kind of mistake belongs to the old fritters will not be made, and the little thief with his hands can't even find the traces of the door lock being pried. Therefore, if these reasons are combined, I am more inclined to such an assumption - the murderer cleaned the scene after the killing, and before leaving, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the door lock was not locked, and the door was hidden, and the reporter was likely to find the hidden door, and was sure that there was no one in the house, so he wanted to go in and take the sheep, but he didn't expect to find the deceased by mistake, and he was afraid that he couldn't say it clearly, so he chose the way to report the crime with great difficulty. ”

Fang Yuan felt that Dai Xu's conclusion sounded reasonable, but there was another point that didn't make sense: "But this is the top floor?" If it is the middle floor, or the first or second floor, it may be reasonable, and it is very likely that someone will find that the door is hidden when they pass by, and it will be difficult to go to the top floor. ”

Dai Xu shrugged his shoulders: "What you said is true, but there is no more reasonable explanation for the time being, so I can only make a preliminary judgment first." Let's go to the bedroom and see if there are any personal belongings, ID cards, driver's licenses, even bank cards and the like, as long as it can show the identity information of the person who lives here. In the end, it is the owner of the house, or the tenant, or simply a completely unrelated person, let's really hurry up and find the right direction, otherwise the next investigation will be more passive. ”

Fang Yuan nodded, and hurriedly followed him into the bedroom. The bedrooms in this house were also simple, although there was no more bedding on the bed, only a dirty mattress, Dai Xu still lifted the mattress to see if anything had fallen underneath. Not to mention, there were really a few pieces of paper on the bed board under the mattress, Fang Yuan picked out those pieces of paper and opened them to take a look, and found that they were of no value, they were all things that had fallen from the cracks of the bed a long time ago, and the date on one of the supermarket shopping receipts was three years old.

In addition to a bed in the bedroom, there is also an old-fashioned wardrobe, Fang Yuan opened the wardrobe and looked at it, it was empty, only a few crooked wire hangers that had changed shape, the wood partition below had a thick layer of ash falling on it, and there were a few camphor wood balls in the corner that had long lost any smell, which looked like they had not been used for a long time, and of course it was impossible to find any personal belongings left behind.

Dai Xu didn't even let go of the bed, bent over, hunched over, and looked under the bed with a flashlight, and like everywhere, there was nothing worth paying attention to except for the thick dust.

"Who the hell lived here before, how did you pack up your personal belongings so cleanly, as if you hadn't lived there at all." Fang Yuan felt a little surprised, she could generally be regarded as the kind of person whose room was kept relatively tidy and her personal belongings were not too many, now if she was to be asked to pack up her things and leave immediately, and to make it as if she had never appeared in Dai Xu's small bedroom, I am afraid it would be very difficult to do, it would take a lot of effort to clean up, and it would take a lot of effort to clean up, and it would have to be thoroughly cleaned up. In the current house, many stains, dirt, and even garbage and waste newspapers that have been deposited over the years have not been touched and cleaned, and no trace of the occupants has been left, so it can only be said that the person who originally lived here, whether the deceased himself or not, lived in a very sloppy and unsteady manner.

"I guess either I don't come back to live often, and I only settle down occasionally, or I don't live at all, which really doesn't look like someone lives every day." Dai Xu saw that he couldn't find anything in the bedroom that could be related to the identity of the deceased or the owner of the house, so he didn't plan to continue wasting time here, looked at his watch, and gestured to Fang Yuan: "Let's go, let's go and see if there are any people in the neighborhood, maybe we can provide a little information, or the old neighbor can know the identity and contact information of the head of the household." ”

"Okay, let's go." Fang Yuan hurriedly nodded, this house, which had nothing to gain except for a corpse and a string of shoe prints, really hit her enthusiasm a little bit.

The two of them went out of the door, came directly to the door of the opposite household, stretched out their hands and knocked on the door, Fang Yuan was actually slightly suspicious of this household, if Dai Xu's idea could be established, as a house on the top floor, it was most likely to find that the door was not locked, but it was just hidden, I am afraid it was the neighbor of the opposite door.

The two of them knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered the door, and when they listened, there was silence inside, not like someone was at home, in this case, whether this family was related to the mysterious informant or not, at least there was no way to draw conclusions through the locked door at the moment. So Dai Xu and Fang Yuan went downstairs to try their luck again, the occupancy rate of this residential area did not seem to be high, and no one knew which household had people and which one had no people.

Fortunately, they were lucky this time, and there was really someone at home in the downstairs at the scene of the crime. (To be continued.) )