June 21

Early in the morning, the atmosphere in the director's office conference room on the sixth floor of the Pujiang Municipal Public Security Bureau was very solemn. The leaders of the sub-bureau and the criminal investigation detachment have just held a work report meeting. Earlier in the day, there was the third case this month of assaulting a victim from behind and hitting the victim in the head with a blunt object.

Since the place where the crime occurred was not within the jurisdiction of the Shibei Police Station, Huang Fangyuan and others did not go to the scene. After receiving the report, the criminal investigation detachment of the Jiangbei Branch sent people from the serious crime team to the scene to understand the situation.

Huang Fangyuan and Wang Xiangrui, as investigators of the second wounding case, went to the sub-bureau with Deputy Director Cui to attend the meeting. After the meeting, they returned to their offices. His team was anxiously waiting in the office at the moment, everyone with a look of frustration on their faces. Especially for the two young police officers, this is the first major criminal case they have encountered since they joined the police. For the battle-hardened Huang Fangyuan and Wang Xiangrui, why not? This kind of continuous injury and even death is also the first time they have encountered it in their 25 years as police officers. In the face of such a difficult case, not only the leaders of the city bureau and sub-bureau attached great importance to it and gave instructions to solve the case immediately, but even the leaders of the city government issued a death order that the case must be solved. To this end, the municipal bureau has prepared to set up a special case team, with the criminal investigation corps taking the lead in continuing the in-depth investigation.

"Boss, what do you say?" As soon as Huang Fangyuan walked into the office, Lin Xuan couldn't wait to ask.

"Although this case is not in our jurisdiction, because the modus operandi is similar to the previous two cases, the criminal team has decided to combine the cases for investigation, and the city bureau is also preparing to set up a special team to formally supervise the case. Since the previous two cases occurred in our jurisdiction, it was decided that our firm would fully cooperate with the criminal investigation detachment of the sub-bureau to carry out the investigation. ”

Wang Xiangrui took the opportunity to say: "It's not that my old Wang is boasting, I really don't think about the case-handling ability of the boys in the criminal team." In particular, how many of the young people in the Criminal Investigation Corps were transferred after they had been trained at the grassroots level? Most of them are just talking on paper. It's still good in the past, the previous criminal investigation position was not something that anyone could be qualified for casually, and it was necessary to accumulate enough qualifications at the grassroots level and have enough case-handling ability to get to this post. Now anyone can go there as long as it's related, hey......"

"Lao Wang, I don't agree with this argument of yours. Unlike other departments, the criminal squad needs to go out twice in three days, and young forces are indispensable. If it's all a bunch of old men out there, if they encounter a dirty job waiting for an ambush, a rush and a pursuit, will they be up to the task? Lin Xuan retorted disappreciatively, "Qualifications are important, but physical strength is just as important. Qualifications can be accumulated, but once the physical strength is gone, it will not return. The key lies in how to establish an effective appointment mechanism to truly make the best use of people's talents and materials. ”

"Hey, hey......" Huang Fangyuan clenched his fist with one hand, tapped the desktop of the desk with his knuckles, and interrupted the conversation between Wang Xiangrui and Lin Xuan, "Don't talk too far about the topic, it's not our turn to worry about those things yet, what we have to care about is the present." Huang Fangyuan paused slightly, cleared his throat, and continued, "No matter what the ability of others is, and no matter what the nature of the case is, all we can do is to keep our duty and do our best. It is better to count on anyone than to rely on oneself and to be useful. In this way, let's sort out and analyze the three cases again to see if we can sort out any clues from them? ”

"Okay." The two young policemen shouted in unison, and the whole person was suddenly full of fighting spirit.

Huang Fangyuan looked at his beloved apprentice with satisfaction, and said, "Ge Bin, you can describe the facts of the first case again. ”

"The victim's name is Jiang Jinmei, female, 67 years old, local. The time of the crime was about 6:20 in the morning on June 10, and the place of the crime was in the forest park in the north of the city, and an old man who exercised early found the victim lying in the woods, who was found in a coma with serious injuries, and the cause of the serious injury was a blunt force blow to the back of the head. It is worth noting that the injured person had lacerations on both earlobes, and the family confirmed that the missing was a pair of pure gold earrings, which was initially suspected to have been forcibly torn off by the suspect. ”

"Lao Wang, let's talk about the case this morning." Huang Fangyuan lit a cigarette.

"Okay, the time of the crime is around 6 o'clock this morning, three days before the second case on June 19. The victim is also a woman, named Li Gendi, 58 years old, and the injured part is the back of the head, which was caused by a blunt force blow. The victim was found in a street garden near Tongjiang Road in Shibei New Village. He is still in the intensive care unit and is not out of danger. The location of the crime is relatively remote, and the modus operandi is to attack from behind. It was confirmed by the victim's family that a gold necklace that had been worn by the victim for a long time was missing. It is initially suspected that it was stolen by the suspect. ”

"The second victim, the only male victim in the three cases, regained consciousness in the early hours of this morning and is not in danger of his life. As far as he recalled, the attack came from the rear, and he did not see the face of the attacker. Ge Bin added information about the second case.

"Let's talk about what we think." Huang Fangyuan slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, looked around at the people in the office, and said, "It's okay to express your opinions boldly." ”

"I'll start with two words." Wang Xiangrui took the lead and said, "The three cases have similarities, the time of the crime is early in the morning, concentrated between 5:30 and 6:30, the victims are all elderly, the victims are all hit with blunt objects in the back of the head, and all have property damage, it can be preliminarily judged that the same person committed it." ”

"But there are also differences in the three cases. First, the first and third victims were women, while the second victims were men. Secondly, in the first and third cases, the suspect was extremely serious, and neither of the two victims was out of danger of life, while in the second case, the victim's injuries were relatively minor......" Lin Xuan questioned.

"Maybe it's because of gender relations, women's ability to resist blows is poor, so the same blow will cause much more damage." Ge Bin explained.

"There's one difference." Lin Xuan continued, "In the first and third cases, the stolen items were all gold jewelry, while in the second case, it was just an ordinary steel Pujiang brand watch......

"It's also different, why did the suspects in the first two cases choose to be in Shibei Forest Park, while the third case suddenly moved to the vicinity of a residential area?" Huang Fangyuan also raised doubts.

"This can be explained." Wang Xiangrui took over the topic and replied, "It shows that during the time period of the first and second cases, the suspect happened to be active in the area of Shibei Forest Park, which is within the jurisdiction of our police station." After that, he shifted the scope of his activities and went to the vicinity of Tongjiang Road, where the third case occurred, which happened to be out of our jurisdiction. ”

"It is also possible that the first two cases were chosen in the forest park, which has already attracted people's attention, and if the crime is committed there again, the risk factor will be greater." Lin Xuan added analysis.

"Assuming that these three cases were committed by the same person, why did the suspect commit the second case nine days after the first case occurred, and there was only three days between the second and third cases?" Huang Fangyuan then asked.

"Boss, what's the use of us analyzing here? Didn't the criminal squad already determine that the suspects were the same person and deal with them together? Ge Bin complained.

"And then there's another question, if it's the same person, is it random or premeditated?" Huang Fangyuan ignored Ge Bin's words and asked again.

"I think it's more likely to be random." Lin Xuan said.

"Why?" Huang Fangyuan asked.

"Boss, what's the use of us guessing here? Wouldn't all the murderers be known if they were caught? Ge Bin protested again.

"How is this a guess? This is an analysis of the facts of the case. Don't we have no clues about the suspect right now? Therefore, it is necessary to find out the clues through various analyses and open up a breakthrough in the investigation. Wang Xiangrui explained.

"But how can we possibly know for what purpose the suspect is committing the crime? Everyone has a different motive for committing a crime, and we are not roundworms in the stomach of suspects, nor are we fortune tellers who can read minds. It's impossible to analyze them all. ”

"In the absence of clues, it is necessary to reason about various possibilities, and then verify these possibilities one by one through investigative means. The impossible is eliminated, and what remains is the correct direction to solve the case. Huang Fangyuan said with a serious face.

"When is this going to be checked? There are all kinds of possibilities! Ge Bin had a bitter face.