Chapter 51: New Clues
The weather on this day was unusually clear, and none of the citizens of Tianshan City expected that such a tragedy would happen in such a sunny weather.
During the morning rush hour, a bus driving on the bustling streets of Tianshan City suddenly exploded. The bus was blown into a fishnet on the spot, fifteen innocent passengers became wronged souls, more than 20 passengers were seriously injured, and only a few passengers survived, but their hearts were deeply hurt by this.
The criminal police of the Tianshan City Public Security Bureau immediately rushed to the scene, and Tian Daqing, deputy director of the bureau who presided over the work, also personally came to the scene to take charge of the investigation work. After the recovery and integration of the scene, it was preliminarily judged that the explosive was a cylinder with great explosive power in the shape of a teacup, and the detonation method was basically determined to be a radio remote control device.
As soon as Tian Daqing returned to the bureau from the scene, the secretary told him that there were guests waiting for him in his office.
Tian Daqing walked into the office and found a young man in a windbreaker sitting on the sofa, and when he saw him come in, he immediately got up, handed over his documents and said: "Director Tian, I am Li Xiaoning, the head of the Western Xinjiang Anti-Terrorism Special Detachment, and this case is under the jurisdiction of our Anti-Terrorism Special Detachment from now on, please help." β
Tian Daqing's brows immediately furrowed, he was very dissatisfied with Li Xiaoning's behavior of cutting off his beard, and Li Xiaoning was too young, it seemed that he was not a few years older than his son, and his level was actually two levels higher than him, which made him subconsciously think that the other party came to power by nepotism.
Therefore, Tian Daqing did not immediately agree to Li Xiaoning's request, but sat on his office chair and took a sip of water before saying: "This case happened in our city, and our city bureau should be responsible for investigating ......."
Li Xiaoning said sternly: "Director Tian, if you are not afraid of being angry, I am not a request, but an order." This case is clearly a premeditated terrorist attack, and our Counter-Terrorism Task Force has the highest priority in all cases involving risky terrorist activities. People's lives and property are at stake, and I don't have time to bargain with you here. β
Li Xiaoning's words choked Tian Daqing half to death, he really wanted to drive this arrogant young man out, but the unconditional obedience to his superiors formed over the years still made him endure this impulse. He said with a calm face: "In this case, we obey the arrangement of our superiors, but the case happened in our city, we should at least have the right to assist in the investigation, right?" β
"Of course." Li Xiaoning nodded and said, "I said at the beginning, I am here to ask you to assist us, after all, we are new to the city, and many places still need to ask the field bureau for advice." β
Tian Daqing's face softened a little, and said, "I will have someone send the investigation materials of the case to Captain Li......"
"Thank you! There's no rush on this. Li Xiaoning said, "The first task at the moment is to take measures to control the situation as soon as possible, because I am worried that there will be explosions in other places." β
Tian Daqing also realized this problem at this time, he suddenly stood up, and said hurriedly: "Then you are still sitting here?" β
Li Xiaoning pressed his hand against Tian Daqing and said, "Director Tian, don't be excited. My people are already in action. β
As Li Xiaoning said, the technicians of the anti-terrorist special detachment have long been driving more than a dozen rovers along the busy streets of Tianshan City to detect unexploded bombs that may have been installed. Sure enough, an hour and a half later, one of the rovers detected the "Didi" sound of a bomb about to detonate when it approached the bus of the "Xijiang University-Kindergarten" special line. So, the agents immediately evacuated the passengers, and when the last passenger jumped about ten meters away from the bus, a huge explosion occurred, but fortunately, there were no casualties.
After hearing the news, Tian Daqing secretly wiped a handful of sweat, if it wasn't for Li Xiaoning's arrangements in advance, then there would not be fifteen people who died today. The disgust for Li Xiaoning in his heart has eased a lot again. began to take the initiative to communicate with Li Xiaoning about the case.
Li Xiaoning suddenly shifted the topic to the case of the kidnapping and murder of a taxi driver a few months ago. At that time, the anti-terrorism special detachment had not yet officially started operation, so the case was handled by the Tianshan City Public Security Bureau, and Tian Daqing must have known the progress of the case.
Tian Daqing sighed and said: "The facts of the case are still unclear, at present, the identity of the deceased has been clarified, she is a laid-off female worker, she is usually very responsible, she has never had a holiday with anyone, and she has never offended anyone." As for the cause of death of the deceased, based on these clues from the current investigation, it is not yet possible to judge, was it homicide? Is it suicide? Love killing? Is it robbery and murder? There are suspicions, and none of them can be implemented. β
"Do you think it's a normal criminal case?" Li Xiaoning asked.
Tian Daqing shook his head and said, "It's hard to draw conclusions. β
Li Xiaoning said: "Judging from the existing clues, the murderer is both neat and ruthless. Intuitively, I think it was he who killed, and the murderer should be more than two people, what I don't understand is that the murderer burned the taxi, so how did they leave? If you are leaving in a car, there should be deep tire marks around the scene; If you leave on foot, you should leave footprints around the site. β
"However, the area around the scene has long been destroyed, and I don't know how many footprints have been left." Tian Daqing said regretfully.
The case of the burning of the taxi and the female driver has temporarily become a death case, and both Li Xiaoning and Tian Daqing have to devote their main energy to dealing with the bus bombing case.
A few days later, Zhou Xiaoping, a trace expert in the technical brigade, pushed open the door of Li Xiaoning's office with a "bang". β
At this time, Tian Daqing also happened to be discussing the case in Li Xiaoning's office, and when he heard that there was a new development in the taxi case, he also became excited.
It turned out that Zhou Xiaoping had not given up on the case of the taxi driver being burned. He went to the scene of two taxi crimes alone, and used the most advanced scanning technology to search all the footprints within 100 meters of the scene, and as a result, he unexpectedly found that there were two footprints that were very special. Judging from the characteristics of deep footprints on the back foot of his right foot and shallow footprints on his left foot, he concluded that this person had a foot disease on his right foot. He also concluded that these were the footprints of two cowhide boots, and judging by the model, they should be men's shoes of size 39.
Zhou Xiaoping asked Li Xiaoning in surprise: "Think about it, who likes to wear cowhide boots?" β
"Middle-aged Uighur men like to wear checkered shirts and hard-soled leather shoes or cowhide boots." Tian Daqing said beside him, "There were many Uighurs among the police who went to the scene, but none of them wore cowhide boots, and the deceased was a Han woman." β
Li Xiaoning frowned and said, "Maybe this footprint has nothing to do with this case?" Did a local farmer pass by there? β
Zhou Xiaoping shook his head and said, "It can't be a local farmer." If so, more footprints should have been left, but there were only these two footprints around the scene, and I'm sure they were accidentally left by the suspect. It is possible that he burned and destroyed the footprints everywhere he went, retreated to the highway where it was not easy to leave footprints, and then ran away.
Li Xiaoning nodded and said, "That makes sense." β
Zhou Xiaoping said excitedly: "According to the force of the footprints, it can be concluded that the suspect has a slight limp on his right foot and is about 20 to 40 years old. β
Li Xiaoning said: "Then hurry up and compare with the number of jΓΉ ku, what are you still doing in a daze?" β
Zhou Xiaoping said dejectedly: "I have already compared, there is no such pair." β
Li Xiaoning asked: "Are there any missing footprints that have not been compared?" β
Zhou Xiaoping said: "Of course there are, there are so many people in Western Xinjiang, and we only have hundreds of thousands of files in the library, and there is no information that cannot be compared." β
Tian Daqing interjected on the side: "This is not a problem, let's use the old method, you delineate a comparison range, I let the criminal investigation departments in various places participate in the extraction and comparison of footprints, one by one, I don't believe that it can't be checked?" β
Li Xiaoning frowned and said, "It's too labor-intensive to do that." β
Tian Daqing stiffened his neck and said, "Then what good can you do?" β
Li Xiaoning thought for a moment and said: "The information brigade of our anti-terrorism special detachment has the most advanced data database in China, and we can use it to find out this person by means of cross-searching." β
"Sitting in the office and finding the suspect?" Tian Daqing frowned unconsciously.
"As long as he's in our library." As Li Xiaoning spoke, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Xie Erdong's number, and pressed the speakerphone.
"Mr. Li, I finally received a call from you, and I was about to suffocate to death during this time." On the other end of the phone, Sheldon said with a little complaint.
"You're my killer weapon, where can I use you until the critical moment." Li Xiaoning replied with a smile, and then said, "But now is the time when you and your supernumber jΓΉ library need to play a role." I'm looking for someone to see if you can surprise me? β
"No problem, give me conditions." As soon as Xedon heard that there was work to do, he immediately got into the groove.
"Uighur, male, 20 to 40 years old, with a disability in his right foot." Li Xiaoning gently tapped the table with his hand to assist in thinking, and said quickly, "It should be a person who has been released from prison, and the release time should be within one year." β
"Wait for my news." Sheldon replied quickly.
"How long will it take?" Li Xiaoning asked.
"Thirty seconds." Xerdon on the other end of the line spoke quickly, and the sound of rapid tapping on the keyboard could be heard.
Soon Sheldon's voice sounded again, "There are fifty-four search results. β
Fifty-four turns is still too much, Li Xiaoning pondered for a moment and said: "The suspect is a man, but he only wears size thirty-nine shoes, and his height should not be high, well, it should be under 165CM." β
"And thirty-seven people." Sheldon replied quickly.
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