Chapter 259: Interviewing the Victims
Summer in S City is always so hot, so hot that people hide under the air conditioner, and they all feel hot, although it is more than four o'clock in the afternoon, but the temperature outside is still very high, and when you walk out of the room, you can feel the hot heat wave, but all the members of CSY feel cold all over their bodies at the moment.
In front of them, there were seven files, and these seven files were all reports of sexual assault by underage girls sent from various police stations, and Zhou Jiamei's case was the eighth, which made everyone feel unprecedented pressure.
Through the analysis of the files of eight cases, including Zhou Jiamei, as well as the previous investigation results of the police station, these eight cases are likely to have been committed by one person, and in just four months, eight similar cases have occurred in a row, which is a very bad case, and the victims are all minors, the oldest is only 14 years old, and the youngest is just 11 years old.
Due to the seriousness of the case, Xu Lang and Ding Haoqiong reported the matter to Tian Yongchun after some discussion, and after Tian Yongchun learned about it, he immediately slapped the table, led by CSY, and the other sub-bureaus assisted in the investigation.
So, on the 24th of June,
In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Lang asked the directors of the police stations of each sub-district to come to CSY for a meeting and held the first meeting.
At the meeting, the focus of the discussion was whether the eight sexual assault cases that have now been filed can be handled together.
For the merger of cases, the people present were divided into two different views, one believed that it was impossible for one person to do it, after all, these eight cases were distributed in all the jurisdictions of S City, except for Zhou Jiamei's case, which was clear after all, the other cases were not particularly clear, and they were in a hurry to merge and deal with them now, which seemed to have insufficient basis.
Another view is that judging from the murder of the eight victims, the suspects' modus operandi is very similar, and the targets are all minors between the ages of 11 and 14.
In the face of these two voices, Xu Lang decided to find the other seven victims except Zhou Jiamei first, and find them to understand the situation.
Everyone chose to agree with Xu Lang's opinion, so after a simple meeting, everyone began to act.
The seven members of the CSY criminal investigation team, each corresponding to a victim, followed the police from the local police station to find the victim and inquire about the situation.
Xu Lang is no exception, and his corresponding victim is the case of Wang Xinhu in Chengzhong District on June 14.
Wang Xinhu,Male,Forty years old,Is the owner of a lottery ticket sales shop in Chengzhong District,Good family conditions,According to the dossier records,Wang Xinhu is divorced,Living alone with his daughter Wang Yuyanγ
Xu Lang followed Ma Fenghua, a police officer from the city police station, and under the guidance of Ma Fenghua, he found Wang Xinhu's lottery shop.
Xu Lang they found Wang Xinhu when it was more than five o'clock in the afternoon,It was the peak period of getting off work,The lottery shop that should be open for business,At the moment, the door is locked,Closed,And at the door of the lottery shop,There are still a lot of people waiting to buy lottery tickets,They are more or less holding lottery tickets in their hands,Whispering about what lottery tickets to buy next,And some people are telling about the so-called experience of buying lottery tickets to win the lottery,And others also pricked up their ears to listen.
Xu Lang and Ma Fenghua drove a police car to the lottery shop,Attracted a lot of people's attention,When they saw Xu Lang in uniform,They all instinctively felt a little afraid,More are still confused,I don't understand why the police came to the lottery shop? Are you here to buy lottery tickets?
After Xu Lang got out of the car, he didn't pay attention to the doubts and incomprehensible glances around him, but looked at the locked lottery shop in front of him, and frowned, why wasn't Wang Xinhu there? Where did he go?
Xu Lang thought about it, then turned his head and asked a man next to him who was waiting to buy a lottery ticket, "Where did the shopkeeper go?" Isn't it open? β
The man was a little nervous by Xu Lang's questioning, but he still stubbornly said: "Lao Wang, he went to school to pick up his daughter from school, and he will come back after a while." β
"Pick up your daughter from school?"
Hearing the man say this, Xu Lang frowned again and asked curiously, "Isn't it Saturday today?" Still need to go to school? β
"Oh, that's right, Lao Wang has enrolled his daughter in a study class, and she will go to class on Saturday and Sunday." The man explained.
Hearing the man's explanation, Xu Lang suddenly understood what was going on, today's parents, in order to make their children learn better, often enroll their children in a lot of study classes, and want their children to win at the starting line.
Seeing that Xu Lang stopped talking, the man asked curiously, "Officer, are you looking for Lao Wang?" β
Xu Lang didn't speak, just nodded.
Seeing Xu Lang nodding, the man became even more curious and asked, "Did Lao Wang do something?" Is it a lottery fraud? If that's the case, you must tell me, damn, labor and management have spent tens of thousands of dollars here, and they haven't won the jackpot, and I have always felt that Lao Wang's lottery ticket is fake......"
Listening to the man's chattering and righteous indignant words, Xu Lang felt irritated for no reason, he interrupted the man's words, and said directly: "We came to Lao Wang just to understand some information, it has nothing to do with the lottery, and whether the lottery is fraudulent or not is not under the control of our police." β
"Oh, that's right."
Hearing Xu Lang say this, the man suddenly shut up with interest, a little stupid.
Just as Xu Lang and the others were talking, a man in his forties, leading a battery car, came over with a little girl carrying a small schoolbag.
The man parked the car, took his daughter out of the car, and then took out the keys from his pocket and walked towards the lottery shop, and the little girl's face, without the innocence and romance that her peers often have, Xu Lang found that the little girl's eyes were covered with gray fog, and there was no expression on her face, after she got out of the car, she grabbed one of the man's hands tightly, and followed the man step by step, like a little pug.
When passing through the crowd, the little girl instinctively feared, she leaned closer to the man, and did not dare to look at the faces of those strangers, and kept looking down at the ground, as if there was something new on the ground.
"Team Leader Xu, he is Wang Xinhu."
When the man walked over, Ma Fenghua, who was standing next to Xu Lang, spoke.
Xu Lang looked at the man and nodded, indicating that he understood.
When Wang Xinhu saw Xu Lang and Ma Fenghua in police uniforms, he was stunned at first, and then, a trace of anger appeared on his face that could not be suppressed, he stopped a few steps away from Xu Lang and them, held the key in his hand, stared at Xu Lang with a pair of eyes, stared at Xu Lang, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing here?" β
This sudden roar startled everyone at the scene.
Those who often come here to buy lottery tickets,Are familiar with Lao Wang,Know that Lao Wang is a very honest person,Friendly to everyone,Very good to talk,Rarely blush,Even if others say that his lottery ticket is fake,He just smiled,Didn't justify anything,And those regular customers sometimes joke about him,Wang Xinhu is not angry,And follow the silly fun,But,What's wrong today? Why was he so angry in the face of the police who came to his door? It seems that these two policemen seem to be the man who robbed his wife in the first place, and there is a deep hatred between the two sides.
Surprised, confused, puzzled, more curious and the mentality of watching the play.
The man who was interrupted by Xu Lang just now, when he saw Lao Wang scolding Xu Lang and them, he immediately felt schadenfreude, calling you so fierce to me just now, now you are being yelled at, you deserve it.
The others looked at this scene, first looked at Wang Xinhu, and then looked at Xu Lang, waiting for Xu Lang's reaction, to see if the two policemen were angry and scolded Wang Xinhu, or directly took out the handcuffs and took Wang Xinhu away?
However, the scene they wanted to see did not appear, in the face of Wang Xinhu's angry roar, Xu Lang was neither angry, nor refuted, let alone took out handcuffs, but calmly asked: "Are you Wang Xinhu?" β
Wang Xinhu looked at Xu Lang and frowned, he didn't know Xu Lang, but he knew Ma Fenghua who was standing next to Xu Lang, after all, Ma Fenghua was a police officer at the police station in the city, when he went to the police station to report the case, he saw it, although the two people didn't speak, but he still knew each other, and this opening, the policeman with snow-white long hair, he didn't know, Ma Fenghua stood beside Xu Lang, it seems that Xu Lang's position is higher than that of the other party, he should be an official, it is estimated that he is a deputy director or director or something.
Thinking of this, Wang Xinhu nodded with a gloomy face, and said sullenly: "I am Wang Xinhu, let's say, what is the matter with me, if it is to buy lottery tickets, go to the side and line up." β
As he spoke, Wang Xinhu was about to take the key to open the door.
"We don't buy lottery tickets, we just want you to find out a little bit about the situation." Xu Lang spoke again.
Wang Xinhu stopped, turned his head to look at Xu Lang, his brows furrowed even tighter, he looked at Xu Lang and asked, "What do you know?" Do you police suspect that my lottery ticket is fake? Hehe......"
At the end, Wang Xinhu sneered.
Xu Lang subconsciously squinted his eyes, and did not immediately answer Wang Xinhu's question, but shifted his gaze and looked at the girl who was holding Wang Xinhu's hand tightly, the little girl's body was tightly attached to Wang Xinhu's thigh, at this moment, she was raising her head, with deep vigilance and vigilance, and that inexpressible fear in her eyes. looked at Xu Lang.
When she saw Xu Lang looking at herself, the little girl hurriedly lowered her head, her originally ruddy face suddenly turned pale, and her body began to tremble, obviously, the little girl was very uneasy, nervous, and scared.
"Is this your daughter?" Xu Lang asked.
Wang Xinhu's pupils shrank suddenly, he turned around, stared at Xu Lang, and asked word by word, "Who are you?" β
Xu Lang took out his police ID card from his pocket, handed it to Wang Xinhu, and said, "Xu Lang, the leader of the CSY criminal investigation team in S City." β
Wang Xinhu heard the word criminal investigation, his body shook suddenly, he first glanced at Xu Lang in surprise, and then carefully looked at the documents in Xu Lang's hand, and after making sure that Xu Lang himself was correct, he withdrew his gaze, his eyes became a little softer, and his tone became kind, but when he spoke, his tone was still a little unkind and distrustful.
"Say, what is the matter with me, I haven't done anything illegal or criminal." Wang Xinhu said.
Xu Lang took back the document and put it in his pocket, then shook his head and said with a smile: "I know that you have not committed a crime, and we have other things to do with you." β
"What's the matter?" Wang Xinhu asked.
"Something about your daughter."
Hearing Xu Lang mention his daughter, Wang Xinhu's body trembled violently again, he raised his head and stared at Xu Lang deadly, his expression became hideous and distorted again, his eyes began to be bloodshot, and he almost roared out and said: "It's been so long since the matter passed, you came to me to ask about the situation, do you police usually handle cases like this?" Yes?! β
Xu Lang looked at the excited Wang Xinhu, silently, he didn't defend anything, just said: "Can we find a place to talk, I don't think you want more people to know about it, right?" β
Wang Xinhu was stunned for a moment, and the words in his mouth were not finished, and suddenly stopped, he turned his head, looked at the regular customers around him who often came here to buy lottery tickets, and looked at their puzzled and curious faces, Wang Xinhu hesitated for a while, and nodded.
Wang Xinhu turned around and said to the people waiting to buy lottery tickets: "It's closed today, let's come back tomorrow." β
"Huh? Why is it closed? I'm still waiting to buy a lottery ticket? β
"Yes, I've chosen all my numbers, how can I say that if it's not open, it's not open?"
"That's right, I've been waiting here for half an hour, and if you don't open for business, you won't say it early, and I'll go somewhere else to buy it."
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As soon as Wang Xinhu's words came out, the scene suddenly became noisy, and the voices of dissatisfaction and complaints came one after another.
Wang Xinhu's face was expressionless, he looked around, and said coldly: "I have something to do today, I'm sorry for the big job, it's really not open, let's come back tomorrow." β
After saying this, Wang Xinhu took the little girl to the front of the battery car, carried the little girl to the car, and rode on the car himself, and then asked Xu Lang: "Where to talk?" Is it the police station or my house? β
Xu Lang didn't pay attention to the onlookers around him, but glanced at Wang Xinhu, then at the little girl who was trembling, hesitated and said, "Let's go to your house." β
Wang Xinhu nodded, didn't say anything, started the battery car, and Xu Lang and Ma Fenghua also got into the police car and followed Wang Xinhu out of here.
This sudden scene,Let everyone at the scene feel inexplicable,At first,They thought that the police came here,It must be Wang Xinhu's lottery problem,But,After Wang Xinhu came back,They found that things don't seem to be like this,The lottery is no problem,The police came to find Wang Xinhu is related to his daughter,So what happened to Wang Xinhu's daughter? Will it attract the attention of the police?
Could it be that someone caught stealing something? However, they also know Wang Yuyan more or less, and know that this child is not the kind of person who steals, besides, Wang Xinhu is divorced, just such a daughter, she is usually very distressed, and she is never stingy, Wang Yuyan's pocket money has never been missing, and the little girl can't steal.
Even if the little girl really stole something, it was a matter for the police, the strange policeman just now, said that he was the leader of the CSY criminal investigation team, what department CSY was, they didn't know, but they knew the word criminal investigation, criminal investigation means criminal case, what criminal case can a little girl have to do with it?
Everyone felt dazed and puzzled, but now Wang Xinhu and his daughter have left, and the two policemen have also left, no one has given an answer, the lottery ticket is not bought, they discussed a few words, they dispersed, and when they left, they cursed, saying that they would delay their dream of winning the jackpot and becoming a millionaire.
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The community where Wang Xinhu lives is not far from the lottery shop, and it takes more than ten minutes to ride a bicycle.
After arriving at the community, Wang Xinhu parked the car, took his daughter and waited for Xu Lang and them at the staircase, and after seeing Xu Lang and them, he turned around and entered the stairwell, and Xu Lang and they hurriedly followed.
The four of them came to the fifth floor in silence, Wang Xinhu took out the key and opened the door.
After the little girl opened the door, she was the first to rush in, and she didn't change her shoes, so she ran directly into the bedroom, and then, there was a bang, the sound of the door closing and locking, Xu Lang saw this scene, and frowned again, and Wang Xinhu shook his head helplessly, obviously, this is not the first time that the little girl has been like this.
"Come in."
Wang Xinhu walked in first, did not change his shoes, and came directly to the living room.
Seeing this, Xu Lang and Ma Fenghua did not change their shoes, and followed into the room, came to the living room, and sat down on the sofa.
After the two sides sat down, neither of them took the lead to speak.
Xu Lang didn't know where to start, after all, when Wang Xinhu reported the case, he didn't receive it himself, he only learned about Wang Xinhu's case through the file, and now that he saw the reporter, he didn't know how to ask.
Wang Xinhu looked at Xu Lang and Ma Fenghua with a gloomy face, his face was full of anger and distrust, obviously, he was very dissatisfied with the police coming to him ten days after he reported the case, so he didn't speak.
The living room suddenly became silent.